The Number One Star in the Interstellar Era

Chapter 68 - A LITTLE Q&A (I)

ASTRID was greatly shocked by everything he heard. Although he was ready to hear some extraordinary things, he certainly didnʼt expect this. Who would have thought that their parentsʼ past would have so many twists and turns?

When his mother said that she was from a noble family, the first thing that came to his mind was that she and his father had eloped because her family didnʼt approve of their relationship. He certainly didnʼt think that it would involve another powerful noble family and a psychotic murderer. It could be a plot for some dog blood movie.

Not to mention, the awful things that both of them experienced. Astrid was thankful that his parents were able to find each other and be each otherʼs strength.

”What happened after that?” he couldnʼt help but ask.

”Well, me and your dad started to travel around. Many things happened along the way. We faced some space pirates, stayed temporarily at a Lawless Den, worked as mercenaries for a time. Then we fell in love and had you two,” her mother said as if what they experienced were just some everyday occurrence.

Astrid looked at his father. ”Donʼt tell me, Dad got his eye injury from these little ʼadventuresʼ?”

Since his mother didnʼt mention why his father was now wearing an eyepatch until the end of her story, then he could only assume that he got it while they were fighting some space pirates or while working as mercenaries. In which he still couldnʼt imagine his petite mother fighting a space pirate or being a mercenary.

His mother gave his father a sideway glance. ”He got it because of his negligence and stupidity.

Gage embarrassingly scratched his nose. ”We were hired to get a certain material from an underdeveloped planet. I let my guard down and was attacked by some high-level ferocious beast. We werenʼt able to heal it immediately because the medical cabin installed in our aircraft stopped working. I forgot to check it before we left, so we didnʼt know that it already had problems. So, yes, itʼs my negligence and stupidity that caused this.”

Not to mention that during that time, he and Emmy just experienced their first night together. He was so over in the clouds with happiness that his brain could only think of things not suitable for children. So, yes, he kind of deserved this injury.

”Then what happened to the Lancasters? Did they pay for what that Cecil did?” Reas asked, putting back the conversation on track.

For someone who wanted to be an Imperial Soldier, the things that his mother told them truly challenged his views on what a soldier should be like. A powerful military family using their power to protect a monster and even indulged him, soldiers who wouldnʼt even think twice in sending a ten-year old child to a mining planet and even hide the crime of a lunatic. He was filled with anger just thinking about it.

This was probably the first time that he understood that the world was not all filled with rainbows and butterflies. That thereʼs a darkness lurking within. And humans were the one festering it.

But it didnʼt deter him from his dreams. In fact, it only strengthened it. He didnʼt want the tragedies that happened to his parents happened to anyone ever again. If he wanted to change anything, then he should be at a place of power where he could do it.

Astrid glanced at his brother. He certainly felt the change in him. Probably because they were twins. So, they were both sensitive to the emotional and psychological changes of each other. And he knew that this change had something to do with what their mother had told them.

For some reason, he had a feeling that he just had witnessed his brother growing up right before his eyes.

”We sent the video of Cecil Lancaster confessing to his crime to my- to Duke Grimaldi. And just as we expected, he raided the villa of Cecil on the planet Seavis. He found Cecilʼs wonderful ʼcollectionʼ of eyes. We didnʼt need to spread that video of Cecil ourselves. Because Duke Grimaldi had already done it.

”After that video spread, public opinion was divided. But many of them still believed that Cecil was coerced into saying those things. Thatʼs when Duke Grimaldi released the evidence of Cecilʼs perverseness. The video of the villa containing his ʼcollectionʼ and how each of the eyes corresponded to either a dead or missing person. Finally, they had no choice but to accept that Cecil Lancaster was nothing but a depraved killer.

”The Emperor at that time was so angry when he found out about it that he took back all the military positions of those belonging to Lancaster family. Ah, but not all, Simon Lancaster was able to keep his position as a general. The Emperor only halved the army under him.”

Emmy said that last part with a bit of a sarcastic tone. She didnʼt know what that old man of the Lancaster family exchanged with the former Emperor so his son could keep his position. It didnʼt matter to him that much since the Lancasters had been in decline after that.

But a decade ago, just after the new Emperor sat on his throne, they started to rise up again in power. And now, they had almost recovered.

Thatʼs one of the reasons why she was so reluctant to send her children to the capital. If those bastards found out their identity, thereʼs no doubt in her mind that they would kill them for revenge.

After all, she and Gage did send the video of Cecil being devoured by those ferocious beasts to the patriarch of the Lancaster family.