Missing Wit

2:Schütz

  Kurt and Lina Schütz were two siblings, two partners in the R.M.I.E company that their parents founded. This company controls more than eighty percent of the robotics industry in Europe.

"Shouldn't be that hard with that name," said Eric,mockingly.

"The only way," Paul said. He couldn't help laughing when he answered."Two siblings wanted to push the company further from just producing robotic arms and bring them to a very different point."

"They were mentioning a project recently, right?"

"Yes, they were. They wanted to develop robots with artificial intelligence that could recognize and improve their own mistakes. Especially Kurt."

"Do you think they succeeded?"

Again, Paul pointed to the portrait on the right. It wasn't even five minutes before we started the interview, Eric realized he was going to have one of the hardest weeks of his life. Paul continued, "Now listen carefully, please!"

Kurt and Lina's house was similar to Paul's. Its walls were also white and had translucent windows that didn't show inside. However, it had a larger garden and was not built on a high platform. Their house had two floors. Although the ground floor was a single room, the staircase leading to the upper floor divided this floor into two. The entrance door of the apartment led to the living room on the left of the stairs. To the right of the stairs was the kitchen. The wall of the living room was white. The floor was made out of white marble. On the side towards the kitchen, the white wall was getting a little darker color and the marbles were gray, and on the right, back corner of the kitchen stood a wooden door leading to the toilet. Under the remaining part of the staircase from the hall was a wooden door. This staircase led down to the basement, and Kurt was using the basement as his workshop.

The inner side of the upper floor wall of the house was made of wood. Upstairs were the rooms of Kurt, Lina, and Lina's children (Sophie and Marcus). Across the stairs was the bathroom and toilet. All the corridors of this floor were covered with a dark gray carpet, so the parquets on the floor were not visible.

Kurt woke up to an ordinary day that day. His room was in the back right corner, behind the stairs. He only had a computer, a bed, and a closet in his room because Kurt didn't like to have too much stuff in his room. As soon as he woke up, he got out of bed. Then he looked out the window of his room for a while. There was not much movement in the street visible from his window. Kurt got changed. Then, he left his room and knocked on the door of the room in front of the staircase to his right. There was no response from inside. After a few seconds, Kurt knocked on the door of the room again.

"Lina! Are you inside?" said Kurt.

"In the kitchen!" from downstairs came a voice. It was Lina who called. Hearing Lina's voice, Kurt walked towards the stairs to go downstairs. At this moment, the children popped out of their rooms. Little sister Sophie was running downstairs as she cried out in joy. Kurt had managed to catch Sophie as she ran.

"Didn't we say no running?" said Kurt with a smile, taking five-year-old Sophie in his arms.

"Uncle Kurt!" said sweet little Sophie, "Aren't I your favorite niece?"

Kurt laughed. "I'm not discriminating my nephews, I love you both," he replied.

Sophie put her arms around Kurt's neck, "But you love me more," she whispered in Kurt's ear.

"Yes, you are. But don't tell Marcus, okay?" Kurt whispered in Sophie's ear.

Sophie nodded yes to answer, then rested her head on Kurt's shoulder. The two of them went downstairs together.