The Engineer's Obsession

Chapter 17

Richard, the BSAA recruit, went his way towards the village to find his team. We just hope the best for him and the survivors of the village. 

I decided to stay at the mansion at least until they came back. They have hands on the serum for the molds and heck maybe they even know something, some clue on how I can revive Karl. 

Nothing much really happened throughout the day and it only became bearable as Felicity, the old lady, was always helping with stuff. We talked about the past, and how the Heisenbergs once managed a territory of Romania when they were still a ducal house, along with the Dimtrescus.

"Young master Karl had a twin brother named Kyle, they were very much identical but master Karl is a bit more introverted, the opposite of his extroverted and bright young master Kyle" I remember taking their family picture out of the metal frame without Karl knowing.

I showed it to Felicity and her face brightened up a bit when she saw the picture. She was reminiscing, her tears swelled up and rolled down her wrinkly cheeks. It seems that Karl's family has always been kindhearted. 

She pointed her finger at a frail but beautiful woman, standing behind the twins "This is the lady of the Heisenberg, she was a beautiful maiden but contracted an unknown and uncurable disease after birthing the twins"

Lady Heisenber was indeed beautiful as seen from the paintings hung on the wall of the mansion. I saw portraits of Karl when he was a child, along with his twin brother. They both look like their father but they got their mother's eyes.

When the evening chime of the clock struck, all I could do was rest and talk to the crystallized chunk of Karl in the flask. 

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Another day came and I was still waiting for the rescue Richard had promised me, in which, I didn't need to be rescued. 

I was waiting patiently for them to come by... scratch that, I was waiting ANXIOUSLY to come, and my baby feels my agitation. I couldn't even bother to waste a wink or close my eyes. I was pacing back and forth in the garden and the poor old lady just didn't know what to do to calm me down.

"Madame please, take a seat and have a drink. They will surely come by, maybe they were dealing with mother Miranda-" I cut her words off "or maybe they're all dead and I can't have a ticket to enter the BSAA labs to bring back Karl to life" I sniffed after blurting my words.

The poor Felicity nearly cried with me but still reassured me that they'll come back, or if worse comes to worst, we will find a way for sure.

If I don't make it, I know you will find a way

I remembered what Karl said, the last day we saw each other. It made me even more miserable as I couldn't think of a way besides that opportunity given by Richard to bring him back to life. The anxiety was killing me and it was eating my mind.

All I could do was wait and wait, and wait even longer, I was running out of hope, making me think that the only man who could help us was currently dead at Miranda's hands.

Then sometime in the cold afternoon, we heard a knock. Felicity rushed to get whoever it was hoping it would be Richard and we were not mistaken. He came back with his team and I busted crying, falling to my knees.

"Hey, hey, easy there pregnant woman. We're here to extract you from this place" he helped me get up as I wiped my tears away.

"I'm sorry, it's the hormones" I unseriously uttered.

"Though we may have to ask you for your cooperation, The HQ wanted to make this place a base for operations and research" I hesitated for a moment as I would have loved for this place to retain its original elegance, but somehow, that's not a bad idea as I can come back here to do some future work.

"Then let me give you a deal" I answered.

"Let's hear it" one of his comrades interrupted.

"If you let me in on one of your research teams, let me learn and do some independent work, I will permit you to have a base operation at the mansion" I lend my hand out and smirked.

"Oh and please don't butcher the place. Ask Felicity where you can build your base just don't make the fancy place ugly" I added.

They chuckled at my request and shook my hand as a sign of agreement to the negotiation. After making sure I had all my things, I bid Felicity goodbye. 

"Take care of the mansion for us, and take good care of yourself" I told the old lady.

"Please don't worry about me madame, you take care of yourself and the young masters" She looked like she was about to cry so I hugged her and we parted ways.

We got on an armored truck from the BSAA and were escorted by the extraction team. It turns out, that Richard's original team was annihilated by none other than Miranda. Ethan Winters also sacrificed himself to defeat her to end it once and for all. 

It was a long way travelling from the outskirts of the village to the HQ of BSAA in Europe. It was very stressful but the team made sure that me and my baby was comfortable in my seat. I never let go of Karl's flask even after forcing me to give them his flask. In the end, they just gave up from the idea and let me hold him.

We were transferred from the truck to a helicopter to head first to the HQ. After what seemed like days, we finally arrived at the BSAA Europe Headquarters. 

A girl escorted me to a room, made sure to clean me and also sterilized my stuff for safety precaution. I let them handle the flask but made sure they would not take it away from me. They transferred Karl's remains to a more secured glass flask.

This will be the start of a long journey I'll take in order to revive my beloved Karl.