Mafia QUEEN Retiring on Eighteen

19. War 0.1

As soon as Lucias left her room Ellen came running with one of their servants.
They found all the bugs that techie planted on her room and the servant left with them. Servant took Lilly also because Queen had some doubts.

"How did you caught off guard by that silly kid? "
Ellen can't hold back her shock.
"Even the guard in charge of the front gate won't be baffled by someone like him. "

"He will. If he plan to let him go from beginning itself. " Charlie calmly replied.

"Yes maybe. But you are not an ordinary Guard. You are the  QUEEN of this great empire . "
Ellen couldn't control her surprise.

"You are right.  A queen won't be perplexed by a silly boy.
But an emotional Queen is a different case."

"So are you saying that he knew your some big emotional secret ?  Which can leave you in shock for sometime??? "

"No he don't know a thing.  He was just bluffing. " Charlie said with a sharp eye.

"Bluffing? "

"Yes. He came through Hallway, which is the route we planned to let him in. And there aren't not even one painting all the way upto my room."

"Yes,  because none of us are into arts."

"Exactly.  So he assumed that the Queen have no interest in that. But at the same time he must have seen the small cherry blossom painting in the  corner.  A completely ordinary painting in a personal room of a queen. Not in the Imperial palace but in some old mansion where she grew up. So the painting must be from someone..? "

"Someone special !!!" Ellen got it clearly.

Lucias just used little bit of logic and some bluffing. 
As for a mafia Queen it's possible that she is an orphan by now.  So if a queen who have none is keeping a painting like this, then it's sure that she is an emotional one.
It was as simple as it is.
If the Queen don't have intension to kill him in the first place then she won't be expecting some shock from him. Security of the mansion and her upper hand in the situation might let her guard down. So there was this tiny chance for him to escape if she don't want to kill him.
Because if a Queen want to kill him there's no way he can get out of there alive.

A key Queen unknowingly left to test him,   Or did some part of her know it from the beginning itself?
A riddle which a silly bait can't crack.
An old Cherry blossom painting with nothing but pleasant emotions.

Because if he is brilliant enough to grab on that key then that means he isn't the bait thrown by dukes But All the great Dukes were just pawns in his Big GAME.

And LUCIAS were more than capable to do that.
And the QUEEN  knew that her last mission won't be as boring as expected.

To be continued...