The Nether Elite decided to take on Noel’s offer and visit the Imperatoris De Neque Mansion at noon. It was Kayla’s turn to drive as she went to the location; Ayeka was riding shotgun reading news on her smartphone; Ryoko was too busy looking outside and seeing the beautiful scenery, and Natalia was in the back seat along with her.

Ayeka was looking over the workups, refreshing her memory when they got there, “for supposedly being a monarch, I do find it quite surprising he would make his home next to the city.”

“Well, it is a relaxing place around here,” Ryoko commented. “That reminds me, Kayla, how are the coordinates I programmed into the GPS?”

“It’s working, I know where to go,” she confirmed.

“I wonder where this humble abode is?” Ryoko asked.

“I did some more research of what Noel left behind. She even left coordinates to were ‘his Majesty,’ and herself are staying. It’s only 15 miles from where we were visiting a couple of days ago. The location of the supposed monarch’s home is in Yonkers, New York, particularly Northwestern Yonkers,” Natalia confirmed as of this somewhat shocked everyone since she’d never used to do any kind of research. “It makes you wonder. Of all the places that this Imperatoris De Neque guy can make his castle, he buys one of the classified ads?”

After that blunder in Brooklyn, Natalia decided to do some more reading with the workups Noel gave them two days ago. However, there were a lot of questions that she wants to ask, as well.

“Well, I did hear there were some mansions for sale in Yonkers. That’s what my real estate agent has been saying,” Ayeka stated. “Natalia-chan, have you ever heard of buying it on the cheap? Everybody’s doing it nowadays. And besides, from what I heard, it wasn’t cheap.”

“Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York. That’s behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester. And the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195,976. It is an inner suburb of New York City, directly to the north of the Bronx and approximately two miles north of the northernmost point in Manhattan.” Natalia explains as this shocks everyone in the car. This makes Natalia blush and looks away, “Wikipedia, okay? I phoned it in…”

The Imperatoris De Neque’s Mansion is off the coast of Northwestern Yonkers by the river. The grand 3-floor mansion she resides in has 29 rooms and its 13,400-square feet. It has an elegant dining room and an up to date library. It also has large iron doors, dark wood staircases, and amazing painted ceilings with grounds to match.

It has also been recently renovated with a brand-new central air-conditioning and heating system. And of course, fiber-optic Internet. The driveway itself is rather large and has cobblestones, so larger trucks like RVs can make turnarounds in the driveway. The house itself was built in the 1600s, and over the years, it has been renovated several times with English, French, and Spanish influences of designs.

In the production office of the mansion, Noel is typing away on her laptop. While she was doing her work, she was listening to music.

While nobody is around, she usually sings out loud video game themes to herself and today is no different:

“Do we fight to hold our heads up high and beat the drums to what we love?

“…Follow, we have felt it all come crashing down from far above.

“Stars are rising, countless worlds colliding only one will take it all.

“Can we bring to fall the Giants; can we make the final call?”

And when the chorus starts, she hits her musical strive:

“We are the ones to ignite the darkened skies!

“The champions of a world that we define!

“I saw the reign of the few who rise up high--”

As she was just about to hit the best high notes that she would ever achieve, her smartphone cuts her off with an incoming call, “it never fails…”

Disappointed, Noel answers the call professionally, “I.N.D. Estate. It is a new and beautiful day; may I ask who is calling?”

“I have no idea what you’re planning. And I really don’t care.” A low, syrupy voice belonging to a male responded.

“Excuse me--?” Noel was taken aback by the supposed man’s words. Fortunately for her, she’d recognized the voice. “Oh, Endspiel! Now I understand. So, I believe you have received the documents from your attorney. You do realize, your nephew means a great deal to the both of you regardless of what happened in the past. His and her majesty wants to help the two of you to start over with everyone, and it has always been in the back of his mind--”

“Last time I checked, the Holy Mother never wanted to do things that way. She already made up her mind a long time ago. I loved her, but she’d never loved me. She didn’t need me in her life, and the feeling was mutual… There was no love, there was no friendship, there was nothing between them but hatred and an uneasy truce, using my me like he was her familiar…” Endspiel painfully summarized as Noel tried her best to keep his composure.

Noel was genuinely saddened by his memories as she too knew about their relationship all too well, “Endspiel, I really think--”

“In every time, I looked at that… perverse smile on her fucking face, just made me sick to my stomach now! To even think, I would have laid with her in the first place… She means nothing to me now. She used me to keep herself alive and to further my career. After she was done with me, she tried to have me executed for treason in my own royal circle…” Endspiel argued.

“Please, things are different now! Much different! Acknowledge the past, face reality, and be done with it!” Noel vexes.

Endspiel chuckled to herself, “I don’t know what the Holy Mother is planning or what my weakhearted nephew is going to do either. But we had a deal to scorch the sullied Earth and watch it burn! And now he wants to make amends for his own justifiable actions?! But it doesn’t matter… She went back on her word…”

This upsets Noel substantially, “I don’t understand what you’re talking about, sire--!”

“THEY TRIED TO KILL US BECAUSE WE WERE TOO POWERFUL TO CONTROL! THEY UNDERMINEDED US AND PUT US IN PSYCHOLOGICAL BONDAGE!!

“Endspiel, please, I know all too well--”

“THEN WHY IS YOUR MAJESTY PROTECTING THAT WHORE NOVAK AND YOU ENGAGING IN SUCH BASTARDRY?! I KNOW SHE IS STILL ALIVE ALONG WITH HER PRODUCT OF RAPE!” Endspiel roared.

Noel took great offense as she rose from her chair, “REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU THINK, YOU ARE IN NO POSITION TO MAKING SUCH BOASTFUL CLAIMS!” She yells.

This only made Endspiel laugh, “A lot has changed! That sack of meat is the only reason why the wolf bitch is alive right now. The Novaks were weak. If it weren't for me having a heart for not killing that little bastard, I would’ve killed her too. She exists out here because my nephew allows it... So, to give you another warning, before I finish what I had started: Stay away from my toys. Don’t make me repeat myself…”

Then, Endspiel hangs up abruptly, leaving Noel with a swirl of emotions, “and to think, His Majesty wants to save all of you now… Some people are not meant to be saved…”

She didn’t have the time to fathom that conversation that she had moments ago since there is another incoming call she had to answer immediately, “It is a new and beautiful day at the I.N.D. Estate; may I ask who is calling?”

“Mistress Noel, the Nether Elite are here,” the young man said over the phone.

“Well, they finally come to reason… I will meet them downstairs,” Noel ordered as she hangs up the phone. Putting the petty phone call behind her, she had better and more prominent business to attend to.