The Little Heiress 1

Time passes quickly. Been months since that accident. Thought I'd continue, but a rather small creature visited us on our doorsteps. No, calling the little Missy a creature was quite insulting. Not to mention that she's terrifying to me.

Barely eight-year old and yet full of determination. I wouldn't even entertain her. But knowing what her end was. Made me hesitate. I could have just blocked her contacts. Made everything gone. But knowing what will entail for this little missy made me hesitate.

No matter how careful you are. There is always a print you'll leave behind. And the brilliance of the eight-year old savant made me realize how mistaken I was, thinking that I could fool her. Could have fooled anyone, but not a genius who has nothing to lose.

Takemura Yua. Sole heiress of the Takemura Corporation, beloved daughter of Goro, and now the most hunted eight-year old in the sector. Alone all by her lonesome self, relying on her holograms to somewhat travel all the way out here. She's something that Jisoo didn't expect. Miss Takemura herself knows the ins and outs. Who am I or who am I pretending to be.

Or does she think that I was Morgan truly? It probably doesn't surprise her since she herself was an anomaly. I guess since there are changes that she isn't a doll yet.

"What would be the appropriate name to call you?"

"Nikolai Orlov. She's Kim Jisoo. She's my partner."

She nodded as if understanding. A quick-witted girl indeed. She has the wits, but even geniuses like her stumbles. She looked as if she was trying to get the more careful world out.

"You don't have to explain your other intentions, Miss Takemura. You come here as an adult so I'm going to treat you as one. The question is whether you came here as a friend or a foe."

She raised her eyes. A little bit of fear came into the young miss. But she held it in bravely. Her eyes remained on me.

"A friend. I came here to ask for… protection."

When she said that she eyed Jisoo as well. From what I can remember there is a connection between her clan and Jisoo. If anything she's probably confident because she knows that she could at least somewhat get Jisoo to protect her. Jisoo's face had a complicated look. If anything, she has a slight resemblance to Miss Yuuki, the late wife of Mr. Goro.

This little girl lost her parents. And now she was hunted down, barely surviving by her own wits.

"Protection. So you have something that will make us consider helping you."

Her eyes went to Jisoo. She knows where to find help. And Jisoo was keeping her distance. Which brings me to question in the first place. Did Jisoo think she was dead?

"You are confident that you can find help. Disturb our lives by simply appearing here. I do sympathize. The thing here is that you know what you are doing."

I wasn't planning to play pity. She's young, but she has the brains to even avoid Jisoo's detection. She's a child and because she knows that was severely lacking in any assurance. She's wealthy, but a child like her probably doesn't have any right to her assets and could only rely on her tech and wits.

This was a calculated gamble on her part as well. She's holding two cards that she was willing to place on the table.

"I simply want to live on."

She looked down. Her shoulders sagged. There was a sense of dread in her. A great confusion whether to go and avenge her father and mother. Take back what was hers and then rule that throne.

The question was whether Yua have the guts. Genius or not she's still a child. And this little girl was coming to us after great effort on her part. If I didn't know better. I would have suspected that this is a calculated effort on her part. That this was a pity ploy to gather sympathy and make us do her work for her.

But she's Takemura Yua. I know her well by the fact that later on she'll become a doll. A genius attached to a shell of a doll where she would become part machine and part puppet. A mind like hers inside a doll where she can run cold calculations. A cruel fate to a tragic child that simply wanted to live on. Driven by the single-minded thought of survival. Only to end up in an irreversible path.

"I can understand that."

I agreed with her. She raised her head slightly. Probably hoping that she could still move the conversation to what she wanted. The courage of the little miss was quite something. She's still lacking in speech, and how to use her cards well.

But in a way I could guess that this was her last chance. And Jisoo, knowing that she's alive and in danger probably won't leave her alone. A trace of her clan's blood flow in Ms. Takemura Yua.

Jisoo was about to walk up and persuade me. I raised my palm to stop her and then looked at Ms. Yua in the eyes.

"Is it revenge? Or is it survival?"

She stared. Her mind churned at what she wanted. She looked around. She opened and closed her right hand before clenching it.

"I don't want to die, Mister."

She said honestly. Barely keeping appearance. Simply a little girl who got cornered enough to rely on two idiots who ran from Pacifica City. I looked at Jisoo and then shrugged.

She approached Miss Yua and promised to her that she would protect her. I was hoping that our days here in Agua would continue peacefully. But I guess that even if we don't look for trouble. Trouble itself would come and visit our doorstep.

Right or wrong.

I guess even I'm not that cold-hearted to leave a child alone to turn herself into a doll in order to survive.