The doors of the lift opened again after it stopped.
"Stepping out of the lift, Draco said, "Come."
Lucifer followed Draco behind, passing through the hallway whose floor was covered with diamond-shaped glazed tiles that were spotless as if it was just cleaned.
Reaching the end of the silverish hallway, Draco and Lucifer stopped at the front of a large golden-steel door.
Draco opened the door and informed the people inside that he had brought Lucifer.
"Send him in, and you can leave." An authoritative voice was heard, coming from the inside.
"Go on in," Draco told Lucifer before he stepped back, letting the young boy enter.
As Lucifer entered the room, he saw a big round table that was completely empty. Around the table, five chairs were placed, but only four of them had people sitting in them.
He recognized all four of them since he had already met them before. They were none other than Caen, Isona, Dion, and Vega.
"Sorry for calling you so suddenly. But something big has happened. We can't wait any longer. If you want to take revenge, we need to act now. It is time to leave," Vega told Lucifer.
"APF did something. The government will take action and recall those scientists. If that happens, we will have a hard time finding them later. So we need to act before them," he added.
"What did they do?" Lucifer asked Vega.
To see these people so worried was a bit surprising. He couldn't help but wonder what the APF had done.
"They had done something that might ruin our prior plan. Because of their action, the doctor whom you want to kill will be removed from that facility and will be taken to some other place where we will have a much harder time reaching even if we manage to find it," Caen told Lucifer.
"Sigh, let me explain in detail since it might be overwhelming for you. I guess we can take that much time since our people will take a bit for preparations as well," Vega said as he stood up.
He walked over to the screen and started playing a video that almost every single person present here had already seen.
The only one who hadn't seen it was Lucifer, but he didn't need to see it since it was a video that involved him.
As Lucifer glanced at the screen, which was flashing a video, he subconsciously clenched his fists as it triggered him to remember a few bad memories.
Watching himself being placed on that bed and tortured... it was something which was already imprinted in his memory, but now he was even able to see it from a third person's point of view.
Vega didn't play that video for long. He only showed him a glimpse of it for a few seconds before he turned the screen off.
"I'm sorry for showing this to you, but APF's action has something to do with this video. We had this video for a long time, but we kept it a secret since we didn't want it to come to the government's attention because they would shift that scientist to a much more secure place." Vega said, breaking the silence which had followed after the screen was turned off.
"However, I think APF has already shown this video to the government. If they hadn't, we could have gone according to our old plan since we would have enough time. Unfortunately, the APF intervened. So now, we can only act faster before it's too late."
Lucifer stepped forward, closing in on Vega as he asked, "And what was your old plan?"
"Our old plan was to train you for a little while so that you can gain some fighting experience and understand further how to use your powers better."
"The next two days were reserved for that. As for the rest, it was simple… Attacking that facility and letting you get your revenge," Vega responded with a casual smile.
"Now we need to skip the training, which I don't think will affect you much since most of the APF will be handled by us. As for the people in the facility, you can kill each one of them a thousand times without needing any training anyway," he further said as he walked back to his seat, picking up a file that was placed there.
He opened the file to reveal a map of Elisium.
"This is Erygas, the place where you were captured by the APF. And this here is the facility. Honestly, you were pretty far away from the actual place last time," he said, pointing his finger at several spots on the map.
"I'm ready. Let's leave. I can't let them escape again," Lucifer accepted the proposal without any more questions.
A satisfied smile appeared on Vega's face.
It seemed that they had taken one more step forward in reaching out to Lucifer. And even though slowly, a bit of connection was developing between the two.
After they helped him, it was going to be the final nail in the coffin.
"That's good. We'll leave in an hour. Come, let me give you your battle gear."
Vega started walking towards the door.
The others also stood up, following him. The noise of sliding chairs filled the room for a moment which again returned to silence after everyone left the room.
They had also taken Lucifer with them, who was wondering what this battle gear was.
As everyone passed through the long corridors, Isona slowly slid closer to Lucifer.
Watching her step closer, Lucifer started stepping farther from her. Too much closeness was something he didn't want.
"Little brother, are you still worried that I'll eat you up? Why are you moving away? Treat me like family as well," Isona told Lucifer while grinning mischievously.
"Anyway, I think you're curious about this battle gear, aren't you?" She asked, trying to engage him in a conversation.
Lucifer glanced in Isona's direction. She was right. He simply nodded his head as a response to her question.
