Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife-Chapter 375: Worries and solutions

The short vacation came to an end and the Su’s returned to the Blue star. They did so with smiles on their faces, having accomplished some of the goals that had taken them there. They had a good time, plotted and dealt with some old enemies and made new connections, business wise.

As he always did, Justin slept through the trip back home and Scarlet erected a barrier around him to engage vigorously in the exchange of ideas about what resulted in Reya’s confession the previous evening.

Nobody was more excited at this outcome than Carolyn who was already receiving calls and messages from old friends, teachers, relatives and even companies that once rejected her.

No one knew who had acted so quickly but the information that the first and original Titus mecha was Carolyn’s creation. All of her old mecha models from her time in school were leaked online. Former students, who she defeated in school competition after competition came out an spoke about their surprise at her sudden drop out of the mecha crafting academy.

Some even went further to compare Carolyn’s results with Reya’s results in school and proved that at no single point did Reya outdo Carolyn. One was an excellent designer and craftswoman while another was mediocre. A question was raised, how did the scales flip and the mediocre crafter came out on top of the excellent one.

The topic would not die down, no matter how much viscount Marley attempted to bury it, it would not stay buried.

On the space ship, the four women had watched and re-watched the conference, specifically the part where Reya broke down in loud sobs.

Watching the footage intensely via hologram, Carolyn paused it and pointed. "See, this is the exact point when she suddenly started to change and the first tear dropped. What do you think made her confess?"

"Guilt," Scarlet said confidently.

Her reaper powers had drawn out the little feelings of guilt and fear which Reya had over the situation and amplified them. She could speak with authority on what had caused her to confess.

Carolyn however was very disbelieving of her sister’s words. To her, they were nothing more than a fairy tale because Reya was an ice cold bitch. She had no feelings of guilt otherwise she would not have gone around ruining her name after stealing her invention.

"No, that’s not it." she said.

"It must be the empress." Mega suggested. "We sold your Titus series to her before Reya accidentally came across a copy that she rushed to claim." She added air quotes when she said accidentally and they knew that it had not been an accident.

"Do we care about what it was or do we care about the fact that Carolyn finally has justice? Whatever or however it happened, I believe it’s karma." Scarlet said to them.

"I wonder how the Marley’s are doing right now with this revelation?" Fey joined in with a question. "They must be losing their minds surely. Did you see the way she was dragged away? It was as if they were dragging away a broken mecha for destruction. I would not be surprised if she accidentally died in a month or two."

"No way, it will be so obvious if they kill her off." Mega disagreed. "I think they will demote her to a lower standing in the family to keep her out of the publics eye and then when things die down in a year or two marry her off to any noble family that is desperate to make connections. If there is one thing the Marley’s weaponize, it’s their female children. They are like walking, breathing, currency."

Carolyn had something on her mind that had been bothering her ever since this Reya chaos exploded. What consequences would it have for her sister? Turning a worried eye to Scarlet, she pursed her lips and nervously cracked the knuckles of her left hand.

But nothing escaped Scarlet’s senses. She could read the worry on Carolyn’s face like an open book. "I can hear the wheels turning in your mind all the way from here my darling big sister. What worries you? A good thing has happened in your life and you should be happy. Now, no one will say a negative thing about you when Markey finally makes you his bride." ’

"Oooh, here comes the bride." Fey said playfully.

"All dressed in white." Scarlet added in her own playful voice.

Mega on the other hand opened her mouth to add something but she closed it and looked at Scarlet with questions in her eyes. "Who wears white on the day of their wedding?"

Scarlet looked back at her mother with her own confused eyes. "Everyone." she answered in an obvious tone.

Carolyn planted her head between Mega and Scarlet and she looked at Scarlet. "Forget this wedding talk. Reya might involve you in this mess and claim that you gave her my draft. We need to start coming up with a back up plan and another back up plan for our back up plan."

"How many back up plans are those?" Fey asked.

That question went unanswered because all of them realized that in the midst of their unbridled excitement at the downfall of Reya the thief, they had momentarily forgotten a very important thing. At the beginning of it all was Scarlet. It was very likely that she would be dragged into the chaos willingly or not.

It struck Mega that just as she plotted, so did other people. She had involved the empress in order to step on the powerful Marley’s. What was to stop them from using Scarlet as a way of dragging the royal family into it. To protect Esong’s image the royal family could ban the topic completely and erase all the news related to it.

Mega looked at Scarlet with stern eyes and she said forcefully. "Denial, whatever they say, deny, deny, deny. Your response should be I don’t remember, I have never met her, I could never do such a thing."

"Yes sister, I too will say that you have never visited me at school and even if you did, I never showed you any of my drafts." Carolyn added.

"We need to give her an alibi for that day, whatever day they will claim you met her." Mega said.

She looked around urgently for her husband and yelled his name, "Dorian."

While she was grateful that they wanted to protect her this much, she had her own plans. So, confidently, Scarlet raised her hands and made an ’x’.

They all new that ’x’ meant stop. Whatever they were thinking, saying or doing should first be paused. That was exactly what they did and looked at her impatiently for elaboration.

"I already considered what you all are worried about but it’s not an issue. There was no money exchanged between myself and Reya, and I only gave her that draft because sister had many more. I never realized that it was her final project. Additionally, I thought she wanted to take a look and perfect her own work, not plagiarize Carolyn’s work and claim it as her own." No matter what the Marley’s throw out I have nothing to hide."

As for any possible connection that they might make between her and Esong, she would borrow Reya’s word. "Where was the proof?" Those who traded in the black market did not use their real identities.