Lord Shadow

Sasha is a person close to Death Monarch. It would not be the first time someone would try to target her by sending her things

That is why both Lukas and Sasha was very wary even when opening the letter. They fear that Loki had left some trap in that letter.

Lukas would not know how to explain to Death Monarch if the letter he brought to Sasha would then be used to harm her. 

That is why he is standing by near her and very much voluntarily revealing some of his trump card and eagerly protecting her

Of course, he could have given the letter to Death Monarch and end it there and then. But, Lukas quite admire Loki and for a while, Loki was the ruler of this Palace.

Certain respect should be given

‘I guess Loki speak the truth this time. How…. unfamiliar’ Lukas said. Sasha then open the letter. She raised her eyebrows as she read the letter.

Her eyes read the letter written on that piece of paper and she frowned. And then there was a trace of amusement on her face.

Even Lukas who were not that curious in the beginning become curious. He raised his eyebrows and said

‘What is written inside it?’ Then Sasha laughed

‘Hahaha’ she laughed. 

‘What is it?’

‘Is the Trickster is trying to make a joke here?’ She said. 

She shows the letter to Lukas. He reads it and then like Sasha, he also had a complicated expression on his face.

‘A recipe?’ 

‘Is he trying to write a cookbook or something?’ Lukas thought before he suddenly widened his eyes.

[ This is a reference to the Twilight Series, To Serve Men]

He remembered something so he once again looks at the letter

He recognizes that there is something very wrong about these words on the letter. Sasha grab back the letter and was about to throw it to the ground

She was quite frustrated. She had wasted her time for this.

‘Don’t!’ Lukas shouted. Sasha stopped and she look toward Lukas

‘Hmm?’ Coming to Sasha, he said to her

‘It is encrypted’ 

‘Encrypted? This letter? What do you mean?’ Sasha herself knows encryption method. 

After all her job demand it. 

But, she did not able to see how this letter was to be encrypted. There are no formation arrays that cover the envelope and the letter looks normal and did not have any fluctuation of energy

Lukas hurriedly shows him the silver key on which he used to open the door. Then he pointed toward that last signature on the bottom of the recipe.

There is the signature of Loki the trickster and then a symbol. 

Lukas pointed that symbol and then pointed it back at the key. Sasha then looked back at the letter and then she smiles

‘Ingenious’ she thought to herself.

It did not take long for her to understand.  In one look, the writing after the signature look like a symbol of some ancient character.

Sasha did not look at it that intently because she was shocked by the cookbook recipe. 

Now, that she thinks about it, maybe if anyone open the envelope and read the letter, the only thing that they would got from it was that whoever had the letter is trading cook recipe.

But if they really looked at it calmly, it is actually the drawing a thin keyhole. 

It just looks like an ancient symbol because of the curved parts of the drawing. 

And since there is this preconceived notion that Loki would put some runes symbols in his letter, it is easy to miss it.

Sasha look again at the letter, this time, she looks at it more carefully. And she smiles as she notices something else inside the letter

there is another symbol on the uppermost top corner of the letter. She then looks at the key on Lukas hand and she nodded to herself.

Sasha was not able to see the key clearly before because she was preoccupied with talking with Lukas. 

Now, that she sees the key, she could see that there is a symbol carved on the body of the key

That is why she said it was ingenious. 

This is how Loki encrypted his massage! That is the thought of Sasha. 

No wonder she had never been able to catch a hold of any chatter between the Three Demoness.

Right now, Sasha could already figure out how to read the letter. 

‘Loki really is quite the trickster’ she said again what she always felt about Loki. This method of secrecy is very inconspicuous and hard to detect or track.

‘If anybody else get this letter, they would only see the cook recipe. They would not understand why Loki would be writing a recipe book.’ Lukas said with a smile on his face.

He too had quite the experience in secret messages. 

One could argue he is better since many of the secrets he had known and seen would probably bring a great fallout if one of the sensitive one were to get out. 

Loki method is a method that they are actually researching. Who would have thought that Loki could already uses such method?

He must have solved the frequency problems and the master key problems, Lukas thought to himself. 

‘This letter requires a key for it to be read’ Sasha nodded. It would not be surprising for someone like Loki to create such a deceiving method.

‘One way to find out’ she said as she took the key and slowly brought it to the letter. 

Then Sasha could feel that the key is about to fly out from her grip. 

Instead of tightening her grip, she let the key go. The key in front of their eyes shrink and turns translucent. Then it flew toward that keyhole drawing in the letter.

‘Amazing’ Lukas could not help but exclaim seeing such thing

The letter glow blue and purple and then the words in the letter rearranged itself. Sasha did not hide the content from Lukas. 

It is not because she trusts him. But because she did not want Lukas to think that she is hiding it from Death Monarch.

If it’s a treasonous plot, then she would have to squash it. And she would have a witness if she needs to explain this matter toward Death Monarch.

And by the fact that Loki give the key to Lukas, he might have predicted her action toward it. It did not take long before the glow ended and Sasha could read the letter.

The first words already confirmed Sasha thoughts about Loki. He greeted both her and Lukas in the opening intro of his letter.

Then it reaches the important stuff. 

And she frowned after reading it. Lukas shakes his head as he slowly back away, trying not to read the letter until the end

The more he doesn’t know about this, the better. This seems like a job for those spies in the Shadow Guard and not for the people of the Palace.

He had already determined that the letter did not have any treasonous plans for Death Monarch and Pandemonium. It is enough for him

This matter is about Loki and the Shadow Guards. It did not involve the Palace, did not involve the Court, did not involve Pandemonium and did not involve Death Monarch

Since that is the case, it is better for him to practice the wisdom of the three monkeys

Sasha notices Lukas movement but she did not stop him. She could understand Lukas desire to wash his hand of from this matter 

What Loki wrote in his letter is a plan. A scheme of the highest kind. 

It is quite detailed. 

That is one compliment she had about the letter. 

Detailed and concise.

The letter did not act like normal letter. 

It seems to know when Sasha and Lukas read the letter. When they finished reading the words, the letter would fade away replaced with may more new sentences.

It is like messaging only it has been written beforehand.

The first plot was what shocked Lukas and so he backed away after knowing that this plan would not be harmful to Death Monarch.

But, Sasha did not have such luxury to distance herself from this matter. After all, the letter is for her.

She sighed as she keeps reading the letter. The more she reads, the more she knows how deep Loki plans goes.

Then after finished reading it, there is a postscript notes.

‘This message would self-destruct in five second’ the numbers even appear on the letter, as it countdown to zero. 

Loki does like his reference. 

‘Mission Impossible’ she thought to herself. 

Loki had a theme. He always had a theme when he is in the mood for joking. 

Sometimes he references some obscure cult film. Other times, it is pop culture reference. There were even song and movie lines that he always like to bring out.

One of his many quirks. This time, the theme might be the world of spies. She sighed.

‘You are really relaxed, aren’t you, Trickster?’ she thought inwardly

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