Most people, the word «espionage» doesn't even cross their mind unless they're playing Spy vs Spy or watching something about Vienna, Austria… let alone think about what happens when you come from a family that is the literal definition of Espionage Masters.
When someone trying to walk the Straight-and-Narrow finds themselves in a predicament where they have to be (or at least play) Heir to Hell, what does that someone do?
Anything, really. It doesn't matter if it's an existential crisis or take "Door 2" for the gold and riches that await them on the other side.
[PREVIEW]
Fully set up and signed in with only one real contact in the entire thing (she’d recognized combinations like Sapphire Yohansen as being the titular character of the Sapphire Twister series and Irina Yohansen from The Family Over the Border), she immediately got to a safe location, as per the instructions prior to receiving the phone, and called “Reese Johnson” on Skype.
It didn’t take very long for an answer to come, though the screen of the phone was briefly that of a voice call with the default avatar for the program before a human in a black suit answered the call- she’d never seen him in something that didn’t come from from a tailor. The face was adorned with red eyes, thick, brown hair, and a small smile showing through the thought that plastered his face for several moments as Julie took a few moments to gather her thoughts.
“K- konnichiwa,” Julie said before a blush showed through her fur.
“Glad to see you too, Julie, after all of this time,” he said.
He had the voice of a king. No doubt it would boom over legions of people at command.
“I know the marshals… and the Stanminson boy… are probably unaware we’re talking,” he continued, “But is it so wrong for a king to have a relationship with his daughter? You had it all,” he said smugly as he shook his head, “The best of the best. Where are you, now?”
“A dilapidated apartment with George,” Julie said.
“And I’ll bet you’d like to come home, too.”
Julie bit her lip and nodded, “I’m scared,” she said after a few moments, “I’m scared to.”
“I can call off the killings like that,” he said with a snap of his fingers, “But we never found the remaining two.”
“George was with me that day,” Julie said, “Ren Ya Dang was doing a book signing in town, so he took me over to the library for that and for Panda Express after. His uncle was on vacation, as usual.”
“Ah. As you know, you’re my chosen successor. Had that Jap bitch stayed where she belonged, you’d have been brought up with the best protection and education money could buy.”
“Why did George’s family get killed?”
“That monkey-faced piece-of-ass, only after she had been chained in a tank of water up to her nose, named the idiot’s family as her co-conspirators to murder me.”
“Why didn’t you just, I don’t know, see a marriage counselor?” Julie said, beginning to “go nuclear” (as they’d called it).
“Is George with you?”
Julie saw George vigorously shaking his head from the corner of her eye, “He’s in town.”
“When you take over as their leader, you can have any man you want.”
“I kind of already married George,” she said, “But you’re right, I might find someone who can please me better… though it is gonna be hard to top his cooking.”
Nasovar looked at Julie with one eyebrow raised before accepting what she’d said, “Very well,” he began, “If that’s what you want, then I’m more than aware the marshals intervening have prevented you from having a proper wedding ceremony. If you’ll be so kind as to join me for dinner, I’ll be glad to see what you’ve done with the idiot. Your room is still as it was the last time you stayed.”
“I- oh, wow.”
“If you’ll join me, I’ll call off the guards and arrange for transport for the two of you.”
“Could I get back to you on that?” Julie said, shaking her head, “All this time, I tried to take after Mom, of all people. I had no idea you were the good guy in this. Just, I… whoa. So much to take in. Would a text be okay?”
“Of course.”
“Well, it was great to be able to talk to you again, and I’m sure I can leave WitSec and come back home soon enough. I never knew that about Mom, though. I’m so happy you weren’t the monster I grew up thinking you were.”
“Monster?” Nasovar said, wishing he’d left Makiko alive to make an example of, “No.”
“Well, I’ve gotta go now, but I’ll call you back as soon as I can. Okay?”
“Sure.”
“Bye, Daddy,” she said, ending the call, turning off the phone, and taking the battery out.
[END OF PREVIEW]
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This is Reese Johnson (better known as Nasovar), father of Julie Makiko Corella Johnson and attacker of Makiko Corella. A human that (as people have quoted) "Conned Satan himself out of a soul-and-a-half), he is likened to by his own (biological) daughter as "Kim Jong Un if he wasn't 300 pounds overweight, Asian, and actually was a charming person.", and this isn't without base, either. Nasovar controls an enormous base of wealth, is a god to at least thousands (maybe millions) of people, and manages to hide it all as a charming father.
Until it all comes crashing down.
The attacker of Makiko Corella during July 1996, he's never seen in anything less than a custom-tailored suit, usually wearing a pair of white gloves to help keep his tracks hidden. Makiko (worried about what would happen to their daughter) kept Nasovar away from Julie, but didn't manage to finalize the documents necessary for changing her last name from «Johnson» to «Corella». In spite of that little detail, Nasovar was never seen as her father unless she needed an organ and it was fatal.
Nasovar is the definition of a psychopath, often taking his rage out on Makiko for "grooming his rightful heir to the Martyrs" and hiding any reality from Julie unless it benefited him, though he went unaware for a while after Makiko had arranged for Julie to live with George and his family about two miles closer to the highway. Paranoia can root easily in him, as well as acting on a whim with no logical basis (eg sacrificing people). His actions are ingrained into people's minds to the point of fear of him, Makiko, or Julie. Everything Julie is, Nasovar isn't, even to the point of her own future- Nasovar wanted her to take over his throne and be surrounded with bodyguards and a personal army at all times (supposedly), Julie wanted to be an elementary school teacher and help children grow and learn, living in a platonic relationship with George.
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