Leo placed Lily inside the baby seat and fastened her seatbelts as he asked, "Why didn't you complain about him when he tugged on your braids? Do they hurt?"

Lily shook her head and said, "It was not that I didn't want to complaint but it wasn't just me whom he tried to mess with. Miss Verse said that it could be because he was new and was trying to get our attention. After she scolded him not to he was fine the rest of the day, it was just when we went to the garden. Timmy, the rabbit sniffed him and he kicked the poor thing. Timmy is the most docile rabbit in the garden. How can he do this?"

She was more infuriated that the new kid attacked the rabbit then him messing with her. Leo sighed and asked, "What is his name?"

Lily replied, "Paul Kruger."

Leo raised his brow and then said, "Okay, I will talk to his parents."

Lily rolled her eyes and replied, "You just warned them in front of everyone like a mafia, do you think they will talk to you?"

Leo nodded and replied, "I will talk to them calmly this time. Don't worry."

Lily nodded, the young man dropped her at the gates of the house, and Lily asked confusedly, "Why aren't you coming inside?"

Leo sighed and said, "Well, I was thinking if I should not tell you this thing. I don't want you to worry."

Lily was his kryptonite, he couldn't bring himself to lie while looking in her eyes, and the little girl asked, "Tell me, what is it?"

Leo led her inside the house and sat her down on the couch. Snow was also there, but she didn't say anything and kept reading the book in her hands. Leo sighed and replied, "Well, there is an enemy who had been trying to attack su all this while, so I kinda ran out of patience and acted wildly. I set up a hunting game with that person."

Lily tilted her head and asked, "What kind of hunting game?"

Leo said, "We will form two teams and hunt down each other."

Lily took a few moments to realize what he meant before she opened her eyes wide, and asked, "How can you do something like this?"

Leo sighed and said, "Well, I messed up. Usually I don't give in to provocation but this lady, she has been trying to mess with us and even tried to trap me by associating me with those child abusing monsters."

Lily blinked and then she thought for a moment before she said, "Fine, deal with this person and then you have to stay home for a month."

The young man sighed and nodded in submission. He was sure that the two ladies would not let him out easily after this thing.

'Ping: Host, usually when children are wrong they are grounded, and since this time you have placed yourself in the wrong, you will be grounded and from the start of the punishment, your attributes would be halved till the end.'

Leo sighed and accepted the punishment. Lily patted his shoulder and said, "Now, go. I am taking a sabbatical from school. I will stay here and look after Ma."

Leo was shocked, and he looked at Snow, who said, "I will approve the application from my end, and send it to Miss Verse. I will teach Lily at home."

The young man knew that his situation at home was not very stable at the moment, so he decided to just agree to what they had to say. Then he stood up and said, "I will leave, I have to handle somethings at work before setting off."

He kissed Lily on her forehead and then approached his glaring wife before he said, "I love you."

Then he didn't wait for her answer and walked away. Snow mumbled, "I love you too, stupid."

Leo didn't hear it, he went to the office, and relayed the situation to Markus, before he caught up on the news about the deployment of the satellites. It was not a big issue that they successfully managed to achieve this sort of deployment, after all, they have been conduction space aviation for a few months and it was a daily thing. The space research organizations all over the world were reaching out to collaborate with them in various research projects and Utopia Research Center had turned into a prestigious institute.

...

Fragrance came over to his office and said, "Matilda Luger has signed the document, and I have also gotten them attested by a Judge."

Leo was shocked, and Frag waved her hand as she said, "Don't worry, he will not leak it out as I have gotten him to sign an NDA. If something turns up, and we go legal, then he will be the witness."

Leo nodded, and then Frag asked, "When are you going? The destination is the Elsa Range."

Leo sighed and replied, "I will leave today with the team, but it would be undercover."

Fragrance nodded and said, "Fine, do as you see it fit."

Then she left, she didn't wish him good luck or anything as she thought it would jinx him.

...

Leo got in the car, and all the heavy emotions he was having at the moment, he put them aside, and then he said, "Kyle, you and Jock are to stay here for protection duty. I will be taking Markus and the elite squad with me."

Kyle nodded and agreed, he wanted to go along with Leo, but he knew that the young boss would feel better with him and Jock watching over the family. They headed over to the airport where Leo got himself on a commercial flight to the Stag Nation.

There he was joined by Markus, and they took a flight to the airport closest to the Elsa Mountains. On the flight, Markus stataed, "The team would be reaching by tomorrow night and they will bring all the gear."

Leo nodded and Markus asked, "Sir, I have been thinking, what made you do this?"

The former sighed and replied, "No idea, just a impulse to set her on fire."

Markus smiled and said, "Well, you can do that now."

Leo nodded and said, "Catch some sleep, in the coming seven days, we would have to work a lot. I am sure that the enemy is also moving."

...

The flight landed in a small airport and the two men came out, they were standing a few hundred kilometers from the mountains but they were still visible to the naked eyes. Leo said, "Do you know why she choose this place?"

Markus nodded while looking at the snow covered mountains, and said, "The snow is fresh, if it is layered and we fire a shot, we are screwed. If there a blizzard, we are screwed. There are snow lions, fucking aggressive predators. Then there is slow movement speed. It is not going to be easy to fight ten people in these conditions. Also, I looked into things, they are definitely getting a drone."

Leo nodded and said, "Fragrance was clever, she cited that we needed to keep things low profile. Just because we are in agreement of an armed confrontation, it doesn't mean we could start a war or the national forces will intervene and take us both out. Matilda thought she has a better chance with me so she agreed to keep the confrontation limited to hand held weapons and no RPGs or nades."

Markus sighed and said, "That's a relief, if it is just gun fight, we would be able to handle it with better easy. I wonder who did she select as her team."

Leo stretched his body and said, "I am guessing she took the retired special ops of this nation. They would have better experience in these mountains."

Markus nodded in agreement, after all, this was the most logical option. Suddenly, Leo said, "Well, tell the men to bring those flat rounds. We should injure and immobilize the opponent and not kill them. If they turn out to be former military, it would spell international disaster for us."

This caused Markus to shiver and he said, "I will make the call, we should head to the hotel. I have booked the entire floor."

Leo sighed internally, 'To grand for low profile.'

They reached the hotel and checked-in before Leo used an encrypted connection from his mobile to access the topographic data from a communication and weather detection satellite. Now that he had his own satellite and collaboration with the world organizations, it was just a trivial thing to ask for the latest data in the name of research and study.

He printed out the topographic of the entire mountain range on paper and covered a wall with it. He was going to prepare for everything. Thinking about it, a smile played on his lips and he called Matilda directly.