Beyond Netero
Son of the late chairman and the voyage's nominal reason for existing: the man who sold the Dark Continent to the world. Travels in comfortable confinement under Zodiac guard, radiating the patience of someone whose plan already includes his own imprisonment.
Addendum ch.401The contingency has a shape: thirty years of sham marriages produced dozens of secret children — Longhi and Furykov among them — each raised toward a prince's guard detail and each sealed with a death-triggered curse under the tongue. Ten 'strong curse sacrifices' for fourteen princes, and Longhi suspects one prince is his own child.
Addendum ch.412From his cell he wages a parallel war of paperwork: 1,047 lawsuits against Kakin, all dismissed, argued through his lawyer Cleapatro while the Zodiacs page through the boxes for contraband.
Fathered dozens of cursed 'sacrifice' children on Kakin officers' wives, seeding the princes' guard corps with death-triggered curses.
