(Bonus chapter 23/50, with thanks to Son of the Round Clam, Pete Griffin for the tip.)
Perhaps he had used up all his luck at the Ordo Hereticus, because Li Qinwu's luck took a turn for the worse afterward.
Once his business with the Inquisition was finished, Li Qinwu took Catwoman Nova to visit her in-laws.
To avoid trouble, they deliberately waited until the beginning of the month before visiting Inquisitor Thraxol's home.
Inquisitor Thraxol's family was called the Golden Lion, and its crest was a golden lion.
The family was said to have a history stretching back tens of thousands of years. It had existed before the God-Emperor's Great Crusade and had participated extensively in it-a true military aristocracy.
The achievements of the Golden Lion Family's ancestor during the Great Crusade had sustained his descendants for over ten thousand years.
Even now, the members of the Golden Lion Family remained among the Imperium's high-ranking elite.
Thraxol and his uncle served as Inquisitors in the Inquisition, while other family members were generals in the Astra Militarum, and some were captains in the navy.
The current head of the Golden Lion Family, the old Lion, was a minister in the Interior Ministry, just one step away from becoming a High Lord.
The Golden Lion Family's residence stood right within the outer precincts of the Imperial Palace: a towering spire belonging to the entire family.
More than two million people lived in that spire. They were either members of the Golden Lion Family's branches or guards and slave laborers working for the family.
Using the ring given to them as a token by Sigurd, a Grand Master of the Inquisition, Li Qinwu and Catwoman Nova arranged to meet Inquisitor Thraxol's parents at the beginning of the month, while the old Lion was