2026-05-19 21:32:52The hand he had been pointing at the floor was now… truly trembling, no longer from anger, but from pure terror. He swallowed hard, his eyes darting wildly looking for an escape.
"What... what are you babbling about? Have you gone mad?" Julian stammered. His voice rose an octave, a sign that his defenses were beginning to crumble.
Rian stepped forward again, this time so close that Julian could smell the aroma of coffee soaking into Rian's shirt.
"I know everything, Julian. I know about transaction reference number CT-9901. I know you used your manager access to forge the Chief Operating Officer's digital signature. If I blink right now, the building's security system will send all that evidence to the CEO's desk in less than a second."
The Aura-Link system showed Julian's emotional graph entering the Collapse zone.
[Target Status: Cornered. Probability of Physical Assault: 65%.]
[Movement Analysis: Right Shoulder Tensing. He Will Attempt to Slap You in 1.2 Seconds.]
Sure enough, driven by shame and desperation in front of all his subordinates, Julian lost control. He raised his right hand, swinging it with full force toward Rian's face. "Shut your mouth, you piece of trash!"
However, in Rian's eyes, the movement appeared incredibly slow, as if Julian were moving through water. A red trajectory path appeared in the air, showing exactly where Julian's hand would land. Rian only needed to shift his head a few centimeters to the left.
Whoosh!
Julian's hand only struck empty air.
Because of the excessive force and the loss of balance, the man stumbled forward. Before Julian could steady himself, Rian caught his wrist with an incredibly powerful grip, a grip an ordinary office boy shouldn't have been capable of.
"Don't you ever try to touch me again," Rian hissed right into Julian's ear.
Julian trembled violently. He stared at Rian with a look of pure horror, as if the man standing before him wasn't the Rian he had known for the past two years, but an apex predator toying with its prey.
"I... I'm sorry," Julian whispered, his voice barely audible.
"I can't hear you," Rian said coldly.
"I'm sorry, Rian! I... it was my fault!" Julian finally shouted, tears of frustration beginning to well in the corners of his eyes. He no longer cared about his pride being shattered in front of the office staff. All he cared about was how to keep his dark secret from being exposed.
The watching office staff were completely agape. They couldn't believe their eyes, seeing an operations manager known for his extreme arrogance now begging for forgiveness from an office boy whose shirt was still soaked with coffee. The lobby atmosphere, previously filled with mockery, now shifted into a mix of admiration and a sense of dread toward Rian.
Rian released his grip. He adjusted Julian's collar slightly with a condescending motion. "Good. Now, clean up this floor. I don't want any coffee left here when Lady Victoria arrives."
Julian didn't argue. With trembling hands, he pulled his expensive silk handkerchief from his suit pocket and began to kneel on the floor, wiping up the spilled coffee under the gaze of dozens of his own employees.
Rian stood tall, feeling an incredible surge of adrenaline rushing through his veins. For the first time in his life, he felt like he possessed power. He was no longer just a spectator in his own world; he was a player.
However, in the midst of his victory, the Aura-Link system suddenly vibrated violently. A golden warning window appeared, larger and more urgent than before.
[Warning: Host's Neural Energy Increasing Drastically.]
[Aura-Link Integration: 15% Complete.]
[Remote Sensors Detecting Presence of High Authority.]
[S-Class Target Entering Range. Please Stand By.]
The glass revolving doors of the lobby spun rapidly. A group of burly men in black suits and earpieces entered first, forming a tight security line. In their midst, a woman walked with an aura so powerful it seemed as if she were absorbing all the light in the room.
Lady Victoria Sterling. She wore a dark blue formal gown that hugged her slender frame perfectly. Her face was beautiful yet as cold as polar ice, with pitch-black hair neatly styled in a bun. Her gaze was fixed straight ahead, sharp and piercing, as if she could see the sins of everyone she passed.
The previously noisy lobby suddenly became as silent as a grave. Even Julian, who was still wiping the floor, froze, not daring to breathe.
Victoria stopped just a few feet from where Rian stood. Her light grey eyes glanced at Julian kneeling on the floor, then slowly moved up, locking her gaze directly into Rian's right eye.
Rian stood frozen. The system in his eyes suddenly glitched. Data lines surrounding Victoria vibrated wildly, changing color from blue to red, then gold, before finally displaying data that made Rian's heart nearly stop beating.
[Target Detected: Victoria Sterling]
[Classification: S-Class Target - Highest Authority]
[Loneliness Level: 90% - Emotional Status: Stressed / Alert]
[Warning: Quantum Encryption Detected Around Target. Aura-Link Detecting Familiar Frequency...]
Victoria narrowed her eyes, staring at Rian as if she were looking at an nonsensical puzzle. She stepped closer, ignoring her manager who was still kneeling on the floor. Once she stood before Rian, the scent of expensive, cold jasmine perfume wafted up, filling Rian's senses.
"You," Victoria said in a low, melodic yet intimidating voice. "What is your name?"
"Rian, M'lady," Rian replied, trying to keep his voice from trembling under the pressure of the woman's aura.
Victoria stared at the coffee stain on Rian's uniform, then looked back into his eyes. It was as if she could see something hidden behind the pupil of Rian's right eye, which was still glowing faintly. "An office boy capable of making an operations manager kneel and clean the floor with just a few words..."
She paused, causing the tension in the room to peak. Victoria stepped one pace closer, until their faces were only inches apart.
"How do you know about that reserve fund scandal, Rian?" Victoria whispered, her voice audible only to Rian. "Who told you?!"
Rian fell silent, while the Aura-Link system in his head screamed with a new notification that burned his nerves.
[New Mission Detected: Survive Interrogation by S-Class Target.]
[If Failed: Identity Elimination in Five Minutes.]
Julian, who was still on the floor, looked up, his face filled with both curiosity and immense fear. "Yes... how did you know, Rian?! Who told you?!" Julian shouted from below, trying to find an ally in the CEO.
Rian looked deep into Victoria's grey eyes, realizing that his quiet life as an "invisible person" had truly been incinerated this morning, along with the coffee spilled on his chest.
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Chapter 11
The elevator doors slid open with a metallic hiss.Rian did not move immediately. He stood at the threshold, one hand resting against the cool steel door frame, scanning the lobby the way he used to scan dark alleys in Shoreditch for drunks who might roll him for the forty quid in his jacket pocket. Old instinct. The kind you did not learn from a system, the kind you grew from years of having nothing to protect you but your own two eyes.His right eye, the one that no longer belonged entirely to him, did its work automatically. Overlapping geometries of threat data bloomed across his vision like frost spreading on glass.Three figures. Positioned near the coat check, the bar, and the far emergency exit. Each one still as furniture. Each one wrong, the way a photograph of a smiling person is wrong when you notice their eyes are not smiling at all.Neural rifles. Plasma-based. Each one trained on you.[Survival probability: 31%.}Thirty-one. Rian exhaled slowly through his nose.Three m
Chapter 10
The dim streetlights of Shoreditch flickered erratically, casting Rian’s long shadow across the asphalt still damp from the remnants of the rain. The suit, worth thousands of pounds, clung to his body like a suffocating, foreign skin.Although he had just won a psychological battle against Lord Arthur at that high-end restaurant, no sense of pride remained in his chest. Instead, a cold void began to crawl from the corners of his eyes, snaking down his spine and freezing what little human emotion he had left.Rian stepped into the musty hallway of his apartment building. Usually, the creak of the floorboards in this old building would keep him on edge, but now, even the slightest noise was analyzed by Aura-Link as meaningless sound wave frequencies.His world was no longer about feelings or memories; it had transformed into a tedious heap of data. He stared at the peeling walls, and the system in his eyes immediately spat out numbers:[Humidity Level 72%, Black Mold Growth Risk: High.]
Chapter 9
"Victoria, you look stunning as always," Arthur said with a very thick posh accent. He then turned to Rian, extending his hand in a demeaning manner. "And who is this? I didn't know Sterling Tech was now hiring fashion models to accompany their CEO for dinner."Rian felt a surge of anger in his chest, but the Aura-Link immediately dampened the emotion. A digital command appeared in his vision.[Target Weakness Analysis: Arthur is currently facing a financial crisis in his property company. He strongly dislikes men who appear more intelligent than him.][Dialogue Instruction: Use Microeconomic Terms. Crush His Mental Dominance.]Rian accepted Arthur's handshake, but he applied a slightly firmer pressure, making Arthur wince involuntarily. "Rian. Lead Strategic Consultant. I didn't realize Sterling Tech allowed nearly bankrupt ex-lovers to arrange our CEO's dinner schedule," Rian replied in a very casual tone, almost as if he were talking about the weather.Arthur's face suddenly turned
Chapter 8
The Watchers. They weren't waiting until tomorrow. They were already here. And they knew exactly who Rian was."M'lady," Rian's voice trembled as he pointed toward the screen, which was beginning to display geographical coordinates for London being locked onto by orbital weaponry. "We don't have time to get a suit tailored. They just locked a target on this building."Victoria Sterling didn't waste a second. She snatched a pistol from behind her desk drawer and glared at Rian with a lethal flash in her eyes. "Then show me what that eye of yours can do, Rian. Right now!"***The floor-to-ceiling mirror in Sterling Tech's exclusive dressing room seemed to reflect a stranger Rian had never seen before. The young man who usually spent his days with a grimy mop and a blue polyester uniform smelling of cheap detergent was gone.In his place stood a young man in a three-piece midnight blue suit, handcrafted by the finest tailors on Savile Row. The cut was precise, following the lines of his
Chapter 7
"The real world is very cruel, Rian," Victoria said with a voice full of hidden sorrow."My father spent his entire life trying to figure out what lay behind those 'numbers.' He died because of it. And I... I am nothing more than the leftovers of his mad ambition."[Target Status: Emotional Defense Level Decreased to 45%.][Manipulation Successful. Target Beginning to Relate to User.]Rian felt a small pang of guilt prick his heart. He was manipulating the honest emotions of a woman who seemed to have suffered her entire life. However, Aura-Link possessed no mercy. The system continued to urge Rian to lock in the deal."I didn't know about your father, Ma'am. All I know is that now, every time I look at a computer screen, I can see the cracks in it. I could see Julian's lies before he even opened his mouth," Rian said, his voice steadier now. "If you hand me over to the police, they won't understand. They'll dissect my head in a government basement lab. Please... don't let that happen
Chapter 6
The elevator doors slid shut with a subtle hiss that sounded incredibly expensive, cutting off the noise of the Sterling Tech lobby and leaving behind a chilling silence. Inside the cramped space lined with titanium panels and silver mirrors, Rian felt like a rat being driven into a golden cage. Beside him, Lady Victoria Sterling stood tall without so much as a glance. Her side profile looked like a perfect yet cold marble carving; a sharp jawline, a straight nose, and long eyelashes that curved beautifully but remained frozen.Rian's right eye throbbed intensely. A dim blue light began to dance at the edges of his vision, as if the Aura-Link system was struggling to process the presence of the woman beside him.[Warning: Magnetic Field inside Elevator Increasing.][S-Class Target: Victoria Sterling – Data Sync 18%...][Target Heart Rate: 72 BPM – Unnaturally Stable.]Rian swallowed hard, trying to dampen his own heartbeat which now felt like a drum pounding inside his chest. He glanc
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