2025-01-07 20:25:38Adrian walked out of the School Board of Judges' presence with his pride restored. Although he was unable to prove the terrible allegations as vile and false, he was able to give them something to think about.
He enjoyed watching their faces go blue, especially Donald McMahon, he nearly lost his balance in shock. Teresa looked as if she had seen a ghost, she could not speak another word till Adrian walked out in all calmness. Their eyes followed him all the way out and he could still feel their stares on his back as he left the premises for a closure to the day. "Hey!!" He heard rushed footsteps calling behind him. Turning around, Adrian was not suprised to see his ex girlfriend. Teresa stopped right in front of him, running out of breathe. "What did you do back there?" She managed to find her lungs again. "What? I just paid my bills like a man should. Is there anything I can do to help you?" Her eyes darkened in annoyance. It was as if he struck her ego unknowingly. Her brows curled in a frown. "I know you can't afford that sum of money. You have no money! Did you steal it?" "What? Are you gonna accuse me of theft now? I'm done here." He walked past her without caring. He was not going to stand there and take her insults all over again. "Wait..." She struggled to block his path again, stretching both arms of hers. "What now?" "Are you a secret rich kid?" Her lips parted fast as she glared him suspiciously. "What does that even mean?" "Rich kids who pretend to be poor so they can find true love? Is that what you did? You lied to me for three years?" She seemed to be scared right now, as if she was losing a treasure she had found. "Well, what can I say?" Adrian was ready to pull her strings further. "You seem to have failed the test woefully." "But I didn't know..." Her voice grew thinner. Back in front of the panel, she was all domineering. Now she sounded like a little child who wanted to gain sympathy. "I would have done better if I did. You can give me a second chance, you know... And then..." "And then what about Ricardo?" Adrian was disgusted at what I heard. How could she be so cheap? All these while, he thought he was dating a lady of class, he never knew she was so petty. No shame, no sense of honour. "Well, Ricardo spends on me. If you can spend more... I can help you out of this mess. I can even testify for you. You see, I love you more than I like him. I just thought you were broke..." At this point, he had no more reason to talk to her. He had seen so much of her that he never knew existed. She even dared to use his family background to make fun of him back in there, why would he ever trust her again? "Get out of my way." He said calmly, enjoying the control he was having right now. Every single word he said affected her. "But... Wait..." "Get out!" In shivers, Teresa flew away as Adrian came forward. As he walked away, he had a gentle smile on his lips. Even though he would be taking the long walk back home, he still had enough reason to be satisfied with himself today. He had no more money, everything had gone into the school's account but that shouldn't be a problem. All he needed to do was to complete more missions with the system, then he would make more money. He remembered that he also received ten character points alongside the one million dollar reward, wonder what those points were useful for. "Hey system, why did you not respond earlier?" "The system will not always be present with the host. There will be a random period everyday when the system would go offline. The host must learn not to completely depend on the system to get answers. The system will always be present during the course of a mission and give instructions except in particular instances. To establish permanent contact with the chosen heir system, the host must upgrade their level. At the God Status, the host will be in full control of the system. You are still an anchor, you have a long way to go." Was that so? Adrian couldn't wait to be a god then. He really needed to start completing new missions. "Tell me, what is my next mission?" "There are two kinds of mission, filler missions and special missions. Your last mission was a special mission. Now there are no special missions available, thus you will be assigned a filler mission." "And what is this filler mission?" "Face slapping. Your landlady and her son are waiting for you. They plan to chase you out today. Would you like to know a secret or a prediction about your landlady?" "A secret this time." Adrian chose to be told a prediction the night before. Of course he wanted a secret now. Afterall, he could not imagine the several many dark secrets the landlady would be keeping. The idea of blackmailing her did not seem so harsh. Afterall she had never been a good person to anyone. For three years, she had only increased the exorbitant price of her house, way above its true value. She loved money so much. With all the terrible things he had seen her do in the name of money, he couldn't wait to find out what the secret was. "Secret: Your landlady owes your family a huge sum of money. In 2004, she begged your father's personal assistant on her knees for a loan which she used to build her house. She never paid back." Adrian was stunned. His family? A loan? He didn't know much about his father, but he couldn't ever guess he used to have a personal assistant not to talk of the kind of riches the system was suggesting. "Are you saying I come from a rich family? My father was a billionaire?" Maybe Teresa was not so far from the truth afterall. "Your family's riches collapsed a long time ago. That is all I can reveal for now. Meanwhile, ask your landlady about the SILVER DROP loan. She will understand at once." In an instant, Adrian hurried his pace towards home. Walking past the pedestrians, he couldn't wait to ask Mrs Huddersfield about it. Soon he was standing right in front of Mrs Huddersfield's huge building. It was a huge mansion divided into many small flats for tenants, she lived alone in the biggest part of the house. She had always treated Adrian like dirt so to think that all of these came from his family's riches afterall.. was crazy. As much as Adrian didn't know anything about mother, he knew she abandoned him as a child and his foster mother picked him up. His father, however, he did not know anything about him. Maybe the answer was standing right in front of me all along. Mrs Huddersfield might know something, and he was eager to find out. As he placed a hand on the door knuckle, a beam played loudly in his head. "Alarm! Alarm!" A red screen appeared, danger was glaring. "Emergency! You have been assigned a new mission! A special mission! Prediction: Lyana Rodriguez will be murdered in the next five minutes! It is up to you to save her... Again!"
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