[He's here, the protagonist is here on this floor]

'Hmm..! Where?' Davies asked a bit startled at this sudden revelation but managed to keep his composure and kept walking toward the door.

[He's not inside]

'Huh, I thought you said he was on this floor?' Davies questioned, bewildered.

[... we are on the ground floor, idiot... Greatest genius my ass]

'... In my defense, I'm only the greatest genius around technological stuff.' Davies mumbled in response.

[What's that you say.. you're stupid everywhere else?] Miya replies annoyedly.

'Whatever, where is he..?' Davies asked irritably,

[Outside the building.. he seems to be waiting for you]

'... waiting for me?' Davies wondered at Miya's answer as he continued walking towards the door and then pushed them open.

Standing beside the Pexus LFA was a young Asian man in a valet suit waiting with the key in hand, for Davies.

'Would you look at that.. the first protagonist is my valet.' Davies chuckles lightly as he looked at the young Asian man who stood by the car with an obviously forced smile on his face.

'Are you sure he is the one though, Miya?' Davies asked to confirm.

[Well, you don't see anyone else standing and waiting here, do you?]

'Tch.. would it kill you to just answer nicely for once, Miya.' Davies walked toward the car and then went on to open the door for Jessica to get in, before going over to the other side and collecting the keys from the young valet.

"What's your name?" Davies asks with a smiley face.

"Lee Jung, my name is Lee Jung."

"Lee Jung huh.. well good job, you had really perfect timing.. but well, if you didn't you would have lost your job, Haha." Davies laughs.

"Too bad I don't really have anything to tip with.. and I'm really running out of time here, I have to hurry up and eat up the delicious meal sitting in my car right now."

"Maybe an increase in salary could work," Davies purposely says all this to infuriate Lee Jung and is watching him out of the corner of his eyes to see if he'd snap at this provocation, but apart from the slight hardening of his expression, Lee Jung didn't react and kept his smile on his face.

"Good night, uhm.. Lil Dung," Davies says with a straight face as he opens the door of the car and gets in.

Davies starts the car quickly and drives away slowly. As the car moves away, Lee Jung's smiling face disappeared as he looked at the car with an angry expression, thinking, 'He must have forced her into going along with him.'

'That bastard...! Where's he taking my miss Jessica!?'

'If only I was a Mega. Maybe I can still stop it if I make an anonymous call to the Rome family. They should be able to save her from his clutches,' He thinks as he quickly turns and runs back towards the workers' station, where he left his phone.

***

As Davies drove away, he looked at his rear-view mirror just in time to notice Lee Jung running away.

[Awwn.. You annoyed him so much; now he's running back to his mommy] Miya taunted.

'Come on.. I wasn't that bad.' Davies replies as he continues driving.

'You knew, didn't you?' Davies asks Miya a sudden question.

[Knew what?]

'You knew who the protagonist was before we even entered the building, didn't you?' Davies repeats himself more clearly.

[Wha-What do you mean? Are you saying I was lying?]

'That's exactly what I was saying. You really need to up your lying game, if you're going to try something like this with me again.'

[What makes you think that I was lying?]

'Well for starters, you made it seem like your ability to sense the protagonist's aura was weak and very limited.. yet you could pick up a trail that led me across quite a few floors. Secondly, now that I know that the first protagonist was obviously a valet, it stands to reason that he has nothing to do in the main office building and was probably in some sort of workers' station that wasn't in the main building, yet you told me he was in the main building, on one of the floors.'

'I don't know your reason for doing all that, but I could infer from all your sneaky moves was to make sure I had a bumpy start with the protagonist.' Davies affirmed.historical

[What if I made a mistake and what I was sensing all this while from the main building is that girl that's sitting down beside you? We both know that I can only use features from your system and we also both know that your system is pretty buggy.]

'I'm pretty sure it was not a mistake on your part because you told me immediately, we got to the company that the protagonist was in the main building, effectively diverting all my attention to the main building and away from anywhere else, and even after we got inside and met Jessica, you could have confirmed that she wasn't the protagonist and that you sensed wrongly..'

'...but instead, you went on to tell me that while she wasn't the protagonist, she had some heavy fate value on herself as well, indicating that she would be one of the protagonist's future companions, meaning you could already distinctively tell who had a heavier fate value, so I'm pretty sure the system is not as buggy as you say..'

'... Not to mention the fact that I already saw Lee Jung before I even entered the main building.'

[Wait.. You also saw him?!]

'No, I didn't, but your response tells me all I need to know.'

[...]

[...Smartass]

'Why did you do it though?' Davies asked.

[Well, I wanted to kick start your non-harmonious relationship with the protagonist because immediately I sensed his fate value, I noticed that while it was heavy, it was also untapped.]

'What does that even mean?'

[That means, that he hasn't even experienced his first fated opportunity.. He's literally an unripe fruit and is useless to us as he is now, so we have to find a way to kick start his first fated opportunity into existence.]

'You could have just told me.. this is one of my specialties you know.. making enemies.'

'... I mean.. I've been a villain in all of my lives.'

[...well.. leave the system to do system-like things and you do your villain things.]

'Nope.. we're together in this, no time for distinction now. I'd prefer your full transparency on these kinds of situations still.' Davies pointed out sternly.

[Alright, Alright.. Now you've performed your playboy magic and you have successfully reeled in one of the protagonist's future companions and in so doing annoyed the protagonist and has potentially kick-started the protagonist's fate, what next?]

'What do you mean, "what next?"' Davies asked, confused.

[What are you going to do with the girl?]

'Oh..'

'She's one of the things I can use to take down the protagonist, so it'd be better to keep her around as long as she's usable..'

'Plus, she's already in my car.. so I'm going to eat her up,' a smile appears at the corner of his lips.

[...]

[...what did I even expect.. you know, for someone who's been betrayed by women in literally all your lives, it's pretty shocking for me how you still like playing around and sleeping with them, continuously chasing skirts.]

'...Not chasing skirts.. chasing the wrong skirts,'

'Miya.. I trust you've been in my mind long enough to realize that to a true man of culture..'

'Boobs is life.' Davies replied and stepped on the accelerator, zooming off towards his house as he was hungry now, but not for food.

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