Chef Ronaldo who continued to look at Alexander skeptically dropped his arms and held his wrists which hurt and felt like Alexander could have broken them if he wanted but didn’t for whatever reason.That thought made Chef Ronaldo start to give Alexander some more benefit of the doubt.“So you were being truthful when you said you were just here to ask me a question and you’re not working for the person blackmailing me”Alexander nodded, saying “That’s right. I’m not the person you’re thinking about. In fact, I don’t even know who the person you’re thinking about is”Chef Ronaldo took a deep breath and sighed. The chef left where he was, walked over to one of the metallic cooking tables, and sat on it.“Sorry about attacking you and then doubting you when you tried to tell me the truth” the chef apologized.Alexander who felt safe throughout the whole situation because of how strong he was, shrugged.“It’s no big deal. But what about you?” He asked.“What about me?” The chef grimaced
“What did you say? Sorry, but I didn’t quite hear you” Chef Ronaldo said.“Don’t worry about it” Alexander replied then walked closer to Chef Ronaldo.“So, are you going to tell me the details of this whole blackmailing situation or do you want me to go on my knees and beg? Sorry, bad joke” He said.The skeptical chef looked at him straight in the eyes.“Don’t worry, you can trust me. No matter what it is, I promise that I won’t judge” Alexander said and then thought about how even if what Chef Ronaldo says is something worth judging, he had no choice but to help him regardless. Depending on what the chef said, he was going to deal with the morality of it after accomplishing his mission and securing his reward. Just then, Alexander thought that the likelihood of the gods giving him a mission to help someone who did something morally wrong was very low, but at the same time, these were gods he was dealing with and he couldn’t tell what they would and wouldn’t do.As a human, he was v
“Well, uncomplicate it for me,” he said.“Yes, what I said was true and I did kill someone but it was by accident.” Chef Ronaldo said and Alexander wore the face of someone asking him to explain more.“Before I created the Might Julius Restaurant, like every other chef, I used to work for someone else, somewhere else. One day, we had a customer who came in with his date and because she was new to the restaurant, the customer ordered her dinner for her”“Okay,” Alexander commented and waited to hear the rest but so far everything seemed okay. How did it divert into someone’s death? He wondered.“I was being tested by the head chef that day so I was instructed to make the two dishes and I did a very remarkable job, if I must say.” Chef Ronaldo said and Alexander looked at him with judging eyes.It wasn’t the time to be praising his cooking.“Anyway, the waiter took dishes to their table but when he got there the customer who ordered for himself and his date wasn’t there. He forgot his
Alexander placed his hand on the tired Chef’s shoulder.“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of this whole mess for you. That filthy blackmailer will regret ever reaching out to you when I’m done with him” He assured.To Alexander’s surprise, he saw Chef Ronaldo chuckle and look away. Alexander grimaced in confusion and then asked “What’s the problem? Did I say something funny?”Chef Ronaldo took a deep breath, exhaled, and then looked at Alexander with a glint of guilt in his eyes. “I know I told you everything but I only did so because I was tired of keeping it all to myself and just wanted to free my chest. I don’t know why but for some reason you seemed like a trustworthy enough person to tell the truth to so I did, but calm down with promises like that” Chef Ronaldo said Alexander frowned.“What are you talking about? Why are you all of a sudden acting like I can’t handle this situation when we just made a deal less than a couple of minutes ago?” Alexander asked.“You’re right. We did
Alexander grimaced.“If I can? What do you mean by that?” He asked.“You said you heard me on the call before coming into the kitchen, right?” Chef Ronaldo said. “That’s right. What about it?” Alexander asked.“I know you talked about how great your hearing is but the truth is, the reason why you were able to catch what I was saying was because I was being loud about it. I was so angry that I forgot to watch how loud I was speaking and the reason for that is because the amount my blackmailer called was just too much that I lost it for a moment” Alexander furrowed his eyebrows and groaned.“The amount was too much? Even for someone like you?” He asked as he looked at the kitchen he was in.Clearly, The Mighty Julius made a lot of money. It was a three Michelin star restaurant after all and as the owner, Chef Ronaldo was sure to take home a good percentage of that money. The Chef also had recipe books he had sold so surely he was a multimillionaire.Since that was the case, it could
“What?” Alexander asked.“If you send this money to the blackmailer as hush money, you won’t be getting it back”Alexander hesitated in saying anything back then after composing himself so as not to say the reason why he was sending the money in the first place, he smiled“I know the repercussions of sending this money, yes” he replied.“Then don’t you think that it’s too much? I mean, five hundred thousand dollars and all you get in return is asking me a question? I don’t mean to complain but does that sound like a fair trade to you?!” Chef Ronaldo asked.Alexander shrugged.“Sounds fair enough to me”Chef Ronaldo was flabbergasted.“How could that possibly be fair?! Are you being serious right now?!” Chef Ronaldo exploded.Alexander who was tired of the back and forth sighed.Instead of trying to explain to the concerned chef, he decided to go at it a different way.“I can ask you the same question, Chef,” he said and Chef Ronaldo grimaced.“What do you mean by that?” Chef Ronaldo a
The blackmailer on the other end of the call was silent for a few seconds which made the chef worry about what he was going to say. In time, the blackmailer broke his silence. [“Sure thing. This money should be more than enough for me to finally disappear from your back. With that said, do you have my money or are you wasting my precious time with this call? Just so you know, any answer besides the former will cause you to get a befitting punishment”] “Yes, I do” [“That’s great!”] the blackmailer chuckled and then groaned. [“Wait a minute. That was kind of fast.”] “Huh?” [“How exactly were you able to get it so quickly? If I remember correctly, you were complaining about not having the money and were trying to get me to reduce the amount even though I was never going to do such. Were you lying to me about not having it?”] “No. I wasn’t” Chef Ronaldo clenched his fist and frowned. From the phone, the blackmailer could sense the anger in his tone. [“Did you just rai
A minute ago, just as Chef Ronaldo stood up from the metallic table and was speaking to his blackmailer on the phone, Alexander decided to do his own thing.He called out for the system in his mind.[Yes, Mr. Alexander?]‘You heard my entire conversation with Ronaldo right?’ He asked.[Of course Mr. Alexander. I’m always listening so I can be of service when you want me to be]Alexander groaned and grimaced in discomfort. ‘I don’t know how to feel about that, especially now that you’re gaining sentience and would soon become an actual person instead of the voice programmed into the Possession System, but that’s beside the point. Back to what I was saying. After Ronaldo finishes his call and gets the account number from the blackmailer, I’m going to send him the money to transfer to what most likely will be a burner account’[Okay Mr. Alexander][That means you want to use the money to find the location of the blackmailer]‘That’s right’ Alexander smirked.‘Since the blackmailer is us
Alexander went back to WhatzApp where he continued chatting with Winifred until she said that she had to go offline because her teacher just walked into the class and she would talk to him later. The chat ended which was good because Alexander was starting to get tired as he wasn’t someone who liked chatting all that much. After that, Alexander looked at his phone, from front to back, and groaned. “Why haven’t I upgraded this yet?” He asked himself as he looked at the phone with disgust. How could he be using such an old model when he had hundreds of millions of dollars in his account? It was unbecoming and disgraceful. “Alright, I guess I know what to do today,” Alexander said then he dropped the phone on the bed and went to take a shower. After a couple of minutes, he came out of the bathroom fully dried, put on what he would wear for his outing then he took the phone from the bed and went out of the house. He got into his car and got ready to drive off, but first, he need
If he wasn’t able to read at an incredible pace thanks to his heightened intellect, he wouldn’t have been able to finish reading the second message because she deleted it less than a second after he received it.She sent the message again some seconds later and the second sentence was gone.[If you are then it’s kind of late, don’t you think?]Alexander chuckled because the deleted message showed that the girl had eavesdropped on his conversation with her father because she shouldn’t have known that he was done with high school and was waiting to go to college.She knew this which was why she deleted it, hoping that he didn’t see the message. Unfortunately for her, he did, and she couldn’t ask if he did because it would be awkward, so she just hoped and wanted to move on.He replied [Yeah, I know] pretending like he didn’t see the message she deleted.He also messaged that he wanted to save her number so she should give him a minute. [Okay but hurry up so we can continue talking][No
After eating so much food and satisfying his hunger, Alexander slept like a log and because he had nothing to do the following day, the System didn’t bother to wake him up. Within the time that he slept, his body changed a little, adapting to the ten stat points he was awarded after accomplishing his last mission, and a good portion of the food he ate was used for that which was why he wasn’t bloated after gobbling up all those many dishes.The next morning came and Alexander continued to sleep, not hearing when his alarm rang until it stopped.A couple of minutes passed and the alarm rang again but still, he wasn’t able to hear it until it stopped.Between the second time the alarm rang and the next time it would ring again— after snoozing— Alexander received a notification on his phone.It was a message, two actually, but Alexander still wasn’t able to hear them because of how deep in sleep he was until, finally, the next alarm that rang woke him up.{“Good morning, Mister Alexande
Afterward, Alexander, Mr. Terrence, and Mrs. Terrence sat in the living room and talked business while Winifred was told to go to her room. The girl pretended to do that, but she sat by the stairs and listened to the entire meeting. Her reason for doing that was because she wanted to know when the meeting would be over. She knew that Alexander would leave immediately after the meeting was done and she wanted to see him before he did. A couple of minutes later and the meeting came to an end. “Since we’re done discussing everything we have to for today, I guess it’s about time I take my leave,” Alexander said as he stood up from the couch. “Of course. Please allow us to escort you to your car” Mr. Terrence said as he and his wife stood up as well.“Thank you” Alexander smiled.“Wait, Winifred hasn’t said goodbye to him yet,” Mrs. Terrence said.“What?” Mr. Terrence grimaced. “It was her idea to invite Alexander over for dinner which resulted in this wonderful meeting taking place,
After the Possession System had transferred all of Mr. Ferguson’s properties and net worth to him, it had also replaced his name and face in all proof of ownership to Alexander’s and that includes blog articles and documentation of the matter.The Possession System had also covered a veil on everyone’s minds that made them forget that Mr. Ferguson used to be the rightful owner of everything that used to be his and replaced it with Alexander if they ever tried to look up the information.The veil also made inconsistencies in the altered proof of ownership redundant, meaning that anyone who checked the information wouldn’t think twice after seeing that the casino which had been active for longer than Alexander had been alive was somehow founded by him and one other person.In essence, whenever they saw or read anything that used to have Mr. Ferguson’s name and face as the owner of things, they would see Alexander’s which is exactly what happened when Mr. Terrence quickly reached for his
“It’s fine, honey. Alexander is our guest so I don’t see why we can’t break certain eating habits to accommodate him” Mr. Terrence said and his wife groaned. Again, she suspected her husband and his intention for permitting the invite she gave Alexander to come eat with them.Still, she kept quiet and just let things play out.“Well, I’d like to increase the number the estates I’ve built from the cities we’re occupying to other cities in other states as well, creating like a housing franchise. While I’m doing that, I’ve been thinking of entering into other business ventures that’ll be more profitable in the long run” Mr. Terence said and Alexander groaned. “Other business ventures, huh? Which ones do you have in mind?” Alexander asked. Mr. Terrence cleared his throat because he didn’t know how Alexander was going to take what he was about to say.“Well, I was thinking of getting into ventures like the casino business but things like that are quite challenging. You’d need someone wh
“Thank you, Missus Terrence, and don’t mind if I do,” Alexander said then asked Winifred to help him with one of the bowls so he could dish more food for himself. As she gave Alexander the bowl and he started dishing for himself, Mr. Terrence asked “So, Alexander, as I was saying before I was painfully interrupted…”Mrs. Terrence rolled her eyes again while having a smile on her face.“What’s your basketball experience?” Mr. Terrence asked as Alexander gave the bowl back to Winifred to keep while asking her to give him another bowl. “I’ve never played the game before. As a matter of fact, I’ve never been on the court or held the ball before” Alexander replied and Mr. Terrence’s eyes widened.“What about high school? Didn’t your high school have basketball as one of the sports the students played? Surely you got curious about shooting at the hoop at least once or twice” Mr. Terrence said.“Yes, we did have a basketball court as well as other games but I never really got to play” Ale
Both ladies were looking very beautiful. Though Winifred was young and still growing into her looks, she was very beautiful and had an innocent look to her which would make any man’s heart melt. As for Mrs. Terrence, she was the evidence of what the young girl had to look forward to when she was her age. Her face and body were excellently crafted by her creator. “What are you guys talking about?” Mrs. Terrence asked and both Alexander and her husband looked at her and Winifred. “I was just getting to know Alexander a little better is all. Isn’t that right, Alexander?” Mr. Terrence asked and they all looked at Alexander. “That’s right. Mr. Terrence and I were just talking about how I grew up and all. Nothing too serious” Mrs. Terrence looked at her husband suspiciously for a moment. Like Alexander, she too had a feeling that there was a motive behind why he agreed to the dinner invitation but she didn’t think as far as Alexander did to realize the truth so she let it go. “Alrig
“I’m very observant, remember? I could smell your intentions behind asking me all those questions from a mile away” Alexander said and Mr. Terrence groaned as he furrowed his eyebrows.“My intentions?” The man of the house asked.“That’s right. I’m not a father, but if I were, especially a father to a girl child, I wouldn’t just allow a stranger of my stature and build to come into my house just because my daughter wanted to invite them. Knowing how good of a businessman you must be to have what you do, you wouldn’t make such a reckless decision which leaves me to think that the reason why you allowed my invitation to pass is because you wanted to know what type of person you new tenant is, so this is basically a business move disguised as a caring father act” Alexander said and Mr. Terrence kept quiet to listen to the rest of what the young multimillionaire was going to say. “Because it isn’t normal for a person my age to have the amount of money to rent a place here or drive the ki