When Mrs. Emilia directly expresses her condolences to Nora, Victor is just silently standing in front of the bed where Grace is still lying unconsciously. He notices the condition of Grace’s left hand. And so, he slowly walks closer to her while he keeps observing that left hand.“Victor?” asks Mrs. Emilia softly, expecting him to also express his condolences to Leonard’s wife.But Victor doesn’t give any response. The tip of his fingers slightly touch the part of Grace’s hand that is wrapped by bandages.He begins to suspect that the girl was committing a suicide. He can’t imagine how chaotic the situation in that house could be, something that is really out of his calculation.Nora notices Victor’s concern. But she doesn’t want anyone to think bad about her daughter or Leonard. So she tries to bring up a story to cover that issue.“I heard a story that she often got bullied in the school by her friends,” says Nora.“Huh?” responses Mrs. Emilia with a startled face. “Did she…”“Yes,
Mia is still thinking so bad of Victor. She believes that Victor is a boss of gangsters, and that prejudice is also affecting her view on everyone around Victor, including Judeo.And the fact Judeo enters that lobby along with a peculiar man with his distinctive muslim outfit only makes her judgment on them even worse.“What are you doing here?” asks Mia coldly, talking with a sullen face toward Judeo.Khaled doesn’t look so happy about how that receptionist girl treats Judeo. He believes that they come there at Atkinson’s request.“Young lady! I believe, as a receptionist, this is not how you should serve a guest. Has this company's standard of service been so low treating guests like this?” asks Khaled rhetorically.But Mia ignores him, and calls the securities instead. She asks them to check on those two people's belongings.And of course, it makes Judeo a bit panicked. The truth is, there are some devices inside his bag that he shouldn’t let anyone know about.“Hey, what’s this? W
Judeo raises his head slightly to see Viona leave. He looks so clueless, not expecting that Viona would be so mad because of it. Victor arrives and has the chance to see Viona’s mad face. He tries to stop her, but Viona just walks away. “Um, did I miss something?” asks Victor. But Judeo just ignores him and tries to close his eyes. Victor averts his attention to Judy, and finds Judy looking so gloomy with so many thoughts in her head. That’s when Victor mistakenly thinks that there must be something between Viona and Judy. Without asking anything to Judy, he just leaves that office to see Viona. “Hey, what is this? Did she make another mistake again? Can’t you be a bit…” “What?” Viona interrupts him with a wrinkled face. “Did you think there was something between me and Judy?” “Then what?” replies Victor impatiently. “You just left with that face again, like a balloon that is going to explode. And there I found Judy looking upset behind her desktop.” “Did she look upset to you?
It’s still so early in the afternoon, and Victor already decides to get back to the hideout with the others. They want to immediately respond to the issue of the spreading of the nude videos recorded by Leonard. Victor is worried about the risk that the video involving Judy will spread more widely.On the journey, Judeo is back to sleep at the back seat. While Victor, who sits in the front seat beside Mike, keeps getting messages from Jimmy. But Victor ignores him, not even reading the message he receives.Jimmy even calls him a few times, until Victor decides to just turn off his phone. Mike just glances a bit, and then lets out a little chuckle, noticing that Victor really wants to treat his issue one at a time seriously.“You could just ask for their help again?” Mike suggests.“Are you talking about the issue of these videos? Asking those people from La Marca to fix this? This has nothing to do with them. There’s no way they are going to listen to my demand,” Victor argues.After
A few moments ago, Atkinson himself has just been visiting one of the labs in his pharmaceutical factory. The Quality Control manager has informed him regarding the problem with their instruments, while the people from Counterbrand haven't come to them yet. “We’ve been using the same methods, gradient system, and the same column. All these conditions and systems were effective. But recently, we’ve never had any good separation. There are always tailings in the graphics. There’s no way we are going to do any calculation using the data from this kind of terrible separation.” “Have you tried a different column?” asks Atkinson. “We have, but to no avail. I believe the issue is not the column, nor the gradient system. Usually, there’s no issue with this system and the columns so far. We are using the same method as what the people in the Research and Development use for these samples. I believe there’s something wrong with the instruments.” And so, that skinny old man Atkinson can only
Viona casts her without any shouting. It’s just a low whispering voice in a composed manner. But it’s effective to plant the fear in Mia’s memory. Mia can’t say a word, as she feels like the one who is staring down on her right now is the real devil. She can only hold her left cheek as she tries to get away in so much fear. “Damn!” mumbles one of the workers who happened to just get out of the apartment. “What? Did I miss something?” asks the other one in whispers to his partner from behind. “Yeah, right! You are lucky you don’t have to witness how scary Ms. Viona is.” In the end, Mia just leaves heading to her apartment by walking, with a red cheek and a bit of blood on her left nostril. Seems like Viona really didn’t hold back in hitting her face with that one slap. It is certain that Mia’s date with Lucas for the day is cancelled. And there’s no guarantee that she is going to be able to secure another chance to have a date with him in the near future. “You don’t need to go th
Before the dark, before letting Vincenzo leave to do his job, Victor gives him a rehearsal first. Despite Vincenzo already saying that he is not going to kill anyone, doesn’t mean Victor will just let him leave that easily.He teaches Vincenzo how to win people’s trust without inviting any fight. Because what they need to do is only to delete all traces of those videos without creating any enemy with anyone.And now, Vincenzo is trying to repeat the example of conversation that Victor has given to him. But somehow, Victor finds him a bit silly putting on a stupid grin and some kind of idiotic gesture while repeating the dialogue.“What are you? An amateur?” asks Victor.“Not really!” replies Vincenzo with a plain face. “I just try to mimic the way you handle things. If I have to do it your way, I just think that mimicking you is the best possible way to do it.”Victor’s face is wrinkled by that sarcasm. “Am I that stupid in your eyes?”“Did I do it wrong?” replies Vincenzo plainly.“N
The next target is a man living in an apartment building. Fortunately, the man they are going to visit happens to be there at the moment. The man inside that apartment room opens the door slightly, with the brass chain still holding the door. One middle-age man with glasses shows his face a little and asks, “Who?” “I’m a friend of Leonard,” replies Victor. “Can I have a moment? There’s something serious I need to talk about with you?” “Leonard? Which Leonard are you talking about?” asks that man. Without second thought, Vincenzo coldly takes out his gun with the silencer, and then shoots the brass chain that holds the door. He forces his way to get in and pins the man on the floor, and takes his face closer to that man’s face to intimidate him by putting the gun on that man’s forehead. Victor also gets inside and closes the door. He doesn’t forget to lock it, and then observes the situation around that apartment room. He has confirmed it from Judeo that the man is a single bache