Chapter 392 - 390: Teasing Her Love Rival
Meanwhile, while the game was ongoing, President Williams who was busy watching the game on the screen was approached by his assistant and the latter leaned on to whisper something at him.
"What?!" He exclaimed and his assistant showed him the published article in the well-known website.
"How dare he?! Where is he?! Bring him to me!" President Williams was fuming as he got up from his seat and stormed off the room.
Aside from Eunji, the other people in the room were confused and were looking at each other. No one had angered their president that way. That\'s why it got their attention, too.
This was just day one of seven but things had already heated up.
Eunji chuckled which caught everyone else\'s attention.
"Why are you laughing?!" One of them asked her.
"Nothing. I just find that man very miserable. I wonder if he\'d survive this." She said while pointing towards the screen.
The person he was referring to was Frederick. He looked to be in a very pitiful state. Though his HP level was replenished by half, it didn\'t erase the fact that he had sustained injuries.
His character won\'t be really fine unless all of those wounds would be treated.
"I wonder if anyone of you would want to be one of those people, too?" She raised the question out of curiosity.
"No way! Your games are lame. It\'s easy to survive them. They\'re just so dumb to not find the right techniques to survive." Taylor said sharply which caught her attention.
"Lame? I see. Well, let me ask you Eighth, how long have you trained to be a mercenary?"
"Why does it matter?" Taylor suddenly became defensive.
"Hold your horses Eight. I\'m only asking. I didn\'t mean any harm." Eunji also smiled as she knew she was right.
These people probably had not taken the same training that she and Anastasia had went through in the past.
What was seen in the game were the areas that they had been before for a year just to train their bodies. To build endurance and strengthen their body.
Aside from the first level and the acid rain on the second, all of those were the conditions she had to survive just so she could pass and be a real warrior.
If she would be asked to go back in the past to undergo the same training all alone, she\'d say no. It was h*ll for her. However, she didn\'t want to forget about this and so she had decided to put it into a game in which the first person she had consulted about the game was Anastasia.
She only added that concept on the first level because she had remembered one of her conversations with Anastasia.
Anastasia had been fantasizing about visiting the inside of a volcano to examine the ecosystem under it back then; when things were not so complicated. And so as a good sister, Eunji would listen to her and drew everything that her sister would tell her.
And so she did promise to make her a game about this in the future after playing sketch and using their imagination to run wild in the past. And so it happened finally! And she was glad that her sister liked it.
Taylor flicked her tongue in annoyance. Ever since she found out that the original Fifth was killed by her, she started disliking his replacement. Especially after knowing that the replacement was a woman.
"What\'s your issue about? Do you want to challenge me in a duel?" She was overconfident.
What she said caught the other eight people\'s attention.
"Seriously? Let me remind you of your current rank sweetheart. What will I get if I challenge you into a duel?"
Eunji\'s response caught everyone to be speechless.
As what they had known, she had become a mercenary for not that long and they thought it was thanks to luck that she was able to rank up fast.
Eunji didn\'t blame them for this though. After all, no one could clearly recall how she was able to kill the former number five in the ranks.
"Woman, if I were you. I\'d rather not disrespect my seniors." The third in rank named Bobby chimed in.
"Oh? I didn\'t know you have formed a junior senior relationship here, Third. My bad. I don\'t recognize something like that, though."
What she said angered them and this made her to feel good.
"Sigh! Calm down will you? Fine. I knew from the very beginning that all of you never liked me. And so, why don\'t we settle the score here?"
She challenged them.
"Ha! Don\'t be so full of yourself, Fifth! You\'re no match of us combined." The Fourth named Hernan also jumped in the conversation.
"Hahahhahaha! I didn\'t expect that you would also want to fight me Fourth. But I\'ll gladly welcome the challenge though." Eunji said with a shrug.
"Ha! Don\'t you know overconfidence could harm a person?" Tim, the number one also joined in the conversation and tried to give his advice to her.
"Oh! Thank you for that piece of advice. Don\'t worry, I have already learned about that life lesson in the past. And I have learned about it the hard way."
So there\'s no way she\'d be repeating the same mistake again. She was clear about what she\'s trying to do compared to them who had no idea of what they\'re trying to do.
"How about this, I have heard that you have declared a duel with the captive, what\'s his name again? Nathaniel Bai?"
"And what about it?"
Eunjj smirked as she had already guessed that Taylor would react if she\'d mention Nathan and oh boy, she was right.
"Nothing. I was just upset that I\'m not included to it."
"Ha! Now you have shown your true color. You\'re actually after the reward money, right?"
"Nope." Eunji said with a popping "P" sound in the end.
She then looked at Taylor and she felt the need to tease her, "I simply want his heart."
"No! He\'s mine!"
"Eight! That\'s enough!" Toby scolded his sister which caused Eunji to chuckle.
"Let me give you a piece of advice my dear. You\'re not worthy of him. Don\'t you know that he was once married to that woman who had a code name Asia?"
Taylor was speechless after hearing this.
"Seriously?!" Toby asked her, too.
"Yes. Everyone probably knows about it by now." She answered with a shrug while looking at Taylor.
"Was. So that means they\'re divorced. They\'re over!" Taylor then looked at her and started mocking Eunji.
"Ha! If I\'m not worthy of him, then who is? Look at you? You\'re even hiding your face with that ghost mask. You must be very ugly underneath. And besides, I have the money and the influence to be able to stay beside him." She was overflowing with self-confidence that she didn\'t realize Toby was looking at him with dark expression.
Eunji saw it amusing and so she laughed at the same time to tease her even more. "Eight! Eight! Eight! I think you have misunderstood me. I\'m not referring for that. What I\'m trying to say is the literal meaning of it. I want to pluck his beating heart from his ribcage and maybe have it stored inside a jar filled with chemicals."
"..." Everyone.
They were rendered speechless of how sinister her plan was.
Of course she was only fooling around. She just wanted to play with them.
"Seriously, isn\'t it fun to do it? And what\'s that look of surprise on your faces. Don\'t you know that I already did the same thing to my predecessor\'s heart?" Seeing that they were so grossed out, Eunji continued further. "Do you want me to bring the jar as a proof?"
"That\'s enough!" Tim had enough of this conversation.
"Fine! If you really wanted to join, you\'re welcome to join."
"What?! No!" The others were really against it. After all, they had already made an agreement. And letting Eunkji to join the match would only disrupt it.
Eunji smiled underneath the mask and said, "Thank you First. Don\'t worry, I\'ll pay you back for this." Then she turned her attention to the others, "Why so pressed? First had already spoken. Isn\'t he considered the leader of this team after all?"
After that, she got up from her seat and calmly walked out of the door. She had other things to do aside from spending hours with them.
The game was already on the final stage and she was uninterested to see who would win. Will, Alora could update her about what was happening if she wanted to.
If Francais would win this, there were other games that he had to play after this. Seeing that no one was trying to kill her behind her back as she made her way out, she threw a mocking chuckle at them.
However, it turned to a fit of laugh when she recalled something in the past.
She did told Nathan that she wanted to play with Frederick and now, Frederick was playing the game that she made. She could kill him immediately, but where\'s the thrill, right?
She wanted him to suffer. Yes. To realize that it\'s not good to hurt her sister. Because by laying a finger to Ana was equivalent to death.
As she walked down the hallway, she saw President William who was in a very bad mood with his assistant following behind him.
Eunji quickened her step until she was suddenly pulled by someone from the side and brought her to an empty room.
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