Chapter 59: Stalker
Date 21 Mar 2321
Time 18:05
Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234
"So Susan, how is recruiting new staff going on?"
"Well except Corey I did not hire anyone else yet."
"I saw a tonne of resumes on your table the other day, nobody to your liking?"
"They were all spies sent to uncover the creator behind the cards I sold, earlier since I thought you wanted to keep your identity hidden I rejected them all. Now I am in no hurry or in need of more staff as I have only one client, Corey and the 10 staffs lent by the guild are enough for now."
"What about you Corey are you adjusting well to your new job." I asked
"Um… not that I am complaining but all I do is manual chores around here. sweep the warehouse, wipe the floor, clean the ceiling, repaint the walls, scrub the stains and next repeat the same. I think nobody can adjust to that." As the Bright family princess who has more than a dozen personal maids never in her dreams did she imagine that one day she will be willingly doing manual chores for a job.
Hearing Corey, Susan's cheeks were red. Corey came to her to learn from her but all she did was have Corey clean the warehouse.
"Wait! You alone cleaned the warehouse." I looked at Corey with unbelievable eyes, what was even more unbelievable was Susan would ask a little girl to clean a whole warehouse by herself.
"Yes, but it's no big deal I used occupation cards gifted to me by my grandpa." Explained Corey.
No wonder otherwise how could a single person clean whole warehouses in a single morning.
"Wait, what about the other 10 staff assigned by the guild didn't I ask you to get them to do it." Susan hurriedly interrogated.
"I asked them but they said the guild only assigned them to you to help with your auction and nothing else besides that. So, I chose to finish the job myself."
"What! How dare they say that! I will handle them later but Corey you did not do right, I ordered you to have the 10 staff clean the warehouse and you to assist them not to do it yourself.
You have to learn how to get people to work for you not the other way round. You may think arguing and negotiating is beneath you but they are the key skills of a sales representative.
You need to know how to handle the staff, you can't always do all the work by yourself.
Come with me tomorrow, it's about time you got some field experience." Susan's face was red with anger. I didn't know whether she was angry at the staff or Corey.
Even though Susan's first auction was a great success, she was still not accepted by her colleagues yet as they spent years of hard work to get where they are today and Susan got there just like that. So things were still hard for Susan as in the guild association mall.
But it's good that a few things were clearer now, I almost thought Susan was taking revenge on Corey.
"Susan, where did you get the loan for the ingredients?"
"From one of the buyers of my previous auction, she had been badgering me to introduce her to the master who created my origin card.
At first, I refused. but since you are starting to provide your service as a card creationist. I promised her to introduce you two if she helped me with the loan.
She agreed and lent me the money with zero interest.
Come in early tomorrow, I asked her to come in the morning."
...
Finished with the break the girls got back to their work and I started to create another set of 100 G-rank Storage trunk cards.
I was excited about the hoverbike and could not wait to create it but not now I had other plans for it after reading the basics of golem creation.
…
Date 21 Mar 2321
Time 18:05
Location Sky Blossom City, Fine Gold Sky Blossom Branch, Fine Gold Tower, Penthouse Office.
"Sister you called, how was the meeting?" Asked Jaya waking to the office.
"How many times I have asked you to knock before you enter a room." Said Diana, she was no longer expressionless and grim like before in the training hall but like a doting sister who can not spoil her siblings enough.
"Why? Are you hiding my brother-in-law in here? " said Jaya.
"Nope only me, your nemesis." Cindy walked out of the office washroom cleaning her hands with tissue.
"What were you two doing alone in here, do not tell me you weren't hiding my brother-in-law but sister-in-law in here. Sister, you have my blessing go for it."
"Enough! Come have a seat?" Chilled Diana.
"Okay, but why isn't Cindy in the heathen stone prison. "
"I am in heathen stone prison dear, at least one of me is."
"Sister this is cheating" Jaya pleaded injustice to Diana with puppy eyes but only to be ignored.
Cindy sneered, annoyed Jaya said, "why did you call me?"
"The Heir to Jk Grain and Oil Ltd. Is coming to Sky Blossom tomorrow, you have to receive him and see to it that he doesn't get bored. Until they sign the contract, after that it's up to you, ditch him, discard him, as long as you don't get him killed it's fine." Explained Diana. She doted Jaya but did not want her to grow into a pampered prodigal daughter.
"No probs but I spent all my money on the Origin card, I am penniless."
"I gave you 120 million $ just last month."
"Oh, I spent it all as my origin card creation fee."
"You prodigal daughter 120 million $ just for card creation fee are you out of your mind"
"How am I prodigal? Those old bones asked 5 soul jades and couldn't even guarantee a 50% success rate. You should be happy I saved you 5 soul jades. I knew those old bones are useless, a high schooler bested them and all they know is to put on air all day."
"Speaking of the high schooler there is something you should see." Saying that Cindy shared CCTV footage with Jaya and Diana.
The footage showed Wyatt returning to bathhouse no.2 like a thief and picking up long strands of hair that had fallen on the floor and pocketing them.
Jaya and Diana looked at Cindy with question marks for expression.
"Those are Jaya's hair and that bastard did not return the company's Gemini and Para share cards.
Forget about the cards, I am afraid he will use Jaya's hair strands for curse or hex." Cindy explained
"Haha, your imagination is rich Cindy. Don't worry he is just a cowardly harmless stalker. He is doing what all the stalker's do!"
"All the more reason to worry" Cindy emphasised.
Reaching an impasse Jaya and Cindy turned to Diana.
"Leave him be, the circle is interested in him. But to be safe…"
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Chapter 60: Trap
Date 22 Mar 2321
Time 8:05
Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234
"You? You created Susan's Origin card." Asked a mature lady in confusion wearing a sweater with a deep V-neck exposing her bountiful bosom more than appropriate.
This was the 5th time she asked me the same question but I forgive her as the saying goes bigger the breasts smaller the brains.
She was repeatedly asking me the same thing like a stuck record player, maybe some spanking would help her move forward.
"Yes, yes I did" I answered looking at two huge white meat mountains, don't get me wrong it's just that her ample bosom had blocked my entire field of vision, after all, she stood right in front of me.
This was the first time in this life I was not annoyed with my small height, front row tickets to the best show ever who will complain.
It has been a while for me and not to mention my new teenage body which gets excited for no apparent reason, therefore my mind is all over the place lately.
Peeling my eyes from the meat mountains wobbling in front of me with her every breath, I peeked at Susan to my shock, she gave me a knowing smile. It seems she will be of no help.
Corey who walked in with refreshment looked at the mature lady and said, "Auntie Melinda, what are you doing here?"
"What a surprise, Corey my dear niece. Is this how you greet your elder, where are your Bright family manners?"
"Auntie, I don't have time to play your games. Does Uncle Oliver know you are here?" Corey threatened Melinda using her uncle's name.
"Why should he know, am I supposed to report to him before leaving the house.
Don't worry I am not here for you, you know I am starting a designer label so I want to recruit the genius card creationist that appeared in the last week's auction." Melinda explained.
"..." Corey did not believe her aunt, she has seen enough to know what her aunt is capable of if not for her grandparent's fondness for her, she would be one of Melinda's victims.
Melinda knew Corey did not believe her but she did not care as she was done here, now that all the pieces are in place she turned to Susan and said, "I will be expecting the armours by tomorrow, any delay and you will be hearing from my lawyer."
Hearing Melinda, Susan was confused and asked, "what armours?"
"The ones for which I loaned you the money, did you forget so soon" Melinda replied lethargically.
"What? You seem to have forgotten there was no such deal between us. You loaned me the money for zero interest to get introduced to the card creationist of my origin card." Susan was a veteran in this field and quickly understood what was happening.
Susan trusts others but she was not dumb, alas in Melinda's case she seems to has fallen into a trap. She chose to accept the loan from Melinda on a verbal agreement trusting the reputation of the Bright family name, how could she know that a member of the city's prominent family will play rogue with her.
"No sweetie, I loaned you the money because you promised me the armours otherwise why would I give you a zero-interest loan. I have grimoire records of the money transfer, it's too late for you want to back out."
…
Melinda attended Susan's auction at the request of her husband with some of her friends, while the crowd was mesmerised by Susan and the perfect rating cards, she had her eyes on the card creationist behind these perfect rating cards.
Seeing how the card creationist chose Susan to auction his card rather than any other popular auction managers it can be seen that their relationship between Susan and the card creationist is not simple.
Melinda was not worried that she would offend the card creationist because if the card creationist was powerful or equal to the Bright family behind her he would have directly used his/her name to get Susan out of trouble, rather than helping Susan while hiding his/her identity.
Therefore she got close to Susan by showing interest in her origin card but no matter how much she seduced Susan, she could not crack her. Until Susan called her asking for a loan from the Bright family.
Seeing an opportunity Melinda laid the trap, by loaning Susan money under the Bright family name with just a verbal agreement.
Now all Melinda had to do was wait till Susan had spent all the money and then reveal her cards, leaving Susan with three options
The first way is to return every penny of the loan, the second way is negotiating with Melinda and the third way is to meet in court.
Melinda knew having spend the money Susan could not afford the first way if Susan could she would not have asked for the loan in the first place and as for the third way,
Verbal agreements are legally enforceable in the court of law but in case of a dispute or a suit, it is a difficult task for the court to ascertain the true nature of facts and terms of the agreement, without the invasion of bias. For a big and prominent family like the Bright family, this was nothing and would easily turn the odds in their favour. Resulting in Susan getting fined, owe a huge debt and charged with other charges.
Since they could not afford the first and the third way, Susan will have no choice but to negotiate with Melinda to unfavourable terms or go to jail.
Holding Susan in her palms Melinda would indirectly get an excellent card creationist slave.
Even if all this doesn't work it was worth the try, all Melinda lost was a little money, she would spend twice that amount in an evening.
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