107 An Annoying Fly 2 (2/2)

Her mentor even sneered at Marc, adding, ”Given your overboard narcissism and ADHD, it's not surprising that women will find you less attractive than that refrigerator guy.”

The other man's face immediately became gloomy at the mention of Gio's name. The change in his expression did not escape her notice.

'...Gio's enemy?'

'But why is he in the same shooting club as Gio?'

The moment this thought appeared in her mind, she hurriedly asked the system to provide information about him. Him being another special ops member surprised her a bit. But actually, the reason for her amazement was the fact that his information was not hidden, yet as expensive as an official host.

'Is he a host, or not? But how can he dodge bullets at almost point blank? My hypnosis also did not work on him? Even if he is a special agent, it should still be impossible to accomplish these, right?'

'...Unless he is actually like me!'

A faint sense of danger and dread started to bud within her. Sofony started to have so many questions in mind. The system said he was normal. But Sofony's instincts were not letting her settle for that.

In front of her, Marc and Claus were still arguing. In the end, it was Marc who had to leave since the other kept bringing up Gio's name. Nevertheless, before the guy walked towards the leftmost part where the private booths were located, he gave her a pitying glance.

Sofony heard Claus click his tongue in annoyance, ”Ignore him, missy. That dumb*ss is just very competitive when it comes to Gio. Luckily, I came before he got your name from you. If you did, I'm sure he's going to start stalking you and steal you from Gio.”

”He's treating Gio as a rival?”

”Yeah, ever since their military time. I don't know much. But it's his hobby to compete with the other. And when I mean compete, it's for everything, including women. So you're lucky that he didn't get your name or contacts.”

After getting what Claus was hinting, she directed her burly mentor a weird gaze. ”He looks rich though. He seems the kind who can immediately find out about something or someone. If he really turns out to be a rich man, then me not giving my name is meaningless.”

”Oh. You make sense. I'm normally more involved with the merc's circle so I momentarily forgot that he is also in the upper circle.”

When the girl received another pitying glance, this time from Claus, she smiled wryly and wished the irritating person to never bother her again. After all, she's already dealing with another host. If he happens to be one as well and she becomes his target...

Uh, she doesn't want to think about it.

....

Heavens had seemingly wanted to tell her that wish was impossible.

It was because when she started brainstorming on how to pass the current mission, she only managed to come up with two ways.

First was to probably use her acting skills and accidentally stab Gio at somewhere not fatal. Maybe she could lead him to the kitchen and then fake an accident there. Anyway, she realized the mission only said to stab, not stab to death.

There was only one problem. She really disliked the idea of hurting Gio.

Hence if there were other choices, naturally she would be more willing to try those first. Anyway, she still has around 7 hours before midnight. Once these fail, that's when she'll ask for Gio's cooperation.

Therefore, she picked the second way.

The only thing she didn't foresee was that this option would lead her back to the person she didn't ever want to meet again and that it would make her do something she never considered for today.

Life is really a series of unplanned, unexpected, and unexplained coincidences and happenstances.

Hours ago, she was the one trying to direct the person into doing something that would probably shame him for life. Unfortunately, it failed, and the system said it was just due to him being naturally immune to mental attacks.

Hours later, when she followed the nearest location marked by the system, she then ended up the one directed by the other.

To what he had forced her to do?

Nothing.

Only to use a knife to stab an already heavily wounded and bleeding Gio Albarez to death.