14 Reminiscing Her Past 1 (2/2)

Chalice smirked at him.

'Aiyah. Poor guy. This much is already affecting you? What if I pulled out the big guns then? How would you fare?'

She sighed internally. Luke may not be a simple guy but when it comes to matters between men and women, he seemed to be too pure. Chalice couldn't help herself but be tempted to taint him. She shook at her evil thoughts. Another bad habit she acquired in her past life. The previous Chalice may be dubbed as a man-chaser but compared to a certain 21st century transmigrator currently residing in her body, she was utterly clueless.

”Please, my lady. As much as it amuses you to tease me. We have to keep track of time. Please take a bath now. So we can get on with breakfast.”

”Aah. You're no fun, Luke.”

Chalice pouted but nevertheless went to the bathroom. Leaving a certain man with an unrequited love staring at the door of the bath, not knowing whether to revel in joy at being able to take care of her or to drown in despair of having her near yet so far.

After a subsequent uneventful breakfast, Chalice directly went down to business and continued to read the financial reports of their fief for the past years. She had no problems when it comes to crunching numbers. It was easy for her to keep up with the trail of the incomes and expenditures.

Chalice could not help but reminisce her past life. The last job she had quit before waking up in the duke's mansion was a finance analyst. In truth, even though in Chalice's personal opinion her past life was merely so-so. On an outsider's perspective it isn't. She was really just an oddball eccentric. A recurring trait of a genius.

Yes. The her in the modern world of Earth was a genius. Her mother was a biologist who had a penchant for botany, while her father was a doctor of many specializations but mainly virology. And her, their daughter possessed an eidetic memory and an ability to grasp things even after just seeing them once.

Since her parents were employed by a huge pharmaceutical corporation, she mainly lived most of her life in the lab and homeschooled by her parents. However, the corporation had dealings with the underworld and had forced them to develop a deadly weapon meant biological warfare. It was an enhanced version of respiratory syncytial virus. A virus which was usually a common cause for various respiratory complaints, but was modified to break down the entire respiratory system within a minute prior to exposure. Given the highly contagious nature of the virus and its ability to survive for hours on surfaces, if used as a weapon it could wipe out an entire city in merely hours.

Her parents were highly righteous people and it went against their conscience to allow such a dangerous threat to fall into evil clutches. Hence, they tried to escape the corporation and sought refuge with the government. Nevertheless, the people of the underworld cannot let go such treasure. Thus on their way to a safe house, the convoy that Chalice was in along with her parents were ambushed. Their car crashed into a trailer truck while in pursuit, killing both her parents on the spot and leaving her hanging by an inch of her life.

Chalice survived that night, but she was taken by an organization under the government which served to dispose of those that threaten order. In a simpler sense, they were the government's guard dogs. She, a mere 10 year-old, underwent brutal training exceeding even that of a soldier. Along with countless lessons of almost every profession and even those which were deemed indispensible to her missions like hacking, disguising, and even the art of seduction. But she pushed through all of it, in her mind was the determination to get revenge for her parents who only tried to do the right thing. She became a notorious agent, an assassin who took down hundreds of heinous criminals who were under the guise of proper, law abiding citizens of the civil world.

But after having punished and taken down the corporation involved in her parents' death, Pia started to feel lethargic of her life. She had achieved her goal, and she no longer had any motivations.