"See, I don't think you understand something," Davies began in a low but very clear voice.

"... I'm not asking you to pick one… I'm telling you,"

"You don't get to have a say in this…"

"You either give me the damn building, or you prepare the power stones for me in the next one hour…"

"... though there is a third option…" he continued in a slow and clear voice so that his words could sink in.

"But it's pretty much just the repercussion of you not picking one of the first two options…" he finished his words with a wicked smile appearing on his face.

"So, chop chop, your one hour is ticking,"

"But in the meanwhile, I'll be taking the moonstone and another stone of Miss Lecroy's choice," Davies said and opened up the glass casing that covered up the beautiful milky-white rare-grade power stone before taking out the stone and putting it into his coat pocket with ease and then returned his focus to the old president.

His face that had a slight smile like he hadn't just taken the most expensive thing in their shop and pocketed it without paying a single cent while still demanding even more, unnerved the old president and infuriated him, but he didn't dare to do anything as the situation was not in his favor.

The old president could only stay quiet while debating with himself if he could find that many stones. It should be possible if he pulled out everything he had, but he should be able to get it done at the cost of a great loss.

Davies passed by the old president and went to Fiona,

"You can take any stone that you feel like your father would like, it's on me," he said with a smile,

"I'll be leaving now, as I have other things to take care of, so I'll see you at the banquet," Davies said his goodbyes and affirmed that he would be present at her father's banquet.

After finishing his words, he left her and the old president behind and walked away with Daniella tagging along. They got into the elevator and headed downwards to the ground floor.

Right as Davies stepped out of the elevator, his phone started ringing and he quickly took out the phone and picked up the call as he had an idea of who may be calling him.

*"H-Hello," a voice that had a fearful tone stammered a greeting from the other side of the phone a few seconds after Davies picked up the phone and put it to his ear. It seemed that the caller's nervousness and unease didn't let him immediately notice that Davies had picked up the call… or he knew but was too scared to speak up earlier.

"Ah, Jeffery," Davies immediately recognized the owner of the voice as, Jeffery Lerma, a C-level officer of the Yorkshire Imperial Bank, and was also the one he had told Daniel to get across to so that he could have Lee Jung's account frozen.

"Do I take it as my orders getting to you late and thus you were incapable of following a very simple order," Davies said in a light tone that gave off the impression that he had no issues with what had happened, but his tone only served to aggravate the unease of the man that was hearing the words and thinking to himself, 'SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!'

*"U-Uh, n-no, it wasn't like that, I swear," Jeffery tried to get himself together so he could tell Davies the reason for his failure. Davies could almost hear him falling over himself in a bid to try to explain to him.

"So what was it like?" Davies asked but he didn't stop moving his legs and he made his way out of the building and towards the car.

*"After receiving your orders, I immediately gave the orders for  it to be carried out and even personally supervised it, b-but… b-but…" Jeffery began to explain but started stammering again as he remembered what had happened when they had tried to freeze Lee Jung's account.

"But what?!" Davies was especially intrigued to know what had happened to prevent the account from being frozen and was less than pleased by this stammering fit from the idiot that was supposed to be telling him the story.

*"Our servers began behaving strangely, it seemed like a glitch in the where computer anytime we selected his account, we weren't able to make any changes to his account,"

*"Either the server wouldn't respond when we tried to freeze it or it would glitch and simply return to the homepage,"

*"I even tried to have it closed but even that didn't work…" 

*"I-I'm not sure if it was a virus, but we weren't able to do anything to his account until we received the notification that a hundred and five million was to be transferred from his account,"

*"I told them to reject it and not let the transaction go through, but even though the transfer wasn't approved by us, it was still made, and the strangest part is that after the money was transferred we were able to easily freeze the account and the glitching problem disappeared like it was never there," 

*"I think something must be wrong with the servers," Jeffery finished explaining and was breathing a little hard because he had said all that at a stretch without remembering to breathe

. It could be seen that he had tried his best to blame the bank servers that hadn't allowed Davies's orders to be completed, which was actually correct, but Davies immediately recognized that the bank's servers weren't the ones at fault.

Everything that seemed to have happened was all because of a bitch named Fate who was up to her stupid games while she tried to make sure that her agent was the one with the upper hand.

Luckily, he had made preparations for the situation blowing up in his face, which it did, and he had been the victorious one in the end.

"So, you mean to tell me… that everything that happened was a mistake and it was because of the faulty bank servers, huh?" Davies asked.

*"Y-Yeah, that's exactly what happened," Jeffery quickly tried to affirm so he could quickly smooth over this time's mess-up as it wasn't really his fault, but how was he to know that Davies was too sadistic to just let him go even if it wasn't his fault.

Luckily for him, Davies had other things on his mind at the moment to really focus on someone who wasn't even an extra right now.

"Tch, whatever… I better not have another reason to doubt your competence, or a mistake could happen to you as well," Davies said and hung up. 

While on the call with Jeffery, Davies had reached his car and was now entering the back after removing his overcoat and throwing it into the car while the door was held open by Daniella.

As he sat in the car, he called upon the other inhabitant of his mind other than himself,

'Hey Miya,'

[What?] Immediately after he called, she responded wondering what he wanted to know.

'It's pretty obvious that fate is favoring Lee Jung… like actively,' he was referring to things constantly falling in place for Lee Jung that was supposed to put him at a disadvantage. Luckily, till now, he had been able to use his wit and other resources to get himself out of such situations, but he didn't know how long he could keep up with fate actively switching things up… or if it would get even worse.

[Don't worry much about this issue, there is a limit to what can be actively affected by fate herself]

[She can only play little tricks like this, but if you can make Lee Jung lose even more fate points, then her influence on things around Lee Jung would decrease] Miya explained and put out some of his rising worries.

'So, you mean that the lesser the fate points he has, the lesser he can escape from whatever I throw his way,' Davies repeated to himself,

'... well, that makes things a lot easier,' he thought with a sigh.

'... Is there anything else I should know?' he asked after a little pause and some thought?

[Yes, there is… fate cannot directly attack you, she can only affect circumstances around you, but there is a limit to even that] Miya responded.

'I pretty much figured out something like that a while ago,' Davies replied, unimpressed, but Miya continued as if she hadn't heard him as she knew that no matter how much he figured out, he didn't have access to the knowledge to things concerning this matter as she did,

[By this I mean that fate cannot directly attack you and cause you to suddenly contract something like an incurable disease, but she can create an atmosphere where you can contract the incurable disease, so she is just as dangerous…]

[Luckily, this is not something she can just do arbitrarily, and can only take these kinds of measures if you directly try to kill the protagonist] Miya explained carefully so that Davies could fully understand and not have any immediate concerns about this issue.

'So that was why you were always telling me to not go after his life yet?' Davies asked.

[Yes] Miya answered.

'Ok, also, why are you so silent these da-' Davies was asking Miya when suddenly his eyes snapped to the right at breakneck speed, but he didn't see anything except for his overcoat, but that didn't dissuade his suspicion as he knew what he had sensed.

Immediately he called,

"Daniel, tomorrow I want the headlines to be "The old president commits suicide after being unable to pay billion powerstone dollars debt," he spoke with a grim face.