"What?!"
They couldn't believe it. They felt like they were hallucinating or the light was playing a trick on them.
"Is that a Bugatti?" One of them asked, and rubbed his eyes, closed and opened it, to make sure that he wasn't seeing something else.
"The fuck?! Silas is driving a Bugatti! How? Where did he fucking get it from?" He asked, but no one could give him an answer, as all of them were experiencing the same things; shock and confusion.
Unfortunately for them, their confusion won't be cleared anytime soon, as Silas had already driven away.
...
Inside the car, Chloe looked at the group of people standing in front of the pub, looking at the car in shock, and laughed.
"What a bunch of fools. Organizing a get-together just to show off because you got a managerial position in your dad's company," She said and laughed.
"Way to go, Silas. You're really something, shocking them like that. I must say, I'm very much surprised myself. I told you to do something about your confidence so that you won't be bullied when you come to the gathering, but I didn't know that you already had everything figured out," Chloe said, and turned to look at Silas with a probing gaze.
"What?," Silas asked, when he saw her looking at him like a detective watching a suspect.
"Nothing. I'm just trying to see if it's really you or it's a doppelganger, or maybe a clone," She replied, and turned to look at the road.
"Pfft.. what do you mean by doppelganger or clone. It's me, Silas in the flesh."
"You handled yourself pretty well today. Standing up to Daniel and those dogs that he always carries around him. You didn't even flinch before Layla. I thought you guys were going to start throwing punches when you see each other."
Silas heard this and smiled without giving a response. What can he say? He got a skill that helped to overcome the trauma of his high school bullying days.
Silas attributed his confidence in front of Daniel and the group to two things, his experience working at the casino house for two years and the skill, [Mental Balance].
During the time he worked at the casino house, he came in contact with different types of people, with different types of characters. People lots more crazier and unreasonable than Daniel and his park of dogs, or Layla and her gaggle of bit*hes.
The skill he bought from the system also helped, by putting his mind in the right place and giving him the ability to control his emotions almost completely.
What Silas didn't actually know was that the reason for his newfound confidence isn't not completely due to his work experience or the skill.
The reason is because of the system. During the initialization process, the system did a complete scan of his physical and mental condition, and found it to be critical.
To fix this, the system controlled his biorhythm and flooded his system with the right chemicals that took him out of that critical condition his body was in, and put it in a mild condition, and the daily exercise and the skill he bought completed the job.
...
Back to the present.
Chloe saw that Silas was quiet and thought that he was thinking of what happened back in high school.
"You would have shaken him off if you stood up to him once during high school. Daniel is a coward, he's what he was then and what he is now because of his father. Take away his trust fund and subsidy daddy, and he's nothing.
From what I see, you're doing way better than him. So, don't think too much about it, take it as a lesson," Chloe said with a smile.
Silas couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
"You're the one thinking too much, Chloe. Those things are inconsequential. I barely think of them."
"That's good. About you and Layla, you know she didn't actually date you, right?," Chloe asked, still looking at the road ahead, "She had been going out with Daniel before she started dating you. She was your girl but the 'y' was never there," She continued when she saw that Silas was silent.
Silas let out a sigh when he heard this. What Chloe just said was something he figured out some weeks after Layla broke up with him.
He got a text from Daniel telling him how he told Layla to date him and break up with him publicly. He was very angry when he read the message but he couldn't do anything about it.
"I got played, I guess," Silas said with a wry smile.
"You did."
The rest of the drive was quiet. Few minutes later, Silas stopped in front of a building and Chloe came down from the car.
"Thanks for the ride, I will call you later. Take care," Chloe said, and walked into the building, and Silas drove off.
On the way, Silas couldn't help but think about Daniel and Layla, and what Chloe said.
"Daniel is a coward, he's what he was then and what he is now because of his father. Take away his trust fund and subsidy daddy, he's nothing"
"I guess that's how it's going to be done then, Take away his father. Well, we already have something like a blood debt between us, it will just be killing two birds with a stone. Put Daniel's father behind jail and the third generation chaebol will come crashing down, like a fallen tree," Silas said to himself.
About Layla, Silas had no thought about her. She was his past and it will remain just like that.
...
Few hours later, Silas had already taken his bath and was about to go to bed.
As he lay on his bed, he thought of the things he still have to take care of, getting the contact information of the president of Stanford University because of the new system mission he got, and cleaning up Daniel's father.
The two of them comes with their own difficulties but the first on his priority list.
"I hope to get lucky with getting the president's contact information," Silas said to himself before sleeping off.