Yin Ling acted according to Alicia's suggestion, he asked his father if he was willing to redeem himself and do what Alicia proposed.
His father saw some hope and that was all he needed, he was indeed willing to consecrate his time for the good cause, the problem was that he didn't know anything about helping children even though he was a father.
He asked what this meant more precisely to Yin Ling, simply to hear: How should I know, it's not like I'm the adult here, go find where and to whom you can be useful to and go, I will send you 800 dollars per months every months during those ten years but that will be all, if you don't manage to take care of children, to help them in their difficulties then please don't come to see me ever again. If you did well then in exactly 10 years, thus the 2sd October 2023 come to see again and we will talk and it may not be the last.
(To be noted that 800 dollars every months was quite good already, Yin Jiang worked a lot to earn only 700 dollars every months without counting overtime, thus 800 dollars was what he usually earnt if he made quite a lot of overtime)
The sentence "It's not like I'm the adult there" sounded perfectly fine to Yin Jiang but had made realised Yin Ling that this "excuse" could very well help him in the future.
For example, if an adult placed 1 million dollars in bitcoin out of nowhere and won a lot of money, nearly everyone would think that he got information from somewhere and thus would investigate him, his past and his acquaintance.
If this person said that he followed his feeling then nobody would believe him without an addicted bettor past, but if this came from a child without anything notable it would be much more plausible, a child who follow his instinct would be less suspicious than an adult who is supposed to understand the risk of the gamble and thus don't act rashly. It doesn't mean it wouldn't be suspicious because a child who successfully succeeded to convince someone to lend him one million dollars couldn't be a normal child, but kind of less than an adult, who moreover have lived more thing hence more difficult to investigate and thus logically could hide more thing.
It did sound strange to Yin Ling nevertheless but if it was useful, he would use it without shame.
He looks at his father a last time, and said "Good bye, I hope that we will see each other once again".
Yin Ling was feeling uncertain inside, he knew that this sentence was important for his father, but he was simply sad about needing to lie for the better cause. With Alicia remember, he realised that without this sentence the risk of his father giving up would greatly drop.
He just acted like the human being he hated the most, and said it was for the better which was even more resembling to those he hated.
During an instant he thought that Alicia was managing his public image, and that having a father killing himself wouldn't be great for his mission, who would believe that he was favoured by God and having his father killing himself at the same time.
But he slapped himself and thought that he really needed to trust people more, he still didn't trust the bank's manager despite having the contract with him, thinking that she might track how the money was spent.
But if he started to not even trust Alicia, who according to him was purest than any human being, he would really become solitaire forever.
He leaved the house, paused for few second then was a bit embarrassed after realising that he left the sushi pack in his father house and couldn't possibly come back to take it back after a nearly adieu. Furthermore, after running to the bank and then running after going to the bank he was quite hungry.
He went to the nearest restaurant to eat and ate fives bowls of chow mein. It was the first time since he came back that he was full.
He then asks in his mind
Alicia, should we go in a hotel, or should I rent somewhere else? Yin Ling having a way to multiple his money by fivefold of course wouldn't buy a house now.
[Renting a house should be the less expansive but in a hotel there should always be enough to eat]
Hmm you're right, I should probably go to a hotel, that way I won't have to care about either cocking or going to a restaurant than coming back.
[You want to be a professional sportsman, wouldn't your diet maters at lot?]
You are right on it, but I honestly know nothing about it, and calling any nutritionist would be pointless given my body. If I said to her that with my weight, I can run 4 hours straight she would never believe me and just give me nearly nothing to eat compared with what I should
[And if the nutritionist is me?]
Aren't you too amazing?
[Did you only realise it now?]
Yin Ling was fairly happy with how she talked now, she seems to understand how human react, speak and think. She just talked like she was teasing him. He was happy that she wasn't just an I.A. it was so much more interesting that way.
You know how to cook as well?
[Yes, I do but I have a little problem]
Let me guess do you perhaps you lack a bit of practice?
[How could you possibly have known?]
Simply because I never saw you cooking
[Too bad you simply never saw me]
I already saw you in my head, didn't you see it?
[Your representation of myself is quite good but can't compare to the original but I can't really blame you, your human standard are so low after all]
Yin Ling thought they were only teasing themselves but the way she said it made him doubt a bit
If you can understand what I say to you through my mind, can't you do the same and send me some pick of yourself?
[I could if you upgraded the system]
I can upgrade the system? Since when?
[Ah right you didn't know, it's just that in order to upgrade the system you need to buy everything available in the shop, thus saying it to you wasn't that useful anyway right now]
What will upgrading the system do?
[You will know when you upgrade it naturally]
You can't say it to me, or are you still teasing me?
[You will naturally know when you upgrade the system]
Yin Ling could nearly hear Alicia giggling when she said it, he was nearly sure that Zeraeph made it impossible for her to say it and she was taking advantage of the situation. But as long as he wasn't 100% sure he couldn't say anything. He even suspected that she knew everything he was thinking, but even if she does why would she say it to him? He couldn't only wait and suffer against this two days old Alicia.
Ok ok you win, chef should I become your apprentice?
[Good thinking, but you didn't you just eat in the restaurant?]
In this situation, if I cook, I should rent a house, but if we don't rent a house and do some shopping, we won't be able to eat in our house tonight.
[Tsss saying it's our house, while in reality the house will belong to you, and even worse you are only renting the house]
But the moment we marry the house will be ours, and if you like the house, I will naturally buy it for you.
Of course, Yin Ling was not even thinking of really marring Alicia, why? Because she simply didn't have a body, how could he has a relationship with someone in his head?
If he didn't remember that he meets Zeraeph he could have even thought that he had become schizophrenic, how could he marry someone who was nearly himself.
But at the same time, he thought that he would never marry anyone because he would need to find someone at least as pure as Alicia and that no human being would ever reach this stage. Even if he could, he wondered how could he marry someone while having Alicia in his head.