Chapter 21

Artemis entered the apartment calmly. When Artemis look at the reception area, she knew from a glance that the owner of this apartment doesn't take care of this building.

Artemis looked to the side and saw a worker entering the back door where the trashcan is.

"Hey, where's the owner of this place?" Artemis asks the worker with both hands in her pockets, looking arrogant.

"He's on the top floor" the worker didn't hesitate to respond to Artemis, thinking that it must be one of the loan sharks who was looking for his boss.

Artemis glances at the worker before walking into the hallway and entering the elevator.

Pressing the top floor and wait for a while, looking at her phone and saw Rebecca entering the building with college students looking at her.

"Where is the class?" Rebecca muttered to herself while looking around the hallway, looking shy and observing how people enter the class.

"The class is on the third floor on the right wing of the building" Artemis couldn't take it anymore and spoke, telling Rebecca where Belle's class is.

"Woah!!" Rebecca was startled by Artemis's sudden voice that she let out a yelp, a loud yelp that the students who were around her looked at her suspiciously.

When Rebecca realizes what she has done, her face quickly turns red in a blink of an eye and crouches while covering her face in embarrassment.

"P-please don't talk out of nowhere!!" Rebecca yelled in a low voice, hoping that nobody would look at her suspiciously.

But the world is cruel.

While crouching on the floor, Rebecca attracted a lot of attention causing them to look at her curiously like a monkey in the zoo.

"I could hear you muttering and bothering me so much that I want to fucking tear my ears off listening to your voice" Artemis rolled her eyes as she keeps waiting at the elevator, tapping her feet on the floor with her index finger on the back of her ear.

"J-Just...! Ugh! You're the worst!" Rebecca cried still having a blush on her face, biting her lips and looking at the floor with a grieved look as if she were looking at Artemis's face.

"I get that a lot" Artemis let out a low cold chuckle as she responds to Rebecca.

The elevator door opens just in time after Artemis spoke. She ignores Rebecca and started walking toward the office.

[Knock][Knock]

Artemis knock on the door two times and waited.

"Huh? Come in" a man's voice sounded inside the room and was confused at first before letting Artemis in without knowing who she is.

Without hesitation, Artemis open the door and saw a fat man on his couch smoking and drinking expensive alcohol.

Artemis looks at him coldly and walks toward him slowly. The man looks at her with a confused look, maybe because he's slightly drunk that his mind didn't properly process the situation.

"How much is this building?" Artemis didn't beat around the bush and straightforwardly ask the man as she sat comfortably on the opposite couch of the man with her legs crossed together.

"Wh-what?" the man asks dumbfoundedly while looking at Artemis with wide eyes.

"How much is this building?" Artemis repeated what she just asks in a nonchalant voice, crossing her arms together and taping her arm with her index finger.

"What…Miss this building is not for sale! Heh and besides you probably can't afford it" the man recovered and immediately snap, letting out a snort and smirking at Artemis when he let out his comment.

"This building cost about 5 million along with your shabby interior design" Artemis ignore his comment and look around the room and remember the interior design of the building and estimated the price.

"Wha-! Shabby place?!" the man yelled when he heard what Artemis said to his place, he stood up and slammed his hand onto the table causing the glass to move and spill some alcohol.

"Is it not?" Artemis turns her head to the side and asks innocently, still tapping her arm and looking at the time.

"Of-Of course not!" The man yelled in refusal; his cheek is tainted red in embarrassment.

"Haa, I'm wasting too much time in this conversation" Artemis let out a frustrating sigh while scratching her head in frustration. She took out one of her 100 black cards that are filled with millions and billions in her jacket and throw it on the table.

"Here, that card contains 10 million. This is my building now" Artemis calmly said to the man and tilt her head to the side looking like a king sitting on his throne with a cold look on his face.

The man was shocked to see a black card in the flesh, he shakily took the black card from his table before looking at Artemis in rage.

"Th-this! This isn't enough!" The man stutters and shouts in greed. You can see greed paste all over his face.

Artemis just let out a sigh and took out a cheque in her jacket and a pen. She began writing 5 million on the cheque before slapping the cheque on his face with a cold look on her face.

"H-how dares you to slap me!?" the man shouted while holding his cheek with his hand and holding the cheque and the black card securely in his other hand as if Artemis is going to steal it.

Artemis have enough of his bullshit that she took out a gun from her back and pointed it at the man's forehead, looking at him with a terrifying glare.

"Get the fuck out, this is my building now," Artemis said to him while standing up, and walking toward the door with the man in her front.

When the man reaches the door, Artemis opens it and kicks out [literally] the man out of the office.

Artemis lock the door and went to his office table and put his things on the floor while putting her laptop that can be sized down to the table.

After a couple of minutes of preparing, Artemis began her meeting.

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Back to Rebecca.

She was still crouching on the floor, waiting for Artemis to speak but no matter how long she waited, Artemis didn't speak.

Rebecca wanted to cry without tears but she looks up to her back when she felt someone tapping her back.

"Are you okay?" Belle asks Rebecca with a concerned look on her face and a worried smile. She notices Rebecca crouching with her head down at the side of the hallway, thinking that maybe she's panicking or something else, she went toward her with Felicia on her side and asks.

'My savior!' Rebecca thought to herself happily when she saw Belle. A smile appeared on her face before standing up.

"Ah…yes, I'm okay" it took Rebecca a quick second to remember how embarrassing it is to be seen Belle crouching on the floor. An embarrassed look pasted on Rebecca's face as she responds to Belle.

"Are you sure? Your face is red" Belle tilted her head to the side and ask Rebecca again with concern in her voice.

"…Ah, no…I was just embarrassed…" Rebecca lowered her head and could feel her face heating up and turning redder than before.

"Are you new here? You look young to be in college" Felicia jumps into the conversation and asks Rebecca a question as Felicia looks at Rebecca's face.

"Oh, no, I'm here because I'm looking for a friend of mine" Rebecca waves her hand when she heard what Felicia ask her, and she quickly explained with a troubled smile on her face.

"What's your friend's name? maybe Belle over here~ know your friend's name!" Felicia asks and looks at Belle with a smug smile on her face as if she's boasting about her.

"My friend's name is Aminah…uhh" Rebecca informs Artemis "name" but stops when she's about to say her last name. Rebecca didn't know Artemis's "last name" and could only mutter.

When they hear the name "Aminah", they thought it was Aminah Harmon and decided to clarify if it really is her.

[Harmon is her last name]

Agent 3L1 spoke to Rebecca's ear softly so as not to scare her.

"Thank you" Rebecca whispered in the lowest voice she could make without opening her mouth widely so as to not cause suspicion.

"Are you talking about Aminah Harmon?" Belle asks Rebecca with a kind smile on her face.

"Yes! She always wore round glasses and have blond short hair" with the help of Agent 3L1, Rebecca can accurately identify Artemis's appearance.

"If you're looking for her then unfortunately for you, Aminah isn't here yet" Felicia crosses her arm and put her index finger to the side of her chin while her head tilts to the side lightly.

"Oh…" Rebecca shows a sign of disappointment and lets out a word, scratching her neck and looking like she doesn't know what to do next.

'Hehehehe, I can be a great actress if I want to be' Rebecca thought to herself in a proud tone in her voice, a big smile appeared on her mind, and let out a boastful pose.

"How about you stay with us until Aminah came to school?" Belle suggested with a kind smile on her face.

"Is that okay?" Although Rebecca asks, her face still brightens up and a smile appeared on her face. Just thinking that this plan might fail and Artemis would increase the difficulty of her exercise even though she doesn't know how extreme it is.

"That's totally fine! And tell us about your friend Aminah~" Felicia walks toward Rebecca and put her arm around her shoulder, letting out a mischievous smile as she looks at the nervous Rebecca.

"Don't be nervous~ we don't bite" Felicia poke Rebecca's cheek with a smile on her face.

"But do you talk shit?" Rebecca asks, looking them straight in the eye and talking straight to the point.

"…" Belle and Felicia went quiet causing Rebecca to panic. She only said that because of the video she saw on the app. Seeing that they didn't respond to her question, she really thinks that Belle and Felicia talk shit about other people.

The only reason why they were quiet was not that they talk shit about other people, it was because they didn't expect Rebecca to ask a question like that suddenly.

Belle and Felicia were too stunned to speak.

"U-uhh… i-am so sorry! Please don't talk shit about me!" Rebecca immediately apologized and shivered like a scared chihuahua.

"N-no! we're not that kind of person!" Belle nervously wave her hand as she clarified their image to Rebecca.

"Th-then why are two silent when I ask that question?" Rebecca asks with a nervous tone in her voice, looking at Belle nervously.

"We were just too stunned to speak, we didn't expect you to ask a question like that" Felicia laugh after responding to Rebecca, wiping the tears that are forming in the corner of her eyes.

"You're too funny!" Felicia patted her shoulder and push her to be in the middle between the two of them and Belle and Felicia started walking down the hallway, talking cheerfully with Rebecca.

Half an hour has passed and Artemis still didn't arrive at the campus. Rebecca is still with Belle and Felicia, meeting new people on campus.

'This is not too bad…I thought I have to fight 24/7' Rebecca thought to herself while talking to new friends she made.

It seems like the God of Mischief[A.K.A the author] heard what Rebecca thought and decided to put a little bit of fun on them.

Twenty minutes later, some of the people who talked to Belle went to their class while Belle, Felicia, and Rebecca stayed since they don't have class at this hour.

"So…where do you two usually go when you don't have class this hour?" Rebecca asks as she swings her legs, sitting on the bench with Belle to her right and Felicia to her left.

"I'm planning to go to the library to pick up some things" Belle respond to Rebecca and look at her watch to look at the time and let out a hologram to check if the book that she wanted is still in the library.

"Oh! you're going to grab the "IMTSYP"? I like the **** arc, it really shows Scarlett's nature" Rebecca notices the book on the hologram and cheerfully spoke with a bright smile on her face, her eyes brightening as she talks about the book.

"Felicia recommended this to me" Belle let out a smile and turn off the hologram, turning to look at Felicia.

"I didn't expect that you read books" Rebecca blurted out without thinking as she look at Felicia with a look of doubt on her face.

"Of course, I do! You're bold huh?" Felicia was shocked to hear what Rebecca said and let out a chuckle as she rubs Rebecca's cheeks.

"Mmnngghh" Rebecca mumbled as she let Felicia rub her cheeks, she couldn't speak and could only let out a sound.

"My~ My~ Aminah isn't here?" a male deep voice entered their ears causing them to look at the man who was walking toward them.

'Is this the cliché line of the bully when the male lead isn't beside the main character?!' Rebecca thought to herself with excitement forming as the man keep walking towards them.

"Ugh, what do you want Kurtney?" Felicia rolled her eyes when she saw the man walking towards them and still hasn't reached them after walking for almost five minutes.

"It's Chris!" Chris corrected Felicia in an angry tone in his voice, he finally stops walking [thank God] and look down on them just because the three is sitting while he was standing and let out a smug smile on his face.

"Well, well, little revenge won't hurt. For me though but for you, I don't think it will" Chris clapped his hand and tilted his to the side with his hand supporting his chin and smile evilly.

Rebecca stood up and walk toward Chris. Chris sees Rebecca due to her height and didn't expect her to walk toward him.

"Oh, you're so short" Chris blurted out without thinking as he looks down at Rebecca.

"What?! I'm not short! And you're not tall either! You're just standing at a platform stupid!" Rebecca snap when she heard what Chris said about her height. Maybe because she stayed with the Stone Family for a day, she develops a strong attitude like them.

After all that, Rebecca still feels pissed off and decided to kick him like what she saw from Artemis.

Rebecca raises her leg and kicks him on the waist. Due to the height difference— due to Chris stepping on a platform, Rebecca's plan of kicking him on the stomach, she kicks him on his waist.

'Fuck! My inner thigh hurt so much! I didn't expect that kicking to hurt! I feel like my thigh is stretched out from just one kick!' Rebecca complains and curse as she tried her best to stand properly and ignore all the pain in her thigh.

Let's just say, Mission failed successfully.

Chris fell down on the floor with a hurt waist. "What the fuck! Why did you kick me?!" Chris cursed as he tried to stand up but was stopped when Rebecca step on his legs.

"That's for calling me short" Rebecca's smile stiffens as she looks at Chris and glares at him.

"Augh!!" Chris let out a groan when Rebecca kicks her at his no-touch zone. He curled in pain while trying not to let out his voice from leaking.

"This is for attempting to attack us" Rebecca spoke in a low tone that she mimic Artemis's voice, smiling.

"Bitch! I wasn't planning on hurting you three!" Chris angrily responds to Rebecca, covering his no-touch zone a still curling on the ground.

"…What?" Rebecca was dumbfounded and could only let out a word.