Chapter 267 - 260. Pillar Support
Ignoring his crimson eyes and deep red hair, someone could argue that Radia Mallarc looked like an unassuming man.
He had an average build, and an average look; okay enough to look at, but wouldn’t make people take a double look. Which was rather ironic, seeing how his guild operated. The only striking part of him was the signature red hair and eyes of House Mallarc. If one were to look at him from afar or through the screen, they would have a hard time picturing him as the powerful man that he was.
Until one had to face him in the same room.
Sadeva was cursing himself for thinking that the Mallarc only had money in them. Well, yes, they had money in them, but he forgot where money could bring people. For example, to his front door.
A nice afternoon enjoying those new numbers in his account, thinking about the vacation he had planned--and his front door was opened.
It didn’t even feel like a ’breaking and entering’. There was no ’break’. These guys just open the door as if it wasn’t even locked. Or as if they knew the passcode to his unit. And they entered so nonchalantly, as if they were entering their own space instead of someone else’s house.
It was too absurd for Sadeva to even get panicked or angry. He was just dumbfounded to suddenly see these espers--yes, they were espers--clad in black suits like bodyguards, entering his living room.
But his confusion turned into fright the moment his eyes caught the crimson among the black. And then he was face-to-face with none other than the Chairman of Mortix group. Instantly, he knew why this man managed to become a Chairman and a Guildmaster at such a young age.
One moment he looked at those crimson eyes, and the next moment he was on his knees already, without even being told so. It was only after his knees touched the ground that he pondered about the constricted feeling he had after looking at those crimson eyes. The feeling of getting sucked into a deep marsh full of poisonous substances. Trapped.
And there was only one person who could get him out of that place.
That person took a seat on his couch and just stared at him without saying anything, as if waiting for him to say something. To admit something. The stare reminded him of the time his parents caught him stealing their money, and they just stared at him with a simple ’we know what you’re doing’.