CHAPTER 46: 46. HANDSOME YOUNG MAN

The morning sun peeked through the curtains of Riki’s bedroom window.

It was already morning, and Riki was awake, but he just sat silently staring at the ceiling. Actually, he was just thinking about what he had to do today.

Jake and the other employees had already taken care of some of the work. Then, Jean would also take care of the shares of K.H Company so that the company could soon become Riki’s property.

If the company became Riki’s property, he would move the old office to his own office building.

After all, the company was almost bankrupt. Articles on the internet had spread the news that the company was laying off a large number of its employees.

It seems that the plan of "those" people is simply to destroy the company. Or... maybe they are just so greedy that they don’t realize they have destroyed the company.

Initially, K.H Company was quite large, with profits of up to $10 million. But over time, especially after it was taken over by his father’s relatives, the company was unable to even make a profit of $500,000.

Perhaps even now, they have no profits at all. Riki doesn’t know how much they are currently losing.

What is certain is that he wants to restore the company’s glory once again. And the person Riki trusts to do that is Jean.

It turns out that Jean’s name is also on the list of people Riki can trust to help with the business, which was provided by his system. Riki only realized this last night.

After acquiring shares at a low price with Sandra’s help, Riki will spend a lot more money on rebranding and other things.

Riki has to show those people that he can do it. Then he will trample on them, just like they trampled on his family in the past.

The people who were jealous of his parents. Riki will make them suffer slowly.

[It seems you need more money, master]

"Hmm, of course I need a lot of money for my plan. Will you give me a new mission?"

[Of course, master!]

[Your first mission today is to stop a robbery at a small bakery that just opened]

[The shop is near your university]

[The robbery will take place around 6:20 a.m.]

[If you are late, your mission will fail and you will be punished by having your stats points reduced]

[But if you succeed, you will have the opportunity to get triple cashback on what you buy]

Riki immediately got up from his reclining position. He couldn’t waste such a good opportunity.

He glanced at the digital clock on the nightstand.

It was still 5:30 a.m.

It turned out that Riki woke up too early.

He had plenty of time to get ready.

Around six in the morning, Riki was ready. He went down to the parking lot to get his car.

It only took him about five minutes to get to the store.

The shop opened at six in the morning. The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted through the air as Riki got out of his car.

Riki had just found out that there was a pretty good bakery there, with a cake house theme. It was a shop that would stand out, especially to children and girls.

When Riki entered the bakery, a girl was arranging some freshly baked bread and cakes.

"I just found out there’s a bakery here," said Riki.

The girl was surprised; she hadn’t realized that a handsome customer had come to the shop.

"Oh! Welcome! You’re our first customer today, and the shop just opened yesterday, so it’s no wonder you didn’t know about it. Please take your pick, sir," said the girl, who was very friendly and smiled a lot. She had a bright smile, as bright as the morning sun.

"I don’t know, do you have any recommendations for me? I haven’t had breakfast yet, so I’ll have breakfast here," said Riki.

"In that case, how about blueberry bread with cheese spread and a glass of hot chocolate? That’s my favorite breakfast menu. Especially because the bread with dried blueberries is very delicious, you have to try it!"

Riki was interested in the offer. He accepted it and also ordered other items, such as a cheese croissant and tiramisu.

After ordering, he sat down at a table near the window. He checked the time on his smartphone.

It was still 6:15 a.m., only five minutes left.

At 6:18 a.m., the girl came back to serve Riki’s order, then went back inside.

Not long after, Riki saw a group of thugs coming.

They looked like a bunch of drug or alcohol addicts who liked to gamble until morning.

Riki immediately called 911 as they approached the store.

"Oh no! They’re coming again! Patricia!" the first girl called out to someone inside.

Another girl came out, who was most likely the older sister of the first girl. They both had the same red hair.

Both girls were very beautiful and unique. They wore brown maid-style uniforms with white lace aprons in front. Both of them also had their hair braided into two pigtails.

Before the thugs entered the store, the two girls immediately came out to chase them away. One carried a broom, the other a wooden stick.

"Go away, you guys!" shouted the girl named Patricia.

"We won’t leave until you give us $1,000 as security!" shouted one of the thugs.

"This store just opened, we don’t have that much profit!" shouted Patricia again.

The thugs laughed when they heard this, as if it was very funny.

"Then let us take bread and cakes for free here! That way we’ll leave," said another thug.

"You can also pay with your bodies..." said another thug.

They stared at the two girls with lewd looks.

Riki, who couldn’t stand it anymore, finally came out of the store.

"What’s going on here?" asked Riki.

"Is there a strong hero here?"

"You think you can defeat all of us? Your small body will be beaten to a pulp if you dare to fight us!"

Riki, who didn’t look the least bit scared, stepped forward to face them. He signaled to the two girls to back away, to be safer.

"So, you want to be kicked out violently? That’s fine too, come on and fight me," said Riki, deliberately provoking them to come forward first.

Not far from there, a car stopped. Two people got out, one carrying a camera, and the other a beautiful girl who was popular as an influencer. She was a girl who liked to make content about culinary.

Coincidentally, she got the recommendation for the bakery from Liz and Angeline, because the three of them had known each other since junior high school.

"Looks like there’s a fight, Ben! Quickly record it all! There’s a handsome guy fighting them, I’ll live stream it on social media!" said the girl, Bella.

Thanks to Bella’s live stream, the incident went viral in no time.

Riki managed to defeat the thugs because, basically, they were extremely tired after drinking alcohol and using drugs. The police arrived to arrest them, the troublemakers in the area.

Bella came to interview Riki on her live broadcast.

"Handsome young man, can you explain what happened here and who you are?" Bella asked.

Confused, Riki tried to answer Bella’s question.

"Oh, I’m Riki, a student at a nearby college. I’m here because I heard that the bread here is very good, then suddenly those thugs came. Of course, I tried to help them."

Bella was silent for a moment, stunned by the handsome young man in front of her. But she quickly came to her senses when her friend, Ben, asked her to interview the two girls who owned the shop as well.

Riki returned to the shop, finishing his bread, cake, and hot chocolate.

He didn’t know that he was the topic of heated discussion on social media.

After all, Riki hadn’t been on social media for a long time.

[You have successfully completed your first mission!]

[Your reward is triple cashback for a whole day. Ends at 12 midnight]

[You gain +5 to your strength]

[You also gain 5 points]

"Excuse me, Riki."

Riki looked up and saw the two girls who owned the shop and Bella standing in front of him.

"Thank you for helping us today," said Patricia.

"My name is Veronica, and this is Patricia. We really owe you," said the first girl, Veronica.

"No, it’s my duty as a fellow human being," replied Riki.

"You are very kind, we will give you some bread and warm cakes as a gift, please accept them," said Patricia.

"O-okay, I’ll accept it."

Patricia and Veronica left to prepare the gifts for Riki.

Meanwhile, Bella suddenly sat down in front of Riki.

"Hey, handsome," she said.

"Yes?"

Bella smiled broadly, "I didn’t know there was a young man as handsome as you at the university. I have a friend at that university, and I guess I was too busy to know about you. You must be very famous, right? By the way, can I upload the content I made earlier?"

Riki nodded, "Of course, you can upload it. But I’m not famous, and I’m not that handsome. My friends are more handsome than me. I’m just average," said Riki. He wasn’t trying to be modest; he genuinely felt that way.

After all, the people around him, like Evan, Zeno, Deva, Travis... they were very handsome. So, Riki saw himself as average.

"You must be very humble, Riki. Can you introduce me to your friend? Who knows—"

"Oh, Jake! Evan! Why are you here?"

At first, Bella was annoyed because Riki ignored her. But after she turned around and saw the two young men approaching Riki, she understood why Riki had said what he said earlier.

It turned out that Riki only hung out with good-looking people.