41 Chapter 41: Awaken, God Of The Omniverse Part 2 (The Trigger)

Arias, unaware of the plotting being done by Gregor, proceeded to go to the Iceberg Lounge in the afternoon.

He would normally isolate himself in his office when there, leaving most of the ground work to be overseen by Roulette while he studied different information at his disposal and planned for the future.

As he was going about this, a knock resounded on the door and Barbara appeared, wearing a Gotham heights school uniform with a tiny cute bag strapped over one shoulder.

"I'm here to report for work." She spoke casually while Arias looked at his wrist watch and cast her a side glance before replying.

"It's already 5 pm, just go home. The last thing I need is the media hounding me on hire I have school girls visit my office every evening, the commissioner's daughter no less. Come back on the weekend." Arias waved her away with one hand, causing to frown before tossing her bag in the corner of the room.

"Well, my father already knows I work here and is fine with it as long as I'm home by 9. Also, I saw a lot of other girls and guys in uniform downstairs, this a popular hangout for most students until the adult hour at 10 pm so there's no problem there too."

She spoke with her modest chest puffed out proudly as if her argument was completely sound and without faults.

Arias was uninterested in dealing with her at the moment so he let her be. "Then go serve some guests as a waiter or something, I have nothing I really need from you today."

Barbara frowned at that instruction for a moment before moving closer to his desk and running a finger along its surface, collecting a bit of dust in the process.

"How about I clean the room instead, I mean it's really dirty. Yea lemme do that." Not waiting for a reply, Barbara dashed out of the room before returning moments later with a broom and getting to work.

Arias ignored her for the most part until she chose start sweeping near him, reaching the broom under his desk and sometimes making contact between it and his foot.

He sighed loudly and rubbed his temples before gazing at her with annoyance. "That's enough, you can clean tomorrow when I'm off. You're interrupting my work at the moment."

"I still have plenty of time until I get off, anything else you want me to do?"

Arias closed the folder he was going through and leaned back into his chair before replying. "Dance."

"Dance?" she repeated with visible confusion.

"On your CV it mentioned you do both gymnastics and dance as hobbies so dance for my entertainment. If that's too much to ask then you can leave."

'He's trying to get rid of me!' Barbara could see what Arias was trying to do and it made her quiet upset.

"F-fine, I can totally do that." With a vexed expression on her otherwise cute face, she loosened the tie of her uniform and unbuttoned the first two buttons of her shirt before starting to move.

"Wow, you must do this often." Arias teased to make her squirm and she immediately fired back in defense.

"I don't! Me and my best friend just dance like this at karaoke sometimes, I'm not some stripper!"

Arias shrugged and nodded.

"With moves like those, I believe you. I hope you don't expect me to pay for this mediocre performance."

Arias continued to push her buttons and anger her even further and it worked.

"Hmph! Just watch me!"

She didn't try to defend herself with words but instead began dancing more seriously in front of him, although her frown never left her face.

While dancing she occasionally glanced over at him to see his reaction towards her moves but found his expression remained rather unimpressed.

She then kicked things up a notch and danced more provocatively, letting her skirt move around freely, occasionally flashing him her panties.

"Cute panties, definitely not stripper material."

When Arias said those words, Barbara stopped dancing as if she were in a daze before and quickly lowered her skirt while giving Arias a stink eye.

"What would you know! I'm out of here!" To embarrassed to say anything proper, she picked up her tie and rushed out of the room.

Arias then glanced over at the bag she left in the corner before shaking his head and returning to his work.

A moment later, Roulette walked in while swaying her hips in an exaggerated manner as usual before placing a hot cup of black coffee on his desk.

"I didn't know you like them young boss, I'll keep note of that." She commented with a cheeky smirk.

"I'd prefer you didn't. What are your thoughts on the announcement earlier today?"

Arias took a break from his work and began to converse with Roulette while occasionally sipping from his tea.

!!

Suddenly, he felt his heart throb and a great pain took over his entire body, causing him to grit his teeth and clutch his chest while giving Roulette a glare.

"Oh, don't look at me like that, I told you before, I'm only loyal to money."

Roulette made herself comfortable and sat on his desk before crossing her legs with a smirk plastered across her face.

"It's not everyday a girl has a billionaire knocking on her doorstep. It was a simple choice really, a shame, I did enjoy your company to some extent."

As Roulette was speaking, her phone rang and she immediately picked up while wearing a smile.

"Lex darling, talk about timing, I just finished your little task. Hm? Oh, don't worry about the properties, he gave me free reign to make decisions on his behalf, you just ready the money and I'll have the transfer papers ready by morning. The body? Yes, yes, I'll be sure to get rid of it properly, tell that spineless mayor to relax, this isn't my first rodeo."

Click~

"Shade! It's about time we wrap things up."

After she spoke, Shade appeared from the corner of the room while casually flicking his cane.

"Right, where to?"

"The harbor, we'll lay his body in a block of cement and sink it to the bottom of the sea."