Changing Emotions: Carla's Strategy

"I'm going now." Isabella suddenly said as she finished her breakfast.

"Now, why, I can take you there right away, why travel for an hour?" Carla asked Isabella with a slight smile as Isabella shook her head.

"I want to get familiar with going there myself, I can't constantly bother you."

'That's not a really good excuse when we will be moving soon.' Carla thought before something flashed through her eyes.

'Wait, is she planning on staying here by herself, in order for her emotions to go away?'

'No, I won't let you lose all your emotions, Isabella, the people I hate the most are those arrogant, stuck-up bastards that act like they have no needs or emotions.'

'A person of such talent as you, it would be too big of a shame if I simply let you become somebody like that.'

'Seems like I'll have to make something up in order to get her to leave with us, the only question is what to do, and how to do it, there's not a lot of time left.'

"Isabella, you should also look at the apartments with us, you're going together with me Carl to the other city, right?" Carla asked Isabella who flinched as she was putting her shoes on. 

( AN: yes, no shoes in the house, none! )

"I- I'll think about it," Isabella said in a low voice as she glanced over at Carl who was drinking some orange juice.

"Well, you do have enough money from the rewards now, not to mention that with your current position, you can get good housing for free and don't need to worry about money at all," Carl said as he glanced over at Isabella.

"I don't mind if you come with us, but I'm sure you would want more privacy, so you can do whatever you want."

'You dumb little-' Carla's hand clenched the armrest of the chair, breaking it immediately.

'This guy is still thinking only of money!'

'You have enough, I have more than enough, how the hell can you be so clueless!'

'Seriously, has he not noticed that Isabella has been acting weird today?!'

'She even saw you naked and didn't get angry or run away you dunce!'

Carl glanced over at Carla as he got a feeling that underneath her smile, there was slight danger.

"Ummm, Carla, are you alright?"

"Of course, why do you ask?" Carla asked as she put her elbow on the broken armrest, hiding it from Carl's and Isabella's sight.

"Oh, we should invite Angela over tonight, it's been a while since all three of us got together and 'relaxed'."

Carla's words made Isabella, who had opened the door and stepped out, briefly stop for a moment before closing the door and leaving.

"Why are you doing this Carla?" Carl suddenly asked as he leaned back in his chair and stared at her with a serious expression.

"You can stop hiding what you broke as well, it was quite obvious."

"Ohhh, it seems my little Carl is not as clueless as I imagined."

"Of course I'm not, it was obvious the moment Isabella came that something had happened, not to mention the way you spoke and acted with her, did you leave the door open when we were in the bedroom?"

"Are you trying to manipulate Isabella into sleeping with me?" Carl asked in a serious voice as Carla suddenly stood up with a big grin.

"Well look at who's smart and managed to figure everything out."

"It wasn't as if you were really trying to hide it, not to mention that asking Isabella if she wants to live with us, as well as mentioning Angela and the three of us 'relaxing' were clear indicators of you wanting to get her to join whatever kind of a thing you want."

"A 'thing'?"

"I think I told you clearly of what I would want, and no, it's not only because of that you dummy, it's because of her ability, it's affecting her, making her cold and detached, if neither one of us do anything, Carla will end up being one of those ice-queens that you can see walking around, flaunting their arrogance and power, I hate them, I don't want her to become one of them."

"And you think we can change that?"

"Well, she obviously has developed a crush on you, I'm sure that you can 'inject' a simple 'cure' in her, and on her, and around her, and then she will give in to her emotions and needs and not turn into a complete b*tch later on," Carla said with a smile as Carl sighed before shaking his head.

"Listen, as much as I appreciate the fact you want me to get a world record of how many women I have and will sleep with if Isabella wants to, I don't mind, but no forcing her, she is a villain that is contracted to me, I don't want her to break off the contract and leave me, that would cause me to lose out a lot."

"And what if I told you that not doing anything might lead to just that happening?" Carla asked Carl who raised an eyebrow at her.

"What do you think will happen when she becomes more and more detached because of her ability?"

"She will cut off contact with plenty of people, and because she has a crush on you, she might want to remove any contact with you as well, in order to make it easier for her to forget you and become less attached to any form of emotions, which means you might lose her as your villain in the future, that is, if you don't do anything about it."

Carl's eyes opened wide at her words as his hands suddenly grabbed her by the waist.

"Are you telling the truth right now?!"

"Hahahaha, look at how you become when something about your job and the future development of your career happens!"

'System, there was nothing in the description that said anything about her ability to change her mental state, why?'

[ Because it was not important, such abilities, the powerful ones that are highly ranked, usually do change the mental state of their host, for example, your ability does that as well, but because you have me, that has been eliminated. ]

'So, if I don't do anything, Isabella will become a cold-hearted b*tch that will forget how well I treated her, let her live in my place, cooked her food, and got her the position she currently has?!'

[ Well, that's one way of putting it. ]

"What do we do?" Carl asked immediately as Carla chuckled at him.

"Just follow my lead and everything will be alright, for now, call Angela and invite her over, I'm sure she will accept the invitation."

"We have more than enough time before we move, I just hope Isabella doesn't try moving before that, it'll make it a bit more difficult if she does so."

Carl nodded his head and took his phone before calling Angela.

"Hey, so about what you said in the agency, does that still stand?" Carl asked as Angela gulped from the other side.

"Y-yeah."

"How about tonight, I can pick you up."

"N-no … I'll come."

"That she certainly will," Carla said with a big smile before Carl ended the call and stared at her.

"So what, I just need to sleep with Isabella and my d will do magic, making her stay as she is?"

"Such a crude way of speaking, I thought you were better than that Carl," Carla said as she covered her mouth with one hand, making herself look like she was a bit embarrassed.

"Continue acting like this, and I won't touch you for the entire week," Carl said seriously as Carla's face changed.

"Then I'll make you."

[ She can definitely force you if she wants to. ]

"For now, there's no need for you to think too much about it, just leave it all to me, I know just what to do, and how to do it," Carla said before getting up from Carl's lap.

"We need to buy some things for tonight, Isabella will arrive late, by that time, we should have already finished dinner, made the kitchen and living room a bit messy, and let the doors open so that no matter where she goes, she will hear us."

"Oh, and I need you to be at your very best performance tonight, alright?" Carla asked Carl who sighed before looking at her.

"Don't worry, I have my ways of making you be at your best," Carla said with a smirk before she left the apartment.

"I'm going to buy some things for tonight, you just relax, there's nothing else for you to do except for tonight!"

"Just what the hell am I putting myself into?" Carl asked before his phone suddenly rang. 

He glanced at it, only to see it was Nacht that was calling him.

"That bastard, is he finally fine and ready to start doing something again?"