23 Dinner

I took off my head set. In front of me on the bed was a two piece suit. Black leather shoes were on the floor.

Vetala was sitting on a chair next to me. He looked bored.

"So..." I trailed. "Are we cool now?" I asked him.

He looked at me and sighed. "I was wrong for being angry at you. I'll accept that. It's your human nature, and I was like you once too." he said. "Blinded by power"

"Hey, I am not blinded-" I started.

"Shut up" he said. "I still think we should ask some help but not now. If what happened wasn't related to the company at all we could get in big trouble." he continued.

"What are you talking about? Even if their not responsible they could still help us" I said.

"Your dad?" Vetala asked.

"How would we get in trouble? Tell me that first" I demanded.

"Oh I don't know" he casually remarked. "They might just simply, dissect you" he added.

I thought about it and he was right.

"Okay so what do you think we should do?" I asked.

He sighed for the second time. "Without me you'd be so lost" he said. "Let me tell you what we're going to do. We wait. For all we know you might not be the only one with powers like this. There might be others like you. If there are then you won't be in danger and we can find out who's responsible for this. Once that's out of the way we can decide what to do from then"

I had to admit having him was definitely useful for me.

I quickly got ready and we mad our way to the dining hall.

Maya was there as usual. She hadn't changed. I had only.

Probably cause I was wearing just a hoodie and trainers.

"That suit looks amazing on you!" she said with a smile on her face. I didn't reply. Somehow I didn't feel like it was genuine. Even if the suit was good she probably didn't care.

"Is she acting nice just because I'm her boss's son?" I thought. It looked like vetala didn't have a high opinion of her either. He was looking at her with disgust on his face.

"I have never seen such a fake person in my life" he said as he turned to me. "She literally couldn't give a lesser shit about you" he said.

That didn't necessarily reassure me and on the contrary made me a bit pissed. At the very least she could not have said anything. What did she expect to gain by doing that?

She took me outside.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"For dinner of course! you didn't think we would be eating here did you?" she said and chuckled.

She took me to the limo and I got in but she didn't.

"Aren't you going to get in?" I asked her.

She simply stood there without reaction.

Vetala sensed it before me. "Get out of the car!" he said.

I had realised it too late though. The car started filling with gas and my vision started to go dark. I weakly punched against the side doors but there was nothing I could do. Suddenly I wasn't in the car, and I was lying down on a testing table.

"What..." I started to groan.

"Subject's system implant successful. No problems there" a doctor said.

"Good. Start the upload. And make sure to silence that pet of his" a woman said on the side line. Was it Maya?

Another doctor took a few sharp needles with cables attached and plugged it into my head.

I felt an immense amount of pain and screamed. My vision went black.

Suddenly I woke up in the limo. Maya was sitting right opposite to me.

"You seemed to have slept well" she said. "We're here so let's go"

I touched my temples and rubbed them slightly. I felt like I had forgotten something but I didn't know what.

I dismissed it and then looked around for vetala. However he was nowhere to be found. I decided that maybe he had gone to sleep.

We went inside the restaurant. It was definitely high class and a place I never would have thought I'd find myself in.

I walked past a group of girls and one of them smiled and waved at me. I ignored her.

We made our way to the table and sat down. "Order anything you want" Maya said. Usually given the opportunity I would have tried everything I could order. However I didn't want to seem like a pig in a place like this and I wasn't even hungry. I ordered a simple steak. The cheapest on the menu. Even then it was pretty pricey.

"Your father will be here in a short while" Maya said. I didn't care though. I was thinking about my ability. It wasn't usual for me to think about stuff like that. I usually looked at what was in front of me.

However an interesting revelation had dawned upon me. I looked around me and when no one was looking I opened my status bar. I went down to stats and all of them were at 5. Lowest level.

What this meant was that not only had my abilities and items from the game had been transferred but my body structure as well. Which meant levelling up could give me a body surpassing that of a normal human being.

Of course the question right now was how to level up.

Before I could ponder about this question Maya spoke. "Ah looks like he's here" she said.

I looked up and saw him.

My father was tall and muscular. His hair was short and neat and he had a goatee. You could tell he was a man of business just by looking at him. But beyond that was his presence. He radiated an aura of power. Looking at him it was hard to believe he was my father.

He came and sat down and looked straight at me. He completely disregarded Maya.

"It looks like you've grown into a fine young man. I knew my mother would beat you into shape" he said with a deep voice.

"Yes" I replied formally with a strong urge to add sir.

He chuckled. "It's okay, you can relax" he said. My body eased itself all of a sudden and I didn't feel as tense as I did before.

"What was that" I thought.

As the food came we ate silently. No questions, no talking.

I had always wanted to ask him why he had left me but I couldn't. I wanted to ask what happened with him and mom but I couldn't. My mouth had sealed itself.

It wasn't like he showed any interest in my life either. We just ate.

Finally after an hour or so he got a message and got up. "It seems I have urgent matters to attend to. I'll see you later maybe." he smiled and and said. I smiled back lightly and he left.

As he left I got a notification in my hud.

- A great pressure has been lifted off you

-Your stats have been returned to normal.

"What? What is that supposed to mean? Why is it showing up in my status bar? Was a system ability used?". These questions all ran through my head as I looked up to see him. But he was gone already.

"Just who is he?" I thought