Plan Successful

'Copy his fingerprints and retinal scans… and then implement them…'

[ Calculating cost. Use 15 MP? ]

'Yes.' Axle pushed Rex's shoulder gently and continued to walk towards the bathroom slowly and unsteadily.

But what no one noticed was with every step Axle took, the unique fingerprints on his fingers were being altered, and his retina changed to match Rex's. Not a visible change, but still a huge change.

'Remove Alcohol too… use 4 MP…'

The moment Axle said so, the haziness in his eyes cleared up slightly and his thoughts got less disarrayed. For 4 MP, the system wasn't able to completely remove the symptoms of overdrinking, but it had reduced them significantly.

The system used much more MP for altering the internal bodily processes as compared to the outer body structure such as fats and muscles.

'Much better, phew.' Axle sighed in relief and limped towards the bathroom, splashing some water on his face.

He took out a pair of sunglasses to hide his eyes, just in case someone notices something, although the chance of that is low.

His retina and fingerprints were altered already by the system to match Rex's. Now Axle can easily bypass Rex's all biometric locks.

Now the problem was, how to reach the vault without alerting anyone. One way was to use the MP to change his face, and another was to simply sneak there.

But, does Axle have enough MP for it? After using 15 for biometrics and then 4 for alcohol, he only had 5 MP left.

He doubts that is enough to match Rex's face and then changes back to his original face. 'System, how much for copying Rex's face?'

[ 7 MP for perfect trace, 4 MP for passable trace. ]

'Never mind…' Axle sighed. If he uses the 4 MP right now, he would get stuck with Rex's face and might get into more trouble. One must think 2 steps ahead before taking one step to reduce the chances of failure.

And our dear Axle could think hundreds of steps ahead. Of course, he doesn't take any steps though.

'Let's just sneak.'

***

In a lavish hall of Rex's villa, a fat shadow lurked around, hiding from people's vision as the shadow moved towards a small hallway that was blocked by a guarding bot.

The shadow had an average-looking face and short body. He was holding a glass of wine and walking a little wobbly, pretending to be drunk while slowly but surely moving towards the hallway.

That was the hallway that was connected to Rex's bedroom.

Axle reached the hallway and tried to enter it pretending drunk, he pushed the guard and limped inside.

"Beep! Restricted area. Sorry. Please stay in the hall." the guard bot said in a monotonous robotic voice.

"Shut up! Let me go to the washroom!" Axle pretended to be mad and roughly pushed the bot away.

"Beep! Sorry. I will lead you to the bathroom. It's not here." the guard bot replied.

"Do you think I am a fool, you dumb bot? Do you want me to toss you into the shredder?" Axle asked angrily. The bot didn't know that Axle was a mere poor ass with no savings in his account. Even if he sold himself, he can't afford the latest technology guard bot such as this one.

"Beep! I am sorry, sir. But you are not permitted to enter this hallway." the guard bot replied without backing down.

The bot and Axle seemed to be in a deadlock, neither of them was backing out. Until…

"Guard, please lead me to the bathroom." Suddenly, a smooth and charming voice intercepted the discussion between Axle and the bot.

Axle instantly turned around, looking at the charming black-haired girl who intercepted the convo. She was dressed in a luxurious one-piece gown and light makeup on her naturally beautiful face. Her silky black hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall.

She wasn't drop-dead gorgeous like the senior, and neither bombshell sexy like Linny. But she had her own unique charm that gave a warm and nice feeling every time someone interacted with her.

Drawn by her body scent, Axle was immediately aroused. Of course, the intoxication from the alcohol was also clouding his judgment.

'Have a grip!' Axle shook his head and immediately stepped away, pretending to go back into the hall the moment he heard that lady's words.

He understood that she was knowingly or unknowingly assisting Axle by keeping the guard occupied while Axle could sneak into the hallway to steal the money.

Axle used two MP to deform his facial muscles to trick cameras and also took off his blazer and boots before entering the hallway. He had to take such precautions to not leave any obvious tracks in this robbery.

As for being caught in cameras while changing, Axle naturally kept that in mind.

And for being worried about the cameras in Rex's bedroom? Axle didn't care. He knew Rex's bedroom didn't have any cameras considering the obvious fact that Rex was a fuckboy.

No matter how degenerate of a guy he was, he wouldn't like to record every one of his MMS in villa cameras that even his father occasionally checks.

Axle smirked in victory and twisted the doorknob for Rex's bedroom, opening it without a sound.

He had already taken off his boots to prevent the noise of his boots clicking against the floor.

"Rex's vault is behind the antler painting if I remember correctly," Axle murmured softly while sneaking into the room and spotting a charming antler painting hung on the wall.

Axle gently removed the painting and as expected, a futuristic personal vault sat in a small cubic meter of area cut into the wall.

How did he know about it?

It was a couple of months ago when Axle was dragged to Rex's villa to serve as a waiter to Rex's family friends.

During that party, most of them had gotten heavily drunk and some of them even began to show off their violent tendencies, beating up waiters or getting into a brawl among themselves.

During a brawl, Rex had lost a bet of 5,000 Styr which he retrieved from this same vault. Axle, who was only pretending to be drunk, had also caught a glimpse of the pin of that locker.

'69420'

Axle pressed the buttons on the vault with high hope sparkling in his eyes.

Gladly nothing went wrong and the vault beeped with a green light. A green-colored scanner turned on while a retinal scanning machine also extended out of the vault, which both were easily tricked by Axle's perfect trace.

The vault opened up, sparking with the bundles of cash and some golden bars and jewelry.

Axle's eyes lit up at the sight and he instantly began to stuff them in his clothes, carrying as much as he could. He first filled his pockets with gold, then moved on to the cash, and finally some small chips kept in the locker.

They looked like the SD Cards that some people rarely used to store the data in due to their compact size. Of course, a cloud was much more secure, but many people have lost their blind trust in the internet after some major scandals.

Axle shrugged and stuffed them in his pocket too. By Axle's estimation, he had stolen over 70,000 Styr worth of gold and cash. More than what he was expecting, but a warmly welcomed surprise.

He quickly left the hallway and then escaped from Rex's villa. Leaving midway wouldn't be suspicious in his case since many youngsters left after eating, and Axle had also embarrassed himself multiple times.

Of course, he wouldn't like to stay for long.

As expected, no one bothered to check up on Axle who slowly walked out of the villa after fixing his face back for another 2 MP.

His face had a victorious smirk as his plan had worked out perfectly.

***

"You took quite a while~" a soft, familiar voice suddenly greeted Axle the moment he left the villa, causing him to freeze.

"Y-You…"