Foundation for the Tower of Lies

"Imee!", Harvie's smile became wider and left the girl beside him.

When Harvie left her, the girl made the saddest expression before it turned into a vengeful one as she glared daggers to Imee, who was unaffected by it

When Imee saw Harvie coming to her way, her face became cold as her mood plummeted.

She coldly stared at Harvie and asked, "What?", her tone could almost freeze Harvie on the spot.

"Why are you so cold~?", Harvie playfully asked, indifferent from Imee's cold tone, "I just wanted to ask what are you doing here."

Before Imee could answer, she thought, 'I hope this will make you give up.', she smirked, "I just had a date."

The joyful smile of Harvie turned dark and psychopathic.

The girl with a skimpy outfit saw this as an opportunity and clung into Harvie's arms and seductively whispered, "Come on, just leave her be. You already have me and that bitch already had a date."

She gave a charming wink but in return, she received a deathly glare.

"Get off me.", Harvie unblinkingly whispered, as if any moment he will do something unimaginable.

Chills traveled her whole body and she had no choice but to get off Harvie.

Harvie completely ignored her and forced a smile, "But there is still the sun but you already finished your date? Maybe that guy is an asshole or something? Hahaha!", but soon, his laughter sounded as if it came out naturally as he acted.

'Once I learn who's that guy is, I'm going to skewer him alive!', inwardly, Harvie already wanted to murder somebody, especially that guy.

"No, my date was so fun and he is so romantic.", Imee's smile became bigger as she seemed she was "romantically excited", "My date just ended quickly since my dad is strict and I needed to go home now."

"Pfft!", the skimpy-suit girl desperately mocked, "What a daddy's girl!"

Instead of support, Harvie's eyes rolled to her, threatening her this time, "Shut up", he dared say loudly.

The skimpy-suit girl gulped and lowered her head obediently.

"But it looked like your dad is still not here. Mind if I accompany you in your wait?", Harvie found his feet back and casually suggested. Any girl who heard this will immediately agree with their head rapidly nodding.

"Ah", the skimpy-suit girl frowned since they were on their way to a party but another girl from their group grabbed her hand to stop her.

The skimpy-suit whipped her hand to release the grip and glared at the girl who stopped her before staying quiet again.

'What are you glaring me for? I just save your life, hoe! You just need to be grateful and not act like a bitch!', the girl who was glared sharply thought.

"Ehh~", Imee playfully thought about it, "I would've agreed but it seemed like you already have plans with that girl there.", she pointed at the skimpy-suit girl with a mischievous smile.

The skimpy-suit girl in return gave a loathe of a frown.

"Tsk!", Harvie clicked his tongue in frustration and denied, "No, no, I wouldn't have anything to do with that-"

A ringing interrupted Harvie's denial.

Imee took her phone from her bag and answered, "Yes?"

"I'm still at the snack shop."

"Yeah"

"I'm surrounded by them."

"I don't know who they are."

Harvie's group was baffled by Imee's brash replies, but as Harvie was about to resume on his persuasion, an answer replied on their back;

"Okay, I'm already here."

Harvie's group has more than several people with at least men with huge and broad bodies, but a man, slender and taller than any of them made a path for himself by pushing these muscular men aside with force but by seemingly with no effort.

Before these men could respond for treating them like trashes to be thrown, they heard this slender man's words and stopped.

"Excuse me, what do you need of my daughter?", white glistening teeth showed as a gentle smile formed. The girls stared in awe as a man on par with Harvie's look arrived, and it looks like he is Imee's father.

They were tempted to call him daddy too.

When the hunk arrived in front of Harvie, he wouldn't expect it to be his love's father.

"What do you need from my daughter?"

"Sir Bonvon, I didn't expect such a young-looking man like you is Imee's daughter.", Harvie respectfully bowed as he continued, "I am just offering your daughter an escort since it is dangerous to be alone in the street nowadays."

"Yes", Imee's father skimmed Harvie's group which the girls evaded their eyes in bashfulness while the guys stiffened, "You are this many so you can definitely escort my daughter safely.", his eyes rolled to Imee, "But, Imee, I thought you don't know these people?"

'Oh shit', even Harvie stiffened, 'I forgot about that.', he looked at Imee and smiled.

But Imee ignored that and answered, "No, I don't know any of them and that guy was just hitting on me out of nowhere."

'Lying ass!', Harvie's group thought in sync.

"Ah, Imee... Lying is.", when Harvie felt the glare from Imee's father, he toughened up, "Sir, Imee is just shy so-"

"You don't get to say whether my daughter is shy or not.", Imee's father intimidatingly leaned forward. His eyes were unblinking.

Like karma back at him, Harvie gulped but did not step back, "Sir, that won't work on me.", yet, he found his ground as he smiled, "Even if you're Imee's father, I won't back down, old man!"

His toughness was what his followers were so proud of about him, 'You go get him, Boss!'

Truly, one of the four nutcases in Pentoran Senior High, The Alpha wouldn't back down.

Imee just sighed at Harvie's stubbornness.

"Ohhh, what a brave youth.", Imee's father got somehow provoked by Harvie's words.

"Ugh, dad.", Imee warned, "He's a red belter at both taekwondo and karate on the verge of a black belter."

Harvie joyfully smiled, 'She knows about it!', it gave him a great boost of spirit.

But Imee's father got an idea, "Kid, do you like my daughter?"

"Yes, sir!", Harvie unhesitatingly answered.

"Then if you can hurt me then you deserve my daughter.", Imee's father said with confidence.

"Really?!", Harvie was already on his battle position, "You do martial arts, old man?"

"....", a nerve popped out, but still replied with a nod, "Yes, karate too in fact."

With this confrontation, many bypassers became onlookers, curious as to what will happen.

Harvie was flexing his muscles through his clothes while the father's body was fully covered because of his business suit.

Many stayed to watch as crowds formed. While some were already tempted to call the cops.

'Even though he heard about me being a red belter, this old man was still confident. It's nigh impossible he was bluffing since he was the one who challenged me.', Harvie observed the father, seeing him defenseless, 'You must be strong...', he inwardly smiled, 'But Imee's information is a bit off. I'm not a red belter. I'm already black belter, 2nd dan!'

Harvie's eyes widened as he swooped into the area of Imee's father, he struck with his elbow like a lightning strike without a second thought, 'Imee, I got your father's consent now!'

But one foot and one little step back was all Imee's father needed.

Harvie suddenly stopped as he abruptly stopped his force of movement or else, he would've died, literally!

An unmovable palm covered his chin in a perfect position that with his force of the attack, his head will abruptly stop while his body will foolishly continue its way, snapping his neck!

Harvie's eyes trembled as he looked at the monster in front of him. He didn't even see any hand before it came contact at him.

"Great reflexes. I don't want to murder a child who is already at 2nd dan with still a lot of potential.", Imee's father domineeringly abolished Harvie's confidence, "But seriously? An elbow at first strike? Not every fight will end in a one-hit k.o."

Harvie dropped on his knees while the onlookers did not notice anything and thought it was nothing as the fight underwhelmingly ended.

With their curiosity and thirst for stimulation vanish in a poof, they returned back to their own businesses as the street's traffic went on.

"Imee, let's go.", the father said as he turned around as if nothing happened.

Imee sighed and stood up to follow her father.

When she passed by Harvie, she whispered, "My warning was for you dumbass. Be grateful and don't come near me again."

As she left the defeated Harvie with his group curious what happened to their leader, she thought, 'I don't even know what stage my father is in martial arts. All I know is he is an elite in some big gang.'

On the side of the street, Harvie was wheezing and sweating, having to find a monster.

"Harvie, are you alright?", the skimpy-suit girl took this chance to redeem herself from Harvie.

"Don't you touch me!", he wildly shouted which terrified everyone, but soon he smiled.

Instead of being discouraged by a wall set up in front of him, he was determined to climb above it, 'Imee... you will be mine in the end.'

But Harvie didn't forget about the date.

He stood up and collected himself as he took all the dirt off. His face was like when they first arrived as he grabbed the skimpy-suit girl and returned back to their fun and walk as if nothing happened.

Imee, as she followed her father, felt a chill on her spine.

When they entered a black shiny car, Imee thought she could now relax and she leaned her back. Thinking about that someone again.

"Imee, call me if they're harassing you again, okay?", the monster from before disappeared and there was just one caring father.

"No, they wouldn't dare touch me.", Imee confidently said.

"Hmm, okay.", he had trust in his daughter as he drove off.

Streetlights flashed by in succession and entranced Imee.

But in the next second, the atmosphere changed, "But about the date..."

".....", Imee's face stiffened but her father was still composed, but now, the smile was gone.

"You heard that?", Imee sat down and acted calmly, but obviously, she cannot. A cold sweat came dripping from her forehead

"Yes, something about a fun date and a romantic guy."

'So that's why his call is so timed perfectly. He was already there from the beginning!', Imee gulped, 'But he's really sneaky, nobody even noticed him.'

"That...", Imee began to play with her hair, "That was just a facade to turn them away."

"Hmmm", the smile appeared again, "Okay, but if you are really dating someone. It would be best to let him meet your father first."

'And then kill him?! No way!', Imee exaggeratedly thought but didn't dare say so, "Sure, if I have one."

Her father then asked her about trivial things about her day which she needed to lie every question and avoid contradicting her own words. Her head heating up because of it.

Imee thought that her father was doing it intentionally to catch her red-handed, but she was saved when they reached her apartment.

"Okay, goodbye.", she escaped.

Her father looked at her running away and sighed, "Haa~ Imee is already lying to her father. I am heartbroken right now!", he cried inside his car before driving off again after he saw Imee entered her apartment.

But then, a pocket of his rang and he picked his phone from it.

"This is Ernanfo Bonvon.", Ernanfo found and parked in a quiet park under the moonlight as he opened the window and casually smoked.

But when he heard the voice on his phone, his cigarette dropped on the pebbles.

"Boss?", he wanted clarification in shock, but soon, his facial expression turned solemn.

"So what's the job?"

"Eh? But this is the only time I can be with my daughter, these few minutes and you want me to use it to find a single boy?", Ernanfo wanted to shout in frustration but couldn't.

[If you find him, I'll make that two hours.] the voice from the other side said.

"Oh", Ernanfo imagined having dates with his daughter as he agreed, "So what's the name boss?"

[Renir]

"Renir?"

But the call got cut off.

".....Just Renir? So that's why they didn't just search him on the internet or something.", Ernanfo sighed and was dialing somebody, "I'll just gather all the people with the names of Renir. I hope the Renir boss is searching for is within this city, if not, goodbye, two hours.", he casually talked to himself, "Shit, good thing I joined the Fellnigh.", he sarcastically muttered.