Global Sign-in: 10x Multiplier with the Strongest System!-Chapter 65: Dinner

"Is this why you requested me?" Lady Sunfire asked, her voice laced with a bit of vitriol. Her gaze bore down on Mr. Professor unfondly.

However, the old man gestured with his right hand, saying, "No, no, of course not. This is just a very pleasant surprise."

"She is the one originally meant for your reconnaissance mission, isn’t she?" Master Abraham asked, bearing the same unfavorable gaze towards Mr. Professor.

The old man stepped back, away from the two and voiced, smiling mischievously, "Hey, you two shouldn’t look at me like that. Anyway, she’s here on a different matter entirely. If you boys don’t mind, Miss Sunfire and I here have something of importance to discuss. But wait behind, so we can have dinner after. My personal chef is very good at what he does."

Roy stood up and greeted Sunfire, who smiled and greeted him back. Master Abraham simply passed by her and left the office.

In all of Master Abraham’s disagreeability, he still waited behind in the waiting room.

Roy stared up at the white ceiling light, almost drooling in boredom, before snapping up and asking, "What kind of mentor was Mr. Professor?"

"The annoying kind," Master Abraham answered with a low growl. "Always made me do foolish, odd jobs."

Roy smirked. "In my opinion, you two are actually quite alike."

Master Abraham glanced at Roy, his eyebrow crease deepening by a fraction.

"Are you going to wait until I ask how?"

Roy nodded and folded his arms.

"Wait forever then."

Roy laughed and tapped his mentor’s shoulder, leaning closer as he said, "Master Abe, you two are crazy. I mean, who would’ve thought someone with the ability to sense false gates would run to them instead of away from them?"

Master Abraham wanted to be offended, but then he smirked.

"Like mentor," he looked Roy up and down, "like student."

Roy’s hand froze, along with his smile. He retracted his hand and nodded. "Good one. But I’m not going to become crazy."

"One day, you’ll realize that if you don’t run to them, someone who doesn’t know they’re false gates will."

"..." Roy rested his back on the waiting room seat and sighed. "How come the Associations didn’t have you going around, pointing out which gates were normal and false?"

Master Abraham rested his back too and looked at his gloved hands with only the top parts of his fingers visible. "I am only one man. And gates spawn every day."

"Fair."

Roy’s thoughts wandered again, and he came up with another question, "What’s the deal between you and Lady Sunfire anyway? She seems like a really cool executioner."

"I never liked her guts," Master Abraham answered casually.

"Oh, do you think she’ll let me take a selfie?" Roy voiced aloud. "It’ll blow Chris’s mind."

"Don’t ask me stupid questions."

Right then, the main office door opened, and Lady Sunfire voiced, "You’re just jealous he’s never asked you."

Master Abraham didn’t bother entertaining her obvious provocation and kept silent, merely scoffing.

Roy stifled a laugh, and Lady Sunfire added, facing him, "Sure, darling. We can take a photo."

"Awesome."

Mr. Professor came out and directed the small group to a dining hall that looked more like a board member’s meeting room.

Sunfire’s raid party hadn’t tagged along, so the dinner table only had the four of them. Roy told her of how he was going to take the upcoming entrance exam, and the reason for the expedition was his training.

Of course, Sunfire thought it was weird, as they could just go to quarantined districts, but Master Abraham shut her down, saying something about her training methods only producing weaklings. The B-Class Executioner didn’t take this lightly and started listing off successful individuals she personally trained.

After, Mr. Professor narrated stories of when Master Abraham and Sunfire were in Irregular Academy. Turned out, to Roy’s shock, that they were actually best of friends. That was until Sunfire’s defeat in the regional championships.

"I was only keeping you close, so I would know how to defeat you," Sunfire said and downed her glass filled with wine. "That was what this bastard said!"

Roy frowned and looked at Master Abraham distastefully. "Master Abe, really? That was harsh."

Mr. Professor laughed. "You have no idea how much of a problem Black Zero was back then." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Master Abraham, unfazed by the comments against him, ate his meal and raised an eyebrow at Sunfire.

"Are you done?" he asked, utterly insensitive to her plight and pain.

"Bastard," Sunfire said, not at all surprised by his response.

"But then he brought a bouquet of flowers for her at the hospital," Mr. Professor slyly added, drawing a sharp glare from Master Abraham. It seemed this was something the old man wasn’t supposed to know, but since he knew everything, he did.

"Wait, that was such a long time ago. That was you?" Sunfire blinked.

"I have no recollection of such." Master Abraham plainly denied—no doubt he was lying, drawing louder barks of laughter from Mr. Professor and eventually, Roy. The old man’s laugh was too funny. Like a seagull’s.

After the dinner, Master Abraham and Roy returned to the APC, and it was brought into the archdome through a platform that arose from a wide hatch opening up in the ground.

Master Abraham had rejected the temporary sleeping quarters offered by Mr. Professor and opted to stay in the APC.

Roy waited for Pierre to sign in, and tonight, the handsome brat did.

Bearing a more serious look in his eyes than usual, Pierre went through the Level 8 and Hidden Story with a "leave no stone unturned" mindset. He didn’t inform Hanabira Reina about anything concerning the ghost and kept on lying to her despite the reduction in Affection Rate.

Roy really thought he was even going to clear the story this time, but it turned out that the fatigue he lost overnight from hearing the weeping of the ghost cost his health after going on for up to four days. On the fifth day, he slept and just didn’t wake, and was then informed that the fatigue and stress accumulated caused him a cardiac arrest as he slept.

The ghost was literally sucking his life force!

Either way, it was an eye-opener to know that he had to complete the Hidden Story with a hard difficulty setting in four days or less, or no matter what, he was going to fail.

The next day, the APC was granted smooth passage through a portal-like arch that stood at the lower level of the archdome, with the railway tube being at the higher level. The portal created an opening in the dome, made to permit governmental or official expeditions into the wild.

’I’m really leaving the city.’ Roy’s heart beat faster as the APC’s tires drove through the metallic tracks before the portal and landed on the sandy ground of the free world.

Master Abraham drove slowly and put up a display of the rear view of the vehicle on the front console screen. The portal seemed like an out-of-place gaping hole in the world, but then it closed, as though it were never there. All Roy could see was the endless sand and stone.

Although he knew he was driving below the railway tube, when he cracked his head forward to look above him, there was nothing. The light refraction off these surfaces that made them mimic invisibility was something out of a fairytale.

The APC too possessed such technology, so as it got going, the camouflage went up too.

It didn’t even take up to ten minutes of driving before Roy spotted the remainder of what was left of the old world after the advent of God’s Abyss.

Fallen skyscrapers and monuments, broken roads, rusted vehicles, and more, all overgrown with grass, vines, and trees.

Roy held his breath when they entered the outskirts of the fallen city. There were multiple tire tracks on the way, and Master Abraham called for Hillary to bring up the data provided to him by one of Mr. Professor’s subordinates of the field mission they were tasked with investigating.

There were three regular humans with renowned medical achievements and a team of four executioners. That was a total of seven individuals missing.

In the outskirts of the fallen city, there were fewer obstacles, and the terrain was quite hilly. Roy spotted a few abyss creatures, mainly weak beasts. Even regular birds were replaced with twisted versions that flew in flocks above and swarmed down on anything that had flesh and blood.

In the wild, abyss creatures were each other’s primary enemies.