"A date with you?" Adulu looked thoroughly confused as Noah smirked.
The memories of his previous life burned freshly in his mind. Adulu was Erika's previous boss who trying to pursue her into becoming his mistress since he was already married.
At first, he had tried charming Noah's mother but when she had rejected his offer, Adulu had started giving her a tough time.
He would dump the toughest assignments on her, make her do a lot of office chores, force her to go on trips with him, and many other things.
Erika of course knew why he was doing it yet she didn't do anything. After all, she was getting a lot of money this way since he had to pay her extra for all the tasks.
'Everything was fine until he tried to do that…' Even though Noah was smirking, his mind was burning with pure hatred.
During one of their business trips, Adulu had tried to use some 'special' types of advances on Erika. One of them included spiking her drink.
It was the first time Noah had gotten to know that his mother had an extremely high level of control over her elements.
She had taken the drug out of her body with precision and had put it in Adulu's drink later on to obtain her revenge.
Erika had then made him pay her one million dollars as compensation before accusing him of drugging her. As for the proof, she had let a small amount of the drug remain inside her body.
Adulu had gotten away with five years in a detention center and a ten thousand dollars fine. From that point onwards, he had stopped pursuing Erika and had instead wanted to obtain his revenge on her for destroying his career.
The funniest thing was that Adulu had been responsible for everything that had happened to him yet he still blamed Erika.
This made Noah wonder whether there was an endless list of hypocrites present in the world.
'But looks like he is quite unlucky that he met me so early on.' Noah thought afterward as he knew every secret that Adulu was hiding.
After all, Noah was the one responsible for Adulu's death in his previous life.
"Aren't you her son though?" Adulu asked with a frown.
"Though he is my son, we are going to have some fun together in the afternoon," Erika replied with the same smirk as Noah. "Now if you will excuse us, we've some work to do."
Erika dragged Noah towards the counter again and left behind a confused Adulu.
"Thanks for saying that back then," Erika thanked Noah once they were out of Adulu's hearing range. "I don't think I would've been able to prevent myself from teaching me a lesson."
"How long has he been tormenting you?" Noah inquired.
"Ever since his department changed a few months back," Erika's expression clearly showed the displease she was feeling.
"Why don't you just blast him into oblivion?" Noah joked knowing well that Adulu was too important of a figure to be destroyed that openly.
"He is a boss in the finance department. The government will surely try to find him if anything like this ever happened." Erika clicked her tongue as they reached the counter.
Noah then showed the person there his card. He was handed his very own bank card, a six inches translucent screen.
It would allow him to exchange money with any other bank card, be it old or new or from a very small bank's branch.
It also served as Noah's credit card which had a limit of ten billion dollars a month and didn't have any interest rate for late payments.
However, you had to pay the credit card's bill in less than two months or you won't be allowed to use it for another month. Your account will also be frozen during this time and you won't be able to use any money.
"The special benefits also include a portable storage built inside the device. As long as you put anything shorter than ten meters inside the device, the item would be transported directly to your private storage space." Erika explained as the two of them exited the bank.
Noah thought that they were going back home but Erika had other plans.
"Which restaurant would you like to go to?" She inquired while stepping out of the building.
"Are we really going on a date?" Noah asked back as Erika smiled and nodded.
"You can consider it a date or just some bonding experience but we are going to be eating out now. If Rebecca or Izzy face any problem, they can call us immediately."
"Then let's go to Wacdonalds," Noah replied after some thought.
"You always liked their burgers," Erika remembered before booking another cab.
After they had sat inside the car, Noah noticed how his mother was spending a lot more than they usually did.
Noah knew that they weren't exactly poor and were a middle-class family. However, he was used to going out with Erika in such a manner.
'Well, she rarely had any leaves in the past due to Adulu so there's that.' Noah thought as he suddenly heard a ringing sound in his ears.
[ New quest available. ]
He immediately opened the quest menu to check the new quest.
[ Quest name: Loot The Boss
Your mother's previous boss Adulu is planning something devious and will soon make a move towards on your mother. Prevent that from happening.
Objective: Find a way to destroy Adulu's reputation by looting him of all his privileges.
Rewards: A better understanding of the current timeline.
Time limit: 1 month
Note: You must not kill Adulu before taking his riches. Once everything he holds dear has been destroyed, you can do whatever you want with him. ]
Noah blinked in surprise at the rather unexpected quest. Though he had been thinking of killing Adulu in the future, the quest presented him with a reason to do it sooner.
'Doing this will also prevent that from happening in the future.' Noah thought as he remembered the things Adulu had done in the past.
Once his sentence had ended, he had tried to destroy Erika. At the same time, Noah's true powers had started blooming and many had been chasing after him to form an alliance.
Adulu had contacted one such organization and had collaborated with them. The organization wasn't one that wanted to form an alliance but instead wanted to kill Noah.
Adulu had pulled the right pieces in the adventurer's center and had managed to find where Erika had been reposted.
What followed was the starting of Noah's rage and the first true destruction he had caused…
'Well, not this time though.' He reminded himself as he and Erika reached their destination and stepped out.
The Wacdonalds they had come to was the one situated closer to their house. The people there also knew Noah and his mo well so it was their go-to eating spot.
"You order something while I go back and home and change into something comfortable," Erika groaned while looking at her dress in disdain. "Ugh, I hate dresses."
"Dresses do look good on you but suits suit you the most," Noah added in agreement as Erika smiled.
She suddenly vanished from her spot in the next second as she went to change her clothes at her home.
Noah on the other hand made his way to the counter to order when his gaze met with the receptionist.
He looked at her name tag once to confirm her name before murmuring it. "Eve…"