"Hah! The stakes are not exciting. Not that I'm afraid to fight you, but, uh, the stakes don't suit me. Because, I can still fire you anytime I want," Ardy said cynically.
"Jist tell us if you're scared!"
Lidya really believes that Ethan will be able to beat Ardy in the fight later, try challenging Ardy.
"I'm not afraid, Lydia. But, what I got didn't suit me, I could still fire him, so, the outcome of the fight, not too challenging for me," Ardy snorted.
"I will leave Lydia if I lose. But, if I win, I can't be fired of office," Ethan chimed.
Ardy seemed to be still thinking for a while, he hadn't made up his mind yet. "If I win, Lidya must accept our engagement with a happy heart."
"When it comes to that, it's Lidya who has to make the decision. She has her own life. I can't manage it. She has free will. No one should force her, including her parents."
"You're right." Lidya nodded approvingly Ethan's words.
"Hey! Do not try to influence others!" Ardy glanced at Ethan.
"I can only assure you that if in our fight tomorrow afternoon, it turns out that I lost to you, then, I will stay away from Lidya. But, if it turns out that I won, then you should not dismiss me from office," Ethan continued.
With prided, Ardy held his chin and looked down on Ethan. He was sure that he would be able to defeat Ethan in that fight is tomorrow afternoon.
Heri who had been following behind Ardy, began to provoke Ardy. "Just accept it, destroy him, put him in the hospital. Ha ha ha, he don't know you, Ardy."
"Yeah... I don't know who Ardy is. Huh! Mosquito challenging the Tiger, the mosquito can run out, " Alex added.
Ethan was upset that Ardy had not served his new challenge with an additional clause so that Ardy did not fire Ethan, then Ardy was set as his fiancee Lidya, therefore, so impatient, Ethan said, "I change my challenge."
"What do you mean?" Ardy asked.
Ethan did not want to part with Lidya, he refused to be fired. So he said, "I challenge you and your three men to fight me alone."
"What?" Ardy and his two men were very surprised by this challenge.
"What?" Not only Ardy and his two friends were shocked but also Lidya. Lidya was very surprised by the daring challenge posed by Ethan. "Ethan... don't do this, you're gonna get gangbanged by 4 people, Ethan."
"I know the risks, Lidya and if Ardy is still afraid too, then, Ardy should wear a skirt from tomorrow to the Office," Ethan said while staring at Ardy.
"Who is afraid? One on one I don't afraid, really, I didn't agree right away your initial challenge because I'm waiting for Lidya accept our engagement. That's it. But, okay, that you were looking for death? I serve that's what you want."
"Deal. So, if tomorrow I win from four you guys, I can't get fired and you guys the four of you, no longer bother me while I work. Got it?"
Lidya came in front of Ethan. Looked at Ethan while shaking his head.
"Do not do this, Ethan, is not fair. You fight 4 people? This can't happen, Ethan."
"Leave It, Lidya. I don't like to be disturbed when I'm working. So, this is my way of stopping the distraction from them and also so that I don't get fired because I don't like being away from you."
"Me Too, Ethan. But... you're going to lose, Ethan, you're going to hurt them."
"I'll be careful, Lid, don't worry."
"Already! We had a deal. The Cleaning service was against me and my 3 friends, I'm out of here." Ardy who felt jealous and did not want to see further intimacy between Ethan and Lidya, chose to leave.
Ardy just promised in his heart that he would finish Ethan to shreds during the fight tomorrow. Moreover, Ardy would be helped by three men, Alex and Harry directly follow the steps their boss. The three were impatient waiting for tomorrow where they can hit Ethan to his heart's content.
After Ardy and his friends left, Lidya immediately invited Ethan to sit in a small garden located in 4 houses to the left of Lidya's House.
The two of them sat side by side on a lawn chair, Lidya crying on Ethan's shoulder. "I'm afraid, Ethan."
"What are you afraid of?" Ethan asked, wrapping his hand around Lidya's shoulder.
"I'm afraid they will hit you. I'm afraid you'll be badly beaten. If it was just a one-on-one fight, I'm sure you'd win. But, you will be beaten, Ethan."
"Pray not. So I'm fine, okay?"
Lidya again cried loudly. She began to imagine Ethan's battered face from being beaten by Ardy and his men.
Meanwhile, Ethan enjoyed these moments, Ethan enjoyed Lidya worrying about him, Ethan enjoyed the anxiety that had been seen from Lidya's face and enjoyed Lidya's crying, as a sign that Lidya was very worried about Ethan.
When got from the park and when Ethan said goodbye for Lidya, the anxiety in Lidya's face was still not gone.
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The next day, when Ethan was mopping the floor on the 2nd floor, Lukman came to Ethan with a worried face and stood in front of Ethan.
"What are you doing? Another debt collector, huh?" Ethan asked, holding back a smile. Ethan remembered about 2 months ago, Lukman was scared because he was chased by debt colector to the office so that Ethan had given a loan to Lukman to help Lukman.
"No, Ethan. I'm safe this month, not going after debtcol."
"Why is your face like that? Your widowed neighbor, the one you're after, was snatched away, huh?" Ethan guessed again.
"No. I'm worried about you. He said you want to fight with 4 people this afternoon. Is that right?"
"Oh, that? Yeah, that's right." Ethan again moved his mop stick which had stopped moving a while ago because of the arrival of this Lukman. "How do you know?"
"From the office WA group. You could die, Ethan. Don't want to, Ethan. Do you have to fight 4 people?"
"Let it be. So they don't bother me anymore."
Meanwhile, in the office, Lidya had just been approached by Clara and Yuni. "Sis, I met Ardy's fight when he was in college in America," Clara said, holding out her phone.
"The fight?" Lidya asked while looking at the phone screen. There through the youtube application, Ardy looked very fierce when fighting in the boxing ring with the UFC title in New York City. Ardy's opponent, who was bigger than Ardy, finished off Ardy with his fast punches so that his opponent was knocked out in Ardy's hands.
Ardy looked terrible in that fight. Now, Lidya was so afraid of Ethan's fate. Moreover, Ardy would be assisted by 3 friends.