[Is my telepathy strong enough to influence someone?]
[Pfft… minion, you can barely read surface thoughts!]
[... then acquiring the company will be much harder.]
[BUT FEAR NOT! FOR I AM HERE! THIS MIGHTY BOSS WILL GRACE YOU WITH A HELPING HAND!]
I can even hear a heroic background music playing in my mind. I'm currently in a car as I'm heading to the company to tell them a bit about my plan of acquiring that toy making company.
Celeste Holdings co.
That's my company name. And it seems that I have a building in the center of town. We are an investment company with a wide array of diverse investments.
As I went into the meeting room, I read the surface thoughts of everyone, most of them are here because I'm the owner of the company with an iron grip. Their surface thoughts are mostly,
(I want to go home) or (What's the next project) or (How much money can I… pocket this time.)
And the last one is on my hit list already.
"Friends, I won't keep you for long since it's almost 5. The agenda for today's meeting is 2 things. One is I want a team to setup a good IT infrastructure and team for our mega projects. And two, I want to acquire this little hobby company called DANBAI. You can work out the details yourself."
chatter chatter
(Eh that's short) / (What's so worth it in the tech industry?) / (DANBAI? Isn't that the plastic model company, I heard the president sent out a bid for a live sized model. Is that why?)
I didn't mind their chattering and just walked out. Reminding myself to eliminate the guy that embezzled funds.
[Minion, minion]
[yes?]
[Are you going to let that guy free?]
[Oh I was planning to off him tonight though.]
[Eh? Well we can always just brainwash the traitor!]
[... I can brainwash someone?]
[Fufufu, nice joke minion, I can brainwash someone, you just need to get into his vicinity.]
[... doable]
After just walking out, I walked back into the hall, and find the guy. He's a middle aged man with a receding hair line, a beer belly, and a clean shaved chin. His eyes are darting around when I walk over
(Eh why is Blaidd walking towards me, it's impossible for me to be had! I covered everything up nicely!)
I looked at the nameplate at his left breast pocket, 'alex schrotoshki'.
"Alex, come by my office now. We have a certain thing to discus."
(Eh? Alex)/(Why alex?)/(Did he do soemthing wrong?)/(Oh no is he caught, I gotta run now)
—
A knock resounded in my office.
"Come in."
"Blaidd, my friend how have you been."
… why is this bastard acting all so familiar with me.
[he's all yours.]
[with pleasure.]
I suddenly lost control of my body, as I fell down limping, and like a pupet beeing dragged throught the stage my body slithers in the expensive carpet.
"Eek! Blaidd what is this! This is not funny man!"
"Hahahahaha, traitor traitor. It's too bad you decided to betray me!"
"Traitor? W-w-what do you mean? If this is about the money, I haven't spent it I can even return in 10 folds!"
"Hahaha, money is unimportant when I had so much already, what I want is…"
My body is suddenly upside down and my face is directly beside his ear.
"Your loyalty."
I can feel my body hanging upside down but I feel no discomfort at all.
"AAAAAH! GUARDS! SECURITY! ANYBODY!"
Alex fell down sideways, I can smell something unpleasant.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT I CAN GIVE YOU EVERYTHING! MY DAUGHTER SHE'S A MODEL! I CAN GIVE HER TO YOU! OR MY WIFE IF SHE'S YOUR FANCY!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, you still don't understand."
I can feel my limb bending as I slowly descend. I crawled through the ground.
"All I want you to do is let, me, in."
—--
[And that's how you do it!]
I'm currently sitting in my office with Alex across from me who's foaming and bleeding black substance through all orifices.
And like an automaton, he suddenly acts as if a 'reset' button has been pressed. And he 'rebooted'. Blinking his eyes a few times.
"Master Blaidd, Master Voth'Zal. What are your orders?"
Voth'zal, that's the Eldritch god's name. But this is interesting, this is what it called a mindless husk is it not, it's mindful to me…
"How much of Alex is left?"
"All his memories are with me, but everything else, is discarded."
He said robotically. There's no tone on his voice. Just like how a digital assistant would.
[Not bad if I say so myself, At least I didn't fry his brain!]
… so there's a chance his brain is fried?
"Can you act like the previous Alex, and also talk like him."
"Affirmative.."
The voice and tonality is back, but his expression is still… robotic…
"How about expressions?"
"Affirmative."
His expression changed slightly as he said. Acting like the previous irritable Alex.
"Good, Talk and Act like Alex, mimic him if you must, you must not expose me nor Master Voth."
"Affirmative."
"Good, now I shall give you a task. You shall take the lead in the projects I mention before, and do not fail me."
"Affirmative."
"And also… if there are traitors please silence them however you see fit."
[Why not bring them as a ritual sacrifice for me?]
[Not now, with your infinite wisdom you should know that there's most likely those Galactic Guardians keeping tabs on me.]
[Huh? But didn't they pass you off as innocent?]
[There's a saying on earth; once is coincidence, twice is a pattern.]
[I see…]
AS IF I'M BRINGING AN ELDRITCH GOD INTO MY HOME BEFORE KNOWING HOW TO DEAL WITH IT!!!!
Sigh…
[Anyway Minion, since you're in front of a computer, can you order xxxx OVA, yyyy live action, and zzzz blueray?]
… maybe I should just summon this eldritch god, so I don't have to be it's nanny.