"Chen?" A frustrated voice called out to Yi Chen but Yi Chen was sleeping like a log in his cabin.
"CHEN!!"
"Huh? Wha…what?" Yi Chen woke up in shock hearing the yelling. He looked up with his groggy eyes and it was his fat bald toxic supervisor who is frustrated because of his wife and takes out his anger on everyone else.
"What is this bug number 0032 which was assigned to you in Alpha build and you haven't fixed this bug yet??"
Yi Chen's eyes opened wide but he quickly hid it. "No…nothing. This bug does not exist anymore."
"Then, why have you kept it unresolved for so long??" Yi Chen could hear the teeth grinding.
"Just…forgot about it."
Suddenly two mean looking people in dark agent-like suits came out and stood behind the fat supervisor.
"Do you think we all are stupids? Idiots? Fools? Like we don't know what you have done so far??"
Both agents entered and grabbed Yi Chen like a rabbit.
"Do you think we would not be able to figure out that the bug number 0032 is an item duplication bug, huh?" The supervisor sneered. "Did you think we would not be able to find out that it was you who is doing the illegal item trade?"
Yi Chen was not surprised and smiled like a villain who got caught. "Fine, it was me. Fire me! I don't care or want to work anymore."
"Fire you?" The supervisor nodded at the agents and they dragged Yi Chen out. They dragged him out of the building and stuffed him in a car like the Yakuza.
An hour later Yi Chen found himself at the edge of a bridge looking down at the ditch below.
"Okay, fine! I will return all the money." He quickly gave up.
"Money? We don't need your money." The supervisor was still here instead of some Yakuza boss.
"What do you want then?" Yi Chen was calm, he bet this was just a threat and he will have to work to pay some amount which he already has stashed away for this very situation.
"This is not about money. This is about my dignity which you destroyed by leaking my marital problem to everyone." The supervisor's eyes were red with rage.
"WHAT?" Yi Chen now felt the terror. "What are you talking about? It was not me! It was Fan Jian! He was the one who leaked it! You have already fired him!"
"Really?? It was not you? But Fan Jian said it was you!" The Supervisor asked in a sarcastic tone.
"What? NO! No! Call him, ask him again, let me have a talk with him!"
"You want to talk with him? Fine, go talk to him." The supervisor looked down while smiling evilly.
"NOHHHH!" The realisation hit Yi Chen like Truck-kun.
Without wasting any more time, the Yakuza agents pushed him off from the edge, down below in the darkness of the ditch.
"AHHHHHHH!" He screamed his best and vanished into the darkness.
"AHHHHHH!" He woke up on a bed like he was in a nightmare where someone threw him off into the darkness.
—--
It's been three months he got Isekai'ed, his soul got transmigrated into the body of Dane Blackwood.
Died in his own pool of blood. The start of the new life out of nowhere was traumatic at first for Yi Chen but now Dane.
"Welcome!" An overly smiling person in fancy dark robes invited me to a large tent. He is the Overseer or the owner, can't tell.
After learning this world is ruthless and almost everyone is after his life, he needs to hire some muscles.
"Is this your best?" Dane asked as he looked at the stack of cages, each filled with a single item or rather a slave.
"All according to price, dear customer." The Overseer waved his hands, his smile unnaturally wide, hypontically creepy as his eyes wide like he is interrogating.
"Tell me what is your needs and I will present the suitable soul slave to you."
Dane looked around, he was not sure how he is supposed to say he has no money or rather he is here to barter.
"Say…I heard you are in need of something…like succubus tears." The overseer paused and turned.
"You do not look like someone with no money at all." The Overseer's tone changed from overly smiling and enthusiastic to
"I do…but I want to establish more than just a purchase, a customer relationship, I want to be a supplier of the needs which are not easily acquired."
His large interrogating eyes got larger as he looked at me with intense.
"Who are you?"
"I…I am Dane, Dane Blackwood."
"Blackwood?" The overseer gritted his teeth. "You are the son of Cane Blackwood!?"
Dane didn't like the sound of that question. For a moment he thought to deny it but there was no point anyway, his so called dead father left an infamous legacy for him.
"Yes…" I answered.
"Your father owes me first! Pay first and then we will talk about relationship."
"He is dead…I am new to his…debt. I am new to all of this, still learning about it."
"Cane Blackwood? Dead?" The Overseer scoffed.
"Yes, he is dead." I am not sure why no one believes it. "I have seen his body, his severed head. The Emperor himself confirm it for betraying the army."
"Oh…so the Western front loss was smeared on your father's head?" The Oversheer laughed out loud as if he heard a very funny joke.
"Go boy…you are wasting my time."
"But I do want to purchase."
"Those in the front, just choose any one of them and pay 1000 gold."
"1000 gold!?" I gritted my teeth. "You are scamming me!"
"Yes I am…what are you going to do about it?" The Overseer smile turned from overly wide to malice smirk. "Your father owes me 5000 gold. Pay up that debt first then we will talk about or pay 1000 gold for doorstep items."