Arc 1: 1. 7

(A/N: Author decided to write in the past tense, my mind and my hand have a different mind, please pardon this tiny disturbing)

One millennium later

Ivan finally caught his breath again, after experiencing those hell training. He was so exhausted that all he wanted to do was sleep on his soft bed.

[Host, what took you so long to complete three training sessions?] 

[Well, maybe because I didn't do exercise nor cook before, it took me longer than I initially thought.] 

[Well then, shall we continue your life?]

[Okay, send me back.]

A brilliant light once again shone so brightly, he closed his eyes and opened again only when he heard his system's notification.

Now that he's back, the food in front of him turned to simple food, no longer having an aromatic scene and tasty feeling when gazed upon it.

As he was eating, he thought back to those miserable moments. First, he got himself hacking training, second, cooking training, and the last one was a martial art.

He had learned judo, taekwondo, karate, fencing, aikido, boxing, and a few Chinese martial arts like kung fu and stuff. His muscles were sore all over the body. How he wished that today work would end fast.

After the lunch break ended at 1:00 PM, Ivan returned to his work. He got a stack of documents that needed to be stamped on. All he needed to do is put the approved stamp on it because the documents had already been reviewed by Lance.

Following by him doing some insignificant stuff, when the clock hit 1:45 PM, he got up from his seat and went to inform Lance about the meeting with Mr. Radford first then proceeded to inform his boss.

He used the previous way to knock three times, entering only when he heard the command 'Come in'.

Ivan left his boss's office after notifying him. He waited outside by the wooden door beside secretary Lance.

Andres left his office and the trio advanced to the 55th floor where the meeting would be held in a lounge.

Frederick arrived at the same time as the trio arrived. They greeted each other and Andres led Fredrick to the reserved lounge for them.

Ivan hadn't seen Fredrick's face clearly. Otherwise, he would be surprised that Fredrick was the same male god that he had seen at the entrance of the restaurant.

Only when the 4 people sit, Ivan went to make some refreshment for his boss and his client.

He got his boss a nice hot black coffee, Lance a sweet latte that he was told to prepare, and an Earl Grey's hot black tea for Mr. Radford and his secretary.

As for himself, no need to prepare because he would be just standing there like a sculpture.

He got someone random to hold the tray, and he would be the one who served the drinks.

He served his boss first, followed by Mr. Radford and his secretary, and lastly his boss's secretary. Finishing doing his duties, he stepped aside and stood behind his boss.

The moment he looked up to see what kind of appearance that Mr. Radford had caught each other's eyes and began engrossed in their own thought.

Ivan's thought at this moment is rather simple. He wondered how could human eyes be so beautiful and a clear night sky with thousands of stars resided in it.

The more he looked, the more he sunk. He felt like he was in the deep sea where there is no light that could have reached or like one of the stars that drifted in the seas of stars in an enormous galaxy.

Frederick's thought was in contrast to Ivan's. He also wondered how could human eyes be so attractive to him and those eyes actually showed all the emotions that Ivan's showing right now.

Like how he was immersed was he that led him to stare in the daze to his eyes. He also liked how Ivan's eyes were so pure and naive at the same time to this cruel world.

The two people were staring at each other for 10 mins straight without the intention to break off the eye contact.

Until Fredrick's shoulder was touched by his secretary asking about his opinion regarding their project. Frederick woke up and immediately broke eye contact and returned to his work.

Ivan also woke up from bewilderment and lowered his eyes, not looking at Fredrick anymore.

The meeting continued for one hour and it finally ended with happy cooperation between Godric Group and Radford Group.

Fredrick invited everyone to dinner, but Andres declined the invitation because he got a dinner meeting with Ms. Belle Clair. Then he asked Lance whether he needed to go with Andres or not.

Lance said he was okay with it and dragged Ivan to the dinner invitation too. Ivan nodded to show that he would attend.

The two people from Radford said goodbye to the trio from Godric. Fredrick leaned a little toward Ivan's ear, "Don't forget to wipe the drool, little kitten."

Fredrick left while he's chuckling about how surprised the kitten was. Ivan startled from the whispering, hurried to take out the tissue in his pocket to wipe his mouth but found nothing.

He felt a little frustrated due to being tricked by that guy. They all returned to their designed desk and continued whatever work was left.

He'd been working for 2 hours after that meeting and now it was 5:00 PM. He glanced around to see where Lance was. He was shocked to see from the shadow that his boss and Lance were so close to each other. Were they kissing or what?

Well, it didn't matter. This matter intrigued his fujoshi instinct. He tipped his toes to get near the scene to get a better view. His imagination ran wild due to the content of the conversation.

"Be gentle, will you? It hurts." His boss yelled at Lance.

"Stay still, after a few minutes it will be alright," Lance replied.

"Alight, but can you be gentler than this?"

"This is the most I can do, or do you want it rough?" Lance asked Andres in a low voice but sounded dangerous, so Andres kept his mouth shut and no longer voiced any complaint.

The actual scenario was pretty simple. Lance was trying to get rid of something that got into Andres' eye. Because Lance was quite heavy-handed, Andres always complained throughout the process.

Ivan was imagining the scene where his boss and secretary Lance was doing some unspeakable stuff in the closed-door office, but he was cut by a voice from his system.

[Host, the female lead is coming here at any moment!] 

[What?]