Trust

Ed might not like to play with girls but he knew what to expect, he was not ignorant about such matters, he just preferred to focus on his job rather than having fun.

"This is for work. With this her favorability should increase even more," he told himself.

He had no feelings for her; they had just met, and he bet she was just being impulsive because of the recent happening, but of course it would be a lie if he said that he was not excited.

"It's not like I force her to do anything. She is the one who initiated this, so what is wrong with farming some favorability," he rationalized to his conscience.

Aya's beautiful little face got closer to his, he could see her shining red eyes were beautifully glowing, it made his heart beat faster.

He could smell flowery scent from her hair, it was relaxing, her body weight moving on top of him was quite distracting as well.

Waiting for the glossy pink lips to touch him, he could imagine how sweet it tasted even if it had no touch.

Rather than a soft and warm feeling on his lips, Ed felt a cold metal touching his neck. He could also smell a slight smell of blood.

His eyes constricted as he realized that Aya had put a blade on his neck, "What is wrong with her?" he thought.

He could feel the knife digging into his neck as her hand trembled. Rather than the enchanted expression she had before, she currently has a determined look on her face.

"Do you think I will believe you? Do you think anyone would believe a criminal who kidnaps and enslaves them?" she asked painfully.

He could see tears welling in her eyes but her determination never weakened, "If it is not for you, do you think all this will happen? Will my family found out where I was?" she continued.

He could feel her hatred toward him, even his experience with manipulating people told him that she hated him to the bone.

To his surprise, the system screen told him otherwise.

'Aya's Favorability: 10 (Sligh Trust)'

'Mental Ailment: Shock, Trauma, Doubt'

"What is this ailment?" he wondered, but he got no time to ask the system, as he had no time for it.

As he stayed silent, her favorability started to dip down slowly, "If I don't do something then I will lose my hard work!" He got alarmed.

He touched her cheek gently with the back of his finger, "Aya, you can trust me," he said.

Ed tried to talk in the most gentle and sincere manner, he tried his best to show sincerity in his face.

Aya's grip on her knife lessened after hearing his word, deep down she was hoping for someone she could trust, and hearing his word that she could trust him really hit the spot.

Seeing the chance, he used his free hand to pull the knife away from her hand and throw it away. He used his other hand to hold her neck and roughly pull her toward him.

She was startled by his sudden movement. She opened her mouth to protest but before she could utter a word; he captured her mouth, delving his tongue into it.

He could feel her tongue move in panic in his mouth as her cheek reddened, and she struggled to push him away.

He could taste sweet strawberry flavor with his tongue, he did not let her go as the taste was quite addicting.

Her struggle stopped as she closed her eyes and ceased her resistance. He could feel their kiss deepen.

Ed got up and pushed her under him as she put both of her hands on his neck, embracing it. He could feel her smooth skin in his hand as he touched her face.

Their heart was beating so fast, he felt an excitement he never felt before. He could feel the time stop and there was no one else in the world but the two of them.

Their lips parted as he tried to catch his breath. He pushed his body back so he could see her better; he saw her gasping for breath as well, her breast raised and fall enchanting him.

He could see that she was wavered as she looked at him longingly. He was about to ask if it was ok for him to continue when she pulled him closer and silenced him with another kiss.

They were about to go into the next level when a buzzing sound of the cabin hatch resound and the hatch opened behind them.

"Ahh..." They could hear a gasping noise coming from the door, it made them pause and they separate from each other.

He looked back to find Dea standing frozen by the door, "What happened?" he asked her in a raspy voice as he tried to catch his breath.

"Ah... Sorry to interrupt, there is an emergency," she hurriedly explained as his voice pulled her back from her daze.

"What is the emergency?" He asked seriously.

"There is a sign of another space ship nearby, you better check it for yourself," he suggested.

Ed hurriedly went to the cockpit room to check the situation, leaving both girls alone in the cabin room.

"Aya, are you ok? Did he hurt you?" She hurriedly got to her friend's side.

"Ah? Huh? No, I'm alright," She tried to reassure her.

"Luckily, I got here in time, if I was late we don't know what that beast would have done to you," Dea seriously said.

"No, he did not force me to do anything. It was... I was... we..." she tried to explain but failed as she blushed in embarrassment.

Dea looked at her critically, but she kept her mouth silent. Seeing her clothes were half undone and finding both of them in such a situation, she hardly could believe that nothing happened between her best friend and their captor.

"Anyway, let's go to the cockpit, we can't let the mercenary get us," Aya hurried her to change the topic.

It startled her, "What? We are not waiting for them to save us?" She asked in confusion.

"Of course not. If they rescue us, then they will give us back to my house and I would need to marry that old man!" she denied.

"Then what are you planning to do? Stay here and be that man's slave?"

"Ed is not that bad, he is kind and I trust him, I will stay with him so I can run from my family. You don't need to worry I will persuade him to free you and let you off on a space station," she defended him.

"What got into you Aya? Don't tell me you fall for him? Have you heard about Stockholm syndrome?" she panicked at her friend's intention.

"I'm fine Dea, come we need to help," She hurriedly pulled her hand to drag her out.

Ed was looking at a report in the cockpit, "system, what does this data mean?" he asked as the memory he inherited did not give him the required knowledge to read spaceship data.

'Answering to Host, the ship sensor had detected an anomaly 0.2 light hours... Beep...'

"What is that anomaly?" he asked again.

'Calculating... there is 5 percent chance of it being the mercenary ambush, 20 percent chance of it being rare space material, and 75 percent chance of it being alien vessel wreckage... Beep'

"Alien?! Is that dangerous?" he asked. As a businessman, Ed knew how to take chances and how to take risks.

Chance always comes with risk. It was up to him to decide which was more likely to happen and what action was more profitable.

'Answering to the Host, this part of the galaxy had been conquered by the human race since three hundred years ago, the chance of hostile individuals inside the alien wreckage is 0.5 percent... Beep'

"Then we should check it out," He decided when Aya and Dea came into the cockpit room as the hatch was not locked.

He smiled when he saw Aya's light smile, "It seems that I succeeded in persuading her," he thought as he checked the system.

'Aya's Favorability: 21 (Trust)'

'Mental Ailment: Stockholm'

"hmm?? Stockholm syndrome?" he wondered.

"I should ask the system about this ailment thing once I have some time," he thought.

"How is the situation Ed?" Aya asked him.

"I don't think that is a mercenary ship, we are not in imminent danger," he explained.

"But the system said there is a heat radiated from that direction, it should be a spaceship," Dea disagreed as she had read the data. According to her prediction, it should be a spaceship.

"I know how to read the data. If my analysis was correct, then there is a high chance that it is an alien vessel's wreckage," he claimed the system's analysis as his own.

It made the girls frown, "Then we should not get too close, aliens are dangerous," Dea suggested.

"We are going there whether you agree or not," He said in finality