Chapter 68 - President (7)

"Did you do any work?" Randell asked, as he guessed that Nida hadn't done anything at all, which he had guessed right.

"No need to ask." She said that because she felt guilty about not doing her work properly.

Randell simply laughed at Nida as they walked into the basement parking lot.

"Sir Rudy will lend his car?"

"Yes, because I left my car with him."

"He is not back yet?"

"Yes, he has the patience to drive for eight hours."

"That sucks. Anyway, which is his car?"

The two have been going around the basement and haven't found the car yet.

Randell just keeps pressing the car keys to know where it is while Nida walks ahead of him to look around as well.

Beep beep 

"Oh! Here it is! " Nida happily runs towards the car and enters the car.

"Why aren't you going in? Come on, let's go!" She asked confusedly, as Randell was only standing in front of the car while looking at her with his hands on his waist.

"What?" She asked again because she didn't know what she did wrong for her to receive such a glare.

Randell let out a long sigh before going inside the car.

"At least let me open the door for you," he said while pouting.

"Huh? Why? My hands are free." She innocently responded, which made Randell heave another sigh.

"Just let me open the door for you next time."

"Okay, whatever." She responded while putting on the location she chose.

"That restaurant is kind of far from your apartment."

"It's okay, I badly want to try their food."

"Are you sure? I can't drive you home if we eat there. Our gathering will start at seven. "

"Don't worry, I can take Rudy's car and you can just run with your legs."

Nida was just teasing him, but he took her words seriously.

"Yeah right, it would be safer to go home that way."

"Are you dumb? I was just kidding. I'm too tired to drive. I'll just take a taxi! "

She pouted.

"We seem to not have the same wave-length as before."

"But I want you to go home safe," he pouted as well.

The two became silent inside the car, but soon looked at each other.

Hehe hehe

The two chuckled once they realized that both of them were pouting.

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Meanwhile,

Back in the CTC Building, in an all-white office, two individuals are glaring at each other intensely.

"It's rare for the mighty dark priest to come and visit this sinful elf." Angel said as she glued her eyes to Daniel.

"What do you expect me to do after you send those messages?" Daniel menacingly narrowed his gaze towards Angel who was sitting comfortably.

Daniel immediately came to meet Angel after she sent him a message informing him of the thing they were going to do at the wolf's gathering.

"I expect you to do nothing unless you really care about that wolf priestess."

"Leave her alone. She doesn't have any intention of joining the wolf or anyone else."

"How can you be so sure? Randell started to date her again."

"What kind of nonsense are you talking about?"

"Oh, so you're not aware? Both of them confirmed that they are dating again."

Daniel didn't respond to Angel's statement and just stared at her intently for a minute before he disappeared in front of her. His body turns into black smoke that teleports him to the place he wants.

Angel just made a short laugh, "You even used teleportation? Oh poor priest. "

A teleportation spell is the most powerful type of spell that can strain the caster's body. That is why Daniel didn't use it unless needed, and this time he used it to immediately teleport to look for Nida.

"She's not here." He said as he reappeared inside Nida's apartment.

"Of course she's not." Angel followed him and also used a teleportation spell.

Daniel ignored her and teleported once more to look for Nida.

However, every time he goes into a place, Angel follows him.

As an elf that is blessed with magic powers, she effortlessly followed him without feeling any strain on her body. While Daniel is covered in sweat as he feels feverish from using the teleportation spell, divine powers don't have an affinity for controlling space.

"Stop following me!" Daniel exclaimed as he tried to push Angel, but he missed because he could not see properly due to his blurring vision.

"Fine, I won't bother you, but let me ask one thing before I leave."

"Fuck off!" Daniel's knees give in, and he flops on the floor.

"Sir Dark Priest, are you perhaps taking care of the wolf priestess because of your sister?"

Daniel raised his middle finger instead of responding, which made Angel laugh loudly while disappearing into the air.

"Hahaha you are all funny!" She said this until she disappeared.

Daniel leans against the wall and weakly pulls out his phone to try to call Nida for the last time.

Ring, ring, ring

He has been calling her ever since he started teleporting to places he thought Nida would visit.

Ring, ring, ring.

"What keeps you busy that you can't even pick up your phone?" he frustratedly spoke to himself.

He thought it was unfair that when Nida called, he would immediately answer the phone, whereas Nida would not even check the message he sent.

Ring, ring, ring.

"Hello?"

"Finally, what have you been doing that you can't answer my call? "

"So I was eating it. Why? What's wrong? "

Randell and Nida went into the restaurant. She asked to eat, and that made Nida too occupied for him to check on her phone. She also tries to focus more on Randell because they have a lot of catching up to do.

She only managed to look at her phone after Randell sent her to ride in a taxi to go home.

Of course, she will not go home. A few minutes from now, the wolves' gathering will happen. She needs to meet with Angel anytime soon.

"Where are you?"

"Now?"

"When should I be asking? Of course now! " 

"I am in a taxi now, but I will be getting off the subway soon. Why? "

She patiently responded, despite Daniel's talking irritably to her. She tried to understand Daniel's irritation since it was her fault that she didn't answer his call immediately.

"Which subway?"

"At Triangulo, why?"

"Wait for me there."

"Huh? Why? Wait! Hey! "

Daniel ended the call without waiting for her response. She then held her phone tightly.

"We can't meet though. I need to meet Ms. Angel. " She yelled at her phone, despite the fact that she knew her line was already cut.

While the taxi is driving toward the station, she thinks of any reason why Daniel is looking for her, or if there is anything she did that made Daniel irritated, except for ignoring his call and text.

"Huh?"

The moment the taxi was getting close to her destination, she peered out the window and saw Daniel waiting for her at the entrance of the station.

"Manong! Please hurry. " She asked the taxi driver as she used her dust to push the car to move even faster. That makes the taxi driver surprised, but she doesn't care. Her attention is focused on Daniel.

The station entrance is crowded as usual with commuters passing by like on ordinary days, but Daniel's waiting for her at the entrance is too eye-catching, especially since he is sitting on the ground.

Nida wasn't aware of his weak state yet, but she rushed towards him after seeing him sitting on the dirty ground.

"Why is a clean freak sitting carelessly on the ground?" She thought that there was something wrong with Daniel because there was no way a clean freak would try to sit on a dirty public face if he was not sick or something bad happened.

Feeling even guiltier about ignoring his message, Nida hurriedly got out of the taxi and ran towards him, and that was the moment she saw his feverish state.

"Hey, what happened?" She asked as she worriedly checked on his body.

Daniel's body is extremely hot and he is shivering as well. His lips are almost turning blue and his eyes are slightly closed even though she has already come to greet him.

"Use your divine powers. Heal yourself!" She exclaimed as she tried to use her dust to heal him, but she actually didn't know how that made her dust only swirl around Daniel.

"Is he looking for me because he is unable to heal himself?"

She bit her lip as she felt bad not helping him soon, even though he always came to her almost immediately when she needed him.

"Are you stupid? Do you think I'll be like this if I can? " He keeps his irritated tone when responding to her, but he keeps his eyes closed and can't even stand on his own.

"Sorry, but I can't use healing power! What should I do? " She panics as she doesn't know what to do.

"Just take me home!" 

"Okay!" Nida runs towards the road to call a taxi. She wants to make up with Daniel and decides to take care of him even though she had an important plan to do so.

She then looked at her watch.

"It will be seven soon."

Note: Manong is used to refer to older people, mostly strangers.