Chapter 96 CHAPTER 96: PRELUDE TO THE RACE II



Davies found a space big enough to accommodate three cars and he quickly drove his car into the space, leaving enough space to drive out as he would have to race Lee Jung later on.

The red Cerrari that he had been following for most of the way but had overtaken when he had confirmed the destination, pulled up beside him and parked into some of the remaining space beside the car, causing Davies to look over with interest as whoever was driving the car was not a bad driver, but the car had dark tinted windscreens and coupled with the fact that it was dark outside, he couldn't see who was in the car.

'Well, it doesn't really matter anyway,' he thought and was about to get down when he heard Miya's voice,

[Actually… it does] Miya said suddenly.

'Hmmm?' Davies raised an eyebrow.

[She has quite a high fate value…]

'So, a future companion of the protagonist…' 

'…wait a minute… She?' Davies was a bit stunned as he had expected and thought it was more likely to be a guy that was driving like that, especially with the way she had reacted ferociously to him speeding up after her. 

His money was on a rich young master with a rash, proud, and competitive temperament, who happened to be good at racing(good thing he didn't bet)… it was a bit surprising, but it wasn't that shocking, after all, it wasn't only men who could be good at things like driving.

Davies ended up not getting out of the car and decided to wait instead. Since he had confirmed that the woman in the Cerrari next to him was someone with a high fate value, he decided not to stress himself looking for Lee Jung as fate would definitely find a way to pull Lee Jung towards an opportunity nearby and it was obvious that the woman in the red Cerrari was an opportunity.

Probably a very juicy one as fate would never arrange an ugly woman to be a protagonist's companion, and since Davies had decided to resort to looking for ways to tear away bigger chunks of fate value from Lee Jung, it was better to wait back and take an opportunity to have contact with the woman and maybe even develop a relationship with her, he still wasn't sure what to do yet around the protagonist.

Davies was brought out of his thoughts by Tisha asking a question after looking around at the various cars and people in the area, 

"When are the races starting?"

"Are you going to be racing?"

Davies was hit by a barrage of questions from Tisha that he swiftly began to answer, explaining to Tisha that the races hadn't started yet and that was why they were waiting.

It was not the whole truth, of course, but it was not like he could tell her the actual reason.

While waiting, a few minutes passed and then he saw a couple of people beginning to gather a few meters away from the front of his car, so he got out to find what was going on as he couldn't hear anything from inside the car.

After getting out, he found out that they were trying to arrange a race and were looking for a couple of racers to join. One of the people arranging the races noticed Davies going back to his Tesla after finding out what was going on and called out to him,

"Hey, bro!"

"Are you interested in a race?" the guy called out to Davies, causing Davies's head to whip back and look at who was calling.

Davies's eyes settled on a dude with a low haircut and a face cap turned back in some sort of swag, he looked to be of European descent or to be more specific, he seemed Spanish as could be seen from his face and could be heard from the Spanish accent in his voice.

All in all, he looked like a pretty chill guy, but he was destined to be disappointed as Davies simply shook his head, signifying his rejection. He had come here to go up against an annoying protagonist and he'd rather focus on that goal for tonight. 

"No thanks bro," Davies made sure to say after shaking his head to not come off as excessively arrogant, he didn't want any annoying issues to come up tonight, he'd had enough for the day.

"Of course, you'll refuse,"

"After all you don't really know how to drive one of these at the highest level," an annoyingly condescending loud voice came from behind somewhere at the side.

'Ah, here he comes, the annoying lab rat,' Davies thought as he turned his head to look over at Lee Jung's approaching figure.

[Looks like he really didn't learn anything from the earlier tryst between you guys] Miya sighed. It seemed even she was appalled at Lee Jung's ability to court death after almost dying due to his cheeky actions earlier.

'He's a protagonist, he's not supposed to learn from his mistakes when he has the river of fate to always cover his ass,' Davies scoffed at the obvious partiality that the world showed to a select few, making them able to do easily, what others spend more than half their lives striving to be and become, and expect the unfavored ones to accept it like it was a totally normal thing.

"Meeting you twice in a day,"

"Is this really a coincidence, or are you stalking me?" Davies asked in an irritated tone. He obviously could not act like he knew that Lee Jung would be here, otherwise, it would seem quite shady and Lee Jung may think that something was wrong… but he highly doubted that Lee Jung would notice anything, especially with that low-level Iq of his.

"Our stars must really not like each other. That must be why we continuously keep colliding," Lee Jung replied with a smirk.

[Holy mother of… that was actually a pretty good comeback]

[Is this what they call 'character development'?] Miya was stunned at how Lee Jung had advanced from his brain literally short-circuiting at every of Davies's sentences to being able to reply, and with a witty comeback at that.

"Well, they do say that enemies meet on a narrow road," Davies replied while thinking, 'It's already happening, huh?"

Though Davies had said that protagonists didn't learn from their mistakes, the fact was that he was wrong. They did learn from their mistakes, but they only learned how to make more enemies with even more annoying and condescending behavior.

At this point, the attention of the crowd that had already gathered beforehand was now placed on these two people. 

Davies happened to be a new face and Lee Jung happened to be the new racing king who had just defeated the previous racing king just a few days ago. 

Seeing this, Davies decided to work on his first assumption that insulting Lee Jung when a crowd was watching and making him back off thereby causing him to lose face would make him lose fate points.

"Anyway, I've been thinking this earlier but you look really familiar… now that I'm looking at you again, I'm pretty sure I remember having a valet that looked just like you about a week ago,"

"But Damn, I must have been paying you a whole lot for you to be able to buy a car like that," Davies said looking at the blue Cesla sports car that looked just like his behind Lee Jung.

*Damnnn*

Gasps could be heard from the crowd, as they saw that the flames of the conflict between the new face and the new racing king weren't cooling down and were instead heating up, so they did like any reasonable person would do, which was to fan the flames of conflict.

Lee Jung hadn't expected Davies to mention that, but his mouth seemed to be moving faster than normal now as he quickly replied, 

"I was playing around for some life experience, but your pay was crass so I quit," Lee Jung lied smoothly without so much as a twitch from his facial features.

*Whooooooo* 

The crowd roiled again,

"Bro saying, this dude's company is too broke to even pay valets," one of the guys watching this said with a laugh to some of his companions that were confused at why there was such an exaggerated reaction to Lee Jung's words.

"Quit?" Davies repeated with a raised eyebrow.

"Bro, I fired your ass, I don't make it a habit to keep incompetent people," Davies fired back.

*Shots fired* 

The crowd was enjoying this war of words very much as could be seen from their reactions, but they knew that the best was yet to come. 

Conflicts between two people here were usually settled on the tracks, so it was very likely that Davies and Lee Jung would end up taking their disagreement to the tracks. Since they knew about the new racing king's skills, they hoped that the new face would be able to keep up with the racing king to at least be able to entertain them.