Inside his office, Silas was having a meeting with his potential partner.
"Mr Silas, what do you think of our proposal? Making out platform the default streaming platform for the game will be of benefit to the two of us. The way I see it, it's a win-win situation," One of the men dressed in office attire said as he did his best to put on the most friendly smile he could muster.
"Mr Arnold, I would be frank with you. Even without your platform being the default streaming platform for the game, the game can still be streamed. What stops me from creating a streaming platform of my own and make it the default streaming platform for the game?
It's way easier than creating a VR game. I'm sure that you understand the implications that this would bring to your company if I'm to create a streaming platform of my own," Silas paused as he studied the expression on the faces of the representatives of the his potential partner, Tritch.
He focused more on Arnold as expected, he saw a deep frown etched on his face. Silas smiled when he saw this. He knew that he has achieved the effects he wanted when he saw the frown.
"Mr Adrian, if you really want to secure this deal, then you will have to offer more than what you have already offered. This isn't me trying to be greedy or biting off more than I can chew or trying to threaten you.
I want us to become partners and have a productive partnership moving forward but you guys will have to honest with me" Silas said as he tapped the table rhythmically while waiting for their response.
The office went silence as the representatives of the streaming platform looked at each other simultaneously with different thoughts occupying their minds.
Before they left, they knew that securing the partnership with Kurt Technologies would be very difficult for many reasons.
The first reason is that they are the one coming to seek a partnership and this gives Kurt Technologies the advantage.
It would had been completely different if securing the partnership wasn't that important but it is.
They knew that what Silas said wasn't a threat but facts. The future of their company depends on this securing partnership.
Arnold looked at Silas for a moment and sighed internally. He doesn't understand how someone as you g as the kid in front of him came to have something as revolutionary as the VR game and Pod.
When Arnold first heard that the owner of Kurt Technologies was a young man who barely looked twenty, he laughed in disbelief.
He has heard of youths doing great things but something like this is something completely different. He knew that all eyes are in this kid seated in front of him and he can't help but wonder how he's dealing with the attentions.
"You refuse to believe it?" Elizabeth scoffed.
It was now she understood the history between Silas and Daniel. Daniel was the typical school bully and Silas was on the receiving end, the typical victim.
"Daniel, ate you dumb or you're just acting dumb. Your last encounter with him saw you land in the hospital and you needed months to recover and you still want to go at again with him? Are you crazy or what? You said we are scared and you call him weak but are you stronger than us? Are you stronger than David?
David floors you and Silas floored him. How do you expect yourself to win? Do you intend to perform some miracle or something?" Elizabeth asked angrily as she glared daggers at Daniel's back.
Daniel paused and smiled at Elizabeth. His smile carried so much venom that Elizabeth could taste it from where she stood.
"And who said I plan to fight fair and square? I'm going to get to him through his family. He's going to pay for everything he's done to my family.
My father was sentenced to death because of him, my mom; gone. My father's company had been turned to dust and there's nothing left for him to talk back to. Do you really think I'm going to walk into his company's building and challenge him to a fight? No, that's something a fool would do.
I'm going to attack him using his family and there's no way that he would be able to ignore me. He would be the one to crawl to me and beg for them to be released but I'm not going to do that. As I'm going to kill all of them and him included but that's after I've played with his stepmom."
Elizabeth didn't know what to say and how to react to Daniel's words. Should she be scared for Silas, feel sorry for Daniel or should she continue cringing?
She completely has no idea but one thing she knew was that if Daniel and Silas is to meet again, only one of them would survive. And the survivor is already known to all.
Maybe Daniel's braincells were sacrificed for awakening his strength but Elizabeth can't understand why he was hell-bent on getting revenge on someone stronger than him by such a large margin.
Just like Elvin said, "he was going to get the David's treatment. He was going to be humiliated.
At this point,. Elizabeth knew that there's nothing she's going to say that will change Daniel's mind. She decided to let him be but with Harrison's order, they would have to go with him and confront Silas.
She glared at him one more time before leaving his room.
"Get ready, everyone is making the trip to San Francisco," She said and left the room.