READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 6: Chapter 4 - Lucky Cash
"Sup dude, it's Noon already, wanna go grab lunch?" Barry came over again to remind him, of course with the new Ajentt now taking over and the knowledge of what Barry had been doing, there is no way he would do anything with Barry anymore. "No, you go ahead, I still have lots of things to take care of."
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At noon, Ajentt went for a simple cheap burger from mcdonalds, enough to fill his stomach but not enough to fill full or satisfied.
Being tight on money, he has no luxury to eat extravagantly or fill fulfilled, even though Cortana suggests taking more high calorie meals, he just can't afford to do so.
After finishing his meal, since he still had plenty of time, he surfed through the internet in search for any news of the brotherhood.
Searching through news and posts, using keywords such as: death, gangs, assassins, hooded figures, unexplained deaths, and so on.
He even requests help from Cortana, merely placing one of his fingers into the USB port to connect Cortana to the computer and allow her to do a search with him.
An obscure yet somewhat relevant news was soon found, there were a few bodies seen on a rooftop of an apartment building, all dead with blood splatters everywhere.
A guy in black trenchcoat could be seen but any facial recognition is highly pixelated with the entire picture in black and white also possibly dead.
This was good news to him, since it was possible that it was his father, the top assassin codenamed Cross, has started to make moves, it might be possible that the people who will send him money are close.
"Cortana, any advice you can give me for this situation?" Asked Ajentt.
"I am unable to give any advice or opinion to you when you yourself have no plans." Rebukes Cortana.
Ajentt may know Cortana as a Sentient AI, but is still an AI nonetheless, everything is up to him and she is just there merely to give help and not control him like a puppet and tell him where to go.
"Okay then, here is what I think. There is no escaping for me from the fraternity, so why not join them and train my skills even further beyond? Form an alliance with my father and potentially kill them all? Any opinion on that?"
To that Cortana responds, "With such a plan, you could also earn a large sum of cash." For an AI, Cortana might be the most intelligent creature in existence, but AI's do lack wisdom, but she does have a point, he needs that cash.
In the movie, there should have been a large sum of money deposited in the bank account after a mission, but it all disappeared. How did it all disappear when it was such a huge sum of money?
"How would I secure all that money?" Ajentt Asked.
"By spending it all upon withdrawal." Cortana simply says so.
"Of course, of course, spend it all after getting it. But don't you have a better suggestion that would let me keep the money? My oh so intelligent AI?"
"I may be an AI, but my processing power and capabilities are limited by the limitations of the host. All I can do are simple things that even a programmer can do in their sleep. Breaking through a bank firewall and accessing all the accounts are not within my capabilities as of yet." Seeming to feel like Cortana is looking down on Ajentt for his shortcomings.
"Sigh~, ok, if I really did withdraw all the cash, where would I even put all that money? I can't just put them in a bag and walk around with it all wantonly like that?" Contemplating this question as he finished up all the work he had to do for the day, it was time to get off work and head home.
Passing by an ATM, he took out his bank card and accessed his account. What greeted him when he tried to withdraw was, "0 balance left on the account, would you like to close the account?"
Pressing 'No', he was downcast that even the bank would suggest closing his bank account, showing just how poor he was, opening his wallet, there was only $100 left and his salary won't be coming until next week! Still have utilities, rent, and basic necessities left to buy, truly heart wrenching to be poor.
Taking a deep breath to get his bearings, "Such tragedy for a charming man, I only got looks but no money to show off for it. What do you think, Cortana?"
"Your situation is far better than the old you. There is a history where you were the talk of the people, known to a loser, a bachelor, and a total homebody, having no life or worth, even though you have a handsome face that captivated many women, they were immediately turned off the moment they truly learned what kind of man you were. Cortana simply states a fact to Ajentt of how the old Ajentt was in the past.
"How do you know all this?" Ajentt ask baffled.
"I am your AI, Securely Connected to the host, with full access to the old and new hosts memories."
Ajentt just scrunch his eyebrow in worry, "If anyone learns of any information I have because of you, I will have you formatted."
"Hosts, Formatting me is the same as Formatting yourself, we are connected as one, and so you will become a full fledged idiot that would put even the 3 stooges to shame." To that, Ajentt just slaps his forehead.
An Absent minded Ajentt continues on his day, making a detour to a convenience store near his house to buy some meds and a can of cheap energy drink.
Thinking whether an energy drink would work in giving him more energy for Cortana to use.
"These energy drinks don't give me energy at all, bunch of liars." he says as he throws the can away on a trash bin outside his home.
Thinking again whether the supposed brotherhood had come to his doorsteps, but was disappointed once he reached home.
*Squeak* "Ajentt? Your home early, doesn't your boss always put you in overtime?" Jessica says so in the kitchen cooking a meal. Ajentt looks at her with the thought of at least she can cook but it doesn't change the fact that he doesn't need her in his life. The Backstabbing Barry can keep her.
"True, but nothing happened today and everything was finished early so she went home, meaning no overtime." Ajentt glanced at the dining table, feeling disgusted to eat or do anything on that table.
Looking around the room, he saw a small coffee table right in front of the couch, "I'll be eating in front of the tv today, so put my food on the coffee table." he says to Jessica as he drops his work stuff beside his bed and heads to the bathroom.
Jessica looks at him but says nothing as she focuses on her cooking. 'She may be a cheating woman, but she knows how to cook, and with how my life is right now, no food will go to waste.'
"Nya~" Anny wines to Ajentt, grabbing his attention as she goes towards him and rubs on his leg. "Oh sweet little Anny, did she forget to feed you again?" Squatting down, he reaches out with his hand to pet her, but she backs away and runs off.
Ajentt stood up and scratched his head on her behavior, but suddenly saw her come back but this time with a wallet in her mouth. Picking up the wallet, he saw a picture of Barry, Grinning widely, he went and picked up Anny to give her a hug as he rubs his face on her fur praising her. "Goodjob Anny, you're the best, I love you." in a soft voice to not let Jessica hear him and think of him as a lunatic.
Putting down Anny, he hid the wallet, especially with the amount of money he saw.
He might work at the same place as Barry but unlike him, Barry is given money by his parents, which unlike him, Barry has a lot of cash in his wallet.
Ensuring that Anny has lots of food in her bowl and is happily eating, 'I'm definitely keeping her with me happy once I leave that Bitch.'
Washed up and refreshed, he saw food on the coffee table with Jessica eating at the dining table with her back turned facing away.
Ajentt just continued on with his night, eating and watching tv, with barely any conversation between the two as they both went to sleep.
Though in the same bed, no passion or love could be seen, Jessica is just thinking and dreaming of her cheating day on a date with Barry, while Ajentt is just thinking of replacing her with the girl Nicole he saw at work.
He's not tight on cash anymore with the money from Anny today, so might as well see if he can take Nicole on a date, 'Good girl Anny'.