Nier awoke with a sharp gasp, his crimson eyes darting around the ruined villa. His heart thumped against his ribs as his lips parted in disbelief.

"L–Lisa!?"

[Yes, Master]

Her calm reply echoed in his ears from villa surround speakers, grounding him, but it didn’t change what his eyes were seeing.

"What the hell happened here?!"

He demanded, his voice edged with panic.

But the answer he got his question was surprising to say the least.

[I don't know]

Lisa answered steadily.

[Six minutes after you passed out, the house began… glitching. Like reality itself had become a corrupted file. When it finally stabilized, everything was left like this]

Nier stared silently at the devastation. His walls had holes in them ranging from small to big, his furniture snapped and scattered like brittle bones, and a familiar faint haze of pink smoke lingered in the air. The heavy musk of sex clung to every breath.

He pressed his lips into a thin line. Deep down, he already knew. His mind resisted the truth, but Kaly's words surfaced back into his memory.

"Just don't freak out when you wake up darling."

"…So that’s what she meant."

He muttered, dragging a hand down his face.

"The closer an Outer God gets to the real world, the more reality bends, and distorts. Everything that happened in the dream… it carried over into this side."

His shoulders slumped, then straightened with renewed resolve.

"Damn it. The whole villa's wrecked. Looks like I’ll have to rebuild from scratch."

He paused, eyes narrowing with determination.

"No… not just rebuild. I might as well make it better. Bigger., and more fortified. This place will become a mansion for me Kaly, and my future concubines."

He turned to the empty air, addressing Lisa directly.

"Lisa, I want you to reach out and find the best. Architects, engineers, craftsmen, the top of the top. I don’t care what it costs or what strings you have to pull. This will be our base of operations, and it needs to be untouchable... I am not good with these things so I leave this to your capable hands."

[As you wish, Master. I'll begin the arrangements immediately]

A faint smirk touched his lips as he stepped over the wreckage.

"Good... It is about time I renovate indeed. I will invest most of money in this... Father if you are watching me from heaven take pleasure in knowing today marks the day, the Augustus Family takes its first footsteps back into prominence."

"This must be the place."

The words slipped from her lips like a secret she had no business speaking aloud. Bella Zane floated high above the quiet night, the silver moonlight painting her pale skin in ethereal hues.

It was half past one in the morning, and of the many neighborhoods in Sector 7, lay still beneath her gaze.

And her eyes narrowed, fixing on the property below.

It was the Augustus Estate.

It sat like a fortress in the very heart of the neighborhood, swallowing up the land with its sheer presence.

An old half burnt wooden mansion, dark and weather rose at its center, with the more modern Villa lodge in the front.

Around it stretched five hundred Acre of free land, untamed and filled with oak trees.

A tall brick wall sealed the estate from the rest of Subberian, as though guarding something precious, or perhaps warning others to stay away.

Her heart skipped a beat, just looking at it. The source of this content ɪs Novᴇl_Fire(.)net

"...Agh... Why am I even here?"

Her whisper trembled against the night, as she was confused with her own actions.

"Have I truly fallen this low? Me, of all people? I am the second daughter of the Esteemed House of Zane... and yet here I am...spying on a man's home like some common girl drunk on infatuation."

Her words were venomous, meant to shame herself, but they did nothing to calm the pounding in her chest. If anything, her pulse quickened, each throb an electric sting spreading heat through her veins.

Bella was no longer dressed as in her work attire at this moment.

Rather she was in her casual wear.

She picked the most sexiest thing she could fine, that shows a lot of skin, but won't outright get her arrested.

A black jacket hung loose over her shoulders, beneath it a cropped top that clung to her skin. Dark shorts exposed the pale length of her thighs, the snug hug of her stockings drawing sharp contrast against the moonlit glow and glow of the Great Cleave.

She looked nothing like the daughter of one of the ten great families of the city.

Her golden hair, freed from the rigid constraints of her uniform, spilled down her back, flowing like golden river past her heel.

Still as she looks down, her heart grows even heavier.

"Why… why does my heart race just looking at this place?"

She pressed a hand against her chest, biting down on her lip.

This wasn't her.

She had dealt with men before, noble sons, aspiring occultist, scholars who bent knee for her favor.

None of them had ever stirred her heart, let alone made her lose sleep. And yet...this random dude, this stranger she met a couple hours ago, woo her off her heels.

"Nier...

She mouthed his name.

Every instinct in her screamed that she was acting beneath her station, degrading herself. And yet, like a moth helpless against the flame, she could not turn away.

Her blood heated with the thought of him, her mind replaying every small encounter they had shared as little as it may be.

It wasn't enough.

It would never be enough.

Her fists clenched tight, nails biting into her palms.

She lowered her flight, drifting nearer the estate walls, her gaze locked on the dark silhouette of the villa within.

"Ok, ok, ok... You can do this Bella, your not here to say hi, you are here to get to know him better, still I can't just barge in, but thankfully I don't."

She said to herself, as pulled out a jar from between her breast.

The jar had something inside of it, and if you would look closely you would see it has jar fully of flies. However these flies where not normal.

As their eyes all share the same golden glow as Bella own.

"Well then my sweet little babies, go forth and show me what I want to know."

Bella open the lid, a thousand of flies flew out of the jar, and headed towards Nier house.

And after they all flew into the distance, like satellite from space, Bella began to see everything.

Some invaded his house, other stretch into different parts of the property, and some even went for the old mansion.

"Ahh, I really want to get to know you more Nier... Hmmm but the big boss said, you are rather cold towards woman, hmmm... No, I am not just some cheap whore, I am one of the richest young lady in the entire city. Like mommy always said, if you can't win a man heart with your legs, then you can win them with your pockets."