CHAPTER 28: 28. RESTAURANT

[Your second mission today is to save a restaurant from being seized by loan sharks. Become an investor who can turn that small restaurant into a big one!]

[You have one week from now. If you succeed, your reward will be a building worth more than ten million dollars.]

[Will you accept this mission or reject it outright?]

[If you fail, the system will take five million dollars from your account.]

Helping a small restaurant that is about to be seized is easy for now. But to make that restaurant bigger? Especially in just one week...

A big reward for a big challenge, of course Riki will accept it.

Besides, if he fails, it’s okay if he loses five million dollars. Because Riki currently has more than that in his account. Especially if he sells all the Vircoins he has.

So, there’s no harm in trying, right?

"I’ll pay you, but give me some time. You can’t suddenly seize this restaurant without giving me any time at all!" said the restaurant waiter, who might also be the owner of the restaurant.

"Isn’t a month enough time for you? Damn it!"

One of the thugs stepped forward and was about to punch him. However, Riki was faster than the man. He blocked the punch, surprising the thug. In fact, Riki himself was also surprised.

It turned out he was quite strong now.

So, it turned out that the strength-enhancing potion worked well.

Feeling confident after realizing he could block the thug’s punch, Riki immediately punched the thug.

When the other thugs were about to step forward to hit Riki back, the handsome young man immediately showed them his black card.

"I bought this restaurant! How much do I have to pay you guys to get out of here?" asked Riki.

The thugs smiled broadly, "That guy has debts and interest that he can’t pay. It’s 350,000 in total!" said one of the thugs.

The waiter, who was also the restaurant owner, widened his eyes, "Why is it so much? Didn’t you just say the total was 300,000? Where did the extra 50,000 come from?"

The thugs laughed at the restaurant owner, who was very confused and angry.

"That’s extra because we couldn’t beat you up, so we’re not satisfied. You should be grateful to this teenager because he has a lot of money to help you. You can be his slave after this."

Riki helped the restaurant owner to his feet. Then Riki said, "Is it safe if I beat them up now?" Riki asked in a whisper.

"What? They are very strong, you might get beaten up. Don’t you know that they are thugs who control these streets? They force people to owe them money, then oppress them," whispered the restaurant owner.

"Hey, why are you two whispering? Hurry up and pay the money!" shouted the thug.

Riki turned to them and smiled broadly.

"You guys can wait a minute, right? Jake, hurry up and pay them the money," said Riki.

Jake, who was confused, became even more confused when Riki said that. But after he saw the hand signal that Riki showed him secretly, he understood.

Jake pretended to fiddle with his smartphone, "Okay, boss! It’s 350,000 in total, right?"

"Yup! You can give them more money," said Riki, signaling to Evan and Daniel as well.

Evan, who had been scared all this time, had called the police. When Riki gave the signal, he couldn’t catch it.

However, Daniel, who understood, approached and closed the restaurant door.

"What’s going on? Why is the door closed? Don’t you know who we are?" asked one of them.

The thugs looked angry, but also scared.

From the thugs’ movements, Riki could sense that only a few of them were really strong. The rest just had big bodies.

"What do you mean? I asked my friend to close the door so that no customers would come near," said Riki.

One of the thugs laughed, "Customers? There can’t be any customers here because we’ve threatened anyone who comes near this restaurant. That way, he can’t pay his debt."

"Stupid! Why did you tell them that? That’s our secret!"

"Uh, it’s a secret?"

Riki laughed, "Hahaha, you guys are so funny. It’s okay, you can tell us, I won’t report you guys, you guys are so strong, we’re afraid you’ll beat us up."

Hearing that, the thugs laughed. They managed to divert their attention.

Riki signaled to Daniel, who was still behind the thugs.

Without further ado, Daniel picked up one of the chairs and quickly hit them one by one.

"Hey, damn it! Aren’t you afraid of us?" said one of the strongest ones, unable to faint just from being hit with a chair.

Riki stepped forward and punched the thug as hard as he could. Riki, who didn’t know how strong he was, was quite surprised that the thug went down with just one punch.

Soon after, the police arrived and thanked them for helping to arrest the black scorpion gang that had been terrorizing the local residents.

The police had been after them for a long time, but they always managed to escape, as if someone had been helping them all this time.

A few minutes passed, and they had cleaned up the mess.

"What I said about buying this restaurant, I’m really serious. At least, let me invest in this restaurant," said Riki.

Jayden, the owner of the small restaurant, looked at Riki in disbelief.

"I thought you were just saying that to scare them."

Riki shook his head, "No, I’m serious, because I see great potential in this restaurant."

Jayden smiled broadly upon hearing this. "In that case, I look forward to working with you, Riki."

After discussing a few things, Jayden finally decided to close the restaurant for the rest of the day. He would take Riki and Jake’s advice and renovate the restaurant so he could reopen it the next day. Of course, he would also hire some waiters, because Jayden had been doing everything himself due to lack of funds.

Evan and Daniel had returned to Little Heaven because they couldn’t stay there any longer.

Meanwhile, Riki and Jake returned to the parking lot of the office building because their cars were still parked there.

"Oh, Jake, I’ll go by myself. You can go back to your house and get ready to move into the office tomorrow," said Riki.

"Oh, okay, I’ll take a taxi home."

"Taxi? You can take that car. I’ll give it to you so you can get around easily," said Riki, pointing to a luxurious white Mercedes Benz S-class nearby.

"But—"

Riki held up the car keys. "But what? You know you need a car, right?"

Jake couldn’t believe it. He had gotten a car on his first day of work.

Riki was seriously crazy if it’s about money.

"Thank you, boss!"

"Hahaha, you’re welcome. Well, I have to go now because I have something important to do."

Riki got into his own car. He had to leave quickly because Deva had called him earlier, asking him to come to the entertainment agency building.

Riki was curious, what had happened there? If things didn’t go well, then Riki might be even more annoyed than he already was.

But if Deva, who was more mature than him, needed his help, then something bad must be happening, right?

"Actually, is the mastermind behind the death threat really an influential person? But why was he targeting Sean? If he was really Deva’s fan, he should be jealous of his female friend, right? Why Sean?" Riki muttered.

After trying to think about it, he couldn’t come up with an answer.

Damn!

Riki didn’t get any reward for helping Sean, but he needed Deva to get close to Sandra. He would do anything except get close to Anton. Not with Anton, let alone Andre, whom he had already kicked out of the office building.

He had to solve Sean’s problem for himself. Not because of the system’s mission.

The Golden Entertainment agency building stood majestically. Although it was a new agency, they quickly made a lot of profit because some of their new actors became popular quickly. Like Sean and Deva.

It didn’t make sense that Sean’s manager and agency were involved in the murder threat. But, knowing the manager’s behavior, how could Riki not be suspicious?

[Your third mission today is to get Sean and Deva out of Golden Entertainment]

[Your reward is 35% shares in another entertainment agency and +5 to all stats]

[If you fail, you will meet Anton again tonight]

Riki shuddered at the thought of the punishment for failing the third mission.

It seemed the system had found an odd but effective punishment to scare Riki.

"You don’t need to threaten me like that, system," Riki muttered, annoyed by the third mission’s punishment.

Riki got out of his car and put his sunglasses back on. Not to look cool, but because it was quite bright that afternoon. Besides, he could hide his expression with the sunglasses.

Riki immediately called Deva to pick him up in front of the building. Because people who had no business there couldn’t just walk in.

Not long after, Deva hurriedly came out of the building. His face expression was difficult to describe.

"Riki!!"

"What’s wrong? Did something bad happen?"

Deva pulled Riki’s arm, "I can’t explain it, come with me quickly!"