Coco, after throwing a stone at her master twice, felt satisfied and calmed down a little. She was wandering in the void when she suddenly came across a strange anomaly and, intrigued, headed there. And now an amazing isolated room appeared in front of her.
Opening a gap unnoticeably, Coco poked her head in to find out what was there. She was in for a surprise: She found a fat guy who was watching her masters. This discovery surprised her greatly.
Like a good girl, as Idan called her, Coco quietly slipped inside and fell into a place free of debris. She immediately took off her backpack, took out her camera, and discreetly took several photos of the guy and the room's furnishings.
Satisfied with her work and imagining how much candy she would get from the master if she provided him with these photos, Coco began to put everything in her backpack with a big smile. But when she was about to leave, the smell of something delicious wafted to her nose.
"Ha ha ha, — Leo exhaled with a smile, scratching his full belly.
"It's not like we're going to do anything terrible to him, so Queen Irene won't get hurt. Let him blame his unworthy younger brother, who decided to have an affair with another man's fiancee, cheating on such a charming girl like Arabel Morgan. I feel a little sorry for her for choosing such a scoundrel."
With that thought in mind, Leo began collecting information about Idan's infidelities, his past, and everything that seemed important to him. He wanted to blackmail Idan and get a decent reward for his silence.
Yes, Leo needed money to live and keep his room running.
To his surprise, Leo became an awakened nine months ago, suddenly awakening the System, even without using the awakening serum, being one of the natural awakened ones.
Because of his overweight, he spent most of his life in his room, rarely leaving it. Only his family—his mother, older brother, and sister—sometimes visited him to clean up and take out the trash.
They also tried to influence Leo, who was undermining the family's reputation with his actions. However, despite all their efforts, Leo remained devoted to Hikikomori.
If they hadn't taken out all that garbage, there would have been an unpleasant smell in the house.
After being awakened, Leo was at a loss for a while, but then, realizing how his System worked, he began to look for a way to make money. After several attempts, he found what he was looking for: to collect promising materials on rich and famous people, blackmail them and demand a ransom.
Over the past nine months, he has successfully applied his method more than ten times and has begun to notice that many have started looking for him. However, thanks to the System, he always remained unnoticed and did not leave any traces, so he was sure that no one would be able to find him.
Confident that he would not be discovered this time, Leo was encouraged to reveal such a secret. He learned from Idan's information that he was being hunted by two powerful families, Morgan and Hugh. Using this knowledge, he can benefit greatly from Idan.
Moreover, he can even use this information to get money from Christopher Hugh.
"Ah-ha-ha," Leo rejoiced, imagining how his plan was beginning to e to life.
Leo's sincere and joyful laughter suddenly died down when he caught a suspicious rustle behind him out of the corner of his ear.
He immediately had a bad feeling, and a shiver ran down his spine.
Cautiously turning towards the sound, Leo noticed that something charred and fluffy was sticking out of the rustling candy package.
"A rat?" was the first thing that came to his mind, but then he immediately dismissed the thought. He was currently in the void, and nothing could enter his room, let alone a simple rat.
"Maybe a super rat? An awakened rat?" — a ridiculous idea flashed through Leo's mind.
Noticing the silence that reigned inside the room, the figure in the package also stopped. A few seconds later, a fox cub's head popped out of it.
Leo couldn't believe his eyes.
Coco and Leo stared at each other.
Coco was the first to recover. She quickly grabbed a package of chocolates, swung her tail, tore open the space and immediately dived in.
Leo, stunned, did not move until the fox cub had disappeared and the void had closed.
[Host, you in trouble. In a big trouble.]
Leo couldn't find the words to respond to the System. He was stunned by what had happened. It was the first time in his life that he had encountered something like this. And this fox cub had penetrated his, as he thought, impregnable shelter.
[Host, look at the screen,] the System addressed Leo.
Following the instructions of the System, Leo looked at the screen, and what he saw caused him great fear. That little fox was now sitting on the head of a guy named Idan, playing with his hair.
***
While waiting for Ned, Idan looked around carefully, still feeling someone's eyes on him. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't spot anything suspicious. He even applied the "Eye of Identification" but that didn't work either.
The "Eye of Identification" was still on the first level. Idan and Arabel had to find at least 33 weaknesses in various creatures among the only random information.
While Idan was thinking about how to quickly raise the level of the "Eye of Identification", a rift opened above his head, and Coco jumped out, landing directly on his head.
Coco held onto Idan's head and began to pull at his hair.
"Coco?" called Idan, surprised by her strange behavior.
After getting Idan's attention, Coco, still sitting on his head, took off her backpack and took out some photos, which she immediately handed to Idan.
Idan reached out curiously and was pleasantly surprised that Coco had given them away without any ransom. Looking at the photos, he saw a fat guy with short black hair, who was carefully studying the strange screens on which he and Arabel were depicted.
Idan immediately froze in surprise, and it dawned on him.
"So my intuition was right, and someone is really watching us?" he said aloud. Arabel, who had already recovered a little by then, but still felt very weak, also heard his words.
Coco, sitting on Idan's head, nodded several times, as if confirming his question, and even pointed in a certain direction.
Leo, who was watching in silence, flinched when the Fox Cub pointed directly at him. Idan also looked in that direction, but did not see anything unusual. However, it seemed to Leo as if Idan was looking through the void directly at him. But then, remembering exactly where his room was, he calmed down.
"And what did you find out? You won't be able to find out anything new about me..."— Leo was sure that even with his photo on the web, few people would be able to recognize him. After all, there were almost no photos of him on the web, only those in which he was very young.
Idan thought about it and decided to try using the "Eye of Identification" in this photo.
"Oh, Leopold Griffiths?"— the words spoken by Idan after applying the "Eye of Identification", like a bolt from the blue sky, struck Leo, and he almost wet himself from fright.
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