Chapter 7 - Photo

On the next day.

Lynn opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling of his unfamiliar room…

He lifted his arms and observed his hands. It is quite a rough hand. It seems that Arial wasn’t just a rich second generation, he kept his body really fit and strong.

‘I’m still inside Arial’s body… Haa~’ Lynn sighed after realizing that his hope of returning to his body and realizing that it is all just a dream is not possible.

‘I guess I’m really stuck on this, huh.’

It’s still early in the morning but he’s already sighing.

He’s truly unable to explain his situation now. He can only accept whatever his situation is and move on. He also needs to create his goals so he wouldn’t be lost. A lost soul doesn’t mean a lost purpose after all.

He unconsciously pulled up his phone to check the time but instead, he found tons of messages on his phone.

They all came from the woman whom he was supposed to meet last night.

“Clarice Grant. What now?”

Lynn decided to open her messages and realized that she’s really angry.

[ Why did you not show your face! I waited in your house all night! ]

[ You’re the one asking for help! Yet you have the guts to do this to me? I will no longer help you! ]

[ You can no longer ask for my help! Hmph! I even bought all of them and you’re like this. ]

[ Hey! Arial Lachman! Why are you still not replying! Answer my calls! ]

[ I hate you! ]

Lynn read the messages from the pitiful Clarice who wanted some attention.

‘Ugh… What is he even requesting you? I can’t find any in your previous conversation. This is too difficult. Should I tell them I’m sick? But they’ll just have more reason to visit me instead. Tsk. How should I handle this.’

Lynn could only scratch his head as he decided to just ignore her for now.

In the meantime, he started checking out his room and found a safe! Hidden inside a drawer of his study table.

There is a need for a number combination to open it but of course, Lynn had no idea what number code will Arial use.

‘Six digits code, perhaps his birthday?’

Lynn thought and put Arial’s birthdate. He knows the man’s birthday since he had seen his ID several times last night.

0-7-2-1-9-5

Beep!

It’s a wrong combination as expected. Well, since this could contain a lot of Arial’s secrets, it’s normal that he would use a different combination.

Beep!

Beep!

Lynn continued trying different combinations but it’s always failing.

“Ugh… Should I open this forcefully? Perhaps I can ask Harvey to have tools brought here and destroy the safe.” Lynn started thinking out loud as he was running out of options.

However, he immediately shook his head since he knows that he would need to be the best actor to give them a good reason how he had forgotten his safe’s combination code.

‘Ah! Wait… Perhaps I can try this…’

Lynn regained his energy as he quickly type a new number code.

0-3-0-3-9-7

Ding!

It is Shannon’s birthdate!

‘The heck?! Why are you using my girlfriend’s birthdate!’

Lynn actually didn’t expect this to be correct. He just had a sudden thought after recalling how obsessed this guy was with his girlfriend.

Now that his hunch was proven correct, he realized just how desperate this guy was!

“Ugh… Whatever, I’ll see whatever secrets you have here.” Lynn muttered as he looked inside the safe box.

“Whoa~ What a rich guy…”

As expected, the safe has pieces of expensive jewelry and several bundles of cash. Each bundle should have $10,000 and there should be over 20 bundles here.

“Is this some kind of emergency fund? That’s weird. There should be some documents here or something, right?”

Lynn then started clearing up the safe and checked it carefully.

“Hoho! I knew it! A secret compartment! False bottom! It’s a good thing I’m watching movies whenever I have some time.”

He couldn’t help but celebrate after discovering that there is indeed another level inside the safe.

Finally, he found what he was looking for! A fold that is containing some secret documents or perhaps even a ledger containing all Arial’s illegal activities!

If that’s the case, then he would probably understand this man a lot better than before!

After all, he only knows superficial things about Arial and he learned of this the hard way after being chased by armed individuals.

‘Let’s see what kind of secrets you have, Arial.’

Lynn mused as he opened the document and browsed it carefully.

“Hmm? This is---”

Lynn couldn’t help but gasp seeing bond certificates in front of him! However, this is not simply bond certificated but Sovereign Gold Bond Certificates!

“SGBs! Just how rich is this guy?” Lynn muttered after seeing over 50 SGBs in the folder.

He can only sigh in admiration as he decided to check the other documents.

“Whoa~ This is it!”

Lynn found a small notebook in the folder and immediately started reading it.

[ Primordial Body and Soul Cultivation Technique ]

“Wait! This is not a ledger!” He exclaimed.

Lynn expected to find something that will make him understand Arial’s deal with Clarice. However, what he found confused him even more!

‘What’s with this chuuni title? Why did he include this here in the first place? Ugh, is he actually one of those people??!’

Lynn heard about Chuunibyou also known as Eight-Grade Syndrome… Anyone who has this syndrome would have delusional behavior. They would fantasize about them being unique to impress people. They would try to act cool only to embarrass themselves in front of other people.

Thinking that they have some kind of power is one sample of their behavior.

Haa~

Lynn sighed as he read the notebook just in case he finds something interesting. However, just like its title, it contains a method on how to cultivate or temper one’s body and soul.

There are six stages in this cultivation which is quite detailed for a hoax, so Lynn felt impressed with the man’s dedication in creating such an embarrassing notebook.

As he turned the last page, a small piece of paper dropped to the ground and noticed that it was a photo.

He took it casually but he was left in shock after seeing the picture!

It was Shannon’s picture when she was only seven or eight years old together Arial!

“T-this…”