The Beast and the Red Room

Agatha has no idea if it has something to do with her body ingesting too much water after drowning, thus rendering her unable to make a proper decision but she actually does what the self-proclaimed system tasked her. The girl just found herself hailing the cab, going to the nearest hotel which was called 'We Did It', and taking the elevator to the top floor. The pounding in her chest testified to her nervousness.

She inspected the reflection of a girl with long black hair on the walls of the elevator. Just like what she suspected, this new face of hers does not belong to her either. As a matter of fact, she looked nowhere near her previous appearance. She could not even see the slightest resemblance at all.

The girl was wearing a gray top and a flowery white long skirt. The thick glasses in her eyes made her look like a nun. Her face looked okay, good-looking even. She had no pimples which was a plus. However, the dark spots under her eyes because of the consecutive sleepless nights of worrying about the debts diminished the brightness of her face.

Her overall appearance attracted many suspicious gazes from the people of the hotel. She hardly gave them a damn, though. She didn't check in and just went straight to the elevator.

No one was with her right now, so she had fewer eyes to worry about. Unfortunately, her unease seemed to reach deep into her bones. When she reached the highest floor of the hotel, which is the twenty-first floor, she came out with unsteady steps causing her to bump into the opening doors of the lift.

"Gosh. A good thing that no one's around."

She took out her phone and read the task one last time. It took her a few more seconds to firm up her resolve. She knew she couldn't just barge into the room specified by the system so she tried to probe.

"System, I know you can hear me. You responded to me a while ago when I asked who you are so I know you can hear me. Please, tell me. How do I go inside the third room on this floor? I don't have a key or password or whatever!"

Not even three seconds passed and a reply flashed on her screen.

<System: Beep! That's your problem, not mine.>

"..."

'Do I really have to do this?'

The girl's courage had never been big. The moment she received its reply, more than half of her mind was already in favor of backing out. While the other half tried its best to cook up the 'what if' scenarios that would happen once she steps into the room. She stood there outside the door for so long, drowned in indecisiveness. Only when she saw it was already more than fifty minutes since she took the mission that she finally gained the courage to press the doorbell.

She knew what could happen. She's not that clueless about what the task title meant. The system still remains untrustworthy but convinced herself that she had no other choice.

She was no longer the old Agatha Moore. She has to survive on her own now, under this new identity and this girl happened to be buried in debts and whenever she thought of being hunted by people demanding money she could never give, her intuition whispered that she should just take the gamble.

Besides, she also decided to never leave a loser's life again in this second life, and what better way to do that than to get a useful ally on her backing? She has to win this system, by hook or by crook. It was for this reason that she closed her eyes and pressed the doorbell.

She had yet to finalize any plausible reason for her action in case the person questioned when the door suddenly opened and revealed a tall, bloodshot-eyes, mature-looking man with a half-exposed chest. This made her surprised and unsure of what to do next.

"I-I... G-good day, S-sir. I am one of the hotel's staff and aps! ----"

The red color seemed to blind her as it was the only thing she saw when her body suddenly got dragged inside the room, the door behind her mockingly blocking her path of retreat as it closed.

"N-no! W-wait!!!"

The man didn't pay attention to her words and wordlessly pulled her inside. When he opened the door, he was actually about to go out to get a woman to help him solve his problem. The girl arrived in a timely manner. Apparent from his bloodshot eyes and ragged breathing, the man was already close to his limit.

Agatha cried in alarm when the man pushed her to the bed and aggressively pounced on her. His actions really scared her witless and her mind subconsciously alarmed her to escape, saying,

'Run! As fast as you can!'

'The man is a beast!'

Her fidgeting body tensed at his burning touch. Only now did she realize how scary it was to be touched by a complete stranger, not to mention one with red eyes filled with beastly desires. The girl was really regretting her decision to follow the system now and only wished to escape from the place. She did her best to push the man above her, but her attempts proved futile when the man did not even budge an inch.

The disparity between their strength alarmed her further. The man was very strong! The man could kill her!

"Let me go! Please let me go!!!"

She cried before screaming at the top of her lungs.

Meanwhile, behind the closed door, Paul was waiting impatiently for his call girl to show up. He was anxious and insisted with his last insanity to call that girl.

When the door was knocked, he already lost sense. Ignoring all the resistance by the girl, he grabbed her eagerly into the room.

"Baby, you're not going anywhere."

A huskily sexy voice came out of the man's mouth which was now raining kisses on her face.