While Bob was mentally putting two and two together regarding Grandmaster Max O' Scooru of the Association of Rizzmasters and the billionaire Scroogeux Overson, the actual person in question, that is to say, Scroogeux himself, for his part, was also preparing for the meeting with Valentine, and his current thoughts were as follows:
Valentine could well be a worthy person to invest in for the future of his empire.
His beloved daughter (although he didn't tell her that obviously since he was tsundere) seemed to have a favorable impression of Valentine, and that was already the main reason…
But regardless, he still needed to do his due diligence, and make sure that Valentine was legit. At the end of the day, he only wanted the best for his lovely daughter after all.
As for whether Valentine might be worthy for… other things… well that would depend on how well he did at the meeting…
He placed a weathered hand on the leather bound manuals that had been entrusted to him long ago and to which he had diligently added his own knowledge and experiences…
"Master… give me guidance," he mutters under his breath.
"My time is not unlimited. I hope that I could create a legacy to pass on your teachings…"
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No way…
At this, the esteemed readers couldn't believe what they were reading. Just how many hidden masters were there in this novel?!?!
Then again, one person spoke up reasonably, "I mean, even a Yoga Instructor, Derek is OP, not to mention the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) Acupuncture lady, so…"
Met with an influx of letters, e-mails and real-time questions from the astute audience, author replied as he usually did:
"Uh... YES."
"Oh, good."
"Yeah, that's fine."
"Carry on."
Accordingly, with all their questions answered, these talented wonderful and extremely good looking and intelligent people (whose favourite hobby was now donating power stones to Rizzmaster: The Adventures of Bob, or as they affectionately referred to it as RTAOB or RTAB, their favourite webnovel) grabbed their popcorn favourite drinks and snacks, and settled in to enjoy the show.
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Following the famine and Scroogeux aka Max's skilful negotiations that secured the villagers more food, Scroogeux had been on his way out, finishing up his backpacking Adventure around the world and planning to return to his first world life, when disaster had struck.
You can't please them all. A rival villaging tribe, threatened by Scroogeux's sudden rise to fame in the region, and who had hoped to benefit off the starving villagers and were disappointed by the sudden turnaround, decided to make trouble for him, and attempted to rid themselves of his do-gooding, meddling interference, in the only way they knew how - namely by killing him.
Luckily, Scroogeux had made a good friend in his village who had looked out for him and at the critical moment, foiled the plot, taking and protecting him from what would likely have been a fatal blow due to one of the villager's insidious betrayal!!!
Indeed.
The hero of the hour was none other than… Ukan Trustmi!!!
To cut a long story short, after a heart wrenching, touching scene full of contrived emotion where Scroogeux said some melodramatic stuffs like:
"No!!"
"My brother!!!"
"Don't die!!! Stay with me!!!"
Ukan survived to keep the good vibes going on this novel, and they had become sworn brothers!!!
In the end, Ukan decided to accompany Scroogeux back to the Overson Empire in order to provide more resources and opportunities for his village in the future, so that the dangers of a famine or rival village politics might be solved once and for all…
Of course, things would never be so simple, but that of course, would be getting ahead of ourselves in the story…