The Essence Of The Darkness
EOTL eps 7: Unexpected

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"Dimitry."

Xavier who stepped past the doorstep of the private room of the luxurious restaurant immediately commented a smile as his eyes rubbed with the figure he had been waiting for him to meet with anticipation.

Dimitri's response was of course the opposite of the hospitality Xavier provided. The man beckoned to his men who stood firmly behind him to be alert and watch in case Xavier committed a terrible act beyond reason.

Dimitri's attitude certainly did not escape Xavier's supervision, making the man chuckle with a mocking attitude, then take a position sitting across the table, right in front of Dimitri who seemed increasingly tense.

Dimitri's fear was actually quite reasonable. Xavier's track record is terrifying, and the rumors that are developing in the underworld seem to be given flavoring that makes the story of Xavier Light, the poison master, grow more sinister than it really is.

They say Xavier has killed cruelly at the age of ten. Another story that scares everyone to Xavier Light, is the story of a syndicate of criminals who steal Xavier's money behind his back, all of them end up dying in a terrible condition in a confined space, poisoned by a mysterious killer gas untraceable by the authorities.

That was why right now, Dimitri insisted on being the one to determine their meeting place. He deliberately chose a meeting location in a very famous public restaurant, with a lot of people who spend their time eating dinner at hours like this.

The room where Xavier met was now indeed a closed room that guaranteed the privacy of customers, but still they were only limited by the walls around which there were many innocent humans who knew nothing.

At Xavier's death, Dimitri knows that Xavier only kills bad guys who need to be taught a lesson. The man could not have committed mass murder by spreading poison gas that might have spread to all corners of the restaurant.

Yep. Dimitri is currently in a difficult position, he has become one of the bad guys who hangs his life in Xavier's hands. He was caught off guard and ended up being trapped by Xavier's cruelty, until now, there was nothing he could do but follow the crazy psychopath's will.

"Why are you so tense? Your expression is as if you're about to explode in a moment. Are you in pain?" Throwing mocking gazes at Dimitri and his vigilant men, Xavier shrugged and said in passing, "You can calm down. I'm not gonna release any toxic gas here. I think it was the right decision for you to have a meeting in this kind of public place. It could ease me a little, even though you must know that I can't come alone without self-protection."

Xavier's eyes dimmed in a threatening manner. "Don't think of doing things that go against our deal, or I guarantee that you'll end horribly" he tweeted.

Xavier's words made Dimitri clench his hands and grit his teeth. Feeling angry and offended, as well as frustrated because he could not do anything. Dimitri is the leader of the highest mafia clan in Russia who is highly respected, but here in this country, he is completely made to have no control whatsoever.

The two brothers with opposite last names had actually become thorns in the flesh in his life. He admitted that he had made an impulsive decision by not thinking long to accept the offer of cooperation from Maya. Without considering his decision, Dimitri immediately went to this country, driven by a rush to avenge the two brothers who made him lose money and felt immense humiliation by their cunning.

Akram Night and Xavier Night had indeed given their weapons factory and biological weapons research factory to Dimitri. All of this has been officially transferred and is based on legal law. Unfortunately, before the handover process was carried out, Akram and Xavier seemed to have collaborated with moving assets of their latest findings that seemed not yet legally registered.

The factory that was given to Dimitri, only contains the results of old, ancient and far behind research with the latest type that is more powerful.

It was only fitting that the two brothers would easily let go of their company.

It made Dimitri instead of getting a big profit from this, eventually even received considerable embarrassment and embarrassment. Anger that makes him not waste time and immediately accept the offer of cooperation from Maya.

Yes, although he did not know Maya well, but Dimitri knew the reputation of Maya from the results of his investigation. The woman was close to the famous Credence, and anyone close to the influential financial expert, was worthy of consideration as a peer.

Unfortunately, the impulsive decision ultimately resulted in destruction. On the eve of his arrival to the country, it is not Maya who comes to see him, but Xavier has sent his trained men, a woman he is assigned to play Maya, to take on the role of the, with the physical shape and face that looks the same, to not make Dimitri feel suspicious.

Without knowing that the real Maya is being killed in an incident at the hospital that also injured Xavier, Dimitri accepts the fake Maya is within the boundaries of his territory and loosens the scrutiny for assuming that the woman is harmless.

What happened then can be guessed. The woman thrust poison into her body, saying that only Xavier had the antidote and from this moment on, her life depended on Xavier's mercy.

And here he was, humbling himself to get the antidote to the poison that Xavier had deliberately given him in stages to bind him into submission.

The poison did not interfere with his physique, as long as he got the antidote at the right time, but if the antidote was given too late, it would easily damage the vital internal organs in his body, he said, and finally killed him. For months Dimitri had been hanging his life from the periodic biddings of Xavier's men.

“Why now do you feel the need to see me?” Dimitri asked the question with a suspicious attitude. Usually Xavier only sends his men to deliver the antidote to Dimitri. Just this time the man decided to come alone to see Dimitri. That means, this crazy psychopath finally needs something from him.

Dimitri knew that he had to use this opportunity to negotiate with Xavier so that he could get the antidote to the poison completely so that there was no need to depend his life on Xavier's mercy. He would do everything Xavier asked him to do if it was necessary.

“Because after such a long time, I can finally find your usefulness.” Xavier answered plainly and half mockingly. “I want you to investigate a woman.” Xavier thrust the file in a brown envelope toward Dimitri. “My investigator found that he lived in your country until he was a teenager. Your country is one of the closed countries that is difficult to penetrate by outsiders with a lot of data that is encrypted so that it is not easily penetrated by outsiders. But I know that you as an insider who has power, can get information easily.”

Dimitri widened his eyes as if in disbelief.

“I am the leader of the biggest mafia organization in my country with a huge and feared influence in my country, and you poisoned me for months, just to have me investigate a woman? A regular supervisor can do this job if they want to try. Why do you have to involve me in this petty job?” Dimitri's murmurs were pulsating showing his offence clearly. “Who do you think I am? Did you intentionally do this to humiliate me?” angry shouting.

Xavier did not blink at all in the face of the bluff.

“Who are you? To me you're a nobody. You may have power in your country. But here, in my place, you are nothing more than a human with a body full of poison that depends on my mercy to give you an antidote. There's nothing you can do but walk what I command.” Xavier's eyes narrowed full of threat. “Read that file. The woman's name was Serafina Moon, most likely it was her real name even though everything other than her name had been modified. I want you to come to me with good news within a month,”

Xavier put another thing on the table. A special tube to accommodate the antidote serum that Dimitri needed.

“Serum this antidote is different from the yesterday-yesterday one that can defend your body from poison attacks for three months. This one can only help you for a month. So, if in a month you don't come to me and bring me satisfactory results, I'll make sure you won't get another bidder until death comes to pick you up.”

After uttering his threatening sentence, Xavier moved from his seat and turned his body, stepping away while leaving an unpleasant suffocating feel to the entire corner of the room he had left behind.

Sera sat in front of a simple dressing table inside her room and looked at her own face in the mirror.

When she was not wearing makeup, her face looked so pale. Meanwhile, Sera had also stripped off her wig and placed it neatly on her box. His hand then moved, releasing his tightly-knit hair pincers that had been neatly arranged with a tight-fitting black net that wrapped around his head, then letting his long unravel hair touch his shoulders.

Sera's eyes met with a gaze from her own reflection in the mirror and she found a ray of fatigue there.

Sera slowly raised her hand and rubbed the wet cotton with a refreshing scent before then patting it on her face to channel a pleasant cold feel on her skin.

Not only did his face appear exhausted, his entire body also felt even more limp than before. It was all possible because he had to endure his fear in facing Xavier this morning.

People say, the show feels very tiring….

After throwing her wet cotton in the trash, Sera moved and slammed her body on the bed to rest.

He's been trained for this, so he shouldn't have just collapsed just because of a short meeting for an interview session. Sera's entire body and soul should be ready to face Xavier and he should have overcome his fear of Xavier many years ago.

Sera must be strong. Otherwise, what if he gets the job and spends nearly eight hours of his life every day working to become the man's personal assistant?

But, after all, overcoming the phobia he had felt since his youth was certainly not something easy. Xavier had instilled that trauma onto her, without even the man noticing it.

Sera is a brave woman. There have been many tasks given to him and always successfully carried out with great courage. But his weakness was Xavier Light.

Sera's body shuddered in horror as it imagined the man's intense gaze that seemed to penetrate into his soul. If only Sera was not bound by debt and also the desire to get justice, surely Sera would have chosen to run and hide.

For now, he had gone overboard to give himself a shield, only to prevent Xavier from having more curiosity for him personally.

Sera had already investigated Xavier's lovers, and all of them were of almost the same type. They were all proportional women with elegant, quiet and smileless faces and had long, beautiful hair.

For her protection, Sera dressed herself in a very opposite appearance to Xavier's previous women. She wore a top quality wig that looked like real hair, with a short cut that was much different from the familiar taste of Xavier, she wore loose clothing that did not accentuate her beautiful body shape, she said, she did not apply her makeup elegantly and deliberately made her facial appearance a little messy, and she deliberately acted cheerful, chatty and innocent like a child, she said, all he knew was that it was the type that Xavier disliked because the man usually liked the more mature and reserved type of woman.

Yes, Sera made herself so opposed to the women who had been Xavier's lovers before. He made sure he was outside the scope of the woman Xavier was interested in.

But, of course professionally, Sera does the opposite. He mustered his best to show his cleverness and how worthy he was to occupy the position as Xavier's personal assistant.

Sera's cleverness and intelligence is undoubtedly one of his mainstay weapons. Perhaps that is why he is considered valuable and defended. Because, everyone thought that only he could keep up with Xavier Light who possessed monstrous intelligence.

Sera's eyes closed as she forced her mind to rest.

Whether what will happen in the future, he can only keep quiet and hope Xavier realizes his great potential and finally decides to accept him as his personal assistant.

Only by stabbing into Xavier's heavily guarded security circle could Sera carry out the mission assigned to him, and all this depended on Xavier's decision to accept him as his personal assistant, or didn't.

If Sera fails and Xavier does not accept it, perhaps Sera should accept that she will be eliminated and rendered useless….

Sera's eyes were closed by the drowsiness that began to attack. Physical and mental fatigue makes him fall asleep quickly without being able to hold back again.

If he fails. Isn't that good? That means Sera can die without having to deal with Xavier who is the source of fear and monsters that adorn her nightmares.

Two days after the interview process was successfully passed by Sera despite being full of tension. It was as if there was a rope wrapped around his neck and was ready to strangle him if Sera loosened her vigilance.

Sera's eyes were always on her phone, waiting anxiously.

There was absolutely no call from the Night Corporation who reported on the results of his interview yesterday.

Does that mean he failed? Does that mean he wasted all the effort and hard work put together in this neat plan over the years in vain?

But, shouldn't a company as big as Night Corporation be handling candidate applicants in their companies, both failed and successful, in a professional way?

Even when Sera fails, they will inform and make an official notification, right?

Sera thought about it all in a half-dreaming state while stirring the drops of pure honey and lemon into her warm tea to blend the refreshing delicacy in her cup of tea. That's why, when his phone suddenly rang, Sera's body jumped in shock, almost making the cup fall and spill its contents.

Sera's eyes were fixed on her phone and her pupils instantly widened.

Unknown phone number..is that the expected call?

Most likely it is like that, considering this number is a completely new number and only certain people who can be counted with one hand know it.

Sera's hand grabbed the phone. He cleared a little to neutralize his voice to sound professional, before then receiving his cell phone call and greeting.

“Halo, Good morning, with Sera here,”

“Good morning, Miss Sera.”The friendly voice full of smiles across there immediately took Sera's heart into his grasp and squeezed it firmly until her breath felt tight.

Jemari Sera who was holding her phone was trembling. He couldn't have mistaken this voice. It was a typical Xavier light sound, with a soft, friendly tone of voice, but tucking in a very dangerous implied threat inside.

If this is related to the results of his interview, Xavier Light should simply order a secretary or personnel section in his company to contact Sera. But why did Xavier contact him himself?

“I should have ordered Elios to contact you, but in hindsight, it was good that I contacted you directly. Because... there are certain conditions that I must explain to you.“

Xavier spoke across the street in a stark sentence, as if the man could read Sera's mind.

“Custom conditions?” Sera repeated Xavier's words like a fool. The shock made it a little difficult to digest the man's words.

“Yes. Special conditions and requirements.” Back tucked shades of smile in the voice of Xavier which even makes Sera shudder in horror. “The bottom line is, you are the best candidate when compared to other candidates and the position as my personal assistant is within your grasp. However, there is a recent development that makes me have to discuss some things with you first before we talk about the employment contract.”

Along with Xavier's voice, the sound of the doorbell suddenly sounded from the front of his house made Sera distracted and confused. The house was quite quiet in the morning, and although Sera knew her neighbors well, almost never had any of her neighbors come to her house.

“Nona Sera, given that the conditions and requirements that I will propose are quite important and confidential, I think that it is better for us to discuss face-to-face and not through a mobile phone,” Xavier spoke again as if demanding the attention of Sera who had been distracted by the sound of a bell from the front door of his house. “So, I'm already at your doorstep. Can you let me in so you can have a private conversation with you?”

Essence Of The Light (EOTL) is Season Two of Essence Of The Darkness which is specifically about Xavier Light.

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