Chapter 2 No I Refuse!

"Ahhh! Percy, what are you doing here so early? It would be best if you were home at least an hour later," Olivia said, slightly embarrassed as she reached to cover herself with the blanket.

"So you are the superior I offended? This was my offense? "Percy ignored Olivia as his eyes rested on the man, Lucas, the son of the company owner he was working for.

"Percy, now you know, I just have to tell you, this is what it is; I am with Lucas now." Olivia was somewhat angry that Percy was ignoring her, so she immediately spoke up.

"Get out of my house, you two bastards. Get out now!!!" Percy pointed at the door, tired, helpless, and angry. In response to Percy's anger, Olivia just started laughing.

"House, whose house? Your house? Don't make me laugh?"

"What do you mean?" Percy was almost about to slap Olivia as he saw her laughing.

"Did you forget this house is in my name? The house and the car, they are all mine since you put it in my name, you loser!!" Olivia dressed up as she said evilly.

"What!" A flash of darkness overwhelmed Percy as he spat blood from extreme shock and Anger.

"What a loser, "Olivia sneered as she saw Percy's defeated appearance.

"Baby, let's go. He has ruined the mood already, "Lucas hugged Olivia and stepped on Percy as he walked out.

"You better scream before I return, loser," Olivia taunted as she walked out. "Am I such a loser?"

Percy chuckled to himself; his eyes were blazing with unreconciled fury.

He refused to accept his fate. He had tried to prove he could do something as an orphan all his life, but the entire world always seemed to prank him.

[Ding! Detected that the subject has an extreme reluctance to his fate]

[System has found a suitable candidate]

[Do you want to look down on the world and be the sole ruler]

[Do you want to get back at those people who looked down on you]

[Do you want to change your destiny?]

[Yes/No]

"No"

System: excuse me!

"What is this? Have I developed a concussion in my head due to the beatings I received? What kind of hallucination is this?"

Percy rolled his eyes; even his brain was mocking him.

He was useless!

[Alert! The system isn't an illusion; the system is natural and will tolerate no insult]

"Seriously, you are real; I am not making up things in my head?"

Percy frowned as he had the voice again; this time, he became more convinced it wasn't an illusion.

"Sorry, I don't have you. You can go back to wherever you are coming from."

"What!"

I am a system, a supernatural existence; everyone wants me; how dare these broken shoes of a human reject me!

[Hey, do you know what I am? I am a system, an intelligent Al from the future. I am simply the dream of all men. How could you refuse me?]

"Yeah, you can find someone to bind to among the billions of people living on the earth; I am not interested in being a puppet.

Percy's face remained unchanged despite the system's cold voice.

He refused to yield to his fate even when the world came against him; how could he yield to a system with unknown origins?

He may have been down, but he wasn't so helpless as to sell his soul to an unknown entity like the system. He was a human, and he would have loved to remain one.

"You...." The system was at a loss for words; in all its eons and light-years of existence, it had never been so speechless.

A human refusing it, if it were told a few minutes earlier, would laugh it off, but the unthinkable was happening in its face.

"You are getting something wrong here, Percy; I am not trying to control you; I am very friendly, and my work is to listen to all your demands...."

"You can save your promotion ads; I have no intention of listening to them; go find someone else already, okay? Stop. Wasting your time with me."

".... And make you become the greatest in the world."

The system finished its sentence with great difficulty; if it had a physical body, it would have smacked the sense into Percy's brain.

"Sorry, I don't need it?"

Percy was so unimpressed! He wasn't going through a fall for that.

History and time have shown that humans always want something in return for help. How could artificial intelligence, a human's creation, be any different?

The system sounded generous. It also needed something from him equal to what it would give him.

The system was so close to losing its artificial mind; if it weren't Percy's almost perfect comparability with it, it would have left immediately.

[Percy, don't you want to look down on the world? Do you have the entire world at your fingertips?"

"Yeah.... No, I prefer to be self-sufficient; I am not greedy enough to want the world; you can leave."

The system's nano chips were collapsing. It had never seen such a stubborn mule in its years of existence.

But the more Percy resisted, the more excited the system got!

I can't believe an honorable artificial intelligence like me can't get you, Percy.

[Percy~ do you want to get back at your girlfriend and the scheming evil guy who mocked you? I can help you if that's okay with you. With me, you can back at anyone you want]

" Nope, I don't need your help; I can get my revenge easily. I would just kill both of them, but I am not so desperate yet, so I would just burn this house down or keep making trouble at the entrance of the company and discredit them. I have given so many ways to make them hate me and suffer; I don't need your help."

[You.... Fine]

The system took a moment of silence before it released what it thought to be its ultimate move.

[What about your parents... Would you like to know where they are? I can help you, you know]

Percy's heart shook at the mention of the word parents; those were words he wanted to hear so much as a child and even as an adult.

He grew up knowing he had no one, he had parents, and maybe his life wouldn't have been so bitter and sad.

"No... "Percy suppressed the discomfort and yearning in his heart.

He might want parents, but not at the cost of losing his freedom; he did not have that deal. And the important thing is, what if they don't hire him? If he finds them, he will be ruining your perfect life.

[Hey... What do you want? There must be something you desperately need. What is it?]

The system was so close to having a mental breakdown, except it didn't have a brain, just data and chips.

"Uhhh.... There is something I desperately need right now."

Percy put his hands on his jaw; the pain from his jaw was still stinging him, though.

[What is it? Tell me right away]

A glint of hope surfaced in the voice of the system.

"Yeah, I think I need two things... Ehm, my privacy and silence, which you are disturbing right now, so bluntly, get out of my head."

System:(...)

[I should have known better than to believe you]

Percy let out a pearl of laughter. He could almost imagine the system's disappointment and gate-filled eyes as it uttered those words.

"Ahhh, this doesn't look so bad, actually; it makes a good friend?"

Percy thought as he smiled to himself that he had no friends to talk to, so the system made him delude himself for a bit.

Let me enjoy the temporary chattering while it lasts!

[Look, Percy, my approach before was terrible; I should have been more civil. My name is Jillian, and I just want to have a relationship with you, purely business]

" Wait What... You have a name?"