Air Hero

Marie II

Hearing Marie’s explanation, Max is feeling lost. Is Marie’s flaw is that bad and impossible to fix? By talking to her, he can tell that Marie is shy and has an introverted personality. Therefore, it will be impossible for her to lead the team as Rika did. Suddenly the image of the team that he has in mind crumbles when he simulates Marie to be on the team.

“Marie, where is the enemy?”

“Uh, wait, let me look at it first. Wait, give me ten minutes to hack the CCTV. Uh, why this isn’t working.”

Changing to another scene, Max is chasing after the villain that managed to run away earlier.

“Marie, which path to take? Left or right?”

“Uh, I’m not sure. Both looked like the same.”

Just thinking of that, Max can already feel a headache coming.

Looking at Marie with a gaze that is different from earlier, Marie feels his gaze, and then immediately, liked a shocked cat, she looked down and held the coffee cup tightly.

Max now needs to decide whether he wants to recruit Marie or not. He thought once again and started to doubt why he is hesitating. In the first place, his reason for finding an overseer is to fill up his lack of knowledge.

To be honest, being commanded by Rika makes everything easy, but it wasn’t suitable for his taste. He wants to be on the more dominant side, and looking at Marie, he believes that he can cover her weakness while she covers his. Wouldn’t it be perfect?

“Marie, to tell the truth, I have very little knowledge about the heroes’ world. I’m working on it right now, but I believe I am still so far behind that is why I need your knowledge on the information gathering. Also, you haven’t listened to my terms. So I am not sure whether you will accept it or not.”

“So, what’s your offer?”

“I am currently gathering funds to build a computer that met the minimum standard of the United Heroes requirements. However, I believe I still need two more months to gather the funds. As for our office, I will find a place once I have enough money to build the computer, so it will be another three months before I have a place as a base and the computer ready. Your payment will be $20,000 per month, I know it’s on the low side compared to others, but that’s the best I can give right now.”

“Okay, I agree. Regarding the payment, I also don’t ask as much as other D-rank overseers. After all, I have my weakness. Three more months, I don’t really mind waiting as I can use the time to read books from the library.”

Hearing Marie’s answer, Max then offered his hand.

“To our happy cooperation?”

“To our happy cooperation.”

Although the contract hasn’t been signed, an oral agreement has been reached. It is only a matter of time before they finalized the deal once Max has the base ready and the computer built.

“By the way, can I ask why you are reading the books from the library?”

Max thinks that in this digital era, any kind of information can be gathered from the internet. Not to mention that the book that Marie reads doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the heroes’ world as no book about heroes that Max know has been published.

“Well, I like reading. Not to mention I can learn a lot of interesting things. Because of my eidetic memory, I remembered things that I’ve seen once, so this is like training for me. To fill my brains with the things that I never read before. Then, of course, every morning, I still read news about heroes and villains to keep my information up to date.”

If what Marie said is true, then Max couldn’t say anything. After all, everyone has their own hobby. As for Max, when he was a child, his hobby is to play heroes, and now, his hobby is training. After all, he had never missed a day of training except when he was hospitalized.

After parting from Marie, Max didn’t forget to tell about the great news to Kalina.

“Big sis, I finally recruited someone.”

“Oh, who is it?”

Kalina naturally knows about the people on the list since she is the one who gives the list to Max.

“It’s Marie Wozniak.”

“Oh, it’s her? That was surprising.”

“I was planning to recruit Steve Linus, but my offer is too low for him. Kaiser Reed doesn’t even bother listening to me after finding out that I am a D-rank hero and Sarah Lee has already been recruited. On my shortlist, Marie is next since her information gathering stat is very high.”

“I see. I guess she could really fill you in on the information parts, but her other stats aren’t really remarkable.”

“I know. I’ve talked to her and realize that, um, she’s kind of like a wimp. Do you perhaps don’t like my decision to recruit her?”

“Not at all. After all, I’ve talked to you that I leave it all to you. After all, I’ve put her name on the list.”

“Big sis, to tell the truth, all of the overseers that I met so far are kind of arrogant and looked down on me. Marie, on the other hand, seemed to be different. Maybe that’s one of the reasons. I admit that while I am on Yuna’s team, I really have it easy since Rika is very competent, but I feel like slowly I turned into a robot.”

“Haha. I guess you just want to lead the team rather than being led. It also shows that your desire to stand out and become outstanding is extreme.”

“Big sis! I’m not an attention seeker, you know.”

“But being a hero itself is an attention-grabbing profession. Just look at your costume and the people on the street.”

“Anyway, big sis, I might need your help later.”

“Oh, what kind of help?”

“Regarding Marie. You’re a psychologist too. So maybe you can help her overcome herself. Just like how you brought me back to be cheerful like I used to be.”

“Okay, since Marie can be regarded as someone that worked for me, I’ll see what I can do to help her later.”

“Thanks, big sis. You’re the best.”