Devon Point of View

The task of impressing women is tough!

My Goodness, I had heard before that, women are difficult to understand and had also experienced it first-hand in my family as well. However, understanding a woman you like is super hard.

Almost impossible!

I sang such a beautiful song with my charming voice and what did I get in return? Look of disbelief and ridicule.

Talent is hardly appreciated these days!

"What else do you want me to do?" I heard her ask in clipped tone.

I raised my head and looked at Illaria with a bit of drunken hazy look. Looking at how she is dressed and how she looked, I could feel my heart coming into my throat.

So beautiful and so natural!

I don't know if it is my illusion or not but something changed in Illaria these past few days. She has always been gorgeous beyond belief but from the past few days, she just took the word 'ethereal' to the next universe.

Is it because my eyes are seeing her in different manner?

Is it because I am looking at her from the eyes of my heart?

"The news of the project EARTH is now public. The interview, although, was not satisfactory, still made a big hit in not just our country but all around the world. After all, SkyGod has made huge chaos in many places." Saying, Illaria pushed a small set of documents to me.

Facing her serious, no-nonsense only work mode, I straightened myself a little and gave the documents a brief read.

"Now we have to wait a little. We cannot rush this operation. It should look as natural as possible. Since the several Beta testings of EARTH are quite successful, let's proceed using the technology to make some good achievements."

Illaria looked thoughtful for a minute and nodded. "Alright. The government approached us yesterday to help them with setting several climatic catastrophe meters in different places as a start."

"I know, the meters are quite upgraded and useful in detecting the abnormalities in climatic changes, be it natural or man-made, far ahead of time. You should proceed with the deal and set up those meters. Right now, SkyGod is almost under NIO surveillance; so to pull out the hiding rat, we should proceed with expanding and installing EARTH technology everywhere."

We both looked at each other a kind of tacit understanding was exchanged silently. For a clever person, actions are enough. You don't have to put everything in words.

"Okay. If there is nothing else then, -" She was about to invite me to get out of her office when I knocked her work table twice to gain her attention.

"There is something else." Illaria arched a brow up in question and I continued. "I am now Uno Mayhem and until the operation is completed, I will be Uno Mayhem and act like Uno here."

I felt like giving her a heads up would be good on my part.

Also, since the character of Uno Mayhem can be quite annoying but still that character should be maintained like that so a heads-up to let her prepare for the coming days will be better.

A spark of fire passed in her eyes as she looked at me in grimace. "You still want to create havoc?"

"Uno Mayhem is important at this stage, Illaria. The one who created EARTH technology is one of the important people in the operation so until the hidden strategist of SkyGod is caught, the settings on the stage cannot be changed." I explained patiently.

"And for that, Uno Mayhem will get a little stranger and more absurd in his personality. Now that the project EARTH is announced, Uno Mayhem's character will get weirder from pride and boasting. I apologize beforehand that you will have to face a lot more madness in the coming days but I promise that it will not last for long. This will be wrapped up soon."

Forget her, even I, who is playing the character of Uno Mayhem, am fed up with the personality. Illaria, who has been tossed to do all kind of strange and meaningless things and had to go through the craziness of Uno, I know how fed up she is with it already.

For her to endure a little more of it would be the greatest punishment that even the eighteenth level of Hell wouldn't be so cruel.

"Weirder; as in?" Illaria asked with a deliberate slow tone.

Even my enemy shouldn't face the kind of conflict I am facing right now. The woman I'm trying to court is the same woman whom I should agitate as Uno Mayhem at the same time.

Even if some of my courting techniques pass about, the agitation that Uno Mayhem would bring back the positive grade to a negative grade.

And I can't even stop courting her because I know I should use this chance to pull her closer to me.

That doesn't mean I can go lenient on the mission as Uno Mayhem because it is important to the country and perhaps the whole world.

What the hell am I supposed to do?

"Just the usual Uno-ness but on a bit stronger level here forth. But I promise I will not take it too far." Looking at her face, I can tell even she knows that the promise stands no guarantee.

Forcedly, I took her silence as agreement. After giving her a few more words of assurance, I left her office with my back drenched in cold sweat.

This is so strenuous!

I soon left the Allard building and went to the residence that Uno Mayhem is staying in. Throwing a casual glance at Buzz who is also know as Ural, I plopped down on the sofa with an exhausted sigh.

Ural, who was working on his laptop, turned to look at me with a mischievous smile and a questioning gaze.

"You suddenly look ten years older; what made you age so fast?" Although that bastard hid his laughter, I could still sense the hefty amount of it in his tone.

Scowling at him, I rubbed my face with my hands roughly and leaned back lazily with another tired heave.

He got me an iced tea and plopped down beside me, this time waiting for me to speak. I told him roughly what happened in Illaria's office and our conversation, Ural couldn't help but shake his head, looking at me with pity.

"You are truly in a quagmire this time." I know right!

"Now I have to both irritate her and court her at the same time. Who in their right mind would be able to cultivate their feelings in such situation? One moment Devon will take one step forward and the next, Uno will pull him down three steps." For the first time in my life, I ranted so much.

I seriously cannot think of a way to make the best of both the worlds.

"You know how much she dislikes Uno Mayhem. Now, not only should I make her dislike me as Uno more, I should also balance it with me as Devon. Wasn't I doing well until now, why did my life suddenly turn such a twist out of nowhere?"

We fell into an uncomfortable and tragic silence for a while until Ural patted my shoulder with a good amount strength, causing me to almost fall off the couch.

"Devon, Devon, buddy –"

"Stop hitting me." I pushed him away and sat back properly before growl ferociously at my best friend who is worse than an enemy.

"Oops sorry. Listen to me first." He sat back properly as well and rubbed his hands. "Why do you think you will take a lose when you are being Uno Mayhem?"

"What do you mean?" I explained my feelings and thoughts to him so clearly and analyzed everything to him and yet he is asking such a silly question?

"Since Illaria knows you and Uno Mayhem is the same person, can't you use Uno's identity to romance her?"

I looked at him from top to bottom with a sneer and scoffed mockingly. "You are telling me this? You created the character of Uno Mayhem. You designed every aspect of it that will suit our mission aptly. How will Uno, with his craziness and mad personality, romance her? That too in Allard's workplace. Have you lost it?"

"You lost it. You are usually so smart and intelligent, why are being a dumb pig suddenly? Only Illaria knows Uno is Devon, others don't know so whatever Uno does is consider silly whatsoever. Why don't you just muddle along and be sillier and openly court Ms. Allard. Only Ms. Allard will know that Devon is trying to impress her, others will only think that Uno Mayhem has lost last of his nuts by trying to frustrate Ms. Allard in such a way. Use this opportunity to your advantage and just make a blast!"

Ural said excitedly as he analyzed the whole situation from another perspective for me.

Uno and romance?

Why does the whole scenario does not match?

Uno performing romance seems like pig doing a cartwheel.

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