Phobos hadn’t sneaked before in his life. However, the men trying to get in the restaurant were so preoccupied that they didn’t notice anything. He easily went behind them. Phobos didn’t have any hesitation with his movement.

He impaled the guy which had a revolver in his hand right on the back of his neck. This would sever all nerve connections below his neck. It wouldn’t kill him instantly but the bleeding would do the job quickly.

In less than a second after, before they could even react, Phobos stabbed the guy on his right side right through the ear. The damage to the brain was enough to drop him the same as the first guy, like a puppet that had its strings cut.

As both were simultaneously still falling Phobos turned to the third guy. Who hadn’t fully reacted yet was still weakly pulling at the restaurant door.

“Wait …”

He began to say something but what greeted him was a spike right through the eye socket. It buried deep to the hilt and stirred his brain. Phobos then calmly retracted the pick that was hanging the guy in the air. As he did the last guy collapsed. Phobos stayed still for a few moments.

“I hope I can justify this if society went back to normal … or make it as if it never happened.”

Phobos rubbed his forehead a little. He had remembered that based on his original personality he would never do such a thing. His original moral code had “improved” or returned somewhat. It showed by his psyche grasping that killing them was wrong however, it doing so after the fact didn’t help much.

Phobos thought that for now, it would be best to make it like it never happened. He didn’t want to deal with the law if the social structure was maintained. He dragged them one by one in an alley that was up close. No one would know it was him that killed them. Except of course Diana who was watching the whole thing.

There were approximately so many deaths that no one would care for three more scumbags. In reality, Phobos had no problem with what he did. If the three guys were allowed to do as they pleased, it would be a living hell for the women inside. Of course, that was if they succeeded after all the girls inside aren’t ordinary.

So Phobos’s problem is not one of morality. It was that it was not in line with his usual behavioural pattern. It felt like he had brainwashed himself without wanting. So his first priority, when he had free time, was to improve his psyche to match his previous behavioural pattern. What transpired inside his mind would forever be different after seeing that hell and now killing but that didn’t mean he had to compromise normal behavior for it.

While dropping the bodies Phobos grabbed the revolver that was on one of them. It may come in handy. He went to the front door of the restaurant and knocked a prepared special signal. Hearing some movement inside Phobos patiently waited. It sounded like there was a barricade being removed.

While that was happening he looked back and was expecting Diana to have bolted long ago. However, he was surprised that she was just two steps behind him. Phobos was now even worried that something may be wrong with her.

Every normal person would have run long ago if they saw someone just kill three people in cold blood. The mutant was understandable. After all, it looked obviously mutated and dangerous. It was also highly aggressive. However, there were a lot of different ways to resolve the previous situation. A lot of them may backfire but most people would try them.

Even Phobos, if he was normal he would have at most knocked them out. Maybe tie them up or break a leg to teach a lesson. However, when Phobos checked what he had analyzed from Diana he didn’t find any outliers for her decision making. He was sure that he didn’t actively change nearly enough to influence her. It may be the same as him where it restructured her mind to accept what happened.

Phobos, however, didn’t have any information about what could be changed. His mind was clear to him because it was constantly being analyzed and improved. However, in Dianas’s mind, he only saw her trauma caused by the scene and he used his ability for the rest. Maybe he was overthinking it. After all, he didn’t know her before. It may be a decision she would have made even if he didn’t make any changes.

Phobos stopped thinking about it as the door was opening. What appeared as it cracked open was a petite Asian girl. She looked extremely beautiful. She had a perfect slim Asian build. Her most striking feature was her eyes. They were sharp and at the same time cute.

She gave the vibe of a fox. Every other feature on her face was almost perfect. It was like a master craftsman carefully thought out and sculpted her face. This little beauty bowed slightly after she saw Phobos at the door.

“Boss.”

“Hera”

Phobos, of course, knew her. After all, they had lived together for four years. Im Hee-ra aka Hera. Phobos knew that it had a different pronunciation but his mother had told her to use Hera as her western name. Something about fitting his theme. Phobos wasn’t really one to argue and it seemed that Hera liked it.

Hera straightened up after Phobos acknowledged her, she glanced at Diana and turned around to lead the way. Both Phobos and Diana followed in.

Hera was one of two people that were alive Phobos trusted. It was a bit complicated how they met. Phobos learned from Hera that his mother had found her when his mother learned she was sick. Hera was meant to take care of him after his mother was gone. Hera was to be his personal assistant. Phobos’s mother, however, wouldn’t find just anybody to do it.

Hera was known as a child prodigy when she was young. She centred her world around studying and her parents very much approved of that. However, when she was 15 and preparing to acquire her first Ph.D., her parents tragically died.

Hera was devastated. She was highly emotionally dependent on her parents and because of her high interest in studying her social life was mildly said inadequate. That is why she easily entered a state of deep depression. Hera had no other family to take care of her and she was occasionally sent by the state to a psych ward for monitoring.

It was at that time that Phobos’s mother found her. His mother had searched the whole world with massive resources for a highly competent and high potential person to take care of his life after she was gone.

However, it was hard to believe people in general. It was especially hard for Phobos’s mother. She had been highly intelligent and it affected her personality to the point of being calculative and a bit cold.

That is why it was incredibly hard for her to trust someone to take care of Phobos. Especially when the person would have access to high amounts of funds by being in proximity to him.

That is when she had a crazy idea. She took Hera in and hired a team of psychologists to keep her stable. In the meantime, she acquired a lot of brainwashing books from the world's largest slave training organizations.

Phobos knew that his mother had been quite moral despite being cold until the few months before her death. He was shocked when he found out at a later date.

It would sound strange to anybody if told that somebody acquired professional knowledge that would need five years to learn in just a few months but Phobos’s mother had done it. Phobos knew his mother had an extremely high IQ. It was never officially tested but he never met someone who could keep up with her except for himself and Hera.

They say that candles burn the brightest just before going out. It was the same for Phobos’s mother. After finishing studying, what she wanted to do was quite simple. She took Hera and transferred her emotional dependency from her parents to Phobos. She made it so that Hera viewed him as the center of her world and the reason for her existence.

Phobos’s mother made it so Hera viewed him as her superior. The books she acquired were quite messy. They mostly covered Master and slave relationships. His mother modified it a bit. She focused to make Hera like a noble servant. She strived to burn every instruction deep to Hera’s core as they would become less effective with time.

Hera, however, had absolutely no resistance and took it all in like it always belonged there. She started functioning at full capacity after ‘the brainwashing’. She took a lot of courses on how to serve properly. And just before Phobos’s mother passed she had taken the shape of what everybody would think of when imagining the perfect servant.

Phobos had been in a complicated mood when she was presented to him. After his mother passed he hired a highly rated psychologist for Hera to go weekly. It didn’t seem to have much effect but it may remove the brainwashing faster.

Now that Phobos thought about it he could try to use his ability to help her. Looking around the hall there were tables and stools thrown all around after hastily making and removing the barricade that had stopped the three outside.

At the bar, there were three beautiful women. One looked young, another was at the ripe age of thirty and the last one was most striking. She looked in her twenties but had purple hair, purple eyes, and rainbow-colored fingernails.

Her face had a unique sharpness but it was immensely beautiful. Her distinctive purple eyes made her face quite enchanting. She felt like the most beautiful but poisonous flower.

“Boss, glad to see you unharmed. Although I never had a doubt you would be fine.”

“Eve.”

This was the second person Phobos could trust and his second personal assistant. If Hera could be said to be special, then Eve was unique. Her history had even more drama.

Eve had been an underground scientific experiment. Her colorful appearance was not her fashion sense. It was all ‘natural’. As natural genetic engineering could be. Nothing concrete was known of how she came to be but was rather found by debt collectors who had been searching for the person who engineered her.

Eve had later investigated and reasoned that he had been unluckily hit by a car while passing the road. He had been ready to start selling his biological engineering technology after a successful sample.

The debt collectors were flustered when they didn’t find anything else besides a baby. However, they were experts in making others' bad situation good for themselves. So when they saw a uniquely colored baby they sold it to local traffickers. They, in turn, sold it to a slave-trading platform.

Some way or another baby Eve made her way to the biggest slave training facility on the continent. The boss there found the unique baby interesting and investigated a bit. After finding out that she was a miracle in technology that shouldn’t exist, he hastened to find the researcher or his research where Eve was found.

However, to his disappointment, he never found the researcher. Who in turn had been paranoid and didn’t have any research notes to be found. So he kept Eve close at hand and treated her like a treasure. Literally. She was dubbed one of the top three biological treasures in the underworld.

The other two being a mutated human that looked like an elf and a dinosaur. It was unknown how a dinosaur existed. Whether it was cloned or somehow survived from the past.

Eve wasn’t trained as a slave growing up. She was more treated as an exhibit. Especially at parties, she was placed in a showcase to be presented. However, growing up in that environment her worldview was quite skewed.

That is why when she got away when the facility was in chaos, she started roaming the world to find somebody worthy of her to serve. Eve being genetically engineered to be perfect with the exception of her colors. Which is just an aesthetic piece to show that she was a genetically engineered product. It was hard for her to find someone who came even close.

Only after a year of roaming, she found Phobos. He really didn’t know what Eve found in him but she proved to him that she was a valuable asset to have.

Phobos was very sceptical at first. An exotic beauty showed up in front of him one day when he was leisurely people watching on a park bench and said that she wanted to serve him, he didn’t know what to do.

When she persisted for more than a month he could only hire her probationary as his second personal assistant. Hera at the time was already with him. Actually, Hera was the one that suggested he hire Eve.

After learning about her background and carefully checking Hera saw that it was beneficial to Phobos if Eve followed him. Phobos agreed to hire her but with the stipulation that Hera was to monitor her. This is where his trust of Eve came. He trusted Eve because Hera did. And he trusted Hera because of his mother.

Truth be told Phobos did benefit a lot when Eve joined his personal team. Eve had enough intelligence to equal Hera but she specced in a different direction. Eve's growing environment had been chaotic, to say the least. She had learned to read people well. She was more biased towards the sensitive EQ than the logical IQ. Of course, she didn’t lack in the later.

Therefore after Eve gained basic trust she became the person who screened personnel and negotiated with partners. Hera was in charge of all company planning and logistics. And Phobos was free to laze around and do whatever he wanted.

In truth, Phobos was thankful for both of them. And even if they betrayed him he wouldn’t really mind. He had enough assets and properties that nobody could touch except him locked for emergencies. Of which he could live a few lifetimes.

So he wasn’t worried at all. As a matter of fact, he lived a minimalist lifestyle. Every expense outside of his food and utilities was made by Eve and Hera. Whenever he showed just a bit of interest in something they would research and buy the best as soon as possible. Maybe that is why he didn’t feel the need for outside possessions. When you have everything nothing really matters. Of course, his indifferent personality contributed.

Phobos again felt a sliver of emotion since his father's death. He had been a little worried about both of them subconsciously now that he saw them all well he felt relieved. He swiped past Eve and looked at the remaining two females.

“Boss you should know Anna Sharp. She is our partner for the location and this is Alice. She is a worker here. For now, she is taking shelter here.”

“Ladies.”

Phobos nodded to them as he listened to Eve’s introduction. He looked around the interior of the restaurant. It seemed adequate. He had never been here. Phobos liked to acquire a lot of assets all around Europe but he hadn’t been to a lot of them. Especially after selling all of his father's shares of the companies that were politically intertwined.

After gaining a lot of liquidity Phobos sometimes treated the real world as a game of monopoly. It was almost impossible to personally know all his locations and partners. If he applied any effort to find out it would be easy for him but he was not that type of person.

In fact, both Anna and Alice were very beautiful women. It’s just that Phobos has had interaction with a lot of beautiful females. He had a bit of aesthetic fatigue. It took a lot to move him.

He could still appreciate their beauty but he had no fluctuation in his mind. Phobos had originally been rather indifferent to beauty but after a lot of experience, his indifference had only strengthened.

The space was well decorated if the mess at the door was excluded. Although he bought a lot of assets he held each one to a high standard. After looking around he went inside the kitchen space to check what food supplies were available. The whole space was quite well stocked. It even seemed a bit much.

“When we heard that you were coming, we over prepared a bit. We usually keep sufficient supplies but we took a bit extra care.”

Anna who was following behind explained. Phobos could understand so he nodded indifferently. It was a normal mentality. Even if you run things perfectly when there is an outside inspection you tend to prepare for the worst.

Phobos looked around the walk-in fridge and freezer. He saw that most things had begun to thaw or warm up. Looking at the cooling unit he began to think.

After a few seconds, he got up and touched it and tried to use his ability. In a sense, you could categorize repair as an improvement.

After his ability analyzed it he felt it was feasible to repair it. Although he would need to repair a lot of other things, he started to feel less pressured for food supplies. Except he would need a lot of energy to do it.

He had not tried his ability on objects but there should be a problem as he had already used it to analyze the cooling unit. He was however careful not to overdraw his energy again.

“Ladies prepare all the fast perishable foods and make as much food as you can. I have to figure out how to keep the rest of the food for the long term.”

While saying that Phobos just started to analyze all the components needed to cool the fridge and after that the wiring from the fridge to the main control unit. He didn’t care about the reaction of the women around.