Jessica came into the living room after checking the stock price of the CVA (Chris Victory Agency), then she soon regretted it.

I shouldn’t have protected them like that.

No, she was right in protecting the group, but the way she did it was wrong. Even if she hadn’t stepped up, Odin would not have allowed the merger and acquisition.

Her husband, Gillian, kept calling her, but she didn’t answer. She had turned her phone on mute as she expected this would happen.

As Jessica was deep in thought with her hand resting on her forehead, she was interrupted by a female voice.

“Are you not going to answer?”

The person asking was Lucy, an Awakened Jessica had hired as a residential security guard. She had noticed a clear disparity in skill level among the Awakened, prompting her to seek assistance from the higher section.

Despite this, she couldn’t shake the feeling that bringing such an individual to her place was not quite right for her. Moreover, the Awakened in the high section were those who had led a group in the Stage of Advent. It was paradoxical, but they tended to miss those times a lot.

What Jessica despised most were their condescending gazes toward those who they considered beneath them. Although some were adept at concealing their true intentions behind courteous manners, she couldn’t help but penetrate through their veiled expressions because she was once like that before.

She was extremely sensitive and arrogant now, particularly...