Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 209

[Present Day]

"And that's how we turned out like this," The old man finished his story before snapping back to reality, "ah, I'm sorry, I must've been boring you with my story."

He then stood up and muttered quickly, "instead of me, why not talk about you, you...look..."

The old man suddenly froz as he looked at Ethan's face.

Ethan turned to him with a small smile before asking, "what is it?"

"N-nothing," the old man shook his head before mentally thinking, 'must've been my imagination, after all, no one would make that expression for someone they barely know.'

"About this trio," Ethan calmly started, "do they still visit the restaurant?"

"It's been a while now since they last came," the old man shook his head, "since they finally gained what they wanted and no customer seems to be returning here, I'd say it's their win."

Ethan nodded, placed a hand on his chin for a while before saying, with a smile, "can I order more

of this ? It seems I'm hungrier than I thought."

"Right away," the old man quickly picked up the plate, placed it on his tray and walked back to the kitchen, leaving Ethan to his thoughts.

"Leonard, Chad and Andrew," he repeated the names with a smile on his face, though, that smile stayed far from his eyes.

Of course, it was obvious enough that they had done this because of him, but why stoop this low.

It wasn't as if Ethan was close to the old man or anything, at most he was just a customer who stopped by here anytime he was celebrating something or willing to spend more than usual.

"How childish," He muttered as he leaned back with a sigh, "and to think it's just over a few words exchanged."

Being from the smith family, he thought the smith Brothers would have enough self control to not act out of pettiness but he guessed wrong.

They were used to everything going their way and it had been for the longest time. Though Leonard basically made his wealth away from family, the smith name had been more than enough of a help.

He was used to people bending the way he wanted, them barking when he wanted and kissing his ass how he wanted but Ethan hadn't.

Even during their days in the university, he had been the only one to not fight for his attention.

The kid had always been so engrossed in his studies, though he clearly didn't need to, with him being a genius and all.

Ethan had naturally stood out and that rubbed him the wrong way.

"So instead of facing me directly, he chooses to act petty and target those I've interacted....with," it suddenly clicked, if the Smith brothers and their human puppet had targeted this restaurant, then what was stopping them from targeting Newton Academy.

After all, they had provided him a job and although Mrs Harper had said everything was fine, he suddenly had the feeling that it wasn't.

"Athena?" He called out as he placed his phone on the table.

{Yes?} She immediately replied.

"Can you research on the current state of the Newton Academy?" He said, "I need their financial records, bank statements, teacher's salary and their general state currently."

{On it,} she answered and immediately got to work.

***

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, the old man hesitantly stop taking out the ingredients for the salad from his fridge before turning to Mrs Harper.

"Audrey?" The old man called out after a moment of hesitation causing her to pause while doing the dishes and turn to him.

"Hmm?" She answered.

"You said the kid outside used to work for you right?" The old man asked, "what kind of person do you think he is?"

"Ethan?" She thought for a while before answering, "he was a pretty good teacher, but at the same time, he was also a big nerd."

She paused for a while as she thought of how to describe him properly.

"I guess you could call him an introvert, since I've never seen him make friends," Audrey continued, "but at the same time, he doesn't seem to struggle with making a conversation."

"I see," the old man nodded before carefully looking at her and saying, "but that's not what I'm asking."

"No?" She muttered, "then what?"

"I'm asking if he's quick to anger or has a bad temper or something?"

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