Sandara, apparently, still had some humanity left in her, or perhaps she only had such a bad personality towards people her own age.
Leo thought this when he saw her look embarrassed as the little boy called his mother. He took a few steps, picked up her suitcase from the ground, and looked at Sandara, who calmly walked up beside him.
"I'm asking seriously. Why won't you accept my apology?"
{Sandara's Insanity +1}
This time, the gauge stopped exactly in the middle.
Sandara looked at Leo with contempt before speaking.
"What are you talking about? I completely like you. If you strip completely, prostrate yourself before me, saying I am a queen, and apologize that way, maybe I can accept that you are not worthy of me. After all, I don't want my children to be bald."
Leo felt himself slowly starting to get angry because he was also extremely bothered by his thinning hair. Now that Sandara brought this up and mocked him, he got slightly angry and forgot the balance he was trying to maintain.
"That will never happen. Keep dreaming."
Hearing Leo's cold tone, Sandara looked at him in surprise.
Meanwhile, even though Leo realized his mistake and could imagine the text {Sandara's Insanity +5} floating in the air, he saw a brown boot in front of his face before he could react.
With the hard blow that followed, Leo fell backward, his nose bleeding.
Leo stayed on the ground for a while, waiting for the dizziness to pass, and then he realized a truth.
Apparently, the girl's father did not forget to pass on some of his skills to his daughter. That's bad news for a physical failure like me.
I really need to be careful with her now. If we met in a secluded place, she could genuinely strip me, take my pictures, and blackmail me.
Leo assumed the girl was already gone due to the earlier footsteps, so he held his bleeding nose, looked around to find where he had dropped his shopping bags, and saw a pair of boots whose taste he knew well standing right in front of him.
Leo, afraid she might not even need a secluded place anymore, raised his head for a moment.
Fortunately, Sandara didn't seem to want to cause any more trouble. She just told Leo that if he ignored her phone calls next time, she would forcibly enter his house that night, and then she left.
This relieved Leo, who was about to take out his luck elixir in fear.
That is, until Leo picked up his belongings, reached home, and calmly started preparing dinner.
Leo remembered that the thing he feared most had happened at that moment.
Sandara's gauge panel was now completely broken, and it was impossible to calculate what Sandara would do in the future. Perhaps Sandara was crying in her father's arms and complaining about him right now.
But no, this couldn't be.
If Sandara was going to do that, she wouldn't have come to him and told him not to ignore her phone calls.
This final reminder meant that Sandara still wanted to deal with him on her own. Of course, if Leo really hadn't answered her phone call, things could have gotten genuinely chaotic this time.
An imaginary gauge panel was floating in front of Leo at this moment.
{Panel to be followed to avoid being bullied by Sandara}
This panel suddenly disappeared, replaced by a new one.
{Panel for survival while being bullied}
In the new panel, physical bullying was at the top of the gauge, while psychological bullying was at the bottom. The other thing that was different about this panel was that this time, it was Sandara's actions, not Leo's, that moved the gauge.
If the panel reached the very top, Leo would have to go to Sandara's father to complain, because the police would not easily invite the daughter of a former special forces commander for a simple physical injury.
If the panel reached the very bottom, Leo would have to quietly sell his house and contact his family to leave the country.
Huff!
Leo angrily exhaled and decided to forget about this matter for now.
After all, he was special from the very beginning. (A useless MC with a cheat in both lives).
After setting everything aside, Leo prepared dinner and found a Korean drama to watch on TV. The plots were definitely not as good as the dramas in his previous life, and many stories were copies of each other, but the comedy dramas were still somewhat watchable.
Leo sat down in front of the dining table and was about to start the drama when he found himself in a dilemma.
If he were to drink a quarter of the bad luck elixir right now, all the food he cooked would be ruined, and a reason that would prevent him from watching the drama would arise.
Leo thought for a while, then decided to take out the bad luck elixir and drink it with a tearful expression.
After all, in this situation, the bad luck elixir wouldn't trigger anything that would ruin his life.
Opportunity to drink the bad luck elixir without risking my life > enjoying a good drama and relaxing.
Leo decided there was no need to think further, and even though he felt very bad, he took out the bad luck elixir and drank it.
Seconds passed. Leo deliberately stood up and sat down a few times, and even walked a few laps around the table, but he didn't trip over, knock over the table, or even experience a power outage that would cause the drama to shut off.
This situation gradually frightened Leo, who stuck his head out the window to check if there was a storm outside or a plane crashing toward his house.
But after a long silence, the only thing he heard was the notification sound from his phone.
Leo suddenly thought of the Sandara + bad luck combination and swallowed, while a small void opened in the space inside the house.