Chapter 64: Undeserving icon

"What do you mean crashed? Did you press something, or did you receive a kill code that killed the site? Because it can’t be the other option, can it? It has a limit of 100k people, for goodness’ sake, so it can’t be it."

"I think it’s it. It has exceeded the limit, so it crashed."

"Friesian, how is that possible? Not many people should even know about the site."

"What if someone that’s not me posted the link to the site on different social media?"

"Friesian, why? Why would you do that?"

"I felt the site was not doing well, so I did some little advertising, and it blew up in 15 minutes or less. How was I to know that the people are extremists for villains?"

"Friesian, they are not extremists for villains. They are extremists for your alter ego, ’Lupingo.’

"I believe they are bored, and Lupingo gives them that something that drives their boredom away. Just like how the caffeine from a coffee drink makes someone alert and awake when they take it, that’s how they feel when they watch you. You give them that joy and energy.

"And I think that they are now committed to it. That’s why your site gained too much traction."

In my mind, I was just thinking, how bored can someone be to go and seek entertainment from a villain like me? And how many are they, for goodness’ sake?

"So, can you fix it?" I asked her.

"It is a simple fix. Just give me 10 minutes to fix it."

And before 10 minutes was over, she had already fixed the crash issue. She even added some new features, like administrator, and some other things. She created some surveys that if you want to join the site, you have to answer. She added some fan hierarchy, and to get to the top of the hierarchy, you have to answer a lot of questions pertaining to me. She also added some other things that make the site very interesting.

And that was in less than 10 minutes. She also increased the limit to 500k for safety purposes. After she was done, I saw that the amount of people there were closing in on 200k. They were already that plenty, and this is just the first day. But now with the new features she added, it would make it hard for people who are not Lupingo’s true fans. They will find it hard to enter the app.

After I watched the site progress for some time, I dropped my phone and said to Vivian,

"Let’s start the preparation for the next mission."

"Friesian, that’s quick. And it’s late at night. Can’t we do it tomorrow? I am tired, and I want to focus on the film I am watching, which, by the way, I have lost focus on what they are doing."

"You are tired, but I feel energized. I have enough energy to run a marathon as I am now. And your movie can be recorded. It’s not hard."

"That’s not fair at all. You just woke up from a long nap. And recording films always feels somehow. It doesn’t have that feel of watching it live."

"Well, whatever. We are doing the meeting. And look at Avery. She is not complaining at all. Her mouth is shut, and she is not arguing like how you are doing."

Vivian looked at Avery and felt like saying something, but she just stopped. She took in a deep breath and then breathed it out. She then said,

"Okay, we will have your discussion, but not in here. We will do it in the sitting room, but after we have eaten something, and after I have taken some caffeine. If not, I am afraid that I won’t be able to join your meeting."

Vivian said that, and I knew that I had no choice but to agree with it. We went back to the sitting room. We all climbed the elevator, which later took us back to the living room. As we reached the living room, Avery and Vivian went toward the kitchen to cook, while I sat on the couch and began to read a book that I have been trying to read for a long time.

We young people find it hard to read nowadays. Anytime we carry a book and say, "Okay, let me read this today," they will carry the book, and without even reaching the second Chapter, fall asleep. At least that’s the situation I usually face when I am trying to read the book. If it’s not that, then it’s my phone. I find all those social media apps more interesting than books sometimes.

But today I have decided that I will pass higher than Chapter one this time around. That I will reach Chapter two, and I will reach higher Chapters.

I read and read, to the point that I felt sleepy. But I know that I must persevere to the end. I have made a promise that I will pass Chapter 2, so I can’t fall asleep in Chapter 2. I reached Chapter 6, and I felt like if I did not focus enough, that I would sleep.

My eyes were already getting weak. Me, who just woke up this evening after sleeping for close to 24 hours, is about to be defeated by a book. No way. I can’t allow that.

5 minutes later.

A man could be seen sleeping on the couch with a book in his hand. It felt like the man was reading, but it’s just that the eyes of the man were closed.

Avery, who brought Friesian food to the sitting room, came to the room and saw that Friesian was already sleeping with a book in his hand.

She then decided to wake him up.

She nudged his body a little for him to wake up, and it worked.

Friesian jumped up and said,

"I am not sleeping," he said urgently.

Avery, who woke him up, almost laughed outside, but she felt that laughing would make the situation somehow hard.

Vivian came out from the kitchen area with some food in her hands. She looked at the situation and asked,

"What’s happening here?"

"Nothing, nothing is happening. I am just reading this book, right, Avery?"

Friesian asked Avery, who just nodded along.

"Okay, whatever. Let us eat."

Food was then served to the table. Avery dropped the two bowls of Jollof spaghetti and meatballs on the table. Vivian also dropped her own on the table. They then began to eat. After 15 minutes, Friesian was done.

Friesian, who was done eating, lay down on the couch, turned on the large plasma TV television, and put it on the news channel to see what’s going on. There are things social media don’t talk about, that you can only see them on the news.

But before I changed the channel, an advertisement was going on. A capsule recovery bed that can give you the rest you required in 10 minutes. No need to take long rests anymore. You can work nonstop and just lie down in the capsule recovery bed, and all your pain will go away. So buy your capsule recovery bed at 10 percent off from its normal price. Buy your capsule recovery bed at 1800.99 euros. Buy now and start working nonstop. Terms and conditions are applied for all buyers. Thank you.

After that, I removed it from that channel and put it on the news channel. And immediately the thing landed on the news channel, I saw a heading with my villain name written in bold.

[Lupingo: The New Icon of the New Generations. He is the icon and future role model of the now and future generations.]

I looked at the channel to check if this is truly the news channel, or if someone was playing tricks on me, because I felt that the heading I saw looks tricky. I can’t believe whatever the heading is. That is at all.

Like bullshit, what is someone like me doing as an icon of the future generations? A villain, for goodness’ sake. I know that I have said this too much, but if all this kind of situation keeps showing up, I can’t help but say it again and again.

"Friesian, they are talking about you on TV. They call you a role model for the now and future generations. Hahahaha ??." Vivian said, while also laughing, and it couldn’t help but get on my nerves.

But I just chose to focus on the news instead, to see what nonsense they will talk about.

(We were also bewildered when we found out about it, but that’s just what it is. Time has come when a villain is an icon. An icon that is and will lead his own people, and it’s already happening, in fact. A lot of links for a site to join Lupingo’s website, and people were joining in droves, but now it has reduced, thankfully. We believed the site crashed for some time. We don’t have any idea of the reason why. We have no idea who was the culprit that put the link to the site. We have hired the best hackers to track, but our results ended up fruitless. So we are thinking it’s Lupingo himself, because we all know Lupingo has a hacker working for him. We don’t know if the government has been able to crack down on the website yet. We have been in the dark since they refuse to answer us.)

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