The moment the boss had taken out his gun, Rudy used telekinesis to divert the bullet and later made a cut on his hand when he fell to the ground on his face on purpose so they wouldn't see his face or injury. He had to make everything look realistic to convince them. Otherwise, he would raise suspicions.
Not only that, but when Maria grabbed the gun and pulled the trigger to kill herself, he used telekinesis to stop the bullet from coming out.
'Still, I never expected Maria to act so suicidally. Why are all the girls I met like this? But well, I am the same. If I saw the love of my life die in front of me, I would go insane too.'
Rudy patted Maria's back and said, "Maria, I am okay."
"I know."
"So let me go."
"No. I am not letting you go."
"You have to take a bath, right? We also have to go to the tournament, so you should hurry," he said calmly.
"What will you do?" She looked up at him with teary eyes and asked, "I was so scared."
Rudy gently smiled at her and said, "I will talk with your brother in the meantime. Don't worry, I have super luck, right? Nothing can go wrong."
"But you said I am your lucky charm…. so I have to be close to you…" she muttered with a slightly flushed face.
"You are close to me."
Rudy eventually managed to send Maria off to take a bath so he could have some private talk with Rusher.
"Can we go somewhere where we wouldn't be disturbed?" Rudy asked with a serious look on his face.
"Sure, follow me."
Rusher led Rudy to an open balcony room and stood by the balcony.
"So, what did you want to talk about?" Rusher asked with a judging look on his face.
Rudy leaned on the ledge and sighed softly before uttering, "I believe you have something to ask me first."
"...." Rusher turned to Rudy and asked, "You and Maria seem pretty close… as if you two are more than friends."
"Yes, you are right."
Rusher clenched his fist and asked, "So… Maria is into girls?"
'This man is an idiot!' Rudy uttered inwardly. 'I have stopped talking in a feminine voice ever since the VIP club tournament, but he is in denial.'
Rudy took off his hoodie and revealed his short hair.
"Oh, you cut your hair? You look like a boy now."
'What the fuck is wrong with him? How much denial is he in? He doesn't want to admit that I am a boy.'
Rudy shrugged his shoulders and said, "I 'am' a boy."
"Haha!" Rusher laughed fakely and said, "You are not good at jokes, are you?"
"...." Rudy was in utter disbelief. It wasn't as though Rudy had tried to hide the fact that he was a male. Even in the casino, when he officially met Rusher for the first time, he wasn't trying to hide anything.
Rusher didn't want to see Maria with a boy, so he pictured Rudy as a girl and engraved it in his mind.
"If you were a girl, I would have pulled down my pants and showed you my dick, but I don't want to do that to a middle-aged man," Rudy commented.
"I see…" Rusher uttered calmly and immediately pulled out the gun from his pocket. "How dare you trick me?!"
"Trick you? I never actually said that I am a girl."
Even though Rudy was at gunpoint, his face showed no fear. In fact, his face was expressionless.
"You…" Rusher moved his finger to the trigger and prepared to shoot Rudy.
"You were the one who automatically assumed I was a girl."
"But you had long hair, and you were wearing strange clothes!"
"And? Since when did long hair become a characteristic of a woman?"
"I didn't say that! It's not rare for a man to have long hair, but yours were long, reaching your waist! That's not common! And how do you explain that outfit?"
"The hair was a wig, and the clothes were also for a show. I was cosplaying as a character," Rudy replied nonchalantly.
"Then you should have corrected me when I referred to you as a girl!"
"Maria fears you. She was afraid that you would pull her away from me if you got to know that I was a boy, so she never denied it," Rudy shrugged.
"Damn right, I would have! Why shouldn't I?"
"I don't want to get involved in your family matters, but Maria now belongs to me." Rudy furrowed his brow and uttered, "If you don't want me to turn her against you, give her freedom."
"She already has enough freedom! I am just trying to protect her as a brother!"
"Oh?"
"Tell me one reason to not kill you!"
"I can tell many, but let's go with 'Maria will be devastated, and she would hate you for killing me.'"
"She would never learn of your death. I will tell her you ran away. I will get rid of your body, and no one will ever know anything! And as for your family, I will give them money and close the matter," Rusher asserted.
"That sounds legit." Rudy stretched his hands in the air and yawned before saying, "What if I tell Maria about who she really is?"
Rusher gulped down anxiously and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"I am talking about your incestuous activity with your twin sister. I am talking about Maria, who is not your sister, but your biological daughter."
"What nonsense are you spouting?! No one will believe you!"
"That excuse would have worked if this was some movie, but it's not. Nowadays, you can easily find out the truth with a simple DNA test." Rudy snatched the gun from Rusher while talking by taking advantage of the situation. However, he could easily do that using his powers if he wanted to.
"Knowing Maria, she would be curious to find that out, and she will learn the truth." Rudy tilted his head to the side and smirked as he said, "What do you think Maria will do once she finds out the truth of her origin?"
"You… bastard." Rusher gritted his teeth. "How do you know about all this?!"
