"Never mind," she said. "I'll stay with this job for now. I'll just quit once I've gained some impressive achievements and made my resume look better."

"But don't you mind how those people treated you earlier?"

"Of course I do! But…"

Lisa shrugged and added, "I guess it's the disappointing helplessness of ordinary people. I'm just like them too. Even if I never got along with those people much, I still had to stay with the job in order to make a living. As for them… Well, the person attacking me at the time was Jenny Hall herself. If they had helped me back there, it would've meant declaring themselves as her enemy, and I'm not a dear friend of theirs anyway, so why would they ever do such a foolish thing just for me?"

Terry was somewhat surprised that Lisa could see through all that.

But as soon as Lisa had finished her sentence, her body seemed to stiffen up, and she began to stare at him with a weird look in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" he asked, frowning slightly. "Why are you