"Are we waiting for someone?" Lancer asked, keeping his hands in his pocket even as high winds made his overcoat flutter.
Half an hour had passed since Leo started waiting near the helipad. Other than a few birds that flew past them, there were no signs of anyone else.
Leo looked at the time on his phone, "Don't worry. It won't take long. Fortunately, he was already nearby. It should be about time."
Just as Leo finished speaking, Lancer finally noticed something in the distant sky. It was like a small black dot which became bigger as it came closer.
As the object came closer, its shape became even more apparent. It was a ship. There were large sticklers plastered all over the ship, making it look a little childish. Even its flying path didn't seem stable.
From no angle did it look like the advanced ships owned by the Hero Tower.
"Is that a tape?" Lancer took off his sunglasses, showing his beautiful blue eyes for the first time.
He rubbed his eyes before taking another look, thinking that something was wrong with his sight before.
Even as he took a better look, nothing changed. Some exterior plates of this ship were indeed being kept together by industrial black tape.
The tape looked like it was fighting for his life to hold the exterior together. Even the trembling of the exterior could be seen clearly from a thousand miles away.
"Were you waiting for that death trap?" Lancer wore his glasses again, trying hard to control his laughter.
Even Leo felt a little embarrassed at the sight. The situation of Glitzy was even worse than he had thought. This ship looked even more unreliable than the last one.
For his plans, such unreliable ships were perfect. It meant there was more scope of inventory loss. Unfortunately, he was the so-called inventory this time.
'Can it truly escort me safely?' Leo rubbed his temple, his thoughts straying all over the place. 'Timmy, I swear to god if you crashed this ship with me inside, I wouldn't let your soul rest in peace even as a ghost!'
Although the ship didn't follow a stable path, it managed to reach the Hero Tower successfully. It landed on the helipad next to Leo.
The rusty door was kicked open, and Timmy rushed out, covered in sweat.
"It's you!" Timmy stared at Leo, his face looking as nervous as ever.
"I didn't think it was possible. Did you become even slimmer?" Leo looked at Timmy from head to toe. The young man had always been frail, looking like he could fly off with heavy winds. But this time, he looked even thinner.
'Whose fault is it?!' Timmy cursed inwardly. If it wasn't for Leo's delivery, he wouldn't be in this island nation that day. His previous ship wouldn't have crashed, and he wouldn't have grown thinner from stress.
Even since his ship crashed, he hadn't been able to leave this island nation. It was expensive to take a freight ship, so the boss of the company simply told him to wait as they sent a different ship for him.
The Hero Tower had paid some compensation to the Glitzy's Delivery Service, but that all went to the boss who said that he was going to use that money to get better ships.
Unfortunately, that was a time consuming process. Until then, they could only use the old recycled ships that were vacant in the company because no one wanted to use those death traps.
He was stuck in this expensive island nation where even a piece of bread cost as much as his weekly salary from Glitzy.
Only Timmy knew how he survived the last few days. It was no different than him fasting.
'You wouldn't understand what it feels like to use food sparingly so that it would last. Even if I tell you, you wouldn't understand.'
Timmy wanted to blurt out all his inner thoughts as he saw the unlucky face that had made everyone go south for him.
He didn't realize that he was standing before someone who was an even bigger expert in starving.
Timmy had almost started in an expensive city. But Leo was a once in a century genius who had almost managed to starve in the cheapest city on earth, despite having credits.
Timmy had at least survived on bread. Leo had survived on mere lemons. Of course, Leo wouldn't have considered that embarrassing achievement as something to be proud about.
Anyways, Timmy had received the 'new' ship from his company, if it could even be called that. He was on his way back, when he received a message from his boss that he had to pick up an important person.
He didn't think that he would have to see that unlucky face again. So what if Leo had created something that made Blaze look up to him? That didn't change the fact that he was like Saturn in his destiny.
"Are you that happy to see me again? You look like you're about to cry from happiness." Leo patted Timmy's shoulders, momentarily forgetting his physical state.
Timmy almost fell on his knees from the light tap on his shoulders. Fortunately, Leo caught him before he could fall.
"Anyways, we will talk later. For now, we need to get going." Leo released Timmy after making sure that he was stable.
"Right away." Timmy entered the ship, repeatedly praying in his mind that he was just overthinking about Leo being bad luck for him.
After all, he couldn't afford to crash another ship, no matter how junky it was.
Leo took a deep breath as he approached the ship that truly looked like it was found in a scrap yard and put together with tape.
'Now that I think about it, when I become rich in the future, I should buy a few ships for myself.' Leo thought before stepping inside the ship.
He didn't realize that when he looked at such words in the future, he would only laugh at them.
The reality in his fate was much more overwhelming than even his dreams could imagine.