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Chapter 77 by keron keron

What's next?

Waiting for Bruno's next move

After Angie leaves, you go back to the suite to sleep, not waking up until the middle of the day. You check your phone to see if you have any more messages from Bruno, but there are none. Then, you go downstairs to the concierge and see if Bruno has arrived. You fully expect him to show up, though you're not sure what he'll do. There's no sign of him, nor as the hotel heard from him, so you decide to go to the casino to gamble some more to kill time.

You gamble until the wee hours of the morning, before you feel a buzz in your phone. It's a message from Bruno, though it's cryptic. All he sent you is a link, saying that you need a computer to view it. Curious, you use your mind control to obtain one from one of the patrons at the casino, before you head up to the privacy of the suite and check out the link.

The link sends you to a video in the cloud, and the first thing you see is Bruno in a expensive blue suit. He smiles into the camera, before he reaches for it and picks it up, turning it around. Then, following the camera angle, it redirects until it's facing a mirror. It looks like Bruno is wearing some sort of hidden camera on a pair of glasses.

"Look at the time stamp in the bottom left corner," he says in the video, and you look. It says it's noon, so this must have been recorded, not streaming live. You wonder what he's up to, then the video goes black. A few seconds later, the video comes back, although the time stamp indicates that about an hour has passed since, and Bruno is walking while the camera captures his point of view. He passes a lot of young people and it looks like he's on some sort of college campus. This video is getting curiouser and curiouser.

The more he walks, the more you find the place familiar, before you realize it's your alma mater, Columbia university. You're still not sure what he's doing as he navigates his way into a lecture hall full of students. You see one of your former professors, Professor Henry Stephens.

"Ah, yes! Students, please welcome mister Bruno Riley of Riley Industries, one of the richest men in America!" Professor Stephens announces to the class and there's a round of applause for Bruno. "Before I let you all go, I received a call earlier today from Mister Reilly, saying that he's looking for a personal assistant, and has decided to pick someone from this class. On top of a job waiting for you when you graduated, he has offered to pay this lucky person's full tuition, plus provide an apartment for him or her in downtown Manhattan!" The students cheer as Bruno surveys the room.

"So, I've put all of your names in this bowl," Professor Stephens holds up a bowl, "And Mister Riley here will now draw the name of the lucky recipient!" This all seems highly unusual, and you're still clueless about what's going on. Then, as Bruno looks around the room again, your heart skips a beat. You realize what this is about.

What's this about?

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