GOD OF ALL SYSTEMS
Chapter 16 - 16: "What is my Name?" (Bonus Chapter)

At the orphanage, within the three-story administrative building, inside an office with the words "Head Mistress" etched on the door entrance,

"Resigning?! Ms. Spike, I mean Maria, but you just registered with the orphanage yesterday, and resigning a day after is quite bizarre and unusual. If you don't mind, might I ask what has caused the sudden change of heart?"

"...I'm sorry ma'am, but I have urgent matters I must attend to, I hope you wouldn't mind me not telling you."

"Oh please, not at all. You are a fine young woman with responsibilities, I wouldn't want to have you here any second longer if it meant your discomfort. But I must say, you are a very interesting woman, volunteering as a teacher with zero expectations of payment. People like you are hard to find these days, it was nice meeting you, Maria Spike."

"Thank you, ma'am, I truly appreciate you understanding my situation."

The two female voices ended their conversation as the office door opened, revealing a blue-eyed Maria Spike with a dejected and helpless face with her head down, she wore long blue jeans, sandals, and a white t-shirt covering her breast. Suddenly closing the door behind her, Maria Spike raised her head as she stared at the closed door and sighed again, "I'm sorry," she murmured and turned.

But upon turning, Maria noticed an individual approaching from down the hundred-and-twenty-meter hallway; squinting her eyes, she witnessed many teachers stepping out from their classrooms and respectfully greeting the tall approaching male figure, but the tall figure only nodding in response to the teachers' greetings.

Finally, within her view, Maria raised her eyes in surprise as she stared at the approaching person.

The person was a tall, dark-skinned young man with silver hair, he wore a white long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled to his elbows, and he had long black pants with black boots.

The young man unhurriedly walked towards Maria Spike, his curly silver hair lazily dancing on his shoulder, with his gaze turned to the opened-view balcony on his right, he had his hands in his pocket and carried a face of extreme calm and tranquility, as if not even the end of the world could faze him.

Staring at the approaching man, Maria Spike held a blushy but curious face as she murmured.

"Him?! Isn't he Patrick Alexander King, rumored to be a genius but is not an Awakened?... How is he so tall... how can one even believe that is a teenager?... And why are all the teachers so courteous to him? Even yesterday, during the roll call, they were the same, as if he was their boss or something...

wait! I have wondered, the Head Mistress speaks of struggling to pay the teachers and workers, yet no teacher or worker has been reported to have resigned. Why is that?...

Could it be... No Maria, how can such an innocent-looking young man who lives in an orphanage afford to pay over fifty people for months? And even worse, he is not an Awakened, so I can't even say he secretly entered Gates to earn money... sigh what am I thinking? The workers and teachers must have felt indebted to the Head Mistress, that's why they haven't left yet."

From the distance, Patrick calmly approached as he stared right, into the surroundings, his Infinity eyes constantly pulsating with godly energy under the afternoon sun, making his golden infinity eyes with silver sprinkles shine even more magnificent and heavenly.

Noticing the woman standing in the hallway, Patrick gave her a casual lazy gaze which lasted for a second as he walked past her and towards the Head Mistress' door.

Exchanging gazes with Patrick, Maria's face became extremely blushy as her eyes widened with amazement and utter shock, she stood stiff at her location as she let her thoughts run wild.

'OMG, what a handsome man, his eyes, hair, physique, and body, they all seemed to have been crafted personally by God himself, and his smell, like he was bathed in the springs of Heaven... Just who is he?!...'

While Maria stood in her stupor, she heard the man knock on the door, followed by the Head Mistress saying "Come in!" The door then opened as a vibrant shout came from the Head Mistress again, "And look who it is...

if it isn't my favorite son, came to say hi to Mother?!" The young man remained silent as he walked into the office, but if Maria looked, she would have seen a calm and charming smile on the man's face as he entered the office. The office door closed, causing Maria to step from her stupor, regaining her conscious self, Maria, with an embarrassed face, hurriedly walked out of the scene.

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Within the office, an elderly woman, seeming to be in her late forties, passionately hugged Patrick as if seeing her son after a long time, she then released Patrick from her hug as she inspected him with a shocked face.

"Little genius... have you grown taller?! I seem to be able to touch your chin after I tip-toe weeks ago, but now I can barely hug your stomach, you have been eating well, haven't you?"

"Yes... mother Martha... I have been eating well."

Patrick spoke with a warm and charming smile as he stared at the lady. His eyes carried a look of kinship when staring at the woman. As if this woman held an important position in his plans.

The woman was 5' 8", fair-skinned, and had black short hair, she was very beautiful, one could tell she was a beauty during her youthful days. She wore a long grey office dress and grey sandals, making her lady curves more definitive.

"You know, I was thinking of calling for you, but coincidentally, here you are. You seem well dressed, going somewhere?"

"Yes, I have an appointment..."

"Appointment? Patrick, you are fifteen turning sixteen, what appointments would you have that I wouldn't be aware of?"

".... It's nothing serious, I'm just meeting with an employee..."

"An employee?! Right~~! Anyways, I called you here because of one thing, and that is this,"

The Head Mistress spoke as she picked up an envelope on her desk and held it in Patrick's direction, she continued.

"This morning, I received this mail and an email from the bank; apparently, someone paid all of our debts plus interest, they even bought the orphanage and donated over D$ 10,000,000 (Dasian dollars), not only that, but the bank also stated we are now entitled to D$ 500,000 weekly allowance and own over five hundred acres of the land surrounding the orphanage.

And if that isn't weird, I have been receiving calls all morning from various companies volunteering to renovate and redecorate the entire orphanage, food companies calling to confirm a lifetime contract which I don't remember signing for.

I have been doing some research, and I found something, although the person responsible for all this hid themselves, they forgot to hide their symbol. Their symbol is the letter K, a golden K, I searched for it on the internet and I found thousands of results, there is even a web page about the golden K. Apparently, the sponsor or generous donator is King Technologies..."

Patrick held a relaxed smile as he watched the Head Mistress seriously trying to understand what was happening. She held a thoughtful but confused face as she monologued, completely forgetting she was speaking to Patrick.

But despite the woman ignoring him, Patrick remained calm and unresponsive as he didn't interrupt her, on the contrary, he held an amused smile as he watched his orphanage mother struggle to solve a mystery. Mother Martha continued her monologue without interruption.

"But... I don't remember applying for sponsorship from King Technologies, so why would they sponsor us?! And besides, what will a triple-trillion pound company like King Technologies gain by assisting an unpopular orphanage like ours? This is quite strange; at first, I thought the teachers and workers in the orphanage not resigning after going unpaid for months was strange, but this is even stranger.

So Patrick, what I need your help with is to help me figure out if this is some prank or scam- huh? Patrick?!"

Head Mistress Martha turned to look at Patrick, but to her surprise, the seat was empty, Patrick was gone, and only a sticky note was left attached to the chair in his place. Picking the sticky note, she read the question asked on the sticky note.

"What is my name?"

Reading the question, Head Mistress Martha frowned as she thought of why Patrick would leave a sticky note asking her his name. But a sudden flash of realization crossed Martha's mind as she hurriedly picked up the mail letter again, she read the company's name repeatedly and matched it with Patrick's question when a huge secret unraveled itself.

Martha smiled and laughed unrestrainedly as she covered her mouth with her trembling shocked hands, tears flowed from her eyes as she uttered one sentence, this sentence being a name. The name that was the answer to the sticky note and to her mysterious sponsor, while also revealing the true owner of the richest company in the history of mankind.

"Patrick Alexander King!"