The job wasn't bad, nowhere near it. The pay was good, decent hours, vacations, low but efficient effort was enough, and as a plus you got to travel around when needed.

But it certainly wasn't in the job description that you'd be dealing with an idiot with name and surname that liked to breathe down your neck at each given opportunity he had, as if he was entitled to it just because he existed and you consumed the same air as him.

Michael Kaiser was nothing but a pain in the ass to everyone, particularly when he wanted and to a specific group of people who he — in your opinion — apparently made it his life-long work to bother and make miserable. And unfortunately, you were part of that group of his.

Not really, maybe it was just an exaggeration to say that he was targeting personally or that he was really making your life miserable. But he was really annoying. Teasing, constantly calling you just to make sure you wasted time, making you revise your work, asking for dumb things at dumb times. Every single petty act he could think of was part of the still growing list.

You were amusing in Michael's opinion. Not quite in the position of Ness or someone lower but also not someone above him like Noa. Not quite a toy. It would always be amusing to him how you reacted to the things he did.

And by all means, he wasn't about to stop.