Ilian couldn't figure out what to do other than gape wordlessly at Lovely. New clothes? Not have to work? Okay, well, he wasn't sure if he was capable of not working because he would get bored, but if his work included writing music all day, every day, he was pretty okay with that.

He hadn't thought about a new car for himself, but Lovely was right. He could get a new car. He could also make sure his recruits were set up and not living in squalor… but he would probably use his own money for that, since Ilian doubted Lovely would agree.

"Huh?" he stared as Lovely got up, almost missing what he'd said and feeling his face turn red again for the second time. "I mean. Yeah," he said, ignoring the way Lovely mocked him. Just because his brain was a little fried over the new information he'd been given didn't mean he couldn't at least try to do something normal.

And the pizza wasn't going to eat itself.


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