Friends Bar.
As September drew closer, Adam's gatherings with his friends became more frequent.
It couldn't be helped.
People's hearts were fickle.
Plans could never keep up with change.
Adam needed to stay updated on his friends' mental states and thoughts as quickly as possible, keeping track of their schedules.
In truth, handing this task to King of Hackers A Long Sigh would have been very simple.
But the reason would have been hard to explain.
Why were all his family and friends being monitored?
Was he worried about some major event that would happen later?
How did he know?
Why did he not stop it?
Even though Adam trusted Juno completely, such matters were still difficult to explain.
Not to mention that it did not involve only Juno, but also A Long Sigh.
So Adam could only use the clumsy method: increasing the frequency of their gatherings lately, grasping everyone's schedules through conversation and subtly guiding them.
"Cheers!"
Everyone raised their glasses.
"To what?"
As Adam walked over and saw Ted and the others raising their glasses, he smiled.
"To Ted Mosby, the future master architect!" Lily shouted.
"A master architect?"
Adam's heart skipped a beat.
Architecture was the last thing he wanted to hear his friends and family mention now.
"Didn't Ted recently strike out on his own? He still hasn't landed any major projects," Marshall explained. "Goliath National Bank is preparing to restart construction on its downtown New York headquarters building. It came up in this morning's meeting. They were originally planning to approach that Swedish architecture firm. But Barney suggested America First. If they could give it to an American company, why let some Swedish company profit from it? Bilson, the company boss, said no one hated foreigners more than he did or understood America First