“So you tell me now… What made me sick? Motherfucker!” Medusa’s eyes shone in the dark. She didn’t know for how long he had been observing her, so she couldn’t just attack him straight away. “What do you know?”“Only two kinds of people give excuses,” Gabe said in a normal voice after realizing that she was able to perfectly hear him despite being far away. “Lazy people and those who have things to hide. It’s obvious that you belong to the second category. So, I’m not going to trust anything that comes out of your mouth.”“So, you don’t agree with my words that there’s so much sickness in the world,” Medusa coldly blurted, getting closer with every step she took forward. “Just the other day, I bought some ‘fresh’ apples at a store,” she said. “Yes, I buy things, too, because I lead a double life. But those apples smelled like petroleum to me. I did some research and found out that these ‘smart fresh’ apples were being treated with petroleum-derived gasses to keep them appearing fresh

Systa wanted Gabe to train with the crocodiles for this night, but Gabe had other plans. He spent the entire night doing one thing and one thing only.The next morning.He woke Nicole up and told her to brush her teeth and freshen up. She didn’t know what he was up to, but she did what he told. And then he took her to a store. There was a ribbon tied at the door.Nicole looked at him. “What’s this?”Gabe smiled and gave her a scissor.“W-Wait…” Nicole’s eyes widened. “Don’t tell me… you bought this grocery store?”“I leased it for five years, Mom,” Gabe said. “I’ll hire someone to watch over the store when I’m not around.”“Gabe…” Nicole didn’t look too happy. “You should have told me before you did something like this.”“D-Do you not like it?”“It’s not about liking or disliking…” Nicole could see the inside of the store. All the products she kept seeing on the shelves didn’t please her. “I worked in grocery stores before. They do all kinds of things for profit. For instance, they bu

Gabe ate the rest of the cake while reading the accounts book. With the help of Systa, he was able to read more than ten books in less than half an hour.“With this, I don’t have to worry about resuming the trade with the current dealers,” Gabe thought, “as long as they wish to continue the relationship with this store.”[Why wouldn’t they?] Systa blurted. [They are going to think of you as a newbie shopkeeper, so make sure to teach those punks a lesson.”“Huh… I just realized that I ended up becoming a middle man that I hate,” Gabe sighed.[What are you talking about?]“Well, Mom told me that I need to be crafty to manage this store, didn’t she?” Gabe uttered. “That’s because most shopkeepers profit a lot off of every item they sell. Nowadays, the retail price printed on the products has lost its credibility, so there are people selling things for crazy prices every time there’s some fluctuation in the market. I’ve seen some shopkeepers rise from lowly men to owners of three floored

Gabe took all the necessary information from the Tenth Nail, everything that the Tenth Nail knew.Using that information, he used Systa to improve upon that knowledge. “An assassin organization called Men in Blood… These members seem pretty weak to me, but as per regular human standards, they are pretty skillful. The identity of their head is secret, except that he’s someone ranked above 100,000 in UTS. Whoever it might be, I’ll have to beat him and make him spill the beans.”[You think it has something to do with the governor and his wife?] Systa wondered.“The chances are high. If it turns out that the governor wants me dead, then there’s no point in playing matches in UTS anymore,” Gabe said resolutely. “I’m going to have to deal with that governor and his wife. Those two and everyone involved in the death of my parents must pay!”At the headquarters of Men in Blood.All the top five men of the organization, from First Nail to Fifth Nail, gathered before Big Mama who was currentl

Gabe waited for over an hour, but the head of Men in Blood didn’t come. “I want to know who their boss is. I can’t leave without knowing their identity, or they might come after my family.”While these assassins were no threat to Gabe, the same couldn’t be said about his family. This was why he wanted to destroy this organization completely.Gabe even checked the mobiles of everyone, including Big Mama. There was nothing related to their boss, which made him wonder if there was even a boss. So, he woke Big Mama up and tortured her some more. Big Mama told him that this gang had no boss, and that she was fooling everyone with an identity that didn’t exist.Gabe couldn’t fully believe her, so he branded her with a servant mark by clawing her arm with his nails.From what Systa told him, this mark would make sure that this old woman would never do something that would harm Gabe. it was a mark applied by force, so it wouldn’t last long given Gabe wasn’t even a master alpha. However, this