While Jim was recovering inside the storage building, the others were standing guard outside.“Why didn’t he even eat anything?” Ronny wondered. “He only drank water. How can that be enough? If he wants to recover faster, shouldn’t he be eating a lot of food?”“I think now that he has vivre, he doesn’t need to rely on food all the time,” Scarlet opined. “In fact, when it comes to recovery, being on an empty stomach is better than being on a full stomach. Body can heal fast during fasting, after all. So, I think Jim knows exactly what he’s doing.”“Yeah,” Ace agreed. “He looks fit, so I’m sure he knows more about diet than we all do.”“Let’s say we all escaped from this place successfully,” Doug voiced his mind. “And then what? Should we go our separate ways, or should we tell the media about this place?”“Pfft,” Joker laughed a little.“What was so funny?” Doug frowned.“You think that the media is ethical?” Joker replied with a question.Doug couldn’t answer his question.“Most if no

Doug’s body released smoke all of a sudden.“Y-You’ve finally awakened your ability,” Ace excitedly said.“H-Huh?” Doug looked confused. “Smoke? How is this possible? I didn’t make any contract with a demon. So, how?”“I think it’s the nanobots that gave you the power,” Nightmare_lily said.“They can do that?” Little Nightmare was startled. “I thought they only enhanced our physique, strength, and healing factor. But to give out an ability…”“It happens one in a thousand cases, so not many people know about it,” Nightmare_lily said.“This is the power of nanobots?” Doug raised his hand, and thick smoke came out of it and swirled around his arm and went down to his feet, and then lifted him up into the air by a couple of feet.“H-He’s floating in the air,” Ace was astonished by what he saw. “It’s a cool ability.”“How is it cool?” Ronny said. “It’s just smoke.”“Don’t underestimate it. Every ability has its uses,” Ace said.“But, let’s not forget what we have to do soon,” Joker reminde

Jim and his group members were all heading toward Binnie’s hideout.In the background, one could see Little Nightmare beaten so badly that her face had completely disfigured, her nose and many of her teeth broken.It was Doug who had beaten her with his own fists. He kept hitting her even after the bones in his fists broke.Nightmare_lily was sitting next to her younger sister, looking at Jim’s back with extremely cold and full of hatred because all she could do was watch while her sister was getting brutally beaten.Little Nightmare was not even in a position to talk right now because her face hurt so badly. Her elder sister held her hand and comforted her.“He’s made enemies with the wrong people,” Nightmare_lily uttered. “Let us make him regret it badly.”Meanwhile, Joker was talking with Jim.“It’s not good to leave them like that after what we’ve done to them,” Joker told him. “They are going to definitely harm us sooner or later.”“Before they leave this floor, we’ll be out of t

Ronny’s heart jumped into his throat. “I-It’s a demon?!”Joker and others were also wide-eyed to hear Binnie’s words.“Why do you have that thing in your body?” Binnie did not even want to touch it with her bare hand. “Can’t you feel the demonic energy in it?” She looked at Ronny and others but no one except Jim seemed to understand what she was talking about.“Can we get that thing out?” Jim asked. He didn’t talk about this with Ronny because Ronny was not a strong-hearted man. If Jim were to reveal that the black mass that had infiltrated his body was dangerous, then it might affect his confidence and peace greatly, so he remained silent until now. Since Binnie brought it up, Jim also opened up.“No, not through ordinary means,” Binnie said. “It looks like this thing reacts to only certain frequencies, especially the destructive ones.” She looked at Ronny. “Where did you find this?”“I don’t know. One day, it was stuck to me when I woke up,” Ronny said. “Since it gave me strength, I

Marc and Shiney came home almost an hour after Rena had come home. They came straight to Rena’s room, but she was sleeping.They didn’t disturb her and went to Lola’s room to talk with her.Shiney didn’t speak for long. After she left, Marc spoke with her, “Did you know that Jim had a lawyer?”“No, he didn’t have any lawyer,” Lola said, “not that I know of.”Marc then gave her a visiting card.“Bernard Williams….” Lola was startled. “This guy is… my brother’s lawyer back in the day. Is he still around?”“He’s a lawyer in the supreme court now,” Marc said.“What?” Lola was pleasantly surprised. “How did you meet him now? How did you get his visiting card?’“He came to us himself,” Marc explained. “He was fucking fat, so I thought he was some excessive food-addict from a shitty neighborhood with a shittier past, but it turned out that he’s the freaking lawyer. He was too fat to fit inside your typical car. He came in a custom-made Benz car. I checked about him online. He’s clearly very