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JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 108
The only saving grace about the dungeon trials was that the pawns wouldn’t be forced to keep competing if they were significantly injured. Of course, if the watchers wanted a pawn to continue fighting with wounds, then they would still be forced to fight, but such a thing only happened only once in a while.Given how nasty Jim’s shoulder injury was, most of the watchers didn’t want him to fight another match. Lovelace was the only person who said that the injury wasn’t that bad, and that Jim could fight another match without a problem.In Jim’s room, AA7.The wound that had been bleeding quite a bit began to heal from the moment he stepped inside. Within an hour, the wound was completely gone, not even leaving a scar.Jim still found it hard to believe that the healing was done by the nanobots because he couldn’t feel anything abnormal moving in his body.Now that he was healed, he wanted to practice the martial art again. However, he remembered how his Bone-Breaking Fist skill wasn’t
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 109
Bob and Austin together arrived at the accident spot, where the heavy truck and the car that were destroyed were still there. It looked very desolate and creepy, especially because there wasn’t any traffic now.Seeing how the car was flipped over and destroyed, Austin drew in his lips. “I heard multiple people died on the spot, but this is quite nasty. Rena is really lucky to have survived this.”Bob squatted down and observed the surroundings of the car.“Are you looking for clues?” Austin asked. “I don’t think you’ll find anything worthy because many people would have stepped over this spot since it’s been more than a day since the accident happened.”“You can do an investigation based on opinion, Austin,” Bob said. “You do it based on the evidence.” He looked around carefully. “There are no obvious signs that tell me that the car came skidding. There are many things that don’t add up. The truck went off the road much further up, whereas this car… it looks like it was blown off the
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 110
Bob had picked the spherical biscuit into his hand. It started rolling in his palm, which helped him travel in that direction.Currently, Bob was sitting in Austin’s car, with Austin in the driver’s seat.“Are you sure it’s not giving directions to where Rena is?” Austin joked. “Because it looks like the hair-biscuit GPS system is taking us to the Spring hospital.”“Just keep driving,” Bob calmly replied.A few minutes later.Their car stopped at the Spring hospital. Austin looked at Bob and laughed. “Haha, I told you, didn’t I?”“Maybe, Jim is also in this hospital?” Bob wondered and stepped out of the car and followed the direction the biscuit-ball kept rolling.Austin followed him, but he looked more amused at this point. He no longer believed that what Bob was doing was black magic, but some kind of trickery just to make himself appear as if he was doing something supernatural.As Austin expected, Bob ended up reaching the room Rena was in. Austin controlled himself from laughing
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 111
At Lola’s home.Shiney was alone in the house. She was watching television, but her thoughts were elsewhere.She did go to the hospital, but she couldn’t look at her sister being in such a terrible condition, so she came back to the house.“Where are you, Jim? My parents think that you hurt Rena, but I don’t believe it. There’s just no way that’s the case,” she firmly believed in him. After all, even though she acted out of place and tried to take advantage of him many times, he didn’t get angry at her. He was too good and cool of a guy to let his current wife be in a coma and go elsewhere in Shiney’s opinion.Shiney called his mobile, but again, she was getting the same response. “It’s still switched off.”Her stomach was making a lot of noise, so she came downstairs to the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator, but there was nothing interesting to eat inside. She wanted to eat spicy food.“Should I cook the noodles?” she wondered. “I’ve never made them myself, but I’ve seen Jim cook
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 112
It had been half-an-hour, but Shiney was yet to finish eating the noodles. A waiter came to her table and asked her if she wanted a soft drink to go with the noodles.“I’ll have coke, if it’s stored in the glass bottle,” she said.“No, ma’am. We only have them in plastic bottles.”“Then, no thanks.”“What’s the difference?” the waiter couldn’t help but ask.“Everything. Be it freshness or the flavor, it’s way better when you store it in the glass bottle,” Shiney said. “Plastic bottles don’t retain the original flavor, and my tongue is sensitive, so I can easily taste the plastic that gets mixed into the drink.”“Okay, then please do eat quickly,” the waiter told her in a low voice, “because the manager is not happy because you’re eating very slowly even though you only ordered just one cheap item.”“Five dollars isn’t cheap,” Shiney blurted, “but I get it.” She got up from the chair and began to walk away, without eating the rest of the noodles. The waiter tried to stop her, but the m
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 113
Once Jim regained his stamina, he didn’t waste his time sitting in that room. He grabbed the book and walked out, still wearing nothing but shorts.“I’d like to find some clothes first,” Jim uttered. “And a bag, too, so I can put this book it and also carry some food and water bottles with me.”He kept walking while observing the rooms that were already open, but he didn’t find any people living there, nor did he find any clothes that he could use. To his surprise, he found a metallic watch, which was working. He wondered if he should pick it up or not.[What are you hesitating for?] Joe asked. [A watch can help you optimize your time. Take it.]“But, it looks like this was someone’s watch…” Jim said. “They must have had many memories with it. I don’t think I can put it on and not feel like I’ve stolen it. It just doesn’t feel right.”[Huh? Are you forgetting that you’re in a place where you need to do everything you can to survive?] Joe blurted. [You already killed people, and now yo
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 114
Jim searched more than forty rooms, and he didn’t find anything valuable. It was as if nothing valuable was left behind for anybody to use.“These people managing the dungeon didn’t leave anything useful in these rooms with open doors,” Jim wasn’t frustrated by it because he was now able to better understand how these people running the dungeon operated. “If I want to get my hands on something useful, then I have to probably fight for it.”[I can’t tell you which room will help you, though.] Joe said.“Did I ask you for help?”[You didn’t, but I’m just saying.]“Say what you want, but I’m going to make you my servant by getting out of this dungeon,” Jim said. As he kept walking down the torch-lit corridor, a door opened. It was of room number AA1.The tall, muscular guy, Pyron, stepped out and slowly turned his head and looked at Jim. “To be roaming outside so casually… you think the dungeon staff is going to like it?” He pumped his gauntlet-worn fists, releasing sparks of electricity
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 115
A few minutes later.In room number AA11.Jim opened his eyes and found himself inside a room that was locked. There was no one in the room but himself. The martial art book was right next to him.“What the hell happened?” he wondered. “Why am I in a room?”[You strike managed to knock him out.] Joe said. [But then you also collapsed right afterward. Since it was a draw, the robots took you both to different rooms. The nanobots healed your abdominal injury, and you woke up exactly eleven minutes after.]Jim looked at his belly and touched it. He could still feel some pain, but it was very minimal and bearable. “That punch hurt like hell, but I somehow managed to hit him back. It didn’t connect as well as I wanted, but I’m glad that was enough to knock him out. Otherwise, things would have ended there for me.”[You’re damn right. Your punch struck his chin, and he passed out.] Joe blurted. [Don’t expect such a thing to happen again.]Jim clenched his fist. “Now I have a better idea as