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
For the past four hours, Jim meditated on his wounds, especially the shoulder wound. And he was able to mostly heal that wound, though it took a lot of juice out of him.In this process, he ended up unintentionally absorbing the vitality of all the vegetables and fruits in that building.Jim didn’t know that the meditation technique could do that. But this was one of the ways to remove the bad particles from one’s body while absorbing the best particles from the surroundings through the air.It was all in the breath of man.By the time Jim opened his eyes, he felt so refreshed, even though he was stinking a lot because of ejecting the poisonous and toxic particles out of his body through all the pores.[How do you feel?] Joe asked.“Good. Though this makes me want to have a bath as soon as possible,” Jim said. “I hope they have some lemons here. I will apply some diluted lemon juice to my hair because it feels weird on my head right now.”[Jim… you should focus on your stamina a bit m
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
A few hours later. Jim played hundreds of rounds with Dorvor and lost every single time. Joker and others were getting utterly bored. In fact, they were so bored that they began to dig the ground and then look for worms for no real reason. Soon, Binnie arrived there with a pot of ashes in her hand. Seeing Jim and his group members, she said, “Give me a few minutes, and I’ll take you to the stairs that lead to the fourth floor. But I think that man over there can do the same.” “Don’t put unnecessary burden on me,” Dorvor finished another game and got up to his feet. “My purpose of coming here has finished.” He looked happy for some reason Binnie couldn’t pinpoint. “I’m going back to my house.” “I will go to the fourth floor soon, but first, I need your help with something,” Jim looked at Binnie. “I’m listening,” she said. “I want you to help my friends get nanobots out of their bodies,” Jim said, pleasantly surprising both Binnie and Dorvor. “Do you realize what you’re wishing f
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
Binnie’s training was beyond anything Jim had expected.She literally began to beat everyone again and again and waited until they healed, and then she fought them and beat them again and again.For two days, this continued to happen.Jim practiced on refining his technique during these seemingly peaceful days.Meanwhile, Rena was discharged from the hospital.She came home straight, and she was not in a good mood because her sister and dad didn’t come to the hospital even though it had been two days since she woke up. It was one thing that her boss didn’t come, but her own sister and father also didn’t come. Why? Just what made them stay at home? What were they so busy with?Rena searched for them, but she couldn’t find them in the house.“Where are they?” she asked her mother.“I think they went outside, knowing that you’d come,” Lola chortled.“Mom, this isn’t funny. It feels like they’re avoiding me,” Rena blurted. “What exactly are you not telling me?”“Don’t worry, Rena. Your da
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
Some time later.Shiney came to Rena’s room. Rena was working on her art designs.“Already started working, have you?” Shiney sat down on her bed. “Why do you care about work so much when your boss didn’t even come to the hospital these past two days?”“I work because he pays me, not because I want him to shower positivity on me,” Rena replied.“How cold of a reply,” Shiney snorted. “Befitting of you.”“You didn’t come to the hospital these past two days, either,” Rena retorted. “Did I complain?”“U-Uh, no…” Shiney said in a soft, weak voice.“You are my little sister. Even if you didn’t come to see me, I can’t erase from my heart the love I have for you,” Rena said.“I-I’m sorry. I don’t like hospitals, sis,” Shiney tried to give an explanation. “You know that as well, don’t you?”“If something happens to our dad, and he ends up in prison, will you visit him?” Rena asked. “Or will you say that prisons are too rowdy for you to visit?”“T-That’s…”“There are times when we should put o