My Demonic System

Chapter 5 : Ruthlessness

Shawn continued walking for over seven hours before he saw the nearest town. His stomach had started growling long ago; now that a town was here, it growled more. It was as if it was telling Shawn to eat.

He entered the town. There was still the lab's patient robe on his body which looked even dirtier as if he was a beggar. He tried to look for a place to get something to eat.

Seeing a small restaurant after searching for a long time, he decided to enter the place.

As soon as he stepped inside the restaurant, he attracted the attention of the waiter.

“What do you need, boy? This is not a place for kids to enter. If you don't have money, then scram out of here!” the waiter of the small restaurant told Shawn as he walked towards him.

Due to malnutrition and lack of sleep, Shawn looked so scrawny and a bit small, unlike kids his age.

“I need food,” Shawn said to the waiter, but the guy refused even to listen.

“Can a beggar like you even have money? Scram out before I cut your legs!” the waiter bellowed furiously.

“My legs? Of course, what else can I expect from humans if not something like this?” Shawn sneered as he glanced at the waiter like he was looking at the biggest waste on the planet.

“Hahahaha, that beggar talks so big here. Waiter, is this the level of this restaurant? Any beggar can enter here?”

“Throw that kid out. I can't eat my food with him here. His dirty clothes will make me vomit!”

“Yeah, throw this bastard out. If he doesn't listen, break his legs!”

One after the other, every person who was inside the restaurant started demanding for Shawn to be thrown out.

Shawn didn't react though, he simply looked at the waiter who stood before him. Hearing the demands of the people, the waiter also started to get smug.

“You dare look at me with the condescending look? How dare you raise your voice at me!” the waiter roared in anger as he stepped forward to slap Shawn's face.

Bam!

Before the waiter even realized it, Shawn caught his hand and threw him away as if he were a light feather. The waiter crashed into the wall, his neck instantly broke he died right there.

«Havoc point 1 obtained.»

Watching the waiter die, every single person who was sitting inside the restaurant was stunned. They all stood up, shocked.

For a moment, there was pin-drop silence inside the establishment. It was so silent that one could easily hear the heartbeat of people inside. They couldn't believe they just saw a fifteen-year-old kid throw a fully grown man away like he was a toy, killing him instantly.

Most of them realized what that meant. The kid who seemed like a useless beggar was a Variant! He was a freaking Variant!.

Variants were people who stood at the true peak of human evolution. They were the humans who possessed powers that could make them wipe out entire cities without a single weapon.

They couldn't believe that they had just talked to a Variant with such disrespect, even calling him a beggar.

One of the men was even more afraid. His face was already pale. He was the one that soon about throwing Shawn out of this place. He even said to break Shawn's legs. At the moment, he ewe regretting his words so immensely that he felt as if his heart had come to his throat.

Almost every single person present here had talked about being violent with Shawn. Most of them thought he was a normal orphan kid who didn't even have his parents' backing. They weren't the least bit shy when cursing Shawn. Now that they knew he was a Variant, their heartbeat slowed down.

Tic... Tic...

The silence seemed to last for eternity. Only the ticking sound of the clock was audible, making the silence seem even more apparent.

Shawn slowly shifted his gaze towards the people of the restaurant who cursed him previously. A single gaze of his was somehow feeling too heavy for them to bear. They were afraid, they were afraid of being hurt. The people were seemingly intimidated.

Ultimately unable to bear the pressure, one of them couldn't take it anymore as he opened his mouth and yelled furiously

“F*ck it! He might be a Variant, but he's still a kid! We can't let him kill us without doing anything! We just unite to kill this bastard before he even thinks of harming us!”

“Right! He already killed a person! He would kill us all to silence us so that the ARV doesn't know! We must fight back!”

“Yes! Attack!”

A small group of people dashed in the direction of Shawn to harm him.

The first person to reach Shawn was a bald man who threw a full-strength punch. The punch was aimed towards Shawn's face, which was blankly looking at the man who was attacking him.

“You will always be s naive little kid! You can't even dodge!” the bald man laughed as he saw Shawn not dodging. He believed that Shawn was so scared that he didn't know what to do. He thought Shawn had frozen in fear. However, the bald man soon realized how wrong he was as he saw Shawn raising his right hand, with which he effortlessly caught the fist of the man.

The man was stunned. It was as if his fist had hit a wall, and it was unable to move forward. Seeing that his attack failed, the man struggled to free his hand so that he could retreat and attack again, but he realized that it was much easier said than done. No matter how hard he tried, the man wasn't able to free his hand. That wasn't all, he realized something else as well, which made his face lose all its colours.

The man noticed that his body had started to grow old as if he was losing life essence fast. Before the man had attacked, he used to look like a healthy thirty-year-old man, but in less than a minute, he had started looking like a ninety-year-old man. His body grew weak. He started crying for help.

“Help me! I beg you! Please help me!”

The others that were to attack Shawn heard his pleas for help, but none of them took even a single step forward. Instead, they started moving back. The sight they were seeing before them was horrifying. Watching a man grow old so fast was scary. They didn't want to be the next person to experience that.

Not a single person came forward to help the man while his body kept decaying more and more. In a few seconds, the man's body had turned to ash.