Damien stood at the opening of an alley, looking down at the end. Though the houses on the right and left were super tall. They were row houses, yet the distance from where he was standing to the end of the alley wasn't too far. So, he could make a visual judgement of those who were standing at the end. He shut his eyes for a while. There were a couple of things going on in his mind. When next he opened his eyes, they glowed. "Let's see which of these powers I still have in check. The last time, I could only use the Zoom function and make my eyes glow."He shut his eyes again and concentrated the energy. That was all he needed to get the spiritual strength working and charge his inner man up. When he swiped the hand up, he felt shades of lights on the back of his close eyelids. When he opened his eyes, he saw a window pop-up right in front of him. [Ping! Functions available in full display.]He read through the window,[Ping! The Zoom function.][Ping! The Nether infinity map.][P
"What should I do with yoi?"Damien heard Ari say. He had a strong conviction that the lad in flashy clothes was obviously Ari. Arigota Nagazumi."Not only do you covet my babe, you also ruined my sneakers. Do you have an idea how much that cost me? 70k!!! Have you ever seen, let alone, have such huge money in your entire pathetic life?"Ari lashed at the lad who knelt in the middle of the group. There was a lady amongst them. "His babe?"Damien muttered, looking somewhat confused. "Did he just say he has a babe? Is that girl with them his babe?"As he asked that question, as though the girl heard him, she leaned forward and kissed Ari in the lips. Damien's eyes widened. "This bastard. He has a babe, and he's trying to impress my daughter? What is his motive?"Damien was tempted to approach him at once. He wanted to beat the words out of Ari. But then he realised that there was much more to getting information. And to think of it, his class was beyond the ordinary. So, he shouldn't
"Thank you for coming to my aid."The lad said to Damien. His green eyes lit up his whole face. He was good-looking but unkempt. And because of that, his beauty was hidden. "Are you in the same department as he?"Damien asked. The lad nodded. "I shouldn't have given the letter to her. I've written so many of them, which I ended up trashing. I have no idea what got over me this time. If I had trashed it like the rest, perhaps this wouldn't have happened to me."Damien gazed softly on the lad as he spoke. Damien sighed, looking away for a while. "Don't beat yourself up for confessing your feelings. Nobody should be made to feel that way because of their feelings. It just happens that some people are not worthy of our sincere emotions. They prefer living in the illusion of class and recognition. They need social validation to feel alive. They are like walking dead. They have no life for themselves. They are the most pathetic of all human beings."Those words of Damien comforted the la
"You don't think it's cool to keep people waiting, do you?"Ari asked, gazing at Damien."Perhaps if you've chosen a more reflective location that doesn't test status."Damien retorted, but he kept his voice under check to hide how digusted he was. "LOL. See who's talking. Doesn't wealth pump your veins?"Damien said nothing. Ari walked closer. "Speaking of wealth, how is your bank account fairing?"He paused, wearing a smirk. "I mean, after splurging that much money to outdo me. Must be much hassle trying to beat me."Damien had no response yet. He just kept staring. He didn't leave the position he was occupying. Instead, it was Ari who was closing the pace every now and then. At that moment, Damien wasn't really sure why Ari must have invited him. But he was dying to know. One thing that he knew for sure was the fact that meeting Ari meant flaunting wealth. That was an easy fact to come by. "Man, I had no idea that I'm this popular. Ari, you're quite in style."Ari gloated. Dam
Damien halted at the front of a building. There was a banner pinned to the top of the building. It read, THE EVERLIFE CHARITY WALK."A charity place? Is he coming to a charity place?"Damien was a little confused for the first few seconds. He just couldn't put the puzzle together. "Ari coming to charity place? How? Why? He doesn't seem like someone like that."He didn't know what else to think. Then he saw a man walking towards the door of the building. He walked to the man. "Excuse me, sir. Please could you please tell me what this place is about?"The man halted, looked him from head to toe, and then walked in. Damien sighed. "Do humans really have the same mindsets? Or have I been walking into the wrong set of people all along?""Perhaps you should change your clothes into something quite formal."He heard a familiar voice interrupt his link of thoughts. He didn't need to turn at once. He knew who that was. "I don't put much fancy in clothes. They get changed every now and then
"How is this possible?""How could someone splurge that amount of money in the blink of an eye?""This is definitely not real.""Who is he?"Though the men were distances apart, yet the incident had them connecting in words and shocks. Ari still couldn't find his words. He just pointed at Damien. "You..."Was all he could say. But if he had his way, he probably would want to disappear at once from the level of humiliation he was feeling at that moment. "50 trillion!!!"The lady exclaimed. She was having a hard time believing, too. It was obvious from the collective reactions that none of the people present in the hall was prepared for what Damien had just done. WHY DO YOU THEY LOOK SO STUNNED THOUGH? DID I OVERDO IT AGAIN? HAVE I UNNECESSARILY BROUGHT ATTENTION TO MYSELF AGAIN LIKE I DID WITH THE GIFT?Damien could only imagine. Even though he was feeling that he might be doing too much, yet there was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't possibly take back what he had said.
Almost walked out of the building and saw the lady standing next to a Rolls Royce. He was going to walk to her when he heard someone call him from behind. He turned. It was the same man. "Do you mind telling me your name?"The man asked. He gazed at him for a while. He looked the man from his head to the toe. "You don't look like someone who should know my name."Damien said coldly, then walked away. The man stood there, staring in defeat as he watched Damien go. It was the same spot where he had snubbed Damien. Perhpas Karma does have a thing for efficiency. When he got to the Rolls Royce, the lady bowed slowly and opened the door,"You shouldn't do that all the time."He said to her and got in. She shut the door and walked to the other side. She got in and started to drive. While she drove, Damien was trying so hard not to look at her. If he did look at her, he feared that he would say what's in his head, which was,I WANT TO FUCK YOU. Of course that would be rude. The old Dami
"What were you thinking?!"A middle-aged man dressed in caftan and a black head tie on his head yelled at a lad who was on his knees. Ari. "Are you out of your goddamn mind! Huh? Are you?!"The man halted at his front. Ari was kneeling next to a pool. His back was to the pool. Just one kick, he would go flying into the pool. "Were you not using your brain? How dare you steal my green card? How dare you? Do you want me to cut you off from every of the benefits I've let you enjoy?"The brows of the man were furrowing. There was no doubt that he was drowning in the stream of his own rage. His eyes were red, and his face was tough. "Why are you yelling at me?"Ari suddenly answered. The man gasped in shock. "Yes! Why are you yelling at me, pops?"Ari seemed to be ready to give it back, but he was reluctant to get back on his feet. "Did you even see the guy I was contending with? He was about my age. I have no idea how he did it, but I'm very sure that it must have been his father or
Damien felt the scale fall of his eyes like a pair of glasses. He was on one knee, and his other knee pushed up. The position he was assuming was as though he was taking a sort of bow. When the realisation of recent events hit him, he quickly raised his head. He could feel no pain at all. He found himself in an empty white hall. The opulence and brightness of the hall was second to known. He couldn't really be sure what he had to take from this current state. But one thing that he knew for sure was the fact that he was no longer on the island. There was no part of the island that looked this way. Deep inside of him, he could feel that this hall felt like a familiar place. It was as though a remote part of him was trying so hard to reach a conclusion. Suddenly, he heard a sound behind him. It was a wheezing sound which was followed by a sequence of laboured breathing. He turned around at once. He wanted to be cautious. Though he recalled that he had beaten and defeated the Samurai
Damien's eyes popped out when he saw the Samurai. He shook his head and blinked a couple of times. He wasn't satisfied with that, so he closed his eyes for a while, then opened it again. He did that several times. He wanted to be sure that he was in his right mind and was not seeing things. There were a whole lot of things which he had just learnt just now. Things which he had been a fool believing the wrong context in the first place. Perhaps because he was overthinking things, that's why he was beginning to see things. But then he saw the Samurai smiling at him amidst the cannibals. There were so many reasons for Damien to be very surprised. As it seemed, the cannibals didn't know that the Samurai was in their midst. Damien quickly looked around the stadium. None of the people could see the Samurai, too. He was the only one seeing the Samurai!This got Damien quite confused and worried. He started to question his own sanity. He started to question the fact that whether or not al
Damien felt dumbfounded as he stared at the man who had just made the announcement. Perhaps his ears were playing some tricks on him, and he couldn't make the appropriate meaning of what the man had said. But immediately the man finished saying those words, the man fell on his knees in a heartfelt bow. In the blink of an eye, all the people in the stadium suddenly went on their knees in bows, too. Damien was so speechless that his head was blank. Why did things keep taking a different route every time he thinks he got things figured out?He tried to recall what the man had said about him. The man had addressed him with so many titles. There were so many titles he was already acquainted with, but he didn't know that quite a number of people were accessible. There were so many questions that arose in his mind. From where did this ocean of people come? He didn't remember reading in the news that people from Vegas would come to the island to celebrate the party. He didn't know what to
It was morning. Damien was lying in bed. His eyes slowly opened. He shut them and then opened them again. He felt a certain change in his body. He felt very light and refreshed. He felt like a newborn baby. He tried to recall what had happened before he fell asleep. The last memory that raced through his mind was when he was bitting at a nipple as he felt his body go into a state of shock. He recalled that he felt relieved after a flood of juice poured from the cap of his D. He smiled at the memory. He had never felt that better in a while."They were like Jada into five places." He muttered. Suddenly, something occurred to him. He sat up at once. He sniffed for a while. "Why is there no smell? Why does everywhere smell like nothing happened at all?" He became suddenly alert. He picked up his phone and checked. 12P.M."Oh shit." He jumped off the bed. It was 12 pm! Why was he still in bed? He shouldn't be in bed at this time of the day. "Today is the party! I shouldn't be her
Damien didn't react in a weird way. It's been a while since he had sex. Whenever he felt horny he would jerk off occasionally. It wouldn't be a bad idea if he just let himself go for this one time. After all, he would need his head clear for what he wants to do tomorrow. The five ladies rubbed their warm body on him, but he couldn't feel much because he was still putting on clothes. It was warm bodies to his hard suit. "Come with us." The ladies urged. One lady held the left arm, another the right arm, two at the front and one at the back. For a sheer second, he almost mistook the ladies for bodyguards instead of workers. He used the palmprint, and the door was pushed open. He was led straight to the room. With just one finger, he was pushed into the king-sized comfy bed. "Just relax, cutie. You don't have to do anything. Just stay relaxed." One of the ladies said. He wasn't planning to struggle with them in the first place. There were a whole lot of ways to have fun, but he had
About an hour later, Damien was sitting in the adorned chair in the meeting hall. It was time for the meeting. There were distinguished men settled at the table with him. The men looked quite excited to see him. He, on the other hand, was worried about a number of things. ONLY IF I HAD THE MAP, ONLY IF I DO. He couldn't help but ponder this over and over again. "If you will, Mr Kevin. We will start the meeting now." A man said, leaning forward to the mic. Damien nodded at the man. He looked at each corner of the table. There was a generous number of men present. But he wasn't interested in counting them. "Forgive us for not asking about your experience while coming to the island. I know that you are a wealthy man who loves to travel a lot. You must have seen a lot of things, yet it would be lovely to know what your experience was." The man said, smiling at Damien. Looking at as many faces as he could, Damien could tell that the men were pleased with him. They were acting like d
Damien couldn't think of what to say. What was stunning was the fact that the men were right there!!! How did they find him? Did they put a tail on him to track him in case he left his suite?Damien didn't really know what to make of this. But what was more important was the fact that he had just been discovered by the organisers. "It's you, Mr Kevin." One of the men stepped forward. Damien didn't find any reason to hold back anymore. He closed the pace. "What are you doing here, though? We thought that you would be in your suite?" Another man asked. Damien knew that he couldn't tell them the truth. And even if he wanted to tell them a lie, he would have to be quite sophisticated with it. "Well, I was just curious about all of this. When I was escorted by that lad, I didn't have the opportunity to look around. The lad was quite impatient with his duty. I guess the beauty of this space could not keep me in one place. Hence, I came looking around." Damien defended. He wasn't sure
No matter how hard Damien thought about this, it didn't make any sense to him. He was trying so hard to recall the last time that he visited the island. The last time he was here was when he was with Ari. How many months has it been that he was gone from this island to bring such a drastic and mouth-watering change?If Vegas was a country founded on the concept of magical realism, he wouldn't have had to worry much. If Vegas had the spiritual roots like the Nether realm where places could be transformed in the blink of an eye. Where virtual locations could be created and made to replace the old scenes. If those were the cases, Damien wouldn't have been this alarmed. He wasn't only shocked by these changes. He was crushed by awe. He couldn't see through the window of the car. The glasses were tinted. He didn't make a fuss about it. Not long after, the car came to a stop. The young man stepped out to get the door for him. The young man was different from the driver. The man got the
[Ping! Restoring system's activities.][Ping! Yacht-driving skill was exchanged with Map function.]Damien stared at the notifications pop-up of the system that was hanging in the air right in front of his eyes. He didn't know what to feel in precise. "The map function?" He quizzed. The map function was equally as important as the ZOOM function. He knew this, so it was quite hard for him to choose the perfect relation to this. What he had in mind while coming to the island this early was to first locate the cannibals before going to join the organisers of the party events. He didn't think that would be anyway possible anymore. How was he supposed to find them now that he didn't have the map of the system?He sighed. "Such a useless bitch!" He grunted, taking the window down. When he raised his head, he saw a set of few ladies standing at the opening of the island. He squinted his eyes to be sure whether or not he would be able to make a mental judgement of who the ladies were.