***** Witnessing what was going on, Greg’s body was drenched entirely in a cold sweat at this moment and he was about to die from nervousness and fear, even trembling subtly.He realized that the secret was already out and he might fall woefully and lose what he was about to gain and everything he previously owned if it was linked to himGreg made up his mind. Just as he was about to swear with his life, however, that he knew nothing about what was going on and that only his mother might be the one who knows the truth, despite him not being accused yet, the old man, his father, the patriarch of the family roared with fury. “Silence!!” His voice boomed and immediately sounded like a verdict from the heaven, carrying a strong force and weight that couldn’t be gone against. It directly silenced everybody and made their voices seized. With his eyes that seemed to be capable of capturing and seeing through people’s souls, he gazed at Greg, making Greg almost faint from deep terror, th
***** “Mother, you already knew that they would blame you, right?”Once inside their living quarters, Greg immediately gave his mother an idolization gaze, but his mother merely smirked in response, not seeming to be particularly impressed about her son’s conclusion.“It isn’t that difficult to know that, right? And that I’d still become a major suspect if I had left even one of the nine alive.”“Wow!!!”Greg wasn’t able to hide his joy at all again. Although his mother had already promised to make him the winner of this friendly competition, the joy of really winning still came too suddenly to him. This was especially after he had lost all hope.After jubilating for a long time, a name abruptly crossed Greg’s mind. ‘Zed City!’His eyes flashed and then he gazed back at his mother. “Mother, you said I can go avenge myself once the competition is over, when can I leave now?”The beautiful middle-aged woman,”_”She gazed blankly at Greg for a moment, then she shook her he
*****“You want to engage me with your friend’s son?”“That’s right. You’re already old enough to get married and given your character, I don’t see you having a husband anytime soon.”“But… but father, I’m still very young and still have enough time to find myself a husband for myself, right?Moreover, haven’t you said you’ve disowned me? How could you still be deciding for me? Especially on such an important thing as marriage?”“You… you this child!”Inside a lounge, a majestic-looking old man, who currently has a helpless expression and a deep frown on his face was facing an unhappy, furious , and hell-bent-looking Jewel.“Of course, I once that I disowned you, but you knew that it was from anger at your behavior, right? You are from a prominent family, for goodness sake, but you’d go about, racing with other brats and breaking countless rules! You turned yourself into a tyrant, becoming the boss of the younger generation when you were supposed to be an elegant lady, the envy of
*****“You… why did you look like this? Were you involved in an accident?”In the parking lot of a restaurant, young master Clayton, who had been waiting inside the restaurant for over two hours and was called some moments ago to come outside by whom he was waiting for, was staring with a dumbfounded expression on his face at this moment.Before him stood a disorganized and dirty Jewel.That’s right. As the tunnel she used hadn’t been put to use in years, it had managed to accumulate a lot of dirt and cobwebs.“Just don’t mention that,” Jewel sighed in frustration, recalling how pitiful and filled with unluckiness her life had been in the past two hours.Apart from almost suffocating to death in the tunnel, she almost got stuck and wasn’t able to free herself for a long time.After that, she almost got caught countless times, trying to escape the estate that her father had filled with massive security guards, many folds compared to the ones there before.Lastly, to get transpor
*****“We don’t want a cursed person to be one of our representatives!”“No!! Not especially the leader!!”“We’ve vowed to win this year’s competition and it won’t be possible with an ill-lucked person among our representatives!”These are the cries and chants that were loudly echoing in an airport at this moment by a crowd of people at the top of their lungs, waiting for their city’s representatives.Many of the people had already prepared rotten eggs, urine, and sand, and some had even brought poison and acids to pour on Williams as soon as they saw him amongst the Zed City’s representatives.They continued chanting loudly until someone informed them that the people they were waiting for were already there.Immediately, every person brandished what they had brought in order to start hurling them, but then they were confused.“Where is the stranger?”Everybody began to mumble with furrowed brows as they looked at all the faces of the people entering the runway now.They wer
***** “Capital City, here I am again after all these years,” Williams sighed with a nostalgic emotion as soon as he exited the airport.He couldn’t help but heave in a deep breath of the air and then look around the extremely busy airport, with hundreds of people entering and exiting every moment, then he sighed.Just at that moment, an excited voice called out to him. “Young Master Williams.”Williams, “_”‘Who knows me?’ He couldn’t help but squint his eyes, then he thought maybe the person being called merely shared the same name as him.However, Williams still turned around out of curiosity and then he was stunned.‘How come I’ve completely forgotten about this old man?’Williams instantly became awkward when he saw the old man running at him excitedly. It was the old man whom he had promised to help recover his family in the capital city.Williams was immediately gratified that he hadn’t chosen to quit the competition because of what the people had done to him.Not on
*****“The mission should have become successful, right?”Seated in front of his tutor, who had just been assigned to teach him on the way to becoming a patriarch that morning, Greg, who hadn’t paid any attention to whatever the person had been saying mumbled to himself again and then checked his phone for the umpteenth time that day.Seeing this, the tutor, a scholarly-looking old man couldn’t help but sigh internally, mourning on behalf of the Dunnam family for choosing a person like Greg as its next patriarch.‘Although he had the strength and given time, he’d become one of the strongest people in the country, his countenance and behavior, however, did not befit that of a patriarch and he is only meant to follow command, not lead,’ the old man concluded in his mind, but since it wasn’t his place to make such a comment, especially now that the family had just lost all it’s remaining prospective future patriarch, the old man refrained and continued his teaching, despite knowing t
*****“Young master, that’s right, this place is really a casino house, however, it is mere one of the most popularly known and used casino houses here in the capital city and not really the best.” “Oh…” Williams was amazed. Instead of being called a casino house, the place where himself and the old man were seeing right now should be called a massive plaza, given how enormous it is. It covered a large mass of land with a massive building erected on it, and unlike The Fortune’s Palace that he had once visited, which was exactly as a gambling house should be, with gangsters filling and surrounding it, this place was nothing like that. In fact, it felt more like a tourist center, or rather, a park, that has more than a thousand people filling it. “Is it always full like this or it was because of the event going on in the city?” “Young master, it was because of the event going on in the city. Although it was always full, I’ve never seen it this full.” “Oh…” Williams nodded his he