How did it ever come to this?Larry was disgusted and angry at himself. Even after he knew the truth, these emotions still twirled within him and made him feel unlike himself, his decision was clouded. He truly had a friend for the first time and he wanted to consider the possibility of this being a coincidence. And that Arnold did not approach him on purpose and that this was all by chance.But even if he did that, it wouldn't change the fact that he and Arnold are arch enemies and one is to die fighting the other. They were two sides of a coin and could not exist at the same time.Larry felt Arnold knew this, he understood it very well and still he approached him. He felt Arnold was going to kill him, and he had chosen to do it in a cowardly way—by befriending him and killing him when he least expected it.It was the lowest of the lowest.Arnold stood up and picked Jia up, he gave her to John who also stood up along with him.He turned around and looked at all of them who were alre
Larry raised his head, his eyes became gloomy as he went down memory lane of how he started this conquest for power.Larry was birthed from an unsanctioned relationship between his father and his mother. His mother was an extremely beautiful woman and a foreigner from a very rich family. She went against her father's orders and got married to Larry's father but after they gave birth to Larry, his father lost his job and things got very hard for her—she left after she couldn't continue to get the luxurious things she used to have.It was since then Larry swore not to feel anything for any woman. Not long after that, his father died and so, he was left in the care of his grandparents. However, they made little to no effort to take care of him, he couldn't blame them because they were too old to take care of themselves, let alone add his burden to theirs. Hence, most of the workload eventually always fell on him.He hated everything about life, he had a strange desire to destroy the wo
Each move made by Arnold and Larry was meticulously executed, as the conflict between them continued to develop.Arnold persisted in moving forward, circling Larry while keeping an evasive and unexpected cadence. In order to wear down Larry's defenses, he continued to take advantage of each hole he could discover. Larry, on the other hand, remained somewhat complacent and hadn't quite taken Arnold seriously.He underestimated the actual extent of Arnold's resilience, by allowing himself to get dragged into his irregular rhythm.Arnold's moves were a captivating combination of finesse and strength, his punches and kicks landing with unbelievable accuracy. Each attack hit its target, pinpointing weak points with exactitude. Larry's defense trembled briefly, but he quickly regained his calm, dismissing Arnold's attempts as a fluke."You are wise to have been able to get a few things or two from our battle just now. Indeed, I give it to you. But it is useless. I have been on this path usi
There was a passion in Larry.He grew up without friends, was ostracized and bullied by the people around him, and never knew or felt true love. When the Gort system awakened his potential, Larry found peace and joy in the mere fulfillment of its quests.There was a particularly happy face he carried each time as if nothing else mattered. A face that suggested to the entire world, "Yes I am enjoying this. I am fine here."Arnold carried the same face but the difference was that right now, Arnold was fighting to protect his life, to go back to his loved ones. As much as he was very desperate to live in this situation, he held tightly onto that excitement and tapped into the great bond that the system offered.That moment Larry understood what Arnold and the Nexus system had that, he and the Gort system didn't... bond.The dawn was breaking and the disaster had spread, what once stood as a tall warehouse was unrecognizable, Arnold and Larry were in battered shape with the clothes torn a
Arnold glanced around the office of a justice of the peace and smiled widely. The day had finally come for him to marry Vera, his girlfriend, since they were teenagers. He had worked so hard to finally see the day come and he was ecstatic.He noticed that some of her relatives were present at the wedding, and his smile gently faded because none of his had come. He was an orphan and had no relatives that could attend his wedding. However, his co-workers had come, and that made him feel a little better. The court room was packed with people who had come to witness their wedding.“And do you, Arnold Stone, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, as long as you both shall live?” The officiant asked, staring at the couple."Yes, I do." He replied firmly. He glanced at Vera and noticed that she wasn't as excited as he expected. In fact, she looked very unhappy.“And do you, Vera Wang, take this man to be your law
"You have no idea how foolish you have made yourself look," Lucas said, inches away from Arnold. Arnold's eyes widened as he stared at his best friend speaking to him that way. He couldn't believe that someone he trusted with his heart would ever treat him like that. "Why?" He asked Lucas slowly. "Why would you do this to me?"Lucas threw his head back and laughed. "Vera was never yours. Do you know how long I have been sleeping with her? Do you know how long I have been taking care of her and paying her bills? Well, I guess you are too slow to notice things. That's exactly why you think she would settle for you. You wretched low-class trader." Arnold shook his head. Lucas's words pierced his heart like a knife. "Is that why you refused to help me all this time? Is that why you won't help me with money to promote my business? Because you were sleeping with my girlfriend?"Lucas grinned. "Finally, you're beginning to catch on. Well, that was part of the reason. I'm shocked you're not
Arnold stumbled through the dark streets, fully drunk and confused. He had been drinking for hours, trying to drown his sorrow with the alcohol. Right after he left the courtroom, he went to a bar. It was the only place he could go to forget his pain. He had downed several bottles of alcohol and finally left when he was intoxicated. As he walked through the blackened street only illuminated by streetlights and shops displaying the usual open sign, he muttered bitterly. He occasionally stopped and chuckled, which caught the attention of people. Many people stared at him like he had lost his sanity, but he didn't care. He was too lost in his heartbreak to care about the people watching him. He staggered, almost falling to the ground but managed to hold himself back. Then he let out another laugh, this one longer and creepier than the last. "She left me." The words tasted like bile on his lips. He took out his phone and scrolled to the message icon to read his messages with Vera. His
The cool whiff of the evening breeze, whipped past fleetingly, and with a gasp, Arnold’s eyes shot open albeit painstakingly.At the same time, he felt a splitting ache in his skull, and blinking through his blurred vision, he closed his eyes again, and tried to remember where he was.He could hear voices nearby, the faint sounds of ambulance sirens wailing loudly, and he groaned as a wave of nausea swept over him."What was happening to him? Where was he?" He wondered, as he tried to move his stiff body ,but unfortunately, he couldn’t. And then it slammed into him all at once, like a ton of bricks and suddenly everything that’d happened came flooding back to him.The disgraceful wedding scene. Him getting drunk afterward and attacked by a group of vile men who had beaten him to a pulp and robbed him. Then……… the accident.“No…” The words tore out of his lips in a rush, and just as he tried again to get up from the hard bricked floor he heard a voice in his head.‘Of course, Not. Yo