The next morning.Gabe went to the grocery store, and Leona was there, working diligently. He gave her an orange.“I don’t like citrus fruits,” she blurted, looking at him coldly. “They burn my heart.”Gabe raised his brows. “Are you roleplaying a vampire now?”She was startled. “H-How did you know? Now that I know vampires are real, I’ve been trying to imagine what kind of lives they lead. What things do they eat? Can they eat vegetables like us? Do they poop everyday? You know, there are a lot of questions that I’ve been noting down in a book.”“What for? You think you’ll meet a vampire soon?” Gabe asked.Leona smiled rather confidently. “Since I’m with you, I have a feeling that I’ll meet a vampire sooner or later.”Gabe put the orange in her hand. Her eyes widened because the orange was as big as her hand. “What’s this? You’re giving me a shitty hybrid orange? These things look big, but they taste like water gone bad.”“No, they’re organic oranges that grew in a specific environme
After eating the best orange she had ever eaten in her life, Mia came to Gabe’s house to thank him, but he had already left the house. Nicole was there, so she asked her where he bought the oranges.“I asked him the same question,” Nicole said, “but he told me that he didn’t buy them, and that some landlord gave them to him.”“So these are grown on private land,huh…” Mia could see the small bag that had more than ten oranges. “No wonder they tasted like heaven. C-Can I take two of these with me?”Nicole smiled and took two oranges out of the bag and then put the bag in her hand, surprising her.“I-I don’t need all these,” Mia quickly. “I only need two.”“Orange seeds are good for your hair,” Nicole said. “And young women like you need to eat them, so don’t forget to eat the seeds. They are more powerful than any fruit nuts you can find out there.”“M-Mm, thank you,” Mia thanked from the bottom of her heart.“Don’t thank me. You’re not a stranger,” Nicole quickly said. “You’re my daugh
“Ranked 111,111 on the UTS board,” Rica introduced one of the contestants to both the offline and online crowd, “the guy who drinks a deer’s blood and a bear’s blood alike, the guy who smokes marijuana 16 hours a day, the guy who shamelessly scares elderly and children alike, the guy who’s hated and also loved by many, the one and only, Superfreak Saul.”Saul, a big guy imported from the Middle East, received a massive cheer. He was almost eight-foot-tall and had long hair that was decorated in locks. He was currently pumping blood to his biceps using 100 pound dumbbells, which greatly pumped not just his blood but also the blood of many onlookers. So many people placed their bets on him because he had an unbeatable record of 43 wins to this day. And most of his opponents were relatively higher ranked people, which brought his victories quite some attention, and this made him a star within a span of a year.“Do you think Superfreak would win?”“We don’t know who will be placed against
Rica came to check on Saul since he wasn’t getting up. It turned out Saul only lost his consciousness, and didn’t suffer any external injury, which made Rica believe that Gabe went easy on him.She briefly looked at Gabe who was waving at the fans, some of whom said they wanted to meet him in real life outside, to which Gabe responded, saying, you will get an uppercut if you do. But the fans only loved his response, and some of them didn’t even care that they lost their bet. And they demanded Gabe to fight another random match right away.Rica put her hand on Saul’s forehead, and two seconds later, he opened his eyes.“Where am I?” Saul looked around and realized that he lost. He lifted his hand and put it on his face in shame.Because Saul lifted his left hand, the smell of his armpit almost made Rica vomit. She immediately pulled his arm down while covering her nose. “Your armpit smells worse than drainage.”“H-Huh?” Saul was shocked by her words. “W-What are you saying? I bathe twi
Having worked in Tuna Waves a few weeks now, Nicole understood one of the main goals that the restaurant had.It was to make the best-selling burgers and pizzas in three categories: fruits, veggies, and meat. The reason was simple. The Creed Zone, where the restaurant was located, was a big hub to all the gamers of Dream Creed, the most popular game of the world, so the company’s goal was to feed these gamers healthy food that could be eaten quickly.So, everyday, a different chef was given the opportunity to make the pizza of their choosing, and then slices of that pizza would be sent to important people of the company and would receive the reviews. The result needed to be perfect, which meant that everybody had to love the dish.To this day, nobody ever succeeded in making something that received a perfect score.Today, it was Nicole’s turn.In the afternoon, she was given the recipe book that the previous chefs had used. She spent multiple hours just reading that book and noticed h
At Tuna Waves.Russell was having a meeting with some of the board of directors of the Creed tech company, which included the likes of Adam Conreid, Kyra Lynn, Marlon Myers, and Jim Blake.“Why aren’t you agreeing to this new project where we can create new souls using artificial intelligence?” Jim Blake, the son of Lucas Blake, asked Russell. “This will take our game to another level, no, it will take the world itself to another level. You can even bring the dead people back with as accurate personalities as possible. Of course, we’ll need to implant their personalities in another person’s body that’s near death, or just make clones with synthetic bodies. Whichever is profitable, we should do that. If we succeed, then real estate wouldn’t even compare to this. People would pay millions to get their loved ones back, even if it's through AI.”“My grandfather strictly told me to use AI for nothing but the game,” Russell said. “It can be used for entertainment, but not for education. You
The restaurant that Rica brought Gabe to was unlike anything he had ever seen before. It was an underground restaurant, but there were glass walls surrounding their table. On the other side of the walls, lions, tigers, and other animals lived. This was like they were surrounded by a zoo, with only a glass wall separating them.“What is this place?” Gabe asked as he entered this space through an elevator that brought him down from the ceiling and then left. Even Systa didn’t know about the existence of such a place. “There’s animals. There’s fish. It’s like a zoo.”“It’s an exclusive restaurant that can only be used by a certain number of families that are part of its customers,” she said. “Even billionaires won’t be able to get in here unless they are recognized by the owner of this restaurant.”“Who’s the owner?”“My uncle,” she said, surprising Gabe.“I guessed you were rich, but not to this extent,” Gabe said, sitting down on the premium wooden chair which oozed nothing but quality
“Dad…” Rica walked over to Alexander and gave him a gentle hug with one hand and then held his hand and brought him to his seat.Gabe got out of his seat, but Alexander waved his hand, as if telling him to sit. Gabe quickly sat down, but he was feeling anxious, even though he had completely hidden the ring using his invisibility power.“Dad, this is the guy I was talking about,” Rica introduced him. “Gabe. His full name is Gabriel Brando.”“Gabriel. That’s a nice name,” Alexander looked at Gabe without blinking for a few seconds. “You look nice, too… But what’s not nice is that you got my daughter’s attention, and she’s mentioned about you five times in the last couple of months. She’s very particular about men, so I wondered what’s so special about you. I surely wasn’t expecting you to be cross-eyed, though.”Gabe frowned a little.“Dad!” Rica hissed at him in a soft voice and hit his foot.“If you’re really interested in him, Rica, then it’s better that I be frank instead of sugar-c