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VKBoyI tried mixing romance, poetry, and philosophy in this chapter, which naturally took some extra time to write. I hope it's not boring.
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Russell explained to Nora that William and Bertha and their family members were guests, and so they didn’t have to pay for eating at their house. Nora still asked him how long they were going to stay. He told her that they will stay for a little while.Nevertheless, after the talk with Nora, William didn’t get close to her anymore. He kept his distance, not wanting to be thrown troublesome questions at him.By the time Nora finished eating, Gabe and Mia entered the hall. Leona was behind them, her ears still red from being pulled very much.“Who’s that uncle?” Nora was looking at Gabe with a running nose because the coconut chutney she was eating was very spicy. “I think I know him?”“He’s nobody,” Bertha whispered to her.“Nobody is his name?” Nora spoke out loud, startling Bertha. She didn’t think that the little girl would say it out loud.“His name is Gabriel,” Russell said. “He’s the one who rescued you when you got kidnapped.”“Wow, so it’s him,” Nora tapped on the table, tellin
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Bertha returned to her room, where Carrie and Freddy were also there. Draco was playing a video game on his mobile.Berthan snatched the phone from his hand.“Grandma!” Draco shouted.“WHAT?” Bertha glared at him, sending a shiver up and down his little spine. He immediately went to his mother.“Mom, mobile….” he begged in a low voice. “Tell Grandma to give it to me.”“Mom, why don’t you let him play? It’s not like he’s going to school tomorrow,” Carrie tried to reason with her mother.“First, make him answer my question,” Bertha blurted. “What is nine to the power of nine?”“We were taught that in school yet,” Draco quickly said.“I don’t care. It’s simple math,” Bertha indifferently said. “Answer my question without taking anyone’s help, and then I’ll give you the mobile. Until then…” she pointed at the exit.Draco’s mouth turned down, and he ran out of the room because his parents also didn’t support him.“Hmph,” Bertha tossed the mobile on the bed. She was still in a bad mood beca
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“You want him? Are you sure?” Natasha asked, even though those were the words she was waiting to hear. “What’s so great about that loser Gabriel? I know he’s got some kind of a job, but that alone doesn’t make him worthy of you.”“You don’t know about him, so you don’t know how valuable he is,” Kiera replied.“Is that so?” Natasha looked very intrigued because she knew that Kiera’s standards were high. After marrying Zack, why was she wanting to return to Gabriel?Natasha, however, felt very differently about Russell. She didn’t want to be in a relationship with him anymore, but she also didn’t want him to be in a relationship with anybody, either.“What about you, Natasha?” Kiera couldn’t help but ask. “Don’t you want to get back with Russell? He’s the most popular man in the world right now. Just by being in his life, you can gain a lot of attention from every corner of the world.”“Why would I depend on him when I don’t like him?” Natasha snorted. “I’m already doing well for myself
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Mia and Jessica were busy dealing with Nora who was suffering from an upset stomach because she drank too much almond milk and so had to run to the bathroom a lot.Nicole and Bertha were busy blaming each other for Nora’s condition, saying that Nora drank the other person’s milk, which caused her this health issue.William was just sitting on a swinging couch and was drinking almond milk without a care in the world. But in his mind, the image of Nicole was flashing every now and then. “She’s really growing on me. Her smile, her eyes… they are pulling my heart out and toward her. What should I do? She doesn’t look like a soft woman. Will she fall for me if I secretly woo her?”Carrie and Freddy were busy watching a romantic TV show that Leona had set. Every time Freddy glanced in Leona’s direction, Carrie pulled his ear so that he looked at the TV instead.Russell and Gabe, on the other hand, were both sitting under a roofed but open structure in the garden.“So you don’t smoke or drin
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Russell and Gabe together were traveling in the ‘69 Mustang.“Do I really need to come along?” Russell asked. “I’m a bit busy, you know.”“It’s just for an hour, I promise,” Gabe said.“Who is this Samuel anyway?” Russell asked.“He’s a pitiful guy,” Gabe replied, “but he misbehaved with my mom not long ago. So, if I see him, I might lose it.”“So you want me to stop you in case you lose it and try to beat the shit out of him,” Russell said.“Uh, yes,” Gabe awkwardly smiled. “You understood what I’m thinking. Mia pities him a lot for what happened in the past, so I don’t think I’ll get angry at him, but he’s a madman, so I can’t take anything for granted.”Russell paused for a moment and said, “Do you believe in demons?”“Haha, where is this coming from?” Gabe asked, but Russell remained silent. “Don’t tell me… you believe in demons?”“Well, vampires are real, so it’s not a stretch to think that demons also exist,” Russell opined. “I have seen and dealt with some drug addicts who atta
System Within: Million Dollars From Today CHAPTER 387
Gabe didn’t directly go to his home, but went through the route where Venkat’s house was.He purposely blew the horn and made Venkat see him and Russell sitting next to him.Venkat saw Russell and came out running, but Gabe waved his hand and drove away quickly, saying bye bye.“Dammit!” Venkat stomped on the ground. “I wanted to get his number.” He blinked twice. “Wait, what’s Russell doing with that fool Gabriel?”Gabe, on the other hand, was laughing happily. “He must be cursing me right now because I didn’t let him shake your hand.”“Actually, I’ll thank you this time,” Russell’s response surprised Gabe.“You will?”“Yeah. Back in school, he used to talk behind my back, telling others that I’m not a bright student and what not,” Russell said. “I didn’t ask him about it. I didn’t even ask him for the money he owed me.”“Did he pay you back?”“Of course, not.”“Haha, I don’t think he ever paid anybody a single cent back,” Gabe said. “That’s the kind of guy he is. He’ll still scold m
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“Yeah, I’ll try,” Russell was talking with someone on the mobile. “I can’t guarantee that I will attend it, though.” Saying that he ended the call.“Are they inviting you to the super bowl?” Gabe excitedly asked. “Are you going?”“Nah,” Russell almost looked tired. “They have been calling me for the last five years, but I’m avoiding it.”“Huh? Why?”“Because they’re all hypocrites,” Russell said. “They tell the public to stop driving cars as it’s causing pollution, but you know, nearly 1000 private jets flew in and out of the location where they held the super bowl last year. That means they spent millions of liters of gas for their trip on just that one day. Surely, they don’t give a shit about the environment. And the climate change crap they push on the masses is just them doing what they’re paid and made famous for. I learned about all this hypocrisy while I had the Hacking System with me. I must say, the one good thing that happened because of that system is that my eyes were ope
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“Mr. Samuel,” Russell called out his name from outside the front door. His left hand was near his waist, where he was hiding a gun. He was ready to use it in case the madman inside were to shoot at them.Gabe stood relatively calm. He was holding a six-tier lunch box.No response came from the inside.Russell looked at Gabe. “You said Mia fed him secretly, so why are we feeding him directly now?”“He probably hadn’t eaten in many days,” Gabe said. “So, we need to check up on him. I have seen him take food from others in the past, so if we offer him food, I don’t think he’ll refuse.”“I guess he’s not completely mad.”Gabe didn’t say anything, but one of the reasons he came here was also to make sure if Samuel was really not okay in the head, or was he acting? If it was the latter, then Gabe might never be able to forgive him for trying to harass and abuse Nicole.Just then, the door opened, but there was nobody standing on the other side.Russell immediately took his gun out.“Wait,”
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Gabe and Mia were falling down from miles high.Gabe’s legs were still wrapped around Mia’s waist, so their fall was rather awkward.“If we crash like this, both will get injured,” she quickly said.“I-I will do something,” Gabe resisted the urge to grab her cheeks and kiss her in midair, but he believed that this opportunity might not come again.So, he quickly went in for a kiss.Mia put her hand on his mouth. “This isn’t the time!”Just then, her eyes widened as she saw people jumping from the ship that was above them.“Shit. I think we’ve been spotted,” Mia nervously said. “We have to escape.”“Leave it to me,” Gabe smirked and then tightly hugged her.“What are you-” Before she could finish her sentence, Gabe turned into a streak of lightning and traveled through the sky in a zig-zag manner.Within seconds, he crossed tens of miles and landed on a tree top.All the twelve warriors were startled by the speed at which Gabe had traveled.Nevertheless, they used their flying boots to
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At a sea port.Gabe and Mia were hiding behind tall rocks at the shore and were observing the people shoot laser bullets at the sea beasts and then bring their bodies to the shore.They harvested crystals out of their bodies, which leaked out a strange but familiar energy.“I have never seen such creepy sea monsters, and what are those weapons?” Mia was a little nervous. “There are laser weapons in this world? I thought it was just fiction.”“They don’t just rely on weapons,” Gabe pointed. “Look over there.”A muscular old man with spiky hair punched a giant serpent monster and put a massive hole in its head.Mia’s eyes swelled out of the sockets. “H-He killed that monster from just the wind pressure emitted from his fist? He’s the real monster here!”“Yeah. He’s pretty strong,” Gabe opined. “I’m not sure if we can beat him even if we fight him together.”“But if we want to enter Syslon, we have to board their ship,” Mia said. “That’s what Ulmer said.”“I know, but can we sneak into h
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Gabriel Agnar stopped by a motel.Systa looked a bit dull.“Bring her tea,” Gabriel looked at Alleria who had a bandage wrapped around her head.Alleria frowned but didn’t complain.“To think this little girl is really the Alpha System,” Alleria was still finding it hard to believe. “But, Lord, just so you know, she didn’t beat me. She created a clone of hers and tricked me into fighting the clone.”“You still let her take the woman away, didn’t you?” Gabriel calmly said. “It was your loss. Doesn’t matter how it comes.”“Ugh…” Alleria couldn’t talk after that.She went to the motel owner and asked, “Give us some tea.”“We don’t sell tea here.”Alleria hit the thick wooden bench with her palm and left an imprint there.“I-I’ll get the tea ready in ten minutes,” the motel owner nervously said.“I’ll give you five minutes.”“I-It’s impossible to get it done in five minutes, ma’am.”“Go,” she coldly growled, and he ran to the neighboring convenience store to buy tea bags and milk.Meanwhi
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Gabriel grew much angrier after Gabe and Mia disappeared right before his eyes.He put more power into his fist and threw it at Ulmer who was under such pressure he was not able to move.A streak of red lightning flew into the scene and wrapped itself around Gabriel’s fist and stopped his fist in its tracks.“Mm?” Gabriel and Ulmer both looked to their side, where a red-haired woman was standing atop a nearly uprooted tree.She was giving off a ridiculous amount of energy.She looked like she was the embodiment of a million thunderbolts. She looked almost ethereal.“A wolfe clan’s girl?” Gabriel uttered.“The wolfe clan?” Ulmer seemed surprised. This was also his first time directly coming into contact with a person from the wolfe clan since he became the Urban God. “The strongest clan in the world… You came at the right time. Let’s together beat this old man up.”“Hmph,” the red-haired lady descended from the tree almost in a floating manner. “I didn’t come here to take sides. Both o
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Both Mia and Gabe were being pressured to hug the ground. Some kind of invisible force as heavy as many mountains was crushing them, making it feel as if their bones would turn to powder under pressure.Gabe gnashed his teeth and tried his best to resist. He was only able to barely move one of his fingers, though.This can’t be real.He thought he had become strong, strong enough to at least stand his ground at those who are at the top of the world.Even though Systa wasn’t with him right now, and even though he wasn’t at his full strength, how could he be toyed like this?How could he not be able to resist the head of the Agnar clan even a little?How can there be such a huge power difference?As he gave it his all to just try and get back, Willow didn’t wait for him.She went for the kill.“I’ll break your wife’s skull right before your eyes, boy!” She axed her foot down at Mia’s head.Mia wanted to move away, but she couldn’t, and she looked more frustrated than afraid that she was
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Gabe’s attack kept all the four squad leaders at bay as the electricity that washed through their bodies did not leave to the ground.Instead, it stayed in their bodies, trying to cook them alive.They had to resist the lightning energy with their ethereal energies.At the same time, Mia was able to push Willow back, though her leg suffered a deep cut in the process.Half of her bone was also cut, but she was healing at a fast pace.Regardless, Mia wasn’t worried about these opponents right now because the lightning energy of Gabe was also filling her body.However, it did not hurt her.But it made her feel stronger, and she began to feel Gabe’s presence all the more. Not just his presence, but all the things he had done in the past were popping in her mind.So many new memories poured into her mind.From the memories of his childhood to recent incidents, all the strong memories of his life played in her mind like a fast-moving dream.Some of these memories really squeezed her soul.S
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“This is the end, youngling,” Willow turned into ten thousand different clones which looked like a giant swarm of illusion moving toward Gabe. “Phantom Dance!”All the figures of Willow attacked him in different styles all at once.It looked like Gabe’s entire body was burst to pieces.“It’s over already?” Fang snickered. “Heh, who gets to keep the omega system now?”“It’s not over,” Stark frowned. “Didn’t you see that flash of light?”“What flash?” Fang looked at Stark. “Did you see something that I didn’t?”Zephyr arrived where they were. “He used his lightning ability to move fast… so fast that my eyes also barely followed it.”“How the hell did he move that fast all of a sudden?” Fang frowned. “Where is he now?”Willow put her sword on her shoulder and looked down at the park miles below, a corner of her lips slightly curling up as she saw Gabe standing behind Mia now.“He released a burst of lightning at the last second. I thought he was defending himself, but he used it to pull
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Gabe could feel what happened to Mia, that she was sent flying down to the earth.He wanted to go and help her, but Stark and Fang kept him occupied.The narrow and precise attacks of Stark constantly targeting Gabe’s head were messing with his sense of distance.Fang also stayed closed and made sure to mess with Gabe’s timing by throwing attacks that unpredictably supported Stark.Clearly, they were seasoned fighters who didn’t put a single foot wrong.Even Gabe, who wasn’t much of an experienced fighter, could tell that these two had fought each other and together many times before.Otherwise, such perfect coordination might not be possible.“If I can’t overpower them with technique, I have to do it through other means…” Gabe leaked electricity into the cloud, which reflected it back at Stark and Fang, forcing them to fend off from these sudden attacks.“He’s able to use not just the ground but also the clouds to his advantage,” Fang harrumphed. “How annoying. Even though I’m covered
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More than two decades ago.“I understand about the alpha system, but why does the Patriarch want to find the luna system, too?” Zephyr was asking his squad commander at the time who was his own aunt.“He wanted to give it to his wife or his daughter, maybe?” Zephyr’s aunt said while smoking from a pipe.“Why?”“Haha, why you ask? Because it’s known to be the best support system,” she laughed. “I don’t know much, either, but the luna system is said to be driven by the owner’s feelings more than any other system. So, it is one of those systems where anger, happiness, and even sadness can be turned into strength. They say it can cast perfect illusions that make dreams resemble reality.”“What? That’s pretty fucked up.”“Yeah, it is a fitting system for any queen, as it has the capability to keep the alpha in check when everyone else fails,” she opined. “That’s why it’s a coveted system, but unfortunately, our clan never got hold of it. If you ever come across an opponent who wields that
