Gabe came home. His aunt was sleeping, so he didn’t bother her and just rested in the hall.He could see the cracks in the ceiling. In the past, he didn’t even think of closing the cracks as it would cost a lot of money, but now, he got another reason to quickly renovate the whole house.Seconds passed and added into minutes.He didn’t sleep but was just using his phone. He had made an online account, and he received a few friend requests from the people of the same neighborhood.One of those friend requests was from Zuri. She just sent a request a minute ago.“This woman… She’s unbelievably shameless.”Zuri was his senior in school, and she was called the Dimple Queen because she melted boys hearts with her dimpled smile. However, her character would put whores to shame, because she used to bring multiple boys to her house every night. Both of her parents were drug addicts, so they didn’t care for her, and she earned gifts and money from getting fucked by the boys of her school and o
“Mia!” Gabe loudly asked as he rushed over to her. “Are you okay?”His voice startled her and woke her up fast. She was initially scared, but after seeing Gabe, her heart stopped skipping. “Gabe, what are you doing here?”He felt that she picked the words right out of his mouth. “I came here to breathe some fresh air, and I saw you. Why are you here at this hour? It’s not safe for you to be alone here at night.”“I know,” she tapped the bench, as if telling him to sit.Gabe didn’t say another word and sat next to her. There was a foot distance between them, though. He briefly glanced at her, and she didn’t look alright. (Was she crying again?) He remembered the last time when she was crying in her bedroom, while looking at the photo frame of her parents. “Did you come here to feel the breeze, too?” he asked.“Kind of,” she replied and looked at the stars just for the sake of it. She then looked at him and said, “Can I ask you something?”“Yeah. Sure. Anything.” He put the mobile aside
Gabe was repeatedly punching the opponent even after he fell to the floor.“Stop!” Rica stepped in, grabbed Gabe by wrist and forcibly pulled his arm behind his back and then dragged him to the side. “What the hell are you doing? This time, the task was only to defeat and not kill the opponent. What’s gotten into you?”Gabe was gasping. He was bleeding from the mouth as it was an intense battle he just had. “That bastard scolded my mom. He deserves more beating.”“You can’t act like this. If people see you losing cool just because someone scolded your mom, then your opponents will use that to target you,” Rica said in a low voice. “You won 48 times with this. If you win two more times… you’ll cross the 1,000,000 rank and receive your golden badge. You don’t want to get the penalty by breaking the rules.”“I’ll keep that in mind.”Rica then raised Gabe’s arm into the air. “The winner is Gangsta!”The crowd had been erupting all this while, most of them rooting for Gabe.“He’s done it a
Gabe bought a new mobile and gave it to his aunt. This one was worth less than a thousand dollars, which was ten times less expensive than the last one he had bought for her.“What about the previous phone then?” Nicole couldn’t help but ask him. After hearing from the kids that the mobile was worth close to 10,000 dollars, how could she just give up on that? “I think either that child Draco or one of his friends might have taken it.”Gabe had already told her of that possibility, but she didn’t agree, not wanting him to quarrel with William or Bertha for the mobile.“Forget about that mobile, Mom,” Gabe said. “I’m earning well now, so fighting with Mia’s family for the sake of one mobile isn’t worth it.”“Mm, I understand, but if Draco really was the one who stole it, then I think we must at least tell his parents about it,” Nicole opined. “They will correct their kid.”“I’m not too sure about it, though.” Gabe didn’t think that Carrie or Freddy would punish their own for the sake of
At Tuna Waves.Gabe and Nicole were enjoying the delicious salmon and tuna meat. The tuna pieces, especially, were so juicy and succulent Nicole wanted to keep eating them.Normally, she didn’t have a great appetite after falling sick. However, right now, it felt like her appetite from her younger days was returning. After all, she was eating more than Gabe now.And Gabe was extremely happy to see his aunt eat like a child. Nicole wasn’t even having a discussion. She was just fully focused on eating and nothing else.Once she finished, she burped and then awkwardly looked around, wondering if others noticed. “Every table is full. And we are only on one floor. This hotel really is popular.”“Yes, Mom. The crab’s legs in other restaurants in this region cost anywhere between 300 to 1000 dollars, but in this hotel, they are just worth 30 dollars,” Gabe said. “And the quality is actually better than what you can get in other restaurants, or so I’ve heard.”“Yeah, every dish was delicious,
Draco played games on Nicole's mobile until morning and so got extremely tired. Just when he started to sleep, the door was broken open, and Draco screamed in horror.Bart rushed into the room. “Did you take my nose ring?” he was glaring at Draco.“No, Uncle, I didn’t,” Draco replied with all the haste in the world.Bart grabbed Draco’s shirt and lifted him up. “Give it back to me if you’ve taken it. Otherwise, if I find it with you, I’ll beat your ass black and blue!”Draco began to cry loudly.“Bart!” Carrie bolted into the room. “What are you doing! Put him down! He’s just a child!” she grabbed Draco into his arms, and Draco continued to cry.Bart began to search everywhere in the room. “You better pray that I don’t find the ring in this room.”“Why would he steal your nose ring?” Carrie yelled.Bart lifted the pillow and found a mobile there. “Mm?” He checked it. “Whose mobile is this?”Draco’s heart thundered against his chest. “T-That’s my friend’s mobile,” he hurriedly said. “I
Having eaten a wholesome dinner the other night, Nicole was sleeping peacefully this morning.Her room door wasn’t locked, and so Bart barged into the room and clapped twice. The loud claps startled Nicole out of her sleep. Seeing Bart the moment she opened her eyes, she was paralyzed.Bart grabbed by the hair and pulled her up. “Where is Gabe?”“Ngh,” she frowned in anger and anxiety. “What are you doing? Let go of me!”“I asked you a question!” He let go of her hair and held her throat firmly this time. “If you don’t want to lose your throat permanently, then speak!”The sheer pressure put on her throat choked her. She couldn’t even speak even if she wanted to.“Speak!” Blinded by anger, Bart wasn’t even able to see that he was not making it any easier for Nicole to respond.It was only when Nicole looked like she might pass out any second, he loosened his grip.“Tell your…” Bart was about to say something but paused and kept staring at her. She might be many years older than him, b
Gabe was standing in the ring, staring at his eight-foot-tall giant opponent, holding axes in his hands. His nickname was Big Daddy, and his rank was exactly one million currently. He came from another city just to fight Gabe and stop his winning streak.“This guy can perfectly split human bodies in one strike,” Rica whispered to Gabe without even moving her lips so as to not look like she was being biased. “Be careful. He intends to kill you.”Gabe clenched his fists as he fearlessly stared at this giant of an opponent who was grinning at him.It was a fight where killing was allowed.Gabe wasn’t planning on killing or getting killed by the opponent, either. He wanted to become an adept alpha as soon as possible, but right now, he had to focus on the fight at hand first, which wasn’t easy, at least mental-wise.“Rhino Killer is just a little bitch,” Big Daddy said while maintaining the creepy grin on his face. “Even though you defeated him, you’re no more than a bug in my eyes. If yo
“Whoever manages to defeat that ‘worthless’ brat will get to keep the omega system.”The moment Gabriel Agnar uttered those last few words, all the nine standing members of the Jaguar squad rushed toward Gabe without a shred of hesitation.They were all elite warriors his grandfather had commanded, all intent on claiming the power that lay still dormant within Gabe."Stand down, brat," the third ranker Bennie called out, her voice layered with authority. "You cannot hope to win against us. Surrender, and you may yet find mercy."“You monsters who are ganging up on me, do you even know what mercy means?” Gabe retorted and countered Fang with a punch.Surprisingly, Gabe’s punch seemed simple but the weight it had was tremendous. Fang was pushed back.But at the same time Stark kicked Gabe’s face.Once again, Stark expected Gabe to be sent flying, but Gabe took the attack without even moving an inch.And it was Stark who frowned in response.Zephyr raised his hand, stopping others from
“It’s time to return,” Gabriel Agnar said, and these few words changed the body language of all the squad members.In that moment, they let their guard dawn, a small figure dashed in through their ranks and attacked their patriarch Gabriel.Gabriel saw through the first feint and responded accordingly, but the second attack also turned out to be a feint just to distract him so that they could pluck the severed hand out of Gabriel’s hand.And they managed to grab the hand, but no amount of pulling was enough to get the severed hand out of the old man’s grip.Everyone was startled after seeing the young kid who gave off an ethereal energy, which they could sense.This young kid was none other than Ulf.“What do you think you’re doing, kid?” Gabriel asked him.“Ha-ha, good afternoon,” Ulf replied awkwardly, “or is it evening now?” He grew triple in size and clenched his fists. “Omega Arts Secret Move…” He threw in a straight punch at Gabriel’s chest. “Final Fist!”Gabriel took the attack
At Russell’s estate.Zephyr, the head of the Jaguar Squad, struck Gabe’s chest with his palm. A shockwave burst through his chest and ripped the back of Gabe’s shirt in the shape of Zephyr's palm.Gabe coughed out a lot of blood, and his eyes nearly turned white. He was about to fall back.Zephyr caught Gabe’s throat and squeezed it. “If I kill you, then the Alpha System will be ours.”“Gabe!” Mia ran toward him. “No!”“Where do you think you’re running?” Pixie, the number five, blurted. Her green hair extended forth like tree vines and sought to capture Mia.Mia moved swiftly and dodged a few vines, but the hair grew branches like trees, and they were sharp enough to pierce through Mia’s body.Her torso and limbs were riddled with many thin holes.She bled from the nose and mouth and couldn’t move at all. She felt completely frozen.Pixie pulled the hair out and retracted them. Mia fell to her knees.Seeing all this, Gabe’s blood thrummed beneath his skin. His heart pounded with the c
In ancient times, serpents had wings and feet, and they were called by many names. One of those kinds were also called Dragons.So, dragons were indeed serpents with wings and legs. Even in the modern day, dragons were worshiped in some places. Some martial arts were derived from dragons, too.However, Alleria’s martial arts were not related to dragons but of a different serpent kind, whose existence had been erased from history..When Alleria was young, she spent her time in the woods, and the most difficult enemies she faced were the monstrous serpents that lived in that forest. This made her wonder just how much stronger would the serpents be if they had legs, too, as they did in the past.This led Alleria to search through her clan’s library and find the ancient serpent art books. And she picked one that she believed would be the most challenging.And thanks to her collective efforts, she managed to become the head of one of the Eight Enigma Squads, the Serpent Squad.The Ancient S
Alleria was sent flying through multiple walls, and she ended up crashing into the tables of the precious customers.“That hurts…” Alleria’s cheek bruised, and she bled from a corner of her mouth.“W-Who are you?” The customers were all shocked because this woman was wearing armor underneath her cloak, and there was even a short sword at her waist. “Are you a cosplayer?”“Who was that little girl?” Alleria got back up, looking quite irritated because her cloak was dirtied by the food, so she had to remove it. She looked sturdy despite her age, and she was nearly six feet tall. Many men in that hall hadn’t seen such a well-built woman with attractive looks like that before. “Call herself as my grandmother,” she cracked her neck, releasing the gas bubbles from the joints in her spine, “let’s see if you’ve really got what it takes to utter such words.”She rushed into the bathroom, but to her surprise, Systa and Nicole were gone.“What?” Alleria frowned. “I didn’t see them leave. Where di
Nicole was getting out of the taxi, but Systa held her hand and stopped her. “I’m not feeling the urgency anymore. Can we go somewhere else now?”Nicole couldn’t make sense of Systa’s words. The little girl was struggling until seconds ago, and she’s fine now? Something didn’t feel right. Whether Systa was playing games or not, Nicole didn’t want to take the risk. “I’m taking you to the toilet room once.”“Ugh,” Systa hissed at her. “Listen to me.”Nicole was startled. “Did you just hiss at me? And why are you gritting your teeth?”“Because you don’t understand the trouble that you’re in!” Systa blurted. “Driver, turn the car around and get going.”The driver, however, looked at her with a silly expression as if Systa was not the one who’s going to pay him for the ride.Systa didn’t like that the driver was treating her as a little girl. She wished she could show her powers to him, but because of Nicole, she had to hold herself back.“Can you wait here for half an hour for us?” Nicole
Nicole finished her work in the hotel and walked out with Systa who was in the form of a little girl now.“Why do you look like that?” Nicole asked her.“Look like what?” Systa asked her back.“Look like you’re weighing life's burdens on your shoulders?” Nicole said.“I was just thinking about something,” Systa replied.Nicole picked her up onto her waist.“W-What are you doing?” Systa quickly said, her cheeks flushing. “This is embarrassing. Put me down.”“Get used to it,” Nicole pinched Systa’s cheeks. “You know, I watched Gabe grow, but I missed watching a girl grow. I didn’t have a daughter, you see. So, I feel like keeping you with me for as long as possible.”“S-Stop pulling my cheeks!” Systa found it annoying because her skin was not perfectly authentic human-standard.“Stop acting like that,” Nicole stopped pulling the cheek and gently rubbed it. “You’re a girl, so you’re going to raise kids one day. You shouldn’t get angry easily. Your worth will be decided by how good you ca
In Sciocidad, also known as the phantom city which floated through the sky also known as the lower heaven.At the border, Russell and Jessica were talking with a mature lady whose name they didn’t even know. All he knew was that she was the librarian of the clan that lived in this city.“My goal is to stop another world war from happening,” Russell told her. “If a war breaks out again, then the world really is going to end.”“Silly young man,” the lady named Uzza smiled, “the third world you were worrying about has long started and is still ongoing.”“W-What?” Russell was startled.“Food, air, water, and even people’s very blood has been polluted for decades now and it’s still happening today,” Uzza said. “We see a lot of chemicals being sprayed in the air through special jets. There are nanoparticles, graphene, and even parasites in those chemicals, which will mix with water, food, and can even enter people’s bodies through their skin. Everything the media tells you is fake. The elect
“It’s one thing that James lost, but for Atarah to lose to this brat…” The number one ranker of the Jaguar Squad, Stark, spoke. “This is quite shameful.”“Indeed,” Fang, the second ranker, opined. “I feel a little embarrassed since I’ve trained James for over a month now. For him to lose without even taking an opponent’s limb is quite disappointing. I hope he’s not dead.”“James is the last ranker, the number 10 of the squad,” the zeroth ranker and the head of the Jaguar Squad, Zephyr, replied. He had a sharp mustache and was cleanly shaven. “He’s the weakest, but Atarah is the ranked fourth in the squad, and she let her younger comrade lose. So, she failed both as a teammate and as an individual fighter. She needs to be punished for her mistakes later. But for now…” He glanced at the number five ranker, who was a green-headed female, Pixie.Pixie stepped forth and treated Atarah’s injury with her vivre. It was as though she was conducting surgery with her vivre, using it as needles to