Bad luck had been Gabe’s best friend for as long as he knew this world, and so he was not all that surprised to hear that Rick and others advised against marrying him. Gabe could only force himself to smile because Rick was at least honest about it.“Are you married now?” Rick asked.“No, but I’m trying,” Gabe replied in a bit of a disappointed voice.Rick put his hand on the side of Gabe’s shoulder. “Take this as an old man’s advice to a struggling young man. Before thirty, you think you can marry whenever you want, but once you go past that thirty mark, you’ll have to roam until your sandals wear out, and there’ll still be no guarantee that you’ll get married. It’s even worse for women who are past thirty and are still unmarried.” He slightly frowned. “My daughter is in her mid twenties, and she’s so obese she wouldn’t be able to walk down the passenger’s aisle because her butt is too big. She has to turn half away to the side to walk down the aisle,” just talking about it brought t
Seeing the lamborghini speeding on them with every fraction of a second, the three ladies ran toward the footpath.Gabe ran the car onto the footpath, making them run back to the road, screaming like terrified chicken. They thought he was going to run through them, but he curved the vehicle past them and stopped it right in front of them at such close range they ended up hitting the side of the car before they could stop themselves.Gabe lowered the window and said, “Who’s the boss?”“W-What?” they didn’t get what he was talking about, or at least acted like that.“Who—is—the—boss?” Gabe asked again and he wasn’t even looking at them. He revved the engine up, skipping their heartbeats.“Y-You are! You are the boss!” all of them said in unison.“Yeah, now get inside,” Gabe uttered.“W-What?” They looked at each other’s faces, thinking that he might do bad things to them if they were to get in his car.“Do you want me to step out?” Gabe raised his voice.“No!” All three of them rushed
[Why did you roll your eyes and laugh when I said I’m the alpha of alphas?] Systa asked Gabe as he was driving home. “If you’re the alpha of alphas, then who’s Jesus Christ?” asked Gabe, casually. [...] Systa went silent. Soon, Gabe stopped the vehicle at his usual parking spot, which was in the alley. Zuri came running to him and said in a hurry, “Gabe, the Madman is harassing your aunt! You should quickly go and save your aunt!” Gabe’s heart trembled at once. Madman was the biggest drunkard in the neighborhood. After losing his entire family in an accident, he had gone crazy. His relatives had forcefully taken over his house and kicked him out onto the streets. All these affected his mind, and he had become a crazy beggar ever since. The kids would mock him and toy with him every now and then, even though the parents would do their best to keep their kids away from him because there was no telling how this man would act at any particular time. When Zuri said that Madman was ha
The mobile in Gabe’s hand dropped.Mia’s heart skipped a beat. She quickly picked up the mobile, but Gabe still looked frozen. He couldn’t believe that Mia had actually asked him to marry her. The woman who always looked beautiful in his eyes even without makeup just asked him if he would marry her. He thought this was a dream. It was too surreal for him, after all.“Gabe,” Mia hesitantly said, “will you be husband for a while?”Gabe’s expression slightly changed. “F-For a while? W-What do you mean?” He couldn’t get his head around that phrase. Was the happiness swelling in his just a short-living thing like the froth of boiling milk?“C-Can we talk privately in the park?” she asked.“N-No, let’s talk here,” he shut the main door.Mia right now didn’t mind what neighbors would think. She sat down on the second-hand chair. He sat next to her in another chair.“Gabe, you worked for a day in my house, so you somewhat know how my family members behave,” Mia said, locking her hands togethe
[You’re making a big mistake, Gabe.] Systa didn’t stop talking ever since Gabe left the house. He was on his way to the farthest UTS local base from his house because it was the headquarters of the city, and the governor wouldn’t visit any other bases. [She wants to use you to solve her problems. Why would you want to marry her for that? I’m betting that she won’t let you touch her or any other woman. When that happens, I’m gonna lose it.]“You talk like you’ve experienced this before,” Gabe muttered while driving in his car.[I have, which is why I know exactly what’s going to happen.]“What if I have sex with Mia then?” Gabe asked.[Hmph, you think you can do that?]“Give me one week, no, one month. I’ll definitely make her fall for my charm!” Gabe said. He was hoping a lot more would happen, but he didn’t want to talk about everything with the system.[If you succeed, then I’ll give you a big reward.]“Thank you.”[But if you fail, you will be punished.]“What punishment?”[You wil
Gabe hesitantly walked forward. Claire didn’t seem to be in a good mood, after all.(Is she really my opponent?) Gabe didn’t feel good because he didn’t fight a woman before. How was he supposed to fight a beautiful girl like her? This felt like too difficult of a task for him. “Uh, Ms. Claire? What are you doing here?”Claire didn’t want to directly admit that she was waiting for him. “Just wasting my time, that’s all.” She stood straight now. “I thought you weren’t going to come.”“Huh?” Gabe looked a bit confused. “Why?”“Well, your opponent this time is someone really famous,” Claire said. “It’s obvious that UTS doesn’t want you to win 50 matches in a row.”“W-Who’s my opponent? Is he ranked above 1 million?”“1 million?” Claire shook her head. “No, he’s ranked above 10,000,” Claire’s response sent a chill down his spine.“T-Ten thousand?” Gabe’s mouth opened wide. “H-How could they put me against someone ranked so high? How is this fair?”“Well, I think they’ve taken everything y
The governor winked at Rica before leaving the cage, and she did not like it. She came to Gabe and said, “You must win and erase that ugly smile from the governor’s face!”“I won’t just erase the smile but everything that’s positive in his expression,” Gabe frankly stated his mind.“Good,” Rica looked at the tab in her hand. The bettors were going crazy. “Whoa… this is beyond anything I’ve ever expected.”“What? Let me see,” Gabe tried to take a peek, but she turned the tablet’s screen off. “Hmph,” he acted like he didn’t care and then walked to the corner and sat down in the small chair.Leher also sat in the opposite corner.Time flew by pretty quickly, and Rica signaled them to get up as the time had come.“Killing is not allowed,” Rica explained the rules. “You can do everything else. You will win if your opponent admits defeat, or you’re the last one standing. Are the rules clear?”“Yeah, but who decides these rules?” Gabe asked.Rica squinted her eyes, “You don’t need to know th
A surge of adrenaline like never before flooded through Gabe’s body along with the messages that kept popping one after another.If there was anything that Systa hated absolutely, it would be losing pathetically. So, she supported Gabe with immediate urgency.Though losing to someone like Leher wouldn’t be a humiliating thing at all, neither Systa nor Gabe wanted that.“Oh, look! He’s standing up.”“It would have been so bad had he lost just like that. I guess he didn’t win 49 matches in a row by fluke.”“But at this rate, he’s going to get himself killed.”Most of the audience wanted to see a good fight, whereas a few were just worried for Gabe as they believed that he had no chance of winning.Rica was of the same opinion. She hoped that Gabe wouldn’t get up, but Gabe betrayed her expectations. He bore the great pain gripping his whole body and not only got back to his feet but attacked Leher with much greater speed and accuracy than before.The change in Gabe was too much to not no
“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