It would seem as though it was a contest of shock and twists. There were jaws hanging in the air, but some had fallen to the floor. All eyes were supplanted on the interesting frame of this stand-up comedian who was constantly doing his best to crack the joke of the century. "Cory!!!" Anna didn't even know when she yelled. When they had left the restroom, she had thought that he had listened to her because he cared about her. But here they are! And what had he just said! He would buy what? The whole Eagleville Suprr Mall?!!!"He is definitely a lunatic!" Ella exclaimed, not willing to close her mouth even after she said that. "Do you even know what you are talking about?" One of the guys attacked. "First, you claimed that you were going to buy each of us a Maybach. A Maybach that's worth over twenty million. There are eight of us here. That's about two hundred million dollars!" The guy went silent for a while. He was trying so hard to process the weight of what he was saying. Eve
Harry hurriedly walked into the Eagleville Suprr Mall as the automatic door paved before him. He ran as he walked through the lobby towards the elevator, which led to his father's restaurant. Walking into the VVIP section, he found out that the space was empty. He hurried towards the table, which was placed in the center of the space. The bottles of wine were unopened, as well as other bottles of alcohol. He saw a bandana on the chair. "Where did they go? Did they already finish the party?" He wondered as he walked around. He lifted his gaze to look towards the counter. "Why is there no waitress in sight? Shouldn't they be over there? Are these people tired of living!" He gritted his teeth. "Did Dona ask all the waitresses to leave?" Harry has too many questions more than he could provide answers for. "It doesn't seem like they left finished. It seemed as though something had happened, and they had to leave early." He could deduce that much fact because of the unopened bottle
"Cory!" Anna called him for the last time. Cory, who was about to open the door of the hall, stopped all of a sudden. His palm was still wrapped around the handle of the door. Just a little turn would see the door open. He turned to look at her. "I don't know why I am doing this." She admitted finally. "But something deep inside of me is saying I can trust you." She added, looking all-careful as well as scared. "I don't know if I have become a lunatic as you, but please tell me that you know what you are doing." Anna pleaded. From her facial reactions, it was glaring that she was clueless. Whatever it was that she was holding on to, it was delicate. Cory slowly let go of the door handle and turned fully to face her. He placed his left palm on a side of his face and gently folded her cheek. "Look at me." He called. She had shuddered under his touch, which made her break sight, looking to the ground. She raised her head to look him in the eyes. "You don't have to be scared of a
There was stillness across the hall. No one was saying anything. The board members seemed way too stunned to find words for what was happening. All eyes were relentlessly staring at Cory. It would seem as though he had been elevated to the position of a god. Lord Theo couldn't choose his own actions either. He struggled to make sense of this as he looked away from Cory to his daughter. He repeated that sequence of action over and over again until there was no reason to keep up the count. Suddenly, the head of the board signaled at one of the many members. The person who had just been signaled rose to his feet. He was an elderly man but not as old as the head of the board. Age seemed to have a significant role in the order of status in the board's circumference. The man stopped right in front of the head of the board. The head of the board reached into a drawer and brought out something. Cory couldn't tell what the thing was. All he could deduce was that it was obviously an objec
The board members gasped, following what Lord Theo had just said. This can not be real, can it? No one could tell which was the truth or the lie. Lord Theo stepped away from his seat and took two steps towards the three henchmen. "Keep holding him if you want my wrath!" Lord Theo growled at the men. At once, the three men panicked. They let go of Cory with immediate effect. At this point, they were shivering, shaking as though they had just caught epilepsy. "Scram!!!" Lord Theo barked at them. The men pushed themselves hard as they scrambled out of the hall. One of them even fell and had to crawl out before Lord Theo would change his mind. No man in the country! No soul would dare to cross the path of Lord Theo. Not even if they are bearing the commands of the Prime Minister of the country. Anna was shocked by the reaction of her father. Just a few seconds ago, she was scared that she had gotten in trouble and her father would not go easy on her. But now, her father was also wi
Dona and the rest of the guys were still gathered at the lobby. Ella's boyfriend was on his feet, looking towards the elevator every now and then. He was beginning to catch the attention of one of the security guards. When he realized that the security guards were occasionally staring at him, he walked back to join the rest of the group. It was already a taboo for them to be in the vicinity of Loui Grande. Only the board members and guests invited were allowed in. They had been able to come in through the influence of Anna, Lord Theo's daughter. It was better for him and the rest of the group to massage that privilege instead of throwing it away. "What do you think is happening right now?" Kathy finally asked. She seemed to be the jumpiest of the group members. She couldn't help herself. If it was possible, she would have raced into the elevator. "I'm not sure. He's been there for too long. Do you think anything bad has happened?" Ella asked. "I really wish so. I want to see th
"Stop." Cory said to the cab driver. The cab pulled over at the front of a shabby building. He got down from the cab and paid. He walked away as the cab drove off. He headed towards the building. It was a small bungalow. Its exterior was very unkempt. The flowers at the front of the building were outgrown and mingled with weeds. Everything seemed really terrible. He walked to the door and gently pushed it open. But instead, the door fell out of the way, making a very loud noise. This startled Cory himself. The last time he was here, the door was intact and very strong. What had happened since then? He could only but wonder. Walking into the parlor, everything was displaced. There was food thrown everywhere. Clothes slashing across the sofa, a spoon at the top of the olden TV. He almost tripped over a stool that he didn't see when he stepped in. If it was not because of the stream of light coursing through the broken window of the parlor, he probably wouldn't be able to see anyth
Cory's presence when he got to the door intrigued the group of men who were about to march into the parlor. He stopped at the doorstep, looking from one person to the other. There were five of the men. Cory shut his eyes for a while as he tried to suppress all the combustion of emotions rippling in his body. He needed to figure out what the situation was before deciding how to eventually react to it. "Who is this?" One of the men asked with a tone of mockery. Cory still didn't react, yet he was at the door, staring at them. "Are you deaf or something?! Our boss just asked you a question, and you would just stand there and say nothing?!" One of the men barked at Cory. Cory took a glance at the person who had barked at him. Then he slowly looked away at the person who was referred to as the boss. His eyes lingered on the boss for a while. Suddenly, a screen appeared right in front of Cory. [Ping! Odds Clearer loading.][Ping! Cuprit details loaded.]>> Donald Richie >> 42 years
Anna could not understand what was happening. She had stepped to the front, away from Cory, to look closely at the man walking towards her. How could this be her father? She was about to lose her mind. At this point, she had no idea how she was still able to hold up her peace and not go nuts. This was just enough to make her question her sanity. "What's happening? How could this be ---" Anna turned to the back to ask Cory. She suddenly choked on the words. Turning around, Cory was nowhere to be found. It would seem as though he had vanished into thin air. She quickly rushed back into the hut to look for him but she couldn't find him. She ran outside again. She didn't know what to make of all these that were happening to her. She really did wish that she would have an explanation for it. "Did you see him walk out just now?" Anna asked her father, who had stopped walking right in front of the door of the hut. Lord Theo shook his head softly, taking a deep breath. The man slowly p
Anna choked so hard on her breath that she almost passed out. She had no idea what was happening or what had just happened. She couldn't wrap her head around it, let alone make a meaning of it. But it was real. She could see it right in front of her. There was someone who had just been sliced into several pieces. "Father..." She was having trouble rolling those words over. She couldn't even move closer to the corpse. The head was still hanging in the air. Thud! The head and neck dropped on the floor. She flinched, almost sprouting some unknown wings. She should move forward and touch the corpse. She should fall on the pieces of her father and weep her eyes out, but she couldn't. This was just way too much for her to process. She was trying to understand how this was possible in the whole wide world. How could it ever be possible?She could recall openly that she had left her father back at the mansion. The old man couldn't even move an inch, let alone get to her. She could see
Anna was lost in the moment and couldn't place her own emotions, not even after she had climbed into the car. It was a cab, and Cory had just hailed at the cab. What had just happened in the building was still very much fresh in her mind. There was no way she was going to throw that away or be distracted from it. She took a glance at the corner of Cory's face. Then, the glance intensified, graduating into a keen gaze. Cory, on the other hand, was staring at the front. It would seem as though she was not even there. "Are you not going to explain it to me?" She asked him eventually. Cory still would not look at her. She didn't want to act as though this meant nothing to her. She hated the fact that Cory was ignoring her. She knew that she could not force the words out of his mouth. He had to be willing, else her worries and questions would forever remain unattended to. The manner at which Cory was staring, Anna could deduce that there was something else on his mind. Although they
Anna was lost in the moment. She was just wailing over her own troubles and worries when a sudden voice had come out of nowhere. The back figure of the person walking away from her looked rather too familiar for her to ignore. In fact, she didn't have the luxury of ignoring anything at this point. How could she? Her door had been locked perfectly, and there were even men standing watch outside of the door. She didn't even hear the door open, let alone feel a presence until the words hit her. The recurring facts that ran all over the incident made her push her body up in the bed, as now she was kneeling in bed. "Cory?" She was skeptical as she called his name. She wanted to be sure that she was able to place her confusion and get squared up with the main matter;The real situation was the fact that someone familiar was in the room with her and had asked her to leave with him. Cory hesitated at the door and then turned to look at her again. When their gazes met, he saw a whole la
Standing in front of the heap of dead warlords, Cory shut his eyes and took in all the air of victory around him. He had to be sincere with himself. There might still be a lot of spiritual figures out there in the open waiting to cause another havoc or rain another wave of terror. He had never had any reason to be scared of them. Although one of the reasons why he had come to the island was just to be wary of them. Right now, after killing all these warlords, he couldn't help but come to a conclusion that even if he was running from trouble, trouble would still find him. Henceforth, the determination to carry on with this new level of task overwhelmed him. He had unintentionally unlocked another realm and phase of challenges that he could never let anyone else figure out except himself. All his life, he had learned how to keep such big secrets. How could he be referred to as the Immortal Dao if he didn't know how to be exclusive with some of the things that have been haunting him
Lord Theo, who was already exhausted from the errands and worries affiliated with the plot they were carrying out, raised his head slowly to look at his daughter, who was fired up by what she was saying. "What are you talking about, Anna? Please go back to bed. You need it." The man dismissed causally as though he had expected her to be up by now. At this point, Anna really didn't know what to feel. She wished that she would be able to choose her feelings, but she couldn't. There was a great measure of disappointment in what she was feeling at that moment. And there was something else, too. Something which she couldn't really reach. She wanted to sigh, but because she was huffing and puffing, she was even having a hard time catching her breath. "Answer my question, father." Her voice became even louder this time. She was trying to make it obvious to him that she wasn't here to joke around. She was here to talk about and review what was bothering her the most. It would be a great
Anna's eyes slowly opened. When her eyes opened, she felt fatigue, a pool of fatigue washing all over her body. She shut her eyes again to be certain what the problem could be. She slowly opened her eyes again, confiding in the act of precision and timing. Yet the feeling lingered. The fatigued remained. If there was anything, it even became heavier. She tried to roll in bed to the other side, but she felt extremely weak. She had no idea what was happening to her. Rolling on her stomach, she tried to heave her body to a comfortable position, but nothing seemed to work for her. She fell back on her face in bed and started to grunt. "What the hell is happening to me?" She muttered, seeking to understand what the problem might be. The moment when she rolled from one end of the bed to the other, things were beginning to ease gradually. The fatigue and weariness were beginning to wear off. This time, her mind was clearing out gradually. There was a room in her mind to house as many w
"We must go right away." One of the senators stood up and was headed towards the door. "I'm sorry we can't." The doctor suddenly stepped into the way of the senator. The senator looked so offended and pissed out of his mind. He was staring at the doctor as though the doctor was a piece of garbage who ought not to stand in his presence, let alone lift his gaze to look at him. He scoffed and turned to look at the rest of the senators behind him. "What the hell is wrong with these minions? Is it really our fault that we have indulged them and made them feel so comfortable in our midst?" The senator sounded very judgemental as he rolled those words out. He really didn't care that the doctor could hear him. The senators didn't care about anything at all. They don't care about other people other than themselves. As long as things are going their way, they wouldn't care less to do whatever they thought to be okay. "Now, move out of my way before I rip you into shreds!" The senator thre
Linda and her father were as still as a hill. They couldn't even make a sound. They couldn't see each other. Talking about seeing, Linda's eyes were drooping over her breasts at this point. It seemed as though the poison continued to lower the thread of the eyes down and down until perhaps it would get to the soles of her legs. This really didn't matter to her yet because the room was too dark for either of them to see each other. Before they were looked inside this room by the two hefty henchmen, they had seen clearly that it was super bright outside. It was noon. How come when they were locked in here, it was extremely dark? They had not been taken to an underground location. In fact, the underground location they had just come from was well lit and brighter than this. Although she couldn't use her eyes well, Linda could still tell this much that this was a very dark room. "Why is it so dark in here?" She asked her father, looking in the only direction she could afford. Down.