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“You stupid bastard, how dare you claim young master Gab’s woman as yours and even dare to touch him? Bang.”“Rahhhh!!!”Inside a small room with only a dim light illuminating it, a blood-curdling cry that was filled to the brim with agony and the most painful torture on earth filled the place right now.The sound was heart-wrenching and could make people’s hair stand on the end.It was made by Mark, who appeared thoroughly devastated at this moment with his clothes already turned to rag and dyed with his blood.In each hole of the cloth, various sizes of fresh wounds that were still gushing out thick red blood were seen, ranging from small to ghastly.Mark was presently feeling the greatest pain of his life, and he had already wished for death more than once, as the agony was just too much.This was his third day of receiving all sorts of beatings after he caught Rebecca cheating on him.Mark had no idea about how he got here; just that, he suddenly awoke with a bang of a baton on his back, and then he realized that he had been locked in windowless custody within a police station.Since then, as though they were gangsters, the cops have been brutalizing him in all the ways available, using pressure water on him, stunning him with electricity, and beating him till he fainted.One would have thought that Mark would have gotten used to all this dehumanization by now, but no, he hadn’t and with the look of things, he will never.He appeared so completely sapped of strength at present that he couldn’t lift even a finger, however, this does in no way affect the incredible hatred he was feeling. Instead, his hatred continued to rise at a fast pace with each savagery he got.He hates anything called cops now and he feels like dissecting every member of it. As for Rebecca, it must be known that she was the one Mark loved the most in the past, but now, all this love had turned to hatred, making her his current most hated person on earth.Lastly, Gabs… Although Mark had been oppressed to the point where all his thoughts had disappeared, his willpower was still able to put him right on the list of the people whom he must destroy if he ever got out of this doom of hell, including Rebecca’s mother who had joined hands in tormenting and oppressing him.“You godforsaken nobody! This is what you get for having a design for the young master’s woman! Pak!”“This is what you get for touching someone like young master Gab, daring to beat the small god!” (Again, another louder sound of a whip hitting a flesh)With all the strength he could muster, one of the cops, who had been changing hands in beating Mark since he was brought there wiped him hard twice again, making Mark arch his back again and cry hard like someone who was having the skin of their body slowly get strip away from him from the brunt side of the knife.Mark had never known that a pain of this level existed in his life. It was killing and destroying him.It was as though he was having his body slowly dissected while his consciousness was still fully alive.‘Death, is this you?’Feeling his lifespan dwindling from him at a fast pace, a relieved look finally spotted Mark’s face, but the deep pain of regret that appeared in his eyes couldn’t be hidden at all.No sooner had he thought this than he fainted again.His deep pain of regret however seemed to finally have moved nature as the moment he fainted, a ball of light that was so fast and couldn't be seen with eyes pierced through the space and drilled into his body in a blinkTime seemed to stop in the following moment and then a mechanical voice echoed in Mark’s mind, but since he was now unconscious, he failed to hear.[The host has been found successfully.][Analyzing the host’s soul.][Analysis completed and the host is found to be 100% compatible with the system.][Integration begins with the host soul. 3… 2… 1…][The system enters a slumber mood till the integration is completed. 3… 2…. 1…]With the last word, the voice stopped completely and time finally resumed working again.Since as previously stated, time has previously stopped, so for Mark and everybody else, no time had passed at all and it was still the moment when Mark lost consciousness.Just before Mark’s brain could enjoy the moment of relief, a bone-sapping pain hit him again.“Ahhhh!”Another blood-curdling cry left his mouth and he was forcefully woken up. He immediately fought to get himself free, but he was tightly bound down so he could only trash there, looking incredibly pitiful.“Please!!!!” Mark finally gave in, pleading with an agonized voice.Listening to his plea, the cop members laughed hard, mocking him. “I thought you were special with strong willpower, able to survive three days without dying and giving in, so in the end, you are just a fool who will still give in like the rest… hahaha.”Without a single pity for Mark, they mocked him to their hearts’ content, acting like the messengers of the devil before finally, one of them spoke disdainfully and with disgust.“Will you disturb young master Gab’s woman again?”“I won’t. boohoo! I won’t!”Like a little girl and not the man he was, Mark sobbed harder, hurriedly answering the question, losing the last trace of pride he ever had in his life while feeling as though his body wasn’t his anymore, but the definition of pain.***** “See, I will be honest with you. You aren’t the first to be brought here for having designs on the young master’s woman, but many who thought they‘d be able to avenge themselves were long dead since the young master is not just a nobody, but the son of the Police Department’s Commissioner. You can’t sue us or him, so, you should just forget anything called revenge and travel as far away as you can from the young master’s woman, otherwise…” The person, probably the only human being who still has a trace of humanity in him within the police station sighed and then stood up after applying ointment to the last spot on Mark. “You can leave after wearing this,” The person threw a pair of pants and a shirt at Mark, and then they turned around and left. Mark remained seated and wouldn’t react for a moment. He appeared unusually calm and quiet at the moment, only he knowing what was on his mind.Eventually, without still having any emotion, not even the slightest fluctuation of it, M
*****“So pitiful.”“Our biggest prayer every day is to not have a child that will bring about our downfall.”“Sigh… with how kind and hardworking the mother and daughter duo were, to think that they would end up being thrashed and rendered homeless because an unfortunate son had offended someone he shouldn’t have offended.”“But I heard that it was the landlady of the house who instructed them to be thrashed and expelled; how could it have anything to do with that gentle boy?"“Aish. What do you know? Have you forgotten that I’m a friend of Rebecca’s mother? She told me yesterday that her daughter had acquired a wealthy and influential young man from a powerful family as a new boyfriend, and due to jealousness, the stupid boy had offended the wealthy young man, thereby gaining his wrath. To punish him, the influential young man decided to purchase his family's home and make the landlady do what she did.”“He deserved it, but… but isn’t that too excessive? How could he…”Hearing all t
***** Even before Rebecca, her mother, and her new boyfriend were spotted, everybody had already rushed toward the vehicle that brought them over. They were all utterly amazed by the expensive car which none of them had seen before in real life except in movies.Their eyes began to glow as they waited for the car’s door to open, and as soon as it did, they circled the three and started giving the short and not-so-handsome Gab idolization gazes“Is that the wealthy young man?”“So handsome!”“Welcome, Young master, my name is…”“Young master, I am…”Ignoring Mark and his problem, everybody there began to throw all sorts of flattering words at the young man, praising him to the peak.“Ahhh!!” With his tears mixed with his snorts, Mark's sob increased upon witnessing the scene that was going on.Although he didn't want to accept the reality, Mark ultimately understood why everybody, despite having a good relationship with himself and his family refused to offer any hand of help.It
*****“Mister, did you and the two patients brought by you all fall from a skyscraper?”“I…” Mark couldn’t respond after hearing the question he was asked. He even failed to see the pitiful look being given to himself by the doctor. “Will… will my mother and sister be okay?”The doctor, “_”He couldn’t help but keep quiet for a brief moment, then he shook his head. He had been extremely curious before, but since Mark didn’t want to say anything, he couldn’t be bothered. Well, it wasn’t that he was bothered in the first place anyway.“That’s right, however, before any treatment could be performed on the patients, Mister will need to deposit a small amount of money.”“I…” Mark turned into a statue for a moment. “Mo… money?”The doctor, “_”He couldn’t help but suddenly gaze at Mark s though he were a fool. “Yes, money.” He responded again, giving Mark a gaze that asked; ‘Don’t you know that you will be paying money in the first place when you bring over a patient? Two patients in critic
*****“Do you know what day this is ?” With his face now turned to a scowl and all the traces of smile previously on it completely gone, making him look utterly infuriated, the middle-aged supervisor, who was standing before Mark questioned, then before Mark could respond, he snapped at him.“Three fucking days! You are returning three fucking days after you’ve asked for just one day off and you still dare to ask me for the money I was owing you? Even daring to tell me to borrow you some money to it, do you take me for a fool who could be easily duped?”Mark’s heart pounded in his chest and he became greatly nervous again.He had thought that luck had finally decided to shine upon him when he saw the usually hateful and furious supervisor smiling at him, which prompted him to ask what he needed, but…Mark swallowed hard. “Sir… sir Supervisor, it’s… it’s okay not to borrow me any money again, but… but the money you were owing me, could… could you return that first?”“Did you hear yours
***** [ The Face-Smacking System Host’s Profile. [Name: Mark Thumpson] [Age: 19years] [Race: Human] [Account Balance: $0.42] [Strength: Danger! (A single shove to the host is all that is needed for you to lose your life.)] [Technique(s)/Talent(s): 0] [Point(s): 0] [Property(ies): 0] ---------Locked for the time being and will gradually be revealed based on the host’s level------- ] As though it were a suspense movie, Mark watched the sci-fi-like screen that was suspended before him, raising his head for a while and unable to believe that it was real. Had someone been paying any attention to him at this moment, they would have concluded that something had happened to Mark or that he had gone insane, needing medical attention, especially with his appearance. ‘You… you…’ Mark hesitated greatly after he was convinced that he wasn’t hallucinating. He was now uncertain if this ‘system’ of a thing was like the ones he usually read about in novels and see in movies, but just at
***** After searching for a moment but seeing no other person who looked like they had spoken apart from Mark, all gazes were directed at Mark again. Nobody could talk for a brief moment, and then slowly, everybody exchanged blank gazes. “Did that… that homeless-looking boy did not just claim to have the ability to treat a person, did he?” “This… hahaha, what a joke.” “I will rather eat my shit than believe that someone like this, who resembles a person who had just been dehumanized for committing a theft is a doctor.” “What a fool?! Does he think we are joking here?” “The punk!” Everybody resumed discussion with a changed topic, having zero belief that Mark could do a single thing. Even the jade beauty, her revitalized expectancy instantly dashed, and her eyes became filled with hopelessness once again.“Grandfather, please, wake up! Wake up” She resumed shaking the old man while pleading for him. Like everybody else, her conclusion as soon as she saw Mark's appearance was
***** As soon as the words left Mark’s mouth, he was left aghast, as though he had never expected to utter such words.Literally, Mark was the one who had spoken, but it wasn’t out of his will, it was the arrogance of the high medical skill now present in his head that influenced and subconsciously let the words out of his mouth. After a moment of stupefaction, Mark’s face slowly returned to normal, since the question he just asked was nothing but the right thing to inquire. It was as though he had just spoken the most reasonable thing on earth. Nevertheless, nobody would react for a moment after he had spoken, and then very slowly, with a great shock, every head turned in Mark’s direction. Seeing that it was him, they gasped in astonishment. “It’s this beggar again,” someone mumbled, then before the old man, bodyguards, or the jade beauty could speak, they brought it upon themselves to act, trying to make the Jackson family owe them a favor. “Bastard, what did you just say?”