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The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 92
Joseph grabbed Catherine by the arm and turned her with just enough force to make her face him.Ignoring that she was holding a food plate, he went in for a quick kiss.Catherine’s instinct kicked in so fast her head moved back before shock surfaced upon her visage.Catherine’s arms lifted up with force, and the food on the plate fell in Joseph’s face. “What the hell is wrong with you?”Joseph was very shocked.And so was the crowd, not knowing exactly why the food was on Joseph’s face and clothes.Catherine looked annoyed and upset.It was all thanks to her neck’s agility that she was able to move her head back, or she would have been kissed by this man when there were so many eyes around.Joseph’s expression hardened.“Son, what happened?” Peter rushed over.Subrina saw Catherine next to Joseph and thought she might have done something. Her heart started racing at the thought that what Catherine did might just ruin the positive vibe she had going with Peter.“We collided, Dad. It wa
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 93
It was a resounding slap.Catherine didn’t seem as surprised as she was hurt by the slap.Even though Catherine had seen her mother’s hand coming, she didn’t evade.Nevertheless, her eyes turned teary. “Thank you… Mom,” her voice cracked.Subrina’s eyes were red, but her arm was shaking. She was already regretting what she had done.“I definitely deserved this for talking back against you,” Catherine said. “As long as I’m in line with you, I’m a good daughter, but when my words don’t align with yours, then I’m the useless one. Thank you for not disappointing me. I’m certain now. You will never change.”Catherine entered the car and drove away without her mother.Subrina couldn’t even tell her daughter to wait for her. No words came out of her mouth right now.Sia was watching all this from the entrance, and she looked shocked. “Catherine’s mom is crazier than her. How can she slap a grown daughter like that? Is Catherine going to complain to Denver and have him beat her mother?”She w
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 94
Catherine came to her apartment, driving fast.Her renovated car made it possible for her to drive fast and let out some fumes.She parked the car inside, but then she saw Denver working, filling up the cracks on the pillars and walls.“What are you doing?” she asked, looking genuinely confused.“I asked him to do it,” Layla, the apartment’s guard, came over to them quickly with a big smile on her face. “I heard that your boyfriend is a construction worker, so I thought he could make the apartment look better just like he made your car better.”“Uh, okay,” Catherine took it casually. “As long as he gets paid for his work, I don’t mind it. How much do you charge per hour, Denver?”“Thirty to fifty depending on the work,” Denver said. “But since it’s for our apartment, I’ll only charge twenty dollars.”“Actually, I’m not going to pay the hourly wages,” Layla scratched her jaw.“What?” Catherine was shocked.Even Denver looked just as shocked. He thought Layla was automatically going to
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 95
Denver was skillfully applying cement to the cracks, and he was on a flow.But he suddenly stopped because he saw something in one of those cracks. There were small white things.At first he didn’t think much, but then he used to brush to pull those white things out of the cracks.Upon observing them, he realized that they were lizard eggs.They were so tiny they looked adorable.Denver wondered what he should do with them. If he were to put these back in the cracks, then he wouldn’t be able to seal the crack.But if he were to put them outside, these eggs would probably crack.And the mother lizard was nowhere to be seen.After some thinking, Denver decided to leave some part of the cracks open and put the eggs back in there.Just as he was putting the eggs, Layla came from behind and grabbed his biceps. “Are these real?”The eggs almost fell from his palm. “Whoa, be careful.”“Mm? What’s wrong?”“There are lizard eggs in my hand. They could have fallen to the ground.”“Oh, I’m sorry
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 96
Denver came to the flat, opened the door and was entering.He had to lower his head to enter, but his head still ended up hitting the edge, making him hiss in pain.Catherine jumped out of the couch and rushed over. “Are you okay?”“Ugh, yeah,” Denver said, despite feeling like hot coffee was brewing on top of his head. He could feel vapors coming out. “I think so.”“Let me take a look,” Catherine said.Denver had to sit down on the couch so she could take a look at the wound. She couldn’t see it, so she kept touching his head and eventually found the swollen spot. “Wow, I can feel a bulge. It must be hurting.”“It does… a little,” Denver said.Catherine smiled. “Let me give you an instant treatment.”“Instant treatment? Such a thing exists?” Denver queried.Catherine then planted a kiss on the swollen spot. Denver felt it and smiled.She slid into the couch next to him and locked her fingers with him. “You said you’d take an hour, but you came early. What changed your mind? You didn’
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 97
Layla cleaned the dust off herself before coming back to her spot.It was evening.She was waiting for her son to bring her meal from home. “What’s taking him so long? Is he wasting time playing football with his friends again?”Just as she got angry, her nine-year-old son brought a bag to her, put it next to her and was leaving in a hurryLayla grabbed his shirt from behind. “Where are you hurrying off to without even giving a hug to your mom?”He quickly gave her a casual hug and was leaving.The noise of a car engine was heard by them.Within seconds, a thunder blue Lamborghini Aventador stopped right in front of the gate ever so smoothly.A long-dark haired girl wearing red-framed goggles was chewing on bubble gum.Layla stood up at once and went over to greet her. Her son was checking out the car with excitement.“Excuse me, ma’am,” Layla politely spoke. “Do you need something?” Upon getting closer, she could see that this young woman’s skin was so fair even with little makeup.L
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 98
Denver ran down the stairs quickly and reached the gate just as fast.There really was a lamborghini parked outside, but there was nobody in the car.Suddenly, he felt something behind him.He turned back, and Sheryl’s foot nearly struck his face. She was able to lift her foot that high and hold it there comfortably. “W-What are you doing?” Denver took a step back.“You felt my presence, but you couldn’t feel the attack coming,” Sheryl said, lowering her foot and taking a controlled breath. “It seems we’ll need to do a lot of duels for you to get your skills back.”“Duels? What’s the need for dueling?” Denver asked.“Because if you return like this, you could get killed in your sleep,” Sheryl replied.“H-Huh?” Denver was baffled. “Why would I be killed? Where are we going? I thought I would be returning to my family?”“Yeah, and your family is quite big and extremely dangerous,” Sheryl said with a poker face.“Dangerous? For whom?”“Don’t you remember all the times attempts were made
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 99
Later that night.Layla never returned to the room after the mishap.Catherine, Denver, and Sheryl were eating in the kitchen.“There’s no AC here,” Catherine said. “You might feel uncomfortable. Why don’t you go and book a five star hotel for the night?”“It’s fine. I’m used to all kinds of places,” Sheryl replied while eating corn dogs and chicken fried rice.Catherine made the chicken fried rice at home, but the other items were all ordered. They were all cheap and filling.Catherine thought Sheryl would make things difficult for her just like Sia, but nothing of the sort happened.Sheryl was a woman of few words. She didn’t seem any hostile toward Catherine in any form, even though Catherine did feel a bit of a threat from Sheryl’s gaze in the beginning.Catherine’s intuition still told her that Sheryl couldn’t be trusted.“Where are you going to take Denver afterward?” Catherine asked, nibbling on the meatloaf. “To his home?”“Yeah.”“Where is it?”“It is in a different state but
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CHAPTER 172
Penal Hall Master Drake just arrived at the council building on a skateboard.An old lady in her hundreds was waiting for him in the verandah, eating sugarcane. Despite her age, she had all her teeth intact.“Did you meet him?” she asked.Drake nodded and tried to grab a sugarcane stick.But she slapped his hand away. “How was he?”“He’s good in some ways and clumsy in other ways, ma’am,” Drake replied, “but he seems motivated to get his hands on the secret treasure.”“In the past five years, the kettles of the top rankers have grown in strength by sweeping all the treasures from the caves,” she said. “They are growing stronger than the penal hall. The balance of power is shifting, and the biggest troublemaker among the rankers just has to arrive now.”“Whom do you prefer as the next king?” Drake curiously asked.“I prefer the one His Majesty chooses,” she replied.“Being diplomatic again,” Drake tried to grab the sugarcane stick again, but she slapped his hand away once more. His han
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The twelve-feet tall open mouth of the monstrous serpent broke the wall into bits and zoomed in Denver from behind.He didn’t even look back.Placing his hand behind his back, he released a burst of red lightning that destroyed not just the blocks of the wall that were still in the air but also the serpent’s head.The snake lost half of its head, but it was still wriggling about, its head regenerating at a visible pace.“What the hell?” Alex was baffled. “How can it still be alive after half of its head is gone?”“The nanobots are healing it, I suppose,” Sheryl said. “We have to find the crystal chip that’s somewhere in its body. If we destroy that chip, then the snake won’t be able to regenerate.”“But where’s that chip?” Alex asked. “How will we know?”“I’m afraid my aura is not skillful enough to enter other people’s bodies and check them,” Sheryl responded. “That’s something medics are good at. I’m neither a medic nor a master aura user.”“Then we have to destroy the entirety of t
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Sheryl was walking in the front.Alex was behind her.Catherine was the third, and Denver was in the last as they explored the caves after he had opened up the closed path.The air hung thick and damp, tasting of mildew and something ancient, something that made the back of Catherine’s throat itch.She was unconscious before, so the eerie atmosphere now gave her chills.In the front, Sheryl was holding a makeshift torch, with the flickering flames painting grotesque shadows on the cave walls, which freaked Catherine out even more.Alex moved with a practiced grace, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword.“Denver, this place smells rotten and metallic,” Catherine complained. “I don’t think I can bear it for long.”“Just vomit once more then,” Sheryl casually dismissed her words.“Yeah, if I do, I’ll do it on your face,” Catherine replied.Alex, who was in their middle, was just not able to focus because of these two. Suddenly, his nose jerked a little.“Wait…” He stopped. “Smell tha
CHAPTER 169
A fighter jet came flying toward Hawk Park.The military officials at the border launched a missile to destroy it, but none of the missiles hit it.The jet managed to breach the lands of the Hawk Park.“Haha,” the pilot in the jet snickered while chewing gum. “That was easy. I just have to dump the gift and then speed off and go get my million dollars.”Just then a person flew up through the clouds.“I-Is that a person?” The pilot was shocked to see Mickey who was floating in the jet’s path. “Is he trying to kill himself?”Mickey raised his hand, and the fighter jet’s speed came to a halt before it reached him.The pilot nearly shat his heart out through his butthole. He still quickly recovered and pressed the red button.A big missile dropped, but then it didn’t go the way he intended it to.Rather, it started to float and went under Mickey’s feet. Standing on it, he stared down at the pilot.The pilot dropped the gum in his mouth.“You gotta be shitting me…” All the hairs on his bod
CHAPTER 168
A few minutes later.Denver sat down on a broken rock, with Catherine sitting next to him.She was awake and was staring at Drake who was talking with Sheryl in the distance. “Who is he exactly?”“Don’t think too much,” Denver touched her neck to feel her temperature. “Are you feeling okay now?”“Yeah,” Catherine loved seeing the worry on his face. She quickly gave him a kiss.Seeing that, Alex’s eyes turned a little wider.Denver was feeling hot inside because of having to push himself to fight Drake, but Catherine’s kiss surprisingly made him feel better.It was just a simple kiss, but it was priceless to him.At the same time, he was wondering if he should tell Catherine about his past. After thinking about it, he said, “Cat, I might have killed some people in the past.”“Okay. So?”“Even women.”“So?” Catherine didn’t seem upset about it. “Don’t tell me you killed children, too?”“I don’t think so, but I don’t know,” Denver hesitantly said. “My memories are slowly coming back, but
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An area of over 12,000 sq ft was destroyed.Rubble was all that remained.Part of the stone caves were now exposed to the sky.Sheryl stood at the border of the destruction while carrying Catherine on her shoulder.Her heart beat anxiously. “Boss! Are you there?” she yelled.A giant pillar of black fire burst out of the rubble and then evaporated pretty fast, revealing Drake who was floating in midair,He had black wings made out of aura.He stared down at Denver who was holding Alex by the shirt.Denver was bleeding from the forehead, but his gaze was locked on Drake.His body felt like a blazing furnace from having used the blood lightning to a great extent.Still, he didn’t show any discomfort.Alex, on the other hand, was not conscious and was wounded. But he was still alive.“You stretched out your aura to destroy the falling blocks before it hit him,” Drake muttered. “I almost want to rejoice for witnessing such a brilliant move while our skulls clashed.”He came floating down a
CHAPTER 166
“If you’re not going to do what’s good for you, then I will have to beat you and throw you in the dark cell by force,” Drake approached them, holding the black aural sword.“Didn’t my dad already punish me?” Denver asked while still carrying Catherine on his shoulder. “Why are you doing this now?”He didn’t want to fight Drake if possible, especially because of Catherine and Sheryl’s current situation.“I’m doing this for your own good,” Drake replied in a sharp tone. “Put that woman down if you don’t want her to get caught up in our fight.”Denver frowned.Feeling deprived of a better choice, he put Catherine next to Sheryl and said, “Stay back and stay alert.”“Boss, don’t keep your eyes on his sword,” Sheryl advised, “or you’ll lose.” She had already taken a healing pellet, so her bleeding stopped.“I’ll keep that in mind,” Denver clenched his fists, and red fumes released from his fists, turned into electricity and crackled the air around him.It soon spread throughout his body an
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Sheryl couldn’t help but frown while looking at the old man with a hawk tattoo on his fully shaved head. (This bastard faked his aura and tricked us into coming here. I can’t believe I took the bait. Forget about getting a treasure, if he wants to make things difficult for us…) “What are you doing here, Penal Master?” she asked aloud.Drake wasn’t even looking at Sheryl. His gaze was on the tallest man. “Don Denver… you broke the code and went on a personal mission for three years.”“And the king has already stripped him of his rank,” Sheryl was quick to reply. “There’s nothing more for you to add to the king’s decree… unless you’re siding with one of the rankers and are taking their side, which means you are not fit to be the head of the penal hall since that position requires you to be neutral.”She had to talk provocatively in order to grab his attention.“Green Fang…” Drake’s eyes turned darker. “You didn’t stop your boss from leaving, so you should receive punishment as well.”“
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There were dozens of red eyes glowing in the darkness, which made Alex step back in trepidation.“These growls… they’re the dungeon jackals!” Alex quickly said. “They are smart, and there are so many of them. Even the slightest of wind gusts will turn this cigar lighter off, and we’ll become like sitting ducks to these jackals.”“Dude…” Sheryl pushed him aside. “Didn’t you hear us tell you that we’ve been here before? If those jackals are smart, they’ll know whom to pick a fight with and whom to not!”She released aura through her body, which was barely felt by Alex, and it also made the light flicker.However, the jackals which were closing in suddenly stopped. After sensing the aura, they were hesitant at first.Sheryl released more aura in the direction of the jackals, and they all turned and ran away.“The red eyes are gone,” Alex was quite surprised. “I’ve never seen those beasts retreat without even putting up a fight. Did you use aura? How did you do it?”“It’s not something yo
