"Kent!" Mrs. Li called her son.
"Yes, mother!"
"Well, about Patrick, your friend from last time. Grandfather said that he was sorry and invited him to come again so that we could find the source of the demonic aura on his body."
"Really, mother! Then I will do it." Kent said and went to school happily.
("Mother, I don't know what you and grandfather are trying to do, but I won't let you harm Patrick. I myself will find the source of the demonic aura on his body.") Kent thought no sooner after he stepped out of the house.
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POW
"Oh, Patrick, what motivate you to practice shooting?" said the King when he stepped in the shooting range.
"Grandpa, I just want to protect myself better." answered Patrick.
"Umm, that's good. I'm glad that you're improving day by day." the King said while taking a gun and began to shoot at the target.
("It's for the sake of learning all Layla's skills!") thought Patrick before he saw the time on the clock.
"Grandpa, I have to go to school now. See you later!" Patrick said and put the gun back then ran out of the shooting range.
"Umm, see you later!"
***
Patrick got off the car and walked to the school entrance. That was when he saw Kai.
"Good morning, monitor! How was your first day working?"
Kai was mad at Patrick now. He was fine working in the café until sunset, when it reverted back to being a casino, plus a nightclub. The casino manager taught him all kind of tricks and cheats to lure the customers and get their money, while the nightclub's customers, especially women, kept forcing him to dance with them.
"How the hell can a casino co-exist with a nightclub in the same building?" asked Kai.
"Hohoho, that's business secret. You will know if you become a manager, so work hard!" Patrick answered and patted Kai's shoulder.
("Not if, but WHEN!") Kai back talked his boss in his mind before realizing that his thought was wrong.
("No, no. What was I thinking? I must get a decent job and I will pay back the money, not becoming a manager of a casino + nightclub. Just wait, Patrick, I will be richer than you and bury you in my money.")
"Hey, kid! Are you going in or just staying there dreaming?" asked the school's guard.
"Uh, I will go in, sorry!"
***
"Hey, Pat, good morning!" Kent said hello to Patrick even before he sat down.
"Good morning, Kent! So what do you want to tell me?" Patrick immediately noticed his friend's weird tone.
"Uh, do you...want to come to my house again?
"Of course...NO WAY!"
"Ugh, I knew you would reject...Patrick, look at my eyes!"
"What for?" Patrick said but still looked at his best friend's eyes.
"Patrick. Tell me honestly, do you work with demon?"
(Ugh, This question again!...But well, I'm not gonna lie to you!")
"I do not do anything evil!" Patrick said while looking straight into Kent's eyes.
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"That's good to hear!" Kent felt relieved "Then let me go to your house. Rich families like yours usually have ancient cursed object. You know that my family practices Taoism when you saw my grandfather, right? So I could look around and helped you."
"Uh, I'm not sure about that. My family is kind of...complicated." said Patrick.
("Complicated! It sounds like Pat's family has something to hide that even he can't tell outsiders.") thought Kent.
"Pat, I will just look around..."
Before Kent finished what he wanted to say, he heard a giggle. He turned around and saw the prideful queen of the class, Victoria, was laughing with her friends.
Noticing the look from Kent, Victoria also turned around and said to him.
"It's clearly that Patrick wanted to reject you. Why must you keep insisting? Nowadays, no one still believe in paper talisman like your family."
Then she and her friends all laughed.
"I hate this kind of people the most. Always laughing at other people for what they are and what they believe." said Eudora inside Patrick's head.
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("Perfume! It will be useful in many ways.") thought Patrick before he said to the girls:
"Don't say that, or you will be struck by lightning."
Hearing that, the girls even laughed bigger.
("Unsightly!") Patrick silently disapproved in his head.
***
In the evening, Victoria and her friends gathered at her house.
"I'm still waiting to be struck by lightning right now!" said Victoria.
"Pffft...hahaha...me too."
"Me three."
"...Uh, I think we should stop mocking their belief. It just not good."
"Flora, you have read too many mythology and reading too many fictions. If lightning strikes me now, inside my house, I promise I will go to church and pray tomorrow."
Right at the moment Victoria finished her words. Lightning appeared on the ceiling and struck her.
Her friends were completely shocked and speechless. Then lightning struck her the 2nd time and the 3rd time. Before any of her friends could recovered from their shock and called for help, lightning struck them too. Each of them received three lightning strikes, except Flora, who was struck only twice.
"From...now...on, I...will...go...to...church...and...pray...diligently!" said Victoria before falling unconscious.
Outside the house, a female elf was smiling and then dashed back to her Master.
***
("Hehehe, let's try it!") thought Patrick while holding the bottle of Perfume.
***
Meanwhile, country A, city X, in the 50th floor of the highest tower in the city,
It was a big training hall, and about 100 people are standing inside.
"Alright, everyone, among you, there will be 10 who will receive the systems after this." Oni said to the people.
Among the people, some was excited, thinking that they will get stronger thanks to the systems, while others just seem uninterest, they thought that they were already strong, no need for a system, although adding a system would be an advantage for them.
"Let the test begin!" said Nurarihyon.
Those people dashed toward each other and began to fight.