Chapter 21
"uuuu…" I groaned,
When I woke up, I was in the unfamiliar room I was lying on the big bed when I looked around the room, the room at least 2 times bigger than my own room, the pieces of furniture inside were exotic and expensive looking, but somehow the gave me a familiar feeling. It's already bright outside the window, so I've must have fallen unconscious the whole night.
*clack
I don't if there's someone monitoring me in this room, or just a coincidence, someone came inside the room right after I woke up.
"ah~, so that's why I felt like I seen this kind of furniture before" I muttered
The couple who's come inside the room was Aunt Layla and Uncle Paul, so this is the Bentley's residence
"good morning Aunt, Uncle thanks for helping me last night" I greeted
Both of them froze on the spot, when they heard me
"haa…" Aunt Layla sighed "I've know from long before that you were more mature than others of the same age, but can't you be panic a little bit"
"aha thank you very much"
"I'm not praising you!" Aunt Layla retorted as they approach and sat beside the bed "what about your body? anything feels wrong?"
"nope, my body good as new" but that's strange, I should've caught up on last night explosion, but I'm 100% healthy now, there's no trace of external nor internal injury
"I'm glad" Aunt Layla replied as she become relieved
Then
"did you not be surprised to what happened last night?" the silent Uncle Paul started talking
"I want to say it's nothing but I'm very shocked by the event last night, I even afraid I have a PTSD now"
"you're not looks like someone who was shocked at all!"
Nice retort Aunt!
"hmm" Paul replied, as He stared at me deeply, somehow I can feel a very heavy pressure coming from him
*gulp
I unconsciously swallowed my saliva
But still I'm a mature man inside, so this kind of pressure can be easily negated by me
"don't you have something to ask?" Uncle Paul asked
"will you tell me about it?" I answered with another question
"…."
"…."
In the tense situation, uncle Paul suddenly broke into a grin
"ahahah" He laughed "wow, you're really are unpredictable, I can't help but think I'm talking to someone from my work business"
Nonono your work business can't be someone from mafia right!? Let me tell you I'm an ordinary office worker on my past life okay, I just know many things from all the light novel I read in the past okay! I'm sweating here!
"aha ha ha" I followed let out a constraint big laugh
"now, let's get back to business" Uncle Paul said with a very serious face
Did you have a dual personality!? These changes are too much!
"let's skip what happened last night, I found your constitution much better from your parent's death now"
"un, thanks to my friends"
"so, what will you do in the future"
"future…" I thought for a while
That's right without a guardian how can I continue my life, especially the economy problem, I don't have money, and then without a guardian I can't even continue my school
Uncle Paul once again let out a heavy pressure, now I can't be careless here, something inside me remind me, not to let my guard down, I can't think him as a friendly neighboring uncle now, I need to talk like he's a stranger from me.
Suuu haaa I take a deep breath to calm myself
"actually I'm not really sure, but I think I will finish my primary school first"
"hoo" uncle Paul looks a little shocked but immediately back to his business mask
"what about the fees? Do you have enough to live till your grown up?"
"hmm, uncle right, I can't deny that I had a problem there"
"then how about this, I have a proposal for you"
"proposal?"
"that's right, sure you know what my family do behind the scene right, it was a bit dangerous, I can't keep protecting Kate later in the future so I want you to be Kate's bodyguard"
"huh?" I am amazed by his words "bodyguard? Me? A child? Even if I had experience last night event, I don't think I fit to be a bodyguard"
"nono, of course last night event added to my evaluation, but I'm already considering this since long before"
"long before?"
"that's right, I knew what you do usually before dawn"
My eyes widen when I heard his words, I quickly hide it behind a poker face
Tsk, I'm pretty sure he read that! Phew calm down me!
"so you knew..." I said calmly
"haha, I won one point there" He laugh happily "so what do you think?"
"haa..." I sighed "as you said, I know a bit what uncle family do behind the scene, but you're you want me to be involved in this?"
"what do you mean?"
"you don't think, I'm gonna backstabbed you later? To be the new head, it's an everyday thing over there right?"
Hmm, you're not wrong there, but you know, I think I have a very good instinct and I can measure others personality correctly, I'm pretty sure you're not interested in money and authority, it's more like you're not interested in any others except woman"
How can he-!!
"Ahem! Ok, let's assume you're right, you don't think I'm going to lay my hands on Kate"
"this is not something a ten years old should think, but no problem she got her own life, and..." Uncle Paul stopped in the middle of his sentence and exchange glance with Aunt Layla "we're 100% sure, you're gonna treasure Kate"
"it's not like we can separate you and her anymore" Aunt Layla murmurs in a small voice, but with my hearing I can hear it perfectly
Haha sorry about that Aunt, me too already decided to take her hand
"haa..." I sighed, I feel I'm sighing too much lately "ok, I gave up, about the proposal let me think about it a little bit, I think I can give you the answer tonight"
"well, my plan was for you to accept it right here and now, but it's okay, I expect good news tonight" Uncle Paul replied
*claps
suddenly Aunt Layla clapped her hands
"ok the serious talk ended here, then let's have a breakfast together" she suggested
"once again thank you for taking care of me" I said
"it's okay It's okay you can even call me mother now… ack! Sorry I don't mean to bring them up" Aunt Layla said apologetically
"nah, it's okay I'm feeling much better now, Aunt don't have to be so considered about me now"
That's right I need to check the rest of the video, I hope it didn't get destroyed by last night explosion
And like that the three of us went to the dining room
...
"Ah! Big bro Morning!!" Ella quickly jumped into my arms when we reached the dining room
"hey, that's dangerous"
"It's ok, Ella believe in Big bro, Big bro early today!"
Aren't you high tension now...
"Oh, Ella didn't know I slept here last night"
"whaa- no one told me!" she replied giving a protested look to her parents, well with what happened last night I think they don't know how to explain it too
I saw The maids still preparing the breakfast and Kate too haven't come
"do you have a hair brush?" I asked
"Oh! Wait a minute" Ella ran and came back in seconds that's fast!
She gave me her favorite hair brush, "do you know you're third grader now, as a girl you need to keep your appearance" I said as I soft brush her bed hair
"ehehe, it's ok Ella have Big bro"
"this spoiled little girl" I replied exasperated as I push her head lightly
"cute right?"
"yeah~ yeah~ Ella is cute~ Ella is cute~"
"ok, now Ella is cuter than before" I said as I finished brushing her hair
"ehehe" she laughed really happy
Then I saw another girl come into the dining room
"Kate, morning"
"morning" she reflexively replied then she frozen on the place staring at me "~~~~!" and immediately flushed to her ears
Nonono, you still haven't done with that! How many days have already passed!
"haaa~, both of them not even greet their parents anymore when you're here" I heard Aunt Layla complaint in a small voice while Aunt Paul nodded agreeing with her, which I can hear normally
"Ahaha" I replied them with a dry laugh
Somehow I feel sorry for them
***
It's weekend, so there's no school today, after breakfast with the Bentley family, I went back to my own house, maybe because this is the high class housing complex or because the Bentley house authority, last night event did not catch the eye of police at all
"haa~" I sighed looking at the broken front door, do I have enough money to fix this…
As I enter the house I immediately went to my parent's room, the hellhound gone without a trace…
What happened? Did the Bentley do something? Ughhh! Too many things I don't understand
Broken window, broken door, broken wardrobe, and other small things everything scattered inside the room "haa~" I sighed again, looks like what I thought as explosion last night was only a shockwave there's no burn mark in the room except the place where the hellhound is
I started to tidy anything I can do for now, before long I easily found the cylindrical object
"phew" I sighed relieved "looks like the video just fine" then I watched the rest of video…
The rest were only the function of the gun the bullet, and some message that they left their entire fortune on me
I stupefied when I checked my bracelet, looking at number came out from the bracelet 12, 13, 14 ,15 … digits, just how rich were them!? Isn't this too many? Did they earn it from their job? Or maybe from their family?
So this is the feeling becoming a multi-billionaire in one night... ha…ha…ha….
Okay! Enough joking I can't escape from reality any longer… my attention drawn back to the silver handgun and its bullets
As I watched the red bullet, produce a flame bomb like thing when its fired from the Silver Gun, the blue bullet produce ice bomb like thing and yellow bullet have a healing effect, the simplest theory that I understand, the Gun have something like function to unleash the sealed magic like things inside the bullet….
Isn't this magic tool straight from inside video game!?
"haa~" how many times I sighed today…
"haa~~, just what the hell is this world? Is this really the same world? Maybe it's a parallel world?"
"mmm, from my experience so far, I think it's better to say that this is a parallel world, a different world… okay I decided what to do"
***
at night,
After dinner in the Bentley residence I gave some excuse to Kate and Ella, once again I fronting Bentley couple
"Uncle I've decided what to do, but I have a few conditions for it" I said directly to the main point, there's no need for a roundabout way of talking, I still trusted them
"ho" Uncle astonished "do you still think you're in the position of giving condition?" he asked
"un, my problem resolved this noon" I showed them the number from my bracelet, "honestly I don't care, if I'm not graduated from school, so we're now in an equal ground now"
"this..." he flabbergasted looking at the number in the bracelet and quickly recovered himself "you're right, with this we're equal now, but if you still think it's okay to accept my proposal?"
"correct, but it depends on Uncle side, will you accept my condition or not"
When he heard my remark, Uncle and Aunt exchanged glance before they nodded to each other
"let's hear it then"
"ok, first one, if I were to become Kate's bodyguard which mean I'll be your subordinate isn't it?"
"Hmm, you can look it that way too"
"and here's my condition, I'm okay with protecting Kate, I don't think you two needed but if I'm in a place where I able to do something that protect you two, I'll do it too, and of course Ella included too, but I won't be your House hitman" I said looking straight to Uncle Paul
"Huh, why do you think of that?" He asked
"it just a precaution, I knew that we've each other trusts now, but who knows in the future, even if I'm protecting Kate, it was my will not something ordered by others, oh and some kind organization deliberately aiming for Kate, I won't hesitate to become the vanguard on vanquishing them it's the underworld after all, every nasty tricks were justified"
"mmmm" looks like Uncle were thinking whether to accept my condition or not
"oh" I continued as I look at Aunt Layla "I knew you two won't do it, but I won't tolerate if Kate were used as a bait"
"so it's to protect, and Kate as your first priority" Aunt Layla answered my gaze
"correct"
"mmm, so you do have that much confidence in your ability?" Uncle Paul said
"un, to the extend... yes, I won't tell you to believe it but if you knew what I did to for my daily training at least you know that it wasn't a baseless self-confidence"
"certainly..., then what about the other condition"
"as you know, I have high physical abilities, but I don't have the skill and technique behind it, I don't even know the basic, I can afford the normal one, but it be hard against a professional without skill, so I wanted some time and a teacher for that"
"so you do think of this proposal thorough huh…, ok then I accept both conditions, are you okay with this?" Uncle Paul said before He looked at Aunt asking for agreement which she nodded
"then the last one is not a condition but a wish…" I said
"mm? tell me?"
"I hope you can call someone to fix my house"
"mm? ku,kuhahaha" Uncle laughed amazed "this is unexpected, okay considered it done"
"then I, Lex Spifer accept your proposal"
To be continued…
Author's Notes:
Hello there reader, I hope you're still following me till here and I'm really happy if you were, you can say that the prologue ended here,
because of my insufficient skill and experienced, there will be many others point of view (POV) in the future, I just can't tell the story from Lex point of view only, the later chapter may be written in the Third point of view , I know it will be much more confusing but I'll try my best to mark the change of POV to make it easier to follow
And once again I hope you all will still following me in the future