Just as they entered the building, someone called out.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't little old Dan. What are you doing here you fatty?"
Both Axel and Dan turned around to look at who was badmouthing Dan. The person they saw was a man in a purple dazzling suit, and wearing gaudy golden sunglasses.
At this moment, Axel's pupil's shrank as he recognised this person.
"Ye Moe" Dan gritted out through his teeth as he glared at this young man. It was clear that there was plenty of enmity between the two.
However, Axel's eyes glinted with intense killing intent. So much so that one of the bodyguards behind Ye Moe noticed it and looked over, causing Axel to suppress his emotions and put on an indifferent expression as he patted Dan's shoulder and pulled him away.
Of course, why would he choose to remain here? To be one-sidedly humiliated by Ye Moe? Or to allow Dan and Ye Moe to engage in a contest of hurling insults at each other, just to slap Ye Moe's face? What would that gain him? Defeating someone verbally, especially someone who had an overinflated ego, and a terrifying background to back that ego with, would only get him killed faster.
"Where are you running off to fatty? Oh wait, can you even run? Bahahaha!"
Soon enough, Axel and Dan had turned around a corner, vanishing from the view of the young man and his group. The bodyguard who had taken notice of Axel bent down and whispered to Ye Moe,
"Young Master, the sickly one next to Young Master Dan hold some sort of grudge against you. Should we eliminate him before anything could happen?"
Ye Moe fell silent for a while before laughing it off, "Nonsense. Forget whether anyone has the ability to, but would anyone even dare to harm me?"
At this moment, the other sly-looking bodyguard stepped in, "Of course, Young Master. With your status being the son of Master Gu Moe, who would even dare to look at you in the wrong way? After all, Master is the department head of Ray Holdings in this zone!"
"Haha, of course!" Ye Moe laughed together with the flattering bodyguard. However, the other bodyguard who actually took his job seriously immediately whispered into his earpiece.
"Get some people to keep an eye on him. If he turns into a threat, then eliminate him. If he is not, just make a file about him and report it to me."
"On it"
…
Once Axel dragged Dan away, he had gradually calmed down and decided to vent his frustration at the gym.
Instead of lecherously ogling at the beauties around him, as he had planned to do, Dan was incredibly focused on the various machines that he was using. However, since he had only just begun, the weights were incredibly low.
Axel on the other hand also began his routine of exercise with weights, but he too kept them incredibly low due to his body being weak. Although he could potentially use a lot more weight, he would be using KI to do so, which would make exercising pointless, since his muscles were not doing too much work. And furthermore, he would only be able to burst forth with that strength for an incredibly short period of time.
Instead, while exercising, he began recalling everything about Ye Moe.
This fellow was basically the face of the younger generation of Ray Holdings in this zone, and was one of the causes of the destruction of his family's company, and indirectly responsible for the death of his father, mother and little sister.
Everything started from a conflict within the game, and Ye Moe had escalated it to the point where he convinced his father to intervene. This inevitably resulted in a cascading series of events, since a newly established company would most definitely not be able to handle the might of one of the federations largest conglomerates.
After taking revenge on Ray Holdings, he also needed to ensure that Ye Moe and his dog of a father Gu Moe died a horrible death.
However, before he realised it, Dan was already panting on the ground, calling for Axel to come and help him. Realising the situation, Axel got off the machine and went towards Dan, only to realise his muscles had become jelly from the intense workout, and he stumbled down onto the ground next to Dan.
Although he was not out of breath, all his muscles simply refused to listen to him, causing his current state. [1]
It took a whole 10 minutes for Dan to calm down his breathing and slowly get up, but Axel was still lying on the ground, grumbling faintly.
"Hehe, little Axel, how are you so weak. You could not handle even half an hour of beginner training?"
Axel glared daggers at Dan, but he did not have any power to do anything, and just closed his eyes in shame. It was indeed humiliating to be trash-talked about being unfit by an incredibly oversized fatty.
"Haha"
However, Dan did not mind, as he took a few more breaths to fully calm down and picked up the thin Dan and put him onto his back as he walked towards the locker room.
Here, there were a few rows of benches, and Dan placed Axel onto one of them before heading in another direction.
A few moments later, he returned with two cups of water and a few suspicious capsules in his hand.
'This idiot, is he trying to take advantage of my fatigue and feed me narcotics?'
[1] We've all been there, ngl. That is me every time I return to the gym after 5 months of not doing anything.