After Michael's talk with Summer, both he and Hao went for their usual jog that had become their daily routine because of Michael's quest.
"Only a couple more days until Level 5 Hao, let's go!"
"Hao~!"
Michael laughed as he jumped in the air with Hao along with the setting sun in the horizon, casting a long shadow behind them.
Meanwhile, Summer had just arrived at their family house while still deep in thought.
"So Michael never really got transported to Terran huh? Then how will Michael enter the portal to get to the other side then? He needs to be Level 10 to be eligible to use it, and that's why it was so weird for me when I heard that Michael was here on Earth when he was supposed to be at Terran, I even thought he had already completed his novice training of sorts at the other side when I heard about him being here" Summer mumbled to herself as she slightly tilted her head to the side as she got down from her car.
"I think those girls are slacking off lately that they even forgot this crucial detail from Michael, I'll have a talk Ronan about th-"
"Summer! My baby, you're here!"
Summer was talking to herself when her words were suddenly cut off when a middle-aged woman came walking out of their front door and happily called out to her while waving her hand, followed by her father and another group of people who had bright expressions on their faces as they seemed really excited to see the star of the family!
Summer smiled at her mother and playfully said, "Mom, stop calling me that. I'm not a kid anymore!"
"Aigoo~ you'll always be my baby no matter how old you are!" Joan laughed as she softly pinched her daughter's flawless cheeks.
"Oh right, you're aunt and uncles are here with their family to see you," she said pointing towards the people standing beside her husband, who then waved at Summer with enthusiasm while the latter just smiled at them, and then turned to her mother with a frown on her face that only Joan could see and asked, "Why are they here again mom? Didn't I tell you before that I don't want to see this group of hypocrites who never once looked at us when we were barely making a living?"
Joan laughed and then smiled at their relatives with a wave before turning her attention back to Summer and replied, "Bear with it, as long as they're not asking for big favors and money from you, it's okay. But if they do, you already know what to do, my baby"
Summer looked at her mother, a little flabbergasted by the meaning behind her words especially when looking at the scheming expression on her face, and said, "Mom…"
"What~!?"
"You're so bad"
"I know, right~!?"
Done with their whispering, the mother and daughter gave each other a look before laughing to themselves.
On the other hand, Terran Association Bakara Branch.
"Chloe, we're going to take a break. Are you not coming?" said one of her colleagues who were already prepared to head out for a quick break.
Chloe, who is behind her desk stretched her head up and replied to them, "Go on ahead, let me just finish sorting this so that the night shift won't have to do them later!"
With a laugh, her colleague said, "Oh my~! Don't work so much and not leave them without any work left dear, or they would get used to it and become lazy!"
"Anyway, finish it quickly and immediately join us after, okay?"
"Okay, I will!" replied Chloe with a smile before hastily getting back to her work just like the others who remained behind and were busy finishing their work before taking a break later or clocking out for the day.
And while she was sorting through the list of profiles from the recently registered superhumans in their town, she came across the profile of a very familiar person with a cat laying on top of his head in his photo.
"I wonder when will Michael come here again? I wanna see Hao and cuddle with her" mumbled Chloe with a bright giggle while imagining that she's lovingly hugging Hao inside her head.
Then suddenly she noticed something in the monitor that her eyes couldn't help but slowly widen in shock!
"Wait..what's the meaning of this!? His awakening was just a couple of days ago? It's not two weeks or at least a month from now? Ohh...my days!" Holding her face, Chloe couldn't believe what she's reading or seeing right now, and her abrupt actions quickly attracted the attention of the others.
"Why? What happened, Chloe?" a dignified-looking woman had just turned from a corner and heard her and couldn't help quickly come over to her thinking that there might be a problem on her side.
Chloe looked back and saw that it was their manager who came over, then she pointed at the monitor and said with a tremble, "It's this...ma'am"
The manager raised an eyebrow at her actions and bent down to read what she pointed out, and soon after that, her eyebrows jumped as she quickly realized what was wrong.
With a headache coming, she turned to Chloe and asked her with agitation, "N-no way, why are you guys only seeing this now!?"
Her voice quickly made the others who were sneakily watching them jump in fright, and they all couldn't help but blatantly look over to what was really happening.
"What's happening?"
"Beats me, Chloe shouted earlier like she had seen some surprising, prompting the manager to come to her and now she's the one shouting"
With a bitter smile on her face, Chloe replied, "This...it must have been because we were so enthralled by Hao that we didn't even realize it when he came"
With a hand on her face, the manager looked at Chloe from the gaps of her fingers and said, "Hao? It's that cute furry little thing, isn't she?"
"Yes ma'am"
"Sh*t, I heard from the Boss that he's close with Summer. She's gonna chew us when she learns of this" said the manager with a voice full of helplessness, as she also understands the feeling of the girls if they see something as cute as Hao in their presence, because she was also there that day watching them from afar, with a longing look on her face.
After some hesitation, Chloe couldn't help but ask, "Is it that bad?"
Hearing her, the manager couldn't help but glare at her, making Chloe flinch in fright.
Her boss could only helplessly sigh in the end and said to her in a whisper, "I don't know if it's good or bad, but this is something that the association hasn't heard of before. As it either poses a problem or Michael is just that special. Anyway, don't tell the others about this if they come to ask you later, okay? I need to tell the boss about this so that he could report about this to the higher-ups in HQ"
"Yes ma'am, and I seem to have forgotten what we were talking about earlier" replied Chloe as she nodded repeatedly to her in agreement.
The manager looked at her and smiled as she then bent down and made Michael's profile classified before turning around and hastily made her way to the elevator.
Soon after that, Chloe's colleagues came rushing towards her in a flurry as they jabbed her with questions upon questions.
"Chloe, what happened!?"
"What did Solar and you talked about?"
"Shut it, the real question is, what did the manager do on your desktop? I saw her fiddling with something but I wasn't able to get a clear look of it"
"..."
They kept yapping around her like little chicks waiting to be fed.
Wanting to escape from her situation, Chloe suddenly thought of something as she looked at her watch, then looked at her colleagues with an apologetic smile saying, "Aigoo~ look at the time, it seems my shift is over. See ya ladies!"
With a swipe of her hands to get her bag, she quickly bolted out of there under the stunned gazes of her coworkers.
"Yaah! Is this how you repay us after all the times we treated you to a meal!?"
"That crazy b*tch! I wonder what she saw that Solar forbade her from telling us?"
"I'm so curious~!"