It was already around two in the afternoon when Michael arrived back at their house on his bike, and even saw the army jeep parked before the house of their village chief in the distance.
"Hawow! Waw!"
Michael rolled his eyes when he heard what Hao said just as he had parked his bike in their garage.
"Shut up, you always gets me into trouble"
Hao was angered and started furiously poking his face with her paw saying, "Hao! Hawawow!"
"You're saying I don't have a choice but to go?" said Michael, a little puzzled at what the little guy is saying.
Hao jumped from his shoulder and on top of the hood of their truck and faced Michael and started talking while gesturing with her pair of cute paws.
"Hao! Hawow!"
Hearing what Hao said, Michael's eyebrows shot up in shock as he wasn't expecting that kind of information from Hao at all!
"What...what are you talking about? What do you mean that our world is changing?" Michael hurriedly asked while looking around to see if anyone was around them.
Hao suddenly stood up on her rear legs like a human with her other front legs on her waist and looked smug at Michael.
"Hao! Hawow~!"
Understanding what she said, Michael paled in fright as he staggered to the truck and leaned on its hood.
"Is what you said true? That the environment of the Earth is changing due to the rifts?" asked Michael with a helpless chuckle.
"Hao! Hawow!" replied Hao while lightly nodding her head.
Suddenly finding a huge secret from out of nowhere, Michael could only laugh bitterly as he can't even feel the urge to cry.
"Me, get strong quickly? Is that the reason why you were urging me to enter that newly discovered dungeon?" said Michael while looking at Hao from the corner of his eyes.
Hao looked seriously at Michael, then her face warped into a bright smile and gave him a thumbs up!
"Hao~!"
Michael's eyes twitched as he was suddenly ticked off by that as they were just talking about something serious just now, and now, Hao is once again fooling around.
"Shut up, you brat. Are there more you're not telling me?" asked Michael with a laugh as it's really hard for him to truly feel angered at the cutie, who likes to mess with him every now and then.
"Hawow~" answered Hao with a shrug, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Michael properly stood up and said, "What do you mean 'that's all I can tell you'?"
Hao jumped down from the truck saying, "Hawawow!"
"So it's about getting stronger again?" Michael said, a little irritated, hearing that he needs to get stronger if he wants to know more than what Hao had let on.
With frustration bottling inside, Michael turned his head towards the skies and yelled, "Argh!"
And when he did that, the back door suddenly opened, revealing his mother whose face is clouded with anger and irritation, and the spatula in her hand suddenly flew towards Michael!
"Shut up!"
Pak!
Dead on target, the spatula hit his head, startling him as he quickly turned his head towards his mother with a wronged and baffled expression.
"Are you retarted!? What are you yelling for!? Get inside, and help me with lunch!"
"Yes~" Michael answered dejectedly while holding the part of his head that was hit as he made his way inside their house with Hao following behind him with an amused look on her face.
Michael knew that someone was mocking him from behind, so he quickly turned his head around and locked eyes with Hao as he pointed at his two eyes with his two fingers before pointing it to Hao, like the 'I can see you' gesture.
But Hao just rolled her eyes in disdain as both of them entered the kitchen.
During lunch, Michael and his family saw the news about the recently captured members of the Antis receiving a death sentence, which made people around the country heave a sigh of relief, but there were also some who were filled with indignation and anger!
Meanwhile, somewhere in Terran.
A figure hurriedly made his way inside a maze-like path with stalactites shining like light bulbs above him, as the man turned into many corners before arriving before a door and walking inside.
Inside, there was a man hiding under the shadows with only his lower body visible.
When the figure saw the man sitting on the throne-like chair, his eyes revealed a hint of fear and awe at the same time.
Then the man finally remembered what he came here for, and quickly stepped forward and bowed towards obscure man and said, "Boss, I came bearing news regarding the others back on Earth"
"Speak" said the obscure man in a deep chilling tone.
The man bowed solemnly and said, "All of them were sentenced to death sir"
After the man said those words, there was this bone chilling silence in the room and the messenger suddenly felt suffocated and started gasping for air.
The obscure man didn't say anything other than, "Leave"
The messenger hurriedly bowed his head and hastily left, leaving his boss alone in the dark room with the only source of light being two crystals shining on both sides of the door like a sconce.
"Hmm..hmm...Hahahahaha!!!"
At first, the man was only chuckling, before it turned into a maniacal laugh that would have creeped out anyone who heard it!
The man smirked, revealing his row of snow white teeth saying, "You bastards want to play this way? Then don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"And that dastardly bastard Deek along with that b*itchy Summer Queen... I'll get my hands on both of you sooner or later! I will make sure you regret making an enemy out of me!"
The man's anger was sky high and at the same time, he was feeling frustrated and helpless!
It's not like he didn't send anyone to rescue their captured members!
But the unfortunate thing was, they were ambushed!
He didn't even know how many of them managed to escape from their predicament because he, along with the others, are also on the run after their hideout was suddenly besieged by a group of Supers at the same time, the Antis back on Earth were ambushed!
Which were led by none other than…
"Have you found them?" asked Summer Queen towards the man wearing a silver mask standing before her and her team.
"Not yet, but we've already found tracks of them in Norgal Forest" answered the masked man, his voice coarse, like there's phlegm stuck on his throat.
"Inform me immediately once you've found them" said Summer Queen with a cold glint in her eyes.
Silver Mask didn't say anything and just vowed before them as he disappeared like a ninja.