After seeing that the car left, John patted his chest, emerged from his hiding spot, and cautiously moved towards the Porsche in the distance, he leaped over the dead body of the bodyguard, though he knew that they must all be dead something told him that a person was still alive, he went over then he saw…
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A girl lied face down on the passenger seat. John turned her over and when he saw her face, he gasped.
He saw a girl about his age with raven black hair, very pale skin, a heart-shaped face, and pale, full lips. Though she had light injuries all over her body and her face from flying shards of glass, she still had a fragile kind of beauty to her, a typical damsel in distress kind of beauty.
"Damn, what a beauty. Finally! Finally! I, John finally find a girl worthy of me", said John, caressing the girl's face and laughing to himself, not knowing, he looked very creepy right now.
Bam!
A water bottle was thrown on his head from an apartment above.
"Hey! Creep, I'll advise that you mind your business and go. That girl, you see there isn't someone the likes of us can save or touch, just leave her and go and besides, the fact that the Broth's family bodyguards left the crime scene like this means that something's up", an old, wizened man advised John who was angrily looking up at him for throwing something on him.
"Hey, Old man, if my head got a bump can you afford it?! Ow!"
"I'm trying to tell you that your life is in danger and all you're concerned about is your face?", the old man said in consternation.
"Yeah, I'm superficial like that", he replied,
"This face is important, look at me… look at my face. All my life, I've transversed the countless realms looking for one who will be my match, but the Heavens were not smiling at me, I found one horrible truth, I'm too beautiful for this world… I, with a handsome face like this, will probably stay single for the rest of my life… tell me, old man, I'm beautiful, I'm handsome and I'm all the words meaning beautiful but does that mean that I should be miserable my whole life?", John, the actor at this stage was already crying.
The old man was confused
Countless realms?
Heavens?
John reminded him of himself when he had an online novel addiction and was still a chunni, so feeling like he found a kindred spirit, he decided to close one eye and look the other way but not without some advice,
"You have to leave there quick, something's up. Quickly, take her and go, young fellow".
Since the man acted and spoke as if he knew a little deeper about what just happened, John gave him the benefit of doubt and gently lifted his professed soulmate from the car seat.
Somewhere between the seats, a small timer beeped noisily as It was set as a warning when it reaches 10 seconds, John searched for the source of the beep and found the explosive, now down to 9 seconds, he hurriedly turned his back and ran.
He passed through the alley he came from leaving a few words…
"What's your name, Old Man?"
"My name is Oliver Prince! And don't you forget it!"
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John!
John!!
John!!!
John came to after feeling a few slaps on his face and hearing his name called loudly.
"You should be glad this is not my real body or you'll have been in for some real spanking System", said an angry John rubbing his face.
"I was mad at you and you suddenly became dazed not responding, so I had to take some drastic measures. What happened?", asked the system in the form of little John.
"Nothing… just took a little trip down memory lane which I would have completed if you hadn't disturbed me", replied John waving his hands.
"Well, pardon me… you can continue your journey dumbass. Forgive me for caring", sassed the System.
"Is that sarcasm I hear?", asked John.
"No shit Sherlock!", answered the System.
"And besides I can't go back until the ****** drops a foreshadowing, so my trip has been called off", said John with a smile.
The System rolled its eyes.
"Back to where we stopped, you asked how to unlock the soul space? For normal people to unlock their soul space they have to ingest a Soul Unlocking Pill but for you, you'll need something more powerful than that, you'll need *cue the drumroll* the blood of a Demigod!!", it finally answered John's outstanding question.
"Where the hell am I going to get that?!! A Demigod?! You might as well tell me to kill myself! I knew it System from the day I died without spending my money, I knew you hated me!", shouted John pacing around his mind space and gesturing wildly.
"Why do I feel like you're stupid? Dumbass, you have Uncle Wang, what the hell are you worrying about? Or you can simply cling onto the various powerhouses in the town and boom! Soul space unlocked!", answered the system tiredly.
"Conversing with you brings down my IQ and I'm supposed to have a lot ", sighed the System.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that. But, you make sense, sorry for coming off as stupid, so I meet Uncle Wang, make up a story about me needing a Demigod's blood to unlock my soul space,
Plan B, I seduce Elena Avalone—"
"You just wanna get in her pants!"
"That and I make her get me the Demigod's blood through love. Plan B sounds better than Plan A, I might actually go with it but it will take a long time farming favourability *sigh*, John reasoned.
"*Sigh* Uncle Wang it is", said a pained John.
The System tired from John's antics just rolled its eyes.
Its poor host from the joy of seeing his old face again had forgotten that he was currently just twelve and couldn't have sex.
"Goodbye System", said John as he faded away, excited to get his soul space unlocked.