Hello everyone! I'm just passing here for a quick message:
1- I have checked this morning and now it's possible to give power stones to this book. So, if you like this book, plese consider supporting it with your power stones.
2- Please read the auxiliary chapter, "The World as We (do not) Know" to understand the world's background and power distribuition.
Have an enjoyable reading!
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*VROOOM*
Stepping on the accelerator, Elena drove the car out of the mansion and finally she got her young master away from those awful people.
Meanwhile Hai who was in the backseat picked his phone and dialed a number.
*TUTU~*
The call got connected shortly.
"No, I don't want any of your products. Go f*ck yourself, thank you!" The one on the other side of the call immediately said after the call connected.
"Come here and f*ck me yourself, you coward." Hai said with leisure.
"Wait. Hai!?!?"
"No, the telemarketing." Hai spoke with an even tone while looking outside the window.
"As meanie as always." The person on the other side of the line commented with mock annoyance but her happiness was still clear as day.
"Says the one who cussed me without me even saying a word. Anyway, I need something, can I meet you?"
"You only call me when you need something? I'm hurt~"
"I see, well, have a painful night then-" Hai was just about to press the button to end the call.
"Wait, wait, wait!!! Stop!!! Don't you dare to hang up on me!" The woman on the other side of the call suddenly yelled loud enough for Elena to hear her, and the call isn't in the speaker mode.
Hai who had put his phone away from his ears brough it back when he realized she had stopped screaming.
"Done?" He asked.
"Meet me in the cassino tomorrow at 11:00 am."
"Ok, anything else?"
"Hum…. Now that you said it-"
*TUTUTU~*
Hai hanged the call.
Elena looked at the rearview mirror and saw her young master smiling playfully.
The woman said for him to not dare to hang up on her, but…
He is the law.
Elena smiled seeing him like this.
Her young master also has his childish side. That is good thing.
This is one of Hai's sides that he only shows to a very few selected people.
And this is also a way for him to distract himself and not let his thoughts wander.
People say humans fear being alone.
Hai experimented this fear first-hand.
Having to do all those runs where he had no one to share his pain, no one to understand how stressed and broken he was. Even though he acts normal, he is still very afraid of ending up alone, even more so now that he finally finished the plot and can live happily with Elena and his staff.
And this is one of the reasons as to why he is always interacting with someone, be it by talking, spending time with them or playing online games and cussing back at his enemies.
Hai spent a really long time alone during his punishments and in those times, not even the system was with him. He only had himself to talk to.
There was once a time where he was sent into a white room with absolutely nothing but a timer doing a countdown to how much time was left for him to be in there and he spent a whole year in that room.
He nearly went insane several times and the thoughts of simply giving up weren't few.
However, Hai refused to give up after all he had done and gone through.
He was reincarnated into this new world to fulfill his role.
He was going to fulfill his role and be free.
He was a man on a mission.
And he was going to complete his mission.
It was with this determination that Hai held himself from falling into complete insanity.
However, nothing comes without a cost.
Hai's thoughts frequently wander in random and dangerous directions.
Things like 'what if the protagonist dies and you go back again?', 'what if Elena gets pregnant and you are sent back again?'.
Hai is afraid.
He is afraid of all those possibilities not because of himself, but because he will lose the chance he got.
However, fear is also what motivates people to get stronger.
Is Hai afraid?
Yes.
Is he going to live his life scared?
You wish!
He is going to flip this damn table over.
He is tired of this sick game of fate.
He is tired of being nothing but a pawn for others to toy with.
Hai is calm.
He is patient.
He is a good listener.
He is an amazing friend.
He is the voice of reason to many.
But…
Is he free from feeling anger?
Feeling hate?
Feeling frustrated?
No.
He is tired of pretending to be some brainless young master.
This young master have had enough.
Hai had enough.
And so, he will show to the word's will.
He will show to the gods.
He will show to the whole universe.
And even the eldritch gods if they are watching.
He will show his anger.
He will show what happens when you destroy a man over and over again but he refuses to stay in shambles.
He will show how scary is someone who treasures the little they have but are deprived of their everything.
He will show what a pawn does when it reaches the end of the board.
Gods,
Start praying.
For you should have killed me when you had the chance.
Hai is someone that can't be defined as sane in any away.
And he is going to do a really and absolutely insane plan.
Since the world's will has returned him again and again, then Hai will deal with the problem at the root.
He is going to make his way to put his hands in the wheels of time and the thread of fate.
It's an insane thing to do no matter the perspective.
However, Hai has already thought of a plan to create a chance.
A chance that if he grasps…
It's going to turn the tables.
Hai let out a wicked grin.
"Young master?"
Hai blinked his eyes and returned to normal, he then looked at Elena.
"Back to our mansion. After yesterday don't expect to sleep anywhere else but in my room." Hai said with a small smile on his face.
Elena meanwhile got her cheeks a bit red but focused on the road.
'I wish the young master find other women soon.' She thought to herself. She isn't unsatisfied with him nor anything remotely close to it, it just that after the first night she spent with him, she realized something: it's pipe dream to hope a single woman can handle her young master.
He is that much of a monster in bed.
Elena shook her head and drove the car away.
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"…"
"…"
"Why is this place always so…. Eccentric?"
Today was the day where Hai was supposed to meet with his acquainted, as such, he is in front of the cassino where their meeting is going to happen, but…
The place is eccentric, for the lack of a better term.
The cassino that should have been a place for people to wear in formal clothing and spend their money is now a place where you can find people having sex on top of game's tables; gambles where when someone loses, they strip a part of their clothes; waitresses wearing revealing bunny costumes and serving customers everywhere and some tables that are more extreme where people would bet their cybernetics.
'This looks more like a brothel than a damn cassino.' Hai thought while walking inside.
Some people saw him but didn't show mocking or disgusted expressions like everyone else on the streets, but ones of either fear or respect.
The plot of the world is something really strange. If you do something outside of it, it wouldn't affect the plot as long as what you do have nothing to do with the protagonist and the heroines.
So, even if Hai blew up a country, it wouldn't affect the plot.
Hence, he did some things outside the plot in his free time.
Things like, making a name for himself in the underworld.
Although everyone in the China Federation mocks him, those from the underworld normally have no affiliation with a country and are generally going from place to place, so they care more about one's actions and power than their reputation.
And this is why people either fear or respect Hai.
When he was 12, Hai entered the underworld in a blitzkrieg manner. He simply walked in, borrowed 1.000.000 RM, invested it in some companies that were doing some shady business, raised their stocks, waited, spread notices and had some of the hyenas go in to "investigate" and leaking all their wrongdoings and when the doubt and suspicion was at its highest, he had someone deliver some really devasting or outrageous news about the company and then he sold all his stock causing market panic and making the company's worth plummet.
After he sent the company into bankrupt, he went and extended out his hand to them. He bought and saved them from closing the company because of bankruptcy.
He turned into the CEO, sent the incompetents away and reformed the company.
And that was when he started to steamrolling across the whole underworld.
He went destroying companies and saving them by taking them under his wing. He searched and found capable mercenaries that rarely got a good contract and offered them an exclusivity contract for a year and had them doing some errands for him.
Basically, in the last 8 years, all the companies vanishing from map, high figures killed, drugstores that sell medicine never seen before and some eccentric weapons that even though are strange, work wonders, at least ¾ of all of it was done by him or had a connection with him.
So, nobody from the underworld is stupid enough to mess with him.
Hai ignored everyone's gaze and went towards the elevator.
When he got in, he brough out a silver card and held it in front of the screen that showed what floor the elevator is in.
The doors closed and the elevator started descending.
Hai hummed a melody while he waited and Elena simply stayed silent.
A few minutes after, the elevator opened and the view this time was completely different.
A highly luxurious hallway was displayed in front of him.
At the end of the hallway was a desk with a charming woman behind it.
Without batting an eye to it, Hai walked up to her.
"Appointment?" She asked.
"Pride in defeat; greed in poverty; lust to yourself and let us live away from your filth."
She smiled and tapped below her desk.
A passage opened at the wall beside her desk and Hai and Elena walked in.
The passage closed after they entered and the hallway went silent again.
When they entered the passage, they got into a dark corridor that only goes forward.
Not bothering with the darkness, both Hai and Elena walked ahead until they arrived before a door made of dark wood with marble engravings.
Hai took his phone, looked at the hour and saw it was 10:58.
He waited for two minutes and when the clock hit 11:00 am sharp, he didn't bother in knocking on the door, but simply kicked the thing open.
*BAM*
"Toc toc." He said while inviting himself in.
He arrived at a living room with wooden floor, luxurious couches, a glass table, a 100-inch holo-TV on the wall, chandeliers made of crystals and red carpet on the floor.
"Wait, Hai is it you?" A voice along with the sound of water splashing came from one door that was closed.
"Yes, it's me." He answered while sitting in one of the couches.
Elena simply went to the kitchen to brew tea.
"Oh! Wait a bit I'm coming out."
Hai didn't reply and turned the holo-TV on.
Some minutes passed until he heard a sound.
*CLICK*
Hearing a click, he turned his head back and looked at the door that was opening.
Then, a beautiful woman came out of the door.
With long pink hair tied into a ponytail, green eyes, a good body, less curvy than Elena's but still good, with slight big breasts, a slim waist and long legs, her skin is of a healthy color and she has a pair of pink bunny ears on top of her head.
She is wearing a simple white t-shirt, black shorts with white lines and a pair of glasses on her eyes.
She is the one who Hai came to meet with.
Codenamed Viral Widow, real name: Hong Li-Wei.
She is an amazing diver* and an explosives specialist.
She is also the leader of the Crimson Spring, a well-known mercenary group in the Asian and European continents.
And she is someone who has been working to Hai for 5 years.
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*Diver: Divers are "hackers" that dive in the Nexus Net to do several jobs. They are "illegal" in any place.
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A/N: Hello there! I hope you're having a wonderful day!
So, everyone sorry for the late update. I was writing the smut chapter earlier today and then I went to write this one.
And my city had a power outage and just returned a few hours ago and then I had lunch.
Once again, sorry about it.
About the smut chapter, I already hit my word count (2000 at least) but I haven't even arrived at the best part yet and I don't intend to leave anyone blue balled, so about tomorrow or the day after I should be updating it.
That is all for today, thanks for reading!