Zekrom turned around the backstage area as his eyes shifted to Augustya, who was sitting on the corner as usual.
"Bastard! Can't he not ask anyone for help."Zekrom said to himself. A grin appeared on his face as he saw poor Augustya. Moreover, he hadn't interrupted or assisted him. Zekrom's motto was to let your enemies suffer. He wheeled the chair and moved forward.
A few minutes later, Zekrom returned. This time, he approached Augustya.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Zekrom still didn't know if Augustya was a foe or a friend.
"Oii, Augustya baby! What are you doing here?" Zekrom said it in a mischievous tone. Augustya's cheeks were red due crouching on the cold floor.
"You! Get lost." Augustya said, enraged to see his face.
"Aww, My baby is mad at me. You did well in the match." Zekrom softly persuades him.
All of a sudden, Augustya's stomach rumbled loudly. His cheeks flushed and wanted to dig a hole and live there.
"Haha! "He burst out.
"Go away!!" Augustya said in a teary voice.
Seeing him vulnerable, Zekrom could not hold back and raised his hand to pat his head. But, Augustya blocked his hand in midair.
" Relax! My sweet pea!"
Zekrom had quite experience taking care of siblings, as he had 2 step-brothers. Even though some didn't think of him as a brother, he still had a soft corner for his little brothers. Zekrom's father was a space merchant and informant who loved to have many women in bed. He only cared about his / her bastard when they brought profit to him. His mother was working in a brothel house. Her beauty was known in Farida, the northern zone of Nurg Planet. The memories he shared with her mother were counted in fingers.
"I DON'T NEED YOUR SYMPATHY." Augustya yelled in an angry voice.
"Go away. I don't need a betrayer in my life." His voice attracted many other players. They began to pay attention here.
"Sigh, this kid! " Zekrom deeply sighs. All of a suddenly he raised his hand toward his cheeks.
*Pa! *
" Do you think you are the one who has a problem? Look at me; I am in a wheelchair
I am still better than you." Zekrom's fingers tingle as he hit his cheeks.
Zekrom continued with his harsh lectures, "The world is harsher than you imagined. The reason I didn't take you is because you are a hindrance to me. Your ability can't help me." Those words pricked his heart and shattered his self-esteem. After a very long time, Augustya felt useless.
For 4 months, Augustya just endured everything silently—the guard beating him, fighting with a swarm, saving his life or
Pancho's betrayal. For once he wanted to be worthy but Pancho treachery broke his heart. He didn't bother to ask why this had happened to him.
"August, I know you are capable of saving yourself, but there are many things you can't do. Your persistent mind and naivety will lead you no way. "
Augusta felt his eyes wet.
Few drops of salt water were streaming down from his cheeks.
*Sob sob*
Zekrom startled as he didn't expect the boy would cry like a baby.
"Stop crying! If you stop crying I will buy you an ultra instant masala noodle."
"Really?"
Zekrom nodded his head.
Augustya raised a question,"what is an ultra instant masala noodle?"
"°…^"
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"Do you feel better? " Zekrom asked in a concern as he spent 5 sols for two instant noodles. 1 sols was equal to two cup noodles of earthling price.
An old man from Earth was abducted from Japan in 1960. Not only was he famous in Japanese cuisine, but he made a lot of fortune by selling instant noodles and fried foods all over the galaxy.
Augustya was eagerly waiting for the tomato instant noodles and mashala instant noodles to be ready.
¢Tap¢
"Noodles are done."
Zekrom peels off the lid of the instant noodle cups, a stream of warmth and fragrance bursts in their nostrils.
Augustya's eyes lit up, drooling over the food.
"Go ahead and eat this," Zekrom softly said. The naive boy stared at the Zekrom and asked," Where is cutlery?"
Red-haired pursed his lips and blinked his eyes-lids constantly.
He didn't know that Augustya never had an instant noodle in his life. So he didn't know that Augustya needed chopsticks to eat.
"You rich bastard! What have you had in your life."
He replied in a plain voice, "vegetable, honey dew cookies, pepper corn fritter and kuh (cow) cheese." All that Augustya mentioned was high end ingredients and very expensive.
100 gram kuh cheese cost 5000 sols.
Zekrom deeply sighed as his pupil slightly shrank.
" Fine, I am bringing the extra chopstick for you."
Eating with biodegradable plastic chopsticks was something Augustya wasn't used to. Somehow he managed to eat it.
"Zek, You are here,"a lady in a high pitched voice said.
"Uhoh! I should leave," Zekrom flinched a little and his body quivered to listen to this familiar voice. As he was going to escape, rapidly Julie squeezed her iron palm to his shoulder.
"caught ya! Zek, hiding from me?"
"Hiding from you, why will I do that? " Zekrom started buttering her with his charming voice.
"You know how much I am loyal to you."
This was not the first time Augustya had seen Zekrom grabbing women's thighs.
Julie's eyes shifted toward the boy who was slurping his soup and didn't bother to meddle between them.
"Who is he?"
Augustya's wrist watch flickers a little, a blue ray passed through Julie's body.
" Julie"
Height: 5'9 feet
Fighter rank: B-
Ability: High pitch that could hear 500 decibels.
Personality: ??
Species: Klang
Trait : ??" Meg informed.
Fighter rank is distributed in 5 levels, A, B,C,D,E. The stronger you were, the better rank you would get. Galaxy fighter association(GFA)is a public association who registered and monitored every fighter track. There were private associations too but they took bribes to increase the level. As corruption was black hole that nobody could escape.
"A data collector?" Julie bewildered at viewing the wrist watch.
"Kid, how do you get this?
"My sister gifted it to me." Augustya replied and continued eating his noodles.
Seeing the interaction, Zekrom meddled in the conversation and told everything about him.
"Ohh! So you are the Richie rich guy that Zek always mentions."
He didn't bother to reply her.
"The boy has an attitude." After saying that she shifted his gaze toward Zekrom who was trying to sneak. "Leaving soon?"
"Julie, you know I know… We know that I don't have money to pay you."
"According to the contract that you signed with me, if the debt is not collected at the right time then the party will compensate me in another way." She said and an evil grin appeared on her face. Julie took out the contract paper.
"You..I told you long ago that I can't read and write. Don't you trust my word." He said in a broken voice as ego shattered in a thousand pieces.
Augustya glanced at the paper and read it.
"Zekrom, did you promise her to become a slave for a 6 month period?" Augustya blurted out.
"No. She told me that the contract will end in 1month." His face looked puzzled and glared her with fierce eyes.
"Julie?" Zekrom is infuriated with the new information he gained.
Julie was a little startled as paper slipped from her finger.
A few minutes later, Augustya told the context about the contract. Based on the contract, Zekrom got scammed badly.
"I never expect that from you, Julie! " Zekrom said in a disappointed voice.
She said in her defence," It's not my fault you are illiterate. I am just helping as my friend. Not a big deal."
'Friend my as*.' Zekrom thought.
"According to the contract, if the debt takes more than 4 months to pay he has to give 12% interest." Augustya informed as he finished his noodles.
Julie's face crooked a little.
"Ju-julie!"