Alex was sitting on the sofa like a long chair in the back seat of the car, Xiao Bai on his left was busy playing with a shiny necklace, While Grace was still frozen in time.
Alex thought it would be best for her to stay like that as he did not have an extra mask for her.
Front of him, sitting in the arrogant pose, Which every Manhwa CEO heroine sits, And now she was looking at him angrily, still upset over the fact that he called her stupid.
"So get me this straight, You do all that just to find a man to pretend to be your boyfriend? Are you stupi- Never mind."
Alex did not bother to look around in the car but looked at Rebecca and asked her, She told him her reason for doing all that.
Yeah as he guessed it was all an act, and the reason too unfortunately was the same. This woman did all this just to find a suitable man to pretend to be her boyfriend.
That's all intention and motive behind her action, Which stupefied Alex even more.
Even if he considers she wants to find this way and approves of her idea for the sake of argument, he can't wrap his mind around why she did this experiment here, on a though hospital street but kinda secluded place.
Her probability of finding a man to pretend to is much more in other main crowded streets, But now she came here to do her experiment to weed out the ideal man, Which is harder than finding a needle in the haystack.
But who made her the heroine, Even though it was a stupid thing, somehow on the first try encountered him. You can't get anyone better than him, So she is really lucky.
"Hey, You are doing it again, I am not stupid, Didn't it work out? See I have my ideal candidate in front of me."
Rebecca did not like anyone calling her stupid, especially not when the other party is related to Alia, So she stood up and pointed a finger at him with a smirk on her lips as she spoke to Alex.
"*Slam* *Bang* Ouch, Hey watch how you are driving."
But before Alex had arrived to answer her, Car took a sharp turn making her slam on the door frame, And then bang her head on the roof of the car.
She became angry, She turned around and cursed at the driver, Who could not hear her as this part of the car was currently in sound isolation for privacy, Which she herself activated.
"You are the one who stands up in the moving car, Is there even a chance remaining for your defence?"
Alex looked at her with a joke in his void-like eyes and spoke, This woman is exactly the opposite of Alia.
If Alia is cold, heartless, and hard to deal with, Then Rebecca is energetic, Full of empathy and very easygoing.
She is also not dumb. After all, she runs a 100 billion UC-worth company on her own and even increased its value at a shocking rate of 5%, So there is no doubt about her talent or her intelligence.
The only problem is that she is knowingly stupid, As there is a proper good brain but she is too concerned about other things that she most of the time forgets to use it.
Which is again exactly the opposite, Alia did not give her brain a slight break, There is always something cooking in her mind, Always planning on attacks and counters.
Which is a thing he was afraid of before but now, He was terrified of it. Before he was at least able to guess what was cooking in her mind but now he did not have even a slight idea about it.
He had to take care of her before she did something unthinkable.
"Alex drop these useless things, Now I want to propose that I want to rent you as a boyfriend, 1 Million a day, I want you for 10 days."
Rebecca was embarrassed, She really lost her position to defend herself after she made the foolish mistakes.
So she dropped the topic and changed the subject. She wanted to deal with these things quickly, so she could go and fawn in front of Alia.
Her face at that time should be worth every penny, That's why she also offered a generous price. Anyway, this much money means nothing to her, And she was not even lost.
Getting Alex like a boyfriend for 10 days for 10 million is a steal of a deal, Any other woman would kill to get an offer like this one.
"....Who do you think I am? 10 million? You wanted me to be your boyfriend for 10 million? Am I that cheap of a person in your eyes? It's okay when others say it but you know me and say this hurts me a lot, You know."
Alex, hearing her offer, opened his eyes wide. There was a pain and betrayal expression on his face. He looked like he was really hurt by her words, only dignity was a thing helping him hold back his tears.
Rebecca sees him as this regret. She judged him like he was green tea like before but she should have been clear after that song. He was not a gold miner, He is just a guy too ignorant of how his actions are seen in other's eyes.please visit
So he asked him to be her boyfriend. It really looked bad, Especially when she did not mention that they only had to act in front of others, So there selling their body business here.
She was sure he had misunderstood her, This deal does sound more like a prostitution kinda deal.
"Alex you misunderstood, No I am sorry, I should have not said something like that after knowing you, Please forgive me."
Rebecca at first wanted to clear the misunderstanding of his but she stopped her as this looked like a justification, Which is not the right approach right now.
She dropped the idea of explaining and apologising to him. She really can't bear to see that look on his face. It hurt her physically to look at him.
"Yeah, You better apologise and ask forgiveness, How long since you knew me, And yet you did not understand me a bit."
Alex looked at her helplessly with her in his voice, Rebecca hung her head down in shame and guilt for hurting him this much.
She did not have any intention to hurt him, It was a thing she saw in the S-dramas and thought it might work for her, So she decided to try it out.
She did not consider the dignity and self-respect of men. For a woman, it might not be a big deal but men take their self-respect seriously. They protect their bodies and names like precious jewels.
So she really should have hurt him with her words. She indirectly called him to call an escort, Which a self-respecting man can take.
"Sorry..."
She once again muttered sorry for her action, Speaking without thinking is really quite destructive.
"You better be, After all, how can you offer me a mere 1 million? You can't buy shit from it, At least it has to be 5-no 10 million for a man like me, But hey who made me this big-hearted, You are forgiven for your sin and as you are an old friend of mine, You get discount, You just had to pay 9.999 million."
Alex, seeing Rebecca really regretting it, became satisfied. After all, He indeed felt insulted when she offered a mere 1 million for a day.
How can a man with his calibre sell himself for 1 million? It at least should be 10 million, didn't it? Anything less did not justify the price for him.
So he really as Rebecca thought was hurt getting insulted like that, Which too directly attacked on his looks, Which he can't bear.
"....Give it back."
Rebecca was stunned hearing his words and became speechless for a while and when she came back to her senses, She only spoke these words bringing her teeth.
"Huh!? What do I give back? I did not take from you anything, Oh wait?! You can't take back the necklace it was given as a gift and she likes it. If you want, You need to pay at least 100 million."
Alex got confused hearing her words, He really did not understand what she was talking about, and He did not take anything from her.
But then he realised he did take her necklace from her, So he thought she wanted that back, which he can't give for free at all, After all Xiao Bai liked it.
But if Rebecca gives 100 million for it then he will gladly give it back, As with 100 million he can buy lots of shiny things for Xiao Bai and he can also get extra pocket money.
The 13.07 billion UC of his he saved to start a business and he also did not ask for money from Amara or Isabella, So he was a little tight on the pocket.
"Bastard, Give me back my sympathy, Ahhh!!"
Rebecca lost it, She did not care about it anymore, When she was done speaking she jumped on him bearing her claws out.
'What did I do?'.
It was the only thought on Alex's mind before Rebecca jumped on him.
**Huff* *Huff* How as a man you- *Huff* this strong?"
Rebecca once again seating on her initial opposition but different than before was that she was huffing for air, Her more than D-cups were moving in seemingly fluid motion against the law of physics
Her wavy long brown waist-length hair which was before carefully maintained Now was unkempt making it look like a bird's nest.
Her smooth wide forehead also had the bread of sweat dripping down from her delicate angular face, There was flown between her crescent-like half-moon eyebrows showing her dissatisfaction but also making her look cute.
Her royal violet-coloured one-piece dress also moved a little showing off the richness of her physique to Alex.
Rebecca did not bother about her appearance in front of Alex that much, Anyway it was not that big of a deal if it was Alex as it only worked in her favour.
What she was more worried about was the fact that strength he had shown just now. She glanced at Alex whose not even a single hair got affected by their banter, He was sitting there as if they had not just had a little stand-off here.
She never thought that Alex will be that strong, Though in fairness she did not use any spiritual power right now but even then as a B-Rank warrior, She should not be defected this badly by an F-Rank warrior and that too by a man.
It is unheard of, rarely there is a figure born in the world who can fight across 1 big rank. Those ones will become a legendary warrior who will leave a mark in history.
But never even once was an F-Rank rank able to fight with B-Rank like this, No it was even against common sense, How can one fight someone 4 ranks bigger than them? It was breaking the scaling measurements.
It was still though very hard to accept but can be taken care of. What is more, disbelieving things is that this was done by a man.
She was not sexist or anything but it was a natural proven fact that women are way stronger than men, And that difference increases drastically when it comes to cultivation.
Men are not favoured by the world at all, You can even say they are hated by it, So it was very hard for them to advance in the already hard ranks and then to their strengths come nowhere near the women in the same ranks.
So it was a worldview-breaking thing for her that Alex got this strong.
"Why? Can't a man beat a woman? This is a little sexist, Don't you think?"
Alex looked at Rebecca and also understood her inner turbulence. After all, what he did was really impossible in her eyes. Man, is this world treated as 2nd class citizens but not by people but by the world itself?
Alex did not know who made this world like this as in both plots there was just a hint here and there but no concrete proof of it, But he was sure of one thing anyone who did this hated man a lot.
I mean everything in this world is either made to work against men or give unfavourable advantages to women.
Like spiritual power all around this world, This power favours women a lot, So much so that for a woman it was 2 to 5 times easier to cultivate than a man.
Not to mention women also have 10 times more chances to awaken their superpower hidden in them, And if one parent has a superpower then there is an 80% chance daughter born to them will also have a superpower.
But the odds of men did not increase, Same if both parents have superpowers then there is only a 10% extra increase in the chance that a son born to them will get a superpower but a daughter will 100% will get it.
This is how much this world hates men, If not for the system's op things he will also be that weak, Though on paper he is F-Rank but his combat power already reached C-Rank, But still he could not able to advance in rank is all thanks to 10 times restriction of the world on him.
He has to work 10 times harder than women to increase his rank, That's why he is still stuck on the peak of F-Rank but this was also a good thing as because of it his foundation was solidified.
So Alex was not a bit surprised by the shock of Rebecca, Which was justifiable but that did not mean he will let go of the chance to tease her.
After all, he still needs to raid her to survive, and for a woman like her, this is the best approach.
Unlike Alia whose raid has to be to give and take control from her hands, Rebecca's one is to take all control in his hands, And be more wild than she is. This works best with her type of heroine.
Also a universal thing of being hard to understand and creating curiosity like basic things also work on her, He just does not get it why the system has yet to notify to his increase in her favorability.
He was waiting for it but the system did not make any sound.
"It's not that I am sexist but man being strong is not a good thing for them."
Rebecca now kinda gets it how his brain works, So she did not bother to justify her statement but said what she wanted to say.
She really thinks for a man to be thin is not a good thing, It was against the nature of man and kinda useless.
"You said not to be sexist and said the most sexist thing, Rebecca. Why is it not good for men to be strong? Will it hurt the fragile ego of women?"
Alex is not happy when Rebecca does not fall for his trap, It was only the 2nd type of entertainment here in this world of his after the one on the bed.
So he still tried to provoke her, Just to bring down her IQ which started to rise. After all it was not good for him, If her brain suddenly started working.
"Again not sexist, Did you not know the stronger the man is, the shorter their life span than women of the same rank? So the stronger you become, the earlier you die than a woman in the same rank."
Rebecca was startled by his comment but knew he was just trying to mess with her, So she did not pay any attention to it and went directly to the point she was trying to tell him.
It is common sense that the stronger the person gets the more their lifespan also increases, This is the reason why people are so crazy about increasing their ranks.
As some want eternal youth, Some want immortality and some want to preserve their beauty, So they walk on the hard road of immortal cultivation.
Each rank is respective to their level, increasing some amount of the lifespan of a person which applied to all of them no matter the nature of their superpowers.
From 100 years on F-Rank to 10,000-15,000 years added in S-Rank, It is common knowledge but it was only for women, Not men.
For men, F-Rank gives an extra 90 years which was not that low compared to a woman but as their level increases it will become lower and lower to the extent that the S-Rank of a man will only get 1000 to 25000 years added to them making it useless to waste time in practice for it.
Yes, the world hates a man to this extent. If a man gets stronger even after 10 times more practice restrictions then it was the world's way to prevent them from getting more powerful.
"...I forgot about that thing."
Alex was stunned but then casually answered her as if he did not care about this fact.
'FUCK!!!! How could I forget this important thing?'
But in his mind, he was yelling like a madman. He had forgotten this thing as too much happens these days.
He also now doubts that this world is made by those red-haired women. He has a lot of proof of it. After all, only they are the one who hates a man to this extent, This world will be a paradise for them.
But then the worry in his heart is dismissed. He is a man with a system, and of course, he will find a way to counter the laws of this world.
"Rebecca, Tell me about your superpower, How did you stop the time?"
Alex then asked her what he wanted to ask her, the Author of her novel did not pay much attention to her as her powers are too strong to create any threat to Jake, So she most of the time stayed behind the scenes.
And when the Author decided to show her power, Jake already became too strong, So there was no significant meaning in paying attention to her power, So she became a forgotten heroine just like Helen.
So Alex is now curious about what grade or what kinda power she had but he did not expect to hear it from her.
'System uses the eye of truth on her."
He just wanted to distract her until he saw her real accurate stats from the system.
[Ding! The target details are like the following...
Name : Rebecca Valentine
Species : Human
Bloodline : The Old One (S-Rank) (Not awakened) (Upgradable)
Awakened Rank : S-Rank
Strength : B++
Agility : A++
Mana : 1,000,000
Charm : 159
Luck : 9999 (Heroine)
Skills :
Bussines (LV 10), (LV 10), (LV 10)
Talent :
I Am The Best : This talent increases intelligence tremendously, The only problem is that it only kicks in when necessary doing IQ-related things, Most of the time possessors will have average or below average IQ in normal times.
Also skills can be learned quickly and to the perfection of the mortal level in quite a little time but only when the possessor really wants to learn those things.
Superpower : Time-Deus (S-Rank Upgradable) : As the name dictates, This is power related to time.
As one of the rarest superpowers one can awaken, Anyone who is in the hold of this power can be considered a time god, Who can control the time at will using their mana as a source of power.
Perks :
• Using this possessor can stop an individual person or group in time.
• Can permanently stop once it's own ageing as long there is bare minimum mana running through the body.
• Can see past, present and future with a lot of restrictions but without any significant backlash.
• Can also forward or reverse people or specific parts of them.
Special Perk :
Time Domain : Can create a domain of time, The stronger user and the mana input are the larger the range would be.
In the domain, users can do anything related to time as long as they have enough mana, But stronger ones can resist the strength of power.
Favorability : 89 (The Only One)
Summary : Rebecca is a hot-tempered woman. This is a trope of 2nd ML in the romance novel. Someone like her once loved someone then they will love that person to the end.
(Note : She tends to be easy going but don't be fooled by her easy-going appearance, She has a Gundeare personality.]
'She is really strong, no wonder the author had to sideline her to make the plot exciting.'
Alex read through all the details of Rebecca. He now gets why the author decided to sideline her. After all, her name is Deus, Making her kinda a wild card.
If she was always with Jake then there is no way he had to face any problem at least in the early and mid plot.
No matter what kinda threat they face, She can just pull Deus ex Machina, There is no way she could have encountered the trouble and hence gotten an opportunity to gain more strength.
So anything that might be the plot, author or world will be decided to put her away to give a chance for him to grow.
Alex on the other hand though not want to deal with constant shit like the protagonist, He rather stays home and chills letting his subordinate take care of the trouble.
It's just that he can mess with the protagonist thanks to his villain halo but others can't, So he had to do it in person.
'Her favorability for me is also quite high, 'System explains.'
Then he put his attention to her favorability of her for him, Surprisingly she had quite a lot more than any other heroine who did not spend time with him.
So he was rather curious how she could have that much favorability for him when he did nothing. Even if she heard the song, She would not be able to reach this much in an instant. If the system had notified him.
[Ding! It was all because of Rebecca's nature and how this character was built to host, She designed to compete with Alia, So as motivation to keep little logic in the plot, She "coincidently" fell in love with Alia's man.
That's why there is this much initial favorability of her for your host."
System quickly answered him as he asked it reminding Alex that though this world seems real but it follows the law of the novels.
In Jake's plot, Alia will be with Jake, igniting her competitiveness of hers, and then as every brain-dead novel goes, She will fall for the protagonist rather than to fight with Alia.
This is a normal routine, So Alex did not pay attention to it, Was now more curious about her bloodline.
'System, what about her bloodline? Give more details.'
So he asked the system, There is no mention of it in the plot of "The Old One." It was his first time hearing it.
Though the name sounds kinda like a rushed silly one but looking at her mana breaks that impression, A 1,000,000 mana no normal person can have at all, Even S-Ranks stop at 1.5 million mana.
Though it was more than Rebecca but keep in mind that she is currently just a peak B-Rank and still able to go close to them.
This is a reason why Alex was very much interested in her bloodline as he was fighting in his mind about what first thing he will choose to copy, Her superpower or her bloodline.
He really never thought that he would face one day that he had to choose between things like this as most if not all heroines only have one special characteristic.
But Rebecca is different, She has at least 3 different kinds of characteristics, As that "I Am The Best" is also an OP talent if used carefully.
He even thought of copying it, As it is also a very helpful thing for him.
[Ding! Error, Sorry host your level of authority is too low to know this information.]
Alex waited to know more about her bloodline but he was hit with the error message and an apology behind it.
But this not only disappointed him but made him happy, Now he knows what to choose first, Time superpower can be copied later.
'Okay, I understand the system you don't have to apologise for, Also you made a spelling mistake, It is Goudere not Gundere.'
Alex does not mind that there is something he can't know yet, He can just increase his system level by doing stuff, So he just pointed out normal spelling mistakes before putting the system on silent as he still needs to talk with Rebecca.
Unknownst to him, If had waited to hear the reply of the system, he would have thought twice before messing with her.
[Ding! The system did not make any mistakes.]
.....
"You know it is taboo to ask something like that right?"
Rebecca looked at Alex and questioned him as surprised by what he had asked.
It is really a taboo in the world of awakened warriors to ask someone about their superpower, It is a life and death secret that can't be shared casually.
"Well, Ignore it, You passed, I thought a stupid woman like her might really tell me, Guess you are not that stupid."
Alex little dazed but seeing Rebecca asking him, He just made a quick excuse for asking it.
He knows it is taboo to ask someone about their superpower but he wanted to distract them before opening the system panel.
That was because he had found that when he talked with the system, the time he feels like spending on the panel was way less than the actual one. That's why people did not get weirded out even though he spent quite some time talking with the system.
So he thought that if the System was messing with time Rebecca would be able to feel it, but now he knows that it was not the case.
The system does not mess with time but just changes his time perception by increasing his inherent speed of senses, making him able to feel like time is slowed down.
This is the reason why closing a system is something he blurts out things or needs a second or two to speak as it was a lag of getting used to getting in and out of that speed mode.
"Hey!! Stop that, I can't pay you 10 million for a day. At best I will pay 5 million per day, So are you willing?"
Rebecca was aggravated by his comment, She is not stupid, She proved that lots of times. At best she is slow but not stupid.
"8 million, Just look at me before saying your end of a deal."
When Rebecca talks about the business, Alex quickly shifts into the greedy businesswoman mode. After all he needs money now as all his money is reserved for other things.
There are Amara, Isabella, Alia, Helen, Liza, Xia Yan…, Well there are lots of people to ask for money from but who dislike more money, That too when someone delivers it to their doorstep. He was not that stupid to reject it
"6 million, This is the last offer, I did not have many funds in my hands, Most of it invested in new projects, Anything more and I will break the capital chain of my company."
Rebecca hesitated to hear Alex offer, Looking at his face, 8 million for a day did not sound that much but she really did not have left much cash in her hand right now.
She has money but most of it is invested in her new production line-up, And she can't just go ask money from her family to hire a man to fool them, Can she?
So 6 million UC of all she can offer right now, Which will be 60 million UC for 10 days.
"Okay, Deal, But I have a question, What happens if you get knocked up in these 10 days? And how much alimony will I get?"
Alex, hearing her offer, was more than happy to accept it. Heck even if she offered 1 million, He still had accepted as she herself is a prize for him right now, A walking gold mine.
But he had one question bothering him for some time: What happens if she gets pregnant? Though he has the golden gun when activated can take care of the trouble he still wanted an answer.
After all, he did not want to be a single dad at all, Here single dad is not attractive but rather used goods which no one wants, So he wanted to make sure as he still needs to attack other heroines.
"...#@#&*#@#...Can not speak like a normal person??? Why are you doing this? Do you want to give me a heart attack or what?"
Rebecca not having it, She nearly got a heart attack hearing his words, Did she not say that he just wanted to pretend to be her boyfriend? So how can she get pregnant? Are they also going to "pretend" to do that by actually doing it?
She did not mind if they did it. She is rather excited but the problem is that he was not speaking like a normal person. How can she handle him if he is this much volatile all the time?
"I was just asking, You don't have to curse like a rough, You are no lady at all. Who will marry a hot-head like you? You might stay single all your li-"
"Don't you dare to say it and jinx me, I am warning you, I will definitely find a real boyfriend, Who will talk normally, Not like you. You know women also don't like over-smart men."
Alex was wronged. He just asked casually, She did not have to act like that, So he also talked back to her pressing her weakest nerve.
Rebecca is also bothered by not having a boyfriend, Not that there was no option but her standards were too high, She will not even look at a man who other womens are crazy for, Those college grass boys also are the same.
So up until now she was still single without even being alone in a room with a man, Which led her family to think she swing a different way. This is the main reason she needed to find a boy to pretend to be her boyfriend.
This way she can clear her name and wipe out any threat to her position as an heir, This is why she was mainly doing this, As for why she did not just get a real boyfriend.
Well the real reason was the plot of her, How can Heroine date other men before the protagonist? So there is that reason but another cannon reason is that she did not want to settle with anything.
She rather stays single all her life than to compromise with the standards she made, This is a reason why she did not want Alex to speak those words jinxing her.
"Well, I have this face so there is no way there is a woman who will not like me unless she is blind, But in your case, It's hard to say."
Alex knew how to tame a woman like her, He can't go by the standards she made as those were impossible to reach, And even with the system he needs at least a month to achieve it.
So he decided to go with the crooked route, That made himself irresistible to her, And this is his way of laying the foundation.
Rebecca was taken aback hearing his answer but seeing his face she get it, He indeed has the qualification to say something so narcissistic as this without seeing it as one.
Then she aggravated, He indeed has a backup, but what about her? What does she have to replace her shortcomings? She fell into thinking before quickly coming up with her answer.
"...I have money, a lot of it, So with it- "
"Yeah money is good but I don't think the standards you set for your man lack money, So your only advantage became nothing, Now tell why would a man of your standards choose you?"
"That- "
But Alex did not let her have it and ruthlessly crushed her argument. Yes, if according to her he did not know her standers for man, But he can guess, but even with a guess she felt depressed.
Yeah, Alex was right, The man she had in mind will not care about money, It's not that she wants a man with money but the personality of her man will not care if you have money or not, He will be with her just for her.
It was her intention before but now she had to use the money for her argument to counter the agenda she began with before. Now she started to doubt that man as she wanted to even exist in this world.
Though according to her the standards of the man she wants are low, All she wanted an extremely handsome man like no other, single-minded, not materialistic, super talented, singer, pianist, violist etc, A exceptional genius in business, A leadership personality, a righteous soul who will help anyone in need, etc.
Only this much her standards for a man, It's not too much to ask for at least in her eyes.
'This bastard meets most of those standards but why is he this unbearing? Only if he acts like a man, No woman can resist him but sadly his personality is a minus point of his.'
Rebecca was really not able to understand where she could find the man of her dreams. Then her eyes landed on Alex, She had to admit other than his volatile personality, He does meet most of her standers.
Only if there was a way to fix him, She might have had the man of her dreams in her hand, So Rebecca started to think about how to "fix" Alex.
'Too easy.'
Alex here on the other hand heard everything she said in her mind with an increasing grin on his face. This is what he wanted. He wasn't able to play with her standers, So he just changed the game.
Now she had to come and please him to conquer his heart. This way not only he made her do all the work but also lowered her expectation from no compromise to get all she can, Now he just had to wait until she made the move and just show some extra hidden talent of his.
Doing so he did not even have to work at all, He just had to reap the benefits of her work.
[Ding! Congratulations host for unlocking Hidden Achievement "Lazy Villain"...
Lazy Villain : Why should Villain work hard to get heroin when the villain is a prize? She should chase after him.
Requirement: Make 1 heroine thing about chasing (for love) after you (Met)
Reward : Can be able to upgrade any one reward of the last three rewards received before this achievement.]
When he was happy, System's voice came pouring cold water on him with that kinda name but after seeing the reward, he forgave the system.
He knows that he did not check the rewards he received from beating Natahn yet as he was busy with Helen, But with this, he can see which one is suitable to upgrade.
It's just a pity that this one has restrictions that can only be used on the three rewards he received before getting this one. So his plan of using it on God-level acting has to drop for a while.
.....
After their talk Rebecca did not speak but was into deep thinking, Alex also did not bother her, rather he was happy that she was thinking about making his life easier.
Soon their car stopped in front of the big mall, Which is a destination Alex said before after all he was not going to drop this idea of going on a date with Xiao Bai and Grace, He did promise them.
"Get out, Remember tomorrow I will come to pick you up in your dormitory, Be prepared to leave for 10 days."
Rebecca looked at Alex gritting her teeth as he wrapped his one hand around Grace's slender waist, While the other one was rubbing Xiao Bai's head to get out of the car.
Seeing him acting like other women, A strong feeling of disgust appeared in her mind but not for Alex but for these women as they were the ones who make Alex like this one, Before Alex was not this unbearable.
"Did you not want me to unfreeze her? Or did you forget that I had put her in suspended time?"
But Rebecca grinned, Now she has a trump card that can be used to get back the little face she lost in front of him.
"No need *Snap* This will do the trick."
Alex also knew what her intention was, So he did not bother to ask her to unfreeze Grace, He just snapped his fingers taking out his extreme fire, Which was dancing in his fingers, Then he just threw it at Grace.
His fire will not hurt anyone he did not want to and is also strong enough to break through a space barrier S-Rank like Belladonna, So the time barrier of Rebecxa created around Grace was easily broken and burned by his tiny flame.
His flame burned time itself to take Grace out of her suspension, Though its power is based on Rebecca but still, her superpower is S -Rank and yet be able to do this without any problems.
This is the scary power of SS-Rank superpower, Which also says how powerful Aila is and the reason why she was the main heroine of two separate novel plots.
"..."
Rebecca looking in horror at Alex as he carried away confused Grace and Xiao Bai with him in the mall.
"C-can explain what just happened?"
Grace, walking with confusion written all over her face, asked Alex, one moment was in front of the hospital entrance and the next, she was with Alex seated in the car with a strange woman.
She was super confused. For a moment she even thought she passed out and woke up here but seeing the calm face of Alex, She dropped that thought and thought of an even more absurd idea.
'Teleported, We are definitely teleported.'
This is what she thought, As it was easy to think of then to think someone has frozen her in time. After all, time is the only thing current people can't get hold of. At least it was the truth for most of civilization.
Still she asked Alex to know what just happened, After all, it was understandably quite weird for her.
"Ohh, nothing much, That woman you saw stopped the time of an area putting you into suspended time, When we got here, I removed, Not a big deal.".
Alex with Xiao Bai looking at the mall in amazement when he heard Grace a question, So he answered her without looking or thinking much about it as all his attention was on the mall.
This mall is a paradise for any heterosexual man, Anywhere he looks he will find the thing he loves. There were video games, and advanced pc sets, and There were also some limited edition things making him think that it will not be bad to spend little startup money.
After all, in the world of women, Man is the prize. So women pretty much buy anything to please the man they are trying to woo and like women love jewellery, Men love games and such things making this industry advance further and beyond.
Right now this industry was at least 100 years ahead of its time than the last world, making him wonder what kinda realistic games developers had made with this kinda technology.
"....Oh uhh okay..... Can you explain it again??*
Grace was not prepared to hear this at all. It was unrealistic to think of someone stopping time, If that thing was used properly all problems in this world from war to world hunger can be solved.
So he said this casually making her think she heard it wrong, Her still normal way of thinking caused her to resist this new information, She did not want to admit it as it will break her worldview.
"Grace, In this world a lot of things are way different than it looks, So never think that things are the same as they appear, Always have an open mind, It will help you to get used to new revelations."
Alex looked at Grace when be asked a second time then he saw her struggle to accept these facts. She has been a normal girl since childhood. The only reason she has not freaked out is because her mother always tells her stories about it.
So she had an idea about this hidden world but can't get used to it after seeing it. That's why Alex said to her while pulling her towards himself, taking her into his warm hug.
Grace sensing the warmth threw out all those useless thoughts, For her if he was with her then she can even live in hell happily thinking it was her heaven, So these little things now did not bother her anymore.
"Hum, I keep that in mind."
Grace smiled sweetly as she too hugged him back, All her worry seeing his always gone away no matter how serious her problems are with him it did not sound that bad.
Even now the worry in her heart about her mother still not waking up was pretty much suppressed, And this new news of a different kinda world she was since childhood was also was easy to digest.
Seeing the two of them hug, Xiao Bai looked at Grace enviably wanting to replace her with herself, She too wanted to feel that comfortable warmth of his.
So after their hug ended as Grace had a thin face, Hugging him in a public place while others were staring at them crossed her threshold of shame.
Well yeah obviously people will be staring at them after all even if Alex still had a face mask on him, His charm had not been affected at all, It just made him look mysterious hiding his identity
"M-Me."
Xiao Bai saw an opportunity, She with her big wide icy blue eyes looked at Alex and stretched her two arms towards him asking for her, His chest-length stature of her makes her even cuter and the broken words of her trying to say something was just lethal.
"Awww Why you are soo cute??!"
Alex though does not look like it also has a little heart, So seeing her life this he too could not help but take her into a deep hug pressing their body so closely together that there was no room for air to escape.
This time Graces turn to look envying at them wanting to switch places.
Still, the trio go around shipping, eating and having fun. Alex too decided to buy lots of things and bills to send to Isabella, After all at least this much she can do after her son hurt his hands.
They are still a little red from the...what her son did, Yeah this time it was her son as he was being blamed.
Well now that Isabella is mentioned, Let's see what is happening there.
...
"Who did this happen? Tell me the name and I will personally send that person into hell."
Isabella is seated beside unconscious Nathan, She was at work when she got a call and just like before she had to come here hurriedly.
Nathan after all that beating he got and that spiritual pressure of Helen and in the end use of the forbidden technique pretty much took all the juice out of him.
His core was damaged, and his bones were also in worse condition than being broken as it was healed but wrongly, There were lots of bones in the wrong place bones in his body giving him immense pain.
The pain was so much that their doctors had to sedate him putting him in a partial coma to give his body time to heal.
So it was an understatement to say Isabella was furious seeing her son like this, Sbe wanted to rip the head of the person who did this to her son.
She did not care who they are or what their background is, Now she just wanted justice for her son.
"Miss it was all young master. He wanted to show that the Gayler family was not weak. He challenged Miss Alia's boyfriend, Master Alex. At first he was hesitant but the Young master provoked him.
So Master Alex beat him but he was soft-hearted. It turned out he was an awakened warrior with healing powers, So he healed young Master Nathan completely, But then the young master went and provoked an S-Rank and the result was in front of you Madam.
Let me tell you, Seeing Young Master's condition, Eldest Miss was so fallen in grief that she announced a bonus to all the servants to get a blessing of their for quick recovery of young master, She also bought a private yacht to get a blessing from the sea god, Also she also decreased eating by a lot as she was on diet.
Well, there is also one thing that- "
"You said Alex, Is he alright? What happens to that S-Rank? Is she with him? If so, what were they doing? No scratch that tells me where they have gone, I will deal with the rest."
As always number one wanted to start his usual routine, And tell about how she felt bad about it by completely telling the opposite thing to provoke Isabella to follow the order of their eldest.
But unlike other times, Isabella did not get angry but rather worried. She looked at him and asked hurriedly, Her current worried appearance was way too drastic than seeing her son pretty much on her deathbed.
Number one was startled, He did not see their Madam to be this much seriousness, He thought of something going to happen to Gayler which can be a life or death thing for it.
After all, their always so calm madam reacting this way means there's really something terrible news.
"I don't know if S-Rank knows Master Alex or not as they were not together, Master Alex did not seem hurt when we bravely rescued the young Master and was bringing him here. Well, Master Alex was in the hospital but I don't think he will be there now.
That's all I know."
So he spoke everything he knew about it, Of course he still did not forget the protocol taught to him.
But Isabella did not care about his words again. After hearing what she wanted to know, She quickly turned around talking out her phone before hurryingly walking out of the house.
What she did not know was, When she was going, Nathan who was in a partial coma opened his eyes with a slight grin on his face.
He was awakened when Isabella entered this room, After all, the protagonist does have a weird sense to know when heroin is nearby but he did not wake up wanting to act to aggravate Isabella.
Now he knows his mother will not care about his background of the Miller family and get him justice, The look of worry on her face shows that she can do anything now.
Poor he thought that she was worried about him, Well there is still time to get to know his daddy.