The clouds covered the sky like a big black sheet, completely masking the light that was coming from the sun above the sky. Nothing could be seen except a darkness that seemed to go on forever.
BOOOM!
The darkness did not last for long. However, thunderous explosions rang throughout the entire world as different colored lights began to spread throughout the heavens.
BOOOM! BOOOM!
Smoke permeated throughout the world as the ground shook and reptilian creatures, or rather Dragons fell from the sky like wingless birds, crashing onto the ground, and forming massive craters around the area they fell.
Bang!
Levitating in the sky like beings of justice, and with light spreading out from behind them, a dozen or so figures stared at the area where the deceased Dragons had fallen.
Slowly descending down toward the ground, a man wearing a golden armor that shone brightly with wings that of a Dragon finally opened his mouth.
"You have disappointed our race, brother." His crisp and melodious voice rang throughout the world. There was a mixture of displeasure and disgust in his voice as he looked toward a particular person down below.
Twitch. Twitch.
Weakly turning around, the man turned his body over and looked toward the man with a heavenly aura standing in the sky. With the light shining brightly from behind him, he looked like a God that had descended upon the mortal world.
"Cough...Cough..."
Coughing blood down his body, the man laughed in deprecation. His golden-purple eyes gazed upwards, towards the dark clouds covering the heavens. Hanging down his neck was a simple silver necklace; attached to its end was a white crystal.
"You...you're...nothing but a hypocrite, brother, especially your little cocksucking friends with you." He softly muttered after a while. Right as his words faded, the space froze before the whole world started to tremble. The silver necklace around his body danced up and down his chest.
"What did you say?" The man, who is none other than Zeldarein, Wave's father stood in the air spat as anger rose from deep within his voice. Staring at him from below, the man coughed.
"Cough..."
Supporting his body up with his hand that was constantly trembling, he stared at the sky.
"Y-You speak as though I have committed some...cough...grave sin against you, a grave sin by just causing a civil war between our home nation, but what is so grave when that compares to us destroying hundreds of lesser worlds caused by the effects of our battle all day? If it wasn't for our father choosing you over me, that I had worked for thousands of years to be the next Dragon Overlord, trillions of innocent lives wouldn't die!"
In response to his words, Zeldarein scoffed, "Since when did you care for innocent lives, brother?"
Raising his hand, a bright yellow sphere resembling the sun morphed on the palm of his hand as bright yellow particles vividly appeared in the air, agglomerating towards the sphere.
"I know you very well that you never cared for them, not even the slightest. Knowing you all my life, you're incredibly cunning when it comes to emotions, but I won't be fooled by you." He said coldly, "Let me ask you. Does creating havoc on other worlds justify your means? What about the billions of creatures you have killed to let them fear our race? Have you ever cared for them?"
At that moment, the man chuckled, knowing his tricks won't work, "Cared? Why should I care? Isn't what True Dragons were truly made to conquer and teach lesser beings of our power? You can't change how an animal behaves, it is merely written in their biological structure."
Closing his eyes, Zeldarein nodded his head, "It's true that our race was one of the strongest beings beside the Gods and the most fearful that can bring fear to other races. However, we can change our morals."
"Ha...ha...change..." The man let out a chuckle before his face slowly became icy. "Changing the natural behaviors of True Dragons is ludicrous, an idiocy. I'm only just keeping our tradition to exist, but you made things difficult for us. What gives you the right to come here and judge me like you are some sort of god?"
Mustering every little bit of power inside of his body, the man finally stood up and glared at his brother in the sky and let out another laugh.
"Ha...aha...they called me an idiot, a madman, a man who committed treason…cough..."
Just as he managed to stabilize his footing, with another cough, blood sprayed on the ground and he fell on one knee.
"Shit..."
The moment he fell to his knee, the orb that was forming in front of Zeldarein's palm fully formed, and the sky was enveloped by an enormous glow. Lowering her head and staring at his brother, his gentle words fell down towards the world.
"Don't blame me for doing this for the sake of our people. Like you've said, I'll keep our traditions to exist."
"You little fu-"
Before the man could say anything else, the bright orb finally descended down towards the ground. In an instant, his figure was enveloped by the orb, and it completely disappeared.
The only thing that remained intact with the silver necklace that hung from his neck. However, that too disappeared after a while.
What followed after was a bright light that wrapped around the whole world, similar to when the sun rose from the horizon.
BOOOOM!
A terrifying explosion followed as the earth rose from the ground sending massive chunks of rocks the size of a mountain flying everywhere, completely destroying everything in sight.
Staring at the scene from above, the woman closed her eyes and turned to face the other creatures levitating in the air that were watching the scene with pure indifference on their faces.
"Well, that was the last of them, what should we do now?" One of the beings who appeared as a humanoid Pig asked.
"If you want to, you can blow up the planet, Monarch of Ice and Destruction." Zeldarein suggested the Blood God.
"I thought you don't like destruction." Technoblade grinned as he brought all his weapons into his infinite space storage and cracked his knuckles.
"I'm not one of those justice lunatics with a heroic persona." Zeldarein remarked, but then he felt a glance from his back, coming from a young man with blonde hair and blue hairs, "Erm… no offense."
Levitating in the air with an enormous armor warping around his bulky body, a nasal-like sound came out from Technoblade's mouth with each break he took.
"Ensure that no enemy survives. Not even us Monarchs could find their base, so we should destroy this world."
Without waiting for the other's confirmation, Technonlade extended his fist, which was coated with a tremendous amount of mana in the air for a couple of seconds and seeing that no one was stopping him, he let out a deep shout and swung his fist down into the ground.
Dropping down to the ground at speeds that not even light is not a perfect way to describe, the entire earth cracked apart as Technoblade's feet landed on the ground. Following this, his fist came into contact with the ground and the world froze over.
What followed after was the complete destruction of the planet as the lands, mountains, and everything tore apart.
While the nine Monarchs had destroyed the entire planet, they all began to return to their world, not knowing that the crystal in the man's necklace glowed by the time he lost his life.
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Opening his eyes, Zero's bright purple pupils shone brightly as the air inside of the hall chilled considerably.
Recalling memories of the past, his cold face twisted slightly, and a horrifying pressure bore down on the hall.
Gathered around him were the figureheads of the chaos organization. A look of horror and respect flashed across their faces as they sensed the terrifying pressure coming from Zero's body.
It didn't take too long for him to recollect himself as he slowly raised his head.
Glancing around the place, Zero's eyes swept over the bodies of each person present. Every time his eyes paused on a figure, their bodies would unconsciously tremble, even though he and most of the people here were at the Demigod level.
Before anyone present could speak up, he swiped his hand.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Five more cracks began to form in the fabric of space, as depicted behind them were five different planets.
Tapping into the armrest of the throne, Zero swept his gaze over the people present.
"How is the situation with these worlds? Have you done as I've asked?"
"Yes, Supreme Lord!"
Stepping up, a dark-robed figure lowered his body and bowed down on the ground. The person that was currently lying down on the ground was in fact an SS-rank demigod, a prideful being with tremendous power.
Yet, when faced with the man in front of him, there was no semblance of any pride being in his body. In front of such a being, he couldn't dare muster any pride.
Not daring to look at him, he started to speak, "As you have requested, we have completely saturated the world with chaos energy. There are no more creatures living inside of those worlds apart from our men."
"I see..."
Nodding his head, Zero turned his attention back toward the planets in the distance.
Opening the palm of his hand and raising his arm toward the space cracks in front of him, Zero indifferently asked.
"The only people inside of the planets are our men?"
"Y-Yes."
"...Okay."
Zero suddenly clenched his hand into a fist. Following this simple gesture, the planets that were being displayed behind the cracks suddenly trembled.
Then, as though they were in sync with each other, the planets started to rapidly expand as cracks started to form on the outer layers of the planets, revealing the bright red inner layers.
The expansion happened within an instant. Following the expansions, rocks began to shoot out throughout the space as a bright yellow cloud formed in the middle of the planet. That too was also expanding.
No sound accompanied the explosion due to the lack of air in space, however, the image of the planets exploding with just a casual gesture of Zero's hand became deeply imprinted in the heads of the people present.
Opening the palm of his hand once again, Zero made a beckoning gesture.
Following his gesture, five luminous white orbs began to shoot out from the center of the explosion, all headed in his direction.
SHOOOM! SHOOOM! SHOOOM!
Passing through the space fabric, five white orbs suddenly materialized in front of Zero. Passing through the cracks, they all stopped on top of his palm.
Glancing at the five orbs in front of him that resembled small white suns, Zero softly muttered.
"World seeds..."
Following his words, he brought his palm towards his mouth and sucked the orbs into his mouth.
The instant the orbs entered his mouth, Zero's head recoiled back as a hissing sound rose from his mouth.
Rumble! Rumble!
The halls of the room shook uncontrollably and all the people present in the room fell to the ground in a prostrating manner, completely unable to move.
The pressure did not persist for long as it disappeared as fast as it came. Opening his eyes and staring towards the ceiling of the hall, turbid air began to escape from Zero's mouth.
"Haa..."
Once everything was settled, Zero still had a look of disappointment in his eyes.
"Still SSS-rank. These lesser worlds are not enough to let me reach beyond." He sighed irritably, "I need to devour a higher world like this."
Casting a glance to the Saint Demigod, he asked, "003, I heard our men in the kingdom of Atira have some problem accessing one world. Why is that?"
The man named 003, the same person that face Samara back on Kalren City explained, "Miss Veltras reported that they are having issues of creating a wormhole through one world, not because her workers are bad or thete is some difficulties, it is that for some reason, it was as if someone is blocking us."
"I see. What was the name of the world?"
"...Earth."
"If it's that important to block our access to it, then that world might be at a higher level like Tilleria"
"Technically no, it quite the opposite. According to the date we've received, it's the most lower level world among all the lower level worlds, a world without mana, but we're not sure if that's true."
"Then why are they trying to bypass i so badly if it's just an insignificant world?"
"I said we're not sure, my lord. And-"
"Enough. What Veltras was doing is just a waste of time."
Once his eyes swept on every figure present, he raised his hand in the air and waved it in the air.
Crack!
The moment his hand fell down, a crack formed in the fabric of space. At the exact moment the crack appeared, the same scene from before he materialized in front of the hall was displayed in front of him, and everyone in the hall.
The scene shows Academy City.
Gazing at the city for a brief moment, he extended his hand to go through the wormhole, only a barrier appeared and blocked his way.
"...Disappointing."
The moment he said those words, the hall shook uncontrollably. Zero and everyone in the room present couldn't enter nor damage anything in Academy City due to the dimensional barrier that surrounded the entire island that Academy City was placed, preventing anyone from entering unless the one who cast it, which is the Headmistress herself, approved of it.
"Headmistress, I know you hid a valuable object in your city, one day I will obtain it."
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It was quite late in the evening and the entrance of the building of the [Genius Society] club was still flocking with people coming in and out of the building.
Near the entrance of the building, Vanoss entered the building through the front door and headed for the main reception area.
The interior design of the place was fairly simple, however, it contained a strange elegance to it as the floor which was made out of marble perfectly reflected the lights coming from above. The furniture was quite minimalistic in style, and there was a nice scent of lavender lingering in the air.
Arriving at the reception, Vanoss was greeted by a beautiful young lady.
"Hello, how may I help you?"
"Right, I've scheduled an appointment."
"May I ask with whom?"
"You're boss."
"You mean Isabella?"
"Yup."
"Give me a second."
Placing the papers she was working on, she grabbed her Communication device and the call went through in an instant.
"Yes, Miss Oriana, there is someone here claiming to have made an appointment with you… Okay, yes, I will quickly ask."
Placing her hand over the device, the receptionist turned to look at Vanoss.
"Sir, may I know your name?"
Casually glancing at the receptionist, a thought struck him as the edges of his lips curled upwards. Vnoss teasingly said, "Tell her that I'm the sexiest man she knows."
"..."
Caught off-guard by the sudden response, the receptionist froze on the spot.
Vanoss nudged her with my head, "Don't worry, you won't get in trouble. Just tell her that."
"...Okay."
With a forced smile on her face, the receptionist took her hand away from the device and did as he told her. Vanoss could read her thoughts from where he was standing. The reason she complied was because she was afraid of Vanoss being a bigshot that she couldn't offend.
"Ehmm… he claims to be the sexiest man you have ever seen."
Relaying the message, her voice trembled from time to time. Just as she finished her sentence, the secretary's face squinted. Cearly, she was scared of Isabella's answer. However, contrary to her expectations she didn't get scolded as she turned to look at Vanoss with an astonished look.
"Yes, yes, okay, I will immediately bring him up."
Following this, she hung up the phone and looked at Vanoss with a look of shock. It took her a bit to recollect herself, and when she did, she bowed her head.
"Miss Oriana is waiting for you, Mr. Marcel Cunningham."
" :/ … >:/ "
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"Sigh."
Leaning back on her chair, Isabella let out a sigh as she gazed at the window in front of her.
The final rounds in the tournament will be prepared the next day, and Isabella was really busy with her work and had to be ready for the battle for tomorrow.
Really tired.
'I wish I could do something later," She muttered inside of her mind.
Bam!
Out of nowhere, the door suddenly burst open and an enraged Vanoss entered the room.
"This is bullshit!"
Lowering her head, Isabella asked, "What's wrong?"
"What do you mean, what's wrong?!"
Grabbing the guest chair and pulling it back, Vanoss exaggeratedly sat down. Leaning forward and pressing his finger on the table, he angrily spat.
"How is a black man more sexier than an asian man?!"
"...You came here to ask that?" She asked with a strange look. "And doesn't that question sound racist?"
"...Probably. But did you also come for him too?"
"Mhm." Isabella nodded her head with a stoic look. "My secretary informed me not too long ago that he's coming. Should be here any minute now."
"That is bullshit." Vanoss said as he pointed himself, "That was me."
A frown emerged on Isabella's face, "...Why would you be him?"
"Not once did I ever introduce myself as Marcel."
"How odd."
Tapping on the table, a thoughtful look appeared on Isabella's face, "Could there have been a small misunderstanding? She did say the most sexiest guy that I had ever seen, and that's Mr. Cunningham.."
"Hahaha..." Vanoss' fake laugh rang throughout the room.
Raising her head and staring at his angered figure, the edges of Isabella's lips threatened to curl up.
'...Cute.' She thought.
Of how much she absolutely hate Vanoss' smug personality, Isbaella loves when the tables has turn and sometimes found that cute.
If there was one thing that Isabella noticed after having interacted with Vanoss long enough was that he was extremely petty. That, and the fact that he was extremely insecure about his charm.
"Hey, are you listening to me?"
"Hm?"
Snapping out of her thoughts, Isabella saw as Vanoss snapped his fingers in front of her face. Finally getting her attention, a displeased look flashed across his face as he leaned back on his chair.
"You weren't paying attention at all."
"My apologies." Isabella quickly apologized. Brushing her hair by her ear, she asked. "What were you saying? Can you repeat it for me?"
"Fine, jokes aside, I came here for two things."
Returning to his usual expression, he raised two of his fingers and said, "One, I'm here to get some information regarding the technology from tbe Dwarf you were fighting earlier, didn't see the fight but I like to ask."
Lowering one of his fingers, he solemnly added, "Two, I want to ask you if you're free anytime soon, because I heard there are some people entering Academy city are making a musical concert on the city's plaza, if you're interested."
"Made sense, you seem to be interested in musicals since you kicked the musicians out and performed yourself back in the Party. And why me? What about your friends?"
"Well… most of the guys were very busy. Especially with Brian saying he has some 'investigations' or something. Don't know what that asshole was doing." Vanoss rolled his eyes, "As for why I'm choosing you. I mean... you're like a good friend to hang out, we had a good time together before and-"
"We ain't had a good time though, all of them almost got us killed."
"...Oh."
"Answer me, why are you taking me anyway?"
Vanoss was hesitant for a moment, he glanced at Isabella's golden eyes and answered, "I just wanted to hang out, because you reminded me of someone."
His words caused Isabella's eyes to widen in curiosity.
"Oh? What do you mean exactly?"
"In my hometown, I have someone back there, someone named Sydney, we have a good time together and like I tell you, we have like A LOT of se-... I mean fun stuff." Vanoss said with a slightly nervous tone at the end. And mentioning hometown, he meant his home world Earth, but he won't say that to Isabella. even if he did, she won't believe him.
Just then, his expression seemed to be saddened, which Isabella wasn't expecting to see.
"I doubt if I will ever return to my home during my and my friends' adventure, or die here. I need some good memories here if I don't return."
"Hm, I understand what you meant. Memories are something that anyone considers dear to their heart because it makes them happy knowing that they enjoyed a lot out of life and did great things together and remembering them. You want new ones becau-"
Isabella was about to continue to speak when Vanoss interrupted.
"ANYWAYS! Enough with that romantic poetic bullshit. So do you want to come with me or not?" he suddenly suggested. "It looks like you're also in need of a holiday."
Raising her head and staring at Vanoss with an annoyed look of interrupting her, Isabella sighed and bitterly smiled.
"Tell me about it..."
Ever since the start of the War of Clubs, she had not once taken a holiday nor a weekend off. Leaning back on her chair, she looked toward the ceiling of the room and thought.
'Maybe I should also take a break.'
Lowering her head and staring at Vanoss, Isabella smiled. The thought of going with him made her strangely pleased.
"Okay."
"Really?"
"Yeah, you should also call Marcel and tell him about the concert. Oh, I should-"
"He was incredibly busy though." Vanoss frowned deeply. Seeing his reaction, Isabella couldn't help but once again think.
'Cute.'
Those thoughts did not last for long, however, as Vanoss' next words caused the smile on her face to freeze.
"But I do know someone was not busy. I have contact Mu Quan, especially that Foxia girl to join, and-"
Bam!
Smashing the table in front of her, Isabella coldly said, "Don't you dare call those assholes, Evan. Or I'll snapped your [BEEP!]"
"⊙_⊙"
With a horrified look on his face, Vanoss nervously smiled, "...I was just kidding."
"..."
Speechlessly staring at Vanoss from her seat, Isabella didn't know what to say.
"Anyways, I'll see you tonight."
Standing up from his seat, Vanoss hurriedly moved for the exit and departed from the building, while being observed by Isabella through the window on the top floor.
Turning her head to look away from Vanoss, she softly mumbled.
"Idiot..."
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– Tonight –
Thank you all for coming to our show!"
Entering the main stage were five girls all wearing cute dresses.
"""YEAHHHHH!"""
At their appearance, the crowd erupted into cheers, crying out in excitement as they all started waving their glow sticks in the air. Although they look like glow sticks from earth, they were made with magic.
While everyone was incredibly excited by their presence, only two people weren't.
And those people were Vanoss and Isabella, both wearing casual clothing as they watched the concert with a bored look. After their little fun of walking around the city, sometimes having fun, and sometimes doing something chaotic, it was fun.
Except for this.
"You didn't tell me we're watching the Kimbual concert." Isabella said flatly.
"How am I supposed to know that it was just a K-pop concert!?" Vanoss exclaimed. Just then, his face suddenly turned strange. "Hold on, how do you know that? Are you also into idols?"
"...No, I'm not." Isabella shook her head. Before Vanoss could follow up, she continued. "I know because that's Neo's favorite idol group."
"Ah, right."
"Thank you! Thank you!"
Thanking the crowd was a girl with soft silver hair, scarlet eyes, and a very pretty face.
Flashing a stunning smile, the woman winked at the crowd and got into position with her group
"Thank you all for coming today, we are very happy with your presence. Today, we will start with our first song, 'Tribunal', I hope you enjoy it."
The already boiling crowd became even more excited as they began to shout words of love.
"We love you, girl!"
"Thank you, Incursio!"
"We love you all."
Listening to the crowd's words, Vanoss' face cringed a little. To be honest, he wasn't the type of guy that loved this type of stuff, he was more into music similar to his. Sometimes he liked listening to different genres, but that was when he was in a mood to destroy something.
Glancing at Isbella who was standing next to him, Vanoss asked, "Still angry at me?"
"...I'm over it."
To his surprise, Isabella shook her head.
"Oh?"
Tilting his head to get a better look at her face, Vanoss remained skeptical and said, "...Are you really?"
"Yes." Isabella once again nodded her head. Vanoss squinted his eyes when he saw this, however, he eventually shrugged it off, as he didn't really buy it, but there was nothing else he could do anyways.
(🎶A lot of women fall in love and chase empty dreams.
But I wanna take that to the head before I leave your side.
You make me happy, just being with you.
I fall in need of your love.🎶)
It was then that the music started playing, and the girl's beautiful voices started traveling throughout every corner of the arena grounds.
It had to be noted that the girls were currently not holding onto a microphone, and that was because the sound they were making was created through the vibration of the mana in the air.
It was sort of similar to that asshole Benjamin, the current Archduke of Orazvil, the same guy that literally shoots lasers from his eyes at the giant tree that is the size of the Empire State Building.
As I was saying, through manipulating the mana in the air the singers were able to directly install emotions into the viewer's heads, making the music seem more impactful.
The general person couldn't have noticed it, however, that was the general crowd. However, stronger individuals like Vanoss and Isabella were not affected, such tricks couldn't fool them.
"You also noticed it right?"
"Yes." Isabella replied, also seemed to have noticed the same thing as she nodded her head and added, "Their mana control is not bad."
For them to be able to do what they did, they without a doubt had trained a lot.
(🎶When things get rough, love is all you need.
So let me shoulder your burden, love me right now.
And that you love her.
Like roses love them over growing🎶)
The first song lasted for a total of five minutes, and throughout the whole performance, the dancers danced to the rhythm of the music in a very coordinated manner.
Following the first song, they began to sing a second, then a third, and soon they were on the eighth song. By this point, Vanoss was already exhausted, yet, the crowd seemed more energized than before.
'Wasn't this supposed to be a date? Why do I feel more mentally tired than back when I was a labrat?'
"Whhhhaaaaa!"
Fortunately, it didn't seem like he was the only one who felt this way as Isabella also seemed to be feeling the same as him.
Leaning closer to her, Vanoss whispered in her ear, "You're also tired aren't you?"
"!?"
Seemingly caught off-guard, Isabella's head recoiled back as she covered her ear with her hand. She glared at him
"You little..!"
"That was not on purpose." Vanoss said as he raised his hands and immediately tried to defend himself, "Don't blame me for this, the crowd is too loud."
"..." Squinting her eyes, Isabella lowered her hand. Once she did so, Vanoss was able to see that her ear was slightly red.
I feigned ignorance to that. Pointing that out would do me no good.
"Don't do it again..." Isabella said in a soft voice. Pursing her lips together, she added, "...It tickles."
"You ticklish?" Vanoss asked, his eyebrow raised at this new piece of information. Just as he could follow up, he suddenly caught sight of a familiar figure in the distance.
Once his eyes paused on the figure, Vanoss' head recoiled back as his face turned strange.
"What in the hell?"
"What's wrong?"
Seemingly sensing his shift in mood, Isabella asked. Glancing at her, Vanosssoftly muttered, "Nothing big, I just found a familiar face. Wait here."
"...What? What are you-"
Without waiting for Isabella to reply, Vanoss quickly headed in the direction of the familiar figure.
Placing his hand on his shoulders, Vanoss pulled his shoulder.
"Hey, what in the world are you doing here?"
"What?"
Obviously startled by his sudden actions, the figure angrily turned his head in his direction.
"What the fuck is your problem, dickwad?"
"Haha" Vanoss let out a dry chuckle, "Didn't you think you would forget about your bestest friend in the whole wild world, Brian?"
That's right, the figure who Vanoss had caught sight of from a distance was none other than Terroriser.
"Evan?"
A sudden look of realization flashed across Terroriser's face the moment he said those words as his face mellowed out. Then, turning his head, he avoided his line of sight as he dryly laughed.
"Ha, ha, what are you doing here?"
"That's what I wanted to ask. I never took you for someone who was a mass simp for idol groups." Vanoss smiled as he patted him on the shoulder. "Before anything else, I just wanted to say that I'm not angry, just confused by the fact that you are into idol groups."
Glaring at Vanoss with an annoyed look, Terroriser rebuked, "Fucking idiot, I'm actually here to investigate."
"Investigate about what?"
"Evan, have you realized that some girls we've encountered like Erika and Lilith, these girls were so sussy that I had to get to investigate them for weeks."
"Oh right, speaking about Erika, have you seen her? We never heard of her like… ever."
"The fuck I know? That woman ghosted us like Delirious."
"But I'm wondering why you are here though."
"I'm here to investigate, dumbass."
"To who?"
"Them." Terroriser pointed out upfront. Vanoss looked forward where he was pointed at to see the girls in beautiful dresses singing to the crowd.
"Those idols?"
"Yeah, they just recently came here in the morning, and I got a message from that fox lady to investigate them if they do something sus."
"And how can you do that?"
Terroriser smirked, "A simple visit."
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Back to Isabella, she had waited for Vanoss for almost half an hour by now. After the concert, she even still waited for him and looked around, even using a skill to trace his presence in her surroundings, only to find nothing.
'Did this guy just leave me here!?' Isabella thought, and what she felt right now was definitely not that good. Because a tremendous amount of golden magical aura began to emit from her body that caused hundreds, jf not thousands of people around her to back off in fear.
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"We're almost there."
Patting Vanoss in the back, Terroriser urged him to continue forward.
Minutes after the concert ended, the two were headed backstage to meet the lady named Incursio, the group leader of the idol group. Just located at the changing room of Kimbual.
Along the way the two were met multiple times by security, however, most of these securities were B-rank, so being an A-rank was easy enough for the two to be able to get through without being seen and causing too much trouble.
The moment we arrived at the door, Leopold suddenly started to get cold feet.
"Okay, we should be reporters that want to interview the idol, got it?"
"Yeah, I know." Vanoss nodded as he proceeded to knock on the door.
To Tok!
Clank!
It was only after a couple of seconds had passed that the door opened. Peeking from the side of the door, was a girl with cat ears, it was one of the members of the group.
"Yes? How may I help you?"
Terroriser was about to speak when Vanoss took a step forward and flashing a brilliant smile, he patted Terroriser's shoulder and spoke.
"Hello there, did you order a male stripper?"
Once those words left Vanoss' mouth, the woman's eyes lit up.
As for Brian...
"What the!? Evan, you sick bastard, I told you we're-"
"Fuck yeah we did! Get your ass in here!" The woman yells, grabbing both Vanoss and Terroriser before dragging them inside the room
Swinging the door open, the insides of the changing room became visible for all of the two to see.
From there, Vanoss and Terroriser were instantly found with multiple eyes staring in their direction. They were the other members of the group.
"Incursio! We have guest!"
"What is it, Evelyn? You know I'm busy on something"
Just then, a familiar voice sounded from the other side of the room.
"Everytime I hear your bloody voice, I swear I will smack you." Incursio's icily voice said as she looked at her friend with cold eyes.
Before the girl could say anything else, Incursio nudged her head in Vanoss and Terroriser's direction.
"Who are those people behind you?"
"Ah."
Finally snapping out of it, the girl turned to look in their direction. Grabbing them by the shoulders, the girl dragged the two forward.
"Those are the male strippers we've ordered."
"Really!? That was quick, but at least it will be good to watch them kissing sooner." The other member of the idol group said in excitement.
'WHAT!?' Vanoss and Terroriser both exclaimed in their thoughts.
"Good, I was bored and I need some entertainment."
With a skeptical look on her face, Vanoss suddenly felt Incursio's gaze stare at him from top to bottom. This persisted for the next few seconds before she quickly lost interest in him.
She then proceeded to look at Terroriser's direction. However, halfway through her sentence, she suddenly stopped.
"What about t—wait a minute, isn't that the guy from that tournament?"
It wasn't just her that noticed this as all the other members also finally took notice of Terroriser's identity as their eyes instantly brightened up.
"It's really him!"
"How gorgeous he is!"
They all instantly dashed in Terroriser direction, surrounding him like fangirls.
'Oh thank you baby Jesus, this is enough for me to not turn gay.' Terroriser said in relief.
"Hey Mr. I would like to have a request for you."
At that moment, he suddenly heard Incursio's voice coming from behind him. With her legs and arms crossed, she looked at him with a semi-cold look on her face.
"Yes?"
Hearing his words, Incursio had an unconvinced look on her face.
"Can you take off your sunglasses and that clothing on your head?" She asked.
"Haaa..."
Seeing how skeptical she was, Vanoss let out a long sigh, "I guess I have no choice but to introduce myself." he mumbled before lowering his hoodie and extending his hand in her direction.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Eva—hm?"
Midway through his introduction, Incursio's eyes opened widely as her mouth opened and closed repeatedly.
"It's you!"
Unknowingly Incursio's face started to become bright red.
"Hm? Are you okay?" Vanoss tilted his head to the side as he noticed her slight change in demeanor.
"Y-You're Vanoss, right?" As she spoke up, Vanoss managed to pick up a slight tremble in her voice.
"Uh… yes, I am him."
"Oh my god!" Incursio's face instantly brightened up. Her face quickly snapped in her friend's direction.
"Evelyn! Why didn't you tell me that the stripper was Vanoss!"
Her friend could only shrug her shoulders, "I didn't even know that was him."
It was right then that Incursio suddenly lunged in Vanoss' direction and grabbed both of his hands and said, "I'm a huge fan!"
"Oh… well, that's good.'
"I've listened to all your music back at the party, especially watching you beat up all your opponents and that pretty boy!"
Raising his brow, Evan asked, "Pretty boy?"
"Yes, yes, that Delirious guy. Although he looks pretty, he clearly was no match for you. All my friends say he's handsome, but honestly, you are way better looking. Oh, and the way you are with him is kinda hot to see that I thought you guys were dating!"
"..." Vanoss could only stand there in silence after hearing that, now knowing how to react.
Incursio's sudden outburst seemed to have caught the attention of the other people present, as Vanoss was quickly surrounded by all the idol members.
"Oh my god! I remember you!"
"Kyyaaaa!"
"It's him!"
"I…."
Surrounded by the girls, Vanoss didn't know how to react as he looked in Terroriser's direction in the hope of some help, however, all he was met with was a cold and apathetic look.
'You really have to steal ain't ya?'
Was what his face seemed to say. Or at least what Vanoss assumed it said as his expression was quite hard to read.
"Mr. Vanoss, Mr. Vanoss."
"Wow."
Suddenly finding Incursio's face near his, Vanoss finally snapped out of his thoughts as he moved his head away from her a little.
"Sorry." Quickly apologizing, Incursio coughed, "…I read from reports that you were single and that you were only twenty years old. And…"
"The fact that I have a girlfriend is a no, well… not yet." Vanoss cut her off before she could finish her sentence. The moment he said those words, Incursio's face quickly brightened up.
"However..."
Picking this cue up, Evan quickly followed up by pointing at himself. With a very very serious expression, he stated.
"The fact that I have lost my virginity is a yes."
"...oh o_o"
With a short nod, Incursio turned around and sat on her sofa along with her other members of the group.
Crossing her legs, Incursio looks at Vanoss and Terroriser flatly before speaking.
"Come on, we're waiting."
"...waiting for what?"
"You're here as our male strippers, right? Come on and strip and go tongue to tongue already."
"..." The two couldn't utter a word, this is just too much and couldn't say a word at all.
"Regret on saying that, Evan?" Terroriser whispered to Vanoss to his side.
"...Nah, but should you do this for the investigation?" Vanoss whispered back, "Second of all, I don't think it's gay if I'm only fucking a sex doll."
With an angered and annoyed look, Terroriser proceeded to punch the nut job on the face.
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The walk back home after the concert was a quiet one for Isabella.
The moment she had arrived at her Club's HQ, Isabella waved at her club members and bid each other goodbye before entering her room on the top floor.
Clank!
"Oh, you're back."
Greeting her was one of her friends who was currently sitting down on the sofa reading a book.
"I'm back."
Taking off her shoes, Isabella greeted her friend back.
"How was the concert?"
"...Good."
"I see." The girl nodded her head before closing the book in her hands. Turning her head, and leaning her arm on the back of the sofa, she teasingly looked at Isabella.
"So, any progress with the boy?"
It was at that moment that Isabella's body stiffened. Like a robot, she turned her head to look at her friend.
"...Progress?"
"With your looks, I don't see any problems with him falling for you. hehe."
"Right..."
Nodding her head, Isabella decided to ignore her mother before heading for her room.
"Wait, Isabella, where are you going?! You still haven't told me ab-"
Clank!
Shutting the door behind her, Isabella cut her off.
The moment she closed the door, she instantly jumped on her bed and covered her face with her pillow and groaned loudly.
'That asshole, why do I feel I'm attractive to him in the first place?'
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After Vanoss and Terroriser had left after their little traumatizing moment, Incursio and four of her members of their group sat on the couches. Strangely, their excited and cheerful looks were nowhere to be seen, just figures with a void of emotions.
Closing her eyes, Incursio used some skill to contact someone, and once she got a call, she began to speak through telepathic links.
'Hey Boss.'
[Yeah?]
'Guess what.'
[What?]
'Something unexpected happened. Two of our main targets themselves just visited us earlier. We suspect they are investigating us. Thankfully, they got nothing. And…'
[And?]
'When I inspect one of them, the man named Evan Fong, it has confirmed that our intel was right.'
[Right about what?]
'That Evan Fong might be Test Subject Number 682'
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A/n: I know what you're thinking, why do I force romancing Vanoss right now and I broke my promise of not having them as a love interest? Actually... it was my plan on creating something evil 😈