Leah's Side"Are you stupid? How could someone with skills like yours get accepted into a company and last this long? Even an intern could do better than you! Is your only strength being so nice to others that you look like a fool?"Leah couldn’t even open her mouth to defend herself, even though she desperately wanted to. It all felt so real, even though she knew full well this was just a hallucination.“Wow! Mr. Dany is amazing! How could you make such an impressive presentation in such a short time? You're a genius!”“Haha! You’re definitely my most delightful subordinates. Don’t go home just yet! I’m treating you all to a nice dinner.”Leah’s fists clenched. That was the presentation she had prepared, even losing sleep over it. When she submitted it, Dany said her sources were unreliable and unfit for use, and told her to redo it. Yet, it turned out he had taken her presentation and claimed it as his own.“Ugh! That happened a year ago, and it still disgusts me.”Leah closed her e

"Why are they taking so long just to catch frogs and grasshoppers? More and more people have been coming to this place for a while now."Tery felt uneasy, as people suddenly began showing up out of nowhere and settling near their spot. It wasn’t that Tery lacked confidence in her ability to fight them off—she just couldn’t do that while protecting Dion at the same time. That’s why she had kept asking Dion not to look around or pay attention to the groups that had started arriving, and to stay quiet."Should we catch up with Dad and Shaden?" Dion asked.Tery shook her head. "If we leave this spot, people will immediately take over. Especially since Shaden already built a campfire. They've been eyeing this place ever since—they're struggling to make a proper fire themselves."Tery had watched earlier as Shaden effortlessly built a fire using scattered branches and some kind of flame skill he possessed. Seeing how hard everyone else was struggling to make one, she realized that what Shad

What Shaden didn't expect was that his very first act of kindness would happen just as he was leaving the presidential palace.As they stepped out, a few children were sitting on the front lawn of the presidential palace with weapons in their hands. Judging by their uniforms, they were members of a judo team. Perhaps that was also why they had managed to survive this long.“Are we just going to walk past them?” Leah asked.Shaden was silent for a moment before walking toward them. Without saying a word, he sat down, confusing both his comrades and the children.“Do you not have any guardians?” he asked.There were four of them—three boys and one girl whose hair was in complete disarray. Her messy haircut caught Shaden’s attention.“We were at training when the first mission started. We don’t know if our parents are still alive or not,” one of them replied.Based on the belt the boy was wearing, Shaden could tell he was the strongest of the four.“And you’ve survived by helping each ot