“I’m…I’m sorry.”Ashley was lost for words, not knowing what else to say, and seeing this, Calvin silently shook his head.‘Oh well, at least her remorse is genuine.’He exhaled softly, walking past her and patting her on the shoulder as he said, “Don’t worry about it. At least you tried to help, despite being in another class, unlike my classmates who either sat back and watched or even joined in.”Calvin walked over to the fire elementalist on the floor and crouched in front of the man, and Ashley, turning around with a conflicted expression, said,“Yeah, but even so, my act—? What are you doing??”Her expression turned incredulous as she saw what Calvin was doing, and Calvin responded calmly, “Searching his wallet.”Indeed, Calvin had gone through the pockets of the man on the floor and taken out all the cash inside his wallet.“

The loud sound of three gunshots echoed again, startling whatever civilians were still fleeing the scene, and causing some of the elemental beasts to immediately pause their charges towards Calvin and pull back.However, Calvin completely ignored everything around him, his gaze locked forward.No matter how fast Ashley was as a D-rank elementalist, it was simply impossible for her to outrun a bullet. Because of that, there was no way she could have avoided Calvin’s shots.However, she didn’t need to. After all, while Calvin had fired the gun in her direction, he hadn’t fired it at her.The space behind Ashley glitched and shimmered, and the body of a giant panther, with its chin level to Ashley’s shoulder, appeared with three bleeding bullet holes in its forehead.The monster sent one last hateful glare toward Calvin before collapsing onto its side with a heavy thud, the sound and sudden presence behind her drawing

Pointing at the three corpse piles, Calvin said, “F-rank corpses over there, a total of 23. E-rank corpses next up, a total of 14. D-rank corpses, lastly, a total of 2. One of the D-rank corpses is missing its elemental core, and so are 6 of the E-rank corpses and 15 of the F-rank corpses.”“Considering the good condition of their bodies, most of which were taken down with a single strike from our resident D-rank over here,” he continued, gesturing toward Ashley, “I’ll take 200k for each F-rank, 400k for each E-rank, and 800k for the D-rank. For the D-rank without an elemental core, I’ll take 300k. Is that alright with you?”Calvin asked this with a faint smile, though it wasn’t visible since he was wearing a face mask that covered almost half his face.His glasses fogged up slightly, so he used his handkerchief to wipe them before meeting the eyes of the government elementalists again, all of whom had somewh

Calvin ignored the couple and continued toward the exit, where Tom was standing with a frown on his face after watching the exchange between Calvin and the couple.As he saw Calvin stepping out, he immediately spoke."Isn't it funny? You can't afford gold accessories yourself, and yet you're so jealous of those who can."“If you can afford it, why don’t you buy some for yourself?” Calvin shot back as he walked past him and left the store.He didn’t even bother looking back at Tom’s humiliated expression to know he’d hit the mark.‘I’m willing to bet he doesn’t even get that much of an allowance despite acting like some rich kid.’Shaking his head, Calvin pulled out his phones to check the file transfer progress, and just then he caught sight of Ashley leaving the store she’d entered, a branded bag in her hands.‘Perfect.’With that thought, he slipped

Calvin woke up to the scent of frying eggs, blinking repeatedly as he stared at the unfamiliar ceiling in silence for several moments.Then everything that had happened over the past few days came flooding back into his mind, and he muttered, “Right, I’m Calvin Carter now.”With that, he sat up, noticing his clothes were still the same as the previous day, the only difference being a blanket placed over his body.That, along with the scent of eggs coming from the kitchen, made it clear Martha was home and had covered him the night before.He glanced out the window, then at a nearby wall clock showing 8 a.m., before getting off and dragging his feet to the kitchen.“Morning, mum,” he said in a groggy voice, opening the fridge and taking out a bottle of water.He had expected something cold, but what came from the small standing fridge was far from cold, even though it had been plugged in throughout the night. He blinked for a moment before remembering the reason.‘Right, the fridge has