“There are coincidences, and then there’s whatever the hell this is…”What were the odds that he had ended up in the body of the son of the man whose death he’d indirectly avenged?Calvin felt that the chances of this entire situation being random were far too low.‘But is this really some grand scheme of fate, or am I just reading too much into a coincidence?’Calvin continued searching through the box, hoping to find some trace of Calvin Carter’s biological father that could help him reach a conclusion, even something as simple as a name.However, there was nothing inside. Not a single photo, nothing at all.He did find pictures of a younger Martha, pictures that had clearly once included someone else besides her. In the background of one of those photos, he noticed a signboard for a college in Dand City that he recognised, the same college Calvin Carter had applied to and the one Martha had

Calvin woke the next morning to the loud buzzing of his apartment doorbell.He blinked, glanced toward Martha’s bed, and noticed it was neatly arranged. There was no presence in the apartment besides his own, so the woman had definitely already left for work.Getting out of bed, he headed into the kitchen, where his breakfast sat covered with foil alongside a small note from Martha.He picked up the note and read it before turning toward the door, walking over and peering through the peephole to see who was outside.The face he saw on the other side made him blink in surprise, his sleepiness vanishing as a confused sound slipped out.“Huh?”He unlocked the door and opened it, still blinking in mild shock, and the young woman who had been about to press the bell again smiled brightly the moment she saw him.“Hey there, Calvin!” she called out, waving.Calvin stared at her in silence for a moment bef

After the auction, which ended with Calvin purchasing 2 more D-Rank Darkness Elemental Beast Cores, the two of them wandered through the market for a while before heading to a nearby restaurant for lunch.Not long after they finished their meal, Ashley’s phone rang, and Calvin glanced over to see the word [Dad] lighting up the screen.“Um, I have to take this.”After saying that, she slid her finger across the screen to answer the call, placed the phone against her ear, and walked toward the restaurant balcony, leaving Calvin alone at the table.As Calvin looked away from Ashley, he frowned slightly, recalling the last time they had gone out together and she had left midway through.‘Why do I feel like I’m about to run into a very annoying group of people again?’Unfortunately, his bad premonition turned out to be correct, because barely a minute later, a duo of teenagers came up the stairs to his floor an

Isaac was silent upon hearing Ashley’s demand for an explanation. He naturally couldn’t say that he had been about to hit Calvin, but Calvin, on the other hand, couldn’t care less.“Well, they were attempting the usuals,” he said.Pointing at Mark on the floor, he continued, “That one over there came up earlier and tried to take our bill. When I asked why he was doing that, he said something that annoyed me, so I decided to test out one of my punches on his face.”Ashley chuckled lightly at Calvin’s response, a small smile appearing on her face, which left Florence and Isaac’s group shocked. They had never seen Ashley smile like that before at school, and they were her classmates who spent a lot of time in the same space as her.Calvin, not caring about their sudden surprise at Ashley’s reaction, pointed at Florence and continued, “After I tested my punch on his face, I just pushed him back a little and was thinking of how to proceed when she came over an

Calvin spent his Sunday between a gym near the artifact market, one that catered towards body building for elementalists with superior physical capabilities.He did have some issues getting a membership and had to settle for a temporary membership since he wasn’t an officially registered elementalist, but that was a minor issue that was easily smoothed over.He divided his time between some basic workouts, not enough to stress this body that hadn’t ever stepped foot in a gym before, and absorbing the energy from the elemental beast cores from last Thursday’s incident.Currently, Calvin had a total of 3 D-Rank Elemental Beast Cores, enough to improve his current strength and push him to the higher ends of the E-Rank.Becoming D-Rank, however, would require a lot more than that to completely break that Rank barrier and upgrade his physical body and elemental energy capacity to the level required to be considered D-Rank.It was from