
Zachary stood outside the Pinnacle Institute of Commerce, admiring the imposing black brick gate with the large yellow letters reading "Pinnacle Institute of Commerce." The tall fence, made of dried leaves, stretched out on both sides, enveloping the entire schoolyard. The sound of car engines filled the air as students arrived, eager to start their day.
As he took in the sights and sounds, Zachary couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. Holding his admission ticket tightly in his hand, he thought about the journey that led him here. The memories of the torture and ridicule from Nathanael Chapman and others still lingered, but Zachary pushed those thoughts aside. He was finally at the university of his dreams and ready to start this new chapter.The sun began to rise higher, its bright rays shining directly on Zachary's face. He raised his hand to shield his eyes, taking a quick step forward to escape the sun's gaze. Suddenly, he collided with another student walking out of the school gates."I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I'm sorry," Zachary mumbled, bending down to pick up the bag that had fallen to the ground. After picking it up, Zachary straightened up, feeling embarrassed.Zachary found himself face-to-face with a girl about his age after colliding with her outside the Art Ame University. She had blonde hair and fair skin, dressed in a crisp white shirt and flowing skirt. Her gentle demeanor and warm smile put Zachary at ease."No problem," she whispered, her eyes crinkling into a warm crescent."Are you a student?" Zachary asked."Yes, I'm a sophomore here," the girl replied.Intrigued, Zachary asked her name, to which she replied, "Emma Sophia."Zachary introduced himself, and the two fell into an awkward silence. But Emma broke the ice by asking about Zachary's hobbies:"So, Zachary, if you don't mind, may I ask for your cell phone number?"Emma was sweet, but Zachary couldn't help but notice a specific look in her eye that seemed to imply something else. He wasn't quite sure what it meant and brushed it off. He could only feel a rush of surprise wash over him this time."Of course! If you don't think it's too soon, we can have dinner together tonight?"Emma agreed, and the two of them exchanged phone numbers before saying goodbye.Zachary was relieved that he no longer had to face the daily torment from Nathanael Chapman and his minions. Zachary walked from the school gate to his classroom, relieved not to be the target of bullying and ridicule from his peers.However, the memories of his past experiences at the hands of the bullies still lingered. He remembered the cold water thrown at him. The hours spent standing precariously on the roof and the inhuman games he was forced to play. But despite the pain and trauma, he refused to let it define him.As he made his way through the halls, Zachary couldn't help but think about his encounter with Emma Sophia. Her warm smile brought a smile to his face and gave him a sense of belonging and purpose.Zachary took a deep breath and stepped into his first-day class, ready to embrace this new beginning and make the most of the opportunities ahead. He was determined to let go of the past and focus on the bright future that awaited him.Zachary sat in the lecture hall, listening to students chattering around him. He was content in his solitude, relieved not to interact with any of his enemies.The bell rang, signaling the start of class. The lecturer stood at the podium, his voice ringing across the room."Today, we will be discussing the importance of effective communication in the business world," the lecturer began. "We will explore the different forms of communication used in various aspects of business, including marketing, public relations, and interoffice communications.”Zachary took a pencil from his backpack and gazed at it, completely absorbed in the lecture.As the lecture continued, Zachary couldn't help but smile, reflecting on his sacrifices and how he had no regrets about his decisions.Later that evening, Zachary's phone rang, interrupting his thoughts. He quickly answered the call, recognizing the voice of Emma Sophia, the girl he had met at the university entrance that morning."Hey Zachary, are you still on for tonight's appointment?" Emma enquired."Missing this appointment is out of the question for me," Zachary answered with eagerness.As he walked down a dark alley, Zachary couldn't help but feel a sense of unease. Suddenly, a motorbike sped past, and someone tried to grab his phone from his hand. Zachary managed to hold onto it, but as he stumbled and fell to the ground, the phone slipped from his grip and landed on the pavement, shattering the screen and rendering it unusable."Damn it," he muttered, brushing the dirt from his clothes as he stood up.Though relieved that he wasn't seriously injured, Zachary was dismayed that he can't use his phone now.Zachary entered the phone shop, holding onto his old phone, which he hoped to sell. Zachary walked up to the counter and saw the male salesperson with his name tag Rashad lift his gaze and, with a sneer, look down at Zachary and his old phone.
"What can I do for you?" Rashad asked with a hint of annoyance.
"I'd like to sell this phone," Zachary replied, trying to hide the nervousness in his voice.
Rashad took a quick look at the phone and let out a sarcastic laugh. "Why bother trying to sell it? You won't get anything for it. You might as well throw it away. This phone is a brick now."
Zachary's face flushed with embarrassment, but he ignored Rashad's remark and turned his attention to the new phones on display. He spotted one that caught his eye and approached the counter once again.
Rashad looked at Zachary skeptically. "Are you sure you can afford this phone?"
Zachary felt a pang of annoyance at the salesperson's doubt. "Yes, I love this phone and want to buy it," he replied firmly. He then gestured toward the phone and asked, "Can you tell me more about its features and specifications? I want to make sure I'm making an informed purchase."
Zachary had worked hard to earn a scholarship and was proud of his achievements. So, when he set his sights on a new phone, he didn't hesitate. He had saved up enough money to make the purchase, and the scholarship provided him with a comfortable financial cushion.
Rashad smirked. "Well, if you were rich, you would have a better phone than that old, broken one," the salesperson said mockingly.
Zachary's eyes narrowed. "Just because I don't have a brand new phone doesn't mean I can't afford one," he replied, his voice tinged with annoyance. "My old phone still works just fine, and I see no need to upgrade just for the sake of having a new model."
Malaya, a female salesperson, appeared and overheard the conversation. She quickly intervened and advised Rashad to be polite to the customer.
Malaya said as she walked over to Rashad and Zachary. "Excuse me. Let's treat all customers with respect, regardless of their appearance or the phone they currently have."
Rashad rolled his eyes. "Come on, Malaya, it was just a harmless joke. Besides, it's not like this guy can afford the phone anyway."

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Powerless
Zachary blinked, quickly accepting the setup, and as Celine Kirk spotted him, the little dainty girl sat on Keenan's arm and weakly made her way into the Antique Row exhibit. Antique line this piece of treasure, and occasionally fights, the whole street is ancient and low-key luxury, looking at the broken doors and windows made of rotten wood, may be the Quinton dug out of the sycamore perch, Zachary last time to bring Xavier Burch, rookie Mr. stepped on the boss lazy didn't sweep the ash, are a shock afraid of which is a thousand years of the ashes of the royal relatives. His wrist was still in Zachary's hand, and he begged for forgiveness with a downward-facing posture that turned a hundred and eighty degrees, "I'm wrong - the people next to me are looking at oh, that girl has an indignant expression of being split up from her cp, as if she's going to pounce on me and eat me." "Eh, just kidding." Callum Luna grinned and begged for mercy - he'd just struck out of nowhere, and while
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"... How much do you hate your leader?" The tomb keeper shook his head in an old-fashioned manner, "This amount of money is no more expensive than a life."Zachary hooked the man who was about to leave, "We're not done talking, look at this, have you seen it when you were in the antique business?"Joselyn Robles looked at them both from side to side and her smile didn't go down, "Zach there's no need to rush, since so many threads are intertwined it's most likely a secret under one karmic copy, the poison looks creepy but other than the ability to catalyze the very sight of it no other harm has been found so far, it's more of a 'link' than a poison '."Suspicious, the tomb keeper counted through the bills and was pleasantly surprised; he drew out the charm concealed in them, and the moment he saw the human-faced phoenix, his expression changed.The tomb keeper admired and put away the red ticket, "You're really something, OK, I'll keep it for you."
Snake ring
Though he also felt that the old lady was making a bit of a fuss about it, and that 8 was so burnt out right now, how could he have time to interfere with them, and that Zachary would be even less able to do that when he was splitting up eight people to use them, and tossing them out of the way."The two cases are not unrelated, one could even say they are related, what Callum Luna said is true, it was 'Roderick Luna' who financed the curator of the painting exhibition, and that's not the only thing, the antique auction house a while back, the floating cloud carving that was intercepted by Vice Ramirez The silver needle, finally found in the diary sent by Ms Ara, was the very one that Dulce Hooper used to make all the blood pacts for the Gale Watts sacrifice."Callum Luna demonstrates the attitude of the Luna family, "-He who dares to desecrate God is not worthy of death."Celine Kirk, who had long since leaned against the car, shook out her skirt, "Let's just s
Guest
"Unsolved case." Zachary didn't have much of an expression, "I've been investigating this, his death took up all my energy, it's not exactly a secret within the Way, sorry, just didn't want to get you involved."Celine Kirk grunted coldly, "Cut the crap, Sea Ring aside, since Gale Watts has a lead on Roderick Luna, the Luna's are in charge, and it's been two nights since the Gale Watts monstrous statue posed as a deity, so don't tell me that your team hasn't come up with anything."But now that Zachary just said it, he instead thought there was a hidden agenda, or else Zachary wouldn't have softened his attitude until he was sure that the spell poison was completely insurmountable.Zachary frowned when he heard a cold yet pleasant inquiry lazily coming from behind him, "Who are you?"Keenan stood aloof, looking at Lone High with a nose, and nodded along, "Zach's got a good point."After the Gale Watts case, Zachary has considered slowly pushing the
Spellbinding
The more Zachary thought about it, the more likely it was, and volunteered to confess his thoughts, "Are you after me?"Keenan came back from cleaning up, fleshed out and surprised, thinking he'd finally gotten the hang of it, "How so?""Because I dumped you with a whimper, and you tried to dump me back, and I cried bitter tears, so we're both barely even." Zachary blinks at him, and with a twitch of his brain, suddenly says, "How about right now."Keenan's face faded down, heart really, he leaned toward the back of the chair, his eyes some thin dangerous: "Now what, I chase you, you promise, then I dumped you, two minutes to get it done, you and I grudges two eliminated, never see each other again, is this what it means?""Of course not, then wouldn't our previous relationship be child's play?"Zachary shook his head, "No matter what I've done to break your heart, there hasn't been a single moment for the four years we've been together that I have
Password
Zachary typed in the password as Keenan read it, and suddenly lurched, finally realizing that the inexplicably familiar string of numbers was his birthday, "You're still on your old phone?"Zachary looked closely, the paintings in the show were all human figures, familiar with the large color stacks and twisted lines of the netherworld painting style he had read about so many times in the art room of the lab building, "Oooh, this could be a genre, the underground overdrive style?"But Dulce Hooper's soul has gone. How can a body without a soul move fraudulently?Naturally, Callum Luna's ramblings alone don't count, Zachary: "How can they be sure it's Roderick Luna?"His head was groggy from the low fever, and he had residual pain all over his body, and he didn't want to move at all, but he might have overslept a bit, and he didn't want to go back to sleep, so he started swiping at his phone.Zachary guessed that they did not dare to easily give up
Six years
When he got up again, there was a hazy, pale light, and Zachary braced himself, and it was like he'd been run over by a car, and after the shock had passed through him, and the soreness danced in every bone, and stabbed a little bit at his joints, and his arm collapsed, and he fell back down again."It was him." Keenan phrased, "Six months after you evaporated, he was arrested for illegal proselytizing, and when I was sorting through my materials, I found a notebook I'd borrowed from him, with a piece of paper sandwiched between it with a messy yardage drawn on it, which I thought at first was draft paper, but realized it wasn't any formulas or mind maps, and when I looked at it closely there was some regularity to it, very much like some kind of writing, and which I've since turned over to the police up."He was all but as brooding as he had been when he arrived, but that oily, don't-touch-anyone-against-me asshole look was a turn-off.Then the stomach growled.
Stonewall
Keenan smoothed his suit, didn't care if the steps were dirty, and sat down next to Zachary, choking on the strong smell of cigarette smoke, but Zachary's silence, which was even cloudier than the smoke, choked him even more, like a little burnt edge, a little hot, a little painful.Zachary automatically ignored Keenan's increasingly out of bounds mannerisms of late, his cold mind forming a set of logic he could best accept; he just had to act like he was in a dream.Johnathon Ramirez needless to say, although it is difficult to see the position, but it is also after he topped the Special Investigation Brigade was not disbanded, and he is in charge of the Special Investigation Brigade for so many years of the old boss, even if the crowd often behind the back of the arrangement, but also still recognize his ability, recognize the identity of the 8 of the Unified Control.Luna's family in the open that point, everyone has spread rotten, now the most hopeful heir i
Sea Ring
"Ah-!!!" The young constable, seeing this for the first time, fell to the ground in fear, his high pitched scream cutting through the night sky of the city hall and drawing in the others.Zachary, however, couldn't care less about the chaos of the bureau, and he clutched the yellow talisman, a treasure hunt he knew all too well, the glazed box that once held the nine parts of Khalil Hobbs's body, hidden away on a rainy night in the mountains of Ushant, and poured out into the madness that is him impermanence and insanity.It had taken him years to slowly climb out of the overgrown mud - at least superficially - and stop worrying those around him, but those behind him were afraid that he would be too good to be true, grabbing the hem of him orange-red dress and tugging it down to help him remember what it was like to be parted from him bitterness and hatred. .How much does he have to be hated, who did he blow up in him last life, or
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