BLEEDING UNIVERSE (The warrior in two worlds)

Chapter 5

They were expecting that exact same timid, stuttering, broke boy today.

"Ugh, finally," Kate spoke up first, her voice dripping with pure disgust as she pointed a finger at Baron’s faded blue backpack. "Is that your only bag? It looks like it was fished out of a garbage dump. Seriously, Margret, I can't believe your family actually made us drive all the way down here to pick up a charity case."

Margret didn't even look Baron in the eye. She stared at his worn-out, cheap sneakers with intense waves of physical revulsion.

"Don't stand too close to him, Kate," Margret sneered loudly, her voice dripping with playful contempt. "I don't want his literal poverty germs rubbing off onto my clothes. Hey! You! Baron, right? Pick up your trashy bag and hurry up.

Our time is actually worth money, unlike yours. We have a car parked in the VIP zone, and I swear, if your dirty clothes stain my custom leather seats, you won't even be able to afford the cleaning f*e if you worked for ten years."

The two girls laughed, an intense, dramatic display of high-society cruelty meant to completely crush the spirit of a poor small-town boy right in the middle of a crowded airport terminal.

They waited for him to blush, stutter out an apology, and look at the floor in shame like he did in the past.

Instead, Baron just stood there.

He didn't shrink away. He didn't turn red. He didn't even get angry. He just stared at them with absolute, disgusting detachment.

To an ancient cosmic emperor who had conquered galaxies and watched ancient tyrant races fall to their knees, these two wealthy, arrogant girls weren't scary.

They weren't powerful. They were just two annoying, loud toddlers throwing a temper tantrum over a shiny toy. Their high-society insults were so small, so incredibly weak, that it was almost funny.

Baron let out a short, quiet chuckle that sounded incredibly out of place.

"What are you laughing at, you freak?" Kate snapped, her face flushing with sudden anger because she wasn't getting the timid reaction she wanted. "Are you deaf as well as poor?!"

Baron took a half-step forward. The sheer change in his vibe was massive. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, cold, and suffocating.

His eyes locked onto Margret’s with a gaze so dark and deep it felt like staring into an abyss.

"If you two are supposedly so rich and powerful," Baron spoke, his voice smooth, flat, and completely calm, "then why are your families using you as low-level chauffeurs to pick up a 'peasant' like me?"

Margret gasped, her eyes widening in pure shock. "What did you just say?!"

"I said, you look ridiculous," Baron countered casually, his tone completely straightforward.

"You stand here bragging about your luxury car and your precious time, yet you've been waiting at an arrival gate for an hour just to drive me around. If your time was actually worth anything, you’d hire a servant to do this. But instead, here you are. Playing the role of my personal driver."

"You—you broke little piece of trash!" Kate yelled, her high-society mask slipping instantly as her face turned red with absolute embarrassment.

"How dare you speak to Margret like that! Do you have any idea who her family is?!"

"I don't care," Baron said simply.

He didn't raise his voice, but the immense, chilling confidence radiating off his small frame made both Margret and Kate instinctively take a sharp step backward in sudden, unexplainable fear.

It felt like a physical weight was pressing down on their chests, forcing them to look down. Their expensive clothes and proud names suddenly felt like cheap plastic shields against a real monster.

Before either of the girls could recover their senses or yell another insult, Baron didn't give them another second of his attention. He didn't care about their car, their wealth, or their elite status.

He casually slung his cheap backpack higher up on his shoulder, stepped right between them, and walked straight past them toward the airport exit without looking back a single time.

Margret and Kate were left standing completely frozen in the middle of the crowded terminal, totally stunned, deeply embarrassed, and absolutely furious as dozens of onlookers stared and snickered at them.

The Void Sovereign had completely broken their fake pride without even trying, leaving them entirely behind in the dust.