Invincible Evolution System

Chapter 4

But then, another moan slipped out, this one laced with unmistakable pleasure. His feet hesitated. His mind raced. What if she was hurt? In distress? Surely, it was his duty to make sure everything was okay. Right? Peeking wasn't perverse, he reasoned—it was responsible. Taking a deep breath, he leaned forward, his eye aligning with the gap in the door. What he saw struck him like lightning. Maya, his stepsister, lay sprawled across her bed, entirely uninhibited. Her fingers danced between her thighs with shameless intensity, her back arching as her breath hitched in rhythm with each motion. Her skin glistened under the morning light, curves etched with a perfection Orion had no right to notice. "Ahn~! Mhmff~!! OHhHhh~ YES~~!!!" She moaned again, louder this time, her body trembling as she reached an undeniable peak. A sound escaped her lips—a cry of bliss—and Orion bolted back, stumbling into the wall like he'd been shot. His brain screamed at him to stop replaying the image, but it was too late. It was burned into his mind, a permanent scar. "What the actual hell..." he muttered, shaking his head as if to rattle loose the memory. "Why is she doing that with the door open? What kind of perverted—" He stopped himself. This wasn't helping. None of this was helping. Desperate to escape the situation, he turned for the stairs, moving as quietly as possible. But as fate—or the system—would have it, the back door betrayed him with a creaky groan when he pushed it open. "Who's there?!" Maya's voice rang out, sharp and full of suspicion.

"Oh, crap!" Orion bolted without hesitation. The world blurred as he sprinted down the street, feet slapping against the pavement. He pushed himself harder than ever before, adrenaline propelling him far faster than he thought possible. Blocks passed in seconds, and when he finally stopped, his chest heaved with exertion. "She couldn't have seen me," he muttered, trying to steady his breathing. "No way she could've known it was me." Maya might've been a D-Rank Hunter, leagues above most people, but even she couldn't have identified him from a creak and a glimpse. At least, that's what he hoped. Orion leaned against a lamppost, his thoughts swirling. As absurd as the morning had been, it was a stark reminder of his place in the world. Out of everyone in his family, he was the only one who hadn't awakened as a Hunter. Maya was a prodigy, a rising D-Rank. His father and stepmother were both E-Ranks, modest but respectable. And then there was Orion, the unawakened black sheep. But maybe, just maybe, the Idle Evolution System could change that. "This system is garbage," he said aloud, glaring at the faint interface that hovered in his vision. "But it's my garbage. And if I can wring power out of it, then so be it." The day's earlier reward flashed again, the promise of +3 AP hovering before him. He grinned despite himself. All the pain, the humiliation, and the ridiculousness of this morning had culminated in one singular truth: He was getting stronger. "All into Agility," he declared, hammering the stat increase button with fervor. "Let's see someone catch me when I'm faster than light!" The numbers ticked up, and a warmth spread through his limbs, a testament to his newfound potential. Passersby glanced his way, disturbed by his manic laughter, but he didn't care.