2024-11-08 09:09:29A quick, vicious punch to Denver’s face.
BAM~!
It was a super-solid punch.
Denver’s head twisted more than ninety degrees.
“And who did you call a clown?”
Stephen snorted, cracking his knuckles.
“Know your place, big guy.
"You’re not someone who even deserves to be around a beauty like her.
"Just being big isn’t enough. You need class, too.”
He had enough experience in boxing.
So even though Denver had a bigger build than him, he was confident in winning this fight.
Denver turned his head back toward them.
When Diane put her hand on Stephen’s shoulder.
Denver looked angrily and disappointedly at the woman who did something unimaginable to him.
“Let me show you what real class looks like!”
Stephen began to shuffle his feet like a boxer and got into his hunting stance.
As Denver took a step forward, Stephen swiveled and crafted a powerful back kick.
He thought would secure him a sure victory.
Because back kicks were so powerful.
However, Denver caught Stephen’s left foot thrusting toward him.
Instantly, he twisted it with such force.
Stephen’s whole body twisted!
He spun once, before he pathetically crashed on the floor.
Stephen cringed in pain because his ankle hurt.
He was very good at implementing his back kick, but it was countered so easily.
He lost a big chunk of his confidence.
“Stephen!”
Diane stooped down and checked his condition.
“Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”
Denver, on the other hand, seemed surprised with himself.
He was surprised that he able to react the way he did.
He didn’t remember having such fighting skill.
Did Stephen’s punch set his muscle memory straight?
Seeing her precious Stephen in pain, Diane glared up at Denver, further slicing his heart with her needle-like gaze.
“How could you do this to him?”
“Diane, do you even realize what you’re saying now? What am I to you?”
Denver felt like crying from the swelling pain in his chest, but he controlled himself.
He was bleeding from the corner of his lip, but she didn’t show any concern about his well being;
However, she was visibly worried about Stephen’s sprained ankle.
“And who the hell is he? Is he more important to you than me—your fiance?”
Denver’s voice cracked in his throat.
“You…”
Stephen bore the pain and glared at Denver as he got up.
He could still fight if he wanted to, but he didn’t want to take that risk now.
“You’re going to pay dearly for this. Do you even know who I am? I’m the great—”
Denver angrily stepped toward Stephen.
Stephen didn’t have the confidence in fighting Denver anymore.
He kept stepping backward.
“W-Wait…”
Denver walked past Diane, keeping his focus solely on Stephen.
“I don’t care who you are. You ruined my marriage,”
The sound of his fist tightening was loud enough to send a shiver down Stephen’s spine.
“I won’t be satisfied even if I break all the bones in your body."
"Don’t think you’ll leave this house without paying for messing with my woman!”
BAM~~!!
Just then, Denver felt a sharp, stinging pain in the back of his head.
He slowly turned back, only to see Diane standing there, holding a broken table lamp.
It turned out that she had viciously smashed it on him.
The table lamp was custom-made by a designer.
It was far more expensive than what he could afford, but he still bought it for her
Because she liked it.
She told him, all the people who come into their house would be awed by seeing this table lamp first.
Now, as Denver felt blood leaking on the back of his head, he felt his breath turning heavy.
“D-Diane…”
Even though he had seen it with his own eyes, he still couldn’t believe she would hit him like that.
He just didn’t know what to say.
His heart hurt just as much as his head did if not more.
The fact that she was still holding the table lamp raised wasn’t bad enough.
What hurt Denver even more was that he did not see the Diane he knew before.
There was no warmth or care in her face now.
Denver’s eyes teared up once again as his heart shook and felt squeezed from every angle.
He was hoping to spend the rest of his life with this woman.
But now, she cracked his skull and broke his heart to boot.
“Diane… put that thing down…”
Denver’s voice grew thicker, his eyes a placard of many emotions.
Diane, meanwhile, muttered under her breath.
“Why is he still standing?”
The sound of the lamp breaking made her think that he would definitely faint.
But he was still very much awake.
Denver took a step toward her and raised his hand to grab the lamp.
“L-Leave my house, Denver!”
Diane blurted and waved the lamp once again.
Denver’s hand froze in midair.
The broken lamp pierced his arm and made him bleed, but he stood there like a statue.
“Your… house?”
“Y-Yeah. Leave right now, or I’ll call the police for trespassing my property,”
Diane barked.
Denver’s face was filled with such pain his nose twitched.
Trespassing? In his own house?
He saved the money so they could buy this house.
Now, she was telling him to get out of his own house.
“Diane… didn’t you say you love me?”
Denver’s heart swelled with pain.
“You said I was the best thing that happened in your life.”
“Huh, you wish,”
Diane raised her voice some more, bringing out all the frustration.
All the frustration she had been keeping down in the depths of her heart.
“My dad’s the one who arranged the engagement without knowing my true intentions.”
“True intentions?”
“You can’t give me what I want,”
Diane coldly blurted.
“That’s a fact. You somehow managed to buy this house, but I’m sure you took loans here and there to buy this building.”
He didn’t buy the house with a loan, as he had sold his own ring away for it.
It was a ring with a special totem on it.
It had been worn on him since he was found.
“I bought this house FOR BOTH OF US, Diane,”
The veins in Denver’s throat stretched thin.
“So what? Just buying this one house already drained you.
"I want a nice car AND luxury clothes and many more.
"Can you buy me those?
"Do you have any penny left in your pockets?”
Her words cut through Denver’s heart, but she wasn’t done just yet.
“I hate living a poor life, and Stephen is someone who will make me experience that richness!"
"The richness you never could, nor you ever can,”
She spoke confidently.
“I don’t need someone like you in my life!”
“If I’m with you, a mediocre man, I’d get the mediocre disease as well."
"I’m calling our engagement off.”
Denver’s eyes broadened.
"By the way, this is not OUR damn house, it's MINE."
Diane dropped the table lamp, then removed her pre-engagement ring.
And threw it in Denver’s face.
"I don't want a nutjob like you in my house. Get the hell out of here, loser."
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In the morning, a piece of news was announced by the council.When the news reached Sheryl, she was quite disturbed by it. “R-Rankers Festival? Why now of all times?”“Why are you sweating?” Catherine asked. “Is it bad for us?”“It isn’t just a festival. Anyone from any group can compete with anybody,” Sheryl said. “A non-ranker can challenge a ranker, and even a ranker can also challenge a non-ranker. Refusing a challenge for a ranker means he’ll lose his position in the rankers. A non-ranker, on the other hand, will lose his rights to ever becoming a ranker if he refuses a challenge. Even those who aren’t part of the king’s blood must participate.”Catherine’s eyes widened. “It definitely sounds scary, but it’s only one fight, right?”Sheryl exhaled audibly. “No, one person can be challenged ten times in a day. And the festival goes on for a fortnight.”Catherine was stunned. “Y-You mean fourteen days?! What the hell kind of a festival lasts that long?”Sheryl’s jaw hardened. “The l
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In Lumia town.Diane finished eating breakfast in a hotel and then came to Jamie’s house.She knocked on the door multiple times. “Can you hear me? I’m so hungry. Please open the door. Let me inside. Or I’m going to starve to death! I’ve already cleaned the front yard. What more do you want me to do?!”No matter how much she begged or yelled, the door wasn’t opened.“Should I break this damn door and force myself in?” Diane gnashed her teeth.[Don’t make such a stupid mistake.] Sandy warned her. [If he gets angry, you could even lose your life.]“Tsk, then what can I do? Do you want me to waste my time here?” she barked. “Help me with a good idea, you asswiper!”“Who are you?” A voice came from behind her.She turned around.A tall man with dark brown hair was staring at her with an unwelcoming gaze. He had an eagle tattoo on the back of his right hand. He looked to be in his mid thirties.Whether it be looks wise or dressing wise, he was near-perfect.“Don’t you know that it’s manner
CHAPTER 365
The next morning.Denver hadn’t slept through the night as he was busy healing himself.Thanks to the healing methods Sheryl prepared for him, he was able to slightly move his fingers now.“The cooling energy of the atmosphere, she said,” Denver smiled.He briefly remembered the time he clashed with Ingrid and used an opportunity to slip through space and dodge Ingrid’s attack.“When I was jumping through that space, I briefly felt as if I was jumping into someone’s eye,” he thought. “It appeared as if the earth itself is shaped like an eye. It was a weird imagery. But it might hold something key to realizing more about the depths of the supernatural state of the world we live in. I might have a breakthrough in my spiritual aura, too.“I need to read more about spiritual aura, but the books related to it are found in the Hawk Library, which is owned by the council. I don’t have a good relationship with it. There’s no way they’re going to let me read the books I want. Will any other ra
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In Rose Park.“You want me to teach you how to use daggers?’ Sheryl clicked her tongue. “Nah, you don’t need to use daggers when you have the gravitas system.”“No. I want to learn close combat,” Catherine quickly replied. “In the recent fight with the augmen and augbeasts, I realized that I can use my gravitas system better with weapons. And I can’t only rely on the system. I need to know how martial arts work so that I can fight powerful foes.”“Mm…” Sheryl imagined Catherine fighting with one dagger, sending it flying through many enemies one after another and killing lots of enemies with minimum effort. “I can kind of imagine what you are planning to do. But learning a dagger is much harder than simply training your body or even training with the sword.”“I’m prepared to train myself to death,” Catherine said without hesitation.“Okay,” Sheryl created four wooden daggers with ease and tossed two over.She started showing the posture and teaching the ins and outs of dagger fighting
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Diane put on the coat and sat down on the stairs.Her breath long turned foggy. She was feeling the cold on her fingertips. She had to rub her palms and repeatedly touch her cheeks to warm herself.A few minutes passed.“Are you going to watch me freeze to death here?” Diane shouted.But she didn’t get any response.“Tch, what a cold-hearted man.”She looked up at the sky. “I can see the moon or the stars with all the snow falling.”She glanced toward the grave, which was under a tree, and this was the only place where the snow wasn’t piling up.“I thought he was regularly cleaning the grave,” she said. “But it doesn’t look like the snow is falling on the grave at all.”[He’s built a barrier around the grave to block the snow.]“Barrier? Shouldn’t the snow pile up on the barrier then?”[No, it’s getting vaporized. You just can’t see it.]“Is that so?”Just then, a leaf came flying toward her at a blistering speed.[Dodge!] Sandy shouted as a warning.But Diane didn’t even understand w
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Diane stole a vehicle and drove many miles to reach the north-western border of Salem city.Strangely enough, she entered a town where it was snowing, despite it not being the season.She had to explore the town on foot.Even though it was still four o’clock at night, she wasn’t afraid to roam alone.“Why is it snowing so much here?” she was shivering from the chill in the air.[Because there’s a snowpeak nearby.] Sandy’s voice rang in her head.“Then, shouldn’t it also snow in the neighboring regions?”[Normally, it should, but someone made it so that the snow doesn’t easily get past this town’s border.]“Someone?”[We’re going to meet that someone right now.]“They must be strong,” Diane appeared a bit nervous. “They won’t try to take you away from me, would they?”[If he would, I wouldn’t bring you here. Just make sure you never talk about me in front of him. If he asks who told you about him, then make up some excuse.]Despite Sandy’s words, Diane didn’t want to blindly believe th
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