Capítulo 16: A Casual Moment
Henry's POV..
I continued sitting in the stands, looking at the race that had already started. This was going to be the first time in my life that I was going to be able to see a race happening.
It might be true that In my previous life, I had managed to watch the race happening occasionally on the television, but that was when I was young. I never got the joy of enjoying my youth, as I was locked up in an island, forced to do physical labor from a young age until the time that I was in my early twenties.
As for my very first life, the world was pure fantasy. There was nothing like this, something like a race that was organized for vehicles like this. Instead, in that time, it was all about spaceships and so on. As for spaceship racing competition, that was something that had never been organized.
In any case, everyone did not have the time of organizing some silly things as racing. After all, they had to improve their strength, as the strength that a person possessed was all that mattered in those worlds.
Even though I had already gone through the definition of the driving skill before I purchased it, and handed it over to Jack, I could not help but be amazed by the way that Jack was handling the car.
I was not sure if I could handle the car the same way, despite being able to control a car that was even more complex than the one that was here back in the previous world that I was, when I was followed by the black hole and brought here.
As for the chattering that was going on around me from all the youths, I completely ignored them. For me, all that mattered was to get the money, get to the top of this world, so that we could complete the mission as fast as possible and get out of this world.
The only problem was that we did not know what the mission was. Back then, when we met that entity, we were only informed that there was a mission that we had to deal with.
And when I was informed that Jack was already here, I thought that he already knew about the mission, but it turned out that he did not know about it. For him, he thought that since he had not been informed about what the mission was, perhaps I was the one that was going to be informed, as he had been informed that I was going to come after him.
For the first time in my life, in a very long while, I suddenly felt that being this free would be enjoyable. It might be true that being strong was a sense of joy and security, but it was also a source of responsibility.
In both the two worlds, I possessed greater strength, but I still possessed greater responsibilities, either directly or indirectly. And in this world, all that I had to care about was my family, Jack, and myself, before caring about how to go back to the world that I had been brought from.
I watched the race between Jack and the guy named Simon. The race could be said to be quite epic, as both the two sides possessed incredible driving skills. Even though Simon was kind of an idiot, but still, it was clear that he possessed the skills, and that was the reason why he seemed so confident in making a bet with Jack.
It was a pity that he had met with Jack. If it had been any of the young master, then perhaps Simon might have had a chance of winning this race. But by racing against Jack, that was the biggest mistake that he could ever make.
This was something that was evident in just a matter of about 2 minutes. When the race started, the two of them started at the same time, but Simon got the advantage due to the fact that his car possessed a higher acceleration than Jack's.
But as the race went on, going through those bends and so on, the advantage that Simon held completely diminished. While Simon had to slow down when he reached a bend, Jack did not slow down at all. He simply drifted in the corner, before accelerating even more.
And in a matter of about 2 minutes, Jack was finally in the lead, with a gap existing between the two of them. The gap was of about five or six seconds.
The race that Jack and Simon were competing in was a race that was going to last for three laps. It was a good thing that the racing truck was not that long, despite possessing several bends.
For that reason, it was not impossible for the vehicles that were currently racing to be able to continuously go around at full speed. But it was impossible for them to be able to move at full speed, considering that they would have to slow down in several areas.
As I watched the race, I happened to hear the group of youths around me chattering. Some of the words that they were saying reached my ears, enabling me to know what they were talking about.
It turned out that they were all amazed by Jack's skill, which was to be expected. My system was one that I trusted the most in this world. In any case, I had been with this system ever since the very start of my life, in my very first life.
It was just that In my first life, the system did not show itself in the way that it did in my second life. In my first life, it was an object that I had, something that enabled me to be able to grow stronger.
But after I was swallowed by the black hole when I was surrounded, to be killed, I got reincarnated, and the object transformed into the system that I know now.
Nonetheless, even in the apocalypse, the skills, the objects and so on that were given to me by the system were all genuine. So, even if the driving skills that Jack had gotten were not the top notch skills that could be gotten from the system, but it was clear just how good they were.
But for some reason, when I watched the way that Jack was driving, I felt that Jack was not driving the car using his full ability. Otherwise, I do doubt that a youngling who was only in his twenties would be able to compete against Jack at all.
A few minutes later, the race finally ended. And, the cheering from all around me nearly made me deaf. The people around were all cheering for Jack. It was not because they knew him, but it was because they felt that he was extremely good at driving.
As for the ladies, other than Jack's appearance which was always standing out, added to his incredible driving skills, I could sense that some of the young ladies had hearts in their eyes as they looked at Jack.
Perhaps it was because Jack had a girlfriend in the previous world where he had come from, but it seemed that he did not really care about the way that the young ladies looked at him. As for me, I didn't really want to get involved with these young kids. But I felt that Alicia, (Henry's fiancée in his previous life) was a little different, maybe.
I got up from my seat, and approached Jack. I could see that Simon was already looking at Jack with hatred clear in his eyes, but as always, Jack did not seem to care.
It was before the systems were activated, the two of us would have definitely not gone around looking for trouble, provoking other young masters and so on. But now, it was completely different. Not to mention about Simon's family, even if it was this entire city, we believe that we were capable of conquering it in just a matter of a few months at most.
"Has it already been done?" I asked as I looked at Jack.
"Yeah. With this, we finally have a car of our own that we can use for the race that is going to happen on Friday night." Jack responded as he nodded.
At that moment, I thought that Jack was simply implying that the car that he had won from the bet with Simon was what he was referring to. But I had never thought that he was meaning more than that.
"Are you interested in participating in another race?" I asked as I looked at the crowd that was looking towards us. It was clear that they were not satisfied with the way that the race ended shortly.
"There are no more benefits for me to participate in the race. I still have to accompany Charlotte, I don't know where, but she has not given me time that they will be going out. So, it is better for me to leave and start making preparations for the next part of the plan, before Friday night." Jack shook his head as he responded.
"Oh, I thought that you were not interested in getting in any relationship. So, are you accompanying Charlotte because of her group of friends?" I asked in a teasing tone.
Jack looked at me with raised brows before replying, "You already know about me. She promised that she was going to give me something in case I asked it from her. I can ask for a good amount of money from her, maybe in form of a loan, and you know how beneficial that is for our plan."
"I see. As always, it seems that you have no interest in the girls around us in this world. Maybe that loyalty of yours will wane after some time?" I casually commented, to which Jack simply ignored.
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