Anya stayed in the car while Kenny went in to get her favourite ice cream. Meanwhile, she switched on the laptop to browse through the link that was sent to her phone number. It did not take much time for her to realize that it was the admit card issued for the upcoming exam. She downloaded the PDF version and saved it on her laptop as well as on her phone. By the time she had finished, Kenny returned with the double chocolate ice cream with extra whipped cream and sprinkles. That was Anya's favourite ice cream flavour. 
"Whatcha doing?" Kenny peeked through her open window as he handed the ice cream with a tissue paper.
"They had sent the link to download the admit card", Anya shrugged as she took a bite of the ice cream.
Kenny nodded and walked over to the other side. Then, he got in the car, "Do you want me to drive or shall we wait till you finish your dessert?"
"Why don't you get one for yourself?" Kenny shrugged. He was not in the mood since he saw Melinda at the district office. He was having a hard time wondering what she was planning in her nasty brain. After seeing her there, it did not take much time for him to decipher her intentions. But the question was, would she frame Anya again? If so, then how? Given his earlier interactions with Melinda, she had a knack of doing everything with a bang.
"Ken?" Anya nudged at his arm, bringing him back to senses.
"Yeah?" he looked at her with soft eyes.
"Let's go", she pursed her lips, "I want to study." He nodded and the engine revved to life.
…
When they reached home, the sky was already getting dark. Anya loved to stare at the evening sky as she sat on her bed, doing her stuff or just listening to the night calls. So, she hurried inside as soon as Kenny turned off the ignition. He sighed as he got down. About Melinda, he would not do anything about it right now. He would wait for her to make her move before he did something himself. He leaned against the car, deep in thought.
"Kenny!" Anya called from above him, "Come up here!" She was waving from the terrace. He looked at her before shaking his head.
"I have some stuff to take care of", he yelled back and got in the car. He threw the car in reverse before he drove out. Anya sighed as she saw the car disappear in the darkness. She went back to her room while rubbing the nape of her neck. Her stomach rumbled and she pursed her lips. She got a change of clothes. She wore a tank top and threw a shirt over it, to avoid being nagged at by her stepmom. Underneath, she wore a pair of black leggings. She quietly descended the stairs in her bare feet and made her way to the kitchen. She turned on the lights and took out the packet of elbow macaroni from the shelf above the microwave oven. She poured them in a mug and added some hot water from the thermos flask. Then, as quietly as possible, she grated some cheese and added it to the cup with a pinch of salt. Then, she placed the cup into the oven. She nestled herself on the kitchen counter and waited for her mac and cheese to cook. She tapped her fingers on the counter with impatience.
CHINK.
The timer went off and Anya slid down the counter to retrieve her mug of mac and cheese. She took a deep breath and the cheesy aroma wafted to her nose. Yummy! She grabbed a spoon from the holder and reclaimed her position on the counter. Her stomach rumbled and she dug into the mug. She froze when she heard a voice echo along the hallway. 
"Who is in the kitchen?" Her Stepmom barged into the kitchen, with an annoyed face. Anya squeezed her eyes shut, took a huge gulp and opened her eyes.
"Ann!" her stepmom, Mrs Stafford exclaimed, "You scared me, dear!" Then, she began to size her up from head to toe. The moment her eyes laid on her bare feet, Anya knew it was her time to die. And there, Mrs Stafford began her nagging session.
"How many times Ann?" she twisted her face and placed her hands on her hips, "Why are you not wearing your fluffy flip flops? Do you remember the last time you ran around the house in your bare feet? You caught a cold and stayed in bed for two weeks!"
"Mom!" Anya sagged her shoulders, "You are making a mountain out of a molehill!" 
"Behave, you little brat!" She jutted out her chin, "Do you know what will happen if your Dad knows about it?"  Anya sulked as she gagged herself with a spoonful of mac and cheese. She began chewing lazily. Seeing that, Mrs Stafford inched closer and took a look at her mug. 
"Yikes!" she crinkled her nose, "You are having this nasty thing again!"
"Mom!" Anya sighed with exasperation, "It's not nasty! It's tasty!"
"Whatever", she bent down to open the shelf under the kitchen, "You are not having that nasty stuff again!" She pulled out a box of bread loaves and continued, "Ken spoils you too much! You skip lunch and come back home to eat those rotten things!" Anya sighed again as she stuffed the last bits into her mouth. Then, she jumped down from the counter and went to sink to clean up.
"Go and get your fluffs", Mrs Stafford ordered, "Then, come back here to take your veg sandwich. I will add extra mayonnaise and baby corn, to your likings!" Anya smiled without looking at her. Though she nagged at her too much, she still cared about her.
"Little brat, where is Ken?" You went out together, right?" she continued.
"I don't know", Anya shrugged worriedly, "He dropped me at the gate and drove away somewhere."
"Where?" 
"I don't know", Anya echoed as she left the kitchen to get her flip flops.

Anya Stafford, the main character, has a secret to keep and a dream to achieve. But, an incident shattered her dream and changed it into humiliation. But her secret helped her to survive. And sheltering her secret while fueling her dream, is her sweet old step-brother, Kenny Stafford. But Anya has a problem of her own and it collides with her secret and her dream, alike.
Will she overcome her problem while protecting her secret and achieving her dream?

Author's note.
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My heart leaped from my chest as the strange person turned the corner. His stature and physical features were that of a human child, but his eyes were that of a demon. Not one speck of white was shown, only red, the same deep red from the orb. Surely he was the one that the monsters feared. "Well, where's the orb you two?"

"" Master's voice echoed, but just before she could finish the spell, the child's hand tore through the person in front of me. That person slowly turned invisible while coughing up blood.

"Marcia!" Jonah's voice barely resonated. My ears rang as I caught Marcia in my hands. "Bastard!"

"Jonah! Get them out of here!" Master stepped between the child and me. My magic seeped out of me, and all I could think of was how I wished I was better at healing.

"Master! I'll fight with you!" Jonah ran over to Master's side, ready for a fight.

"YOU'LL DIE! He's not someone we can fight."

"" I chanted as I was pulled away. Jonah ran. Pain coursed through me as Marcia took a deep breath. Ah! She's still alive. I clutched my chest as I threw Marcia over my shoulder and ran away from that- that red-eyed beast.

We ran while warding off monsters — nothing on our minds but to survive. Finally, we made it to the safe house, and after sealing the door, Jonah and I fell to the ground, covered in wounds. Death surely awaits us.

"Wake up! Wake up, or you will surely die! Wake up, my child! Awaken your powers and rescue your friends."

"But that kid will find us."

"That man has gone. Now leave and find help. Don't die here. WAKE UP!"

My body heated up. I opened my eyes, Jonah was on the floor beside me, and Marcia was sitting in a corner rocking back and forth. Every move brought searing pain, blinding me. I forced myself to my feet. If that kid is really gone, then I need to get Jonah to a doctor.

I picked my brother up and threw him over my shoulder. He groaned in pain. I headed over to Marcia; she backed away from me for a second, almost like she didn't recognize me. Her wound disappeared after I poured my magic into her, but she didn't seem right. I held my hand out, and she reluctantly reached for it.

I ran down the mountain with Marcia in tow. The sun peeked over the horizon as dawn passed over the forest. That village gets closer and closer. As I rush towards it, I only wish to run in the opposite direction. The weight of Jonah on my shoulders presses me forward. The people most important to me keep me from fleeing. They saved me from that village once, so now I'll use that village to save them.

A young boy who is rejected by his village finds himself being taken into a loving home by two other orphaned children. Their caregiver "Master" raises them to learn how to be a Guardian and protect the world from monsters by using magic.

12th of September - The competition was held as scheduled!
The day before the competition, Lu Zhou and the others took the school bus and went from the new campus to the old campus. They would be living in the temporary dorms arranged by the school. 
The mattresses and pillows were prepared and so, the students only had to bring their own covers. Some people did not even bring the covers. After all, the competition would only last for 72 hours. The average bedtime for each student was less than 10 hours. 
For example, Lu Zhou was like this. 
His task was the heaviest as he had to finish the most amount of work. He could only sleep for a bit during the second night and so, he did not even bring a change of clothes. The first thing he did when he moved into the new dorm was to lay in bed and try to sleep. 
He had to force himself to fall asleep. 
When Lu Zhou woke up at five in the morning, he laid in bed until seven before he went for breakfast. He met up with Wang Xiaodong and Lin Yuxiang before they all headed to the dedicated computer room that the school prepared. 
According to the official registration information, there were more than 70,000 university students from 23,347 teams, across 1338 universities. There were teams from 33 provinces, autonomous regions (including Hong Kong and Macao), and the United States. Everyone clicked on the competition website at the same time and downloaded the questions. 
The competition was co-sponsored by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education and the China Institute of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Therefore it was rigorous and fair. Its influence was lesser than the "Challenger Cup", but the reward was in some sense more valuable than the "Challenger Cup". 
It was half-past seven in the morning when the ten teams sat in a computer room. 
Even though most people chose to use their own laptop to answer questions, they brought their laptop to the computer room. After all, wifi in the computer room and library could allow students to download theses online for free. They were expected to win this kind of competition through resources on Baidu. 
When Professor Liu came, he smiled and said hello to his three students. He did not talk about the competition. Instead, he asked how they slept or how were the dorms. After that, he walked out of the computer room, drove the school bus, and went back to do his own projects. 
At eight o'clock, the bell rang. 
Everyone quickly logged into the official website and downloaded the questions.
The questions were divided into ABCD for four major questions. Of which, AB was for undergraduate students, while CD was for students doing a specialized degree. Every team had to choose one question. The teams were given an md5 hash from the official website and they had to upload the thesis in PDF form and pass the md5 check. 
In general, as they only had half an hour to choose the question, everyone was scrambling to read the question. 
However, when they saw the questions, they were dumbfounded. 
"Question A is the design and control of the landing trajectory for Chang'e 3 spacecraft… Question B is designing a folding table! F*ck! What the hell are these questions this year?" 
"These are totally different from the training questions we did!"
"I did something similar a few days ago. It was something like designing the launch of the Shenzhou Rocket… But I didn't expect that question to come up in the competition… I'm too careless!"
"For f*ck sake, didn't you get 95 in advanced algebra? Think about something!"
"I studied advanced algebra, not rocket science!"
"Designing a table… How are you supposed to do that? Aren't there only four legs? Foldable… We can try adding a spring behind the legs?" 
The computer room was quite lively and it was obvious that the students were troubled by these questions as they had no idea where to begin. 
However, some students were different. 
For example, Luo Rundong from Lu Zhou's class was quietly communicating with his teammates. 
And Liu Rui… That kid seemed to be quite reliable as he had already finished reading the questions and was already assigning work to his teammates. 
Wang Xiaodong looked at the two questions and frowned. 
The sky seemed to have collapsed. 
The two questions were both related to physics. 
The first question was related to space trajectory calculations which certainly impossible to solve with just high school physics knowledge. On the surface, the second question looked simple, but it actually was not much easier than the first question. It involved the dynamic motion analysis of the table legs, material stress analysis, and a dozen other problems. Not only would it require mathematical modeling knowledge, but it also required a certain degree of involvement in structural mechanics as well as materials science. 
However…
The "mathematical genius" Lu Zhou in the group was only a second-year student and he had only just started his physics class. 
They had to choose the easier question. 
The first question was impossible to do without physics knowledge. They could try to turn the second question into a mathematical problem by using resources online. 
Wang Xiaodong looked at Lu Zhou, "Should we choose question B?"
Lu Zhou shook his head, "Choose question A."
"Question A?" asked Wang Xiaodong. He frowned, "Are you sure?"
"I've already finished studying university-level physics. Even though aerospace physics seems complicated, the content only spans three chapters," said Lu Zhou. He paused for a second before looking around and said, "Also, look at how many teams that are choosing question B."
Since question A was so scary, it was natural that most teams selected question B. Lu Zhou had to be brave and confront the dragon! 
Of course, Lu Zhou made this selection because he was confident about question A. 
Wang Xiaodong nodded and naturally understood the meaning behind Lu Zhou's last sentence. 
"Okay, then you'll have to do the modeling."
"I got this."
The two geniuses had reached a consensus. 
Lin Yuxiang looked at her teammates and asked weakly, "Which… Part can I help?"
Wang Xiaodong gave her a gentle smile. He was about to say "I'll do everything" when Lu Zhou, who was busy writing on an A4 paper, interrupted Wang Xiaodong and said impolitely, "Bring food and water, thanks." 
Programming, thesis writing, and modeling. All these three tasks were allocated already and the only thing they needed was someone for food delivery. 
Lu Zhou thought, "Don't think it's that easy to get a free win." He had to make this girl do something at least. 
Wang Xiaodong: "…"
Lin Yuxiang did not complain. Instead, she nodded energetically, "Ok, I'll do it!"
The advantage of one person doing both mathematical modeling and thesis writing was that it removed the problem of communication. 
At the same time, as the captain, Lu Zhou could issue orders to Wang Xiaodong, who was responsible for coding. 
Therefore, there would not be any disagreements between the teammates!
There were three sub-questions:
(1) Determine the position of the moon's far side and close side landings. Also, determine the speed and location of Chang'e 3. 
(2) Determine the optimal trajectory of Chang'e 3 and the optimal control of the six stages. 
(3) Make corresponding error analysis and sensitivity analysis for your designed landing trajectory and control strategy. 
"The next part is the summary. This part can be left until the entire thesis is written. The focus is on the question's analysis, which involves the entire thought process of the modeling, which is the entire soul of the paper," murmured Lu Zhou as he bit down on his pen and tapped his fingers on the keyboard. He wrote the outline of the thesis and began to define the critical soul of this paper based on his calculations. 
[Question 1. In order to get the far and close side moon locations of the landing, as well as the size and direction of the corresponding velocity of Chang'e 3, we first use the Newtonian physics combined with the known conditions for calculation. The motion of the main deceleration stage of Chang'e 3 is divided into a uniform variable speed linear motion. Using MATLAB, the main deceleration phase of the iterative operation…] 
[Question 2. In order to ensure optimal landing trajectory of the Chang'e 3 and the optimal control of the six stages, take minimum fuel consumption as the goal. Using the parameters given by the problem, use MATLAB to identify obstacles on the digital elevation map. To achieve the identification of obstacles and location of landing points, simulate an optimal landing orbit mode…"]
[To analyze the error or the landing orbit control strategy designed in part 2, we need to first list all possible variables that can cause an error…] 
Lu Zhou went into a state of being deep in his own thoughts. He was entirely focused on the question. 
After he analyzed the question, he felt like his brain was definitely clearer. Even the entire general framework of the thesis started to form in his mind. 
What was left was to translate the outline into a mathematical question…
For most teams, they did the thesis after the programming and modeling, but for Lu Zhou, he could do both at the same time!
This was their team's biggest advantage!


After suffering from a heat stroke while working under the scorching heat of summer, Lu Zhou, a hardworking but poor university student, somehow becomes the owner of an advanced technological system. With the cheat given by the system, his university life changes overnight. 
  
A Master's degree? Easy. 
  
PhD? Not a problem.   
  
From a nobody, he quickly becomes a huge celebrity in the world of science. With the missions given by the system, he is on his way to winning a Nobel Prize.   

"System, can points be exchanged for money?"
  
"No."
  
"F**k, what use are you then!?"
  
"This system will make you the ultimate scholar, the kind that lords over all of humanity. What use will money be to you?"

I reached out and grabbed Min's shaft, my hand working steadily up and down his cock. It was warm and hard between my fingers, and I loved the elasticity and feel. Well, I had created this cock myself with the help of Pratter and Sandor. This cock would feel exactly the way I wanted it to feel, and I made it feel exactly to my tastes. Just imaging the hard thing plunging into me already excited me. It was big, but not too big. It was hard, but no too hard. It was the perfect dick for my pussy. 
"You know, Min, I've been thinking a bit." I sighed as my fingers worked over his cock. 
"Mm? Vesse?" Min asked cautiously. 
I moved myself, swinging my leg up over Min and mounting him. His perfect cock was now sticking right up under my pussy, waiting to impale me. I lowered my hips until just the head touched, but didn't slam it home. Instead, I teased the top of his cock with my pussy, squatting just enough so that it touched me, but didn't penetrate. A wet strain of lust, although I couldn't tell if it was his or mine, reached from his cock tip to my pussy lips. It was a visible conformation of how perfect our parts fit together. 
"I realized…" I continued. "That a lot of people don't tend to read author's notes and thus don't know any information about this story." 
"Re-really?" Min was breathing hard, the teasing being too much for him, especially as I started playing with his nipples, on top of two clearly feminine mounds.
"Mm… so I reckon a lot of readers don't know a lot of important details about my Tales as a Seductress." I sigh, squeezing his nipples tightly in the way he liked and eliciting a pleasing gasp. 
"Such as?" Min's face scrunched, fighting the pleasure my body was giving him. 
"For example, this story had already been out in entirety on machineslicedbread.xyz for over a year, and it is also the location of many of the writer's other erotic stories." 
"Vesse sell readers short, most know that." Min blushed. 
I finally dropped my hips down, letting that perfect cock slam into me. The warmth of it slid deep into my womb, and the feel was incredible enough my pussy trembled slightly in a mini-orgasm. That's what I got for being so teasing. In the end, I was the one who was most aroused. However, Min was flushed and breathing hard as well, so clearly it was doing it for him. 
"I'm not so sure they're aware of the blog whatsawhizzer.wordpress.com, where the author translated Arifureta, wrote Requiem to the Stars and Time and Place, and don't even get me started on his continuing series, Power of Creation and the World of Women, two very erotic and very different novels. Both have completed volumes that can be downloaded for free for all ******* supporters." 
"Of course, Vesse… aaaaa… it's tight." 
"Mmm, I'm not tight. Min is just too big." I tease as I rise my hips up and down, feeling his cock slid up and down inside me. "Either way, ******* support gets people early access to released chapters, full colored illustrations, re-edited pdfs, and some exclusive patreon-only content."
"Most reader, only want Tales…" Min shrugged, his mouth open as he panted in pleasure. 
"Ah, it's because they want to see me fucking my sexy wife." I chuckle, picking up the pace until each time my hips drop I can hear the wet sound of it sliding in. 
"Ahnn… t-tease!" Min cried out. "T-tell them… important things about tales." 
"Ah… I guess I should tell them some things. For example, this next chapter will be the last chapter of Tales of a Seductress." 
Min gasps. "Th-then, no more us?" 
I chuckle. "Of course not. Naturally, my Min and I will return in the sequel, Tales of an Enchantress. A story currently being written and released on machineslicedbread.xyz." 
"Ho-how many chapters so far?" 
"Nearly 50! Ahh… Min, right there… move your hips, ahhhh… right there!" I let out a cry as he started to hit me in the right spot.
He thrust his hips up into me roughly and a moment later I started cumming. 
As I panted and moaned, my devilish Min kept up the thrusting past my tolerance. I could barely talk, my voice coming out in a panting high-pitched moan. "Ahh… I can't get enough of Min! If readers want… want Min too… they should know about Min's story, a-a- a – aaahhhhh… a short side series following Min's origin and point of view through Tales of a Seductress!" 
"Vesse, C-cumming!" 
"Cum! Cum in me, Min!" I shouted lustfully, my tits bouncing up and down as I rode him as hard as I could. 
"I-is that all Vesse say?" Min demanded, his eyes flashing mischievously. 
"No… I have more… oh.. it's too good, you're driving me crazy with your cock, I can't stop cumming!" I cry out, my mind turning to mush. 
"Must say it or Min won't stop!" 
"Ahn… Mi-min is teasing too much, I'm really going crazy, but it's the most important part!" I cry out as I pant, erotic explosions shooting through my body as I leak all over Min's cock, my pussy clamping down in perpetually orgasm as Min penetrates me over and over again. "Next month will signify the official release of Tales of a Seductress the pdf. It includes this complete book, edited and formatted for ease of reading in a phone friendly pdf. It costs $5 to buy the book or it is free for all ******* supporters of $1 or more! Inkstone doesn't even allow simple bold and italics formatting, so it's a much different experience on pdf." 
"But what about future release!" Min demands just as he grabs my ass tightly, pulling it down until he penetrates me at the maximum level. 
A moment later I feel gobs of warm stuff shoot into me. It was Min's lust, magically converted into semen. It started filling up my womb, and for a second my eyes rolled up in my head. Min had to pinch my thigh before I could focus again. 
"Un… I feel it! I feel Min inside me!" I cried until he pinched even harder and I shook out of it. "Tales was released on inkstone to drive up interest for the pdf. Its sales success will dictate how quickly Tales of an Enchantress is finished and ultimately whether it's worth the author's time to release it on inkstone at all."
"So, if they don't pay, he stop writing? What Bastard!" 
"No, Min… ahn… it's so warm, I can feel it growing soft…" I relaxed, finally regaining my faculties. "Tales of an Enchantress already has 40 chapters out and will continue to release on machinslicedbread.xyz no matter what. However, if you want to read the completed book as a pdf, if you want to see TOAE and Min's story released on inkstone, or if you want TOAE increased in release speed (right now, it's been about twice a month), then you might want to consider dropping $1-$5 to support the author. He has many writing responsibilities, and so TOAS must prove to be financially worth his time."
With that, I lean over and take Min's lips, tasting my sweet and beautiful wife. Our tongues combine for a few minutes while our sweaty bodies heave against each other, the sweet smell of sex wafting from the pair of us. When we finally separated, Min gave a coquettish smile. 
"Basically, author greedy, want money?" Min summarized. 
"Exactly…" 
"…" 
"So, the TOAS pdf will release on 11/14/18. ******* supporters will not only get that book, but access to all other ******* content including previous finished pdfs. ******* will have various fundraising goals dictating whether TOAE will be released on Inkstone (Raise $100, TOAE once a week), Whether TOAE will pick up releases to twice a week ($200), or three times a week ($300). Basically, if there is a total of $300 increase in ******* and paypal pdf purchases between 11/7/18 and 12/1/18 (that's just 60 people buying TOAS at its retail price guys), then you will get the max releases of TOAE until this book is finished. Please support the release at *******.com/whatsawhizzer or visit the TOAS Table of Contents on Machineslicedbread.xyz to buy directly." 
"Sound good. What next?" 
"How about we start the Epilogue to Tales of a Seductress. Enjoy!"

After an unfortunate mishap with some stairs, I found myself in a fantasy world filled with sex and violence. Stripped of everything and turned into breeding stock by the first band of goblins I encountered, I turned to the only weapon I had available to me. Now, I’m a seductress, the first and only RPG class that weaponizes the art of seduction. I will survive this new and dangerous world the only way I know how: one person at a time.

  "Hello, assalamualaykum," I said in a small voice, holding my phone up to my left ear.

     "Walaykumsalam, please who is this?" I heard Zain's manly voice on the other side.

     "I'm Ruqayyah; your course mate, the same group on ARB101," I said timidly, twiddling with my hair nervously. 

        "Oh Ruqoyyah!, sorry I didn't check the caller before receiving it" he chuckled lightly and that made my stomach to flip. 

     "I need your help," I said and ó closed my eyes for a bit. 

    "What help?" he asked urgently as if sensing the hesitation in my voice.

     "Erm..you know..em," I stumbled with my words. It was embarrassing. 

      I mustered up my courage, "I was supposed to enrol for seven courses but I only enrolled for two courses. Please can you email me the remaining courses PDF files" I asked weakly, wishing he should say yes.

   "Okay send me your email address" he replied instantly without missing a bit. 

   "Thank you, thank you very much, I am very grateful" I chimed happily, bowing my head in gratitude as if he could see me.

Foolish girl

     I called Zaid too he also said I should send my email address. Within some hours, I received the mails from Zaid, exactly what I needed.

    I slumped down on the tattered couch in my messed up room and opened my WhatsApp to chat with Zain.

  I was someone who gave anyone or everyone she met nickname apart from their real names.

*Me* Hey baby boy☺

*Zain* Small girl

*Me* Abeg, who be small girl

*Zain* You na

*Me* Whatever, let's play twenty questions...

*Zain* Okay but dunno how to play it

*Me* I'm gonna ask you twenty questions and you gonna ask me. Vice versa

*Zain* Okay

  By the time we were through with the game, I'd learnt so much about him.

    He was in his early thirties, samosa was his favourite food. His parents were from Kogi but he was born and brought up in Kaduna. He studied mechanical engineering at Abu Zaria. His father married two wives; he was the fifth out of twenty from his father's children while he's the first out of twelve eight children from his mother.

   We talked about me too, I was in my late teen but behaved like a brat sometimes. 

  

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They were two strangers

They met on WhatsApp group

He fell in love with her over time

She liked him but did not believe in love 

He would do anything for her happiness

She would be happy to be with him


But...

He was married and with a son

She was single but not wanted to mingle

He was in his early thirties

She was in her late teen

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Follow both strangers in their relationship from strangers to friends and from friends to lovers. In the midst of love, hatred, jealousy, obsession, betrayal, lies and diversities... 



©Adeyemi Mariam (hardeynyhun)

Zhang Zian decided to continue the pet store until he couldn’t support it anymore. His parents had loved pets very much. If they were looking down from heaven, they would be sad to see the store go.

Although it was a good wish, he knew nothing about running a pet store. There was a first time for everything, though; he believed he would find a way, one step at a time. 

His first goal would be relatively small—to establish a solid footing in the city. 

He had a big breakfast at a street vendor and felt energized. He returned to the store, moved the cages and display cases out, dusted with a broom, soaked the mop in disinfected water, and mopped the floor until it was nice and shiny. He moved the cages and display cases back after the floor had dried.

He also wanted to renovate the store, but he gave up on that thought after realizing the shortage in cash flow.

When he was cleaning the store, some neighbors walked by and expressed their sympathies for his loss. Some neighbors didn’t know him and just looked at the cages and display cases with curiosity.

When the sun started to rise, he finished cleaning. All the dust and odors were completely gone, leaving only the fresh scent from the disinfecting water. It smelled just like before.

His parents had always taught him to keep a clean mind and live a clean life. 

He had gotten all sweaty from cleaning the store. He moved the reclining chair to the door and rested for a few minutes. 

Now that he had decided to take over the pet store, there had to be some paperwork to handle. First, he needed to change the owner’s name from his parents to his name on the business license. He was not familiar with the procedure, so he started researching online using his cell phone.  

"I have to go to the notary’s office. So much work!"

In order to inherit and transfer the pet store to his name, he needed to get an inheritance notarization using his ID card, the deed for the pet store, and his parents’ death certificates.

Zhang Zian always tried to avoid dealing with troublesome matters like that because he hated them. He was not even sure how he made such an irrational decision like inheriting the pet store.

He wanted to have a fresh mind and pull himself together. No matter how sad he was, he should not show his tears to the customers.

He opened the app store in his cell phone and started a search with "pet" as a keyword. He wanted to see if there was an app which would teach people how to run a pet store, although deep in his mind he didn’t think he would be able to find it.

Umm, what was that?

A game with a "limited time download" sign showed up in the search results.

Some apps and software were free for a limited time, but this was the first time he ran into something tagged "limited time download."

"<Pet Hunter>?"

[Game Description]: This is a magical game! You can capture real or virtual pets in this game. You can even capture mythical creatures and turn them into your faithful friends or partners! Download now and run towards the sunset, young man!

Ha!

He laughed. He achieved his goal to freshen up his mood. 

Exaggerating! This was way over the line!

It might be possible to capture virtual pets, but how was it possible to capture a real pet with a cell phone? It even mentioned capturing mythical creatures... Unbelievable!

There was a countdown next to the game, showing that there were only 00 hours, 00 minutes, and 49 seconds left to download.

"Let’s see if this really is a ‘limited time download’!"

He hit the "download" button, and the download shortly reached full speed. 

This game was pretty large. Hopefully it wasn’t a virus!

He hesitated. When he was about to cancel the download, it showed "download completed!" on his cell phone.

Almost at the same time, the downloading page disappeared. The app store went back to the home page automatically. 

He put the keyword "pet" in the search bar again.

"Oh really?! Nothing?!"

The result showed nothing was matching his keyword. 

He didn’t want to give up yet. He added "hunter" after "pet" as keywords, but still nothing came up.

"This game is really a limited time download… What does the developer want?" he murmured to himself, confused.

Developers made games for marketing. The more players there were, the broader the influence. The broader the influence, the more money the game would make. Even free games earned reputation for the developer. Limiting the time to download meant limiting traffic. Who would do something like that? 

A dialogue popped up on his cell phone: Install? 

He chose "Yes."

Installing…

Installation completed. "Confirmed" or "Open"?

He chose "Open."

Initiating game…

The logo of "Pet Hunter" showed up on the screen.

[Game Hint]: This is an augmented reality game. It requires you to turn on your mobile camera and needs your location information. 

[Game Hint]: This is your first time entering the game. Please register an account. 

[Game Hint]: "Register for free" or "Have an account? Log in immediately."

He chose "Register for free."

[Game Hint]: To ensure user uniqueness and login safety, we need to record your fingerprint. Please place your finger in the fingerprint recognition area and record from different angles as per the instructions. 

"Record fingerprints?! What if it’s a scam…" He frowned.

He used the fingerprints on his right hands for online banking. Just in case it was a scam, he used his left hand to record the fingerprints. 

[Game Hint]: Fingerprint recorded successfully. Logging in automatically…  

The background looked like the deep dark night. A shining white light was jumping lightly.

[Navigation Elf]: Hello! Welcome to Pet Hunter’s World. I am your navigation elf.

[Navigation Elf]: I will try my best to assist you throughout the game. I hope that we can experience an extraordinary adventure together. 

The sudden voice caught him off guard. He almost threw away his cell phone. 

[Navigation Elf]: If you encounter any problems during the game, feel free to contact me!

"Ugh, is it the customer service representative? How do I contact her…I don’t see where to input words…" Zhang Zian was speaking to himself, feeling confused. 

[Navigation Elf]: You may speak to me!

"Really?! You can hear me?!" he asked, once again surprised. 

[Navigation Elf]: Yes! I can hear you nice and clear!

"OMG! This is a 24-hour one-on-one customer service representative! No wonder the download was limited…" He shrugged his shoulders and thought, "This game must be high in costs. How come I didn’t see the developer’s name… What is it? Hiding from fame?"

[Navigation Elf]: This is your first login. Before launching the game, would you like to go through the beginner tutorial? Alternatively, you may skip the tutorial and start immediately.

"What’s your recommendation? Is this game difficult?" he asked.

[Navigation Elf]: You are unable to save your state during the game. For a better experience, I recommend you take the beginner tutorial. 

"Okay, whatever you say. Let’s start the beginner tutorial," he said. 

[Navigation Elf]: Beginner tutorial starting, retrieving data…


1. Download a suspicious game
2. Catch a few magical pets as partners
3. Go through interesting daily routines and lead the pet shop to a whole new level

"So Drake Atlas, we meet at last."

"Do I have the honour of being addressed by one of the Generals of Order?" Drake asked the masked woman, as he tried to position himself between her and Yuma's group. 

She had struck down his materialised Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon in an instant, Drake didn't want to take the risk of seeing what would happen if that attack had targeted a person instead.

"You do. Allow me to introduce myself, I am the Black General of New Order, I am Wyvern." She said as she tossed back a disordered lock of her red hair before lightly jumping down onto the street in front of Drake.

As she landed, she cast a quick glance behind her at the masked man who had fallen down to his knees. Whether it be in homage or weakness Drake could not tell.

"I'm impressed you handled him so easily, he might not be our best operative but his energy reserves are among the highest New Order has outside the upper orders like myself. Not only did you handle him quickly and easily, but I can tell that you haven't even used half your own strength." Wyvern complimented Drake.

Drake kept silent, the more she praised him the warier Drake felt. Like a mouse being eyed by a playful cat.

Finally the heavens opened up and the rain began to fall, causing the Black General to scowl.

"Come to the docks in one hour, pier 4 warehouse 6."

"And if I don't?" Asked Drake, it didn't take an idiot to think this was a trap.

"Then your friend Yuma can say goodbye to his friends." She replied with a smile.

With a tap on her mask, the gem on her masks forehead projected a holographic image in front of her for Yuma and Drake to see. An image of four children bound by rope and hanging in the air in a steel cage. 

A girl in black with long silvery hair that was shaped to crate cat ears, the cat enthusiast Cathy. A short stuff with a bowtie and colourful bowler hat, the trickster Flip. The book smart, blue haired school class rep, Caswell and lastly Yuma's well built best friend, Bronk Stone.

"Oh No!" Exclaimed Tori at the sight of their friends.

"Guys!! Let them go you witch!" Yuma screamed.

"Release them!" Drake demanded.

"Pier 4 warehouse 6, one hour." Wyvern repeated as the shadows around her came alive, seeking to engulf her and her masked companion.

But thanks to Kite, Drake was wise to this trick.

"No so fast! Go Swords of Revealing Light!" Drake slapped down the card he had specially prepared for such an occasion onto his duel disk. Infusing it with the power of Critias to materialise its power into reality.

A half dozen giant swords make of bright yellow light plunged down in a circle around the Black General and her subordinate. Their radiant glow dissolved the gathering shadows almost instantly causing Wyverns to clench her fists in anger. 

Her shadow magic was strongly influenced by light, a bright single light could cast stronger shadows enhancing her power, but an all-encompassing light like this that surrounded her would instead banish all her shadows and rob her magic of its strength. Especially as the very nature of the Sword of Revealing Light was to lockdown an opponents monsters.

"Do you really think keeping me here will help those four? If I don't return, I am sure the consequences will not go well for your friends." Wyvern threatened Drake.

Having her grand exit fizzle out like that annoyed her, especially since it showed that Drake had at least some understanding of her powers already.

"Perhaps I just enjoy your company and can't bear to part so soon." Drake teased, but he strangely made no other moves after stopping her escape.

"Yeah! Now tell us where are friends are!" demanded Yuma. If not for Tori holding on to his arm perhaps the kid would have charged at the Black General himself.

"Like I will just tell you." With a quick draw Wyvern lifted the Seal of Orichalcos to the sky and unleashed a portion of its mystical power.

As the ring of magic expanded outwards it shattered the Swords of Light. In their last moments the fragments of the swords cast brilliant rainbow in the pouring rain.

Wyvern really wanted to throw down in a duel with Drake, the man was just full of surprises, but she had her orders. Now free from the power of Drakes Swords of Light she once more summoned the shadows to her side. She and the masked man then sank into the shadows and vanished from the street.

"Get back here!" Yuma cried.

"Oh no she got away!" Tori couldn't help but cry in despair.

"This is not good, our opponents seem to be well prepared. This will be very dangerous." Astral commented.

Drake remained silently waiting.

"Come on Drake! Why are we just standing here! We've got to Jet on down to the Docks now!"

"Give me a minute Yuma."

"What? We don't have time to waste! We only have an hour to get there!"

"I am waiting for something." Drake calmly said.

"Uh?" 

*RING! RING!*

Yuma was startled as Drake took out and answered a high tech communicator he had never seen Drake using before.

"Orbital speak to me, you better have got be something I can use."

This communicator was a gift Kite had arranged to be delivered to Drake yesterday through secret channels, it was a direct link to the Orbital 7 satellite. A means of both contacting Kite and calling in technical support when dealing with New Order. The two of them had arranged this during their meeting the other day.

Drake had been worried that Faker would have discovered what his son had arranged and blocked it, but it looks like they had got away with it for now. 

While Drake had been previously battling the Orichalcos Gigas of the Masked man, he had secretly texted a message to the onboard AI, alerting the machine to the presence of the Orichalcos operative. Its task was simple, lock onto Drakes location and download all the data available nearby within a 1-mile area.

In this high tech day and age people had dozens of deceives on them that records and transmitted all sorts of information. Exercise watches with GPS tracking information, Pacemakers linked to emergency service networks, Personal digital assistants, duel disks, communicators and many others.

Even if the masked man himself had been careful and had nothing on him there must surely have been others waiting and watching nearby. Just a single mistake could potentially net Kite and Drake a big score, a name, a face, or an address, clues that they could work with to track down New Order. 

Then Wyvern had shown up and that information became even more important.

The reason Drake had delayed Wyvern like he did was to give Orbital 7 as much time as possible to hack into her tech and obtain as much data as it could. Even if it had only been a few seconds more, a few seconds was a lot of time for an advance computer system.

"YES MISTER DRAKE, THE CYBER ATTACK WAS A SUCCESS. I WAS ABLE TO DOWNLOAD THE DATA AND TRACED THE VIDEO FEED. TRANSMITTING THE CO-ORDINATES NOW." The mechanised voice cheerfully replied.

Compared to the attack on the Black Elite base several days ago, the cyber security New Order had deployed in dealing with Drake just now had been severely lacking. Especially when compared to the abilities of Orbital 7's bleeding edge systems. But how where they suppose to know that Drake was secretly in contact with Kites personal satellite?

Hacking all the wireless devices around Drakes position had been child's play for the AI, allowing it to intercept the live video link Wyvern had just show them and trace it. Which was what Drake had hoped for, otherwise he would have had no choice but to really walk into the spiders web Wyvern had laid out for him.

Instead of chasing after New Order and falling into a trap like a fool, he would rather just directly rescue the hostages himself if he could. Reading the data Orbital 7 provided it seemed that they were being held at a mixed sport stadium just a few miles north of the Heartland City museum.

"Orbital, did Kite leave me authority to deploy your Time Freeze field in his instructions?"

"YES MISTER DRAKE, ALL FUNCTIONS ARE AVALIBLE TO YOU AS THE HOLDER OF THIS COMMUNICATOR, UNLESS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN BY MASTER KITE."

"Then start making preparations to deploy the field at those co-ordinates at my signal and keep a look out for any movement from New Order. If they move the hostages I need to know immediately."

"ROGER THAT."

Calculating the distance and the time Drake thought that he could make it there in about 20-30min, provided he could catch the next bus at the next street over in time. They were close enough to Yuma's house that Drake knew the bus routes and timetable around here fairly well.

"Yuma you should take Tori and go home, just leave this to me."

"No way, they are my friends, I can't just sit back and do nothing!" he replied with steel in his voice.

"Fine, but you have to keep up." Drake knew he wouldn't convince Yuma to stay out of this. He shouldn't even have bothered asking.

*Splash, splash.*

Drake started to rush off down the street, he was cutting it close to see if he would be able to catch the next bus going in that direction or not. Yuma and Tori followed close behind uncaring of the falling rain.
---

Fortune favoured them and they managed to catch the bus in time and it wasn't long till they had reached the outer gate of the sport stadium. Given the time of year and the Duel Carnival the stadium was pretty much empty and disused at the moment, which had made it perfect for New Order's use.

The clouds were much thinner here and the rain was only a light drizzle but that only made the place look even more gloomy than it already did. 

Before trying to get in Drake wanted to contact Orbit 7 again, even if the Time Field wasn't ready yet he wanted help with the security systems. Perhaps it could even identify their friends current location inside as well. But…

"*Beep*The Service you are requesting is no longer available, please contact your Network Support centre for further instruction *Beep*…"

Drake cursed how efficient Dr Faker was, only he would have been able to shut down Drakes access to Orbit 7 so quickly. Drake even tried to contact Kite directly but without any luck. Left with no backup and no support, Drake had no choice but to handle things himself. Hopefully they hadn't been moved since he had lost contact with Orbital 7.

He thought back to the video link Wyvern had showed them, trying to remember every detail that had been present, any clue. The cage had been hanging from a high ceiling, ruling out the offices and the main buildings of the stadium that, according to the specs Orbit had previously sent him on the way over, didn't have rooms that large.

That left about a dozen attached and free standing storage warehouses, utility buildings and motor sheds that New Order might be using. He remembered having seen small glimmers of sun light coming in through a small window at the back on the video, and at that time of day that meant that the building had a Westerly facing window of some sort and couldn't be on the East side of the stadium as that would have blocked the light itself. That eliminated another five possibilities.

The cage couldn't have been part of the normal set up for the stadium and was quite large, so Drake could eliminate another three buildings without a large enough access for New Order to transport their own cage in.

That left a group of four detached buildings grouped close together which were the most likely locations for where New Order was holding their friends. Being careful to avoid the security cameras Drake, Yuma, Tori and Astral snuck in and made their way over to the suspect buildings. The rain made it easier but the shower was already beginning to die down.

"Are you sure we shouldn't call the police?" Tori whispered as they passed by some cages of Baseball equipment that had been carelessly left out.

"Yes, I am sure" Drake replied as he stopped to pick out a baseball bat from one of the cages.

Since Faker must already know what was going on, and as he was the true controller of this city and therefore the Security Forces, if he wanted the police involved then they already would be. And if he didn't then nothing short of a disaster or miracle would change things. It would only risk alerting New Order.

Drake liked the heft of the wooden bat he picked up, it wasn't like he could just use the Sword of Wisdom to cut down these people, they were still humans after all. So he would have to settle for bashing them with a bat instead. He also picked up a couple of balls as well, just in case.

As they reached their target it became obvious that this was the right place, they also could tell in which of the four their friends were most likely being held in. Because there was only one building with a pair of armed guard.

"Stay here and hide." Drake ordered Yuma and Tori. 

This next part would be dangerous.

Carefully he sneaked his way as close as possible to the guards without being seen, but in the end there was still a dozen meters of open space him and between them, too much even for Drakes enhanced body to make without a distraction. Drake decided to employ one of the oldest tricks in the book, tossing on of the baseballs he picked up to make a noise and distract the two of them for a moment so he could rush them.

It half worked. One of the guards turned, but the second didn't. But before he could raise his gun as he saw Drake rushing him, the second ball hit him square in the face. Then Drake was next to them and it was just a question of swinging until they were both down and out. Legs, side, gut, backs, heads, K.O. They never got a shot off.

With the guards down Drake call the others over and entered the building. It was an empty storage warehouse, at least if you discounted the steel cage hanging from the ceiling with four kids in it. They were awake but blindfolded and gaged. Drake had a bad feeling about this. This was far too easy.

Why? Why send only one man to ambush him? Why keep hostages in a place like this? Why where there only two guards outside and nobody inside? Why was it so easy? Drake didn't like the answers he could think up. He had wanted to avoid whatever trap was set by directly rescuing the hostages. But it made far more sense for the hostages to be the bait than that business about going to the docks.

So if those guys were the cheese, what part of this was the trap?

Yuma wanted to rush forwards immediately but Drake held him back, one minute, two, five. Even using the power of his Dragons Eye Drake couldn't find anything. He had no choice but to act. Transforming his duel disk into its true form Drake didn't bother finding the crank to lower the cage, with a single leap he jumped up to the cage and slashed!

The Sword of Wisdom was an enchanted blade, even without channelling any other energy it was capable of cutting through the steel bars of the cage like a hot knife through butter. Having opened one of the sides of the cage Drake climbed in and began to untie everyone. They had to hurry, if Drake couldn't find the trap then his best hope was speed. One everyone was free, they made their way to the exit.

"Guys are you alright?" Yuma asked in concern. 

"We were so worried." Tori added.

"I don't know, what in the world was this all about anyway?" Caswell asked in confusion.

Bronk wasn't saying much, he seemed groggy and unstable on his feet, perhaps he had been ruffed up, or perhaps he was still suffering whatever had bug he had caught the other day. Cathy was just angry, promising to get her claws into whoever was responsible for treating a lady like her this way. And Flip had fainted in relief of his rescue and had to be carried by Drake on his back.

They opened the doors and were left speechless at the sight before them…

The Legendary Dragons and the Pharaoh have defeated the Great Leviathan, they have won the battle against the Orichalcos. But the war goes on. Join Drake, a new Duellist chosen by the Dragons as they continue the fight across dimensions in a new world with allies both familiar and strange. 

The Dragons rise so that the Orichalcos will fall.

This is a Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan fiction, I do not own any rights to the franchise, characters etc, in any form.

[Contact successful.... please wait while downloading…..] 

[Downloading….1%...2%.....3%]

Raine waited in the darkness with a puzzled look on her face.  In front of her was a transparent screen with a hourglass downloading signal, each time the percentage increased, the hourglass would flip around.  

"How long is this going to take?"  Raine asked impatiently. 

[Downloading….4%....5%....6%] 

Each time the percentage increased, Raine felt like it took forever.  Raine could only wait patiently in the darkness and watch as the downloading progress bar slowly increase.  

[Downloading complete.]  

The robotic voice finally said. 

"Finally!"  Raine shouted as she sighed with relief.  She felt as if it took 100 years for whatever to download.  It had been so long that she forgot what was downloading or why.  

[Do you wish to accept new system download? Yes/No]

"Yes." 

[System download, accepted.  Please state your name.] 

"Raine Marcella." 

[Name: Raine Marcella, unavailable.  Please try again. Please state your name.] 

"Raine?" Raine said as she scratched her head.  How could her name be unavailable? 

[Name: Raine, available.  Please wait…]

Another downloading screen came up and Raine threw up her hands in defeat.  The downloading screen was just as slow as the first one. Raine decided to lay down and close her eyes and wait for the system to update. 

What felt like 100 more years, Raine woke up to a beeping sound.  

[Would you like to launch system? Yes/No?]

"My gosh, yes, please!"  

[System launching…. please wait….. please wait….. please wait….]

Seeing the hourglass sign again Raine laid back down and closed her eyes to sleep again.  She quickly opened up her eyes and realized that she finally has the chance to get the sleep she always wanted.  With a smile, she rolled to her side and fell asleep. 

[Greetings, Raine.]  

Raine's eyes quickly opened up.  She didn't know how long she slept this time around, however she felt as if it was a long time.  The first thing she saw as the transparent screen with those words in the middle of the screen. 

"Hello?" 

[Would you like to transfer to a more comfortable place? Yes/No]

"Yes." 

[Initiate transfer.] 

"Do I have to wait again?"

[Transferring…. please wait…. please wait…]  

"I knew it."  Raine sighed as she rolled on to her back and went back to sleep.  It was going to take forever, however she had forever to wait. 

[Transfer complete.]

Raine looked around her surroundings and to her surprise, the bedroom she was in looked to be in a skyscraper.  To her left was a white desk and chair, while to her left was a bed and large windows that lined the wall. Outside was a futuristic city skyline, with two suns and one moon in the red sky.  

Raine walked to the windows and looked down before looking up.  There were no signs of life anywhere. 

"Maybe what I'm seeing is really a screen and not this landscape?"  Raine said as she took a step back. 

[Please read Terms and Conditions Policy and Accept.  Should you Decline, your soul will disintegrate into a million pieces and you will no longer have any chances at reincarnation.] 

"What?!?  How does that even make sense?!?  I haven't done anything horrible in my past life to deserve this kind of punishment!" 

[Scanning… Please wait…] 

A red horizontal lazer light scanned Raine's body from head to toe.  

[Scanning complete.  The results founded by this System indicates that your past life was your last life cycle.  You had no more chances to reincarnate. Please read Terms and Conditions Policy. Accept/ Deny] 

"Accept.  Accept. Accept."  Raine quickly said without reading the Terms and Conditions Policy.  Who has actually sat down and read those? 

Was that why she came the dark place and stayed there for a long time? Was it because she no longer had any more chances to reincarnate because her past life was her last chance to try to reach nirvana? 

[Terms and Conditions Policy Accepted.  Would you like to read mission statement? Yes/No]

"Yes." 

[ To grant one wish, change one life, in one world, at a time.]

….  "Ok-ay~~~" 

[Would you like to read Introduction?  Yes/No]

"Yes."   

[Welcome to Last Wish System.  You have been chosen to grant the last wish of each approved "last dying wish."  With each "last dying wish" granted, mission points will be added to your total Soul Force score.  You can collect mission points and purchase new skills or save your points to have a stronger Soul Force.  Once your Soul Force is full, Last Wish System, will grant you one wish. 

Should you fail to grant the "last dying wish," you will be deducted the total mission points.  Should your Soul Force score be under -30,000, your soul will be disintegrated.

Do you have any questions at this time? Yes/No]

"No."

[Would you like to see your profile? Yes/No]

"Yes." 

[  Name: Raine

Age: 30 years old

Type: Human

Level: 1

Soul Force: 0/100,000

Charm: 0

Skills: Cleaning, Cooking

Achievements: 30 year old virgin

Boost: Untiring ]

Raine's right eyebrow started to twitch.  Was the system making fun of her or trying to insult her?  Basically it's calling her a plain, hardworking 30 year old maid and cook.  Which, in her past life, she was. However, did the system really had to point out her flaws like that? 

[Received email from Headquarters.  Would you like to open? Yes/No]

"Yes."

[ Welcome Raine, to Last Wish System.  

After reviewing your past life and total Karmic points due to the selflessness you embodied.  It gives us great pleasure to grant you one Boost to help you on your journey as a Last Wish Transmigrater.  This will be a one time Boost granted from Headquarters, please consider accordingly.

Good luck on your journeys.  

Sincerely, 

Headquarters

To grant one wish, change one life, in one world, at a time] 

Raine sat down at her desk and thought for a while.  What kind of a Boost would she like? Then she remembered her last wish before she died. 

"I wish to have an easy life, so I can be finally be lazy in life." 

[Wish will be granted, with one condition, do you accept?]

"What is the condition?" 

[Wish will be granted, with one condition, do you accept? Yes/No]

Raine thought to herself and decided to accept the condition. How bad could the condition be?

"Yes." 

[Congratulations, your wish has been granted. Downloading "GoldenFinger.ZIP" and "Succubus.ZIP"]

"Wait... what?" Raine shouted as she could only watch as the two zip files download on the screen in front of her. "What kind of scam system is this?!?"

Raine Marcella was tired.  Tired from working several part time jobs to support her family, while taking care of her sick grandmother.  Tired of not living for herself, but for others.  Tired of taking care of everyone else.  Tired of being taken advantage of.  Tired of being a door mat to everyone, including her family.  Tired of being too considerate of everyone.  Too tired to even take care of her health.  

Raine died due to over exhaustion and health problems that she never took care of.  Even when she was really sick, she did not get treatment for her illness.  When she died, she was alone and forgotten by her family members.  Raine really regreted how she lived her life.  She wished that her next life, she wouldn't have to struggle so hard, just to live.  

Upon her death, her soul was bounded to a transmigrating system.  And due to her selfless actions in her previous life, she was granted one wish.  

"I wish to have an easy life, so I can be finally be lazy in life." 

[Wish will be granted, with one condition, do you accept?]

"What is the condition?" 

[Wish will be granted, with one condition, do you accept?  Yes/No]

Raine thought to herself and decided to accept the condidtion. How bad could the condition be?

"Yes."  

[Congratulations, your wish has been granted.  Downloading "GoldenFinger.ZIP" and "Succubus.ZIP"]

"Wait... what?"  Raine shouted as she could only watch as the two zip files download on the screen in front of her.  "What kind of scam system is this?!?"


Warning:  R18, Gender Bender, BL/Yaoi, Yuri, and straight couple


During lunch, the ladies came up to Alex and began to stuff him with the food they brought from home. By the time lunch was over, Alex was overwhelmed by the gesture both in his heart and his stomach. His stomach swelled and bulged enough to almost tear apart his shirt.
After lunch, when all the ladies and Alex came back, they were immediately called by Karen in the meeting room.
In the meeting room, Karen was sitting in the middle while all the others were either on her right or on her left.
Alex and Amber being the newbies, were sitting at the far end opposite to each other.
"You must know why we are having a meeting now. Many of you know our company acquired another company a month ago". Karen said as she addressed all of them.
All of them nodded except for Amber and Alex.
Amber raised her hand to ask about it, but Karen who saw it ignored her, and said, "As for those who are new, let me tell you about it".
Listening to Karen, Amber brought her hand down. Karen continued, "Last month 'Theation' acquired a book publishing company".
Listening to this, there were complicated expressions on the faces of all those who were present there. Even though they knew about it, they thought it was completely unrelated to their own venture. They all began to gossip with each other.
"I know what you all feel, but it's not our job to question the decisions made by our superiors on what they should or should not do. Our job here is to do our best in promoting what we are asked to. Now we are asked to promote this new company. We all are here to discuss this matter and map out a strategy for promotion". Karen said as she was well aware of what all of them were thinking.
All the ladies nodded their head in understanding. Alex was amazed as to how focused his chief was that she would never partake in any gossip around the office. The respect he had for her increased by a notch.
The ladies began to discuss among themselves and give suggestions to the chief.
"Boss, why don't we ask one of the celebrities from the ongoing shootings to promote the company on their social media? Instead of making them the brand ambassador of the company, we can enter into a pay per post kind of agreement with them" Elaine said. She was the social media manager, so it was easy for her to keep an eye on that.
"That's a good idea, make a list of all the celebrities which fit our requirements in fees, popularity and their image," Karen said as she liked the idea, but she reminded, " Keep this in mind, the image of the celebrity is the deciding factor here.
"Yes, boss" Ellaine said as she wrote down the details in her pad.
"Boss, how about shooting an advertisement?" Amber said as she raised her hand.
"I don't think it is the right time". before Karen could say anything, Hazel pinched in.
"Why?" Amber asked confused.
"When companies start, they don't just outright jump into the market with advertisements. They need to make a small local market for themselves first". Hazel explained to Amber.
"Ohh..." Amber nodded in agreement.
After that, all the ladies present, again involved themselves in a discussion.
The discussion kept on going for some time.
Karen looked at Alex who was sitting silently, at the very end of the table, not taking part in the discussion, "Alex, are you not feeling comfortable?".
Hearing Karen, the chattering in the meeting room stopped, and the focus of all the ladies in the room shifted towards Alex.
"No, I am feeling fine". Alex said as he straightened himself.
"Then, don't you have any suggestions for us?" Karen asked, placing her palms on her chin as she supported herself with her arms on the chair. She looked curiously towards Alex.
"I have, in fact, I have two suggestions, but I don't know if you will like them". Alex said while scratching the back of his head, embarrassed.
"Owww... Alex, why are you being so shy? Just tell us even if nobody likes them, you will get to know what and where you are lacking". Elaine said as she encouraged him.
"Yeah, and it's even possible that we might end up using them with some or no changes". Jennifer said, mentioning him the possibilities.
"You listened to them, go on". Karen said as she gestured him to go on.
"Well, I don't know why the upper echelon of this company is so adamant on going with this publishing company. We need to keep in mind that everything is available online, not many people might end up buying our books" Alex said as he told everyone to not have their hopes high.
All of them nodded while Karen knitted her eyebrows. This problem, she was well aware of already.
"Well, first of all, we all know shooting is always going on here. One movie or TV series after the other, right?" Alex said.
All of them nodded, on hearing Alex.
"Now Ellaine here, suggested that we ask for a celebrity to endorse the company, right?" Alex asked.
"In a sense, yeah," Ellaine said.
"Now, on the same idea, we can have a different method of promotion. The projects here are of different genres too, so why don't we use a bookstore or cafe scenes to promote the books of our publications? Seeing the leads of the movie or series, reading a book people might get curious and end up searching about them or even buy them" Alex said, and by the end, he was very excited about his idea.
All of them looked amazed at his suggestion, this was such a basic and a very good idea to promote their books. It won't even cost them a bit.
"Why didn't I think about it? We don't need any resources for this. We can just go to any set and hand them over a book". Hazel said as she lamented over her foolishness.
"But it may not necessarily increase the sell of our hard copies. People might just download pdf from the internet". Alex soon poured water on their excitement.
"So what do you suggest we can do to increase that?" Karen asked. She was beginning to get interested in Alex's ideas. He might end up helping the boss a lot.
"Chief let me ask you something if for about two or three hours you have no access to the internet, nor do you have anything else all you can do is sleep, if I were to give you a book will you read it?" Alex asked with a smile.
"Well, I have to, if I can't do anything else". Karen said.
"This can be our way to sell our books".
"What are you saying tell us properly". Karen asked.
"The second suggestion is...".

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This is the story of Alex Rutherford.

He was known by many names among his peers, 'Yama'[The God of Death] or 'Asura'[The Devil himself]. 
NO one dared to approach him. He was the god of killing, without any emotions.

Every life he took, was just another assignment for him...
Every life he took, was just one more number added to the count... 
Every life he took, was to reach a certain someone...

"Please spare me, I will give you as much money as you want". A middle-aged man pleaded.

"Sorry but you have already paid me. By becoming my target" The young man said while fidgeting the dagger in his hand.

Splash... The dagger in the young man's hand, slit his target's neck. 

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But what will happen, if he suddenly lost his memory?

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Now he is adopted by a couple. He has a job, friends and a peaceful life. He does not remember anything about his past life.

"Alex, what are you doing at home on Sunday morning?" a woman asked Alex.

"What happened, mom?" Alex said while playing on his PS 5.

"Get out of the house and find yourself a girlfriend".

"Why?" Alex asked lazily.

"If I don't see you bring a girl to introduce to us within a week, I will...will... I will throw that stupid game of yours" the woman said pointing towards the gaming console in front of her.

"Mom, where are my clothes?" Alex asked ready to go find a girl.

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Will he able to continue living like this?

Will he remember his past? If so will he return to his old ways or will he use his skills to help the people?

What will happen when his past comes haunting him?

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" sorry guy's false alarm, wrong person wrong floor. " 

" sigh " after giving a mass sigh the dispersed group regrouped near Jason as if collectively asking his stats. Jason's face suddenly formed black line's he hated being disturbed while eating, seeing Jason's face one of the colleague's who is close with Jason said

" come on Jason don't be shy, tell us your stat's "

Black line's on Jason's face darkened, what should he be shy of? but he soon let go his resentment, placing his half eaten loaf of bread in his desk drawer he spoke casually

" Highest Agility +2.4, rest above 1.5. "

" Another D class Player "

"What?" Jason was puzzled.

"You didn't watch the What's app group?"

"Not recently!" Jason shook his head. He has developed a habit of not using what's app at work.

The other party explained: "Once you scan through the office whats app group, you will definitely see a detailed PDF on the DD system. It is said that it was Created by a relevant DD system department, which consist's of all Top class Ivy league Nerds of the country. According to the PDF, for ordinary player's highest attribute should be below +2 point. and they have also created a rank system based on this. "

"Detailed illustration of the DD system?"

Jason remembered the picture sent by his Ice Princess to himself, which seemed similar to this thing. Her text also seems to say that ordinary player's highest attribute should be below +2 point but this Rank system was new. he quickly open the whats app group and looked for the rank system.

" highest attribute below +2, E class"
" highest attribute above +2, D class"
" highest attribute above +3, C class"
" highest attribute above +4, B class"
" highest attribute above +5, A class"
" highest attribute above +6, S class"

" there are player's with highest attribute above +5 and +6, WTF! " Jason was Dumbfounded, he thought he was the protagonist but world disappointed him once again. 

" there should be since they have released it in the ranking system " said the other person.

" thank fully highest attribute above +4 are extremely rare. " said another

" I don't know what effect this DD system will have on ordinary people like us." Someone couldn't help sighing.

"Yeah! This DD system is too weird."

"I hope the impact is not too great."

The original warm atmosphere, suddenly became cold. Everyone's face was more or less worried.

Jason's mood also sank, if player's with highest attribute above +5 and +6 are possible then anything is possible. what if there are also other Player's with wired talent's and cheats out there, if fortunate accident's can happen to him then others can also have their own lucky encounter. 

Within few hours, the world suddenly changed dramatically. the old era as we know of came to an end and a new unknown era was set in motion, the unknown always makes people fear and be afraid.

Unlike other's Jason was not worried about the DD system having any negative effect on him, according to the Ranking system he should be a A class player without including his other cheat's but with his cheats he should be a SSS class player, Still in his heart inevitably gave rise to worry about the unknown, but he is not worried as much as his colleagues.

Jason continued to go through the PDF.

The pictures and texts were exactly similar to the ones sent by his Ice Princess to himself earlier this morning.

The PDF thoroughly explained the importance of different Attributes, importance about completing the daily task, weekly task, monthly task, importance about choosing the right Occupation and sub Occupation, importance about Contribution Coin's and free attribute points, also explained about the DD system Shop and also about Skill and Occupation Creation.

The PDF seemed to also recommend different occupation's based on one's Highest attribute points and also recommended everyone below C class to wait and accumulate enough stat points before selecting a Occupation.

It also suggest many Base skill's for the character growth of all the player's, the base skills were equal important to every player be it E class or S class. along with various way to place ones stat points skillfully. it also suggest player's against creating their own Occupation and Skills as they require very high Perception stats and do not contribute that much to overall growth of the player.

The most important role of this PDF was that it saved lot of time for all the players. It doesn't matter whether this PDF is really from the relevant government department or not. Because of its appearance, everyone skipped the happy and curious period of exploring the DD system and learned almost every thing about the DD system.

It is also because every one skipped the DD system exploration period so quickly, everyone's attention shifted to the sudden emergence of the DD system, and the unknown risks it brought with itself.

The crowd slowly dispersed one by one helplessly.   

At 9:40 AM, a figure flashed at the companies front door.

Everyone quickly picked up and wore their fixed head sets connected to the phone and system next to them and kept it on their ears in a pretended manner. Looking towards the door.

Instead of a fat old man in a costly suit, A young man in a beige trench coat came in. with his head held high, chin lifted up slightly, eyes narrowed. His footsteps were frivolous and weird like crabs. he swang his arms back and fore with a great amplitude, his attitude was as if this company belonged to him, no as if the whole building belonged

"Todd lowell?"

Everyone was surprised. It wasn't strange if it was the boss who came in, but it was one of the two general employee's who hadn't come.

"Hello everyone!"

Todd raised his right hand and gently waved it towards the crowd.

"Todd, you are late and you dare to sway slowly at the door?"

Jason couldn't help but remind Todd where he is right now because this guy's cubical was next to him, and the relationship between them was not bad.

"Half an hour ago, I sent my resignation through a text message to the boss. This brother of yours is about to reach the peak of his life. This company is too small to bear my greatness." Todd was too proud of himself.

Everyone was envious.

This guy should have the highest attribute of more than +3 points, putting him in the genius category to act like this.

"Brothers and sisters!your Brother, I am about to climb new heights, you insist for a year, I will buy this company by next year, so that you all can enjoy the same treatment to that of boss's relatives." Todd raised his arms, waiting for everyone to applause.

But the crowd ignored him.

Player's with high attribute do indeed have promising future, but everyone her is just a colleague, it takes about a few months to get along and become close. If this guy is really hits the jackpot. A few colleagues who have good relations with Todd may come to his door for help and rest could careless.

Todd walked towards his Cubical.

"You have resigned, then why are you here?" Jason looked at Todd and asked curiously.

"Of course for Kelly Hu." said Todd raising an a eyebrow. "I have to ask her if she wants to be my girlfriend."

"Then you are destined to have come here for nothing."

Jason simply shook his head.

Kelly Hu is one of the company boss's relative. She is beautiful but very bossy and mean, and her character is like that of a Big devil. Even in front of the Company boss, she act's high and mighty.

Even if Todd is a player with highest stat of +3 points, Kelly Hu might not treat him differently, let alone promise him to be his girlfriend.

"It's okay, I know she will refuse. Today is just to show my attitude towards her and let her be mentally prepared. It is not too late for me to try and win her within next 6 months" Zhang He rested his legs on the desk.

Jason was surprised: "So confident, is it possible that your highest attribute is more than Just +3 points? Today Brian also did not come, he should also have highest stat above +3 points and resigned like you. Excluding those relatives who have not come, In our company there are two geniuses in a pool of almost more the 20 general Employees, So out of 10 Players one player is a genius with highest attribute of +3. Although it is good to be able to Stand out of 10 people, but is it enough to win Kelly Hu within six months? "

"highest attribute +3? What is this highest attribute?" Todd stared at Jason with wide eyes.

"The highest attribute of the DD system." Jason was a little confused.

"DD system? What DD system?" Jason hurriedly lowered his legs.

"Okay! I kind of understand why you are so arrogant. your feeling is that you are the only one with a game system. In fact, Everyone whose age is over eighteen years has it."

Jason looked at Todd with sympathy, he could understand Todd's mental state. Thankfully He also experienced this in the early morning. Fortunately, after the loss, God gave him another big surprise.

If he had not woken up at 3 in the morning because of his Ice Princess and experienced the DD system at 5:40 and had his dream of being the only player in the world Shattered by the timely call of his Ice Princess, he would be similar to Todd, He would wake up at 8: 40 am like his usual self by then Ice Princess would have already left for her job. as soon as he had open his eye's he would be greeted by the DD system, In his arrogance of awakening a system he would ignore the world and act out pretty much like Todd.

Todd was stunned.

His complexion turned blue for a while and then turned white again.

"Anyway, this job is not that good, it's okay to resign this job, you may find a better job. Now Let's see what your the highest attribute is and how rest of your stats are." Jason reminded.

Todd quickly turned on the DD system.

His embarrassing and gloomy complexion faded away like a dark cloud and shone like the sun in a sunny day.

"constitution, My constitution has reached +3.4 . "

"congratulations!" Jason was stunned, this guy's luck is good.

"I was scared to death thinking I fucked up." Todd patted his chest with a lingering fear: "I was so scared just now, I'm still feeling dizzy, I'll head back home. as for Kelly Hu's matter, Let's forget it for now"

Jason nodded.

When Todd left, Jason looked at the time, it was almost 9:50.

The strange boss and his relatives still did not show up till now.

He looked around, his colleagues who were at their respective cubical, were chatting with colleagues nearby.

Looking at their face, their complexion was not good.

Obviously, their previous depression has not only worsen by little, but has intensified.

The more they talk, the more panic and anxiety they have about their future.

Jason just looked at his Smart phone while turning on his computer.

Then he checked his collage whats app chat group.

It was similar to the company, this group was also lively, but the mood in the group was not high. After all, ordinary Players account for the majority in the world, and many people are worrying about the unknown changes that would emerge with the introduction of DD system in the world and what kind of variables will occur in their originally peaceful lives.

Jason could clearly feel the mood of pessimism and panic spreading.

Checking out other chat groups, they were also almost the same.

The advent of DD systems is surprising.

After being surprised, many people began to think about what kind of impact it would bring.

The answer was obviously disturbing.

The various prediction's on the Internet were almost exactly the same.

Jason felt that if not for the fortunate accident during his awakening of DD system, he would also be in a state of panic at the moment similar to the rest of the world.

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