บท 2: CH-2

First of all, Liam had a lot of stuff to do, though elementary was easy for him since all they teach were the basics.

Even though his stamina allowed him to create 10 chapters a day, he can still get tired, especially with his annoying and loud classmates.

Every time he comes home from school he always feels his stamina is at rock bottom. He feels tired not from school but due to his classmates, some of his classmates would start conversations with him but the topics were just childish stuff and he can't relate to them.

Not only that they were loud. They would shout, and run around the classroom, they were annoying, sometimes Liam would imagine that his classmates were annoying mosquitos that wouldn't go away till they tasted his blood, and metamorphically his blood is sort of his attention.

Liam had to rest for one hour for his overall stamina to get full again. "Dealing with elementary children is exhausting."

It was also due to their low stamina that he had trouble working on his comic, that's why it was a great idea to spend twenty fan points on his stamina to further increase his speed when it comes to creating comics.

Liam closed the window screen and started to draw, he could already feel the change, his hands were faster and his stamina didn't deplete fast.

"Dinner's ready. Liam put your drawings aside so I can set up the table" Silvia said as she started scooping the soup and putting it into a huge bowl.

Liam took his pencils, his colors, and his sheets of paper and placed them on the sofa. He walked to the kitchen and helped his mother set the table.

"Jhon let's eat," Silvia said and Jhon immediately stood up, washed his hands, and sat at his designated spot.

After praying they began to eat.

"Mom, can I be home-schooled?" Liam said he feels sort of alienated from the kids at school.

It was due to his mature mindset, his body may be a six-year-old boy but in his soul lived a 60-year-old man, he does feel kind of awkward since he is practically older than his parents.

Liam also feels bored at his school, he pretty much understands the basics and everything they teach at school since he already experienced it once.

"W-What?! L-Liam what do you mean? Is there someone bullying you at school?" Silvia asked, what Liam said felt like a bomb to her.

"No, I just don't want to go to the same school as children-" Liam immediately shut his mouth off, he said children and forgot that he was also a child.

"I-I mean is that I'm smarter than them and that what they teach in elementary I already know of, even my teacher Mrs. Layla thinks that elementary is just caging my potential"

Silvia turned silent since her son brought up the topic of his teacher. Liam's teacher already told her about Liam's performance at school and the teacher also said that Liam was intellectual and more mature than other children of his age.

She also knew that Liam was sort of a big brother to his classmates, and he treats them like someone younger than him.

"Hays sweetie, your right me and your teacher already spoke. But I will not allow you to be home-schooled just so you can draw your comics, never would I accept you getting home-schooled, though yes you are more smarter and mature than your classmates, but what I want is for you to socialize, I don't want a hermit and I'm worried for your future socializing is also a skill sweetie." Silvia was sad and continued to eat.

"I'm not going to be a hermit mom, I have tons of friends," Liam said, he really can't handle being in the same room as those lousy and annoying kids, since his mind and chain of thoughts are older it felt like he is babysitting when he is with his classmates.

"You are starting to become a hermit, Liam," Silvia said. "I understand your point, you are more mature than them and it feels like you are babysitting them But once you grow up you will regret not having fun in your elementary days."

Liam shut his mouth up, he actually won't regret that he won't enjoy his elementary days.

But he understands his mother's words, just like every mother there is they all want one thing, for their own children's happiness. But for Liam, it wasn't happiness it was sort of a prison.

"I don't find anything bad if Liam's get's home-schooled hon," John intervened, he winked at Liam to interpret that he was on his side.

"I understand that you want him to enjoy his elementary days hon, but Liam like his teacher said is smarter and more mature than other children, he won't enjoy it instead it would feel more like a prison hon."

Silvia looked at her husband, she understands the point that her husband is making, and she looked at Liam. "Are you sure of this Liam?" She asked.

"Yeah, Mom I'm sure of it!" Liam wanted to do two things: first, with him being home-schooled, he has more time to create his comics, and secondly, he can be away from those annoying brats.

"Hmm, I'll think about it," Silvia said though she didn't say yes, this made Liam already happy.

Liam gave a wink as his gratitude at his father who smiled in response.

After dinner, Silvia washed the dishes while the father and son duo were talking in the living room.

"Dad about your promise?" Liam asked, though his father worked at a small insurance company his father made a few connections.

His father had a friend at a small newspaper company. Liam never even heard of that name, it was called [Cowell News Agency] Liam even tried scooping his brains out to find information about that newspaper company yet he didn't find any.

Meaning it stopped producing newspapers maybe due to the rise of cellphones and other gadgets, or they couldn't keep up with those famous articles that other huge newspaper industries made.

"Hmm yeah I already talked with him, he found it kind of weird that instead of producing newspapers you're going to hand out these stories. I let him read one of the panels you created, you should have seen his face haha." Jhon chuckled remembering the face of his friend who was bewildered and amazed at the comic strips he showed.

"Yeah and what did he say?" Liam got excited because this is his first-ever attempt at creating his comic empire, though Liam does feel a little scared that his father's friend may cheat and copy his story, they are ten times behind.

With Liam's futuristic memories about fateful events that would happen in the future and his insane storyline plus the beautiful graphics. Liam is sure that no one can 'plagiarize' his work.

"Well, he was very intrigued with the story, especially the futuristic aliens and techs. He also got addicted to the characters, he said that the story and the plot were amazing, and Don't worry I just let him read some of the comic strips, I didn't give him the copy." John said he was proud when his friend gave him all these compliments about 'the guardians of the galaxy' his son created.

"He said that he would like to publicize these to the masses, also-" Jhon immediately stood up and walked upstairs, just a few minutes he came down and he held three pages of paper in his hands. "I got him to sign the contract this way we can ensure that the copyright belongs to you son."

Liam held the contract in his hands, he told his father to make the contract in case of that 'friend' would try to plagiarize his work.

The contract put that he was the owner of the comic and the copyright belongs to him, and there were also a lot of precautions that his father added to the contract.

Liam looked at the distribution of the profits, it was 55-45, him being the 45 of the profits.

"Well about the profits.." John doesn't know how to let his son understand or even explain the matter regarding the distribution of the profits.

"It's ok Dad I kind of understand. My goal wasn't about the profits anyways what I want is the people to know of my work. I understand why we are 45, they have to print tons of these, the publication costs and they also have to pay some people to put these on their shelves. Not only that they can't be sure if it can rise to popularity or would just be another failure so this is alright Dad."

Liam knew that it isn't easy, they have to pay for word of mouth, and they also have to pay bookstores and newspaper stores to put this into their stores.

But Liam wasn't fawning about the profits of the Guardians of the Galaxy, what he wants is to publicize these and earn him a whooping ton of fan points.

"Ah yeah..." John was shocked that his son knew about this stuff, the publication, the printing, and many others.

He was already shocked when his son proposed and told him to create a contract about the copyright.

Though he was already planning on doing that in the first place his son also told him about the case of his work being 'plagiarized' and even created the content of the contract.

Jhon was quite dumbfounded at how his son knew of this stuff, he was thinking that Liam had talent in the business. "You knowledgeable at this?"

"Hmm well, I had to do my research, Dad." Liam just showed a cunning smile to his father. He would never tell them how he knew of this, about his past life and regarding his system. That secret will be his only.

Jhon just thought that maybe this is the rise of a new tycoon, but it was just a thought a mere fantasy as he calls it since millions of people have the same desire, for power, wealth, and a foothold in the rich society.

Little did he know it wasn't just a thought but Liam was already making his arrangements for his future, it was currently February 30, 1981, and in a few years a king would rise.