Chương 21: The Cause to Decide 1
"huff… huff.. "
A man with ragged clothes ran as he was holding a 5 year old child.
He has an unkept beard and frantic eyes. It was darting all over the place as if he was being hunted.
"Miella I'm sorry… this idiot papa of yours will be the end of you… "
Miella, who was there with the man, could only look confused. She doesn't know what he was talking about, she was simply too young.
"cough—cough!"
He took out a bottle of pills from his breast pocket and ate a pill. He coughed out a bit of blood, he doesn't want Miella to worry, but he can't do anything.
He was contracted to a Zenite, his veins are shown as green and it's climbing up his neck.
He decided to contract a Zenite for a few reasons.
One is that he was a D+ rank, and second is because he cannot master the Martial guide that was left by his family.
But, the child is with him. She was his hope, with her he can revive the family legacy!
Is what he thought, but before he can even bestow the guide they were attacked.
They were men in suits. One in particular who drove him in the corner, a man with peach hair and amber eyes.
Introducing himself as Jin Huo.
He was B rank, and they were after the guide.
He couldn't fight back with his strength.
But there was hope presented before him.
It went down from the sky.
It felt like time stopped.
It looked like an angel.
It looked at him with grace.
It looked at him with mercy.
He was taken aback.
He didn't know what to do, it drew in the sky and with a bright golden hue and it imitated a scroll with words fulfilling a contract.
He gulped as power was given to him, he never talked to the Zenite, because he thought it was a grace from a god-like being.
He signed it well too late.
The power he received. His chest was slowly turning green then turned back to its original color.
He felt the power.
Then time went back as if nothing happened at all, with all men with suits looking at him, it looked like he didn't move. But of course, he was already different.
"What the hell?"
Jin Asked in amusement.
"You contracted a Zenite?"
Jin with a smile on his face asked him, since the mana running at his body is already different they can't help but notice.
"Damn you!"
It was a fight. But it was a fight with numbers, he couldn't win against all of them. He simply couldn't win.
In the end he ran away with the martial guide and its successor.
That was 2 years ago.
He went through different kinds of hardship, but the contract is slowly killing him. All he could do is suppress the mana raging inside of him.
"Master Yohai, are you okay?"
"Don't worry Miella, I'm fine and call me papa right now… I have no right to be your master… "
That was a lie, the contract made of mana that he signed had conditions for him to use such power.
And he isn't fulfilling any of that right now.
"Alright, Let's go now Miella."
"okay…"
They can never go to the main road, or any road at all in any daylight.
So like rats they walk in the dark, in the tight alleyways and short roads. That's the only way they could go.
After all, they were
***
"Huh, it's really like a new place here"
Last week the warehouse was empty and now it's at least filled with equipment. Renovation is something I would suggest but the current situation with mafias, I don't think it's a good idea.
"How did all this come in?"
"by the gates"
Anna answered whilst looking at her laptop, she bought this alongside the equipment for potion making.
``Before I can get a business only card I need to be older… I just have to wait'
Two years, two years is all I needed to wait. There's a lot of genius kids trying to start a business these days so you could guess at least why the capitalist government decided to lower the age limit for that.
I mean supreme government.
Too much for a debtor nation.
Anyways, Right now I've prepared everything for the second part of my plan.
"Anna, here's the papers, and of course your identity"
I placed down a case in front of Anna in which she looked at it with a brow raised. After opening it she looked inside, first she looked at her new identity.
"Anna… Passenger?"
"Yeah, she went missing 2 years ago, my sources found her living in SU just fine with another identity. So it's fine for us to take that."
"that's… good, and what's all these?"
"Oh those documents? Just in case I went missing or placed in a vegetative state you'll be the owner for a while"
"W-wha really?"
"We had a mana contract, remember?"
"oof… "
Yeah, she really can't take over even if she wanted to as it will violate the state of our contract, she has to wait a few years for that to happen.
"Anyways, what's your plan?"
"Calling and discussing it with investors"
I went out of the warehouse and took out my phone. I could use 'OS but it's better to use the real thing.
With my contacts I started calling the first thing that came to mind.
–Ring ring
—Hello?
"Qian Xin?"
—Damian, what's up?
"I'd just like to call you… "
I heard an audible gulp on the other side.
"About your car's extended warran–"
—Damian.
"Aye, the real reason is, I made a company alongside a trusted employee"
—So…?
"It might benefit your guild"
—… How?
"Your guild's success rate is over 89% but the casualties are also high. I can remove the casualties part with the product I'm introducing"
We just met for a week, so I really can't say I'm credible, but of course, Qian Xin and Senna, who's especially paying attention to me, knows well that I'm a genius at every single written academic.
—let me guess, a potion
"not just any potion, an industrial ready made potion, that comes for cheap if I may say so myself"
—Where did you get the ingredients for that?
"The ingredients ain't the problem, it's the method of making. So, will you hear me out later on?"
—… Where do you want to discuss it?
"A cafe if you will"
I heard fumbling on the other side and followed by bed squeaks before stopping after what seemingly flip flops noises.
—Okay.. But where?
"There's one near the Academy, the one that has coffee as its logo"
—Buckstars?
"Aye that one"
—Okay, see you later.
"You too"
I would call Senna Too for another appointment but I don't have her number, I just ended the call with Qian Xin Without asking her. I'm just going to ask her after our meeting.
…
"she's there"
I entered the cafe, ordered some cake with coffee because why not and went to the girl who was on the table all the way to the end.
"Alright, ya ready for what I'm about to tell you?"
"Go on"
Qian Xin's wearing the clothes Senna bought for her. She looks like a model right now.
"Well, alright."
I took out a potion in my earpiece storage and gave it to Qian Xin, she took it carefully.
"what's this?"
"It's the prototype, Low quality Healing potion. Try it"
"Here?"
She looked around, of course she'll ask that, so I of course shook my head.
"Later or now, it's up to you. I'm just here for demonstration"
Qian Xin grabbed one of the prototype potions, it was bluish in color and it had a light blue glow in it, albeit weak.
She then went ahead and bit her thumb in which she created a tiny wound, then poured a bit of the prototype potion in her thumb.
It stopped bleeding within a minute, and it was itchy.
"This works huh.. "
"Told ya"
"I can lend in a few words to my father but the Elders are the problem… They don't really listen to the younger generation"
"I see"
Well I completely understand her situation, a lot of novels I referenced mine with, had a lot of tropes of elders in a family clan. They always make the decision together with the head of the family.
"Well, you can take the prototypes, you might need it"
"This is just low quality right… but it's very good"
She then crossed her arms
"I knew being acquainted with you was a great idea"
"yeah, I mean you finally made friends so…"
"Hah?"
"Well, I have a favour to ask"
Qian Xin narrowed her eyes on me, her glare kinda sting.
"What is it?"
"I just changed my phone number so… do you have Senna's contact?"
"Wait, why did you change numbers?"
"I got a status checkup by the academy, and a lot of text messages are flooding my phone"
"ah.. "
Yeah, I was pretty cocky back there, trying to practice my bad attitude. I was flooded with pings and messages from a lot of guilds I never even had contact with before.
Even though I'm not ranked one in the academy, my status was high enough to make me one, especially for a 12 year old.
After all I'm rank -E. According to statistic ages from 6-14 are usually ranked from -G up to F+ but I'm already -E rank. Well it's thanks mostly to the mechanical Tiger that accompanies me everytime I went on a 'hike' but I'm not complaining.
Qian Xin let out her hand and I gave my phone, she gave it back with a new number on the contacts, presumably Senna's
"Let me just message her for a moment"
Tapping sounds resounded though her phone before she placed it back on pocket.
"I told her already, so you can start messaging her, also I'm taking this with me so I could convince the elders"
"Sweet, alright hope you luck"
We stood up and and left the cafe, only to parkways in the bus stations, I directly went back to the warehouses as I need to sort things, The owner of the company, the name and etc.
I have to also register the company to the Bureau or else it might be labeled as an illegal business of potions and they may confiscate everything.
I sighed as I looked outside the bus window.
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