Chương 13: Bait and Summer

Michael and the others arrive back at their house after dropping the three girls at the town plaza.

[Quest "Pick Up Your Sister From School" Completed. You have received 20 EXP and your mother trust you more now]

'Alright, 180 EXP more to the next level!'

The edge of Michael's mouth couldn't help but crept up seeing the quest completion floating before him.

"Stop smiling like that, people would mistake you as a creep instead of a superhuman" Harin couldn't help but remind Michael when she saw the disgusting smile on Michael's face, similar to a pervert.

"Kuk!"

Michael groaned, and he felt like he was just shot by an arrow to his heart, as he didn't expect that his smile would be called disgusting, and of all people, from his own sister!

"This...is this the reason why I'm not popular with girls?"

Harin stopped in her tracks and suddenly laughed when she heard what her brother said at the back.

"No, silly. It's just that your smile earlier is a little similar to those perverted smiles from the guys who sees a hot woman"

Michael watched his sister as she went inside their house with an astounded look on his face before he turned around to look at himself from the side mirror of their truck.

"But it doesn't look like a perverted smile though, right Hao?"

"Hao~!" answered Hao with a meow of agreement.

Meanwhile, Harin and their mother are looking out from the window and watching Michael who's in the garage looking at his reflection from the mirror.

With a click of her tongue, Harin asked their mom, "Mom, do you think that there's a side effect of becoming stupid when a person awakens?"

"That, I don't know, but your brother has been a little weird since then. So I guess there is" replied their mother with a chuckle.

"Right? I only made a little joke about his smile, but he already believes it. He's so gullible sometimes"

In an expressway somewhere in the province of Ilocos Norte.

Two teams of superhumans in their own vehicles are secretly following a large armed convoy in the distance.

Inside one of the two cars. The team inside is having a discussion about their current mission.

The driver, who is wearing some kind of a kabuki mask and some kind of a black leather armor from head to toe, couldn't help but ask his team, "We're almost near Vazquez Prison. Are they really not planning to rescue them at all?"

"Relax, they surely will come and are probably just lurking around us. Those two are their executives and have valuable information inside their heads that could expose all of their hideouts" replied a bulky man from the back, who's wearing a combination of platemail and chainmail armor.

"He's right. So don't slack off Miriam. Make sure not even a rat can escape your detection" said a scary looking guy with a large scar on his face and sitting beside the drive side.

"Don't worry boss, I got this. But it's weird, I'm not detecting any armed individuals even when I've already maxed out the distance of my Wind Detection" replied a woman with a little anxiousness and irritation mixed in her voice, and if one were to look closely. They would notice a small wind in the form of a tornado swirling above her head.

[Wind Detection

Expand your senses by making use of the wind around you, and perceive anything within a set distance according to your skill mastery.]

"How far out have you spread your perception?" asked the leader of their team.

The woman whose eyes are closed replied, "Almost a kilometer in radius, but there's nothing except for cars, trees, ordinary people and animals"

"Got it" replied their team leader, then he picked the radio on the dashboard.

"This is Team Heatwave. Have you got anything from the drones? Over."

[This is Wolfpack, na da. I've already released all of our five magic drones, but there's nothing at all, over]

When they heard that, the four people inside the car couldn't help looked at each other.

"What the hell? Do those bastards not care at all?" said Miriam, the only woman in the car.

Mr. Kabuki Mask let out a chuckle and said, "Isn't that a good thing? Easy money, and the government can also pry some valuable information from those two. Hitting two birds with one stone"

A few minutes later, the convoy safely arrived at a maximum security prison with thick towering walls that's twice higher than the Great Wall.

"Damn, no one really came"

"Tsk, as expected from that hypocritical rat like bastard. Ever since a manhunt was issued for him, he disappeared. We don't even know if he's hiding in Terran or here in our world"

*****

Afternoon, 4 PM.

"What are you doing here?"

Michael and Hao were just about to head out with their daily jog when a white SUV stopped before their house, and when he saw the person who got down from it, he suddenly felt uncomfortable.

Summer came walking over with a laugh saying, "What? Am I not welcome here anymore? Besides, I heard you're a superhuman now"

After saying that, she finally noticed the furry creature lying on top of Michael's head, and her eyes couldn't help but lit up in excitement!

"Oh my god, is this cute thing your Beast Spirit!?"

"Hao~!!!" replied Hao with a bright expression while raising one of her paws in greeting.

Like any other woman who likes beautiful things, she couldn't help but stretch out her arms towards Hao, wanting to hug her. But Michael was faster as he already noticed that familiar expression on her face that he had seen multiple times.

So Michael quickly retreated, and said, "What are you doing? You want to hug Hao and take a photo?

Then he stretched his hand towards her and with a smirk, he said, "Payment first"

Summer stopped and stared at him with an incredulous look on her face, "What~!? Are you stupid? Why do I need to pay when I just wanted to hug her?"

"Pay up. Do you know how hard it was for me every time a pack of hyenas like you comes bothering me because of Hao!? So pay up, I don't care if you're stronger than me. Money is money!"

"F*ck you! You money grubber!" angrily cursed Summer while handing Michael a thousand peso bill.

When Hao saw the money in Michael's hands, her eyes slightly lit up, and without even getting reminded by Michael. She quickly leapt towards Summer who quickly caught her in her arms with delight!

"Kyaa! So cute!"

When she yelled those words, the bracelet on her wrist suddenly flashed and it suddenly became a foot long short shortsword and started flying around her to get her attention while Michael eyed it with curiosity.

Summer quickly noticed what happened and introduced it to Hao.

"Hao, this is my Weapon Spirit, my partner Iso"

"Hao~!"

"Hum~!"

Meanwhile, Harin is watching the two of them from the window.

"Wow, these two money grubbers meets again"

Then Michael's mother appeared from the backyard and saw Summer talking to Michael, and her eyes quickly lit up in surprise.

"Summer! Why didn't you call if you were coming to visit? I could have prepared a feast for an early dinner!" she shouted excitedly towards her while walking over to them.

Hugging Hao, Summer turned towards Michael's mother and smiled, "It's fine auntie, I just dropped by on the way home, and came to congratulate Michael's awakening"

"Okay, I'll leave you two then, yeah?" said Michael's mother while giving her son an ambiguous look.

Michael just gave her mother a stiff smile before turning his attention back to Summer who's staring at him with a smile on her face.

"Let's go, I'll give you a little lesson about superhumans and the Terran World"

"Okay!

Michael was planning to refuse at first, but when he heard the following words, he quickly changed his mind and agreed as he knows that first hand information is better than scouring the internet.