章節 10: Siddharth

She looked at him with a nervous look on her face and asked, "Big brother, can I sleep with you?"

Arthur's mind whirled, but he quickly took control of his thoughts because he knew she didn't mean anything indecent by this.

"You want to sleep with me, why?" He asked.

If he didn't need to log out now, he would never ask such a stupid question and would directly agree. However, he needed to log out, and he didn't want anyone near him until he logged back in because, from what he read from the basic information guide, when he logged out, he would appear to be sleeping.

So, if for whatever reason she tried to wake him up, and he remained irresponsive, she would definitely get worried, which might lead to suspicion.

Victoria's expression became downcast when she heard this because whenever she asked to sleep with him before, he would immediately agree.

'I shouldn't get upset. Big brother doesn't have any memory of our past.' She thought and forced a smile.

"I'll return to my sect in two days, so I wanted to spend as much time as I could with big brother." She said.

Arthur sighed. He had obviously noticed the change in her expression and knew she would be upset if he sent her away.

'If I log back in before morning, everything should be alright, right?' He thought and nodded. "Okay. Come in."

A sweet smile bloomed on her face when she heard this and entered the room.

A moment later, both were lying on the bed, inside the blanket.

Arthur waited for her to sleep before he opened his status screen and logged out.

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Earth. Country, India.

In a one-room apartment on the third floor of an old, five floored residential building in New Delhi's sub urban area, a black-haired, obese man was sitting on a chair in front of a PC set up, a gaming controller in his hand and his eyes closed.

Suddenly, his eyes shot open.

He looked around the room and touched his belly and face. "I'm back? It wasn't just a dream, right?" He muttered and hurriedly called out loud, "System, show me my status."

"-_-"

A few seconds passed, but the familiar status screen didn't appear in front of him.

A mocking smile appeared on his, "What did I expect? It must have been a dream."

Then his brows knitted together, "But… everything was far too real for it to be a dream."

Just then,

Whoosh!

An illusionary panel popped up in front of him. Seeing it, he sighed in relief and smiled, "Thank god!"

He then looked at his status.

[Name: Siddharth Sharma]

[Age: 35]

[Race: Human]

[Level: 3]

[Health: 8/15]

[Strength: 7]

[Agility: 3]

[Stamina: 3]

"What the fuck! I'm a level 3, but my stats are worse than a level one?" He exclaimed.

He wasn't surprised to see his poor health because, given his shitty lifestyle where he ate junk food most of the time, never did any exercise and worked from 9 in the mornings to late in the evenings, it was to be expected.

However, his other stats shouldn't be this low since he was a level 3. Only his strength was comparatively better.

While he was lamenting his poor stats, his phone started ringing.

Ring~ Ring~ Ring~

"Who the hell is it?" He cursed and picked up his phone from the table in front of him.

When he saw the caller id, he frowned, "Dhruv? What does this bastard want?"

The one calling him was his colleague in the company he worked. Usually, no one bothered to even say hello to him, but now this guy was calling him.

He answered the call and was about to greet him, but Dhruv directly stated, shouting.

[Hey, you ugly pig. Don't you know you need to clean boss' office today? Why aren't in the office yet? Do you want to lose this job, huh?]

Siddharth frowned and then remembered that yesterday, to suck up to their boss, Dhruv had promised that he will clean his office. After which, he dumped this cleaning duty onto him.

Taking a breath, he coldly said, "First, call me by my name. Second, I'm not feeling well today. So, do it yourself."

There was silence on the other side for a moment before Dhruv shrieked, [You ugly bastard! You dare talk back to me. Don't forget I can have the boss fire you.]

Hearing this threat, Siddharth's temper flared, and he laughed out in anger, "Fire me? Hahaha. No, you can't have him fire me because I'm leaving that fucking job. Suck it."

Saying this, he cut the call and blocked his number. It had been a few months since he wanted to quit his job because his pay was very low and he had to work more than anyone else.

The only reason he didn't quit it because he knew he wouldn't get another job anywhere because he didn't have any skill.

"But things are different now. With the system, I don't need to do hard labour to make a living. I have enough savings to last me at least two months if I use them frugally. After two months, no, just one month, I won't need to worry about something as trivial as earning money." He said to himself.

Just then, another window popped up in front of him.

[Mission: Do 100 push-ups.]

[Time limit: One day.]

[Reward: +1 Stamina.]

[Mission: Run a mile.]

[Time limit: One day.]

[Reward: +1 agility.]

"Right on time." He smiled when he read the missions, but when he saw the time limit, the corner of his lips twitched. It seemed the system was underestimating him.

Closing the system windows, he stood up and went to the bathroom to freshen up. After that, he threw on a lower and a loose t-shirt and headed to the nearby park. He planned to complete mission 2 first, since running would activate most of his muscles and it would be easier to do the push-ups.

…

After two hours…

Huff! Huff! Huff!

He was in the park, panting crazily as he lay on the grass in the park. With his bloated belly going up and down, he created not so pleasant scenery.

Thankfully, there were very few people in the park to see it since it was almost 10 A.M. now and most people had gone off to work and children to schools and colleges.

After catching his breath, she muttered, "System, where is my reward?"

As soon as he said this, a window popped up in front of him.

[Congratulations! You've completed mission [Do 100 push ups] and mission [Run for a mile] in given time limit.]

[You get +1 stamina, +1 agility.]

Whoosh!

As soon as the message flashed, he felt lighter and not as much tired as he was a moment before.

"Heh, that's quite neat." He laughed. Although it wasn't very noticeable, he could see his belly was a little less bloated than before.

Just then, he heard a surprised, feminine voice.

"Eh? Mr. Siddharth? Is that you?"

Hearing this, he turned his head around and saw a mature woman, no older than 40 years, standing a few meters away on the running track.

She was fair skinned, brown-haired, woman with a beautiful face and a curvaceous body. She was in a slightly loose sports wear which couldn't hide her C-cup breasts and round, plump ass.