75 Here Comes the End of Saturday

Meanwhile, in the main base of Kamay ng Lagim, within the office of Black Devil.

Black Devil was sitting on his desk whilst the three other members of Limang Daliri was in front. "How the hell did Crimson Enchantress die?"

Despite winning with minimal losses on his side, Black Devil thought of this as a pyrrhic victory. "She was on the verge of breaking through the Level 4 barrier… Goddammit."

Black Devil was so disappointed and enraged. Not only was Daniel recovered by Puting Araw, or at least he assumed, but also Crimson Enchantress has died in the process. "Just what the hell transpired in the camp?"

"Should I get the wielder with the Ability to perceive what happened in a location to see what occurred at the camp?" Blood King inquired with respect. He didn't want to offend one angered Black Devil.

"Please do so." Black Devil unhappily expressed his order to Blood King. "Do it as fast as possible."

"Yes, sir." Blood King was polite all the way, bowing prior to exiting the office to get the wielder he mentioned.

"Report of the damage done to Puting Araw." When Blood King exited, Black Devil spoke once more, his tone containing blatant passive fury.

With that, Greybeard and Earthquake reported to Black Devil for a few minutes before Blood King returned with a young bespectacled frail-looking woman in tow.

This woman, as aforementioned, has the Ability to perceive what occurred in a particular location and was therefore a valued member of Kamay ng Lagim, personally protected by the Limang Daliri. This being the case, Black Devil deemed her more important than the Limang Daliri, including himself.

For her weak combat ability, she was kept by Black Devil close in their main base. This worked for her as she enjoyed indoor stuff better than outdoor activities. Regarding her Level, she's a Level 2 wielder.

"Give the details of what happened in the camp." Blood King stared at the woman. He advised, "I recommend you make it fast."

Clearing her throat, the woman started to recount what she saw in the military camp, the part when Daniel wreaked havoc, when Daniel was subdued by a masked man, how Crimson Enchantress was killed, when two Puting Araw members showed up, everything.

"Okay, you're dismissed." Hearing everything, all Black Devil wanted to do was rampage. However, as the leader of a gigantic organization, Black Devil has to be civilized and level-headed. He can't possibly lose his mind here. "As for you three, find what you can on this White Fox. This Level 2 wielder killed one of our own… We're not the Kamay ng Lagim if we don't take revenge for Crimson Enchantress, I mean Risa… We mourn for the loss of our comrade."

Through gritted teeth, Black Devil articulated, "Put a two million-credit bounty on Daniel and a three million-credit bounty on Hayden in all underground organizations, wielder or not. Who knows? Maybe they'll be caught off-guard by regular human assassins."

…..

"You're that hell-bent on not joining me in my undertakings, huh?" Jasmine narrowed her eyes, a wry smile appearing on her visage. "Can I at least ask the reason?"

Well, it's not that Hayden didn't want to join Jasmine on her endeavors. Howbeit, he recently discovered that Puting Araw had ties with the Triple A, and he didn't want to be involved with people that may or may not be developing weaponry for the government.

Furthermore, Hayden already doesn't trust people all that much, much less recognize whom he should trust. Part of the reason why Hayden wasn't fond of socializing.

Providing ideas were good just to avoid suspicion, and as long as he didn't have full working knowledge of formations that Colton has mentioned and explained to him, Hayden wouldn't ever join Jasmine.

"As I stated, I am otherwise preoccupied by my career." Hayden placidly lied to Jasmine. "Maybe next time I'd join you when I finally graduate. For now, I'd want to focus on the things I'm concurrently doing."

What was the lie you ask? Hayden's career wasn't that taxing to him, excluding socializing with people of course. It wasn't even considered a bother at all for him. He literally only didn't want to risk being with a Triple A coordinator.

Finishing his chocolate smoothie, Hayden talked again, "Anyhow, I got to run. I have a date. See you around, Ms. Jasmine."

"Y-yeah…" Jasmine was flustered. This was the first time she was treated this way by a man. Usually, she was treated with respect and adoration, yet, this time… "See you around, Hayden…"

As Hayden had his Divine Perception activated, he smelled a bit of an attraction coming from Jasmine. 'Goddammit… What the hell is happening with the world?'

Rolling his eyes, Hayden sighed with dissatisfaction of the universe. First, Sayuri, now the universe was making him interact with people over and over, with some of them being attracted to him.

Previously, he would have been incredibly enthusiastic and elated by meeting Jasmine. Howbeit, Essence Manipulation Arts was introduced to him earlier than Jasmine, and Essence Manipulation Arts remains to be an uncharted area for him. It has so much potential that he lost his prior interest on Essence Technology altogether.

Not completely though as he was indeed interested on researching Essence Technology, but that may be for the far future. Perhaps following his graduation as a mechanical engineer, when he has perfect knowledge of such technologies, will he dabble on the field of Essence Technology.

After all, he was still human in spite of him being inhuman in terms of learning capability. Sometimes it's not good to rush into things. On top of that, he has a girlfriend.

He wouldn't want to be the kind of person who neglect their relationships solely due to working. Even an introvert like him grasps the value of relationships. It would be stupid to be truly alone in the world as, at the end of the day, humans were social creatures.

Moving on, Hayden exited the secret facility and flew at a high altitude and at great velocity. Needless to say, Hayden conjured up a cushion for the sonic booms he was creating.

Provided that the sonic booms he was creating wasn't that loud, he still didn't want to gamble on being exposed and pursued by his own organization.

Merely seconds passed before the Rain Sanctuary Hotel was in sight. Retracting his wings, Hayden landed on the hotel Iron Man style, using life force as thruster fuel on his hands and feet. Greeting him was Eun-ha and Sayuri.

"Why are the two of you on the roof?" Hayden was perplexed. Then, he joked, "Gonjunim, are you conspiring with Sayuri to "break my defenses?""

The two glimpsed into each other's eyes as Hayden laughed at his preposterous sentence. Fortunately for Sayuri and Eun-ha, Hayden has turned off Divine Perception by that point and didn't smell their emotional state.

At that moment, the two hugged Hayden, deeply surprising him. Instinctively, Hayden reciprocated the hug. "What's up with the hug? I mean, I won't reject it, but…"

"Shut up and hug us, honey." Eun-ha said in an annoyed fashion.

"Okay…" Hayden heeded Eun-ha's words, with Hayden kissing Eun-ha's head. A few seconds have passed, with the three remaining entangled in a hug. "Okay, seriously, what's happening? What's up with the odd behavior?"

"As a VERSE, we wanted to thank you." Sayuri was the one who verbalized an answer. "Consider it an early gift."

"Oh, personally meeting you is already enough of a gift." Hayden faintly smiled, seemingly ruminating some sort of memory in a distant past. "I remember how much I wanted to meet you guys… To think that I'd be in such a position where I have the privilege to cook for you guys, to view you without make up. Ahh, I can't put into words how gratified I am."

"Wow, you're unbelievably elated." Sayuri sniffed the air a few times. "The joy in your heart is sickeningly sweet."

"Heh, sorry. I couldn't help being overrun by nostalgia and happiness." Hayden snorted, activating his Divine Perception for a second to calm his state of mind. "Anyways, shall we go, Gonjunim? I'm beat from our little adventure."

Hayden's words couldn't be any truer. It has been an absurdly lengthy day, with most of his mental energy expended in researching and that interview. Right now, all he wanted to do was perchance take a shower and go to sleep.

"Okay." Eun-ha agreed with Hayden. "Sayuri-noona, I'll be back tomorrow."

"Yeah, yeah," Sayuri chuckled. "I'll see you guys around."

On that note, Hayden and Eun-ha flew away, leaving the cutely waving Sayuri behind. "Take care, you guys."

…..

7:50, Hayden and Eun-ha was back in Hayden's house, with Hayden absolutely exhausted. "I'm going to go take a shower."

"Want me to shower with you?" Eun-ha offered.

"I… I'm too mentally exhausted to do anything sexual." Hayden sighed. If fans heard this, they would have smacked Hayden in the head without remorse.

They'd say something like, 'What kind of man are you? Your girlfriend is initiating and you refuse? What more, your girlfriend is one of the most beautiful woman in planet Earth, and you refuse? Son of a…'

Anyways, there's no other person here, so nobody would reprimand Hayden. At any rate, if anybody had the courage to reprimand Hayden for this, he'd beat them up. A relationship isn't exclusively based on sex.

"Oh, no, nothing like that." Eun-ha waved her hands in front of her as if she was maligned or something. "I meant, I can, you know, wash your body and all that. Since your tired…"

"Ahh…" Hayden understood that he misunderstood Eun-ha's intentions. Chuckling, Hayden grinned. "Where'd you get that? Soap operas? Anime?"

"Hey, I'm being a considerate, loving, and caring girlfriend here." Eun-ha pouted, not looking Hayden in the eye.

"Okay, okay." Hayden patted Eun-ha's head and kissed her on the forehead. "Come on, I'll let you wash me or something."

Eun-ha's face lighted up in delight. In the bathroom, Hayden sat on a small stool naked whilst Eun-ha, similarly naked and her hair tied up, shampooed his hair gently from behind. It was a new type of a relaxing and soothing sensation for Hayden, one of which that can only be felt in this activity.

"Thanks for doing this, Gonjunim." Hayden breathed in. "I appreciate it."

"No problem, honey." Eun-ha leaned in to peck Hayden on the cheek and resumed. "By the way, aren't you afraid that your mother is going to catch us or something?"

"No, not at all." Hayden nonchalantly replied as he yawned. "Besides, as she reminded us, she's been a teenager herself. She'd understand. It's not like she's a naïve person who doesn't know what happens when a man and a woman that are in a relationship are inside a bedroom, alone. Though it isn't always the case, it's statistically likely."

"Heh, you and your little soliloquys." Eun-ha giggled, taking the handheld shower head and rinsing Hayden's hair with her gentle touch. "Why are you so irresistible?"

"Me?" Hayden was genuinely confounded. "While on the subject, what do you see in me? Every one of you? What do I have?"

"For one thing you're very physically attractive." Eun-ha washed Hayden's back this time whilst complimenting Hayden. "You should at least see that, right?"

"Not really." Hayden shook his head, enjoying Eun-ha's back scrub. "I mean. I can comprehend that my body proportions are extremely ideal, alongside my growing height. Outside of that…"

"Don't devalue yourself, okay?" Eun-ha softly kissed Hayden on the cheek again. "Heretofore, I've showered you with compliments. All those were true. For the record, you're inordinately handsome. Especially for a 16-year-old. In addition, your magnetism isn't simple, sometimes you're mature, sometimes it originates from your skills, sometimes it's the intellectual type, at times… It's purely sexual appeal. It changes."

"Huh…" Hayden stared at the tiny windowsill. When Eun-ha finished scouring Hayden's back, the two… Well, due to the mood, the two still did it anyways. For an hour as well.

By the time they exited the bathroom, it was already 8:50. In the bed, the two laid down. Naturally, Hayden was embracing Eun-ha. Hayden wore a plain white shirt and black boxer briefs, all the while Eun-ha sported a pink floral shirt and regular blue shorts that she brought over.

"I should get my own place, shouldn't I?" Hayden muttered pensively. "What do you think, Gonjunim? Should I get a house, or an apartment?"

"Why are you asking me?" Eun-ha rubbed her head on Hayden's chest. "It's going to be your house. Not mine."

"You mean our house." Hayden took a whiff of Eun-ha's hair. "You said it yourself, we're in a relationship. Well, before that, I've got to show you something."

Opening his bank account on his phone, Hayden showed the amount of money he had. "I'm a hundred-millionaire."

"Where did you get that money?" Eun-ha was utterly thunderstruck, shooting up and gaping at Hayden. Narrowing her eyes, she partly jokingly and concernedly said, "Did you extort this money from someone? Tell me honestly, Hayden-ah."

500 million credits was truly a stupendous amount of money, hence, Eun-ha's reaction was within reason. Eun-ha's own total net worth was only an estimated 300 million credits, and that was with five years' worth of hard work on her part.

In comparison to Hayden's 500 million credits in his account, adding the two Space Rings on Hayden's hands that were worth 10 million each, and the house he bought in South Korea, Hayden's present overall net worth surpassed Eun-ha's own net worth by quite a sizeable margin.

"Remember Evershifter?" Hayden beamed at Eun-ha. Seeing Eun-ha nod, Hayden continued, "Puting Araw granted me 500 million credits as pay for turning her in. I think it's because she is an alive Level 3 cognizant. A humanoid to boot."

"Fair enough." Eun-ha bobbed her head in understanding. Lying back down, she inquired, "How're you planning on using it?"

"Currently?" Hayden wondered. "I am torn between investing on land to build my own luxury apartment complex with a penthouse on top, or solely buying a huge mansion. I'm leaning in on buying land and building an apartment complex."

"I say the former." Eun-ha suggested. "That would rake in more money, right?"

"Precisely." Hayden signaled for Eun-ha to come back and lie on him. "Although if I bought a mansion, I wouldn't be burdened with the checking of good land, filling out all the necessary paperwork, finding a good architect to design the building, needing to search a good construction company, and the advertisement of my apartment complex. Regardless, if I'm being honest, I'm not bothered with all these, what I'm worried about is the design of the building."

Hayden didn't voice out that if he was a licensed architect, he'd probably do the designing of the building all by himself. Hayden wasn't troubled by these at all, if anything, he's excited as this was a beneficial investment opportunity which cannot go wrong in any way.

"Psh, like you're actually disconcerted by that." Eun-ha shrugged off Hayden's statements. "I know that you think these are all easy with your Divine Perception. I'm sure you also recognize that you can use your Streamlink career to upstart the opening of your own building. Additionally, you fathom that you're a celebrity, you're fairly certain that the ever so nosey media will not be silent in your investment, providing a colossal boost for the popularity of your apartment complex."

"Heh, we've only been dating for three weeks yet you know me so well." Hayden let out a chuckle. "Now that I think about it… That was a damned extensive three weeks of my life…"

Hayden felt that these three weeks was longer than his entire life due to all the fighting he had done.

"I'm pretty intelligent myself, don't you think?" Eun-ha tightened her embrace on Hayden. "I love you so much."

"I love you too, Gonjunim." Hayden stared at the top of Eun-ha's head below him. 'I'm not sure I'll ever get used to this…'

"Hey, do you want to switch?" In that instance, Eun-ha queried. "You're exhausted, right?"

"Sure." Shifting positions, Hayden buried his head on Eun-ha's chest comfortably. "This is comfortable as hell…"

"You sleep tightly." Eun-ha caressed Hayden's head with great care. "Rest well, honey."

The instant Eun-ha's words entered Hayden's ears, Hayden passed out as a result from the accumulation of mental exhaustion and being comfortable in the arms of Eun-ha.

…..

Simultaneously, in the same neighborhood as Hayden's house, approximately six houses away from Hayden's house, in a small room riddled with posters of the global Korean boy group, TITANIUM.

An overweight, average-looking and pretty short (About 150 cm) 16-year-old girl was in her pajamas, lying on her bed. This was Courtney Ilusyon (1), a student of Makati Scholar Academy the same grade as Hayden. She was watching a Streamlink video of Z, one of the members of TITANIUM.

"Ahh, he's so handsome…" Courtney was completely enchanted by Z. It was only expected as Z was one of the most handsome man in the world. "How elating would it be to be with him?"

Finishing the video, the woman placed down her phone on her nightstand and stared on the ceiling overlaid with a galaxy pattern. "How I wish I can be with Z…"

Mumbling that, Courtney closed her eyes and tried to sleep. A few hours passed, with her sleeping tightly. At 11:00 AM, her brows creased as sweat drizzled down her chubby countenance.

An hour passed, with her sweating getting increasingly intense, her head moving and appearing to be in a nightmare.

Eventually, at 1:00 AM, she shot up, out of breath, her expression agape. ���Holy crap on a cracker… What the hell was that? What an odd dream…"

Checking the time on her phone, Courtney sighed. Peculiarly, she wasn't sleepy at all in spite of the time simply being 1:00 AM. On the contrary, she felt energized. "Huh… Strange… However, what was that name written on golden text? Spectral Fantasy? That's a rather funny-sounding noun."

Shaking her head, she unconsciously touched the middle of her chest and felt a bump. At first, she ignored it as she just woke up. That was when she realized the presence of the bump on her chest.

Hurriedly returning her hand on the bump, she tapped around and noticed that the bump was pyramidal in shape. Taking a look inside her shirt, for the first time in her life, she cursed, "What in the fucking world is this?"

…..

1 Ilusyon – Illusion in English.