Chapter 64 - Traps, Traps, Everywhere Traps.

"So you are saying my family slave contract is lucrative enough that people can sign it with their eyes closed?"

"Hehehe Lil Aryan, it's more than that. One word is not enough to describe that contract."

"Okay….." said Aryan with confusion and brought up the main topic again. As Victor had told them earlier, Granny Kotori wanted him to find her a planet to break through her bottleneck of cultivation. In exchange, she will treat his wife in the best hospital with the best facility and doctors.

So Homia asked his question now "How is all this related to the question I asked half an hour ago?"

Aryan' Fck, I almost forgot the main question in the flow,' without any hesitation he asked at once, "Victor San how is this all related to the question that Homia asked you in the beginning?"

I.e. "Till now you didn't know your organizer's name?"

"Hahaha, Lil Master I am coming to that part," replied Victor and continued his story.

"I still remember that day. That day I signed the contract, returned home, took a shower, and fell asleep with my daughter. I was so happy that day. I just had to use my powers to find her a planet, and she will take care of my wife till we got a cure for her. But the next day when I opened my eyes…."

Silence~~~~~

"What happened next?!! Why stop?? When you open your eyes what happened??" Aryan asked with curiosity. Cause he knew that her Granny was involved in that story. One of the main leading characters of the novel, so it was bound to be off charts. He just wanted to see the level of bizarreness in it.

"I opened my eyes and found myself in a..."

"Five stars hotel's kitchen, right?" asked Aryan with over brimming confidence. Observing the off-chart plots of the novel, he deduced that his Granny must have transported him to a five-star hotel's kitchen to hone his skills.

One more reason he thought of this possibility was that Homia and Yoshino told him just some time ago that his family contract is so so that anybody will sign it with eyes closed. So the best conclusion he could think of was his Granny sent him to a five-star hotel to hone his skills and improve his life quality and standards.

"Nothing of that sort happened", replied Victor in a solemn voice after hearing him out.

Yoshino "...."

Homia "...."

Aryan 'Fck you seven, you misled me.'

"So, where did you find yourself when you opened your eyes, nom?"

"I found myself in IGSHF training school".

"Nom the what IGSHF!!"

"Yes, IGSHF."

Yoshino couldn't believe what Victor was saying and rushed outside to check the IGSHF database, after some time she came back with a surprised look on her face. Homia stared at her and asked, "Did you find his entry?"

"Yes, replied Yoshino with a blank face and showed the virtual pad to Homia and Aryan."

Name: Victor Cross

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Rank: 004

Code name: The Cook

Special Power: Fate Diversion

Entry number: IGSHF#8144

Though Aryan couldn't understand most of the things, Homia could understand them and what they meant. And the most intriguing part was the Rank 004 that was attracting his attention. After remaining silent for a while, he broke the silence and asked "Yoshino San, Am I dreaming or his rank is 004, nom?"

"You are not dreaming, Lil boy," Yoshio replied absentmindedly.

Seeing that no one is in their right state to explain him about the stuffs written on the pad, Aryan took the virtual pad from Yoshino's hand and browsed through it to find their meanings. After some minutes of fiddling on the pad, he found what he wanted, the info article about the IGSHF entries. Aryan clicked on it and opened the article. What he saw on the screen was something like this.

Intergalactic Secret Hidden Forces (IGSHF)

Name: Original name of the candidate

Age: Original age of the candidate after verification

Gender: No need to explain

Rank: Calculated based on marks obtained from written exams and Mission scores.

Code Name: Special name given only to top rankers.

Special Power: Cultivation Technique special power, to be filled after showing proof.

Aryan returned the pad to Yoshio and looked at the person before him with a stupefied expression on his face.

"Hehe, don't look at me like that, it's freaking me out."

Brown hairs, green eyes and a mesomorphic body build. This person standing in front of them was a top ranker of the IGSHF, working in a food booth as a chef!!!

Yoshino, who was silent all this time. Suddenly she fiddled something on her virtual tab and handed it over to Victor.

All this time Yoshino was silently fiddling something on her virtual pad when Aryan and Homia stopped asking questions she opened a profile and handed it over to Victor.

Now it was Victor's turn to get surprised, what he saw in the pad was as follows:

Name: Yoshino Tachikawa

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Rank: 0

Code name: The Witch Fairy

Special Power: [.....>.<.....]

Entry number: Null

This time Victor looked at her in a daze, "Rank: 004, Code name: The Cook," shouted Victor and gave a salute to Yoshino. Seeing his respect for Yoshino, Homia couldn't brave it anymore and yelled out "Rank 4, Victor Cross, check for the name Homia Niedlich."

Victor got startled by the yelling and typed out Homia Niedlich on the virtual pad. And to his surprise, a profile came out with a lock symbol on it. Showing that it's an encrypted profile. Homia went near, took the pad from him, scanned his finger and iris, then returned it again to Victor.

The encrypted profile was unlocked now. He clicked on it and opened the profile page. What he saw inside made him tremble in fear. The person named Homia acting as the International Cultivation Fest Manager is a point ranker.

Name: Homia Niedlich

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Rank: 0.8

Code name: 4OK

Special Power: [.....>.<.....]

Entry number: IGSHF#5036

From white to pale now pale to ashen pale his face colour was fading away with each passing minute the head maid named Yoshino was a 0 ranker [Hidden Ranker, Highest Rank] and this old looking person in his 30s, named Homia was a point ranker [A Rank Below Hidden Rank].

All the big shots of IGSHF were showing up one after another, and one thing was common between them, all of them were calling that little boy their master!!

'Just who in the world is this boy?' he pondered.

Meanwhile Aryan was tiptoeing on his legs to look at Homia's profile. After struggling for some minutes, he finally got to peek at the virtual pad. And the first thing he saw was Homia's age, 15 years.

"Traps, traps, everywhere traps," muttered Aryan. He started the day with Yoshino to enjoy the fair. But ended up triggering events, fillers and side stories, that too one after another with no gap or interval in between.

First the inauguration ceremony, then the weapon seed dream, followed by food market events, then meeting Victor, finding out his back story, then his job in IGSHF followed by Yoshino's hidden ranking and Homi's age.....

So much was happening around him, and his outdated first-generation 8-bit processor was facing technical errors and limitations in processing the advanced data types of the modern era. That requires a 64-bit architecture octagonal processor.

He sorted out all the events in his mind, recollected everything that happened till then and asked "So, what was the main topic again?"

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