Drove Away
The youth asked, “Why did you help me?”
Lucille did not answer the question.
She squatted down and picked some of the food off the ground. Casually, she stated, “I’ll take this as thank–you gift. It’s not too much, is it?”
After that, she got in a cab that was parked by the side of the road and drove off.
The rear end of the car disappeared out of sight on the empty street.
The teenager looked at the food rolling all over the ground and thought of the “thank–you gift” that Lucille
had taken away. For the first time, his chest was filled with sour yet swelling emotions.
He hadn’t felt that way when even when he was pressed to the ground and beaten black and blue.
He hadn’t felt that way when he lost all his faith in his dark life, either.
However, the moment he felt that he was respected and treated as an equal, his throat tightened.
The middle–aged woman set the stall back up and asked the young man beside her, “Ronald, do you know that girl from just now?”
Ronald Walsh nodded.
“She’s in my school.”
How could he not know her? Lucille was a celebrity on campus. She was always a hot topic.
However, the things being said about her were not very pleasant ones
The woman nodded and murmured, “So, you’re schoolmates. No wonder. The girl went out of her way to help us. You should thank her. You don’t have any friends in school, so if you can, you should try to get along with-”
“Mom, let’s pack up and go home.”
Ronald interrupted his mother’s nagging and lowered his head to pick up the food.
He didn’t have friends, and he didn’t need them.
The next day…
It was the start of a new week.
As usual, Lucille went to school.
It was the official opening day of Tech Connex Pavilion Pavilion. She believed that the thugs would listen to her and bring a group of people over to make trouble.
It would definitely be very lively.
Lucille entered the classroom and waited patiently.
Not long after, her phone vibrated, showing that she had received 500,000 dollars in her account.
Her lips curled into a smile.
Those were decent earnings for their first day.
Early that morning, after the official opening of Tech Connex Pavilion, they popped some confetti to
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celebrate. The thug rushed in with fifty of his men, saying that they were going to tear everything down.
face of those. Hugo and James were experienced veterans, so all they did was yawn lazily in the
amateurs. They didn’t even flinch.
The leader of the group said that they were there on Lucille’s orders.
At that moment, Hugo and James looked at each other. Not only did they suddenly understand, but they also began sharpening their weapons.
Then, they put on cold expressions and enthusiastically called out to the fifty men. They pushed all the men into the holographic experience pods and set it to the highest difficulty before saying, “Good luck!”
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