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."

know her? Lucille was a

things being said about her were not very

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,

nagging and lowered his

have friends, and he didn't

The next day...

the start of

Lucille went

Pavilion. She believed that the thugs would listen to her and bring a group of people over to make

definitely

entered the classroom

that she had received 500,000 dollars in her

lips curled into a

were decent earnings for their

the official opening of Tech Connex Pavilion, they

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men, saying that they were going to tear everything down. face of those. Hugo and James were experienced veterans, so

that they

James looked at each other. Not only did they

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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