💻💻The Foreign System💻💻
📲CHAPTER_13 📲
Ji-Ho's eyes blinked a thousand times in a few seconds as he couldn't believe his eyes.
What was the Apex group gangleader doing at his place at this time of the night?
Perhaps she knew he was alive.
He had many thoughts but that did not stop him from gently locking the door and taking a few steps back.
"Micheal," He said and quickly found his way to the basement.
Ji-Ho entered through the open door and shut it behind.
He looked down the staircase to see the middle-aged man staring directly at him.
Micheal was tying unconscious Joon to a wooden chair.
"You look like you've seen a ghost," Micheal said casually and continued wrapping the thick rope around the chair.
Ji-Ho raced down the staircase and announced, "There's a problem. Someone is here"
Kim Nana's soft skin glowed under the light as he climbed up to the door and stood in front of it.
She tried to push the door open but it didn't bulge which made her frown.
"Okay..." With one kick from her, the wooden door was sent flying over and slammed flat into the wall.
Ji-Ho and Micheal both had the noise and the two raised their head.
Micheal slid out the pistol behind him and pulled the hammer, his eyes fixed on the door to the basement.
"Stay here. I'll go check it out" He told Ji-Ho but before he could take a step,
"It's Kim Nana. I don't know what she is doing here"
"Kim Nana. Who is Kim Nana?" Micheal asked ignorantly but his eyes soon lit up, "Wait, Chairman Kim's beautiful daughter"
Ji-Ho's face flushed and he nodded.
He could remember how she looked in the tight skimpy dress and the image just couldn't leave his head.
She was beautiful... Too beautiful to be a bad person.
He hated her but her charming figure had its way of enticing his heart.
Micheal retracted the gun and asked, "Are you sure of this? What is she doing here?" He grabbed Ji-Ho's shoulder.
"I--I don't know. I don't know if she knows I'm alive. She was here a weak ago" Ji-Ho already said the last line before realizing he shouldn't have.
"What?" Micheal was stunned.
Ji-Ho quickly explained, "She came to bully me"
He couldn't vividly remember that night.
A night like this one.
A knock sounded on the door and he went to check it out only to be thrown away by a powerful force.
Then her elegant figure stepped into his living room and there was a big smirk on her face.
"You. How dare you skip school today?" He could still remember the arrogance in her voice as she took a step closer and then kicked his face with her boot.
"Haven't I warned you never to hide from me"
He was sick that day and couldn't make it to school but explaining to Kim Nana wouldn't change a thing.
Ji-Ho was shocked at how she had come to his house just to do this.
Perhaps she made a pact with a demon to torment his life.
How did she even know his place in the first place?
"Ji-Ho" Her voice had suddenly become calm, then violent again, "I'll kill you if you offend me again"
With that, she walked out of the house and slammed the door with a force that vibrated the entire building.
This wasn't the first time she had threatened to have him killed.
"Seriously? Are you that weak" Micheal almost laughed but managed to restrain himself.
How can he be brave to say someone had come down here to bully him? Ridiculous!
"I thought you did your assignment on me" Ji-Ho reminded him and then added, "You should ask yourself. Why did you let down your weapon, you've heard about her"
Micheal had retreated his gun the moment he realized Ji-Ho was talking about the Chairman's daughter.
Hearing these words from Ji-Ho, Micheal felt guilty himself and said, "The girl is strange, Kid. No regular teenage gifted should possess her kind of terrifying ability. I did my assignment, she doesn't have energy essence restriction like those below 18. The chairman's daughter clocks eighteen in a few months but then, I'm not surprised. Her father runs the Kim and Kang company "
" How did you know this? " Ji-Ho asked even though he noticed.
Many people in Seoul High have the puzzle unsolved but no one dares say a word about it.
Kim's ability had remained a mystery since she barely used it in public.
He only got to know enough because he had seen her use different elements during her cause of bullying him.
Gifted had only one ability or at most two.
The most popular was telekinesis and Kim Nana possessed that.
At least that's what most people think she has.
He had seen her cause lighting strikes, cause vehicles to go aflame, and a certain time, she froze his legs with ice when he tried to run away.
This was something she never did in public.
Kim Nana was known for a formidable telekinesis ability that surpassed the restrictions for her age.
"Listen Ji-Ho, if you tell anyone about what you've seen... I'll shove an ice spear down your throat" She would usually threaten him after using a different ability in his presence.
He had always complied and didn't think much about it.
The reason was that he simply wanted to focus on his education and make good grades.
Now that he rethought it, the girl was indeed strange.
"How do I know this?" Micheal laughed, "Stealing private footage could sometimes be my hubby"
Kim Nana stepped into the house and her eyes scanned everywhere.
Slowly, she took further steps to the center of the room and said something.
"Do you know how powerful she is?" Ji-Ho had asked Micheal who was beside him and he responded, "She should stand no chance against your flesh-squashing ability"
He was still referring to the event of the hallway.
"I've told you. I cannot do that" Ji-Ho whispered so high hopes won't be placed on him.
He didn't have any special ability per se.
Just the basic ability that would require contact.
Kim Nana would squeeze his throat to death via telekinesis before he even made a move.
That's one of the series of abilities he had seen her using.
As the system said, many out there are more powerful than him and he was strictly warned about the Kim family.
This was more reason he should avoid a combat with her.
He barely survived fighting Gwan Joon.
Micheal ruffled his hair, "Are you scared of a beautiful girl?"
Ji-Ho's cheek blushed because he was forced to recall what he had seen from the window minutes ago.
Can he actually hit a pretty girl?
Micheal let go of his hair to say, "There's something you might want to know about the Chairman's daughter. She is--"
"Ji-Ho, you weak loser" Micheal was suddenly interrupted by the sonorous voice of Kim Nana from above.
Ji-Ho gasped and raised his head even though he couldn't see her.
"You can't even turn off your lights before dying. Who is going to pay for your fvcking electricity bill you Poor Head"
What? Ji-Ho's eyeballs almost dropped on hearing this and his eyes met with Micheal's.
"Is she drunk?" Micheal casually asked.
Ji-Ho could vividly remember the expression on her face when she alighted from the vehicle.
She wasn't drunk. Still, "I think so. Probably lost her way here" He scratched the back of his red.
What the hell did she just say?
"You even died in the worst way ever. I would have given you a good death, you loser"
Micheal tucked the gun behind him and whispered, "Did you perhaps offend her in your last life?"
This was a question Ji-Ho had no answer to.
Why was she picking on him at any length? She hated him for a reason best known to her.
Was it because he wasn't gifted or because he was poor?
If so, why does she care?
It's his life and burden to bear.
Kim Nana's fist was tightened and her teeth were gritted as she proceeded to say, "I never wanted you to die yet but you're gone now. I've always wanted to tell you the truth about my actions. Why I've been a pain to your sorry ass. You must understand that--"
Her speech was suddenly interrupted by a feminine voice from behind, "Hello Dear "
The latter was shocked and turned slowly.
She hadn't expected to find anyone here.
Standing at the door threshold was a middle-aged woman in a night gown and she had a dimly lit lamp in her hand.
Kim Nana stood, stunned to the spot.
"Is Ji-Ho in? I didn't realize he had gotten himself a girlfriend" The woman said and took steps closer to Kim Nana with a big smile on her face.
Kim Nana's face flushed in embarrassment.
Ji-Ho gasped from the basement as he recognized the voice, "Mrs. Min Ji"
It was the neighbor whom he assisted in beekeeping for income.
He made to move but Micheal pulled him back, "Careful, Kid"
Ji-Ho didn't know if he villainized Kim Nana to the extent that he feared she would hurt the kind woman.
Mrs. Min Ji clasped her hand and said, "I always told him not to worry about his looks. His kind heart is enough to get a pretty girl. Call me Min Ji, I'm his boss"
She stretched her hand to Kim Nana who involuntarily took it.
She wanted to distance herself from the claim of the woman but she was speaking again,
"Where is he? I've been calling him all day. He must have been with you"
"I feel like I'm in a movie scene," Micheal said so casually and had his seat on the ground.
Ji-Ho whose face was now pale scolded him, "How can you make jokes in a situation as this?"
The man smirked, "Because I can"
"Um..."Kim Nana was unsure of what response to give.
She hadn't expected to bump into this woman who turned out to be Ji-Ho's boss.
Ji-Ho was dead and couldn't take calls.
It seems the woman didn't know he was dead.
" Ji-Ho... He... "Kim Nana gritted her teeth and her eyes vibrated.
What was she going to say? Tell the woman Ji-Ho was dead?
" Travelled to a very far place. He's not coming back "With these words, she hurried out of the building almost knocking Mrs. Min Ji away.
She got into the Rolls-Royce Phantom and drove off speedily.
" Did I scare her? "Mrs. Min Ji's face was filled with guilt and added," She looks so beautiful. You got lucky, Ji-Ho "
The woman wondered why Ji-Ho had traveled without informing her.
She has always been nice and never mistreated him.
In sadness, Mrs. Min Ji made her way out, "Why is the door broken?"
She left the place.
After about an hour...
"There's nothing. They must have left" Michael assured Ji-Ho as he pulled open the basement door and stepped out with a pistol in his hand.
Ji-Ho followed closely behind.
They entered the living room and were welcomed by the lingering smell of female perfume.
Ji-Ho recognizes it as Nana's.
"Holy fvck!" Micheal cursed seeing the wooden door which lay on the other side of the wall.
Ji-Ho viewed the outside through the open door and could see every corner brightly.
[ Sight: - 1 ]
The vehicle was no longer in front of the house but he saw something else.
He moved out of the house to the area and picked up the shiny material on the tarred road.
It was a diamond earring.
"Hey Kid, get in" Micheal beckoned at him.
Ji-Ho clenched the material in his hand and walked back to the man.
"We can't stay here any longer" Micheal began, "You're supposed to be dead, at least to the people who know you are. We got a person in the basement and that girlfriend of yours can get drunk and stagger here another time"
Ji-Ho's eyes turned dimmed, "Not funny"
Micheal sneered, "I don't need your laughter. Kid, we have to change location. I won't stay here with hopes that someone would show up"
"I don't have another place" Ji-Ho complained even though Micheal Sanchez was right.
Mrs. Min Ji could come around or anyone else.
"I got a perfect spot in the suburb. Rest assured I bought the place from a trusted friend in this country. We'll move there" Micheal explained and Ji-Ho couldn't help but gasp.
This man was a lifesaver but then, he owed him.
He had promised to help get his niece from Kim and Kang Technologies.
"Oh, cool"
"I parked my vehicle somewhere in the woods. I'll bring it around and we'll leave immediately. Be prepared when I return" After these words, Micheal walked out of the building.
Ji-Ho was barely listening as he stared into the diamond earring on his palm.
If his guess were right, it was Kim Nana's.