August 20, tuesday.

After raiding the pet store, Me and Gaston entered a room inside of a building using the window we saw in the back alley. Then after a couple minutes of checking if there really was nobody here, we relaxed and decided to rest. I, on the other hand went to the bathroom, removed all of my clothes, to look and check how badly injured I was, then started utilizing my Qi to remove the bullets inside of my body. To be honest the feeling of bullets coming out of different parts of my body is like taking a dump, except I'm not using my asshole. And its also more painful to the point that my holes are bleeding.

Ting! Ting-ting! One by one, bullets started coming out and fell onto the tiles of the floor. At the same time, the wound that stopped bleeding earlier, started bleeding again, creating a bloody mess inside of the bathroom. Seeing this, I immediately absorb and circulated my Qi to stop the bleeding. For a couple of minutes I stood in front of the mirror with my body covered in blood. When I'm sure that the bleeding stopped, I breathed a long sigh.

I'm really tired right now. And if I could, to be honest I would want to sleep for a whole day and just forget about everything. I mean, I raided those gangs because I needed some money since I don't wanna have a job. If it was possible to become rich while sleeping, I'd prefer that. What kind of pervert would want to bath under a rain of bullets anyway?

After wetting a soft cloth, I used it to slowly wipe the blood that covers my body. And when the cloth turned red, I would wash it with water and again use it to wipe my body. I did it repeatedly until my whole body looks clean. Then I came out of the bathroom and asked Gaston to help me create a huge empty space in the living room. He looked at me confused, but he still helped me and moved all the furnitures in the corner making an empty space in middle.

Standing in the middle, I decided to go into the dark place inside my mind and pop the balloon.

Actually, while I was cleaning myself earlier and seeing that my body heals way too slow, I had a thought. I know that my body heals slowly because my body doesn't have any energy or Qi to use and recovers the damaged flesh. So, I couldn't help but think, what would happen if I used the ferocious energy from popping the balloon to heal my body? Theoretically since it can remove all the impurities and strengthen my body, its also possible to use it to heal an injured one.

So without hesitation, I popped the balloon and a wild energy started rampaging inside me. Calming myself, I circulated it using Thousand Hardening Body Refinement, and let build its momentum until my body was already at its limit. Slowly, I could feel my body becoming full, like a balloon thats being filled with air until its about to explode.

Positioning my body to use the first move of my Martial Arts, I could feel a huge pressure descending and covering me. Maybe because I'm injured, but I felt it was more stronger than how I usually experienced it. Well, I didn't really mind that much. Breathing a sigh, I immediately moved my arm and threw a punch! Boom! The energy inside me exploded and spread across my body. Lightly stepping forward, I twisted my waist and created a momentum to throw a kick. Boom! Again, the energy explodes and spread across my body.

Slowly, I could feel my body being destroyed and healed repeatedly while also becoming stronger. Without noticing, I finished doing one set of Martial Arts without a problem, and at the same time, my body lost all the strength and fell down face first on the floor. Plop!

Actually, this is the first time in a while that I fell down again like this. After a couple of days of training since I got the cultivation method, my body became strong enough to finish two set of martial arts before I plop to the ground without energy left. This time though, I only did one set and already became like this. If I'm correct, it must be because my body was way too injured. The energy that was supposed to be use to strengthen my body, became an energy used to heal it.

Seeing me fell down suddenly, Gaston looked shock and immediately ran towards me and inspected if I'm okay.

".. 'ya alive, kid?" he said while touching every part of my body. The feeling of huge rough hands softly moving across my skin and feeling my body, gives disgust to the deepest core of my soul.

Looking at his face that's smiling like a fcking retard, I couldn't help but frowned. I know this fcker's enjoying this, unfortunately I don't have the strength right now, or else I would have bang his head to the floor repeatedly until I see his brain splattered everywhere in the room! After I got my strength back, I'll beat this fcker to death. I thought.

A couple minutes later, I stood up and ready to fight this pervert to death. But before I could even punch him, I heard a couple sirens coming from somewhere. Gaston also heard it as well. Both of us looked at the direction of the pet store and concluded that the police just arrived at the mess that we left. Since the pet store isn't that far, I couldn't help but be a little bit nervous. Would they found out that we actually didn't run that far?

Sighing slightly, I let Gaston go this time and went to the bathroom.

I'll beat that pervert later, but for now, I need to prepare. I thought.

Coming out of the bath, I saw Gaston cooking in the kitchen with the ingredients taken from the fridge of this place. He also opened some canned foods making the feast even more grander. Seeing these, I immediately eat and Gaston smiled like fcking retard he was. Tasting the first bite, I couldn't help but be surprise that it actually taste good. I mean, even if its not, I wont say anything, I got used in eating nothing for a couple of days and just some water to forcefully satisfy my hunger, so I'm not really picky when it comes to food. That's why I didn't expect anything! Who would have thought that this pervert can cook like a pro?

"Tastes good, right?" He asked smugly.

Snorting slightly, I continued eating like a fcking monster and devoured all the things that I could eat. At the same time, I'm absorbing and refining my Qi, then circulating it to strengthen my body and also to hasten my stomach in consuming food. Seeing the food getting fewer and fewer, Gaston also ate and started to devour food, afraid that he wont be able to eat anything.

When we finished, I didn't move from my sit and continued cultivating. And when I noticed that my body is already full of the most purified Qi, I told Gaston that I would sleep first, so he should rest as well. Gaston shook his head though, he doesn't need sleep since cultivating his technique could remove all the fatigue he has and clear his mind at the same time.

"I see." I shortly answered and added that, if something happen, wake him up immediately. If there's not, then don't enter the fcking room. After all this guy is a fcking pervert. I'm quite a daredevil for staying in the same house as this guy.

Entering a bedroom, I saw a simple looking bed, with some anime posters above it. Looking around, there's also a bookshelf with lots of nerdy stuff displayed. Lightnovels, manga, comics, anime figurines--- this place looks awesome. I always wanted to have a room like this, sadly I don't have money. And to be honest, I would also be embarrassed if my future girlfriend see my room like this. That's why I adore this kind of people with this kind of courage.

Stretching a little bit, I threw myself to the bed and immediately fell asleep.

I don't know how long I was asleep, but suddenly, I could feel my body being shaken forcefully. Opening my eyes, I could see the worried and panic looking Gaston, so immediately, I sat straight and look at him seriously.

"What happened?" I asked.

He smiled bitterly and whispered.

"We're surrounded."

Hearing this, my body became tensed and bolted to the living room. Then slowly, I looked at the window that we entered to see whats going on outside. There I saw some police with dogs, circling below our room. They look like they're looking for something, or maybe patrolling the area. With lots of concentration, I silently closed the window shut, and fixed the curtain so it would block the view, afterwards, I stepped back and tried to calm myself down.

Gaston appeared and carried four bags. Three of them has the money, and the remaining one was the one I bought when I got chased out. He put those four on the sofa and looked at me.

"What do we do?" he asked with a slightly tense voice.

I remained quiet for couple of seconds.

Walking towards him, I decided to asked him some questions, which, Gaston honestly answered. After all, both of us are in the same boat, if the boat sunk, both of would drown to death.

From what Gaston said, the police didn't know our exact location, thats why they set up a perimeter which covered a certain area. There are at least four buildings that are under suspicion, and one of them is the place that we are staying right now. Currently, they're still preparing to launch an investigation and waiting for orders. Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask.

"How many police are in this building? Which floors? And can you detect those police outside?"

Gaston remained silent for a couple of seconds and answered.

"Five in the lobby, the floor below us. And three patrolling outside with dogs."

"That's it?"

"For now, yeah?"

Hearing this, I smiled. This isn't as hopeless as we thought.

Immediately, Gaston and I transferred the money to new bags. Since those bags was already seen by the police with their security cameras, their attention would be focus to those people that has the same bags. So we decided to transfer it to another. After that, we change our clothes, so that we would look normal. Of course I'm not expecting to escape with just these. After all, they're police, if they're stupid enough to let a suspicious guy escape like that, then this country is fcked.

"There's a room in the first floor where they could watch everything that's happening on every floor." Gaston said. "The position of the cameras are mostly stationed to cover the whole corridor and hallways, so taking advantage of the blind spots would be hard."

Hearing this, I stayed quiet and think of what we should do.

"If we walk out of this room, and walk towards the stairs, would the police see us in the lobby?" I asked.

"Yeah, there are four of them there. Two are watching the door outside, and two are monitoring everything that's happening inside."

"How about the security room? How many people are inside?"

"Two. A policeman, and a security guard."

Thinking about many things, I feel like my brain is overloading a little bit. I'm not really the type of person to think hard. I prefer doing things in a most simplest way possible. But unfortunately I couldn't do that this time. Since if I do something that alerted any of them, all of this people would know and all of them would fck the two of us hard.

"Are there any empty room on this floor?" i again asked.

Gaston nodded.

"Can you observe if there's a window there that we could use to escape? And if you can, can you see if there are police outside of the window?"

Gaston frowned, using his mind to observe many things must be kinda tiring. Well, we don't really have a choice, so he could only grit his teeth hard and persevere. After all I cant do what he's doing.

"There are two policeman patrolling that area as well. But they don't have any dogs."

"I see." I answered. "Now, if we go out of this room, what would the camera capture? Front? Back? Or sides?"

"Back."

"And if we open the door of the empty room?"

"Right side."

Nodding my head, I immediately carried my bags with Gaston, and open the door. Acting normal, both of us walked side by side in the hallway and directly went towards the door of the empty room. I didn't wear any mask or tried to cover my face. At least for now. Thats the same for Gaston as well. We need to look normal after all, having a mask would be like shouting to everyone and announcing that we are fcking suspicious! Of course, we know that they'll be suspicious nonetheless, but it wont be make them highly alert. Also, both of us made sure to walk out of the room at the same time that the two people in the security room are not looking.

When we arrived in front of the door, Gaston immediately use his telekinesis to unlock it. While he was doing that, I stood at his right side to cover his face and let him go inside first. Then I also entered the room while covering the right side of my face. And without waiting, both of us bolted to the window, opened it, and directly jumped! Its only four to five meters, so it wont injure us even the slightest. Dug!

There, two policeman immediately looked at us surprised, and before they could even react or make a noise, I was already throwing punches towards them. Bam! Bam! Without any resistance, they fainted and their body fell to the ground. Looking at Gaston, he gestured that it was fine, so I relaxed a little bit.

Looking at the two policeman, I immediately inspected all the things that they carried. Handcuffs, guns, and some communication devices--- I took all of them. The handcuffs was used to the two unconscious policeman, the other two, we divided it for both of us. We could also use the communication device to listen to the reports of the other police.

Looking around and making sure there's no one in our surrounding, we ran to the back alley and told Gaston to lead and evade the places that has some police or people guarding it. Easily we managed to evade a lot of them without a problem, but then while we were running, we never accounted the fact that some police might appear behind us.

"Hey! You two!" shouted of one of the policeman.

Hearing this, both of us stopped. Secretly touching my face and making sure it was covered properly, I calmed down and talk to Gaston.

"How many?" I asked.

"Two. Seven to five meters away behind us." he simply answered.

"I see." I nodded, then continued. "If you use your mind shit, how long can you make them stop and silent?"

While we were discussing, the two police walked towards us with weapons in their hands. Prepared that the people in front of them might do something. Its actually quite amazing even in my point of view. The problem is, they should have reported everything sooner. Because when one of them was about to grab his walkie-talkie, Gaston answered.

"Two seconds."

At the same time, I threw my bags to Gaston, immediately turned around, and ran towards the two.

Seeing the sudden movement, the two of them tried to prepare, but then, an invisible wave like feeling hit them and made them lost in thought. When they came to their senses, I was already standing in front of them and with my fists near their faces. Bam! Bam!

The two police slammed to the ground and directly lost consciousness.

After using the handcuffs to the two and taking anything that can be use to communicate, we left them on the floor as we don't really have time to waste. Shortly after, while standing in a hidden corner in the back alley, Gaston frowned and said, "dead end". Waiting for him to explain more, I looked at him silently.

"They already secured the whole place tight." he said while frowning even more. "There's no escape this time."

"Are you sure?" I asked while looking around.

"Yeah." Gaston nodded. "Unless we could fly."

"Lets try it then." I answered while looking at him.

Hearing this he looked at me like I was a retard. I just smiled and told him what we need to do.

Climbing the stairs used for emergency fire exits, we ran while maintaining silence and fast. When we reached the rooftop, we looked at the adjacent building near us. walking towards the edge, I looked down and see if there are police below, but what I see was just a dark alley without any people. Shifting my gaze to Gaston, I could see him looking down as well, and in his eyes, theres a hint of fear that could be feel.

The plan is really simple, just jump from building to building until all we safely left the perimeter the police set up.

Without further ado, I threw my bags to the other building, walked backwards, and when I'm sure that the distance is enough, I ran with all the strength I have! Immediately, my foot reached the edge, and using my Qi, I pushed myself to the building while experiencing the feeling of flying! Dug! Landing on the other side, I turned around and told Gaston to hurry up. The police are starting to investigate the buildings now. They would find out that we just escape, and if that happened, shit would be even more dangerous.

Although reluctant, I could see Gaston gritting his teeth hard. And while nervous, he threw the bag he has to this side and prepared to jump. Like what I did, he ran to gain momentum and jumped towards this building. dug! Without a problem, he landed safe and sound.

Smiling, I gave him the bag and immediately walk towards the other side of the building. Following me, Gaston and I, managed to jump towards two another building without a problem. Actually with the numbers of building we crossed, we should have left the perimeter the police set up. But when I looked down, there are still many people and some police patrolling, so we didn't dare to go down yet. Instead we ready ourselves to jump another building. But this time, the distance between from our current building to the next, is almost ten meters. And the momentum that we could gain from running on top of this building is quite bad as well, since isn't that wide. But I still think its possible.

Throwing my bags to the top of the other building, I walked towards the end of the building and immediately used the footwork of Thousand Hardening Body Refinement to build momentum, at the same time, I didn't bother saving Qi, and used one third of it to propel myself forward like a rocket with the highest speed! While in the air, I could hear the wind whistling through my ears giving me an illusion that I'm flying. To be honest I didn't expect to enjoy this feeling. Sadly, its quite short, and I landed to my target building short after.

Breathing a sigh, I turned around to look for Gaston.

Compared to the first time he jumped, he now have some confidence in jumping from building to building, but still, like the first time, he was still careful and used all of his energy to jump. Then, tragedy happened. While he was in the air, both of us could see that the momentum he has are not enough to push his body to this building. He wont even be able to touch the edge. Knowing this, Gaston contorted and tried to push himself to the air, but of course its impossible.

Seeing him falling down, I immediately position myself in his front and jump towards him. While in the air, I grabbed his arm tightly and looked at the edge of the building. Falling down, the edge of the rooftop was already at the same level as my chest, so if I tried to wait further, both of us would fall to our deaths. Using my other empty hand, I hooked it to the edge and slammed my foot to its wall. Bam! Since Gaston is in my other arm, his body also slammed to the wall. Without waiting for him to cry, I used some of strength and directly threw Gaston's body to rooftop like a bag of trash. With my strength a few hundreds of kilogram is nothing to me. So, after that, I lifted my body and looked at Gaston with a hint of mockery.

Do you think I already forgot what you did earlier? Touching my body is only exclusive to my future wife. Not to a piece of shit like you!

Using some stupid reasons like, there's still people below, or some police still patrolling, I forced this pervert to jump from building to building without a problem. Actually even if theres a police below, as long as their number are not that many its fine. Besides with many people down there, how could the police know which is which just because we're wearing bags? The cover of many people would be even more convenient. Well, he must have forgotten how to use common sense after a couple jumps.

Seeing him scared so much while falling and expression of someone dying, I think its enough. The way I smashed his body to the wall was quite satisfying as well. And, there's also a bonus, even though its not that obvious, I, as a cultivator could easily see it. This pervert peed a little. A forty-five looking old man peed his pants.

Seeing him breathing heavily, I smiled. You should behave more next time.

When we came down of the building, we looked for a car and decided to use Gaston's telekinesis and open it from inside. He then use it to make the car work even without a key. Afterwards, we parked the car randomly, and went to his truck. After making sure that everything was fine, we left the town to go to the next city.

*******

August 21, wednesday.

Early in the morning, we thought eating some chinese food for breakfast sounds cool so we decided looking for a chinese restaurant. Like before, we ordered all kind of foods there and ate like kings. The crew of that chinese restaurant was happy, shock, and baffled at same time. They just opened for only an hour and their first customer are already like this. I mean we alone, spent a little more than thousand pesos just be full.

After eating, we didn't immediately stood up and leave. We stayed there a little more to relax a little bit.

"Kid, 'ya haven't told me 'ya name yet." Gaston asked. ".. 'ya already know mine, Daz unfair."

I tilted my head in confusion.

"... really?"

"Yaah." rolling his eyes. "So?"

While we were talking, one of the crew in the restaurant came to us and cleaned the table. When he was about to carry all the plates and utensils, he kinda slip and the tray fell down and smashed to ground creating a huge noise. At the same moment of smashing sound, I told Gaston my name.

"..You okay?" I asked the guy.

"Ah.. yes, sir." he said. While apologizing and picking up everything. The other employees also helped the guy while also apologizing to us repeatedly. The manager even came and lightly scolded the guy, and asked us if everything is alright.

"Its fine, its fine." Gaston answered while laughing lightly.

When everythings done, our table became clean and quiet.

"What was that again?" He asked. Looking at my confused face, he added, "Name! 'Ya name kid. i didn't fckin hear it."

Before I could even talk, a waitress came and said that one of the phone is ringing.

This restaurant has a charging station. While we were waiting for the food, we decided to charge our dead phones. We've been away for couple of days now, and we totally forgot about our phones until when we were looking for chinese restaurant earlier.

"Which one?" Gaston asked.

".... the old nokia, sir." says the waitress.

"Its mine." He answered and slowly stood up.

My face was the same as that waitress when I first saw his phone. I mean who the fck would still use that phone? Then I was even more shock when I saw that they actually have a charger for that old brand. This restaurant is fckin amazing.

After a couple minutes, I saw him smiling like a fcking retard. When he sat down and saw me looking at him, he immediately told me who was he talking to.

"That was my wife." he said. "My ex wife."

I'm quite surprised when I heard that. Theres actually someone who married this guy! Does she have some kind of weird fetish?

"Jealous? Don't worry. 'Ya kid would always have special spot in ma heart. Though we only knew each other for a short time, I know. We're quite compatible with each other."

After he said that, he put his hand on my shoulder and started touching it in dirtiest and perverted manner. Feeling this, my reflex kicked in and I immediately punch him in the face. Bam! Don't underestimate my punch, I'm about to open my second meridian after all. Even if his body is tougher, and my punch isn't my strongest, I'm sure it would still hurt. A lot.

"The fuck, kid!"

I sighed. I almost forgot this guy is a pervert, and gayer than a fcking rainbow.

After feeling his face and making sure the pain is gone, Gaston looked at me said he needed to go home and back to his job to return the truck. He probably needed to do many things for being gone almost half a week. So I nodded calmly.

"What 'ya gonna do now?" he asked.

"Capital." I answered. "I'll be living there."

Hearing that, he nodded and both of us continued our travel.

This guy is talkative as always. While he was driving he already told me how he met his wife, his son, and some of his hobbies. The one that got my interest was him making knives. He even calls himself a pro when it comes to making knives. Also, he said that his place is two cities away from the capital. But, he still needed to pass the capital so he could accompany me till there.

Almost an hour later, we made it to the capital.

After looking for a good place, and making sure that I didn't forget anything, he dropped me to the nearest station.

"See 'ya around, kid." Gaston said while smiling.

I nodded at him, then he drove away.

To be honest, even though I don't want to fcking admit it, he's a good guy. If not for his gayness, he'd be cool guy. I mean, his beard alone is fcking amazing.

Sighing, I started looking at my phone for direction. After a while, I rode a bus and entered a residential area. Then I walked for like half an hour and finally saw the building. When I checked my phone, I became sure that this is it.

"Carrisa Residences."