Two days ago--- August 22, thursday.

When the morning arrived, Reyna opened her eyes and slowly breathed a sigh.

Her three days of effort finally bore fruit and finally reopened her three meridians. This might shock others since unlike them, she only started cultivating three days ago because of some problems. But in truth for Reyna, this kind of speed is quite slow. She already opened her fourth meridian more than a year ago, but when the Gods and Immortals came to this planet and started giving cultivation method, all of her meridians was forcefully closed. Since that happened, the discongruity she felt for an entire week was unbearable.

Now that she re-opened her third meridian, that discongruity finally lessened by a notch. In truth, she felt like she's a little bit stronger than her previous self. And that's her only reopening her third meridian, what kind of strength would she acquire the moment she reopened her fourth--- these thoughts excites her bored heart a little.

Standing up, she started stretching her body slightly, making her already breath taking body even more seducing. Unfortunately, except for a certain man, no one has seen her naked body before. Of course there was that guy who raped her almost a week ago, but that guy is now dead and was turned to ashes.

Remembering that incident, her originally good mood suddenly turned bad.

Sighing softly, she walked down the stairs to go back to her room while making sure that the door to the rooftop is properly locked. As the landlady, she has the right to monopolize the rooftop for her own. That's why she loved being the landlady.

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Coming inside of her apartment, Reyna found her cousin, Agnes, who has laundries on her hand while looking and posing in front of the mirror. Beside her cousin are sets of simple clothes she normally uses at home. This scene is quite weird, but compared to the weirdness her cousin did exhibit in the past, this could still be considered as normal.

After looking in front of the mirror for almost a minute, Agnes looked slightly disatisfied as she started stripping naked and changed to a new set of clothes. And just like what she did earlier, she started posing while looking at herself in the mirror and checking herself in every angle. This lasted for at least more than twenty minutes before Agnes was completely satisfied at her outfit. Only then she looked at her cousin, Reyna, who's now sitting on a sofa while looking at her with a poker face as usual.

"How do I look?" Agnes smiled. "Does it look sexy?"

Looking at her from head to toe, Reyna nodded slightly.

"Yeah." she said calmly. "And a little bit stupid as well."

"I see."

Reyna laughed excitedly, then again looked at the mirror and started criticizing her look even more. From the looks of it, Reyna's answer deeply satisfied Agnes. This made Reyna a little bit confused.

"Well, if it can make you happy, I'll call you stupid everyday."

"No, that's not why--" After speaking a couple of words, Agnes realized that explaining things to Reyna is useless. So she just sighed. "Anyway, the breakfast ready."

"What is it?" Reyna asked as she slowly stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

"Mami." Agnes giggled. "I cooked it last night. It should be good for you."

When she arrived at the kitchen and found the mami, at first Reyna was disappointed. After all she might not be body cultivator, and she focuses on refining Qi as her specialty, but she is still a cultivator nonetheless. And the amount of food that she consumes is almost doubled of what Agnes consumes. That's why the first thing entered Reyna's mind is, this food isn't enough. Even though her face is still emotionless as ever, Agnes, who is her cousin, saw the subtle change of Reyna's mood.

"Don't worry." Agnes started. "It's not an ordinary mami."

Reyna silently looked at Agnes and waited for her to explain.

"It's a mami that has Foundation Pill and Rejuvenation Liquid mixed in. I cooked it last night, just reheated for breakfast. A bowl should be enough for you."

Hearing that, Reyna's emotionless face showed some changes.

Mixing pills into a food is fine, as long as the foods are what can everyone considered as 'normal', and the ingredients of the food don't affect the medicinal properties of the Pills. But mixing two Pills, or two different cultivation medicines, would cause the whole thing a mess. Since these two medicines might affect each other's properties, doing this unprofessionally might turned the whole thing into a poison, instead of a medicine.

Agnes knows what Reyna's thinking, so without a waiting for her to reply, she immediately explain.

"Its not really that hard." Reyna smiled calmly. "I used most of my points to buy some basic informations about concocting medicines. And since I already have basic experience in making it, the whole thing became really easy for me."

Reyna and Agnes' bloodline came from the once infamous Barang.

In the ancient times, before the spanish colonization happened, when the different native tribes prosper and resources are abundant, Barang was considered as the most powerful profession one could have. Barang are what normal people these days considered as the closest thing to a shaman. They can turn many things (such as body parts of an animal, herbs, roots, and different kind of stones, chemicals or elements) into a medicine. But of course healing is not the only thing they can do.

According to the legends, they can control and manipulate insects to do anything they wanted. They can kill and poison anyone they deemed enemy with just a slight touch. They're considered valuable to a tribe, but also treated them like plague. In a way, their relationship with the tribes was very complicated. Added to that is their ugly appearance making them hated, and the tribesmen be scared of them.

In the end they were hunted down repeatedly because of some accusations, and was forced to fight back. As the Barang strives to survive, they learned to fight not only with poison and insects, they also learned to temper their bodies and fight using their physical strength.

Anyway those things already happened in the past.

Compared to other Barang Families, Reyna and Agnes, can be considered unique. And its all because of their twisted and eccentric Grandma.

Their Grandma was a curious person, she always thought of many ways to improve the bloodline of their family while also making it stronger. At that time, before she became pregnant, she made a theory, what would happen if the she divided the abilities of the bloodline into two? In theory, it would not only help the family to become stronger, but it would also allow the future generation to be a lot more focused on one thing making their capabilities improve faster.

So that's what she did. After she made different kind of preparations, she looked for a handsome and successful man, used a gayuma (love potion), to make him fall head over heals for her, and they made babies.

The first daughter is pure and stronger. Since most of the impurities that was supposed to be passed down to her from her mother was removed, she grew up beautiful with a physical body surpassing her mother.

The second daughter is frail and ugly. She inherited the impurities of her mother, but in exchange, her mental strength is a lot powerful than her sister. Not only that, even as a kid, she already showed a talent to control insects like they're slaves.

Since then, their Barang family completely became different type of Barang. And the both of them, Reyna and Agnes, became the youngest and most powerful generation of their family.

Agnes was thought how concoct medicines and poisons, and also how to rear and control insects. While Reyna was thought how to fight physically, and manipulate Qi to destroy bodies with just a single touch (---in short to kill people). But the thing is, both of them practiced the same cultivation technique to improve their bodies and make it almost invulnerable when it comes to toxins.

"Well, just eat it." Agnes smiled. "It'd be helpful since you just reopened your third meridian."

Reyna silently nodded, took a bowl of mami, and sat beside Agnes while watching morning news.

"So?" Reyna asked after slurping down the noodles. "Why did you cooked mami last night? And what're you planning with those laundries?"

"Oh that."

Agnes smiled and giggled slightly embarrassed.

"Remember when I told you that a new tennant would arrive this week, well he arrived last night." Agnes lightly bit her lips, as she slowly released her Spiritual sense towards the room just below theirs. Inside of the bathroom, she saw the well toned muscular body of Gabriel, naked while taking a shower quietly. From the looks of it, Gabriel is physically and mentally tired because he just unlocked his second meridian. That's why he didn't feel Agnes' spiritual sense observing him.

"So, as a good neighbor, I decided to give him a gift." Agnes added.

Seeing the perverted look on Agnes' face, Reyna just shook her head slightly and continued slurping the soup.

"Well, I have to admit." Reyna calmly said. "I never thought my cousin is a bitch."

Agnes rolled her eyes and withdraw her spiritual sense.

"I'm not." she said. "I'm still a virgin, and haven't even kissed--- oh, wait I did."

Seeing Agnes acting like a perverted bitch, Reyna stopped caring and just continued slurping her mami like a kid. But even though Reyna's not saying anymore, Agnes still continued and told her everything.

Yesterday, when she learned that the new tennant arrived, Agnes was not really enthusiastic. Well, she wont really mind if she's not the one meeting the new tennant, but since Reyna's cultivating, she really have no choice. But who would have thought that the new tennant was her first love, and her chosen one. Since she felt like the heaven's helping her, she decided to try her best to make him hers this time.

The bed where she usually sleep, the bed where she softly touched herself a couple of times while imagining Gabriel, the bed where her body's fragrance lingers--- she decided to give it to Gabriel including the whole room. And since she discovered that he's also a cultivator, and is about to open his second meridian, she cooked the mami to help him breakthrough.

And now, after Gabriel finishes his breakfast outside, she plans on timing it to "accidentally" meet him and talk to him a little bit. Just make the both of them more familiar to each other. And using that as a base, they could slowly become closer and become something more than a friend.

Hearing all that made Reyna realize that the crazy side of Agnes is still there.

When Agnes was younger, she did many crazy things that made one question the morality of their family. For example, trespassing someone's house just to enter a certain boy's closet and observe him secretly, or use some sleeping drugs to that boy just so she could get close to him physically (by touching his private parts while his asleep, kissing and licking every part of him, while silently touching herself). Or when she tried to kill the girlfriend of that boy, a couple times, and if not for Reyna preventing all of that, that girlfriend would have died a couple times in a most brutal manner possible.

Since Agnes inherited the impurity part of their Barang bloodline, her tendencies are lot more apparent compared to Reyna. And the way she love is a lot more intense than anyone from their family. She's the very embodiment of the crazy and the scary side of the Barang. From what Reyna knows, even when Agnes was just a child, Reyna never saw Agnes be scared or even feel troubled after seeing a dead body, or the process of how it died. She was even inspecting and laughing at it like she was just looking at an insect wriggling and begging for mercy.

She really thought Agnes already became normal, but now she found out that her tendencies were just in a deep slumber and just waiting for her chosen to reawaken it for her.

As Reyna finished the mami, she suddenly felt a sense of deja vu. Then slowly she remembers something. A thing that she considered as important, but for some reason, she kept forgetting even when she tried hard to remember its content. Breathing a sigh, she stopped and looked at Agnes while frowning slightly.

"Whats the date today?"

Without a thought, Agnes just answered honestly.

"August 22, thursday."

After hearing that, Reyna didn't say anything and stood up. She then went to the kitchen, washed the dishes, and entered her bedroom. Inside, she started rummaging her things and looked for a book. And using her mental sense, it only took her a couple minutes to find it.

Pulling it out, a book that looks old and has designs that a girl might found quite cute was easily seen. At least for her this is cute. To be honest, she felt a certain sense of familiarity about this book, but also felt distant as she never know or remember when or how she got it. And for some reasons, the book was written like a diary, and the writings does look like it was the same as hers. This made her even more troubled. After all, most of its content always happened in reality.

This book didn't have a name, except for the "Script" written on the front. That's why, Reyna always assumes that this is a script. And everyone who's part of the script are the actors, or maybe just puppets that dances on top of the authors hand. Unfortunately, she is also one of those puppets.

As Reyna started reading, all the informations that she had forgotten for some reasons, are now coming back to her. The scenes and the things that would happen in the future was again remembered by her. And this made her feel complicated.

A little while later, Reyna breathed a sigh of relief and annoyance.

"So, the script finally continues here."