After a while, Jenny was left alone in her parents room. Curled up under the bed, her uncle, Joey, and his wife, Karen, didn't even notice that a young girl was quietly listening to everything that they were saying.

For the first time in her life, she felt that the darkness was more scary than what she originally knows. The things that she learned from them was very disturbing to hear, specially for someone who lost her parent while young. The truth of everything was very hard for her to understand. But even so, she easily understand the basic things that they said.

Her parents were killed by someone, it was not an accident. And it was all because that someone wanted the company that her parents cared for.

As she was processing this information in her mind, she couldn't help but silently cry. The tears in her face kept falling down like a waterfall, and she couldn't even stop it even when she wanted to. Slowly, after a while, her mind started calming down. But the sadness was still there. And while she was lying under the bed, for some reason, she remembered the man with an unkempt beard and messy hair, Gabriel.

For her, he was like a big brother that made her feel comfortable. An amazing person that gave her advice and listened to her problems when she has no one to talk to. Remembering all the things they did almost a two weeks ago, a rare smile appeared on her face.

Immediately, even though she felt kinda embarrassed, she called his number. But what answered her was a robotic voice of a woman who told her its out of reach or something. So instead, she tried calling his little brother, her friend, Rico.

Since almost a week ago, Rico and Jenny has been contacting or texting each other. They even became friend in f*cebook and chatted there when they're both available. Both of them have the same taste in some anime (or cartoons, as what Jenny calls it), almost same personality, and they also have the same interests. These made the two click together and became best of friends. Still, when the two of them are talking or having a chat, both of them would try their best to not include Gabriel. That's why Jenny didn't know that Gabriel already left.

"When did he leave?"

When she learned of it, Jenny felt kinda bitter and even more depressed. Still, she didn't hate Gabriel. Well, a little bit, but not to the point that she'd treat him like an enemy. After all, she knows that Gabriel really didn't have any responsibility of taking care of her. He just promised that he would always listen to her and he'd always be there for her. Jenny isn't that stupid that she would take it literally. But still, it made her feel even more lonely.

"Do you really need to talk to him?" Rico asked worriedly.

Trying to sound casual while making sure Rico wont notice that she just cried, she forced herself and said, "no". Still, Rico noticed that something was wrong.

"--- I can ask mom for kuya's number." Rico said hastily. "Just wait."

Before she could even react, the call was ended. This made Jenny smile a little bit.

As she was looking at her phone, the door opened and footsteps came closer to the bed.

"Jenny." a soft and gentle voice of a woman was heard.

The owner of the voice, Sofia, then sat down beside the bed and looked at Jenny who's underneath it.

"I heard you wanna meet Gabriel?" Sofia smiled.

Jenny stopped for a second and looked at Sofia.

"D-do you know him?"

Sofia smiled even more and looked at her with weird glint in her eyes. Giggling a little bit, Sofia answered honestly and said that she didn't know him. But, she might know where he lives. This made Jenny confused, but before she could say anything, Sofia already said where Gabriel lives.

At this time, Jenny received a text message from Rico.

It says that Gabriel's phone broke and was lost, so his mom didn't know his number. But his mom knows where he lives. Rico then mentioned the address and the exact building and apartment of Gabriel. Reading this made Jenny looked at her nanny, Sofia. What Rico said was the same as what Sofia said earlier.

"So, do you wanna meet him?"

Jenny hesitated a little bit, but after a couple of seconds, she forced a smile and nodded her head.

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August 27, tuesday.

Early in the morning, Jenny and Sofia left to visit Gabriel in Carissa Residences. But since Sofia didn't know how to drive a car, they asked the driver working for Jenny's father to bring them there.

For almost an hour everything seems fine, and their trip was actually quite relaxing. But, for some unknown reason, Sofia kept feeling something was wrong. No matter how hard she tried to suppress it, the goosebumps she kept experiencing was very unsettling. As she was raising her guard, a van of unknown origin suddenly sped up by their side and slam their car!

Immediately, the car started swinging on the road while issuing a screeching sounds. The van didn't stop though, and continued ramming their car repeatedly until the driver finally lost control and was forced to stop. At the same time, people with guns came out of the van and started pointing it on their car.

"Come out!" shout one of the guys with guns.

Before they could answer though, the other guys already walked beside their cars and started hammering their windows with the butt of their guns. Crack! After a few slams, their windows broke and immediately forced their door to open. Then, they looked at the people inside and only stopped when they saw Jenny.

"Take the child." order the guy from behind.

Sofia tried to fight back and protect Jenny, but with many people pointing their guns towards Jenny and Sofia, Sofia was forced to stopped. With a short amount of time, even when Jenny tried to make noise and fight back, she was still easily taken away.

Inside the van, Jenny was blindfolded and gagged.

When she tried to fight back earlier, a man punched her in her stomach and was immediately shut up. She could only hold her stomach and tried her best to gasp for more air. The punch was quite heavy. And because of that, she couldn't breath. At that time, she was just tossed in the middle of the van and was surrounded by everyone.

As the van was quietly moving towards their destination, the other people in the van kept looking curiously at Jenny who's trembling and crying silently.

".. She's the daughter of the two yesterday, right?" asked one of the guys.

The man sitting beside the driver, the leader, nodded his head and simply said, "yes".

"From what I know, that guy only needed a company." asked again by that guy. "Then, whats the purpose of kidnapping this girl?"

Hearing that, the other guys in the van giggled and laughed. They all looked at the guy who asked and smirked silently.

"There are perverts with different hobbies." said the guy beside Jenny. "Its just that, taking the daughter of their competitors as a trophy--- is that guy's hobby."

"Trophy?" the guy asked innocently.

The guys in the van laughed and cursed the guy for being stupid.

"Well, I cant really blame that guy for wanting to taste a young girl." said the guy beside Jenny and curiously looked at Jenny's trembling figure.

Although she's young and skinny, her bulging chest that's impossible to see for girls in her age was easily seen. The contrast of her skinny arms and her well rounded chest was amazing to see. Specially now that she's curled up, her small yet enticing cleavage was very seductive. Including hips and plump ass--- Jenny was deadly poison for perverts. The guy beside Jenny was even secretly having a huge boner while looking at her.

"Alright, stop now." the leader commanded. "We just need to finish this and we'll get the money."

The leader then looked at the guy beside Jenny and warned him.

"You, stop looking at her like that. If you do anything, I'll make sure you wont be paid."

The guys laughed slightly, then stayed quiet after that.

As they were traversing a slightly populated highway, their relax and easy going attitude suddenly changed when a figure appeared in front of their van smashed their front. Bam! Their van was forcefully stop by a single punch! And before the people in the van could even react, that person took out knives out of her bag and started throwing it to the people inside!

Normally knives, no matter how hard one throw it, it wont break the window of a van. But in this case, the knives smoothly bypassed it and stabbed some of the people inside, while only leaving some holes in the windows. By this time, the people already reacted, but it was still too late.

The person already open one of the doors, and successfully taken Jenny out of the van. Before the person left, purple looking smoke came out of her mouth and started filling the whole van. After she close the door, she bolted out of the road while carrying Jenny in her arms.

The people in the surroundings could only look at the van with their wide eyes as they wonder what the fck just happened. Some of the drivers stopped their cars, came out, and walked towards the van curiously. Because of that, a traffic happened and a lot of curious people started gossiping about what they'd seen.

"A van that was moving fast, was easily stopped by a woman with a single punch! And before everyone could scream in surprise, the people in the van already died, and the woman escaped with a girl in her arms."

This unbelievable rumor would start to circulate everywhere. But this rumor wouldn't gain much of attention, as this would only be just one of the most bizarre rumors that would start to appear. Slowly people would realized that this rumor was only one of the many shocking rumors in the future.

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For Jenny, after she learned that someone wanted to kidnap her, and after she connected the dots from what those guys were saying, she already know that those guys were the people who most likely killed her parents. But even so, since she's just a child, she couldn't do anything and could only stay quiet. Trembling in anger and sadness, she clenched her fists and wished she had the strength to get revenge.

Jenny, for the first time in her life, had the urge to kill someone.

At this time, she felt like a huge explosion happened and the entire van stopped. There was some commotions, and Jenny was slammed to the chair in front together with the other guys in the van. She got buried under the muscular bodies of these guys, and she felt suffocated. After some noises, she felt someone grabbed her and bought her away by running. Unfortunately, she was already losing consciousness so she couldn't identify the one carrying her. But she felt like she heard the voice of her nanny, Sofia.

When Jenny woke up, she found herself lying in a dusty floor. Looking around, she saw that she was inside of an abandoned looking house where all the things inside are dusty and broken in old age. There was even some holes in the ceiling.

Sitting up, she saw Sofia sitting cross-legged while breathing calmly. Beside her is a man in twenties with a handsome face and amazing build. He's wearing the same uniform of those working in a famous fast food chain.

Seeing Sofia woke up, the man smiled and looked at Sofia quietly.

".. do you know her?" the man asked Jenny and pointed at Sofia.

The sudden question confused Jenny, but since she really isn't in the situation where she could just ignore it, she answered truthfully. She nodded her head and said Sofia's name. When the man heard that, he again smiled.

"That's good." he laughed carefree and continued. "I thought this woman kidnapped you, so I'm here."

Tilting her head, Jenny looked at the man and Sofia alternately. She couldn't help but wonder what happened when she was asleep.

Opening her eyes, Sofia looked at Jenny and smiled. Then she glared at the man beside her.

"Since you already know that I didn't kidnap her, then why aren't you leaving yet?"

"Well," the man scratched his head innocently. "Now that I'm here, I could just help the both of you. With that, I'm sure that both of you would be safe."

Standing up, Sofia walked and sat down beside Jenny while carefully raising her guards against the man.

"Thank you, but your help isn't needed."

"Don't say that." the man laughed bitterly. "I already abandoned my job just for the two of you. So let me help. At least with that I'd feel like losing my job was worth it. Besides.."

The man looked at the two girls in front of him and grinned confidently.

"With me around, no one can touch you." standing up, he stretched his body and continued smiling. "After all, in this country--- I'm considered the strongest."

Michael, five meridians unlocked, Rank 58 in World Ranking.

Philippines' Strongest Cultivator.