Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 324

Chapter 324: Living On The Edge
“Talia? Talia Dragonheart? Are you sure that was her name?”

James noticed his father’s sudden seriousness and he turned to his father and nodded his head. James wondered what was making his father take this so seriously. Normally, his father would just tell a terrible joke at a time like this and James would be forced to tell his father how terrible his jokes were, but right now, Greg looked like he was about to head into battle with the sort of expression he had.

After some time, Greg spoke up with that same serious expression on his face.

“I need you to look after that girl for me, James. Make sure she doesn’t have any issues in school and treat her like family, do you understand?”

James was visibly stunned by the request and his mind raced as he tried to understand what his father was asking him. It wasn’t normal for his father to ask him something like this. Why should he look after a brat like that? She was a crybaby who didn’t even know how to separate her friends from her enemies! She just attacked all of them blindly! He wasn’t going to look after her!

James told this to his father and his father hit him on the head with a sigh.

“Just listen to me, James, and do as you’re told. I’ll ask you about her tomorrow as well. I need you to look after her, alright?”

James gave his father a side glance for a moment before he narrowed his eyes in suspicion and said something that almost made Greg choke on air!

“What the hell, Dad? Is she your illegitimate child or something? You’re trying to make your real son look after your illegitimate daughter? You creep. I’m going to tell Mom.”

Greg glared down at his son and pulled his ear hard, and James yelled in pain as he was almost raised off his seat from the pain! He glared at his father with tears at the edge of his eyes and Greg gave James a look of disappointment as he shook his head.

James was proud of his son for standing up for Talia earlier. James had enough power to be a B rank superhuman, but even with all that power, James was still a good kid and he had a sense of responsibility that was difficult to find in children his age. But no matter how good of a kid James was, sometimes, James would reveal his real age by saying some unnecessary things! It was impossible not to get pissed whenever he said things like that.

“Cheeky brat.”

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[The Next Day – Nature Academy]

Maria’s family car arrived at the entrance of the school and she came down from the back seat with a gracefulness that could only belong to a member of high society. Her hair was let down and she was carrying her school briefcase in both hands as she thanked the driver for bringing her to school. The driver nodded respectfully in response and drove off from the entrance.

“It’s the vice-president. I heard she left school early yesterday. She looks fine.”

“I guess you can do anything you want as long as you’re a member of the student council.”

“But man, I wouldn’t mind joining the student council to be around someone like that.”

“Shut up, idiot. Did you see the news this morning? The one about the superhumans that went missing?”

“Who watches the news?”

“My dad always puts it on before school, so I couldn’t help but listen. They said more superhumans just went missing without a trace. You think it’s related to what happened before?”

“Bro, I have no idea. They’re superhumans, so I’m sure they’re fine. There’s no need to worry about them. Who the hell is going to mess with a superhuman?”

Many students around the school couldn’t help but stop to stare at Maria as she walked into the school and she held her head high and kept moving forward while ignoring their gazes. Even though Maria was not superhuman and she wasn’t dating someone like Mark, many of the students still gave her a lot of attention because she was one of the top members of the school as well as a head of the student council. She was basically a minor celebrity in the school.

Maria made her way past the school doors and waited until she was out of the view of most students before she released a tired sigh and her entire body deflated like all the energy inside her had been drained out. She quickly made her way to the girls’ bathroom, went in front of the mirror, and raised her long hair out of the way to reveal the bandage underneath.

“I hope this heals soon. I don’t want that Turner to see it. Mark won’t be happy about that.”

Maria quickly took off the bandage and started to use makeup to cover up the injury. Maria still remembers how worried her parents were when she came home yesterday and showed them the cut on her neck. Maria told her parents that it was from a door nail that scratched her and her mother immediately called a doctor to check if she had tetanus. Then they gave her medicine, bandaged it up, and told her to get some rest.

If not for the fact that Maria had some say in the house, they would have tried to make her stay at home for the wound to heal. But even though Maria would have preferred to stay at home, she knew that would only raise more suspicions with Turner, so Maria had to be in school.

The worst thing that happened yesterday was when Maria’s mother found out who owned the car that Maria drove home. When Maria told her that it belonged to Mark Vanitas, the young scion of the Vanitas Family, her mother almost had a heart attack on the spot! Her mother still remembered how Maria pissed Mark off the first time they met, so her mother was shocked that Mark would give Maria his car to go home.

Maria was also shocked that Mark would give her something like a car. And when she sent a message to Arit later yesterday asking when she should drop the car off, she was even more shocked when Arit told her not to worry about returning it. Mark was giving it to her as an apology for what happened. What the fuck!? A car that was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!?

Maria knew that her family was also rich, but she couldn’t even dream about giving out a car like the Vanitas Avatendor like it was nothing! And Mark was giving it out for a simple injury to the neck!? What will he do if I break a bone? Will he buy me a mansion!?

Sometimes, Maria didn’t know if she should be thankful that she caught Arit and Mark having sex that day or if she should curse that day to her dying breath!