"En... ough!" After a momentary pause where she almost surrendered to the joyful feelings of pleasure which pulsated from her chest area with increasing momentum, Linnet uttered these words with pure willpower in motion.

  'Whoa... H-holy shit, I'm flying for real.' Bryan thought while he took the view from above where his back is practically glued to the ceiling, he immediately noticed that his body is completely immobilized. The boy couldn't even move his eyes balls within their sockets!

  Below him the girl fixed her attire and sat back on bed like before while gring at him, "Looks like that perverted attitude of yours is still the same like always," She beckoned with her finger and his stiff body floated downwards slowly until he nded sideways on her thighs with his ass facing upwards and in a perfect positioning for something which was mentioned earlier and he feared for his dignity.

  "I bet you already forgot how good big sister is in using her right hand." Linnet said.

  'Not as good as me in using my left hand I'm afraid.' Bryan thought but his train of thoughts was rudely interrupted when she pulled down his pants alongside his underwear in a single motion and he immediately felt the lick of low room temperature on his skin below the waist, 'Don't!'

  *Pa* *Pa* *Pa*

  "How many times did I tell you to stop touching other peoples' bodies without their consent? How many times did I tell you to keep away from the red district area? How many times did I tell you to keep away from the rotten hoodlums which loiter in the dark alleys of the market area? You even dare take advantage of the only person who ever cared for you and bit the hand which fed you like some kind of ungrateful beast?"

  Bryan's mind suddenly felt like it became out of service and all vestiges of any remaining thoughts within it immediately scattered into nothing!

  Despite being unable to move, he clearly could feel.

  And getting spanked by a copy of his next-door neighbor while feeling completely helpless confused him in the beginning before these feelings of confusion shifted into unwillingness then shame which birthed anger.

  'No! Stop... Stop!' Once these emotions filled his chest he felt his body shivering and growled through his throat, "Enough." His voice sounded hoarse and deep but forcing this word out in this situation sapped him of all his strength.

  Instantly his small body was soaked in sweat which felt like all his pores opened all at once and whatever moisture left within his body came gushing out like water pouring down from an open faucet!

  "Huh!" Linnet was shocked that this boy was able to break free even for a split second from her restriction technique and gnced at him in silence with raised eyebrows.

  Seeing his current state and the shade coloring his sweat which started to become darker with each passing second, she immediately understood what was happening and flicked her finger towards her personal bathroom door and it opened completely.

  Afterwards she gestured towards Bryan who was tossed towards a wide bathtub which could comfortably fit a dozen people, his clothes flew out of his body before it hit the pink aromatic water which had a few petals of water floating on top.

  *Spsh*

  He regained his ability to move freely and waved his exhausted arms and pushed with his legs to reach the surface.

  *Click* *Cck*

  The sound of slow footsteps drew his attention once his head broke the water to take a breath and he looked towards the bathroom door, there he saw Linnet coming towards him slowly.

  The look in her eyes contained doubt, curiosity, and something else which Bryan couldn't completely decern before she opened her delicate lips to say : "Where's my ring?" She asked.

  Bryan rolled his eyes after hanging to the side of the deep bathtub to take a breather, "Lady. Believe me, I'd give you a ring and take you under my wing in a heartbeat if possible, but there seems to be some sort of misunderstanding between us. I didn't even know who you are before we met earlier in that pce where your companion spshed me with dirty water to awaken me."

  Linnet narrowed her eyes slightly in a cute squint which expressed another side to her beauty, "Is that so?" She asked once again while squatting right in front of him to be on the same level where she can look him directly in the eyes.

  "Cross my heart, scouts' honor, I swear it." Bryan didn't even flinch and she smiled before leaving the bathroom.

  He frowned because he didn't expect this girl to believe him so easily since even he wouldn't do the same in this situation.

  However, a minute or so she returned with a picture frame which is bigger than herself in height.

  The sight of the big decoration floating in the air next to her as she walked into the spacious and extravagant bathroom was an additional reminder to the boy that he's not back in his world anymore.

  "Take a look at this and answer me, my ring is an exact replica of this one but gold instead of silver." Once she gestured for the gold-painted wooden frame to flip towards his view, he saw a painting of some middle-aged man then pointed towards his left hand where a silver ring decorated one of his fingers.

  "That's the first time I've seen a ring with this design in my life, be it silver or gold... sorry." Bryan gave it a deep and serious look before shrugging then shaking his head.

  "Mind if I confirm it?" Linnet smirked even further before gesturing with her hand and the frame flew outside the bathroom, he wondered what happened to it since he didn't hear any sound of crashing outside the room but her question distracted him from that point and he really didn't care to be honest.

  Bryan shook his head to answer her question before inquiring with a question of his own, "How are you going to do that?"

  The girl moved closer to him and extended her right index finger towards his forehead while saying : "Rex or this is going to really hurt."

  *Ugh*

  Before he could inquire any further her finger nded on him and his body quivered from pain before his eyes swam in their sockets.

  "Hmm... He was telling the truth," Linnet sat on the edge of the bathroom while resting Bryan's head next to her, "Whoever was behind this whole scheme was meticulous and careful not to leave behind any leads at all, if I hadn't arrived in time then they'd have succeeded in killing little Brayden too.

  "But they still managed to wipe his memories clear... no! Not all of his memories as it'd seem," The girl blushed while remembering the events of him grabbing her breasts and calling her as a "certain" Goddess!

  *****

  "Ah!" Bryan suddenly opened his eyes and sat on his bed like rising back from the dead, it startled Amy so bad she felt like her heart would leap out of her chest.

  "A-Amy?" Bryan asked while struggling to confirm that he's still in the same realistic dream which he had earlier instead of his own room back on earth where his sweet neighbor is just a simple prostitute who deprives him of sleep most of the nights instead of this frightening and mysterious version.

  "Y-yeah... you scared me almost to death! Don't you dare do that to me ever again. You can feed yourself since you're already awake and so lively." Amy stomped her feet all the way out of the room and only now did the boy notice the traces of food around his mouth, turns out she was feeding him some porridge moments earlier... he can still taste its sweetness and feel its warmth inside his mouth.

  Seconds ter another person entered the room, only this face isn't one which he feels indebted towards... this one he very much hopes to swing at with all his power!

  "Heh. You're awake." Spencer said while taking a seat at the table and looking towards him.

  Bryan wasn't in the mood to have any sort of conversation with this fellow, he reached towards the tray next to his bed and started eating slowly in silence.

  'Fuck! Every muscle on my body is screaming from pain, what did that girl do to me?'

  The blonde man poured himself a cup of ale and took a sip before grinning like a leopard, "Hurts like a bitch huh." He said once he noticed the boy wincing from pain with every simple movement.

  Bryan merely gave him a single gnce before nodding faintly, he didn't even bother asking since it'd be embarrassing to get denied an answer by this asshole.

  'This little runt is making it extremely hard for me to gather any momentum at all, so annoying indeed... but at least he's making this an interesting duel.' Spencer thought before shrugging helplessly.

  "Once you finish your meal come find me at the training grounds, Lady Linnet ordered me to take care of you and I'm not going to go easy on you." Right when Bryan was about to compin he met the man's cruel and sadistic gaze, he immediately understood that saying anything in this situation is only going to nd him right in the center of the blonde man's trap.

  He simply nodded and decided to take his time eating but even with his slow motion, his portion only had a few spoons' worth of food left in the bowl.

  Sighing he set the tray aside and mentally prepared himself for the incoming pain which is unavoidable before climbing down from bed, strapping his sandals which resemble the greek-style of ancient time... Bryan stood at the door and took in the cold air of early morning into his chest.

  The voice of men grunting could be heard from the side and once he looked he saw thousands standing at a clear and ft pza, straps of fabric were tied around their left arm near the shoulder.

  There's a clear separation of these men, women, boys, and girls. It's simply based on the color of the strap around their left arm.

  Bryan immediately noticed that those around his age mostly had white colored strap and a rare few had yellow straps and were included among those a bit older.

  "You're here. Go run 10 ps around the pza." Before the sight could set in, the boy felt a hand smacking him right at the center of his back and sending electric currents through his muscles.

  Of course he recognized the sound, only he didn't look back since that would give Spencer the satisfaction of seeing the ugly pained expression on his face.

  'And here I was rubbing my hands and expecting him to give me an excuse to make an example out of him in front of these brats.'

  While the blonde man watched him run at such a painfully slow speed and take one step followed by another at a steady pace, Bryan on the other hand was barely hanging on with willpower alone!

  'I'm going to die. This is torture. No! This is child abuse since I'm a little kid in this fucking world.' The boy's thoughts raced at lightning speed within his head but at least it helped in distracting him from thinking about how long remains on the task at hand and narrowed his vision around who is responsible for his suffering and how is he going to pay it all back.

  'I said 10 ps while expecting him to run 2 or 4 at best, but he's almost done already without taking a single break! Lady Linnet herself was the one witnessing his "Cleansing" and I've confirmed it earlier, when I touched his body I could feel the faintest of traces of Vitality.' Spencer thought while smirking like the Devil while watching Bryan complete the 10th p and start on the 11th, 'Is he some sort of monster? I consider myself one of the rare few but I could only run 5 ps after my cleansing, yet this little shit is proving to be more than twice as capable. Even from all the way here I can feel his Vitality burning and spreading further within his body!'

  Bryan on the other hand wasn't as distracted as when he started to run, instead his head became clearer and his pain shrank within his body and a surge of heat repced it.

  Gradually his speed increased and he felt like the soles of his feet were pushing the ground backwards with immense force!

  "Huh!" Spencer's eyes widened to the limit once he saw the uniform and circur cloud of dust surrounding each and every step the boy took forwards in the shape of a ring before dissipating seconds ter and leaving what would appear like a visual trace for the onlookers to see.

  Looking around him he noticed that not only him, the majority of the instructors and practitioners within the training grounds were watching this unique spectacle with a variety of expressions on their faces.

  *Thud*

  Suddenly the ground below Bryan's feet started to groan under the pressure and the sound of his steps felt like knocks against their hearts!

  "Cloud-Heart Step!"

  "How could it be?"

  "Since when could juniors achieve such a result as novice practitioners?"

  "He doesn't seem to have a strap yet."

  "He isn't even ranked?"

  "Indeed."

  "I saw instructor Spencer order him to run 10 ps once the kid arrived, clearly his cleansing ceremony happened not so long ago."

  "Unbelievable!"

  "So... how many ps did he-"

  "13."

  "Say what?" The answer frightened all of them because the best records in their cn were achieved by their current Patriarch and their Young Lady Linnet, these two stand at 15 and 14 respectively and the person with the third-best record is their Second-Madam which stands at 12.

  Hearing that some unknown junior just demolished one of these records was shocking but the next line of words from their companion fell with the weight of mountains and stifled the atmosphere within the training grounds, "Now he's about to complete his 14th p."

  Simply because right now he's about to come head to head with their Young Lady Linnet, of course that doesn't mean that he's destined to be a match for her because she's one "Special" monster indeed! But it means that his dormant potential is another step higher than their Second-Madam.

  The thudding sound continued for a while until Bryan completed the 15th p then another change happened when the sound gradually became fainter and fainter while the phenomenon of a cloud of dust started to disappear.

  The silence was eerie and heavy, everyone held their breath and watched the boy go faster and the majority felt afraid of blinking in fear of missing a detail of his movement.

  'Flickering-Shadow Step! How is it possible? Did Young Lady Linnet teach him this Movement Technique?' Spencer thought to himself while gawking from shock at the surprising result.

  Not only did this brat demolish their Patriarch's record but also advanced and refined his Movement Technique twice in a row!

  Finally Bryan felt like his heart is going to explode and eased his steps gradually until his movement halted, suddenly the pain which shrank earlier flowed in reverse and he couldn't stop twitching and spasming endlessly.

  'Fuck! Was I given some kind of pain stimulus drug by these people in my sleep or something?' He thought while falling on his ass then spraying himself on the ground while gasping for air.