A family.
A place where soone should feel safe.
A place where soone should feel loved.
That was how it should have been…
"Jacob, you are truly my son, unlike your failure of a brother."
A young boy looked at his father praising his brother, words that his father deed too valuable for a failure like him.
His father was an influential man, involved in politics and the power struggle.
So what did his father need? It was none other than the perfect tool to make his ambitions co true and continue his legacy.
In other words, a son.
When the boy was born, his father was extrely delighted.
Ti passed by, days, years, and finally, the boy grew older.
He beca an ignorant child who looked up to his father.
But…
"Why can't you do it? It's extrely simple! All you have to do is to smile and nod your head!"
The boy failed to et his father's expectations for the first ti.
It was because he questioned his father's order for the first ti.
Smiling when he didn't want to was extrely tiring.
Learning things thing he was not interested in was extrely strenuous.
He was not interested in politics or power, he just wanted to draw.
However, such a thing went against his father's expectations for him.
"You are a failure."
After he spat these words, his father never once spoke to him and he rarely got to see him.
He was cast aside like trash.
The young boy asked himself. 'What did I do wrong?'
He couldn't understand what was happening. The people who used to talk to him with smiles on their faces beca cold.
No one listened to him when he asked questions. He was at ho, in the middle of hundreds of servants, but he was alone.
Even his sisters treated him like a bother, fearing that their father would give up on them too.
And the situation worsened after his brother was born.
Finally, his father got on his hand the perfect tool.
From that day onward, his parents seed to have forgotten his existence.
The na Timothy didn't co out of his father's mouth, even once, as he grew up into an adult.
Timothy lost himself in alcohol, won, and gambling.
Staying at ho was just too painful for him, and he wanted to escape.
And even when he was gone, no one ca searching for him.
His father didn't even bother reducing his monthly expenses, because he forgot to do it.
"F*ck it all!"
Timothy cursed when he saw the people who ca for his brother's coming of age ceremony.
'Is there that much difference between us?'
Timothy felt a void in his heart that he could never fill. Won were just there for his money, alcohol was just there for a short mont of peace, but there was nothing that seed real.
Timothy didn't know anything about the outside world, so how his own family treated him made him into a helpless person.
As a result, he beca violent, he didn't care about his behavior and adopted a rebellious attitude. He did everything that his father disliked.
However, his father didn't even look at him.
"F*ck! F*ck!"
The smile on the face of these thousands of people who appeared to be happy for his brother made him want to puke.
'What's even good about all of that fake smiles? I can't understand.'
That was when he saw a girl, who was different from everyone else.
It was obvious that she didn't have a fake on her face, or to be exact, she didn't smile at all.
For so reason, Timothy felt like this girl was different.
But no matter how hard he tried to talk to her, the girl didn't put on a fake smile, even once, and when he tried to flirt with her, she showed a disgusted expression. The was no hint of hypocrisy in her attitude, it was her real feeling.
But Timothy smiled and felt sothing he never felt before.
It was love at first sight, sothing that he never experienced.
For the first ti in his life, Timothy t soone different, even though she was also part of the system that he hated so much.
It was nothing grandiose, but Timothy decided that this was a sign.
Liu's face appeared in his mind again and again, and he couldn't forget her.
He couldn't sleep at night, and so he thought. "What's holding back here? Nothing!"
From there, Timothy discarded his title, his family, and everything that held him back, and he chased after Liu.
It was a very stupid choice, it was nothing but foolishness, but Timothy was smiling.
He finally understood that he didn't live for his father's sake.
He just needed a strong determination to cast away everything that held him back and decide for himself.
Of course, Liu didn't accept Timothy's feelings, and instead, he beca a complete stalker that followed her everywhere.
He always managed to find a way or another to appear in front of Liu during her missions.
Sotis he was covered with bruises, wore weird clothing, and ride so weird beast, but he was always there…
Timothy didn't only et new people by doing this, but he also learned a lot about the world.
But as expected, Yelena didn't appreciate his behavior and the two of them clashed often.
However, it was just pure obsession toward Liu, and he beca a more helpless person but just in a different way.
And that was when Yelena accidentally revealed a certain information during their usual quarrel, and from that day onward Timothy learned about Liu's situation…
He couldn't believe it…
She was stronger than he would ever be.
At that mont, Timothy felt like he didn't deserve Liu's attention. She already had too much to deal with, and she shouldn't waste ti with soone like him.
She was dealing with a problem similar to his, but she didn't give up, unlike him who took the first opportunity to run away…
Timothy gave up chasing after Liu and was about to fall into despair again.
He was drinking alone inside a pub when Liu appeared in front of him.
"You forgot this," Liu said.
"How did you?" Timothy was almost speechless.
Liu handed him a worn-out paintbrush that he forgot at ho.
"Your father said that you are free to do what you want, so what would you do?"
"He said that? I-"
He could never believe that his father would say such a word unless Liu did sothing. But why? He was nothing but trash.
Even Yelena scorned Liu's action. "Miss Liu, why did you go to such an extent for a re stalker."
However, Liu smiled a little bit, as if she rembered a distant mory. "Everyone deserves a second chance."
Liu was not a fool, and she knew about Timothy's identity since the first ti he appeared in front of her, and she also did a background investigation on him.
That was when he discovered Timothy's situation and the reason why he might have been so obsessed with her.
She didn't imdiately reproach his actions, even though they were bad, but instead, she gave him another chance to prove his worth.
Liu was far from perfect, she was almost a broken person herself, but for Timothy, she was like a goddess.
From that day, Timothy vowed to be Liu's sword.
*****
"Die!" Timothy shouted. Timothy couldn't let the chance to kill Liu's kidnapper slip away.
Lupic was enclosed inside of a lighting field that could turn him into a piece of charcoal.
Even though Timothy was a level 7 gift holder, he was not weaker than Yelena when it ca to fighting ability.
Drizzzz!
A dazzling light was followed by an explosion and the explosion caused shockwaves that sent dust flying.
"Take that, you sh*thead!"
"Be on your guard!" Yelena shouted. "I don't believe that he will die that easily!"
"Mmm." A voice resonated from sowhere inside the cloud of dust. "That was a close one. I didn't think that these bugs would be this powerful. It seems like I must take this a little bit seriously." Lupic said, but his voice was playful.
"Bastard!" Timothy was about to launch another attack.
However, sothing unexpected happened.
"Is he not a teleporter? Then why are there five of him?" Timothy asked as he looked at the scene in front of him.
Lupic didn't only vanish and reappear, but now he could also clone himself.
This was another power of soone who could create their domain.
"Tch! Let's attack together! We should not give him the ti to pull another trick." Yelena instructed.
"Roger!"
Timothy and Yelena attacked non-stop using fireballs and lightning bolts.
However….
"What the hell? Why are there so many of him?" Timothy questioned his sanity.
"I don't know!" Yelena replied, and was also puzzled by what was happening.
Even though Lupic didn't co close to the barrier that Yelena and Timothy created, he managed to give them hard ti.
Moreover, Timothy and Yelena were mistaken about the nature of Lupic's power.
He was not a teleporter. His ability granted him the ability to enter the mirror dinsion where space and all tilines rged into one, so he could cut himself off from ti and space.
It felt like he was teleporting, but what he did was skip the ti he needed to move from one place to another.
However, when he used his domain, he could link with all of the versions of him that enter this mirror dinsion...
This was a very difficult thing to do because all of the other versions of himself were no different from the original, and unless they agreed to co to this tiline of their own volition, it wouldn't work.
As long as ti was not against him, Lupic was more or less immortal even if he lacked firepower.
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