"Miss Aelia" Back at Michael's house, Raylene was trying to wake up Gaya.

Gaya would always stuff her belly with the food she put in Michael's kitchen but when Raylene saw the food she left last night untouched, she became worried.

She put the breakfast on the table and gently shook Gaya's shoulder to wake her up.

"Wake up, sleepyhead sister" Cindy also accompanied her mother to see Ghost and Gaya. Seeing Gaya was snoring and refusing to wake up, the little girl giggled.N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.

After a few seconds, Gaya's senses picked up the aroma of the breakfast as her nose twitched. Slowly she opened her eyes to see Raylene and the tiny human standing before her.

"Goodmorning Miss Aelia"

"Goodmorning Sister"

Both mother and daughter greeted her while Gaya stretched out her limbs.

"Where is big brother Ghost?" Cindy curiously gawked at Michael's room but when Gaya heard his name, she became annoyed and angered.

"That bastard went whoring, tiny human"

"Miss Aelia!" Raylene immediately covered Cindy's ears. The little girl tilted her head and stared at both of them confused.

"What? She's gonna turn big one day"

"She's still little to know those things, Miss Aelia" Raylene said and looked at Cindy

"Cindy go play with the others"

"Okey-dokey" Cindy laughed and hopped outside happily.

"What happened Miss Aelia? you seem upset" Raylene knew although Gaya had a cold demeanor, she was a warm person inside. It was not like her to scold Michael in front of Cindy and go to sleep without licking the bowls clean.

"Am I jealous? Why am I feeling like this?" ever since she saw Michael and Sadie kissing on the wall, she lost her appetite and was feeling frustrated for some reason.

"That bastard can bang whoever he wants, I don't care" She consoled herself and decided to direct her focus on the delicious breakfast before her.

Raylene was a teenager and a girl like her before and she could somehow tell what's going on inside her mind. However, she remained silent because deep down Raylene knew a mortal girl like Aelia had no chance with a Prodigy like Ghost. She didn't want to fan the feelings inside Aelia's hearts with her words and gave her any wrong ideas.

She was not eating her with her usual speed but still, she kept stuffing her mouth.

"How much is it?"

[Just 99,999 badass points only]

The system's reply halted his steps and made him grit his teeth in frustration at the system. Then he took some deep breaths

"System, with enough badass points you can do anything right?"

[Of Course Host] the system exclaimed with a tint of pride in its voice.

"Then one day I'll make you take a physical form and beat your ass down"

[Don't be rude Host!] the system went silent like it was mad at Michael and didn't speak with him.

Eventually, he came in front of the tavern which was now turned into a ruin by the Netherel attack. Before it was a two-story building where the ground floor used to be the tavern and the upper floor was allocated for guests to stay the night. Not the upper floor of the building was completely crushed and the ground floor was missing a wall on the side.

Most of the tables and chairs were missing as probably the robbers salvaged the place.

"Young Master Ghost?" While he was standing before the building, someone said his name and he turned back to see a girl running to him.

He remembered this golden hair girl as the waitress who served him when he was here.

Michael could tell the girl was crying by noticing her puffy eyes.

"Your name... Gloria is it?" Michael remembered her name. The girl was surprised as she nodded.

"Young Master Ghost still remembers me" Even the onlookers who were staring at Michael from a distance were shocked. No Prodigy or a celebrity of Bredia had remembered the name of a commoner before yet, he recalled the name of a waitress like Gloria.

She felt honored and the image of him in many people's hearts grew bigger.

"Young Master Ghost, as you can see the Lucky cat tavern is no more. The next tavern is in Bredia a few hours walking distance from here" He was not a hero who would go save every person in need of help but in this case, Gloria was in luck as he had planned to buy this place.

"Who is the owner of this place and where is he now?" Gloria didn't know what his intentions were as she answered truthfully.

"A couple of rogue Netherels killed him, Young Master Ghost. Poor Bass tried to chase away the Netherels and defined this place, but he didn't stand a chance against those vile creatures."

"What are you going to do for a living now?" Michael asked. In his life, he had some moral codes and he ulstrictly followed them. One of them was, never to help those who don't need help or don't want to be helped and, never to help those who don't appreciate the help, ever.

"I...don't know, Young Master Ghost" he knew no idea about her future was the reason for her puffy eyes and probably she has a family that solely depends on her.

"Then if I want to buy this place, who should I visit?"