NOVPUB*Gulp*
Rita felt her throat become dry as she futilely tries to calm herself down but alas how can she be able to calm down when each and every cell in her body warns her about the horror in front of her.
Her survival senses going haywire as she would die any moment, Yet she couldn't see any ways to survive this crisis.
Even as slippery as fish like her felt completely helpless in front of the dread that was filling her heart.
Not even the previous head of the dragon gate, A proper S-rank never gave her such pressure that made her surrender to her faith as there is no way to go against such force.
Though even in front of the previous head there was no way to go against her strength but at least there was hope, a wishful thinking that she might escape if she tried hard enough but here there is no such false hope at all.
"*Chuckle* 𝙣𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝙤𝙢
A playful with a hint of frustration chuckle rang in the room and just as suddenly that dreadful pressure appeared it was just as suddenly vanished, as if it was all just in her imagination.
However a wet sweat soaked bed sheet was a stark reminder that, It was not her imagination, She had come back from the edge of the underworld's gate.
"Why are you asking so many questions? Just do as I said because that is your punishment Rita."
Alex nonchalantly answered her previous question but in his mind he was also taken back by his own strength.
He just became frustrated by Rita's useless questioning but because the power gap between them was too big, hisbsimple negative emotions like that affected Rita on the primal level.
If he didn't just react quickly to calm down and the system's safety function kicked in to take that pressure back, He might have broken her spirit and made her comatose.
'I have to be careful.'
Alex said to himself as he realized that though because of the Limitless he can't feel an increase in his own strength, He had
already broken the ceiling of this world.
Though he didn't get any enhancement for his soul yet but because of all other passives and raw strength he transcended to the higher level being.
So of course it would be too easy for his normal emotions to affect the beings lower than him.
'System lock this function for now.'
Alex after thinking about it decided to lock this function for safety reasons.
After all, If he got excited in bed or angry because of the people's stupidity he might just end up causing mass effects of unknown degree.
"*Gulp* *Ahem* I-I *Cough* My childhood? Well there is not much to say, It was just an average one."
Rita gulped as she tried to hide her fearful state from Alex as how can a woman let a man she loves know that she was frightened by the mere presence of him.
Yeah she calls him Mr. Death and was already beaten by him before, But it's one thing to lose a duel and it's another thing to get scared by his simple words.
Still she didn't dare to not answer him, So she just started sharing her childhood details.
"Average?"
Slex raised his eyebrow over that word, No kid with average childhood joins the mercenary organization and becomes an assassin for it.
Not to mention he already knew about her background as she though a low important heroine, she still was an heroine, So there was quite detailed background mentioned on the plot.
And because of that he knows her childhood is anything but an average.
Stil out of sheer morbid curiosity he wanted to know why she called it average.
"Yeah average, I don't have any memories of my family nor do I know anything about them. Even the name Rita was given to me by my friend Jenny in the orphanage.
Well there was a shortage of food in the orphanage as war was going on in that region but it was not a big deal, I and Jenny were quite fast and sneaky, So we used to steal enough food from outside food stalls.
Though the caretaker of the orphanage was harsh and used to punish us by beating us with sticks but because I started to awaken my superpowers, I did not get injured at all, Same case for Jenny.
In fustrstion she used to beat us more but we still were not able to get injured, Of course it worked out great as news of two kids not getting hurt even by harsh beating reached to the previous dragon lord.
So she sent people and we were recruited by the dragon gate, And given the nature of our superpowers being combat oriented, we started to train as assassins.
Once we were in the dragon gate, it was the fixed schedule, Wake up, train till midnight, then eat something and sleep just to repeat the cycle.
That's it, that is my average and simple childhood, Nothing special to talk about."
Rita innocently looked up while putting her index finger on her soft lips, and after thinking for a moment she started retelling what he wanted as that was her punishment.
So she said whatever she remembered or rather say however she remembered it.
From her perspective whatever she said and experienced was the normal nothing out of the ordinary.
'Oh her few screws are loose, that explains a lot.'
Alex after hearing her story nodded as he now understands what is wrong with her.
She is mentally handicapped, That explains why she even has the guts to mock the legendary S-rank right in front of her.
"Oh you poor thing come here."
Alex said to her just as he ra hrd out and took her into his arms.
(A/N : Webnovel was having technical difficulties yesterday hence can't able to upload it.
Like always thank you for reading and have a good day 😁.)
