Strongest Superhuman System

Chapter 657 How Are Things Going?

Jeanne shook her head as she started to lead Arit away to another room. There was no way Jeanne was going to allow Arit to do this to herself. It was still early, so Jeanne would have no issues getting rid of it if it turned out that Arit was really pregnant. Even if Arit says she wants to keep it, Jeanne would try to talk her out of it. Jeanne was not going to let Arit halt her education and life because of something like this!

"You told me you want to be a doctor, didn't you, Arit? This isn't how a doctor behaves! A doctor thinks about the consequences of their actions before they do anything! Protection exists for a reason! Who gives a fuck if it doesn't feel the same? You have to wear some fucking protection no matter what! Now tell me how long—"

Ka-Cha!

Jeanne had been dragging a nervous Arit away while saying all this, and Jeanne's voice trailed off as she and Arit entered another room and shut the door. Mark finally leaned back on the couch with a sigh as he turned to look at Pat. Pat was still holding the outlet he brought for his sister, and Pat just threw it behind him with a shrug before sitting beside Mark while talking.

"You really need to control yourself more. I get that sister-in-law's really sexy and all that, but making mistakes like this can be bad in the long run, especially with how messed up our lives are. Just thinking about bringing a baby into this messed-up reality is pretty twisted. You're lucky you know a doctor like my sister."

Mark nodded. He didn't need Pat to tell him all that. He knew it already. But that wasn't the only thing Mark came here for. Mark leaned forward and asked Pat if he had gotten anything new from the syndicate lately.

Pat shook his head and rubbed his eyes tiredly as he stood up to get a drink from the fridge. He threw a beer at Mark and popped another one open for himself. Pat was still not old enough to drink, but who cared?

Pat had been awake for days trying to find anything he could based on what information Salazar had given out during the torture sessions, but it was still difficult because of how secretive the Syndicate was. They barely even had a digital presence at all!

Pat spoke up after drinking from the can.

"Nothing concrete. There's been news about strange monsters popping up here and there all over the world, and the MDS has picked up some strange mana activity around cities in the US, but the mana activity is mostly due to the recent monster outbreak. The residual mana is going crazy, so that explains that. The strange monsters popping up are usually myths and folklore that I don't need to follow far to disprove. If anything, the world's been quiet recently. Too quiet. It's like the monster wave in America didn't even cause a stir anywhere else in the world."

And that was the strange thing.

"I don't know yet."

"I'm gonna need more than that, Mark. The last time something came, half the country was reduced to ashes. Is it something like this? Something that could destroy the entire country?"

Mark was silent for a while, but when he finally spoke, his words made Pat's heart skip a beat.

"It's something worse than that. This isn't going to affect only us here in America. It's going to affect the entire world. I really don't know what it is this time, but from what I was able to deduce, it's most likely related to the syndicate. They aren't playing around, so we need to get serious too."

Pat sighed. Pat hadn't been playing around all this while, and he had been more than serious about getting information on those fuckers, but Pat couldn't say that to Mark. Not when he hadn't gotten anything concrete yet.

There were a few channels and avenues that Pat hadn't explored simply because they were too dangerous for him to go into alone, and he decided that he would have to recruit some freelance superhumans from the underground to help him look into those leads. They had to get even more serious now.

The room descended into silence as the two men just drank beer, and only the sound of Arit and Jeannie's mumbled conversation from the other room was heard for a while. But finally, Mark spoke up about something different.

"How's recruiting going? I heard from Luna that her guild's been helping you out."

Mark asked this as he finished his own beer and threw it into the dustbin easily, and Pat was thankful for the change in topic. Pat shook his head as he said that it was going smoothly.

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