The Badlands stretched out around us. I could feel the hunger for battle simmering inside me—the need to drown out Michiko’s words in the roar of gunfire. But her voice still echoed in my head as I strapped on my gear inside the trailer.
She’d figured out my involvement in Abernathy’s death. Probably assumed I used David to slip my former boss a unique neurovirus. The most logical...
2025-02-09 04:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostApologies, didn't have the time to upload yesterday
Tier 1: Chapter 68
Tier 2: Chapter 73
Tie...
2025-02-07 18:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, I really felt like a failure of a cat.
"Tora-chan, are you a spy-cat?" Ino asked for the thirtieth time, still trying to wrap her head around it. I nodded.
"We’re not supposed to expose you?"
"You’re on a mission?"
Kiba and Naruto fired off their questions one after the other. Another nod from me.
And yet, they were still so&nb...
2025-02-07 18:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t rush to the headmaster’s office, hoping that by the time I got there, Dumbledore would have already wrung the details out of Hermione and Harry. I needed time to think, to figure out how to spin things the right way. I’d been caught up in too many shady incidents lately, and the last thing I needed was for the wrong people to start getting curious. Drawing the attention of the po...
2025-02-07 18:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostExcitement.
Lately, this feeling had firmly settled within Melina. Though it was important to recognize that excitement came in different shades: excitement born of joy or fear. Excitement tinged with resentment. Excitement born from… from…
The girl adjusted her hood, lowering her head.
Excitement born from… pleasant sensations, accompanied by the steady...
2025-02-07 18:24:40 +0000 UTC View PostFisk paced around her office, irritation rolling off her in waves. The conversation with Mysterio… yeah… calling that screaming match a “conversation” would be a fucking stretch. So much had been fucked up. A massive, inexcusable failure. And no, it wasn’t just about the “cargo” those idiots had lost. There were bigger problems.
Two people—peop...
2025-02-07 18:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostI felt like a tadpole yanked from its pond and thrown onto a scorching-hot frying pan. That sensation hit me for a split second before I managed to pull myself together.
Besides, Michiko kept talking, almost like she was giving me time to think.
"Your former driver and bodyguard, Lucas Costa, regularly sent reports to the Security Service. There was an interesting note about a visit...
2025-02-07 18:20:54 +0000 UTC View PostHermione and Harry exchanged a quick glance.
"I got back to the common room and you weren’t there," Harry started. "So I checked the Map."
Bloody hell. The Map! I mentally kicked myself. I'd completely forgotten about it. This is how big plans fall apart—little things slip through the cracks. At least I made it in time...
"And I saw Black near the Whomping Wi...
2025-02-06 01:02:07 +0000 UTC View PostHinata tried to slip past her cousin with me still in her arms, but Neji frowned and blocked the way.
"Why do you have the daimyo’s cat?" His interrogation continued, eyes narrowing. "I am sure that’s him, I can feel his chakra."
Yeah, so much for playing dumb.
"Nii-san…" Hinata hesitated, glancing down at me, uncertainty all over her face.
I huffed, wiggled out of...
2025-02-06 00:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostTier 1: Chapter 67
Tier 2: Chapter 72
Tier 1: Chapter 37
This was exhausting, I thought, slumped in the waiting room of the hospital where they had taken Mom Betty.
Judy and G were beside me, the three of us looking like a picture-perfect display of gloom. My little sister’s eyes were red-rimmed, barely holding back fresh tears. The doctors had assured us that Betty’s life was out of danger, but… yeah. We were grateful she was alive, but ...
2025-02-05 04:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostJust like their previous encounter, the hunter of the undead was grim. He clearly wasn’t thrilled about being intercepted by the strange woman, who had arranged a meeting with an even stranger bearer of two—no, now three—Great Runes.
Had anyone else sought his audience, he likely would have refused. But since it was Konstantin himself...
D could be as reclusive as he pleased, ...
2025-02-05 04:05:19 +0000 UTC View Post“No chance at all?” I asked from the passenger seat.
“None,” Panam answered, irritation creeping into her voice. “If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have even bothered asking. Aldecaldos have new rules now—no hitting corps, just kissing their ass. For some reason, Saul decided that’ll fix the clan’s reputation. Like if we act all nice and polite, people won’t see us as da...
2025-02-05 04:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostOn Christmas morning, I was jolted awake by an excited, almost giddy Harry.
"Ron! Ron, wake up!" He shook my shoulder enthusiastically. "Look what I got!"
I groggily turned over and immediately sat up straight. On his bed, unwrapped and gleaming, lay a brand-new broomstick.
The Firebolt was a masterpiece—built purely for speed.
"Harry, if you don’t want them to take ...
2025-02-03 21:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhy do I have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme playing in my head? Oh, right. Probably because the second Iruka left, Naruto got swarmed by his gang of kiddie ninjas.
"So, what did Iruka want?" Sasuke asked, arms crossed.
"He told me to scrub the paw prints off the Academy walls," our local Cinderella shrugged. That set off an immediate uproar of indignation among the group. 2025-02-03 20:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
"Rictusempra!"
"Expelliarmus!"
"Incarcero!"
"Finite."
From the outside, it looked almost like a fireworks display. Multicolored beams of magic, especially vivid against the white expanse of snow, shot from three directions toward a single target. They ricocheted off translucent shields that flickered into existen...
2025-02-03 14:59:41 +0000 UTC View PostApologies, I lost internet right before posting yesterday
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“Good morning, boss. Happy birthday.”
“Good morni—wait, what?”
“You said your birthday was November 3rd. That’s today.”
“I know what I said, but I wasn’t planning on celebrating… Forget it. Lin, are you going to let us in, or should we stand here all day?...
2025-02-03 14:58:06 +0000 UTC View PostTier 1: Chapter 66
Tier 2: Chapter 71
Tier 1: Chapter 36
... 2025-02-02 07:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how much Konstantin wanted to make the red-haired waifu a little happier by fetching the prosthetic she needed from the depths of the Lands Between, something else gnawed at him: the crumbling Stormveil. If it had been empty, he honestly wouldn’t have cared.
But that place wasn’t just home to a waifu. It had become a refuge for all those who, for some reason, believed in him...
2025-02-02 07:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe stepped out of the building to the sound of a shootout dying down in the neighboring house. Huh. That was quick. Then again… they’re just thugs. What else would you expect? Without hostages or a super on their side, what could they possibly do against a well-trained SWAT team?
Oh, never mind. The gunfire roared back to life, and I made a beeline for the Captain. I walked straight i...
2025-02-02 07:28:20 +0000 UTC View Post"Do you hang out with the mayor often?" I asked as Angie and I stepped into a private room inside that same underground club.
The place was dimly lit, the air thick with some kind of vanilla-scented haze.
"Hang out?" she raised an eyebrow. "Never. I just handle business. Rhyne doesn’t spend more time on us than what we can afford to pay for."
Above me, a soft purple-pink glo...
2025-02-02 07:25:59 +0000 UTC View PostWinter passed unusually fast. A month and a half since “Mission: Impossible” flew by in a blur of snow, rain, blooming plum trees, and other seasonal shifts. Surveillance on Sauron’s Lair—otherwise known as the Hokage’s residence—confirmed that Konohamaru never fessed up about misplacing Grandpa’s all-seeing crystal ball. The kid kept his mouth shut tighter than a ca...
2025-02-01 01:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostOctober rolled in, and Wood doubled the number of Quidditch practices in preparation for their first match against Slytherin. The team would come back knackered but buzzing with excitement, convinced they’d wipe the floor with them. Meanwhile, I was just counting down the days until the year was over, so I could finally try out for the team myself. I wasn’t Quidditch-mad like Harry, but I e...
2025-02-01 00:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostTier 1: Chapter 65
Tier 2: Chapter 70
Tier 1: Chapter 35
2025-01-31 04:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe hidden treasure of the Eternal City, Nokron—the Fingerslayer Blade. It wasn’t surprising that the moon demigoddess sought it so desperately: with it, she could finally stop fearing the Two Fingers.
Kosta suspected the artifact had the power to sever the connection between the Fingers and their mother, rendering the once-mighty, albeit strange, beings either helpless or at least si...
2025-01-31 04:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhile waiting for the team to assemble, she gave me a quick but to-the-point rundown of the situation.
The criminals found by the police were holed up in one of the buildings that served as their “hideout.” It was an old tenement building owned by some woman—who the police hadn’t managed to track down. Judging by the tone of Sybilla’s voice, she doubted the owner would ever turn...
2025-01-31 04:42:28 +0000 UTC View Post"The optics need to be replaced," Victor announced after the examination.
"That bad?" I asked. "Even the left eye?"
"The bullet lodged in the metalized bone tissue of your skull. That’s what saved you, but the deformation caused a ton of microfractures in the optics. It’ll still work, but the interference isn’t going anywhere. You’re not exactly strapped for cash right now, ...
2025-01-31 04:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post