The Power Enthusiast

MINERVO 24: You Are Precious

As Nico opened the door of his house, he was greeted with silence from the empty room. Totally empty-without any furniture in it. There was only a white carpet spread across the floor and a black plastic sheet in the corner of the room. Besides, there's nothing else. And the house was only two rooms, one main room, the other bathroom. And when viewed from the outside, the appearance of Nico's house is very small and tiny, but very clean, because the yard of his house is not too filled with snow, while the yard of his neighbors' houses are even piled up a lot of snow.

The reason why his yard is not hoarded with a lot of snow, maybe because Nico diligently cleans the snow that accumulates in front of his house, which makes the appearance of his house so slick and clear, probably because Nico is diligent in cleaning the snow that accumulates in front of his house, although the shape of the house is very small.

Now, Nico was sitting on the floor in the main room stretching out his legs, then, he picked up a black plastic bag that was rolled into the corner of the room, and when he took out something that was in it, it turned out that the contents of the plastic were three long-sleeved shirts that were white, long pants that were also white, and a thick blanket of white fluffy color. Though it was still ten in the morning, but Nico was ready to lay his body on the carpet, then, the clothes he had folded neatly, he made it as a pillow. Nico smiled faintly as his body lay on the floor, then his hand pulled the blanket over to cover his entire body.

When Nico's head had gone into the blanket, instead of sleeping, the man kept his eyes wide open, enjoying the darkness in a blanket while muttering alone there.

"I want to have friends, but I hate humans. I want to have friends, but I hate humans. I want to have friends, but I hate humans. I'm really lonely, but I don't need a human."

As he said that, Nico's voice really sounded very soft, then he chuckled a little, laughing at his own labile self. "Since when have I been this weird, pathetic. But. I don't know, I think my brain got damaged after meeting the four delinquents," Nico sighed. "But really, I don't think about why they suddenly appeared in the library, and why one of them knew my birth name. How strange. Who are they really? What was their purpose in coming to me? I remember the blackhead saying something about 'hero'? Did I hear wrong? But I don't care, anyway. There was no point in thinking of fools like them. Waste of time."

Subconsciously, Nico's eyelids dimmed as he pondered about it until his eyes were completely closed. However,

Blars!

A sudden explosive sound rang out nearby, making Nico open his eyes back and straight out of the blanket embrace. How shocked Nico when he saw the door of his house had been smashed into pieces into crumbs of small boards that were charred. A plume of smoke entered his room, making Nico so cough, until finally, his eyes found a human silhouette standing in front of his house, and if observed more carefully, he said, the body of the silhouette was very short and it seemed like it was the body of a girl because of her bushy hair.

Nico also moved from his sitting position and with a step frenzied, with, he came to the silhouette of a man standing in front of his house to determine who was the mastermind of the explosion until the door of his house was destroyed.

"Eh!?" Nico shocked. "Aren't you that girl?"

"Hi!" It turned out that the figure of the human silhouette was Cherry, the girl was standing by holding two pieces of lollipop in her right hand while she smiled her carefree smile at Nico. "Know no? Cherry is quietly following you, loh! And Cherry did it without the knowledge of Paul, Colin, and Jeddy! Maybe now they're looking for Cherry's whereabouts, but Cherry doesn't care! Hihah! You see," Suddenly Cherry's face and carefree tone turned into an irritated face and a growling voice. "... You have to take Cherry away."

Surprised, Nico furrowed his brows as he said, "Cut me out?" Nico seemed to not understand why the girl as beautiful as Cherry so acting strangely so to him. "By the way who broke my door? Is that you?"

"hihhihih! Yes definitely, dong! It was Cherry! Who else if not Cherry! Hayo's? Hihihi!" replied Cherry with an expression that came back as cheerful as before. Witnessing the rapid change of emotions from the girl before him made Nico so surprised, because only this time he found someone as weird as Cherry.

Not only that, Nico was also upset because Cherry admitted casually that it was she who had smashed the door of her house. How regrettable. Why this girl could do such a crazy thing, did she not know that the price of one door was very expensive. As his frustration had already peaked, Nico immediately said in a cold voice. "Are you that stingy? To smash the door of someone else's house just to fill your free time? How sad. Such is the bad behavior of a delinquent girl. Fool and idiot. And it seems like you keep calling yourself 'Cherry', is your real name Cherry? Heh! Dirty delinquents like you don't deserve to use that name, your name should be 'trash'. And one more thing, that cute snobs of yours, that's really disgusting."

"Whatever, Cherry won't hear it! Hup!" Cherry immediately covered her ear hole with both index fingers so that she did not hear all the spicy talk from Nico. Then Cherry with her sharp glaring eyes and a growling voice, started saying, "But whatever you say, you're basically humbling Cherry, right? If so, do it as much as you can. Because in a minute, you're gonna die at Cherry's hands."

Cherry smiled sweetly. "It turns out you're pretty clever too, keeping a gun in your pants, Cherry thinks you're a weak guy acting cocky, but look? Turns out you were great! Hihah! However," Cherry's carefree face instantly fell into her dark mode. "... With such a small knife, you want to kill Cherry? Don't make Cherry laugh, you weakling. After all, your toy knife will never be able to kill Cherry! Even to touch Cherry's skin, it's impossible!"

After saying that, Cherry immediately licked the two lollipops in her right hand, then she threw the candies in Nico's face and, uh, she threw them in her,

Blars! Blars!

There was a very loud explosion, making some of Nico's neighbors who were relaxing, immediately hurriedly peeked into the window of each house, respectively, to watch something that was going on in front of the white man's house. Fortunately, Nico immediately squatted his body when Cherry threw the two candies on his face, making the candies explode without hitting his body in the slightest. And because he had been attacked first, Nico immediately retaliated by crawling to Cherry's feet. Then with a quick movement, Nico immediately sliced two Cherry calves using his small knife, repeatedly, until blood poured out from both legs of the little girl.

"Stop! Argha! It hurts! Cherry said stop it!" As the pain begins to creep up on both legs, Cherry reflexively kicks Nico's head until the man is knocked over. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? Why are you seriously hurting Cherry!? It hurts so much, you know! VERY SAKIIIIT! YOU MORON!"

With a bruised face because it was kicked by Cherry, Nico still answered the girl's words while raising his body to stand up, even though his body trembled.

"I should have said so. If you knew being hurt it hurt so much, then why did you throw that exploding candy over my face? If it hits my face, both my eyes will be blind! My nose will be broken! My two ears are deaf! My lips will be deformed! And my face will be broken!" exclaimed Nico with a breath that was fluttering after he had stood perfectly. "But it seems like a dirty delinquent like you wouldn't think of it that far. All you have in mind is to vent everything with violence, that's what makes you, the delinquents, so low in my eyes."

Unfortunately, Cherry did not hear what Nico said, the girl was screaming in pain because her calves were bleeding. Then, because the pain continues to strangle him, Cherry so can not stand Nico, he immediately ran towards the man by throwing dozens of lollipops which of course have been licked.

Similarly, Nico, he also immediately threw the small knife with a very precise shot to hit Cherry's face. And finally, dozens of those candies and the little knife floated in the air in opposite directions.

Until finally, Nico's small knife met one of Cherry's candies, causing an unexpected collision, making the candy explode, and in a row, his friends also exploded in the air. Creating a massive explosion in front of Nico and Cherry, the two of them stared back at it, as well as the neighbors who were watching in the windows of their homes.

Slowly the smoke from the huge explosion formed a cloaked human form that stood in their midst, leaving Cherry and Nico shocked to see it.

"Sorry to interrupt your battle" It turns out that the figure who appears in the middle of Cherry and Nico is Roswel. "But it seems like you guys have gone so far, you want to kill each other. I can't let you do it any further, because you two are future heroes. Besides, you guys are the ones that Mr. Paul has worked so hard for, so there's no reason for me to let you kill each other. Because to Mr. Paul, you are precious."

Roswel glanced at Nico and Cherry in turn with a friendly smile.

"Who are you?" Nico squinted his eyes at Roswel, he was shocked to see a pale-faced, black-robed man suddenly appear in front of him. "Why did you emerge from the smoke? It is against the laws of nature. Aren't you some kind of supernatural creature? And what did you say just now? Hero of the future? Mr Paul? We are so valuable? Actually, what are you talking about?"

Roswel smiled as he shook his head when he heard Nico's words.