Chapter 10：Speed Run Any Percent (1/2)

Gulp!

Calvin gulped a mouthful of saliva.

He had the urge to turn around and open his eyes out of curiosity, but he didn't dare to do so!

He wasn't a fighter and if his gaze really did meet the demon masquerading as him. His life would end right there and then!

Calvin suppressed the fear of the unknown bubbling in his heart as he turned around and squatted.

He stretched his hand out and touched the kid's cheek.

It was cold.

Ice-cold.

Calvin felt another shiver down his spine, yet his lips gave a sweet smile.

”Young man, you are probably just confused out of anger...”

”We don't look similar at all.”

”Look at me, I'm already this old, yet you are still so young!”

”How about you go back to your parents right now and apologize?”

Calvin proposed an idea. He wanted this demon to stop following him, so he had to divert this demon's attention away.

”No...”

The kid spoke in that incredibly familiar voice once again.

”I can't go back...”

”If I go back, momma will beat my ass.”

”Pffft!”

Calvin almost busted a gut.

Even the crude wordings were similar to him back then when he was still a child!

His memories of his childhood were vague, but he could clearly remember that he was a rebellious child.

He thought that it was cool to talk in slangs, so he proceeded to practice using such crude wordings.

But when he reached middle-school, he abandoned that habit for he realized that it made him look an attention-seeker.

As a young man who wanted to be popular with girls back then, he wanted to give off the vibe that he was a cool and indifferent young man. Unfortunately, his habit of talking in slangs already gave a lot of damage to his reputation, and even after he abandoned that habit, he remained unpopular until he graduated high school.

”Don't worry... I can feel that your mother loves you so much, she won't beat you up. Just go back there and comfort her, else if you go home too late, she'll probably become too angry to listen to you!”

”Do you want that to happen?” Calvin repeatedly ruffled the cold, damp, and sticky hair of the kid. He maintained the kind smile on his face, but he didn't dare to imagine what the kid looked like.

From what his fingers could feel, this kid must've died from drowning and his body must've been submerged for a long time in the water!

”Mhmm... Okay... I'll go back... I don't want momma to beat my ass again.” The kid seemed to have realized the gravity of the situation. Slick footsteps rang out once again, but this time. Those footsteps were going in the opposite direction.

Calvin heaved a sigh of relief.

He continued his journey and finally reached the fifth floor.

However, as soon as he stepped his foot onto the landing.

A hand suddenly pulled him backwards.

Calvin almost fell down the stairs, but his swift reflexes rescued him in time.

He held the railings and stabilized himself, but his pupils constricted when he found out that the hand that yanked him backwards seemed to have come from the kid earlier in the third floor!

”You... You didn't go home?” Calvin turned around and said as if he was scolding the child.

The child didn't reply.

Calvin held his breath and heightened his already sharp senses to detect if there was any incoming enemy. When he discovered that the surroundings were incredibly quiet and devoid of any noise or movement. He heaved a sigh of relief and turned to look at the kid once again.

”I understand... Even if you know that your mother loves you a lot that she won't probably beat your ass as long as you sincerely apologized. You're still quite scared, right? I know that...”

”I know that feeling.”

”Actually, my childhood isn't all rainbows and flowers either.”

”When I was a child, my father and mother always fought due to some issues. I always envied the other children for they had such a happy family, yet my family is really cold and unforgiving to me...”