Chapter 24 - My SI Stash #24 - DC Remastered Edition by Sir Lucifer Morningstar (DCU) (2/2)

”Ugh! That's just rude!” Purity said.

The woman flicked her eyes to her. ”As if you wouldn't have done the same. How many abortions have you had Purity? I stopped caring to count after the seventh one.”

”That doesn't mean you can talk to him like that, or tell him straight to his face! He's just a kid!”

”And the sooner he learns how shitty the world is, the better.” She snarled, before, I felt a hand grabbing me, forcing me off Purity's lap.

”Hey – where are you taking him – sto–”

Her protests were cut short, as I was forced through the strip club, before I stood behind a curtain, the woman's sharp fingered hands slamming down unto my shoulders.

”Look – over there –”

I did.

I saw my mother.

There was a sneer in the woman's tone, and, idly, I wondered why she was showing me this. Wasn't she also a stripper?

”That cash is barely ever enough for her, but she splits it in half for you as well, starving and getting skinnier just so you can eat. F_u_c_k_i_n_g more and more men than even she can handle just to make sure you don't starve.”

Oh.

”So brat, you better remember, and you better be grateful.”

The gripping weight on my shoulder slowly left.

I barely noticed when the woman had left, instead, my eyes were still focused on the woman in front of me. The woman who, now that I realized it, was twenty-one, the same age I had been before I had died. She was a child by all means, young, very, very young.

And her skin shone with sweat, her b_r_e_a_s_ts and n_i_p_p_l_es heaved in the air, a metal pole pressed against her legs and t_h_i_g_hs, as she shot out a sultry look to a group of men disgustingly older. Their applauses and catcalls were dulled in my ears, as I gazed upon the woman, and slowly, steadily, my lungs burned and a thick heavy lump buried itself in my throat.

I would only later realize, that this burning sensation, was anger.

MISSION UNLOCKED!

Pulling Your Own Weight!

Your mother is a young, talented, and extremely beautiful woman, who is wasting away her life as a cheap stripper and hooker in Gotham City's slums, and is barely making enough for herself, let alone for the both of you. Help her out by attaining enough money to steer her off this path of life, and truly become a better person.

Objective: -

Attain $100,000 Dollars via any means necessary

Bonus Objectives: -

Attain $250,000 Dollars

Attain $500,000 Dollars

Attain $1,000,000 Dollars

Time Limit:

Before your mother turns Twenty-Five

(Four Years)

Rewards:

10,000 EXP

Additional 25,000 EXP Per Bonus Objective

Increased Standards of Living

Greatly Increased Reputation with your Mother

Greatly Increased Affection with your Mother

Accept?

(Yes)

(No)

Taking a deep, filling breath, I hit the accept button without a single regret.

Four years? They gave me four years to make a hundred thousand dollars? I actually chuckled under my breath.

No. I could not stand this sight for that long. I would make that money in the next one week.

Had I been any other person, any normal child, this would have been an impossible task, but, I wasn't. I had the brain of a twenty-one year old from a different dimension, from a dimension in which granted me knowledge about some of the secrets and details about the world I was currently in. With this knowledge, there would be nothing that would stand in my way.

In a world where gods walked the earth as mortal men, I would become a legend.

And I would do it –

For my mother.