Chapter 17 - Welcome Gifts (1) (1/2)

Two days later...

Around 5:00 p.m. at Jeremy's garage beside his house.

Currently, the usually spacious garage was almost packed with almost 20 people of various ages.

Those people were Jeremy, his three friends, and the rest were those three friends' family members and friends.

From Charlotte's side, there were her two besties, father, mother, aunt, grandfather, and grandmother.

From Owen's side, there were two younger brothers, mother, aunt, uncle, grandfather, and grandmother.

However, regarding Samuel, there was absolutely no one standing beside him because he didn't choose anyone in the first place.

Not even his girlfriend, he didn't tell her to come for some unknown reasons.

Jeremy was currently standing at the garage's center between the wooden dummies at the garage's end and those 17 people at the garage entrance.

Meanwhile, everyone was talking and whispering to one another incessantly.

If an onlooker was present, they should feel like they were in a classroom packed with students to the brim instead of the garage.

As for the topics of their discussions, they talked about tutorials, Ortus, aftermaths of transmigrations, today's events, the gifts from Jeremy, and lastly, the reliability of Jeremy's story about Ortus and everything related to it.

After all, even after Jeremy had shown them various kinds of miracle and mysterious magic skills. Within their deepest minds, they still harbored a tad bit of doubt.

Or rather, it should be called 'Hope'...

They still had hopes within their subconscious minds.

They hoped that, after September 29, 2019, everything would remain the same.

They hoped that the world's end would never come.

They hoped that they could normally live like they always did.

However, how could they doubt Jeremy after seeing and witnessing his magical powers?

Jeremy also had his own credibility that was very hard to refute.

Consequently, they kept talking with one another ceaselessly and erratically, as they saw that 17 other people were sharing the same fate as them of being the ones who 'knew' about the upcoming 'advents' before the other seven or so billion people on Earth.

Some felt scared...

Some felt despaired...

Some felt excited...

Some felt unreal...

Many emotions were coming and going inside their mind at the moment. However, there was one emotion that all of them had it the same.

It was the emotion of when they stared at the man in front of them.

That emotion was 'relieve'...

They felt relieved... relieved that there was someone they could rely on.

They felt relieved... like when they finally found an oasis amidst a scorching hot desert.

And that person who made them felt relieved was... Jeremy.

If they only considered his age, he still looked relatively young with only early-twenties of age.

Nevertheless, he was exuding a mysterious and unfathomable aura.

They knew all too well that those things had nothing to do with him being an introvert or extrovert, wearing dark clothing, or having a somber voice.

They just felt that he was mysterious, and at the same time, he also felt ancient and unfathomable.

But how was that even possible?

He looked just like someone in his 22 or 23 years of age...