Cheat Awakening

"Ahm... Where am I?"

Ocea slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She found herself lying on a wooden table inside a store filled with all sorts of shoddy and creepy items. However, it didn't take her long to remember where she was.

With a shocked and disbelieving expression, she started floating and hurriedly began searching for the bastard who called himself the store owner. He had fooled her with his sweet talk and drugged her, rendering her unable to control her body, before stuffing her into that strange coffin where she had lost consciousness due to weakness.

"Where the hell is that bastard? I'll make him regret messing with me," Ocea muttered, her eyes burning with anger. Just then she saw Ted emerging from behind a shelf and was dumbfounded.

"Woof!"

"Ted? What are you doing here? Did you save me from that weirdo?" Because Ocea was a divine beast, she had an inbuilt universal translator and could communicate with almost all beings with basic intelligence.

"Woof-woof..."

Hearing Ocea's question, Ted, who, unlike Waffle, didn't like to beat around the bush or boast, directly told her the entire story.

"I see. That's good. Since only Waffle is missing, it shouldn't be a problem. Once we're all together, we'll have a much higher chance of getting out of this weird place," Ocea said, breathing a sigh of relief.

She hurriedly flew towards Myne, urgently needing a hug to calm her nervous mind. She also needed to coax Myne into helping her defend against her mother. She could already imagine the trouble she would face upon meeting her; it would be a miracle if she didn't get beaten half to death and locked in her room for years to reflect on her mistakes.

"Well, well, well, looks like our little princess has woken up. How are you feeling after getting us all trapped in this weird and dangerous world in the name of adventure?"

"When you said you wanted to go on an adventure, I thought it would be simple play around, not venturing into a cave that obviously emitted a very ominous vibe, one that even a blind person could tell was not a place to poke one's nose into."

"You know, most people on their first adventure go to hunt slimes because they lack experience and are prone to getting into trouble. But it seems those warnings were insufficient for you and that idiot Waffle. You've disappointed me, Ocea. I thought you were wise enough for me to entrust Waffle and Ted to you, but it seems you're the biggest troublemaker among the three."

Just as Ocea was about to greet Myne, who was looting the boss's safe house, looking for something useful according to { ? } guidance, he saw Ocea flying towards him happily. His smile instantly turned into an angry frown, and he began to bombard her with scolding in full force, without any intention of holding back.

If she hadn't been a girl and he didn't have the heart to beat her, he wouldn't have bothered with words and would have directly shown her the consequences of getting into trouble she couldn't handle, forcing others to rescue her ass.

"Sob, sob, I..."

Having lived with a strict mother who constantly scolded her for various reasons, Ocea, who had developed a very thick skin and long ago perfected the ultimate weapon to handle such situations, instantly began shedding crocodile tears after Myne finished speaking. To make Myne feel a bit guilty, she didn't run away while apologizing, instead, she threw herself into his arms and began crying more loudly.

"I'm sorry, Brother Myne. I just... sob, sob... I just wanted to play. I didn't expect there would be such a dangerous place near our house... Sob, sob, sob, please forgive me..."

If it were before awakening his special power to see { ? }, Myne, who had a soft heart for ladies and doted on Ocea, would have definitely fallen for her trick and forgiven her. He might have even shifted his anger onto Waffle, thinking that as a brother, he wouldn't mind taking his sister's share of the beating as well, which would help him mature.

But as he listened to Ocea's nonsense while gently stroking her back and reading her inner thoughts, he didn't know whether he should put aside his moral rules and give this naughty girl a good beating or have a serious conversation with her mother and let her handle her motherly duties.

Sigh, forget it. After all, they're just children, and coming here was a pure accident. I also have some fault in this matter; I shouldn't have sent them near that wretched cave despite knowing about its weird rumours... Let's have Cetus teach her some common sense after we get out of here, Myne thought, shaking his head.

"All right, I understand. Now stop pretending to be sad. I know you're faking. This level of acting is far from enough to fool me. I fool much more difficult characters ( his girls ) every day with my grandmaster-level acting. You're still a novice in this field."

"Also, although I have forgiven you because this time what you three did was an accident, let me warn you: I am not going to help you coax your mother. You better start thinking of a good excuse, otherwise, no one can save you this time... By the way, think one for me as well, I don't think she will let me go," Saying that, Myne patted Ocea's shocked and frightened head with a playful but helpless smile and walked out of the small safe house.

Although there were some toys in the boss's safe house, sadly, to Myne's great disappointment, most of them were useless. Without proper knowledge, he couldn't use any of them, and in their final mission to reach the source of the collapse, they were of no use against those giant monsters. So, he left them behind for the tentacle uncle, perhaps they would be useful in his hands.

After coming out of the store, Myne first locked it with the key he found in the clerk's pocket, then headed back to the apartment.

He gave the key to the shocked tentacle uncle, who couldn't believe that he had single-handedly dealt with the store owner, who wasn't easy to deal with because of his superpower of controlling hundreds of paper men, which magically became very powerful after being enhanced by him.

But Myne obviously didn't have the patience to make the tentacle uncle believe his words. So, after telling him about his small adventure, he went to the room of the woman in red and knocked on the door.

...

"Let me warn you, I am doing everything because of our deal. I have no feelings for you, so please try to stay away from me, got it?" The woman in red opened the door with an expressionless face and, after giving Ocea a surprised look, reminded Myne and walked out of the apartment along with him.

"As you wish, but you're willing to help me find my pet, which explains everything, so there's no need to remind me at all," Myne gave the woman in red a bright smile, earning a disdainful snort from her. Clearly, after being taken advantage of by him twice, she was no longer naive enough to fall for his sweet talk.

As for where they were going, it was obvious to look for Waffle. Ted had found that Waffle's location was in a very dangerous place in the city, where literally most of the city's bad guys gathered.

Myne didn't want to go there blindly and look for Waffle, although now he had one more bodyguard, but it was still not enough to feel safe in a place full of pollutants who were greedy for his body, so he decided to find a knowledgeable guide, who not only knew about that place very well but was also powerful enough to take the role of bodyguards if things get out of hands.

Because the tentacle uncle was busy creating a giant monster, he had no choice but to beg the woman in red for help. She, who was angry with him, in the end, agreed to come with him after he begged her shamelessly while holding her legs and refused to let them go until she forgave him. Even so, he had to promise to be her personal grocery boy for the next ten days, which was the time the tentacle uncle needed to create their ultimate weapon.

"Leave everything to me. Just show me the path, and I will handle the rest. Just remember: don't talk to anyone, don't let your pets out of your sight, and if any idiot tries to get close, kill him without hesitation. Otherwise, if those bastards misunderstand that we are easy to mess with, we will be greeted with nonstop trouble." The woman in red grabbed Myne's collar, moved her face close to his, their lips barely a few centimetres away from each other, and said seriously.

"No talking, I understand. You can rest assured," Myne stared at her red, juicy lips, and his Adam's apple moved. He moved his face forward, wanting to taste them, but sadly, at the last moment, she moved away and walked out of the alley.

Sigh, if I had known earlier that those tenants were so weak, I would never have invited her in the first place and lost all my favorability points. Now I have to brush them up again. What a mess, Myne sighed regretfully, hugging Ocea and holding Ted's collar, he quickly followed her.

Maybe the place where most of the city's mutants lived was a safe zone or something, wherever Myne looked there were people gathered in groups either sleeping or talking in low voices beside the road or in dark alleys as if planning something bad, Compared to this place, the tentacle uncle's apartment resided hardly had many people and looked deserted.

To the west of the city, where they were currently, there were mutants everywhere. Most of them, because of pollution, had become crazy and lived like animals, with a bit of solitude, lying on the footpath, covering their mutated bodies with clothes.

Those who were more sober lived in big buildings, with two or three in the same room, and everything was completely a mess. The word "hygiene" seemed to have been completely deleted from their dictionary, and all kinds of dirty things could be seen everywhere. The smell in the area was so bad that Myne didn't know how to describe it.

"Are you sure your little pet is here?" The woman in red looked at the dark subway entrance and asked with a frown.

Hearing her question, Myne, who was like a country bumpkin looking at everything around him with a surprised expression, despite most things being destroyed, came back to his senses and turned his head toward Ted, who nodded his head confidently.

"Well, if Ted's nose wasn't playing tricks on us, then he should be here. Why? Is there any problem?" Myne, feeling something wrong with the woman in red's voice, asked with a frown.

"There is indeed a problem. This place is occupied by a certain group of pollutants, who are all gangsters and rule this area. They are the worst kind of people you could want to see, and I don't like their faces."

Although the woman in red didn't say everything and made a face as if she was reluctant to go into the subway, in the end, she gave Myne a hateful glance and walked forward under his confused expression. He really didn't understand what wrong he did this time.