The pet master

Standing in front of the mirror, Max looked at his slightly off skin color.

He already washed the paint off, with a little trace left on His skin.

"thankfully I didn't give her any of the long-lasting paint".

Looking at the bathroom, Max felt a little sad for the poor pigeon.

After Max washed himself, Lucy switched targets to the poor pigeon.

Max had to admit he enjoyed messing around with Lucy, it's a nice little change from his constant planning about his talent, dealing with glory city, how to gain the biggest benefits in the void battlefield, all he can do is think though, because currently he is still just a weakling.

Playing with Lucy is a nice distraction, but that was because Lucy was just playing.

Lucy doesn't have the same attitude towards the pigeon.

Their relationship is more like a mad-scientist and a test subject.

The pigeon's whole existence was just to satisfy Lucy's curiosity, like" is paint edible? ".

Max just silently prayed for the poor pigeon and went to sleep.

.....

Early in the morning inside Max's luxury cabin.

The pet and its owner sat in front of the TV while enjoying breakfast.

The two of them were laughing.

Max at the ridiculous joke on the daily news, while Lucy didn't know why she was laughing.

She didn't completely understand what's going-on in the TV, just mimicking Max's actions like a child does with their parents.

.. On the TV a big wedding ceremony was being broadcasted.

The number one singer on Star continent. The Blue rose Astra marrying the current nobody, Mark.

Please do not misunderstand this for a true love story or something of a sort,

The story goes like this:

2days ago mark awaken his genetic talent at the age of 36.

Normally, such a thing is almost impossible. If you can't awaken your talent under the age of 20, that means you are one of the unlucky few that simply can't become superhuman.

This is a kind of side effect of sort for obtaining the genetic talents. Messing with genes comes at a certain cost.

However, there are those few rare ones, like mark, their talents need some special condition to awaking completely, thus it's misunderstood for a useless person.

After Awakening his talent, mark felt bloated and directly went to kidnap his one and only Crush Astra.

Of course, he got found out within a day, and Astra was rescued.

However, one day later, the government announced that Mark possesses an SS Rank space-related talent, and will be joining the army, since late bloomers like him already wasted a lot of time, they cannot go through the normal process of Education.

So in order to bring out his maximum potential, he will be directly thrown into the army, while also stating that the kidnapping of Astra was nothing but a misunderstanding. Additionally, they revealed that Mark and Astro are a long-lost separated lovers and that their marriage, which the government has organized, will take place within this week.

...

But looking at Astra's almost tearful expression, Max couldn't help but smirk.

"As expected, being famous yet weak is a call for trouble. The strong are the rightful owners of this world.

Imagine if I actually published those books under my real name and they got super famous. Wouldn't that make me a target for yanderes and shit, or even a worst type of perverted bastards".

Shaking his head, Max ruffled Lucy's hair.

"little Lu, you have to get stronger to protect your master, otherwise I will be kidnapped for being too handsome, like poor little Astra over there".

Max was just joking with Lucy, but the response he got made his face twitch.

Lucy looked at Max's face then through their spiritual link she transmitted, "you don't have to worry about that".

"you little.....! "

Max rushed to catch Lucy, while the latter flew away giggling, at the same time Max kept receiving words of surrender from Lucy.

"handsome"… "handsome" … "handsome"…

Although it didn't reduce his anger in any way, having the opposite effect.

...

Soon, the two stopped messing around, hearing a knock on the door.

'it should be the cleaning staff'.

It has been already 5 days since max got on the train. Over this period, Max made sure to keep as low key as possible, and the best way to do it is to blend in, or at least, it's the best temporary measure.

Max didn't keep to himself, even refusing the cleaning staff or something like that. He didn't need any unnecessary attention.

Opening the door, Max nodded at the maid outside.

"sir, is it not an appropriate time? Should I come back some other time? ".

"I plan to have my coffee outside, anyway. It's just that my pet made a little mess inside the bathroom. I hope it's not too much trouble," as he finished speaking, he handed some cash to the maid.

While Lucy on his head kept pulling his hair, 'you made trouble, it's you, you, you'.

"not a problem at all sir, please enjoy your coffee". Responded the maid with a smile, while pocketing the money.

Max ignored Lucy's antics and left to Visit the upscale restaurant onboard the train.