Driving

Bruce turned his head towards the expected guest, as he could hear the roaring engine from afar. Suki drifted his way towards him to a stop as she got out the happiest expression he had seen her carry.

"Someone's in a good mood," Bruce commented watching her skip over to him,

"I don't know I am just having a great day." Suki said cheerfully, "This morning I woke up with an itch to drive, I even defeated Brian in a race when he was there to pick up his car."

"You defeated him?"

"By an inch, but in racing, an inch is all that matters between losing or winning." Suki said gleefully, "You should've seen the look on his face."

'So Brian is quite close to being in the master class in driving too but it's really weird how his driving has improved from the last time I saw him in that race. He was good but nowhere good as being a master class.' Bruce organized his thoughts as he looked at Suki with a chuckle.

Upgrading a skill, was a weird feeling, to say the least. You could see the noticeable difference in your skill immediately like it was crossing a hurdle that other people had to slowly climb towards whereas you could clear it on a single job.

And that was only using driving as an example, with things like fighting it was even easier to notice your improvements. But Bruce couldn't help but smile, because he knew what was exactly about to come.

Just upgrading your ability from Beginner to Intermediate took a decent amount of time. For instance, Bruce had to learn all sorts of martial arts and fighting separately meaning boxing was a separate skill from judo, and he learned quite a lot more than just those two.

It was only after a couple of months after reaching intermediate in all those skills that they collectively became a single skill, Mixed Martial Arts.

And for anyone to learn that skill, they had to learn every fighting skill he had to its potential before they could upgrade it to Mixed Martial Arts.

It was the same with all of his abilities including Firearm Mastery and Sword Mastery.

So it was easy to guess that abilities took time to upgrade from one point to another. And it took longer the more class they jumped.

But the most frustrating thing was the bottleneck of it all, after reaching a bottleneck in the ability, which didn't go away just because you trained more. You needed to upgrade your ability to go further or else you will just be stuck with the bottleneck for quite a long time.

"Damn! You look like shit." Suki commented seeing his dark circles, "Did you stay on the lookout the entire night?"

"Yeah!" Bruce shrugged, "I can't be too close to the mansion now that it's surrounded with assassins and I have to be on the look in case John Wick shows up and messes up my plan."

"Good thing I brought breakfast then." Suki waved some sandwiches in front of him.

"Is this guy hard to convince?" Suki asked as Bruce was going through those sandwiches like there was no tomorrow,

"He should be reasonable enough, but with the way I am, I can say for certain he won't trust someone that easily, especially people like him." Bruce shrugged, "Professional habit, die hard."

"What if he doesn't want to work with you?"

"I'll have to stop him by force. Besides I have always wanted to fight him, to see if I win."

"I have been almost living in his shadows ever since my training days. The next John Wick they called me. I really wanted a cool title, you know." Bruce complained with an annoyed expression, "Like they have titles like the killer queen, the reaper, and so forth but I was just the next John Wick candidate. Sure the guy is legendary but don't compare me to him."

Suki began laughing out of the blue, "I never imagined the whole assassin business to have this sort of weird competition for a title."

"It's boring out there." Bruce said rolling his eyes as he sipped on his drink, "The only way to have a bit of fun is to compete for something completely non-sensical. But that is only for the cheerful ones. The majority of them have a stick up their ass, they don't even talk and act mysterious all the time."

"Do you think that this John guy can defeat all of them alone?" Suki asked as her curiosity over the whole assassin business was peaking since yesterday,

"I am not sure." Bruce said with honesty, "It would've been easy if they weren't in such a confined space but more spread out. But with him, I can't say for sure. But in this business, all it takes is a bullet to change the game. I am sure even the Baba Yaga can't walk off a bullet to the head."

"I see, then I hope he works with you," Suki said a little reassured as she still wasn't all for him going in that place.

"I am stronger than him, you know." Bruce said with confidence, "Besides, if I work with him or not depends on how he reacts to the proposal. After all, I can't do my job until the hard drives appear tomorrow, and I can't have him ruining the whole thing for me."

"So as much as I want to work with him, it will be better if he comes by tomorrow or any day after that." Bruce said as he looked over at what Suki was doing, "Are you designing something?"

"Yeah, it's for your car." Suki said showing the design to him, "It's still in the works but I think the graphics would look in your car,"

"It does look cool." Bruce nodded as he couldn't help but be impressed with her talents, as Bruce was busy looking at her sketch Suki grabbed the binoculars to look around as she saw a car heading the way that lead straight to the mansion.

Suki didn't know what John Wick looked like, but the way Bruce described him, the man would a hundred percent be wearing a suit. And the guy in the car was definitely wearing one.

"It looks like you've jinxed yourself." Suki pointed at the car that passed by them heading straight to the mansion.

Bruce quickly looked at the car through his binocular's and seeing the back of the man in a suit he was a hundred percent sure that it was him.

"Fuck! Step on it!" Bruce threw the bag of sandwiches away, preparing himself in case things went wrong. Bruce wasn't planning on killing anyone today, so he only carried a pistol, two military-grade tactical knives, and just a small grenade in case things really went south.

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A/N:- A reader reminded me that I never actually given a clue as to what the MC, looks like so in my head he's more like a young leonardo dicaprio. Hope it helps actualize character better for you.