Chapter 18 Meeting Isabella - Part 2

If I had a car, it would be nice, but it's troublesome to go through all the classes to get a driver's license... Max called an app driver.

Five minutes later, Uber arrived.

Max opened the door for Isabella and she smiled and entered.

Max walked around the car and got in.

The driver was of few words, the destination was already marked by the app, so he went all the way in silence.

" Where are we going?" Isabella still hasn't asked.

"Let's go to the mall first. I want to buy some clothes." Max said.

"Right." Not that she was looking bad about the outfit Max was wearing, but she knew that now that he had money he should want to wear better clothes.

This time Max didn't bring any books, as it was a date, he wanted to put that aside for a bit.

This also somehow made Isabella emotional, as all the time Max was reading a book.

'But I think I should reorganize my stash of books...' His old books were random, if you read, let it be something that benefits him in some way. He could read about laws, geography, physics, engineering, etc.

"What are you thinking?" Isabella asked.

"Mm, that you are so beautiful that it's a sin," Max said with a smile.

"Tsk, sweet-tongued fool." Despite knowing it was a joke, Isabella was happy.

"Do you like calling me a fool so much?" Max asked.

"Yes, because you are a fool!" Isabella reinforced.

"...Okay, I'm a fool in love with you." He smiled closer and bit her upper lip and bared his teeth.

"Max! We're on Uber, control yourself!" Isabella blushed.

"Haha." Max laughed.

As she looked out, Isabella sometimes saw some parts of the city destroyed and her heart ached a little. Sighing, she stopped looking.

Max hugged her and said softly: "It was all very tragic, billions of people died, and currently there are only 900 million people alive confirmed... That's why the war is over, if we continued, we would have gone to extinction however, the war damage is still there."

"Yea." Isabella hugged him and was silent.

Many people lost people in the third world war, she also lost her grandparents and some distant relatives.

Although things are better now 5 years after the war ended, it's still sad to think about it.

Because of what happened, only one province exists, the rest of the world has become uninhabitable, infertile.

Isabella knows why all this happened, she learned it at the gifted children's school. She intended to tell Max, but she hasn't had a chance yet.

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"Thank you, I'll give you 5 stars and a tip," Max said to the Uber driver.

Uber Driver: "Thank you."

Holding Isabella's hand, they went through the electronic door and up the escalators.

"Where do we go first?" Isabella asked.

"Want an ice cream?" Max asked.

"Yea." Isabella nodded.

"Okay, let's have one first, then we can go look at the clothes," Max said.

The stairs led to the cafeteria, seeing McDonald's, they walked there.

"Good afternoon, what will be your order?" the attendant asked.

"Please, a large strawberry ice cream cone with chocolate," Max said.

"I'll have strawberry ice cream," Isabella said.

Clerk: "Okay, just a moment please."

They went to another line with the command.

It didn't take more than 2 minutes and it was ready.

Picking up, they went to a table and sat down.

"It's amazing how quickly they remodeled this mall, I remember all the glass was broken and almost all the stores robbed," Isabella said.

"Mm, they need to be quick and stabilize everything as quickly as possible or else everything would continue to be chaos," Max said.

"Truth." Isabella nodded and began to eat the strawberry ice cream with a small spoon.

Max was already more unrestrained, he put the spoon aside, and took a direct bite.

"Want a piece?" Max offered.

"No thank you." Isabella denied it. She prefers the only strawberry, his had chocolate with it.

"Is that so?" Max continued to eat.

Pretending to take something out of his pocket, Max asked the system for a weak +5 permanent strength. He placed it on the table. And said, "After that, drink this."

"What is it?" Isabella frowned.

The color was a little red, similar to the color of strawberry juice.

"Drink and you will understand." Max didn't say what it was.

"Okay then..." Even though she was suspicious, she trusted Max and after eating the ice cream, she took the bottle and opened it, and drank some. It didn't taste bad, so she drank the rest.

"Oh..." She felt her body heat up and felt like peeing.

"It's already back." Saying that she left.

Max was waiting.

When she came back, she had a strange expression: "I got stronger... What was that you made me drink?"

" Hehe. Something good, there will be more in the future." Max laughed.

"Okay, let's go clothes shopping now," Max said getting up and holding her hand.

"Yea." Isabella nodded.

Arriving at the best and biggest clothing store in the mall, even the vendors wore luxurious clothes and had a good presence.