Chapter 18(Edited)

"You got any cash on you?" Ashborn said to his companion while wondering if he should use magic to just Genjutsu them or not. They have just made a stop in a random restaurant parking lot in some town. The town is called Nevada in the state of Missouri.

They've been on the road nonstop for almost a day. Until Jean's stomach began rumbling from hunger, which made her blush from the embarrassment as she was trying to hide her hunger for a while. Ashborn noticed her weird behavior and ignored it, not thinking much of it. He didn't feel hunger, so that's why he didn't notice.

Jean gave a look of disbelief to the grown man that just asked a teenage girl for money but answered anyway: "... No, I do not have any money on me."

"Well, Whatever, I will just use illusion magic on them." Saying that he got out of his car, that brought a bit of attention from the people passing by.

"... Magic?? Magic is real?" Jean questioned while following right behind him, and was kinda in hurry from hunger.

An hour later, two people can be seen exiting the restaurant. A handsome youngster and a blushing redhead: "You don't have to be embarrassed, you were hungry. But did you really have to eat that way?" Ashborn asked with some amusement as he enjoyed teasing the blushing redhead while she ran away to the car trying to hide her face.

He then got in the car and said: "We should find a motel around here, so you can get proper sleep. Sleeping in the car isn't healthy."

"Well, You're the boss." Jean simply said, as she would lie if she said she didn't need any sleep.

With that, they headed to the nearest motel. After parking the car they simply headed to the receptionist who was a young lady in her twenties: "Hello there, Welcome to the black flower motel, how can I help you?"

"Two rooms for the night." Ashborn simply said while taking out some cash from what seemed to be his pocket that he got from somewhere.

After paying for their stay and figuring out where their rooms are, Ashborn said before closing his room's door: "Get some rest, We will talk tomorrow." To which Jean simply nodded and closed her door as she's too tired to answer.

Entering his room which was quite simple with a bedroom with an 'Old' TV, a bathroom with a shower, a window, and a couch in the living room. Ashborn simply headed to the bedroom and was about to jump into bed only to feel a strong life force signal which was a few hundred meters away.

"Interesting ... Should I check it out?" He muttered while questioning himself. After making his mind, he simply vanished from his position.

???? POV

'Damn him, curse that crazy bastard. He took everything from me!' I cursed the mad man who kidnapped me and my mom while we were on the run from people I never knew, as my mother never revealed it nor revealed who my father was. I lived my whole life escaping from people I didn't even know, But I always trusted my mother.

After kidnapping us, he started experimenting on us for months, while I managed to survive as I had a strong body from a young age. My mother wasn't so lucky, as she died a few days ago. I didn't even manage to grieve her death properly, as the experiments never stopped. After he finishes with me, he always throws me behind those damn bars and blindfolds me.'

'Sometimes I think maybe I should just end my life by biting my tongue, but my hate and pride won't let me, as I swore that I will have my revenge on her when I escape him.' I thought with determination, not realizing that I was radiating a powerful aura.

"Quite the will you have there, pretty lady." A calm and young voice sounded behind me, which set my alarms on. The room I am in is quite small. That mad man always ties me up to the bed I'm in while always keeping me in check with some drug as my body is quite strong. I have a blindfold on, so I didn't see him, but what's weird is that I didn't hear the door open.

"Relax lady, If I truly wanted to hurt you, your head would've been rolling on the ground long ago." Hearing him, I didn't truly know if I should be relaxed or not. I then asked while trying to keep myself together: "Who are you and what do you want?"

"Well I didn't plan to come here but your 'Haki' got me curious so here I am. And before the introductions, why don't we get rid of that annoying blindfold?" Saying that, I heard a finger-snapping and with that, the blindfold disappeared revealing a young handsome Asian man with sharp purple eyes.

"Before we talk any further, how about some introductions. I am Ashborn Blackheart, What about you Ms...?" He said, to which I replied, not finding any reason not to: "Boa, Boa Hancock."