18: The Bakery III

As expected, the bakery owner took JJ's hand, and she closed her cloudy hazel eyes. The teenage girl was quite for a moment, and then she sighed.

The entire kitchen fell quite, except Jay's sniffing and occasional sobbing. His wrist was still burning with pain, and the Red King's had was wrapped around the baby's forearm.

"That's not really healing, but it'll work." JJ finally smiled back at the old woman before she turned around to make eye contact with her partner. "Her power is accelerating."

Accelerating? What?

"Big words, dear." The grandma chuckled a little as she let go of JJ. "I speed up the natural process of healing. You're the first person to get it right by just a touch."

SYSTEM! Jay yelled internally. 'Do we have her profile?'

In the next second, a familiar interface screen popped up over the grandma's head.

[ GRANDMA ELLA

REAL NAME: ELLA ELLISON MILLER

ALIAS: THE WIDOWED DOCTOR

CURRENT AGE: 69 YEARS 101 DAYS

LEVEL: 5

SUPERPOWER: ACCELERATING ANY NATURAL PROCESS ]

Do we have her back story?

Before the system could answer him, the old woman lifted up her hand for Jay to take. The Red King's face was still in a frown, but he lowered the baby just enough for the bakery owner to take a hold of Jay's wrist.

Pain shot through his arm again, and his crying echoed throughout the room. In just a few seconds, the throbbing subsided, so the wailing died down. Jay was surprised that it was that quick. He moved his hand out of the grandma's reach; each of his chubby fingers didn't sting when he wiggled them, and his wrist wasn't sending bolts of agony anymore.

"I think he's confused." The Red King's voice held a hint of amusement. "You feel better now, little buddy? We'll eat when we get to the motel, how about that?"

"Mmmn. Mmm." Jay nodded before he rested his head on his male caregiver's chest. He can't wait for the custard tarts, and he's just glad that he's no longer in pain.

Now that his injury is no longer an issue, the transmigrator yelled for the system again. Do we have her backstory unlocked?

[ Ella Miller, birth name Elyse Ellison, came from a family of farmers north of Esther City. At the age of 14, her father married her off to a man twice her age, and they had seven children together. The man turned abusive, which led to Ella trying to leave the household with her children. He chopped off her legs so she could never leave, and everyone thought that she lost her legs in an accident. In turn, her power awakened, and she slowly killed him by aging him faster and made him quickly die of nature causes. After that, she was well known for helping new mothers giving birth, and with her powers aiding the process of childbirth, she made a fortune as an underground doctor before retiring and opening a motel and a bakery. ]

Holy fucking hell.

While Jay was preoccupied with the system, JJ took a silver coin out of her purse and slammed it on the counter.

"What's your name?" JJ asked the woman, and her smile turned frkm a genuine one into a rather plastic polite one. "I never got your name, ma'am."

"You keep the silver, dear." The old woman tossed the coin back to the teenage girl. "I am Ella Miller."

"TC Reth." The Red King held Jay in one hand while his other hand was extended for a handshake, which the grandma happily took. It took a few seconds for the transmigrator to realize that it's the same name that his male caretaker checked in the motel with.

Their handshake was rather brief was rather brief compared to the one that came after. JJ held the grandma's hand a lot longer, as if she was purposely holding on. "I'm Verena Reth."

"Can you do me a favor and show me your power?" Grandma Ella pulled the teenage girl closer. "It's only fair to show me yours after I showed you mine."

"My power is useless, honestly." JJ chuckled nervously as she showed the grandma the silver coin which the bakery tossed back at her a moment ago. Then, the metal began hovering on her hand. "I can levitate small stuff."

The lie was necessary. Can't trust people in this hell hole of a world. Still, it makes Jay felt bad— secondhand guilty for his caretakers since the grandma was a sweet person. Ah-hem. The grandma is a sweet person even though she made her husband die of "natural causes."

"And your husband?" Grandma Ella nodded, seemingly convinced.

With the most obnoxious voice he could muster, the Red King said, "I fix guns."

Grandma wasn't convinced this time. She slowly shook her head. "Don't lie to me, boy. I saw you fixing that gun, but I swore on my name you got something up your sleeves."

A laugh rumbled from the teenage boy, and he grinned back. "My wife can lift a fork in thin air. I can break the fork in half. My power isn't as impressive as hers or yours, but it helps me fix guns."

So much words about fixing guns, yet they have zero guns on their being.

Grandma Ella nodded, and she began rolling her wheelchair towards the door. Red King didn't spare a moment following her, and his companion was right next to him. JJ handed the silver coin in her hand to the transmigrator, who happily took it. It's better to have something in his hand to play with than none.

Once they're back on the street, the USC van wasn't there anymore. However, the lunatic woman who dislocated Jay's wrist was. She was sitting underneath the shade of the bakery's window, and her shoulders were shaking as she quietly sobbed.

There was a another woman with neck length black hair who looked equally deranged as the sobbing brunette, and she was whispering soft words at her weeping friend. A toddler no older than two was clinging to the other woman's back, and the toddler was the first to noticed the three people watching them.

"What's wrong with her?" JJ immediately crouched down to asked the black haired mother, who tried her best to give the teen girl a smile.

"I apologize on behalf of my good friend." The black haired woman spoke with a very distinct accent, which means that she's not from this continent. "She recently lost her daughter, and she does not understand that her daughter is dead."

The news was a bit shocking to everyone, and the lunatic lady only sobbed harder as her friend tried to pick her up off the concrete.

Jay looked at the toddler who had been staring at him this entire time, and the transmigrator felt a pang of sympathy. The child had amazing green eyes and cute freckles dotting their tanned cheeks, and his clothes were in worse conditions than Jay's. The transmigrator couldn't tell the gender of the child since they're wearing literal rangs, and their brunette hair was long enough to reach their shoulders.

Without much thought, the baby dropped the silver coin in his hand on to the toddler, who caught the coin. Their beautiful green eyes widened even more than it already it, and their heart shaped lips hung open for a while as they slowly turned their head up to look at Jay again.

His caregivers are gonna be angry that little baby Kaon gave a silver coin to a random child on the street, but the child needs it more than they do. Besides, JJ can always counterfeit more money.

"Sunshine, give the coin back to them." The black haired woman said to her child, and the toddler nodded.

"Keep it. We're not scamming you." JJ stood up from her crouching position, and she gave Jay a warm smile. "You're too kind, Kaon. Let's go back to the motel."

The black haired woman took the coin from her child, and her eyes widened in disbelief. Her friend was still crying in her arms while the child was quiet staring at them again.

As his caretakers walked away from the ladies and the toddler, Jay was a bit startled by the System giving him a surprise pop-up notification.

[ USER JAY'S ACTION HAD ACTIVATED 'MISSION TWO: BABY'S FIRST WORDS' AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. ]