Sister In Danger (1)

Rick couldn't help but grin when he saw the man in front of him open his eyes. The first thing he did was to pat his shoulder so that he could get his attention since he was standing behind him. 

"Hey, morning mister Bryce! How are you feeling?", he asked, but the man in front of him silently turned to look at him without speaking much. 

A few seconds passed in silence until Bryce spoke, "Oh yeah. Did it succeed?"

"Yes! Actually I'm sorry for not telling this before but I had only done my tests on rats but looks like the results on humans is quite different from what I had imagines. Oh don't worry, it's nothing bad. In fact, it's good news.

The serum actually made visible changes to your body. Of course, not something too great since it's only your height that has been increased. Your muscles seem to have shrunk too but I don't think that's bad since you're way way stronger than you were before. 

I'll keep my promise and give you the 50,000 discount since I was able to gather new data. Also, based on your test results, the serum's effectiveness is approximately equal to the top grade II serum. I expected it to be in between the I and II versions but looks like it surpassed my expectations. 

And the negative effects will stay the same though, so there is nothing to worry about. That is only if you don't like getting taller."

Just as he finished speaking, he saw Bryce's focus on him fade away before he began to rub his temple with a painful expression on his face. 

Liam looked at Rick who was staring at him but he ignored the guy and looked around the room instead. 

"Did a girl come here while I was asleep?", he asked with worry on his face but Rick shook his head. 

Since Liam was in his main body and had not switched to his avatar, the information about his sister was not shared. Due to this, his soul's clone acted like nothing had happened until Liam switched to his avatar. 

"To think that the worst thing would happen. Anyways, thanks for the serum. You have the money so I'll leave now since I have something important to do.", he said and barged out of the room in a hurry, leaving Rick alone in the room. 

Squinting his eyes as he stared at the open doorway, he muttered to himself, "I feel like something isn't right here. He was normal before he got the serum in his body but now he's talking about things that never happened. Unless he can talk to people in his dreams, there is no way that his behavior would go from being chill to straight up restlessness. 

Or maybe it could be a case of hallucinations. Yeah this has more possibility of happening so I should probably note it down and talk to him when he comes here next time."

Outside, Liam took out his phone and was about to dial in his house number but then, he clicked his tongue in frustration before putting the phone back in his pocket since it was highly possible that his mother or father would pick it up instead of his sister. 

It took him only a second to make up his mind before he began running, only to crash into the wall that was in front of him, breaking it.

He felt his face hurt, especially his nose but instead of trying to check on his injuries, he jumped up in the estimated direction towards his house. 

'Damn, I'm way faster than how fast I was back in my main body. Should be around three times faster compared to the time I dodged the water from that bitch.', he thought as he looked around while his hand went towards his nose to check if something was wrong. 

He pulled his hand back and saw blood but instead of panicking, he wiped it off with his sleeve as he stared at a particular direction as he reached the highest point he could reach in the air before he began to descend down at an incredible speed. 

Many people spotted him and contrary to what he had expected, everyone took out their phone and began to film videos. 

'Yeah of course... seeing someone who's injected with top grade serum isn't a common occurrence since they're normally extremely pricey. Even a high grade serum costs half a million Rudo so I can only speculate how much a top grade would cost.', he thought as he landed on the road below before he took another high leap towards his house which he had spotted a few seconds ago. 

"Just wait for me Iris, just wait... I really hope I'm not too late.", he said out loud as he removed his shirt and tied it around his face, covering the lower part of his face while leaving his eyes open so that he could see properly. 

This time, he landed right in front of his house before he dashed towards the door and stopped right in front of it before turning to the right. He ran towards the right side of the house and like he had expected, the window was wide open. 

Not because his parents wanted to let the air in, but because it was broken and they did not have the money to fix it. It didn't really cause much problems since everyone in the neighborhood knew that the family was poor. 

He climbed into the house and silently walked towards the room where the sounds were coming, his heart beating loudly as he continued to take steps towards the dining room.

'Hitting me everyday after coming home drunk wasn't enough and now he wants to sell my sister away. That rotten piece of shit!', he cursed in his head as he got closer. 

Once he was close enough, he was able to listen to the conversation that was happening in the room near him.