"Ah, today is the day I die."

[This section is in Adrian's POV]

After the threat from the unknown person, Adrian acted like a tortoise retreating back into his shell. He simply stayed home and played video games, not even heading out of his room. He wanted to drown himself in the fictional world and leave all his troubles behind. He had all his meals in his room as well.

This situation continued until Hunter arrived Monday afternoon. When Adrian first saw Hunter, he thought he was seeing the devil. He pleaded and yelled for his dad to save him, but he just gazed at Adrian coldly and walked away.

Hunter walked closer, each step seemed like an instant and an eternity at the same time. Adrian froze in fright and did not dare to move. When Hunter knelt down and smiled, he thought he was a pig in a slaughterhouse about to be killed. "Ah, today is the day I die." Tears start dripping from Adrian's eyes as he sobbed.

Hunter's face turned ugly. He did not want to babysit a teenager with the mental age of a 6-year-old. He leaned closer to Adrian and whispered beside his ear, "If you continue to cry, I will slowly slice you limb from limb and eat you."

Adrian wanted to scream but immediately covered his mouth.

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[This section is in Hunter's POV]

I dragged Adrian's body out of his bedroom, down the stairs and headed outside. Adrian, in the meantime, did not even dare to make a sound. I continued dragging Adrian until we arrived at the enormous garden of the Spencer mansion.

"Stand up!" I commanded.

"Y-yes!" Adrian immediately jumped up.

"You're going to run around the perimeter of your entire mansion."

"B-but that's more than 1km!" Adrian whimpered.

"10 laps."

"W-what?"

"You will run 10 laps around the perimeter of your entire mansion."

Adrian's face immediately turned white.

"That's impossible!" Adrian wanted to run away but I kicked him on his back, making him fall to the ground head first.

"Deja vu...." I thought to myself. I took out a long whip from my backpack. It was given to me from Leo for my birthday present as a sick joke. Due to the fact that this whip is used for some not to be mentioned purposes, the whip will hurt, but it won't leave any scars on a person's body.

I headed towards Adrian and whipped the ground right in front of him.

"Get up and start running! Or else you would only be wasting your father's money. Don't you feel asahmed of yourself!" I yelled.

Adrian, scared of being hit by the whip, started running. I ran behind him to make sure he's not slacking. After running half a lap, Adrian started panting, "I-I can't do this anymore!"

"Yes you can! Or do you want to taste this whip!"

My threat made Adrian endure for another half a lap. "No, I can't anymore!" Adrian slowed down wanting to stop. It was then that I whipped him.

"Ah!" Adrian screamed.

I whipped him on the back twice. This forced Adrian to pick up the pace. Afterwards, whenever Adrian showed signs of slowing down or stopping, I would whip him. This continued until he finally finished 10 laps after 2 hours.

"Hm... his body shape is worse than I thought."

I thought as a delinquent who gets into fights all the time, Adrian might have a greater muscle composition than an average person, but it seems this is false.

Adrian laid on the ground, with his head facing the sky. He was panting hard, unable to even speak a word.

After his heartbeat started to slow down, I gave him a bottle of water and told him to drink it.

Later, I grabbed a piece of paper and gave it to Adrian. "Do all of these now." I said.

Adrian took a look at the piece of paper. If his face was pale before, now it looked like he became a ghost.

"Adrian's training regiment.

100 jumping jacks

100 sit-ups

40 push-ups

50 crunches

20 burpies

Rest for 1 minute

Repeat again one more time."

"Go on!" I yelled at Adrian, "We don't have all day."

Adrian reluctantly started the training regiment. Whenever Adrian wanted to stop, I would whip him. This continued for another 2 hours before the regiment was finally done.

Adrian laid on the ground again. He felt like he had gone to hell.

I gave him another bottle of water and told him to finish it.

"You're done for today." I said.

Adrian did not even have the strength to reply.

I dragged Adrian's body back to the entrance of the mansion. I found Mr. Spencer waiting for me there. "Good work, Hunter. It seems like I have not chosen wrong, giving you the job as instructor. However, don't you think you were a little too harsh on Adrian?"

"If Adrian could not take such a trifle matter, how can he grow up to be a successful man?" I retorted. I reached in my backpack and took out another piece of paper. "Here. Have Adrian do these tomorrow morning before going to school. And make sure he comes to school tomorrow." Then, I took a look at the dead fish Adrian and said, "Don't even try not doing these exercises, I will know if you have done them or not. If you don't do it then..." I grabbed my whip tightly and stared at Adrian with menacing eyes. Adrian shivered.

"Mr. Spencer, please transfer today's teaching fee to my bank account. I will be leaving now." I said.

"Hunter, please wait. Will you please have dinner with us?" Mr. Spencer asked immediately after I said I was leaving.

I stared at him before answering, "You won't accept 'no' as an answer, why bother asking?" I said disdainfully.

"I'll take that as a yes, then." Mr. Spencer smiled nonchalantly. "Please follow me."

I took a glance at Adrian who was still on the ground. "Should I take him as well?"

Mr. Spencer nodded.

I followed Mr. Spencer while dragging Adrian along.

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Unlike the opulent mansion, the dining room seemed a little bit... lacking.

Mr. Spencer chuckled. "I know what you're thinking. This is actually only our family dining room. If I have guests coming over, we would use the dining hall a few rooms over."

I nodded in acknowledgement.

I was seated on a chair opposite Mr. Spencer, between us was the square dining table. Adrian, still looking dazed, was seated by the side.

As I did not want to engage in a conversation with Mr. Spencer, I did not speak. After a while, Mr. Spencer said, "I hope you don't mind me asking, when will you start teaching Adrian martial arts?"

"Before training in martial arts, one needs to have a solid body and mind. When I think Adrian is ready, I will start teaching him." I replied.

"I hope you are not lying to me, Hunter." Mr. Spencer smiled.

"You don't have to worry, I won't break the contract." I smiled back.

The dinner served today was Japanese food, surprisingly. We were given udon in miso soup, with tempura on the side. For dessert, there was macha cheesecake.

"I hope you don't mind Japanese food, Hunter. Our family likes to change things up when it comes to having different types of cuisines." Mr. Spencer said.

"I have no problems." I replied.

I grabbed a pair of chopsticks and started eating. Adrian, whose muscles were still extremely sore, had a difficult time moving his hand and reaching for the chopsticks.

Both Mr. Spencer and I ignored Adrian and continued eating.

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When all of us finished our dinner, I was finally allowed to leave the mansion. I was escorted back by the chauffeur.

I returned home to find Leo sleeping on the sofa in the living room.

"He must have fallen asleep waiting for me. It's 10pm, after all." I thought to myself, "I'll make it up to him next time."

I gently wrapped Leo's light body around my arms and carried him upstairs and into my bedroom. I placed his body on my bed and lightly tucked him in, placing the blanket on top of him. When I tried to leave, I found Leo still holding on to my hand.

"Hunter..." Leo muttered in his sleep. He seemed to be having a dream. "I... I like you."

I stared at his face. Leo's mouth was slightly opened, his eyes closed. His guard was completely down. I sat down at the edge of the bed, with Leo's hand still holding on to me, and watched Leo sleep. After a long while, Leo finally let go of his hand. It was then that I headed to the master bedroom to shower and sleep.