Chapter 012

Everybody in the court were dumbstruck at Oscar's level of confidence.

 They were quite eager to watch him make a fool of himself after his crazy blabberings. Afterall, it was public knowledge that he had never engaged in any physical sport activity.

 "Alright, the guy with the highest point wins. One shot gives two points. A dunk gives five. Everyone in the court will be doing the calculations"

 After Oscar and Jonas both voiced their agreement with the arrangement, Jonas made the first move, racing towards the hoop.

 "Damn, is he a snail" thanks to the system's level ups, although it wasn't as exaggerated as moving like a snail, Jonas running speed was quite slow in Oscar's eyes.

 Jonas grinned after he obtained a favourable position. Just as he made to take a shot, a pair of strong arms slapped the ball away.

 "Thanks!" Oscar smiled heartwarmingly, the ball now in his hold.

 "Impossible!" Jonas gasped like he had just seen a ghost. Not just him though, the whole court was!

Oscar had a frail body that looked like it could break at anytime. They couldn't understand how he could slap the ball away from Jonas who weighed twice his size and was tall.

 "Anything is possible!" Oscar raced towards the hoop at insane speed, leapt into the air and did a thrilling dunk.

 "Oscar, five points!"

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 "Oscar, five points!"

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 "Oscar, five points!!"

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 "Oscar, five points!"

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 It was already past ten minutes. At this point, Jonas was at the brink of tearing up. Just who did he offend?!

 Anytime he managed to get the ball and attempt a shot, Oscar would snatch it away from him. Currently, Oscar had 100 points, while he had a pathetic zero!

 And the most baffling part was that, Oscar always did a dunk. Since when did that become so easy to do?!

 At first, everybody were waiting for Oscar to disgrace himself. But after his brilliant feats, they began cheering him up. The huge commotion drew students and teachers towards the basket ball court.

"Hey Laura! isn't that your ex?"

 "Whoa! he's so cool!"

 "Was he ever this good before?"

 "I bet he's reached that level of NBA players"

 Faced with these loads of questions, Laura was completely speechless. Oscar? Basketball?

 She was the only person in the whole of KYC who knew Oscar the most. The dude was literall working around the clock. How could he have squeezed out time to hone his basketball skills?!

 Staring at the figure dominating the court, a feeling of loss gradually crept up in her eyes.

 "Argh! there's no way he's better than Henry! so what if he can play basketball? trash is still trash!" she hurriedly dispelled these strange thoughts.

 Amongst the crowd of spectators, Goldie stared at Oscar awesome figure with shimmering eyes.

 "You really are not simple" she mumbled.

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 The basketball coach finally blew the whistle after the scores reached:

 0-200

 Naturally, the zero belonged to Jonas. Currently, he no longer had that haughtiness of before.

With a sweaty body, the gaze he sent at Oscar's direction was full of trepidation and hints of amazement.

 "You really hid yourself quite well" the basketball coach patted Oscar's shoulder, inwardly shocked.

 He'd been playing for so long, yet there was no trace of fatigue. Heck! not even a pear-sized drop of sweat.

 "I was just shy" Oscar smiled shamelessly, inwardly shocked at the impact of the system's level ups m his body.

 "Looks like i need to be spending more money!"

 "With your basketball skills, you are qualified to join our basketball team" the coach extended an olive branch.

 "Uhm, i don't really know coach. Some people think i've got frail arms" Oscar intentionally glanced at Russ direction.

 The coach seemed to have read Oscar's meaning and turned towards Russ.

 "You should apologize Russ" he said slowly.

 "Apologize? why should i do that?!"

 The coach sighed.

 "I know it sucks. But we really need Oscar on the team. I hope you can be the bigger person?"

"Sorry.." after saying these humiliating words in front of such a large crowd, Russ angrily left the court.

 "Training starts by five" the coach nodded at Oscar before leaving.

 Thanks to the little game, it was already past sports class.

 After that, a huge crowd descended upon Oscar, throwing him compliments.

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 "It's approching four pm. How do i spend fifty thousand dollars before the twenty four hours limit?" Oscar thought as he picked up his bag. It was already the end of school for that day.

 Walking into the garage, he was astonished at the scene playing before him.

 Henry and Laura were leaning against a flashy car, whilst being surrounded by a throng of students.

 Funny enough, the car was his new Bentley!

 "Girl! this car is on fire! who has it?" a female student could no longer resist her curiosity.

 The crowd behind her nodded as well.

 "Hehe, i and my girlfriend wouldn't take pictures with any random car we see. I bought it for my babe"

Hearing Henry's declaration, the crowd went frenzied.

 "Awwn! this car must cost more than ten thousand right?"

 "Tsk. To think he would splurge so much for his girlfriend. So romantic!"

 "Awwn! i wish i had such a boyfriend!"

 Hearing the compliments and feeling the gazes of envy and admiration, Laura felt like she was on cloud nine.

 Althoui sh knew Henry's words were all lies since they didn't arrive at campus with the bentley, she still felt damn good at the attention she was recieving.

 Just as Henry wanted to py some fake humble words, a snort sounded from the crowd.

 "You two, get off my car!"

 Oscar strode out from the crowd, smirking mockingly.

 "Huh?" everybody at the scene thought they misheard.

 "Y-Your car?!" Laura panicked.

 Just as she unconsciously made to step away, Henry pulled her back, sending his own mocking gaze at Oscar.

 "Your car? sure, have it!" he brought out an object, tossing it at Oscar.

 It was a toy ferrari.

Humiliation. This was naked humiliation!

 "I didn't know you love toy cars so much. But kindly leave my car. If you scratch it, i doubt you'd be able to face the consequences"

 Henry burst into laughter upon hearing this.

 "You own this car? muhahaha, why don't you just say you own the campus too!"

 The crowded students joined Henry in his laughter. It was obvious they didn't believe Oscar's 'dry jokes'

 "Look here Oscar" Laura finally got a grip of herself.

 "I know you are doing all these farce to get my attention. Don't have any hopes b'cuz we're done for good. Why can't you just move on?"

 Seeing Laura strutting around like a proud peacock, Oscar felt disappointed. He never knew she was on such a level of narcissism!

 "Who wants your attention? it's worth shit. Now scram away from my car before you both make me help you do" he flashed his fist impatiently.

 "Want to resort to violence? touch me and your blind mum will pay the price a hundred fold!"

"Are you threatening me?" Oscar eyes blazed.

 "Try me" Henry smiled unbothered.

 He was confident Oscar wouldn't dare touch him. One word from him could turn the latter's life into a miserable.

 And the basis of all this was.. because he had MONEY!