A Thousand Times Better

In a bustling city filled with people, an unpleasant situation unfolded as a girl found herself confronted by three men, one of them wielding a switchblade.

"I'm a bit late, you know? What do you guys want?" The girl spoke, tapping her foot and crossing her arms while holding her cellphone in her right hand.

"What do you mean? My dear, isn't it obvious?" said the man in a black jacket and gray pants.

The girl sighed, but before she could continue, the leader pointed the switchblade at her with a malicious smile, saying, "It's simple. Hand over everything you've got, or you'll have to pay in another way."

Meanwhile, a boy outside the street stopped walking; his left ear seemed to move on its own, and his gaze turned toward the alley.

"Boss, why don't we just start? She's not even from the city," a man wearing a red hat said, rubbing his hands and leering at the girl from head to toe.

The man in gray pants said, "Come on, girl, hand it over or start taking your clothes off."

The leader looked at the other two men and then back at the girl, saying, "What's the matter, girl? Paralyzed with fear?"

The three burst into laughter.

"Hahahah... Boss, so..." Before the man in the red hat could finish speaking, someone interrupted.

"Hey, Villain A, how dare you do that?" the boy standing there spoke, staring directly at the leader, not even acknowledging the other two.

"Huh?" The three looked at the boy, the leader gripping the switchblade tightly, saying, "What did you call me?"

"Villain A... Isn't that your name?" While the boy said this, he noticed the other two guys raising their fingers and added, "Sorry, I didn't realize."

The leader, still smiling, said, "Look at your hero; he seems to have..." Before he could finish, the boy interrupted him.

"Are you Villain B or C by any chance?" The boy walked casually in the direction of Villain A, seemingly unconcerned.

The girl couldn't help but let out a small laugh.

"Hey, why are you laughing?" Villain B spoke up.

"Sorry for the interruption, but maybe it's because of your faces. Honestly, even for mere villains, you're uglier than a blobfish," the boy said, standing in front of Villain A, who was showing a vein of anger on his forehead.

"What the hell are you talking about, kid? You want to die?" Villain C said.

"Damn, I didn't know it was possible to get even uglier... Good thing I arrived, or she might as well bite her own tongue than have anything to do with you guys," the boy said. Suddenly, he realized he had been pushed a few inches back, seeing the surprise on Villain A's face. "Huh... Is that all you've got?" The boy looked down, seeing the switchblade blade slightly below his stomach. "Too weak even to be the first villain," he said, raising his right hand, fingers curled, hitting Villain A's chin and lifting him a few inches off the ground before striking his stomach, sending him in the direction of the other two.

"What?" Villain B and C said in unison.

"Girl, step back..." The boy said, leaping forward and swiftly landing above Villain C, kicking the right side of his face, sending him directly to the ground. He then landed with both feet on Villain C's head, jumping at the same moment toward Villain B, striking his throat with an open hand and grabbing his hair, pulling it back and hitting Villain A, who was getting up.

"You bastard... how?" Villain A said, holding Villain B's body, throwing him to the ground.

"Oh! Now you're looking like an actual initial villain. Too bad it's too late," the boy said with a smile, rolling his eyes. "What a shame, too late."

In front of the boy, there was a small stone. With a kick, he sent it into the air and then struck it with the center of Villain A's forehead, knocking him out.

"Ready." The boy looked at the girl but before he could say anything, Villain C grabbed his leg. "Go to sleep like the others, pest." Without hesitation, he kicked Villain C's face, hearing the sound of breaking teeth before watching him pass out.

After that, as if nothing had happened, he smiled at the girl, saying, "No need for thanks. I just did what anyone would do. See you around, beautiful." Turning away, he left, forgetting the switchblade lodged below his stomach.

A few seconds passed; the girl looked around, her eyes gleaming, and biting her index finger, she thought, 'Ha... lucky, I've already found the target for my group.'

When she thought that, an idea crossed her mind, a wide smile forming. "Luck is this... the designation might be luck after all. In the end, he's just a boy, and a boy who thinks he's special. It turns out he was right; my group is composed only of women."

"If his designation is indeed luck, it's an incredible jackpot. I can't miss this; I better go after him." The girl spoke, then noticed the three men getting up. "You never learn, do you?"

Hours later, the three men were found, each in a different trash can, with the four longest bones in their bodies broken into various pieces.

Back in the present, a few minutes after the boy left, he was in the school infirmary.

"Damian... how many times do I have to tell you? You don't have superpowers; you just don't feel pain, you brat," said the nurse, finishing the bandage below Damian's stomach. "Is this the fourth time this week?"

"I miss you, and this is the only way I can declare my love to you," Damian said, looking deeply into the eyes of the nurse named Mia.

"That doesn't work on me; try talking to someone your age," Mia said, removing the glove with her mouth now that the bandage was done.

"You say that, but your face doesn't lie," Damian said with a smirk while looking at her flushed face. "What a depraved nurse you are."

"What I want to hit you right now..." Mia said, closing her fist and resting it on her thigh.

"You can do it; I'll allow it," Damian said with a big smile.

"Ugh, why did I promise your mother to take care of you?" Almost immediately after Mia said this, regret hit her conscience, intensifying when she saw Damian's rare expression—a sad and painful look from past memories.

Noticing Mia's unease, Damian spoke shortly after, "It's okay; I'd fight her if I had to. After all, if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be alive..."

Damian reached his hand forward, placing it on Mia's thigh, and said, "I'm tired; can I nap a bit?"

"Of course, you depraved brat," Mia said, getting up and sitting on the bed, placing her hand on Damian's head, leading it to rest on her lap, letting Damian's skin directly feel hers while he rested.

On the building across the street, the girl from the alley was on the third floor, looking directly at the school. "After all that, he still seems easy to control... It seems like both of us hit the jackpot."

Time passed, and the second class had already ended. Mia lifted Damian from the bed, waking him up and pushing him forward, making him fall to the floor, saying, "You still have three classes to attend; go and become someone in this life."

Damian quickly got up, took Mia's hand, and kissed it, saying, "I don't need to work when you, my wife, already does that."

Mia looked at Damian with a disgusted expression, saying, "If you want any chance with me, you better do that." Mia pushed Damian from behind, throwing him out of the infirmary, closing the door and continuing, "My first and only man won't be a bum who thinks he's a bat at night."

Damian got up, brushing off the dirt with his hand, saying, "You look so cute like that." After saying that, Damian walked towards his classroom.

When the third class was almost ending, the girl from the alley who had been watching Damian's classroom widened her eyes, starting to run desperately to the top floor. "No, he can't die."

"I won't let this happen... if he dies, I'll be forced, I'll be forced..." She continued, muddling her thoughts. "No! No!"

She quickly reached the rooftop, started running forward, gritting her teeth. "I won't go back to being a waitress!" Jumping from the top of the building, she shot like a missile towards the school window.

Inside the classroom, Damian, playing with the pencil between his fingers, looked at the boy in front of him, a strange bulge on his neck. When he started to move, the girl from the alley burst through the window, shattering part of the wall around her.

And at that moment, everything happened very quickly. The girl flew in front of Damian, touching his chest, throwing him backward, making him fall from the chair, hitting the floor hard. While a glow occurred, the girl thought, 'Luck? No, his designation...'

At that very moment, the head of the boy Damian had noticed exploded, and a swarm of bees emerged. Their bodies were completely red with white stripes instead of black.

However, before they could cause any harm, they were all suspended in the air. Their bodies were entwined by threads coming from the girl's fingertips. These threads were all over the room, and not a single bee escaped. With a simple finger movement, all of them were destroyed, and before a rain of blood could occur, the girl quickly moved her hands, containing all the blood with the threads, ultimately creating a sphere of threads that gently landed in her hand.

'His designation is desire.' After thinking about this, she moved her pinky finger. The body of the student whose head had exploded was wrapped in threads, cut into thousands of pieces, disappearing into a dark cloud. "Now, everyone, nobody saw this; sleep." With a finger movement, she touched the neck of everyone in the room, including Damian, making them all faint.

Holding the sphere of threads with all the bee's blood, the girl looked where Damian was, seeing him lying on the floor.

"Oh... I think I hit him accidentally... I have to learn to control this." The girl spoke, looking at the threads coming from her fingertip, making all of them disappear. "Well, he won't mind if I take him like this, right? After all, he'll get what he always wished for, I guess... anyway, better be careful when telling the other girls that our key is a man."

Unconscious Damian? Not at all; he was just pretending perfectly. Now, he was thinking, 'Random student B dead supernaturally... The girl I saved is actually strong as hell, and now, I'm being taken to their HQ as she talked about my desire...' With his face pressed against the ground, Damian showed an extremely excited smile.

A few minutes later, the girl was jumping between buildings, not caring if anyone could see her along the way. As if she knew Damian was awake, she said, "Boy, your life is going to be a thousand time better from now on."