"Who are you?" Chloe Santos' expression was stoic as she looked at Luan and Cristina.
Initially, she showed some emotion when looking at Cristina, as the girl reminded Chloe of her older sister, however, she soon realized that she was wrong. She was not her sister, and had much lighter skin and was very young.
'Gabriela's daughter?' That's what she thought.
"Luan Dimas," the man said nonchalantly.
Afterwards, Luan threw Chloe a set of Ingrid's clothes. Before leaving, he had already prepared this. Chloe took the outfit, a little surprised, but soon dressed in it, no questions asked. After all, she didn't want to remain naked.
Beside him, Cristina looked at Chloe a little nervously and said, "Cristina Dimas... I'm adopted by the Dimas family when my blood family was murdered and I never got a chance to meet you until I met you."
"Murdered...?!" Chloe went a little out of control. If her guess was right, this girl was her niece, but did she say her family was murdered?
Luan thought for a moment and approached her. Chloe eyed him warily. Without giving her a chance to reject him, he had already pressed his index finger against her forehead and transmitted memories of what happened, how Clan Zing exterminated her family out of fear of retaliation. In addition, she also got to know the whole story of Cristina.
Chloe's expression turned sour; she couldn't take it and cried. She has just escaped from hell but discovered her family has been massacred. Her eyes became bloodshot, but then she looked at Cristina - the only person with whom she had a blood connection, maybe the a sole survivor, just like herself.
She screamed loud as she cried but tried to control herself, but it was hard. She sniffled as a lump in her throat made her breathing hard. She felt dejected, helpless.
Luan patted Cristina on her back and said something in her ear. She nodded, a little startled, but did as he said.
Cristina walked through the clouds that seemed to be made of snow. She reached out to Chloe and hugged her. In fact, she had no memories or information of her blood family on her mother's side, but seeing her aunt so dejected made her heart flutter. Cristina unknowingly let tears flow from her eyes as she hugged Chloe.
Chloe didn't pull away from the hug. It was warm and felt familiar. She hugged Cristina's small body tightly and tried to suppress her sadness, but it was difficult. The memories she had of her family flooded her mind. Looking at Cristina with her beautiful eyes that dripped tears like summer rain, she felt a tightness in her chest. She wasn't feeling the pain of a single loss, but of her entire family, or almost all of it, leaving just one niece who had suffered so much because of the family that had slaughtered her family.
"I want revenge!" She muttered.
"You decide, but even without you doing something…" Luan didn't complete what he was going to say, and he didn't need to.
He shared the memories of what had happened to Chloe. She now knew they would have no chance of surviving for long in this turbulent time as they had lost their core energy and couldn't strengthen as much as they had.
"Still, I don't expect a miracle to happen and somehow they survive." Chloe didn't flinch. She would pay an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
"Okay." Luan didn't deny her her revenge.
Chloe was still sniffling as she spoke. Even so, her eyes felt like she could kill someone at any time, but when she thanked Luan, she meant it. "Thanks."
Cristina had no objection. For better or worse, she was part of their family by blood, even though she had suffered a lot because of them. And if her aunt, who seemed to be different from them and didn't reject her even when she first met her, wanted to do something about it, she'd support it.
"Where are we going?" After getting her emotions under control, although she did get away for a bit, Chloe asked while still holding Cristina in her arms.
"My family is currently residing on an island training." Luan didn't hide anything about their destination. "We're going there now. And regarding your revenge, you can think on that after you cool off a bit."
To return, it took 30 minutes. The flight speed was lower than the journey had been to Japan, as they weren't in such a hurry.
When they arrived, Maira was no longer on the island.
"Where's Mom?" Luan looked at Cristina.
"Something happened at the company and Mom went to go check." Cristina then told how her mother had crafted a helicopter with her skill and flew off. It was just sensational.
Luan was not surprised. He had seen his mother study how to create a helicopter. Now that she knew how it was done, it wouldn't be difficult for her to create one with her skill.
After Luan introduced Chloe to everyone, he went back to isolating himself, but he didn't go back to dismantling the monsters, but instead took out his smartphone and tried to find out why his mother was busy.
'So that's it...'
Most companies in Japan had started to cut ties with the Dimas company. This caused Dimas Corporation to have a slight drop in shares.
Luan smiled coldly, and soon found out which companies they were, and then made an ad on his social networks. On a list were the names of the companies and the top leaders of the companies. They were taxed with a 1-month ban from the Online Survival game. And not only that, their family members also suffered because of them.
Another announcement followed, about the tournament that would take place, and how he planned to increase the prize pools in each country.
Now with the ban, even if it was unlocked after 1 month, if they would be unlocked at all, as it would only if Luan was satisfied... they wouldn't be able to participate in the Tournament, as they were banned!
Luan's fingers danced on the smartphone screen as he got evidence of what had happened in the lab where Chloe had been held. The information wasn't limited to just Chloe who had been made a lab rat - there were also people who were presumed dead in Japan who were being held in the same lab.
'Done.' With complete indifference, Luan put away his smartphone.
On his social networks, especially Twitter, on which he had 150 million followers, the news was spread and soon was disseminated around the world.
His reason for doing this was also attached, and with evidence that they were illegally experimenting with Brazilian citizens, and not only that, there were also people from multiple other countries.
This was beyond what Japan's leaders had expected to happen. They did not imagine that in such a short time, evidence would be found even before it could be deleted. What they didn't know was that Luan was actually the creator of the virus: Fox.