Chapter 1821 - Destined, and Fishing for Benefits

Actually, Stacy hadn’t told Claire about the twins because of Luke.

According to the safety rules, the three of them had to avoid crossing paths on the surface.

It was Artemis, who was the most impulsive, who had stopped Stacy.

Luke thought for a moment, then sent a message to Stacy, allowing her to tell Claire about him and the twins.

If Stacy didn’t explain the situation clearly this time, it would be very hard to convince Claire.

Besides, since Claire had found Stacy as her girlfriend and had joined Mindy’s Ursa Minor, she was destined to enter this circle.

Luke wasn’t really worried about this right now, and let her do whatever she wanted.

…

Stacy was frank in her confession; she didn’t even keep it a secret that the wizard, V, was teaching the three sisters.

She didn’t need to tell Claire who V was — it just so happened that V had been on TV in Japan, and there were a lot of videos as proof.

Claire had initially clamored to kick up a fuss with V and make this fiend give Stacy her freedom, but she quickly gave up on this idea.

That was because Mindy had heard her say that she was going to make trouble for V.

Mindy didn’t use coercion of any sort – she just kindly helped Claire figure out the logic so that Claire became aware of the fact that V was with the Bat Squad.

Look for trouble with the Bat Squad? Of course Claire wouldn’t do that. Batman had saved her in Los Angeles.

As a fan of Batman and from what Stacy had told her about her past, Claire understood why V had taken it upon himself to teach the three girls.

If V hadn’t intervened, Stacy might not have run into Claire, and the two of them might not have gotten together.

What shocked Claire more was that Stacy had ‘robbed’ her brother of the criminal he had been escorting.

The female live streamer, Arty, had been tasered in the butt by Luke, and had collapsed.

Although Claire knew that she shouldn’t, she still felt some glee when she heard this. As expected of her big brother! He had helped her get revenge more than two years ago.

Fine, she accepted Stacy’s explanation, but she still resented Artemis a little.

After all, Stacy had been sitting too close to Artemis back then, and they had indeed been too cozy with each other.

Coupled with some minor disagreements with Stacy recently, it was inevitable that the two of them would argue.

After the argument, Mindy helped to ask Skye about it, and then assured Claire that Stacy really wasn’t having an affair. Only then did Claire’s anger disappear.

In the next few days, Claire and Stacy made up, and the two of them went to Stacy’s set.

Except for complaining to her sister and cursing that ‘traitor,’ Stacy, Artemis actually wasn’t truly displeased.

In the end, this was all her fault. If she hadn’t suddenly stopped Stacy, none of this would have happened.

This also made the twins realize that the three of them indeed had their own lives.

The twins didn’t have boyfriends yet, while Stacy had already taken a big step forward for herself.

Artemis still had lingering trauma. She warned her sister that in the future, whether she got a boyfriend or a girlfriend, she had to make it clear to her first.

She really didn’t want to cop blame for no reason.

It was one thing to take the blame, but to have to watch other people’s PDA on top of that, and not being able to mock them because she was the one in the wrong, was the worst.

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While the supergirl trio and Claire were caught up together, Mindy took advantage of the situation.

Less than a month later, Skye, codenamed Shock Wave, joined Ursa Minor’s chat group as intelligence personnel.

Donnie had been in charge of this before, but he preferred to tinker with things, and his Internet skills could only be considered passable.

Just because he had better Internet skills didn’t mean he was good at gathering and analyzing intelligence.

Now that Skye was here, Donnie finally didn’t have to deal with Mindy’s ‘irrational’ requests.

She asked him every day whether there were any suitable targets; where was Donnie supposed to find them?

Targets couldn’t be chosen randomly; he would be the one held responsible if anything happened.

The slightly bigger gangs and evil forces in New York had been wiped out by the Bat Squad several times over; it was too hard to find new idiots.

Luke also knew that Skye had joined Ursa Minor.

In fact, Mindy and Skye had already contacted him in private.

Whether it was recruiting new members or joining a group, they had to apply to him for an assessment, and only after the vetting process was passed could they proceed.

Of course, the vetting was limited to the superhuman community.

The funny thing was that because Skye hadn’t divulged her Vibration ability, Mindy had actually given her a ‘desk job.’

Luke didn’t call Mindy’s attention to it either.

The most exciting outcome would be when she realized that Skye could take on all of them on her own.

Skye’s Vibration had short- and long-range capabilities, and was still increasing in power.

Without her armor, Mindy would definitely be killed instantly, and Claire + Gold Nugget No. 2 would also be taken down by Skye.

However, Skye still remembered what Luke said. She had been studying hard in college for the past two years to improve herself. With her black-rimmed glasses, she looked very bookish.

She had no objections to Mindy’s misunderstanding.

Fighting and killing indeed didn’t suit technical staff like her.

The combat training which Luke had arranged for her was for self-defense, and wasn’t worth mentioning.

Also, she had watched Mindy, Nikki and Monica train in ‘women’s self-defense.’

She was sure that this wasn’t some women’s self-defense like they claimed. Nevertheless, the three of them were definitely better at her – at physical combat, at least.

Skye’s ‘battle skills’ were a combination of shock waves and physical techniques. She could create holes in a regular person’s body from a distance. Naturally, she wouldn’t use that on her new friends.

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Time flew by, and soon, it was Valentine’s Day.

Luke got busy, which was rare.

Jenny had already called to say that there was a backlog of work and they needed to meet for a detailed discussion.

It had been a year since she became chairman of the board.

The phone company already had a new CEO, and there were a whole bunch of directors and assistant directors.

A few years ago, Luke had completed the layout of the multifaceted system. He had enough legitimate funds that could be used, so the number of shares he held no longer mattered.

As per prior agreement, all sorts of basic patents were transferred to the phone company so that it turned from a shell company which assembled and sold the phones into the real goose which laid the golden eggs.

In America, any monopoly would be besieged. The safest approach was a bunch of companies which stuck together.

Jenny had enough leverage to constantly trade shares with other major corporations.

The phone company was no longer Luke and Jenny’s personal toy, but a new and huge conglomerate of interests.

On the other hand, Jenny’s initial ambition to start a business venture gradually waned, and she wasn’t interested in managing the affairs of the increasingly huge and complicated phone company.

In a year or two, she would convert her shares in F2F and Messenger.

At that time, she would resign from her position as manager of these companies and turn into a major shareholder behind the scenes as she poured her energy into tech companies instead.