Chapter 22 - Paying a debt

Nigo had his bath and went to join Granny chi in the kitchen. The kitchen was quite large befitting of the large house with fancy utensils and equipments (I can't describe the kitchen so your imagination is your best (⊙⊙)

Granny chi had already begun cooking when nigo walked in

"Don't you feel better after taking your bath?" She asked looking at Nigo who was clad in blue shorts and for the first time in years a black shirt. Yes! Nigo was wearing a shirt

"Yes but I like eating before bathing to wash every sweat or dirt away but now I won't be sweating from just hot food anymore" Nigo said looking at granny chi making lunch

"Isn't because you were always wearing those hoods of yours despite your condition" she said

"Let's leave that aside, is there anything I can do to help" Nigo said

Granny chi looked at Nigo, observing him because ever since the death of Ejiro nigo barely came out of his room much less assist her in anything. Has he finally let go on the past? She asked herself

Nigo noticing her stare asked "Any problem?"

"You barely come out of your room this days and suddenly after Awakening your core you want to help me in cooking, what exactly happened in school?" Granny chi probed

"When it's time to eat I'll tell you over the meal but right now I'm too hungry to explain" Nigo said sincerely

"Alright, if that's the case I have something for you to do. I forgot to buy one of the ingredients due to my rush to get home and it is very important. Can you help me buy it from the store at the end of the street?" She asked nigo

"Okay" Nigo said casually

Granny chi was more surprised because nigo doesn't go out of the house once he comes back from school no matter what, he said he was doing so to avoid thugs who lived within the area but she didn't believe it because the area where the Guardian's villa was located was the most secure place in the Flame continent.

"You're staring at me again" Nigo said with a confused look

"You have never agreed to go out to buy things for me ever since you got beat up by somekids" she said

"That was then and this is now, I intend to fight and end my own battles with my hands" Nigo said with a calm gaze but one could fill a form of oppression from him. Even a powerful expert like granny chi wasn't an exception.

"..??" A puzzled look appeared on granny chi's face as she didn't understand what nigo meant by that

Nigo turned around and walked out of the kitchen, he continued walking out of the house and the compound head into the end of the street.

His pace was not quick, he walked and observed the area, he had not seen the area in such a way before.

Back then when he came out he would be quick to buy the things he needed and return back home but right now he was taking his time to observe the street and look at the beautiful infrastructure of his surroundings, the flowers, the scent and even the different auras of people.

"Help!"

The suddenly stopped moving as a cry for help rang in his ears,

"Please somebody help!"

Nigo heard it again but he couldn't see anyone around that needed help, even the people around him were all going about their activities like they didn't hear anything

"Am I imagining things?" Nigo asked himself and made to continue his journey when he heard something

"No one is going to help you, now hand it over!"

The voice of a young man entered his ears and the voice wasn't an unfamiliar one, it was that of the thugs he had experienced in the past.

Nigo scanned the area thoroughly but even with his newly found eyesight due to Awakening his Liaison core nigo didn't see anything unusual.

"Get out of the way!" Someone should behind him, he had stopped moving and was observing the flow of movement.

Nigo turned back to look at the fellow with a calm gaze but that oppressive aura that he carried about seeped into the man the moment their eyes met.

"S.....sorry Young master Nigo, I didn't know it was you" The man said in fear as nigo ' gaze made a cold chill run down his spine

Nigo didn't say anything, he simply left the way and moved to the side where no one would disturb him because he knew he was wrong.

"Whew..." the man finally calmed down and continued moving, even the people who were observing turned their eyes away

"That man got it from that kid" A woman standing in front of her house with her daughter said

"What's up with that kid? His gaze made me who is far away almost pass out, yet he is just in the beginner user domain?" Her daughter of about fourteen to fifteen said

"Don't you know that he is the Guardian's son" her mother responded

"!!!"

The girl didn't say anything she just stared at Nigo who was at the side of the pedestrian pathway.

Nigo stood thinking for a moment before closing his eyes, he wanted to use his abnormal sensory capabilities to sense the aura of anyone around

His senses spread for a hundred metres...Two hundred.....five hundred....ten kilometres

And then he opened his eyes a smile on his face, he had found those thugs and they were hiding in one dark alley close to the end of the street the alley was a pathway to a space which was surrounded by vacant buildings so it was the perfect spot to do anything without being noticed.

Nigo bag an to head there, he followed their aura and got to the entrance of the alley but inside of it was dark for some reason. He crossed the into the alley and saw the thugs surrounding a kid who was about the same age as himself

"!!!"

The moment he appeared they all stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him.

"It's nigo!" One of them shouted, how could they forget the son of the guardian that they beat and took all the money he had on him, yet they were left to go freely.

"Oh...are you here to give us more goodies" The leader of the group said looking at Nigo, he was a youth of about twenty years of age, he wasn't anything special and his User strength was at the C- tier of the veteran User Domain.

Nigo didn't say anything, he only looked at the kid on the floor who was already badly beaten and he became angry. The sight reminded him of his pitiful self from back then.

"Let the kid go!" He said as he looked at the leader of the seven man group

"Oh--- !" A member of the group was about to speak but when he looked at Nigos' eyes he felt an app restive might radiating from him, he probed nigo ' User strength to be sure of what it was and was surprised by what he felt, nigo was just in the S - tier of the Beginner User domain but why was he a User in the S- tier of the staff user domain feeling suppression on his Liaison core and liaison network?

"Boss, something is odd about him" he said to the leader of the group

The leader of the group probed nigo and a sneer appeared on his face "Hoe long has it been three years right" he began to walk forward towards nigo as he unleashed his aura around nigo"I see you are no longer a cripple like you were back then but if you think that artifact you carry about deceiving people would work on me then you are stupid, you are still as naive as you were back then"

Nigo's gaze was calm but his anger was rasing but he was also excited, he wasn't angry because of what the leader of the group had said, he was angry because they were picking on kids despite their age.

"Are you letting him go or not?" Nigo asked

"Boss something is wrong somewhere" one of his group member said, nigo had not been suffocated or shown any sign of being suppressed despite the auras locked on him

"Relax, he's using an artifact" the leader said with a grin

"Heh... so that's how it is, now I know why he is so arrogant thinking he can fool us... what a joke" one of them said

"And we are going to take that artifact for ourselves" one of them said in ecstasy, with something like this stealing from, others and escaping 2 old be easy

The leader sneered at Nigo and said "because you are the Guardian's son we would let you go without harm and if you cooperate we might as well let the other fool go as well"

Nigo didn't respond.

Believing he had nigo where he wants him he said "Drop all the money you have on you and that artifact and we would let you go, we wanted the money that kid has but with 2 hat we would gain from you we would let him go as well"

"And if I refuse?" Nigo asked

"Hehehe..." the leader laughed in disdain "you don't want to find out"

BOOM!!

Nigo suddenly attacked the leader with his utility enery urging instantly, the leader on the other hand didn't expect it but there was no way a user in the beginner user domain could get close to him but

Bang!!

Lightening and fire exploded against the leader who just manged to block nigo's double fist

Whoosh! !

The leader was being pushed back for about fourth metres from his group.

"!!"

The members of the group who were looking at Nigo pushing the leader were all in disbelief, he was a user in the Beginner user domain yet he could push their leader backwards, even if he was caught off guard an attack from a Beginner to a veteran was like throwing a pebble at a mountain.

Forget harming the veteran, the beginner would have his bones broken if he attacked too hard and the veteran may not eve notice he was attacked but this kid was this strong

"Boss!"

They shouted at their leader

The leader recollected himself from his shock but he was feeling the lightening and the heat from the flames consuming his flesh

"Raaaaaah!"

He shouted and released utility energy from his body, which pushed nigo away from himself

Whoosh

Nigo flipped in the air and landed on his feet sliding backwards, before coming to a stop ten metres away from the leader

The members of the gang were shocked by what they saw, how could nigo withstand the energy of their boss, was this the work of the artifact? It has to be that was the only explanation

Fwish

The leader of the gang looked at the burn on his skin in anger

"Heh..." Nigo sneered at him

It was at this moment the kid who nigo wanted to save remembered to run (he doesn't want anything to do with this shit)

The members of the group were to engrossed in what happened before them that they forgot to keep an eye on him

"You!"

The leader of the group shouted as he released flames from his fist at Nigo, there was no user art in it for fear of killing him. No one wants to mess with the guardian

Boom

The flames exploded as they left his fist.

Nigo didn't dodge or make any move to react with an attack of his own.

Boom!

The flames engulfed nigo and burnt the ground below him. Many cracks began to appear on the floor but to their surprise

They didn't hear any scream of pain from nigo, he walked out of the flames unscathed, and looked at the leader with a sneer on his face

"Is that all you got?" Nigo spoke

The leader of the group and his members were all surprised by what they saw, how did he walk out of an attack of a veteran without even the smell of smoke

"Is this also a function of the artifact?" One of them asked the member close to him

"It has to be" another responded

Ha!

The leader of the group dashed at Nigo with all his energy surging to their limits, he threw a powerful punch at Nigo with all of his strength

BOOM!!

The sound of an explosion resounded as his fist made impact dust and earth were sent flying in all directions due to the energy Impact

A smile appeared on his face but it suddenly disappeared because nigo caught his fist with both hands

Crack!

The earth beneath nigo caved in as his feet sank deep into it

"W...what!"

Every one exclaimed

Though nigo caught the fist there was a trail of blood quietly falling from the side of his lips, he looked at it while still holding onto the leader's fist and his anger exploded beyond control

"!!!"

The leader of the group tried to withdraw his hand due to the change he was beginning to sense from nigo but, he couldn't

Crack!

His bones were beginning to break as nigo slowly raised his head up

His pupils had disappeared and what replaced it was the glowing red light

"How dare you!" His voice sounded like a demon summoned from the abyss

BOOM!!

Red energy exploded from his body covering the entire space and alley