Marvel's Princess - Chapter 26
Bella was unsure about Charlie’s assets, so she spoke cautiously.
“He must have saved something over the years, right?”
“Then let him buy a big house with three bathrooms! And it’d be best with a swimming pool too!”
It was all up in the air, but Natasha enthusiastically discussed how the rooms would be allocated on the phone.
Bella coughed, “I’m going to college this year. We don’t need that many bathrooms.”
“Then they are all mine!”
Their conversation moved from bathrooms to shoe cabinets, wardrobes, gyms, dressing rooms, and interior decoration styles, getting more animated as they talked.
Initially uninterested, Bella’s enthusiasm was gradually piqued as they chatted.
Charlie was a good man, and finding him a wife seemed a fitting repayment for his diligent care over the past month.
Natasha’s mother was quite attractive and at an age where she was full of life; she needed someone like Charlie, who had years of savings to handle her. If they were to have a love child, it would support them in their later years.
Once Bella went off to college, her interactions with Charlie became less frequent. Natasha was a wild child, and relying on her to stay home and keep the elderly company was unrealistic. It might be better to give the old couple time to themselves, maybe even a chance to create a little person.
Bella mused about the future and quietly estimated Charlie’s total assets with Natasha before they mutually understood each other and hung up the phone.
Entering downtown Phoenix, Bella found Alex, a young student who had previously had a strong suspicion about death.
She felt that Death’s attention had shifted away from her, which was good for her but disastrous for ordinary people. She needed to understand the current situation.
“Have you experienced… those attacks?” The air conditioning in the bar was on full blast, but young Alex was still sweating profusely, his demeanor extremely tense.
“Yes,” Bella replied confidently.
“How many times?”
Numerous times! There are too many to remember! Of course, she couldn’t say that; she was afraid that telling the truth might scare young Alex to death.
“Twice.”
Alex lowered his voice as if afraid that revealing this secret would attract even more terrifying killings from Death.
The mix of alcohol and sweat on him was slightly off-putting to Bella, but she leaned in to listen. He was about to tell her the truth, and she needed to show some interest, right?
Sure enough, Alex’s story wasn’t new; it was the same old theory of Death killing according to airplane seating arrangements.
After patiently listening to him, Bella asked about what concerned her: “How are the survivors now? What about Claire? Professor Grey? And that young man with black hair who works at the French restaurant?”
Alex looked panicked, “Sam Rodden is dead, stabbed in the head with a dinner knife two hours ago.”
Was that a main character gone? Bella frowned slightly.
“Claire seems to be with her brother, and as for Professor Grey,” Alex thought for a moment, “she seems to have gone to stay with a friend of hers, a fairly well-known old rich man.”
An old rich man? Bella was clueless; she only knew of Monopoly.
“Professor Xavier, Charles Xavier!” Alex flipped through his phone, finally coming up with the name.
Charles Xavier? Bella’s mind clicked; she recalled the image of the bald, wheelchair-bound, smiling man, the spiritual leader of the X-Men!
She wasn’t entirely clueless about the Marvel world. Previously, she hadn’t made the connection, but now, using the surname Grey, she realized the background of old Professor John Grey. The old man’s strength was indeed negligible; he was; he was just an ordinary human, but his friends and daughter were fierce!
Led by Professor Charles Xavier and with help from Jean Grey and Cyclops, even Death would simply spell his demise if he tried anything. Unsurprisingly, Professor John Grey seemed to be the safest person around.
After bidding farewell to young Alex, Bella left the bar.
“Take me home.” When she got into the car, Miss Pickup sprang up, sending her a straightforward message.
Bella quickly turned her head and spotted two rapidly moving figures in the distance through her rearview mirror.
The vampires had followed her to Phoenix! How annoying!
Bella floored the accelerator, speeding away from the city.
Facing two experienced vampires, Bella, who had never learned hand-to-hand combat, could not fight them off.
But the vampires were not at their best, and with Miss Pickup as a half-ally, the fight’s outcome was uncertain.
Bella pretended to panic, wildly turning the steering wheel. The pickup skidded across the road, sparks flying as if the driver had lost control.
She shouted menacingly at the vampires behind her, “Did the big guy die? Do you want to die too, idiots? Come any
Closer, and you’ll die too!”
The vampires had chased her through four states, making this journey anything but easy and relaxing. Now, they just wanted to bite Bella, drink her blood, eat her heart, and then tear her apart to satisfy their vengeance.
Worried that Bella’s abilities were language-based, the vampires remained utterly silent, determined not to give her a chance to ‘use’ her power.
Death, too, had become more competent and no longer meddling carelessly. Not even a telegraph pole fell, or a transformer exploded, and there wasn’t even a breeze. Everything was quiet, with no waves in sight.
The vampires, one on each side, charged at Bella’s pickup like they were flying.
They coordinated well, with the female vampire probing and intercepting and then the male vampire launching deadly attacks.
Bella continuously calculated the distance between them and herself and found that the closest was the female vampire, Victoria, just a few meters away.
She quickly made a decision: kill one first! This female vampire was too fast and too dangerous to leave alive.
Bella yanked the handbrake, then wildly turned the steering wheel. She didn’t need to hit the brakes; the pickup turned 120 degrees on the spot, defying physics without tire or road friction, and maintained 60% of its original speed.
She floored the accelerator, heading straight for the female vampire Victoria.
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