The Maniacal General With His Crazy System

Laura was about to say something to Saitama, but she suddenly turned her head towards where she put Selina. "Go to Averill and eat without me, I will be back after doing my part here." Her voice was like usual; distant and cold. Laura opened the door and went inside, when she entered the room, she saw Selina sitting on the bed.

When Laura entered the room, Selina raised her gaze and looked at Laura. Selina had finally calmed herself down and now she wasn't scared or afraid any longer of Laura. "What is it?" Selina had a playful tone in her voice whilst carefully gazing at Laura.

"…" Laura didn't even care if Selina was afraid of her or not, only one thing was important, and that was to follow Averill's orders. "Averill has decided on what you need to do." Then Laura easily saw a crack in Selina's expression, Laura could see in her eyes; a shadow of fear.

And as Laura didn't hear Selina, she continued speaking. "You are to antagonise as many people you can within a short amount of period. Thievery, murder, anything works. And during that time, I have been tasked with keeping my eyes on you." It was clear that Laura was threatening Selina to do what Averill wants from her.

Because even if Averill's temper might seem better now than in the other world, Laura's gut was telling her that Averill was more dangerous now. Laura didn't know why she was feeling that, but she trusted her gut feeling as it had saved her life many times in the past, which made it all the more important to not anger Averill by not completing his orders.

"Is that really what he said?" A smile returned on Selina's face as she chuckled, she was trying to pry the truth. If Averill was in front of her and said this, then she would follow his orders due to her fear. But when Laura was saying this now, she couldn't help but to doubt her words. That was because it didn't make sense, why someone like Averill wanted her to provoke others for seemingly no reason at all.

A tiny frown slowly appeared on Laura's face when she heard Selina's rebuttal. She wasn't who she used to be before, and not enough with that, Laura was now following someone with much more strength than anyone in the universe could hold. A strong pressure erupted from Laura, and it was focused onto Selina's body.

"I will tell you this only once, Averill ordered you to provoke other people. Will you do it or not? Because if you are not going to do it, then I will do it, which means you will be worthless." Laura's cold eyes glared at Selina, if Laura had to, she would kill Selina and take over Selina's mission to provoke people throughout the city and world. The only reason she didn't start with that is because Averill wanted Selina to do it.

Selina clenched her fists, on one hand, she didn't believe what Laura was saying. But on the other hand if what she was saying the truth, then that meant she was provoking Averill, the one she was afraid of. "Ugh…" She g.r.o.a.n.e.d as she bit her teeth together whilst staring back into Laura's cold eyes. Selina had to make a choice, to either do what Laura said, or not.

The two of them glared into each other's eyes for a half minute, Laura's cold eyes and Selina's sharp eyes met.

And just like a fire, the eyes of Laura turned fierce, she had enough of Selina's bullshit that was wasting time.

But just as fast Laura's eyes turned fierce, Selina knew that Laura was telling the truth. "I will do it." Selina now fully believed that it was Averill who gave that order, but she couldn't understand why he wanted her to do it when he could do it himself or Laura who was much stronger than herself. But those thoughts didn't last for too long. "I will need some of my stuff before we can start." Selina told Laura as she couldn't go empty handed into other people's territory and easily escape from there.

"Let's go." Laura simply said those words before walking towards the entrance of the mansion. And Selina was following behind her.

Whilst Laura and Selina would do what Averill wanted, Averill was sitting and slowly eating the food in front of him. He was eating a simple dish, a soup.

"Maaan, this is so tasty!" On the other hand, Saitama was sitting on the opposite side of the table and eating ramen. On his side were half a dozen empty bowls on top of each other.

The expression on Averill's face was same as usual, he liked to enjoy his food in peace and not think of other things whilst dining. It was one of the few times he would be able to relax. After being done with his one bowl of soup, he cleared his throat before speaking. "System."

[Yes Host?] The System replied without any hesitation, even Saitama who was eating near Averill could hear it.

"There is something missing…" Averill went quiet for a brief moment before continuing. "A weapon. I want to summon it. My hand is itching for it." Averill had been able to sense it clearer over time, that the twitching of his hand was due to him wanting to hold his weapon. But there was a problem with that, because Averill wasn't sure what kind of weapon he wanted to hold and use.

The System went silent for a moment. [Host already knows the answer that I will give. Host can't summon it if it isn't a clear d.e.s.i.r.e of something, and Host doesn't know what weapon Host d.e.s.i.r.es to hold…] The reason why the System couldn't give what Averill wanted was because it didn't know more about Averill than himself.

Averill's expression didn't change at all, as the System said, he already knew the answer to the question he asked. "It doesn't matter, I will get my hand onto my weapon sooner or later." He was slightly amused, he didn't know why he wanted to hold his weapon, but the urge he was feeling was telling him it was something important for him.

After musing over that for a few seconds, Averill looked over at Saitama before speaking with an amused expression. "Will you be able to do it? Don't ask me what I'm asking of, you already know it." There was a hint of mockery in Averill's voice whilst his eyes were still sharp as ever.

"…" Saitama also knew what Averill was asking about, he lowered his head slightly as he replied. "… I don't quite know."

Averill leaned forward towards the table as he fiercely gazed at Saitama, the mocking smile of his vanished as there was only a crazy grin that showed. "It is your choice if you do it or not, but you know the outcomes. You will eventually have to decide either way, because I will not tolerate no answers."