Chapter 110 Memory (E)
At 7:30 PM, Rennard Street.
Jin was waiting for his taxi to come. A bag hung on his back. Inside it were the clothes he had worn earlier when he was in the old man's appearance.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
His taxi soon arrived.
When he was comfortably seated inside the taxi, Jin opened up the system panel.
He navigated to the 'Morph ability' and tapped the 'appearance' tab.
Ten faces including his own welcomed his sight. All of them were men from different age groups.
'Come to think of it I've never tried a woman's appearance,' Jin thought as his eyebrows furrowed.
'Will it work?' A sense of curiosity grew in him all of a sudden.
He had been absorbed in so many things during all this time that this thought never entered his mind until now.
Jin brought down the panel and checked his stats.
-x-x-x-x-HITMAN SYSTEM-x-x-x-x-
Name- Jin Blaker
Age- 22
Height- 183 cm
Weight- 73 kg
Body Constitution- 6.5 --> 6.7 [Soldier Level]
Mental Constitution- 6.3 --> 6.4 [Soldier Level]
Abilities - Training, Morph
Kill Points-12,500
(OPEN STORE)
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There were only some slight improvements but nothing much had changed as far as Jin's physique and mental state were concerned.
He had been hoarding the KPs he was receiving from the Winter Arc mission all this while.
Seeing the 12.5k kill points with him made him feel delighted.
It had been a couple of weeks since the winter arc mission finished so there was no point in hoarding them anymore.
Jin decided to use the leftover points to buy an inventory space.
With this thought, he opened up the system store.
-x-x-x-x-System Store-x-x-x-x-
1) Beretta M9 - 3000 KP
2) Inventory Space (+1) - 6000 KP [current- 3]
3) Pain Killers – 750 KP
4) Cartridge (9x19mm) x50 - 50 KP
5) Fentanyl Syringe -100 KP [For a swift, deadly & silent kill]
6) Anil's Memory Package - 6000 KP
Balance: 12,500 KP
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Jin was about to proceed and buy the inventory spaces but stopped. The new addition to the system store caught his attention.
'Anil's memory? And that too for 6000 Kill points?' Jin's eyebrows raised when he saw this.
He believed that he could accomplish his mission even without Anil's memory so wasting so many kill points didn't make sense to him.
However, there was also the fact that all the new additions to the store had proved useful to him in one way or another.
It meant that Anil's memory would be useful to him.
'Well…whatever, I'll only buy one inventory space then,' Jin decided after a while.
Jin tapped his finger on the system panel and spent the first 6000 KP.
His inventory space increased from 3 to 4 the next moment.
-x-x-x-x-x-System Store-x-x-x-x-x-
1) Beretta M9 - 3000 KP
2) Inventory Space (+1) - 12,000 KP [current- 4]
3) Pain Killers – 750 KP
4) Cartridge (9x19mm) x50 - 50 KP
5) Fentanyl Syringe -100 KP [For a swift, deadly & silent kill]
6) Anil's Memory Package - 6000 KP
Balance: 6,500 KP
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Seeing the price of the next inventory space jumping to 12,000 points made Jin sigh. It is only going to get more expensive.
His finger then moved towards 'Anil's Memory Package' and bought it.
Anil's memories flooded his mind.
Since this was his second time receiving someone's memories Jin had already prepared his mind for this.
He closed his eyes and accepted the incoming memories.
Five minutes later.
"Sir, we've arrived,"
The taxi driver's words woke Jin up from his stupor.
He nodded to the driver and exited the taxi after paying him the required sum.
"Apart from Anil's work-related knowledge there's nothing else that would prove beneficial to me,' Jin thought while making his way through the hotel lobby.
He was disappointed.
He felt that the 6000 KPs had gone to waste but it was too late now for regrets.
He had dinner from one of the many restaurants inside and went to his room.
His mood had improved thanks to the delicious food.
When he arrived back to his room Jin shared a call with Diana where she talked about everything that had transpired in her office today.
Jin listened to Diana complaining about her workplace and her colleagues with a smile on his face and didn't forget to add some words from time to time.
Thus Diana didn't even realize that it was her who did the majority of the speaking.
Thanks to that she was able to speak out all her pent up work related frustrations.
Jin didn't mind it. Instead Diana's soothing voice was pleasing for him to hear and he didn't mind hearing it for hours.
If not for Diana getting tired after talking continuously for 30 mins Jin would have never ended the call.
After the call was over Jin went to the gym to workout like usual.
Flora was surprisingly present there.
"Wow, did the sun come from the west today?" Jin joked as he greeted Flora with a familiar fist bump.
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Flora rolled her eyes hearing him as she exchanged a fist bump with him.
"You have no idea how long I've been awake," She commented soon after.
"The dark circles under your eyes tell me that it must be more than a day," Jin guessed.
"Three days!" Flora put out three fingers right in front of Jin's face as she said that.
"So you're planning to collapse in here again? I'll leave you on your own if that happens," Jin snickered.
"I know you wouldn't," Flora dismissed his words and continued, "I want to sleep as well but when I tried to sleep earlier all the thoughts about the work entered my mind, so here I am. After decluttering my mind I'll go and have a sound sleep,"
"Fair enough, let me guess, it's going to be cardio isn't it?" Jin asked.
"Yep, cardio it is." Flora nodded as she walked towards the treadmill.
Jin decided to accompany Flora.
He took the treadmill next to her and the two soon started jogging.
Jin asked her some questions about her project's progress from time to time while they were jogging.
Jin got to know that she and her team had been working tirelessly to create a working model of the car which they had envisioned.
"It d-does not need to be p-perfect. As long as it w-works we are good to go," Flora explained as she checked her jogging pace on the meter.
The investor had requested them to make a working model as soon as they could.
He had said that he'd come with a few of his business colleagues to check the product from abroad and if satisfied then they too would invest money on the project.
The working model was forty per cent complete thanks to the team's relentless efforts over the past few weeks.
In a month it would be ready to impress the investors.
An expectant smile appeared on Flora's face as she mentioned all this. It was clear that she was looking forward to it.
Jin was glad to hear this news.
"How's your film doing?"
It was now Flora's turn to inquire about the happenings in Jin's career.
Thus their workout lasted for forty minutes. By the end of it, Flora was all exhausted.
"It looks like you'll have a good sleep now," Jin remarked when he saw this.
"No doubt in that," Flora added in a huffed voice while wiping her face with a towel.
"See ya then," Flora said a few minutes later and went back to her room.
Jin did some weights for the next thirty minutes before calling it a day.