Primordial Soul's Rebirth

Luna wanted to gain Alex's trust.

She knew that she had to do it if she wanted a place in his heart, but she also knew that it was going to be anything but easy.

Trust is built slowly, step by step, it can't be done in a single step unless you save someone from a certain death situation by sacrificing something that is very important to you.

However, Luna knew that the latter option was not plausible in Alex's case since he was way stronger than her, so she decided to go for the former one – build trust slowly.

The action of signing the contract given by Alex even without reading it showed that she trusted Alex enough not to care about what Alex was doing.

But then she went ahead and ordered her subordinates to do the same.

This was a way to gain a bit of Alex's trust and looking at him lightly nodding his head with his brows raised a bit, she knew that she did manage to get his interest even if she didn't get his trust.

As Luna was signing the contract, the girls did what they were told.

They bite their thumb hard enough for blood to come out and then they press the thumb on the contract.

They were trained by Luna to follow every order of her, and Luna had been using her skill on them every day to make them forget their past.

'I have been training them for the past five years, and they would die for me if I asked them to.'

This is what Luna would say if someone asked her about the girls.

She had picked them up from random gate break zones, and all of them were people without anyone to search for them.

But just as they had all signed the contract, the contract started to float.

"Wha…"

Luna was shocked, and the same could be said for the girls behind Luna.

They quickly took out their daggers and slashed toward the contracts.

"Nuh-uh."

But then a calm voice was heard and all of their bodies froze in their places or more like they were forced to stop by Alex.

The air around them constricted and they couldn't move an inch.

"They can't cut the contract you know."

Max spoke as he looked at Alex.

Max knew that it was Alex who stopped the girls' movements, in fact, everyone in the room knew since it was he who spoke "Nuh-uh" while shaking his head.

"Never hurts be cautious."

Alex just shrugged.
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The contract that was mid-air then started shining golden, the brightness of the contract kept increasing until it was hard to even look at it.

Then the light dimmed as the contract broke into particles and shot toward Luna and the girls.

"GAHHH!" X4

The girls tried to break the restriction around themselves as they saw the particles of the contract shooting towards them.

'Danger!'

The fourth girl didn't know why, but she felt danger from the particles.

She tried to break free just like other girls but then Luna spoke.

"Relax."

As if their buttons were switched off, the girls stopped struggling and the particles entered their bodies.

'Oh…'

Luna could feel her heart being surrounded by an invisible chain, and so could the girls.

"That's why you should've read the contract once."

Ann shook her head, but Luna who heard her words just smiled and responded.

"I believe he is not an evil guy who would use contracts to bind people and then make them do things they don't want to."

Luna said as she looked at Alex.

*Chuckle*

Alex just chuckled at her words.

'I won't do that?'

'I would do that 100 times if it helps me get something I want…'

Luna raised a brow when she heard a chuckle from Alex while Ann and Alice just shook their heads.

'Even we don't know everything about him, we don't even know when he is serious and when he is acting, and you think you already know him…'

Ann and Alice just shook their heads at Luna's naivety.

"Am I wrong?"

Luna asked Alex, and Alex just smiled mysteriously.

"Who knows…."

Alex just shrugged.

There was an awkward silence between them, or well, not actually silence since Lily was still inquiring Max things about getting stronger so her voice was not letting the hall stay silent, but the atmosphere turned a bit weird.

However, it was not for long as Ann coughed.

*Cough*

"Although the conditions of the contract must be already available in your heads, let me give you guys a summary.

First, if you guys think of harming any one of us, directly or indirectly, your heart will be crushed – Duration – till you stay here.

Second, you guys can't use any skill in this house without the permission of any one of us – Duration – till you stay here.

Third, you guys would do as you're told by us, no question asked – Duration – till you stay here.

We won't force you to do things that go against your morals, so you don't need to be worried about that.

Fourth and last one, anything you guys see or hear in this house can never be disclosed to anyone outside, and in case you ever think of doing that, be it directly or indirectly, your hearts will be crushed – Duration – infinite.

That is all."

Ann finally looked up from the tab and looked into Luna's eyes.

"Regret not reading it before?"

Ann taunted since she could see that Luna was busy in her thoughts.

But how could Ann know that Luna, right now, was thinking of how to make use of these conditions to get close to Alex?

Luna broke out of her thoughts when she heard Ann's words and she just smiled gently at Ann.

"No, but thank you for giving us a summary of the contract."

Ann stared at Luna for a while, and Luna stared back at her with the same smile until Ann finally spoke.

"It's fine."

"Un."

Luna nodded her head.

"Noctura will lead you to your room."

Ann spoke as she patted Noctura on her head and Noctura nodded her head before she walked ahead.

Luna looked at the girls who were still frozen on their spot, and then she looked at Alex.

"Could you please…?"

Luna requested and Alex widened his eyes a bit (Just acting).

"Ah, my bad, it slipped my mind."

Alex then waved his hand and the girls could move again.

"Thank you."

Luna bowed a bit and then followed behind Noctura.

The girls didn't wait for Luna to say something and followed behind her, as well.

When Luna and her subordinates were out of sight, Alex spoke.

"All right, now let's finalize what we are going to do about that SSS rank gate…."

After that, Alex, Alice, Ann, Max, and even Grace started giving their points on how to make better use of this situation.

They completely ignored the fact that if the news about the SSS rank gate were to reach the ears of the general populace, then there would be another wave of panic just like the time SS rank gates were revealed.

However, that day was special as it was marked as the first day that Luna along with her four subordinates became a new member to live in that villa.

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