I am in marvel with the omnitrix...

Sneeze!! Sneeze!! Sneeze!!

Ahh, who the hell is thinking about me? 3 sneezes? Really? I don't have a cold because Iron Fist and the Ten Rings should not let me get a common cold… Wait, I need to test out how different my body is compared to a human... Sure, I did a lot of testing when I got the Iron Fist, but there were no real differences internally in my body. But ever since I got the Ten Rings, I just have not gotten the chance to see if my body has changed somehow, but from my chi detection, I am still just a normal human…

But every time my heart beats, it's like chi pulses all over my body, which is not normal for a normal human… Anyway, what was I doing? before?

Yeah, this was like my 20th stop and the last break before I reach the Ten Rings. Ahh, I have to take breaks every 30 minutes to make sure I don't time out the Omnitrix. Overall, it takes me about half a day to reach China as XLR8. I also get to hang out in places like the middle of the mountains; it's actually pretty cool seeing the world like this… It's so pretty. This world is so pretty…

What a shame that all of this might one day end… But I can change all of that… Again with those thoughts… Ugh, Abby's stupid hero speech has been stuck in my head for how many days now? I really should not let her affect my mind like that…

Hero… I never liked the heroes. No, they were just not the type of people I liked. Saving someone just because you have the power to? Sounds stupid to me if you asked old me… Power is mine. Why would I use something that is mine to help you?…

That's the answer I would have given if I was still my old self, but now, honestly, after staying here in this world for almost a year and getting these powers… becoming strong… I honestly don't know if I can still say that as my answer… If you can help someone, do it… It's not about being a hero; it's just about being a good person…

But then the question comes: Am I a good person? Do I view myself as a good person? No, I don't, so why should I help someone if I myself don't think I am a good person?

I was spacing out while eating some noodles in a small Chinese restaurant.

But just then a group of 4 people walked in the small restaurant and started to, well, harass the waiter… who was a young woman… The 4 people were young and seemed to be drunk by the way they were walking and talking….

They spoke in Mandarin. ("What is a pretty girl like you doing here?") Another one of the thugs says, ("Go get some Baijiu for us! ") ….

The waiter spoke ("Um, Baijiu, sorry, we ran out of it..."), and she stepped back, and the group of 4 thugs looked actually angry, and they started to scream at her…

"Ting"

I put my water glass down on the table hard… And I just keep eating my noodles like they do not exist… But now all of them were looking at me, and they walked towards me.

But just then one of them sits next to my seat and says fast, ("Hey! Are you a foreigner? Do you have some money? ha? Hey guys, this guy looks like a foreigner, and free money! ~ ")

["Do youspake genlish? or chinese? "]

One of them spoke really bad broken English… And I still don't look at them; I just keep eating my noodles….

("Ugh, hey! Fucker, don't act like we are not here! ") And one of them tries to slam his hand on the table, and I still don't move…

What should I do? If I beat them up, won't I do something good? Then my view of myself is wrong… Did I change or grow?…

Right now Leo actually did not even care what was going on around him, which is why everything felt so damp, because Leo was inside his brain thinking about whose side he was on. If he was not good, then he should just walk out of the restaurant, but… why did he think so much?

But just then there was a voice that woke Leo out of his deep thought….

("All of you, get out! of my restaurant! And stop harassing my customers! Or I am calling the police! ")

The young waitress screamed…

("Oh, shut up, annoying bitch. Hey guys, I think this girl needs to learn some manners! ") One of them spoke and started to step to the waitress…

("Yeah, bro, first of all, you don't even have a good drink, and now you're screaming at us just because we were talking to that guy? Why do you even care, huh? You need to learn manners!")

And then the other 2 guys also started to walk closer to the waitress. There was only one guy who was sitting next to me. He was keeping his eyes on me, clearly trying to scare me…

("Ha, and you, pretty boy, you think you can keep acting like you don't see me? You are annoying as fuck, whi…")

Crash!

The guy who was sitting next to me falls down on the ground… I was holding the water glass in my hand, which was cracked…

I stand up and put the glass on the table and look at them… With a smile on my face, I speak in Mandarin. ("Rats are everywhere, huh? No matter which country, there will always be rats like you everywhere…")

(" You asshole! You're fucking dead! ") He screams as he runs to me in a drunken rage…

I dodge his sloppy punch and kick his knee hard, making him fall down, and I dodge the other 2 guys who run at me at the same time. I still have my hands in my pocket as I move my leg up high. I stand on my one leg while my other leg moves up high up in the air before anyone could react…

Slam!

My leg comes down fast and hard, kicking the guy's head hard down, like a hammer coming down… The thug's body goes down hard, hitting his face on the floor… and I step on his face…

And the last guy who was running at me stops and looks at me as I stand on top of the thug who was grunting. The guy who had his head hit with a glass also grunted and stands up now… I look back at him and the dude in front of me…

The guy in front of me actually pulls out a switchblade? Really? And the guy behind me grabs a chair and starts to run at me with the chair, trying to hit me, while the idiot in front of me rushes with the knife in his hand…

(Ahhh! You're so dead!) They both scream at me…

I step off the thug and quickly step closer to him, something he did not expect, and I pull both of my hands out of my pocket and grab his wrist and his collar, and then I twist and throw the guy behind me to the thug who was coming at me with the chair!

Thud!

Both of the thugs crash against each other and fall down on the ground, and I look around with calm eyes. The waitress looks at me in awe, a little bit of fear in her eyes… And I walk to her, and she steps back and speaks fast!

谢谢你!谢谢你!谢谢你!(Thank you!)

I pull my wallet out, and I place ¥500 on the counter, and I speak in a calm tone (this is for the chair and damages; call the police; they will take these thugs away…). And as I speak, I walk out of the restaurant.

I walk out of the restaurant and walk to an alley fast, and before the waitress could even come out of the restaurant to tell me I gave too much money… I was already gone…

———

After a few minutes the waitress called the cops, and they took the thugs away, who were all knocked out… And, well, somehow the camera in the restaurant just did not save any footage for some reason…

And also the police did a little investigation and found out whoever the man who did this was, he knew what he was doing; he knew how to fight… But with no actual leads and this just being a small case, this case was closed and went unnoticed, but, well, someone did see this—someone who is looking for someone strong…

The case file goes around the big to small parts of Chinese police groups, and well… it ends up where, to a man, one of the most powerful men in China, a man who is right now trying to find someone…

Xu sat on his chair and read the case file… This all happened in 24 hours. Xu found out about him… Again, Xu has no real proof this was him, but… The eyewitness matched his looks and the way he spoke, calling thugs 'rats' and fighting with his hands in his pocket…

Xu smiles since he has found the man who he has been looking for, 'James Lee.'

———

"Sir, as you said, I have let the case file spread in the police net, but I have deleted the footage of that restaurant, sir, just as you asked me to do." Ava spoke, and I was sitting on the couch in a hotel room that I booked for one night, and I washed my face and dried it with a cloth…

"Yeah? Good job. Ava, just lay low for now; he will come looking for me." I speak in a calm tone as I stand in front of the mirror, sponge in one hand, eyeliner in the other. I try to just make myself a little sharper, a little less like me. I picked up the basics from my mom—she was a fashion designer in my past life...

Ah, there, there, that's it. Hmm, yup, I look handsome as ever, just sharper, like, uh, one of those models in a magazine...

This should do for now. Later on, I have to make a skin mask for my face. Now for the clothes, ugh, I should have brought some new clothes, but who cares? I just wear a casual jacket and jeans—simple.

And now I am ready, or should I say James Lee is ready… I grab a pair of skin-tight transparent gloves and put them on my hands. Oh, it feels weird but better than leaving my fingerprints, and done.

Now why did I do this? Because, well, I know for sure Xu will try to find out who I am, where I came from, and everything about me… And I am only playing his game, simply fucking with his snooping and investigation, misleading him. Why didn't I do this before? Well, the answer is simple: he did not know me back then, and also it was the night when I last came to the Ten Rings, and no one was prepared for me…

But I am 100% sure Xu is going to be prepared for me this time. I even bet the whole Ten Rings is filled with cameras and other stuff… Plus, I don't really care if he does find me because, well, even if he finds out who I am, he would not believe it…

He would think it's some next-level genius act or something…

But really, who would believe it? The guy who broke into the Ten Rings and beat up everyone there and made their leader kneel, that same guy who pretty much on his own takes over the Ten Rings, was just going to graduate college and is going to become 18 years old this year…

Yeah, no one would believe 'Leo' is 'James Lee.'