Cheat Awakening

Hearing Maya's explanation, a look of confusion crossed Myne's face, quickly morphing into understanding. He hurriedly poured mana into the mark on his hand. As he did that, the creepy closed eye in the centre jolted open, its pupil darting left and right. Although it sounded cool, having that horrifying thing on his hand sent shivers down that person's spine.

Myne, a guy with a weak heart regarding ghostly things, seeing the eye's crazy movement, subconsciously moved his hand away as much as he could. But didn't torment him for too long, and soon, as if it finally found the target, it again closed up and morphing into an arrow, pointed to the west.

Seeing the direction arrow pointing, Myne's eyes lifted up. He understood where this arrow pointed and why Mr. Ghost left this mark on him. Since it wanted to save June as soon as possible, naturally it had to do something magical. Otherwise, if Myne started looking for June's trace from scratch, then she might have already joined Mr. Ghost's community a long ago before he could even find her trace.

"As for the second effect," Maya continued, her voice frighteningly serious, "if you fail to find the person whose soul signature is imprinted in this mark within a certain timeframe or give up midway for any reason, you'll experience the world's most horrific torture: soul burning. Trust me, you never want to experience even a sliver of it."

"I once witnessed a poor guy receive this punishment because he… well, let's just say he involved himself with someone he shouldn't, and did something with her which you like a lot. Unfortunately, he got caught by the woman's husband, who turned out to be a guy with a certain bit of status."

"To vent his anger, the husband used his connections to force the clan leader to inflict soul burning on him. Although the crime wasn't that severe – both the woman and the man were also in love and their actions were consensual – the guy still received the punishment for a full minute."

"His screams still echo in my ears whenever I try to remember the past. And what's worse, though his life wasn't in danger, the pain he endured left him completely insane. He woke up screaming and attacking everything, yelling about burning. He didn't last a day in that state." Maya said emotionally with a deep sigh, as she tried to recall the uncomfortable memories.

Myne, on the other hand, felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at the dark mark on the back of his left hand, which now looked no different than a time bomb in his eyes. He could even hear the ticking sound of "tic tic tic" in his mind.

Gulp!

"Hey, sis, please stop scaring me," Myne stammered, swallowing hard. "And tell me is there any way to remove this seal from my hand? You wouldn't want to lose your only kind and handsome little brother, right?" He hurried in front of Maya, pointing at the mark.

Maya looked at Myne who was begging for her help with a terrified face and his pathetic pleas. A mischievous smile crept across her lips.

"Ahh, I remember now. That guy later, in madness, actually suddenly ran into the horse of a very high-status figure, Which led his horse to go berserk, and that big shot fell down from the horse in the middle of the road.

Because of that, he felt so humiliated that out of anger, that big shot, without caring about the protocol, used the soul-burning curse on that poor man right in front of everyone and tortured him until his soul burned to ash."

"By the way, whoever created this soul-burning spell was an incarnation of a devil, because the process of soul-burning is extremely slow. His soul burned like a candle for hours, and the entire time, his screams echoing throughout the city.

After that incident, soul burning became so unpopular that the crime rate of the entire city fell to the lowest point in history from the establishment of the city, you can imagine how much deep impression this left in people's hearts."

"Stop it now, sis. Tell me, can you get rid of this damn curse?" Myne interrupted, desperate. "I don't want to see this kind of dangerous curse attached to my soul. God knows how much time that damn ghost left for me. What if he only left me one day's time, and if I can't find June in a day, won't I also follow in the footsteps of that poor guy in your story? Sis, you have to do something.

This is a matter of your one and only, beloved little brother's life and death... I am willing to do anything for this," Myne, seeing Maya uninterested in solving his problem probably because of what he said earlier, hurriedly used his ultimate weapon, and became a wish greating genie, this trick he had been using a lot recently to coax his girls.

"Anything, really?" Maya repeated, her arms folded under her huge breasts. She raised an eyebrow as she looked at Myne, who was on the verge of tears.

"Yes, anything! No matter what, as long as you get rid of this ticking time bomb!" Myne replied desperately. He lunged forward and hugged Maya's soft, smooth thighs, nuzzling his face against them like an idiot, which actually felt quite nice.

"Well," Maya said with a frown, unfazed by Myne's cute but perverted attempt at persuasion, "Considering your not-so-pleasing history of breaking promises, how can I be sure you won't do it again?"

"I...I can make a pinky promise?" Myne, unsure how to answer, stammered. After all, he didn't want to break his word. However, trouble seemed to find him no matter what, turning his image from an honest gentleman of his words to a scoundrel who couldn't keep his promises.

"Tsk!" A look of disgust contorted Maya's face as soon as she heard the words "pinky promise." She forcefully pulled her legs away from Myne's embrace.

"Go and fool your little girls with that nonsense like a pinky promise. Don't forget who raised you. As if I don't know where you learned this shit from," Saying such, Maya, not caring that she was only wearing a bra and panties, walked out of the bedroom.

"Sis, please wait, don't leave me alone. If you have any better solutions, then just say it. Why are you making things difficult for me?" Myne, as careless as always, in fear of death, not only forgot that he was in someone else's house, and having just had sex with the homeowner's wife, but he also started running around the house naked.

Now, if Jin came into the house, the scene would be wonderful, but sadly, that fool was reading his favourite book's new edition and was too lazy to care about anything else. He deserves to get a green hat from his own student.

As Myne exited the bedroom, he saw Maya emerging from the kitchen with a storage bag in her hand, staring at him strangely.

"Aren't you always worried about Jin finding out about our relationship? Then why are you screaming so loudly in the house? Between you and Jin is only a small layer of stone under your feet. It can't hide your voice, you know, right?"

"F*ck! Why didn't you remind me earlier? I completely forgot about Big Bro," Myne cursed, quickly covering his mouth and whispering an apology.

However, Maya didn't seem to care. Even if Jin found out about her special relationship with Myne, it wouldn't be a big deal. They were only husband and wife in name, with no love between them.

"Since I can't trust your promises," Maya said with a mischievous smile, "I've decided to create a magical contract. It will force you to fulfil your promise when the time comes, so I don't have to worry about you cheating on me again. I bought this contract specifically for you," She grabbed Myne's hand and led him to the couch.

Gesturing for him to sit, she retrieved a strange-looking golden metal pen and a parchment covered in dense, unknown symbols. Next while under the confused eyes of Myne, Maya grasped his right hand and pressed the backside of the pen into the center of his palm.

Suddenly, Myne felt a bit of pain in the centre of his palm, as if someone had stabbed a needle into it. Then he saw a bit of his blood staining the backside of the pen. Before he could ask anything, Maya started writing something in mid-air. To Myne's surprise, whatever angle Maya moved the pen in, a golden light shone in his palm, and the words were automatically imprinted on it.

This magical process lasted for two minutes, and when more than a dozen or so words were fully locked in a circle on his palm, he suddenly felt a bit of pain again, and a faint white circle appeared in the middle of his palm, causing the weird words Maya wrote previously to disappear into that white circle.

"Now, half of our work is done. The only thing left is to sign this contract," nodding her head with satisfaction, Maya handed Myne the parchment and a small kitchen knife.

A sharp pain suddenly lanced through Myne's palm, as if someone had stabbed him with a needle. He saw a bead of blood welling up where the tip of the golden pen touched his skin. Before he could ask anything, Maya began writing in mid-air as if she was practising something.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

However to his surprise, with each movement of the pen, a golden light shone on his palm, and the symbol was automatically imprinted there.

The magical process lasted for two minutes. As the last of a dozen or so symbols locked into a circle on his palm, a final jolt of pain shot through him, and a white circle materialized in the centre. The strange words Maya had written completely submerged into the circle.