Strongest Superhuman System

"So what was so important that you wanted to meet with me today?"

Mark finally asked Pat the questions that Pat had been waiting for and Pat turned around and regarded Mark closely. Pat was thinking about how he would bring up the topic right now because it wasn't something he felt comfortable talking about.

In a way, he knew what the outcome of the conversation would be before even starting it, but Pat didn't want to just allow his assumptions to stop him from being certain.

"I intercepted a video from the NSA island raid when you went to save Arit. At first, I didn't want to believe what I watched, but I can't really give any excuses for something like this, not even to myself."

Pat reached to the side and pressed a button on his keyboard, and a video came to life on the screen.

[Are you the one that killed all my children before I could even meet them?]

This was the only part of the video that Pat saved after hacking into the NSA servers and deleting the rest of the video. He needed this part to show Mark that he knew exactly what he was asking about and so that Mark could not dodge this by saying something stupid like, 'You must be mistaken.'

Pat even took this video with him when he went to the NSA building to show Mark and ask him what happened, but after he saw that Mark was not in any danger of being killed by Arit, he relented and allowed them to go together.

When Mark called Pat earlier and told him to get a doctor ready to carry out a psychological analysis on Arit, Pat immediately knew the reason behind it, and he decided that he had to bring in a doctor that he could trust to keep Mark's secret. The only doctor that came to mind was his sister, and that is why he told her to stay behind after she came to visit the previous day.

Mark sighed tiredly as he saw the video, and he knew that he had a lot of explaining to do. He looked at the image of QUEEN holding Meta by the neck, and he scratched the back of his head with a mild frown on his face.

"I know it looks bad, but it's not as bad as it looks."

"Really? Because what I'm seeing is Arit's body being possessed by an evil Anima who just murdered a Superhuman in cold blood."

Mark rubbed his chin with a distant look on his face as he heard the explanation that Pat had just given him. That was oddly specific.

"Okay, maybe it really is as bad as it looks."

"What the hell happened Mark? What happened to Arit and what happened to you? How did you manage to bring her back to her normal self? How did you even manage to win against a monster that could kill an S rank that easily? I know the limits of your strength, Mark. I'm the one that has been with you all this while.

I know you didn't stand a chance against that Calamity Class that attacked the city, but all of a sudden, you stand up with three times the power you once had? What the fuck was that? You don't hide things from me. That was our deal."

Mark and Pat were silent as Pat looked up at Mark expectantly. Mark folded his hands and looked to the side for a moment before he sighed. Pat was right; Mark knew that he owed Pat an explanation after everything that happened over the last few days.

Pat was someone who had been helping Mark from day one, and without Pat, Mark was sure that many of his fights would have been much harder than they were. If there was anyone in his world who deserves an explanation about everything that has been happening, then it was definitely Pat.

Mark liked to keep things close to his chest; he was a lot like Pat in that regard. They both had secrets that they were not willing to expose to anyone, and they both liked to only tell people what they were comfortable with others knowing. Mark was not comfortable with a lot of people knowing about his powers because it was a trump card that he would like to surprise his enemies with.

It was something that no one could easily predict, and it helped him to win fights that would otherwise be difficult for someone of his level.

But Mark decided that if Pat was going to help him fight against the Anima, then Pat deserved to know at least some part of Mark's powers as well as how strong Mark was now. Pat was the one in Mark's ear during fights, and it would be inefficient if Pat didn't know the limits of Mark's powers.

Mark began to explain what happened to him during the fight. He told Pat that he managed to unlock a power that was sealed away for a long time and how it helped him to beat the Calamity Class easily. Mark told him his current power level and that he was going to become even stronger very soon.

Mark also told Pat how he was able to subdue the other part of Arit. Even though there was still a chance of the QUEEN coming back, it was very low.

Pat's brow furrowed as he heard everything that Mark said, and he started to think deeply about it while rolling his chair around. He hummed and looked at the ceiling for a moment before he spoke.

"You're KING, aren't you?"

Mark raised a brow as he heard Pat say this, and he immediately tried to think of anything that he said that would make Pat come to a conclusion like that. Mark didn't reveal anything about his past from four years ago, so how the hell did Pat somehow end up concluding that Mark was KING?

"Have you forgotten how we started this whole thing in the first place? You came to me with this look in your eyes four years ago and told me that you were a superhuman and you wanted to go out to fight. I don't think anyone in their right mind would go out to fight immediately after finding out they are superhuman unless they had just come out from a fight that changed their lives forever.

You fought that Armageddon and lost your powers somehow and now you're starting to gain them back, aren't you?"

Mark didn't deny it, and Pat only took a few moments before he shrugged and turned back around.

"Fine, I'll keep your secrets. What's one more secret anyway? Just try to make sure that Arit doesn't hurt anyone else. I only allowed her here with my sister because I know my sister is a superhuman and she won't be hurt easily, but out there with normal humans, things will be more dangerous. Watch her."

"You don't have to tell me, Pat. I know."