Chapter 1138: Cousin, Is This How You Solve the Problem?
Luke nodded with a smile. âWhen I bought it, it was very shabby. Actually, only the outside looked a little like it; the rest werenât original parts.â
Damon shook his head regretfully. âWhat a shame. If it isnât the original, itâs not as meaningful.â
Mindy, however, mumbled on the side, âDad, this is Knight Riderâs KITT! Even if itâs modified, I want one.â
She then looked at Luke. âCan it talk?â
Luke said, âYes, but itâs not that smart. It also wonât get angry and lock me out.â
Mindy asked, âCan it take a photo of something thatâs several hundred meters away?â
Luke: âYes.â
Mindy asked, âCan it control any electronic equipment?â
Luke said, âSome. Not the complicated ones.â
Mindy asked, âThen, is it bulletproof, heat-resistant, and waterproof?â
Luke said, âNot waterproofing; thatâs too troublesome.â
Mindy nodded regretfully. âThatâs true. After all, this is reality. Then, it canât fly?â
Luke was amused. âI would prefer to call it gliding. Itâs part of the design, but the effect isnât obvious.â
Mindy asked, âThen, can you take me âflyingâ once?â
Luke: âSure.â
Damon and Mindyâs admiration of the car lasted for two minutes before they put it aside.
The car was Lukeâs. They would definitely have a chance to see it in the future.
Also, Mindy was going to take the car to school, which was perfect.
Mindy felt a lot better after this interlude.
As they chatted, Luke found it funny. Did this little girl also have some sort of homebody personality?
Right, she seemed to like comics, and even superhero ones.
Her knowledge wasnât from TV shows, but from comics adapted from them.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this little girl was a homebody.
It was just that Damon had led her down a different path early on, which made her seem very mature.
In fact... there wasnât much of a difference between her and other loner girls.
She didnât have friends, didnât socialize, liked to train, liked comics, and liked certain machines and industrial products.
Perhaps that was why she valued her three new âfriends.â
Just because many loners didnât have friends didnât mean that they didnât want any. It was just that they couldnât make friends.
Labeling the little girl next to him a homebody, his car soon reached Dalton Junior High.
Dalton Junior High was in Manhattan and on the Upper East Side. Not far away was Central Park, known as the lungs of New York and which was diagonally across from Clinton.
The car was only stopped at the school gate for a moment before it easily drove in.
Mindy found that odd. âYour car can enter.â
Luke chuckled. âWell, I have a contact here.â
Of course, he wouldnât say that he himself didnât know the contact; supposedly, it was some member of the school board.
It was the weekend, and the school was a lot quieter than usual. However, there were still a lot of team activities going on.
The pitch black KITT was unusual and attracted a lot of attention, mostly from guys, when it drove through the campus.
When it stopped next to the basketball court, Mindy got out of the car under the eyes of the girls outside.
Few girls in the cheerleading team were shy. They surrounded her almost immediately with curious and inquisitive looks. âHi, Mindy. Is this your boyfriend?â
Mindy was stunned. âHuh?â
She couldnât help but look at Luke, who was next to her, and mumbled to herself,
Iâm only 13. Why would I find a 20-year-old boyfriend? Arenât all of you a little too precocious?
The truth was that Mindy got plenty of exercise, and thanks to her âsecondary profession,â she had the air of a 14- or 15-year-old; it was just that she had a bit of a baby face.
These girls were all older at around 15 or 16, so the age gap with Luke was smaller.
It wasnât strange at all to them that Mindy could find an older boyfriend like Luke.
Luke gave his trademark sunny smile and waved at the girls. âHi, Iâm Mindyâs cousin. Just call me Luke.â
A moment later, Mindy looked with a conflicted expression at her âcousinâ who was surrounded by her teammates.
Brother, are you my biological brother? Are you here to hook up with my classmates, or are you here to help me?
Luke had no intention of cosying up to the girls. He was only here to tell the cheerleaders that Mindy had a âtough brother,â and not just anyone could bully her.
To be precise, no one could bully her.
It was very easy to deliberately draw attention. Luke knew very well what these girls were interested in.
For example â celebrities.
Who was the biggest and hottest star in the world recently? It wasnât anyone in the entertainment circle, but Tony Stark and Iron Man.
He simply talked up some little anecdotes about Tony and made it sound like he had been there, which was more than enough.
Being at the scene was something worth bragging about.
Besides, many people knew Tony Stark very well, but nobody knew more about Iron Man than Luke.
What he said fitted Tonyâs character very well, and was very interesting. The little girls were already listening with glowing faces.
At that moment, a few more girls walked over.
One of them, a girl with blonde waves who looked like she was 25 years old, looked at Mindy with ridicule at first, before she looked at the car with suspicion and then interest.
She couldnât help but ask her companions in a low voice, âIs that a branded car? Why havenât I seen it before?â
Her two companions shook their heads. The three of them knew a lot about the latest luxury cars.
However, they really didnât have any impression of the logo on the black sports car not far away.
The blonde couldnât help but ask, âThat manâs my type. Iâll go up first, okay?â
Her two companions smiled lightly and nodded, even as they cursed her inwardly.
Of course, it didnât matter who went first. There wasnât much of an advantage in going first when it came to hooking up with guys, who were greedy and easily swayed.
The three girls soon walked over with perfect smiles as they arrogantly cut into Luke and the girlsâ conversation.
Luke pretended not to notice and maintained his previous attitude. The sunny smile and his interesting story amused the seven or eight girls.
Mindy, as his âcousin,â was still in a daze.
Cousin, when you said you would help me deal with those three b*tches, did you mean you would suck them in like this? Hm, it does seem this will fix the problem... I guess?