3 Jackpot

Despite cooking double portions, the pots and pans were licked clean tonight. Even plain cabbage was licked clean off the pot. 

" Please help us with the meals from now on. I will do anything you want as long as I can eat like this. " Zayne proposed as he bid good night. 

" If I said be my slave for life, are you going to do it ? " Claire asked laughingly, as she sent them out. 

" Mistress ! As long as I can eat home cooked food, there is nothing this slave can not accomplish. " Zayne answered back exaggeratedly. 

" Mistress ! our little uncle can change light bulbs, fix plumbing problems, even farm, as long as one instructs him. It is not a bad deal at all. You can have him for free, as long as we can eat the food you cook. " his eldest niece piped in from beside him. 

" Your cooking must suck hard ! " Claire teased, smiling at him. 

" Uncle can make lightly roasted charcoal, medium roasted charcoal and industrial coal ! Sister said one fine day, we will transform into internal combustion engines if we continue to eat like this. " The youngest nephew piped in. He was but six, very fluent in language, not much care for his uncle's reputation. 

" Oh ! We can not have our cutest little bear become a dusty engine ! " Claire teased the little guy, squeezing his cheeks out. 

" Alright. I will agree, since the children need to eat well. " Claire answered. 

" I will pay for gas and rations. " Zayne added. 

He even moved the rest of the staple food to their home, afraid Claire will go back on her word. 

After they left, Claire noted down the day's consumption. If there's one thing she learned in her previous life, it is that accounts must be kept ridiculously clean and clear. Just this is enough to contribute to world peace. 

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The next day, all twenty people who walked out yesterday were called. 

" You all will be transferred to class five. " The homeroom teacher announced. 

" What ! No.. Teacher ! Teacher ! " Jessica called out, but the teacher left hard heartedly. 

" You , it's all because of you. Now we are going to be transferred to class five ! How are we going to go to college in the future ? " Jessica lamented. 

Claire did not feel angry at the accusation. 

" Even if your mind is crooked, your words ought to be straight. What does going to college have to do with which class we are in ? I am number one in the school. If I am in the fifth class, then fifth class is the best class in the school. They are the class that gets number one academically. Why can't they go to college ? College doesn't care which class you are in, only how much you scored in the entrance exam. " 

The surrounding people, who while not accusing Claire, were also feeling the same sentiment, calmed down at her words. 

Yes, she is correct. 

Between Claire and Zayne, they scored number one in every term exam. Even if they are not academic gods, the rest of the people here belonged to the top brass in the school. Claire's words are correct. Where they are was the best class of the school, no matter the number. 

Jessica was speechless at Claire's unexpected answer. 

The others, who just a moment ago looked ready to support Jessica, silently walked away. 

As they walked towards fifth class, the sound increased. 

'Bang ' steel hitting steel sound … 

' Plop ' a fist striking flesh ? 

' Thud ' did someone fall down ? 

A gigantic man with a scar on his face blocked the entrance to the fifth class. He looked like a movie villain. 

" You class one wimps want to enter our fifth class, you have to crawl between my legs ! " The guy said, in an asian villain style. 

Claire, who was at the back of the crowd, only heard the sound, not seen the man. After all, the guys in front of her are all tall. 

She pushed through the crowd to make her way to the front. 

" Oh ! This little sister is quite pretty ! I will make an exception for the sake of you. If you lick my d*ck, I will let all of you in. " The man announced. 

The faces of the guys behind burned with indignation. They were about to come forward to beat up the guy. 

" Alright. " Claire said sweetly. 

The crowd was shocked all around. 

She adjusted her posture. 

Cocked her right leg back, and delivered a kick straight to his dick lightning fast. 

' Crack ' 

That sound reverberated through the silence. 

All the boys, no matter which class they belonged to, shivered in fright, closing their legs covering the middle. 

The guy fell straight back, his eyes bloodshot and shaking, his teeth chattering. He could only choke silently, the pain was that bad. 

" Drag this trash out. " Claire ordered like a queen. 

Two of the guys behind her dragged the guy out of the door into the corridor. 

Zayne, who walked behind her, looked down at her. 

Claire lifted a leg to walk, then put it back down. 

" This thing is blocking the walkway. " She complained to Zayne in a childish whining tone. 

Zayne wordlessly cocked his leg back, then kicked. 

It must be said the walkway is polished clean to the point of looking like a bowling alley. 

The guy's body slides forward like a curling pot on smooth ice, reaching all the way to the end of the hallway, then stopping with a thud as it hit the wall. 

Claire smiled beatifically. 

Then, they walked into the classroom among utter silence. 

They chose their places willfully. None of the ever so 'Delinquent' fifth class members opposed as they forcibly evacuated the back benchers to the front. 

Just like that, the ever so potent revenge enacted by the teacher fell to the wayside. 

In the evening, Claire and Zayne left to hunt on the mountain. This time, Claire carried an awl, with a strong steel rod. This one was used to poke holes in logs for mushroom cultivation. It is perfect to crack a slime's nucleus. 

Zayne followed her with a tang knife and snake skin bag. The children were entrusted to Zayne's thirteen year old niece, Brie. 

⟣⟢

Zayne and Claire stopped at the entrance of the slime dungeon. 

" you just need to stand here, and kill any slimes that come your way. Do not move out no matter how many of them enter. If I determine inside is dangerous, I will not take risks but come out immediately. " Claire informed him. 

" Alright. " Zayne agreed. 

Claire entered the dungeon. It was like an old temple in a dungeons and dragons game, with rough stone walls on either side, and slimes moving sluggishly at periodic intervals. 

A white light headed straight towards her chest. 

If it continues at that speed, it will pierce her heart. 

Claire reacted almost involuntarily. 

She held the awl straight in front of her heart and closed her eyes on instinct. The white light was moving too fast, so it struck the awl like a moving train. 

The sound was deafening. 

The light exploded like a flash bomb. 

A light emerged from the broken shards, entered Claire. 

Claire felt the change in her body automatically. It is not that she is sensitive to mana, or achieved any breakthroughs with her meditation, but the light's energy was so high, its entrance could be sensed even by the untrained hunter. 

She checked her body. Since there were no great problems, the skill must be a normal skill. She put a step forward, only for her to slide ten feet in. 

' What the ? ' she thought, 

Then, four slimes attacked her. It was like she was looking at them in slow motion. 

She moved her hand to break a green one's nucleus, a green light entered her. She flipped the grip on the awl, broke the dull yellow one with a back hand. She switched hands from behind her, broke blue slime, with the last reverse grip, she broke the black one. 

All colors of lights entered her body. 

It's like the entire world is in slow motion, only she is moving forward at the normal speed. 

' This is definitely a skill … ' that much Claire knew, even from her limited experience. She felt ice like this for the first time after she obtained the skill. 

' but what skill ' … she sorted through her meager knowledge. 

Given how shitty her job was and how one-sided her talent has become, Claire hated reading about skills she could not have. But even she read about some skills, because they are so famous… This was more like a trivia that one reads along with peanuts on the train. 

Then it dawned on her. 

The skill she has obtained. 

The one that even rankers and gods envied ! 

' Flash ' 

The S - rank skill that has ranked twenty years straight as most sought after skill till it was replaced by another… no way that she will be this lucky, can she ? 

Claire put her hand on the wall, thinking of a different dungeon. 

Next moment she opened her eyes, and in front of her were the paddy fields - a distant crow trilling. This is the A - rank dungeon lost village. Her guess has turned out to be true ! 

What she has is not the flash skill …