No One Wants to Believe a Fool (Seeking Collections, Recommendations, Monthly Passes, and Follow-up Reads)

As for expecting Robet to give her a grandson, Martha had never considered it. Setting aside the fact that Robet was only fifteen now, even after he grew up, Martha felt that would be very difficult.

Not only would she fail to hold a grandson by then, but Robet's abnormalities might also be exposed. The risk was simply too great!

At that moment, Robet had no idea that he had missed quite a spectacle—one that had nearly involved him.

After returning home in the middle of the night, Robet slept soundly for six hours before calling Clark to train with him again.

Clark did not have much to say about Robet's boundless energy, since he himself was just as energetic. Especially when the rising sun shone on him, Clark felt himself becoming a little stronger again, which made him even more motivated to train with Robet.

"Remember what you said. You have a way to deal with ordinary people..." Before Robet left for school, Clark could not help reminding him again. He knew that Okinja was definitely going to get taught a lesson by Robet.

Clark would not stop something like that, because it was a lesson Okinja deserved. But he also did not want things to get out of hand and expose Robet's abnormalities.

"Don't worry. Ordinary people are easy to deal with!" Robet said with a grin, waving as he walked out the door. What a joke—he was a proud Z Fighter. Could he really fail to handle a few ordinary people?

After Robet left, Clark had originally planned to keep an eye on him. But there was a saying: if you keep thinking about something, it is bound to answer back. Of course, it was not Clark who had been dwelling on it—it was mainly Martha, who had been dwelling on it all night yesterday.

And so, Lana Lang made her entrance. She had come to ask Clark out, saying she wanted to buy some things in Kansas City but was unfamiliar with the place. She had heard that Clark had only recently returned from there, so she hoped he could go browse around with her...

If Lana had called to invite Clark, he might have politely declined. But she had come right to his door, and Clark really could not bring himself to refuse—especially with Martha watching him like a hawk from nearby.

Of course, coming to Kent Farm to find Clark was also a choice born of Lana's long experience. Over the past fifteen years, Lana had visited Kent Farm more times than she could count. Especially after coming of age, the frequency of her visits had risen sharply. Naturally, she knew that if she called, Clark would very likely turn her down.

It was also because Lana had feelings for Clark in that regard. Otherwise, despite Clark having saved so many people, Martha would not have randomly played matchmaker and specifically picked Lana to be her daughter-in-law.

Under Martha's watchful gaze, Clark finally left with Lana. Along the way, Lana talked about her own experiences, and between the two of them, Lana was almost always the proactive one...

Martha: |^o^)

Meanwhile, Robet followed the route he remembered toward school. Whenever there was no one around, he sped up, and before long, he arrived at school earlier than usual.

Okinja's three-man bully gang had not arrived yet, but Alena was already in the classroom. Unable to hold herself back, she told everyone about Robet winning yesterday's eating contest.

"123 hamburgers? How is that possible?! He cheated, right? Forget his tiny build—even a 220-pound fatty like Manuel couldn't possibly eat 123 hamburgers in one sitting!" But as soon as Alena finished speaking, a classmate stepped up to refute her, believing that she was exaggerating.

And quite a few students supported the one who objected, because eating 123 hamburgers in ten minutes was simply beyond ordinary comprehension—especially when Robet had previously acted like an idiot.

People were unwilling to believe that an idiot could eat 123 hamburgers in ten minutes. They were unwilling to believe that an idiot could become a champion eater and win ten thousand dollars. They preferred to believe that an idiot did not understand the rules at all, and that after failing to even tear open a hamburger wrapper for ten minutes at the event, he was laughed at by the entire crowd and burst into aggrieved sobs, making the atmosphere even more cheerful...

"You guys!" Robet had never felt aggrieved, but Alena certainly did now. She was clearly telling the truth, yet nobody was willing to believe her. And she was just as Envious of Robet's ten-thousand-dollar prize, only to now be mocked by her classmates because of him.

Just as Alena wanted to explain herself but had no idea where to begin, Robet walked into the classroom. Alena's eyes lit up at once. She hurried over to him, planted her hands on her hips, and glared at him forcefully. "You! Tell them! We weren't lying! You really won the eating contest, and you ate 123 hamburgers!"

Alena knew that Robet's performance yesterday had proven that he was not an idiot, but that did not make her afraid of him. So what if he could eat a lot?

No matter how much he could eat, Robet was still only a little Dwarf standing five foot three. At his height, even if he had never acted like an idiot, he would still have become a target for bullying!

Not to mention that Alena knew Okinja and the others were already planning to extort Robet's prize money. In Alena's view, because of the eating contest prize, Robet's life would become even worse than before. Okinja and the others would not let him go until they had squeezed every last cent out of him!

And even after squeezing him dry, they might not let him go!

However, what Alena had not expected was that Robet had no intention of paying attention to her at all. He simply turned and walked toward his seat.

"Bastard! You..." Enraged by Robet ignoring her, Alena was about to lash out at him when she suddenly met his gaze.

Alena's heart skipped a beat. Then she felt her mind grow hazy, as though she had forgotten something. In a daze, she walked back to her seat.

"She was actually scared off by an idiot. I really don't know why Okinja picked her as his girlfriend. How embarrassing!" Seeing Alena retreat from a single look from Robet, one of the girls seized the chance to mock her sarcastically.

"Hahahahaha!" The other students laughed along, and the classroom filled with cheerful air as they began talking about something else.

As for their earlier discussion about Robet winning the eating contest, for some reason, they had completely put it out of their minds.

And Alena, who had just been mocked by her classmates, did not react at all. She merely lay on her desk with a dejected expression, saying nothing, as though she had remembered something sad. She also seemed to have forgotten her earlier conflict with Robet.

New book—please support it with bookmarks, recommendations, monthly votes, investments, follows, and all that! ~(ω)