Marcus pulled Janette into his room and closed the door. They could hear Kou and Achara shouting orders and the sound of many boots quickly moving through the estate. Janette looked at him with worry "Is everything okay? Besides the madness that is going to hit us soon." She said with half a smile. Marcus watched the expression on his friend's face and sighed hard, "I'm sorry Janette. I can't do all the things you want me to do right now. It is just too much. I know I'm technically the clan leader, but I have just returned and catching up alone is demanding all my energy."

Janette had a painful expression on her face and shook her head "You don't have to do anything. I went overboard because I was nervous and jealous." she said with a thin voice. "I had barely gotten you back and you went to see Azaa. Which was absolutely the correct choice! Then you come back and vanished again… with all that was going on I have not really had the chance to be with you. Talk with you...tell you how much I missed you. How painful it was to wake up at night, and see your face vanish together with the portal, over and over." At that point Marcus hugged her and said "I horribly, horribly missed you too."

After a little while Janette moved away from Marcus and sat down on his bed. "Besides, I wanted to show you that I had not messed up the clan and that I put in a massive amount of work." she said and Marcus rolled his eyes "Of course you have! I still can't believe how much has happened in the time I was gone. The members, Luca and Rian are part of the clan. New buildings and so on. And most importantly for me, you are all well and alive. I had nightmares, that I would come back and some or all of you were dead. It drove me mad!"

Janette sighed with a smile and then kicked him again his shin "Once you have fully recovered I will push all responsibility back onto you. Then I will return to the good old days of doing what ever I want, and have you deal with the consequences. That is my goal." she said with a wide grin and a sparkle in her eyes. "You wish, now that you have proven how capable you are, I will fully depend on my second in command." Marcus said and laughed. "Noooooo!" Janette died theatrically and fell onto the bed.

Somebody knocked at the door and a second later Kou's head leaned into the room. "If you have time to screw around, you have time to help with preparing the estate!" and he was gone. Marcus gave Janette a hand and she got up next to him "Never a dull moment, I tell you." she said and rolled her eyes. They left the room in good spirits and joined in the preparations for the big event.

The common room in the villa was packed. The whole clan somehow had squeezed in and stared at the large screen, that normally was used to watch movies or play games. But today they watched as the counter ticked down, to the live stream of a new video from Kim. The announcement that Kim would reveal his disciple had caused a storm in the internet and media. Over the last years the identity of his disciple had been the foundation of many theories and discussions.

Marcus sat on the couch in front of the screen, right between Achara (with Sophon) and Janette. He could hear the whispered discussions of the rookies and the second squad, and feel their eyes on his back. They, of course, had not been aware he was the disciple of Kim and honestly could not believe he was such an amazing person. "Don't worry, that is nothing compared to what is coming for you." Grace stood behind him and whispered into his ear with a grin. If anybody knew how it felt to be "famous" it was her. Her drastic change in behavior had not, as expected, reduced her fame but had made her even more famous. She was no longer the battle maiden, she was a "bad girl" now. Her fan base had tripled and from time to time a crazed person showed up, who needed dealing with.

"Look at this, 150 million people are watching the live reveal!" Kou sat with some chips in hand. More and more, Marcus felt like all of this had been a horrible mistake.

There is worse.

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Becoming a mythical existence and people starting worshiping you as a living god.

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Okay that is worse. As the last seconds of the timer ran down, Marcus was so nervous his hands started to shake. Three, two, one, zero!

Kim appeared on the screen, and he looked as perfect as always. He made a short introduction and then got right to the point. "There has been a great interest in my disciple for many years and we finally feel comfortable to reveal his identity to the world. It is a great pleasure to introduce to you, Marcus Freimann." The screen changed and showed Marcus in his shirtless getup. He introduced himself with a few short words, and whistling and cheering filled the common room. Achara hit him on the leg laughing at his shirtless appearance. "HOT!" Grace shouted and Marcus wanted to sink to the bottom of the ocean.

"In contrast to what most of you are expecting Marcus is not a Paladin. Instead he is a Titan." Kim left small pauses at the right moments and the screen changed to Marcus who told the world about the true nature of the Fighter class. The room was silent as Marcus showed off his abilities, smashing a few targets, shrugging off bullets and swords and then finally showing the world his restoration ability. A short warning against graphical content appeared on the screen and a second later Kim pierced his right arm with a sword. A gasp went through the room, many here did not know about his abilities yet, and then the camera zoomed in on the vanishing wound.

The video ended with some choice words from Kim about showing respect to his disciple and Marcus declared he would prepare a platform for Fighters to learn and transition to be a Titan.

The video ended and Marcus finally started breathing again. "Oh my god. The internet is burning up! Your name is trending, together with Titan and Kim's disciple." Kou watched his phone and other clan member took their phones out too. Marcus could hear a lot more whispering and people were staring even harder at him. He noticed that some of the new female clan members gave him special looks and he pretended not to see them.

"Okay as planned, guards to the entrance and the estate area. Stay polite and civil but do not allow anybody on the estate grounds and don't talk to the people with microphones and cameras." Janette said after getting up. Marcus wondered if this was really necessary tonight but only fifteen minutes later the first cars arrived at the entrance and people wanted to see/talk/interview Marcus. First it was only local reporters but over the next hours regional and then international reporters joined.

The police showed up and sent people away who caused traffic problems while Marcus hid inside the villa trying not to go crazy. In the morning the fans started to show up, men and women with posters pressed against the fences and some tried to get in. Kou transported them out via floating and when it got really bad Janette unloaded a few shots into the ground. That calmed things down quickly.

The internet went crazy and it was not only because of Kim's disciple. The Titan class got a lot of attention. "Experts" analyzed every frame of the reveal video and had a lot of opinion about Marcus and his class. Some said he was a phony and it was all fake and others predicted the Titan would be top ten in a years time. And all of it was happening so fast. Memes exploded about the topless Titan and the first fan groups started consolidating. "He is so hot, I want to mount his buff body and ride him hard. A real man is taking a stand. I'm in love with Marcus, he is the perfect man. Marcus the TITAN, finally the answer to weak spirited men!" Janette read video titles, lying on the floor, and laughing till tears came out.

"Wait until they doctor your face into porn movies. That is when the real fun starts." Grace said, looking rather jolly. "If you forget all that stuff for a moment, I have been looking at the Fighter responses and what professionals say. And for the most part the reactions are very positive. Some think your abilities were faked but most people want to get to see more of you and the Titan class." Achara said. "You will have to give a press conference and start making videos or life streams." Kou said and Marcus nodded.

"Uhhh." Janette exclaimed and said "There are a few people here who challenge you to a duel. A lot of shit throwing and chest bumping. I don't think you will get around beating a few people on camera to prove your strength." Marcus sighed and Grace patted his back "At least you don't have guys coming after you proclaiming if they beat you, you have to have sex with them, because that makes sense." Marcus finally got an idea what kind shit Grace had to put up with over the years.

Against his best hopes things did not calm down over the next days, they got worse. Half the internet and media demanded to see more off him and some celebrity class holders proclaimed they could take him down no sweat, including many Paladins. The Paladin community was up in arms that Kim had chosen a non Paladin as his disciple. They were out for blood and it did not help that Kim sent a message saying, no Paladin on Marcus' level could beat him.

Meanwhile, the media went through all his life and made a big show of talking about his dead mother and his "questionable" relationship with his father. Talking about relationships, once some genius figured out that Janette had been close to him since Helsinki obvious allegations were thrown around. Until Cherry reminded everybody why she was called the Queen of Hearts and that those guys were talking about her wife. Nobody died, Cherry promised, but some needed a healer.

At the evening of that first day Marcus' father and Sophia arrived at the estate via helicopter. Marcus embraced his father and apologized for all the problems but his father did not care. "All that matters is that I have got my son back." They went into the villa and Marcus prepared himself to reveal the existence of Xeen to his father.

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