'I couldn't connect to Dylan and the rest? Not only Agatha or that Conrad?'It was the afternoon of the next day. Or technically it was still the same day since the debacle happened around 1:30 am.In between that span of time, Paul had solved the issues about his identity and other necessities. To be honest, his mind was still not as clear and calm as his usual self. And maybe that was why he went around looking for a local gang to beat up and extort. Given his physique and knowledge in combat, it had not been a real challenge. He was just not sure if the masked people he beat up were really from a local gang.Anyways, he made them provide clothes, food, intel, and phone for him. Unfortunately, when he dialed the number of everyone from Alina City, the calls wouldn't go through. His guts began to scream at him that something terrible had happened, or at least, something had gotten wrong. The feeling of being in the dark about many matters was similar to having force-fed many squirmin
"... Damn!"Hours after the flight took off from Edogawa City, he arrived at Country F only to stop before Alina City.He should have known that Fred Moore and maybe even Conrad McArthney wouldn't let him easily return...That man must have felt it when the ice entrapping Paul had melted a dozen hours ago..."They really want to take that three years separation so seriously?"Hate clouded his reasoning. He couldn't find Alina City even though he was at the correct place. What lied ahead was only a never ending high way. The tall buildings and houses were nowhere to be seen.It was already the fifth time that he had confirmed this matter. And since the place existed in the records and the maps, it could only mean that the problem was him.Now what?What should he do now that whenever he stepped into the territory, he was always seemingly taken to another dimension where all he would see was barren land in place of his home city?Who else apart from Fred could do such a ridiculous thing
Eithan was currently in a dire strait.The fan meeting in this empire was naturally his guise to check on the government's intel regarding their country's immoral hosts. He made the trip personally since he planned to also do an infiltration once he gets hold of the real location.The first goal was never a challenge for him.So where was the dire strait part?It was when he found out that the hideout in the desert was merely one of the locations and that all over the capital city of the empire, there were other underground hideouts used purely for torture and all sorts of inhumane practices.He tried to infiltrate the one nearest to the police and army headquarters, yet putting aside the stomach-churning sight his eyes laid upon there, a level 4 host was actually in the premises. Were it not for the man busy doing bedroom exercises with one of those supposed female captives there, and Eithan managing to catch him off guard in the midst of that, he would probably have already died.Of
The deep rose-colored car was only a rented one, something Aura arranged prior to their departure from the city four hours ago. The assistant had mostly figured that they would need a convenient mode of transport in another country, so she booked one through an app."Let's hope this guy is not purposely concealing himself this time." Sarmiento once said with mild irritation, probably incensed that his boss had to go here and there just to find that actor.After their plane landed at the airport, the car was then delivered. Sarmiento procposed for them to have their dinner first. While they would be stuffing their stomach, the two hacker couple would finish their food fast then do their best to get information about his whereabouts.That was the plan. They even reserved a table in a restaurant ten minutes away from the airport.While waiting for the order though, Irene remembered that she forgot her smartphone inside the car. Not used without her phone within her hands' reach, she excu
The two couldn't continue their talk. Eithan could no longer hold out since his injuries were really quite fatal. His system couldn't do anything since he didn't even have the points needed to send SOS signal to his boss and ally.Irene drove him to the townhouse Aura rented for three days. The hacker couple commuted to the place and then helped her settle the talk with the owner while she carried the man inside one of the rooms on the first floor through sheer effort and determination."Gasps!"After the woman laid the man down on the bed in one of the rooms on the first floor, she wiped off the perspiration on her forehead then tried to check in which parts he was wounded. That was when her eyes widened from fright and shock."T-this needs the immediate attention of a surgeon!" Her hands trembled when they reached out to the unbearable sight of the alive and seemingly squirming red.If it weren't for Irene remembering how he didn't want to go to the hospital and relating the reason
[System: You know this is the best timing to start something intimate, right?]Just then, he heard the ever so annoying voice inside his head whispering something again He couldn't reply as his mind had blanked out. It told him one of the things that he didn't want to admit right now. Even though the skin in contact with the moistness from his eyes was already telling him enough of this fact.Irene's voice rang a couple of moments after that."Are you already sleeping? I am worried you'll wake up later needing something so I'll stay. Are you okay with that?"The young man kept his silence. There was no other choice. If he answered now, his voice would surely rat out his current embarrassing mental and emotional state.Then Irene added in a haste. "... Don't worry, I'll just be on the sofa. I won't be a bother. It's my turn now to tend to the sick you, so just comfortably get your sleep."He still didn't reply and so her setup was followed.Hours later, when the girl was sleeping, Eith
Meanwhile, on that same day, at the other city where the Original 1096 host was spending the rest of her morning.Agatha was in her office on the highest floor of Ever Victorious. The left hand holding the mouse hovered to a picture on her computer's screen showing a busy crossroad and a man with his back turned to the camera.She then asked the system, 'How about this one? The sender labeled it as a place somewhere in Aurora City.'Agatha did not answer and only went back to looking through the folders above her table.The woman frowned so badly though, and it remained on her face even when her main assistant, Dylan, the one who used to follow Paul before, came inside with a box in hand."Is that a package for me? How mysterious." She raised an eyebrow, pausing her hands going which was about to sign another document after the other."Miss Silver, please check." The man presented him a list instead of handing over the nicely gift-wrapped box. Dylan laid it down her table then stood s
After the gentle interrogation she did with the people of the Flying Dragon Express, she confirmed quite a lot of things.First, there is a chance it is really just as the system said. A spell or skill is in effect but it's already fading. Her heart grew cold when the possibility that it was a calculated time or move crossed her mind.'It will be exactly three years since then... What's with this hunch that it's purposely set up?'Second, the post office couldn't deliver the letters because all of them were blank at first and that they only discovered the ones with content yesterday. This was the reason why only today did an agent go to knock at her company's door.When Agatha heard that, she held her breath for a long while. Another conjecture of hers was proven correct.'This could really mean that Paul did send two letters with the same message everyday, one with his name, the other just with his initials... There is a magical something at work which I supposed always erases his tr