East coast of Edogawa Prefecture.A woman dressed in a black negligee paused what she was saying on the phone, shifting her gaze to the northwest."101. Is that the same host from a few days ago? In a fight again?"Since she was the only one in the elaborately designed suite and the call had been put on hold, she dared to speak loudly to the system inhabiting her brain.It answered,The woman let out a few chuckles then resumed the conversation. Her eyes lit up after the person reporting to her from the other side spoke up and said, "Milady, it seems regular thawing machine have an effect with the iceberg. It's quite negligible but our experts clearly noticed the decrease in the volume of ice."The woman remembered the mysterious blue iceberg her men recovered from the coast nearby. It drifted to her resort's territory as if a work of fate. For a reason she badly wanted to uncover, a human being was inside it, half-naked and seemingly asleep. When she asked her system to get the man o
Misty didn't know what happened after. She just learned that Ver Drilon, the annoying Pretty Boy returned. And he somehow became her neighbor, saying he still had a conscience and knowing that his savior was now in the hunted list of that mysterious organization he was opposing, he decided to guard her, free of charge, until the threats to her life were eliminated.When she first heard of the explanation he said, Misty only took a few seconds to get the real situation."You fell for me?""What?!"The suspicious trespasser who also even got himself potato chips as he watched the TV news coughed out what he had just put inside his mouth. He stared blankly at Misty after. "Did you hit your head or something?"But the girl didn't reply as she was busy dialing the police.Ver watched her with extreme boredom. A host with full points like him wouldn't fear getting reported anywhere."Stop that, Miss. There is no way you'll get through them."Misty gritted her teeth when minuted passed yet t
It was the beginning of the wee hours in the morning.While the people of the lab scrambled to their feet to inform their lady boss about the awakening of the formerly frozen specimen, Paul propped his upper body up with his two hands from the metal bed and took long and deep breaths of air.His eyeballs then moved all over the place, scanning its interior and the people. Shortly, a very grim expression appeared on his face, he looked as though as he was barely restraining himself from doing again something he hated before as an educated person - swearing.'... A lab... I frickin' ended up inside a laboratory?'Unlike most people who found themselves in a similar situation before but just somewhere different, he didn't stupidly ask from anybody nearby where he was. His eyes were fully functional. And his years with the military trained him to never forget to study the situation and place first before doing anything, even speaking.It was simply a lab. And it seemed like the people wit
'... He must be aware of many more things about the system than I expected.' She ordered the system to lock down every exit in the place and 'it' smoothly executed it. The other people who saw the empty elevator suddenly going up became dumbfounded. Those rushing to stop the man in a loose white gown halted their steps and stared blankly at that same sight. But the lady didn't pay them any attention since even if something happened, it would be as easy as pie to erase everyone's memories or control them to shut their mouths up. Paul watched the scene with a blackening expression. A few seconds later, he turned to the woman and started taking huge strides towards her with steps as heavy as an elephant's. Craziness showed in his pale face. The woman who initially didn't raise her guards up felt a bit of dread tingling her senses. She initially thought that no matter how dangerous Paul McArthney as a non-host, there should be no way he could bring real threat to a host like her, that t
'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