It was around 10 pm in the evening.Misty crossed her arms underneath her ample but not really gifted bossom. In front of her, two other girls were trying to lead a bunch of scaredy cats into an abandoned building. All of them were living in the same dorm, just from different rooms. One of them was that girl who told her about that Pretty Boy Ver.Due to the very spine chilling atmosphere enveloping the area, everyone else apart from Misty was hugging each other's arms or themselves.The girl whose hair was in a wavy ponytail shook her head while confidently walking after her two friends Yuki and Anda."Girls, better not separate. Even though it's not exactly midnight or witching hours, it is still quite scary and spooky. Ghosts might show up out of a sudden to surprise us. Who knows when one of us will just suddenly be possessed!"To her friend Anda's words and the exaggerated reactions of the four others, the sister of a police officer shook her head again in helplessness. Her eyes
A figure blended seamlessly with the darkness. The place was actually nearby where a group of students was trying to test their tolerance to fear. Yet that little group was not aware that danger greater than a ghost or any dubious being from urban legends was just lurking around the corner.'On the left...'A pair of mesmerizing eyes flashed with mockery and mirth as he looked at the direction told to him by the system. He quickened his steps and turn to that direction.When he caught sight of the target, his blood began to boil. At the end of that alley, a masked man's silhouette could be seen. Who else could it be but one of his former allies who were now taking him for a traitor?Ver did his best to arrive by that person's side as fast as he could, the baseball bat he stole from a gangster wannabe he met along the way here rose high up then swung down with force greater than any normal human could take."Ackkkk!" The man only managed to let out a sharp groan for a second before col
Seven minutes later...Misty's hope shattered when continuous sounds of gunshots suddenly tore through the silence of the place."Damn! Run!" She loudly shouted to the others who subconsciously began to scream and crouch down with their hands covering their ears.It would have been such a bad move to run and expose one's self in this kind of situation, but Misty could hear that the sounds came from deep inside the dormitory. It only meant one thing - they must get away fast from that place to not get caught up in the ongoing crossfire!"Quick!" The girl pulled up the nearest one to her and led everyone else to run outside the fence.Another gunshot reverberated. Shocked, the shortest girl of the group, who probably had trouble running as speedily as the others due to her short legs, stumbled and fell face-first on the ground. Misty didn't have the heart to leave her hence she ran back and helped the other girl up."Hic!"That short girl gasped when she raised her head sideways only to
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