“TERRENCE!” She screams at the same time as Ozzie’s ding. I don’t get to check the points because she grabs and shakes me back and forth. “WHAT DID YOU DO?!” “N-NOTHING!” I raise my voice to make it seem like I’m also panicking. “WHAT DID YOU DO?!!” She screams at me again with more intensive shakes. “I-It slipped from my hands! I SWEAR! Ugh—” I’m starting to get dizzy from her shaking, not going to lie. That ‘ugh’ in the end is honest from the bottom of my throat. “I think I’m gonna puke…” Her face twitches from anger to worry, and then to annoyance. She doesn’t look like she’s done with me, but maybe she can see the paleness in my face, because eventually she lets me go. I immediately move to the side and let rainbow flows from my mouth. I think adrenaline from the chase finally gets me with all that shaking. But it’s worth it because my points are now 5/27. I take out my water bottle and gargle some water to wash the foul taste from my mouth. Then I return to her folding a clo

The first scene that plays in front of us is a gunshot sound and a wounded cadet crawling towards us. The cadet, who is my classmate Greg, is looking pretty worn. His eyes are wide open with shock, his suit is tattered, and he also has blood on him. When the cadet sees us, he immediately shouts for help. “Help! It’s a gunner!” More gunshots echo from the hallway behind him, also screams. We immediately pull him to us to get him out of the line of fire. “Treat him, I’ll buy time.” Jake said. But I stop him. “It’s a gunner and you’re a batter. You can’t fight him. I’ll go.” I crawl to the edge and I thought he doesn’t have any comments, but he protests right after I took position to take vision. “You have never fought these guys before. You’ll get shot!” “Do you want to get shot instead?” I glance at him. He doesn’t retaliate. Good. I don’t want him too. It’s troublesome to argue and a waste of time. Besides, I need to work a little bit creative here to rescue the people in this f

At the North Team’s Captain Base a few moments ago… The Operator Team receives a wave from the Headquarters. “Nat! We got a call from the HQ!” Sheena said. She is a fourth-year who is operating the communication in the North Base. Natalie, the captain of the North Team who is examining purple crystal fragments, immediately comes over to the computer. “Put us through.” The other operator, Kal, also a fourth-year, inserts the speaker cables into the computers. Then Sheena presses a button and a small yellow square lights up on Sheena’s screen. “The Captain is present. Over.” There is a sound wave and a voice speaks through the speaker in a slight grunge-like effect. “North Team. Communication has been cut off from the other three towers. But your wave is still able to come through. How can this happen?” Natalie presses a button to reply. “North Team Captain reporting in. We have found two mysterious, yet similar, devices that we accidentally destroyed. It holds this specific kind

When Terrence escorts the technician to the 10th floor, four 3rd year students arrive in the back entrance of the North Tower. They are the ones ordered by the Captain to split up from the Base and join the ones in the Tower. “Huh? Where are the seniors paired up with you? Shouldn’t you guys be at the base and guard the citizens?” A senior approaches them. “The Captain told us to come here and relay a new command.” One of the juniors said urgently. A junior approaches. “Why can’t she relay through Arrow?” “The Base is being moved and there’s news that many terrorists are coming here soon. She wants you to move inside the Tower for protection.” The junior and senior receiving the news jolts in surprise. “W-What?! More—” Before the two could scream, the others cover their mouth. “Shh!” “The captain wants to keep this between the cadets. She doesn’t want to cause panic among the rescued citizens here.” The five of them looked over to the citizens who are sitting on the ground with

I was pissed at Jake before because he was acting out of his character code. So I can only think of clearing this floor fast before he can meddle with anything. But now that I see that huge guy in front of Rean, I… don’t think I can step forward. ‘Let’s just hide and let Rean do his thing…’ I retreat carefully to the hallway before where I found that unconscious terrorist. It’s clear that I would only be in the way if I’m there, so I’m actually helping Rean with being absent. Still, I cannot understand why those two are here. It’s not like I can control what Rean does now that I’m not a player. But that enemy should’ve been moving according to the plot, isn’t it? Originally, it should be in the 15th floor, not 12th floor. ‘Have I just changed the plot?’ I bite my bottom lip. ‘No, that can’t be.’ I haven’t done anything that could’ve encouraged the hammer terrorist to be here in 12th floor. It’s not an enemy that can be encountered elsewhere besides the 15th floor, and I’ve not co