Mark seemed hesitant about Benjamin and Ethan's invitation. Several times he took his eyes off the two policemen. The boy was actually still deeply traumatized by the massacre in front of him half a year ago.Exactly a week before he was adopted by his parents, he traveled with his friends and the orphanage officials. As they stopped for a meal, Mark was suddenly kidnapped by a man in a black mask--Ryo Krugger, and he was taken hostage. Three orphanage caretakers along with seven police officers were mobilized to search for him, while the other children were left with a caretaker of another orphanage.By the time they were found, Ryo Krugger and a man in a white mask--Zen, who carried a scythe--were waiting for the seven. Ryo pulled out a short shotgun and a dagger, and pointed them at the police and the three caretakers of the orphanage."You've had enough of playing orphanage caretaker. You've caused a disturbance by eating the homeless human children you picked up last month. You b
Keeping Mark alive was a big mistake for Zen and Ryo. Mark apparently remembers Ryo's face and the smell of the two of them. A week later the monsters hunt Ryo who is doing a mission in the middle of the city. Ryo killed them one by one and interrogated them. From the interrogation, he found out that the monsters can find someone through their smell, and Ryo is their main target. Ryo is hunted down to be killed and to find Zen. Knowing that his partner was in danger, Ryo reported the incident to HORNET. The organization acted quickly. They created a special cloak to disguise their scent. However, they couldn't find a solution for Ryo's face that was already known by the monsters. HORNET finally made the unilateral decision to dispose of Ryo for the safety of everyone in NEST.Ryo drank a serum that made him forget everything related to HORNET, and then he lived his life on the surface. Zen had negotiated with HORNET several times not to do that to Ryo, but was ignored by the higher-ups
James looked disappointed when he found out. He turned to Anne, but she also looked confused. The blonde woman seemed to have no other way but to ask Lisa for help.Lisa stood up from her seat. She adjusted the position of her glasses. The bob-haired woman squinted slightly at James."Please don't ask me to do something like this again. Especially when you're only doing it for your own benefit. You are a man, you should be stronger than us women," Lisa said.Lisa walked over to the door of the room and opened it."If you have nothing more to say, please return to your places immediately. My other coworkers might see you in this place if you linger here." Lisa said coldly.Unable to argue, James and Anne left the room. Lisa then closed the door without saying anything."Looks like you've lost your chance, James. You can't leave NEST like I did." Anne said.There was no reply from James. He just contemplated what Lisa had just said. James felt that what Lisa had said was true. James nee
Heart racing, James feared that his mother would be harmed, but he couldn't ignore the person holding his leg right now."Let go of me, Zen!" James slapped Zen's hand hard, making Zen's hand release its grip.Zen was in pain from the blow, his hand was bruised red from that one small blow.His strength is like that of a monster! Zen thought.Not to be deterred, James took advantage of the opportunity to run back out.Zen picked up a rope and threw it. The rope wrapped around James' leg and made the man fall. Zen ran over and touched James' neck."Don't move, James! If you move, I will make your neck rot and you will die." Zen threatened coldly.James was transfixed and his eyes bulged. He glanced at Zen's face. The man had an annoyed expression on his face."Stand up, damn it!" Zen guided James' body to stand up, he followed suit."Walk!" Zen forced James to walk slowly towards somewhere."Where are we going?" asked James full of cold sweat.Zen smiled a little."Where else? We're goi
A tall, strong-faced woman entered the arena. She was the one Henry had assigned to referee the duel. This woman was Michelle Kurt, who was more senior than both James and Zen.Michelle watched James carefully. The confused face of James who was looking for a suitable wooden sword to use made her intrigued. A new kid like James would probably lose instantly when faced with Zen. Although he was Axel's student, he hadn't even practiced for a month. Moreover, the bruises depicted on James' face convinced Michelle that this man must be very weak.The woman turned her attention to Zen. In stark contrast to James, Zen looked in great shape and full of confidence to finish off his opponent. That sturdy body would probably pulverize James in no time. Add to that Zen's expression of holding back annoyance at James, he must be eager to kick the new kid's ass."You're wasting my time, new boy!" said Zen getting impatient seeing James still struggling to find a suitable weapon.James didn't liste
The audience cheered very loudly at Zen's extraordinary skill. The enthusiasm of the audience was so great that their shouts began to disturb the concentration of Anne who was enduring the pain.The enthusiasm of the audience was not without reason. Zen was known as a strong warrior who was arrogant. He never used his superpowers if he wasn't serious about fighting. He went through many missions without using his power of decay, and very few people had ever seen him use it. The first-time viewers would have been hysterical when they saw Zen decomposing the cloth. Zen was seriously fighting James."Damn! Zen is using his ability! It's a rare spectacle, but I didn't expect his power to be that terrifying!" one of the arena spectators said to the person beside him."True, Zen isn't usually like that. However, isn't that too much? His opponent is just a beginner who has only been training for ten days at NEST," his friend replied.Henry himself had not expected that Zen would be so seriou
The crowd cheered even more. Some were cheering for Zen and some were calling him out for overreacting. However, Michelle still didn't do anything because the fight wasn't over yet. Michelle still saw James trying to stand up. Who knows what she was thinking, but Michelle felt that something interesting was about to happen. James struggled to stand up. His legs were shaking and his face turned pale. The grip of the wooden sword in his right hand became slippery due to the sweat that was constantly pouring out of his body. The vision gradually became blurry, like an analog TV that lacks signal, there was a lot of noise in James' vision. Unable to cope with his condition, James used his wooden sword to support his body that was about to collapse. The extreme dizziness made his body start to wobble. His breathing became heavy and irregular. James knew that this was the result of overusing his body. His body could not withstand too much strength due to lack of training. So when he exper
The Landfield police station held a closed meeting for several investigators who were all monsters, two of them were Ethan and Benjamin. They gathered led by Landfield's police chief, Marion.Marion taped a picture of James on the wall and wrote the suspect underneath the picture. She then pointed at the photo, "You see this face. This is James Winter, a new Landfield resident who just moved in about two weeks ago. He works at an automobile company as a clerk and only worked one day, after which he disappeared. In his house, there are traces of the massacre of 10 of our people and the smell has disappeared. It is suspected that he had a relationship with Ryo Krugger, he was at the place where Ryo Krugger was shot and followed his body to the Visconte funeral home. It is certain that James Winter knows the identity of our people and intends to hunt us down. In addition, he committed the massacre together with a woman whose odor still lingers in his room. According to the investigation,