Ji-hoon's footsteps are heard echoing, the silence of the city is deep and he walks with his sword in hand surveying the area.

However, his eyes are completely red, no emotion is visible on his face just a neutral face.

At the same time the system hasn't fried his brain and is in perfect condition and only works for Ji-hoon.

[Announcement]

' In 300 meters you will reach the location '

' Be ready for the battle '

' A lot of blood will be spilled in this fight'

Ji-hoon looks at the message and grins, an otherworldly grin.

Ji-hoon continues walking and arrives at the location.

Here you are, you filthy bastards.

Robots appear in front of Ji-hoon and corner him.

Looks like that's how we play.

Ji-hoon's eyes light up even more.

[Announcement]

' Your power has increased by 200% '

Ji-hoon jumps over the robots and even though it looks like the robots are intact, in another split second they're all cut and their circuits are visible shorting out.

An arrow flies at Ji-hoon's head and he blocks it with his sword.

Did he block the attack?

Ji-hoon stares in the direction of the arrow thrower.

Ji-hoon approaches him and he tries to hit him with arrows but Ji-hoon blocks them each time.

Finally Ji-hoon is in front of him and kicks his hand and the guy lets go of the bow.

"Spare my life!"

Ji-hoon laughs at that word.

"Spare a dog? A dog that works with the bad guys?"

Ji-hoon looks into the guy's eyes and grins at him and then decapitates him.

A bright bullet speeds past Ji-hoon and he blocks this attack as well and looks around but sees nothing and no one.

Ji-hoon feels a gun to the back of his head.

"Move and you're dead."

Ji-hoon has no emotion and stands still.

"Your last words?"

Ji-hoon grins at the question.

"Fuck you."

Ji-hoon tries to trip this guy but the guy knocks him to the ground and holds the gun pointed at Ji-hoon.

Ji-hoon swallows his saliva hard.

Is this someone of the elite class?

"Who are you?"

Ji-hoon is curious to get an answer to his question.

"I'm Maxim Yuri."

Yuri grins and pulls the trigger but Ji-hoon disappears from where he was and is nowhere to be seen.

A dense fog appears and blocks Yuri's visibility.

"Nice try, Song Ji-hoon."

Yuri blocks Ji-hoon's attack with his metal hand.

He blocked my attack?

Ji-hoon steps back.

At that moment Yuri pulls a knife out of his coat.

"Let's play fair, Song Ji-hoon."

The light in Ji-hoon's eyes intensifies.

Yuri puts his finger to his head and makes a gesture like he's going to shoot himself in the head and then moves quickly towards Ji-hoon with the knife pointed at him but Ji-hoon blocks the knife blade with his sword.

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"Accept defeat, Ji-hoon!"

Yuri forces the blade of his knife and manages to throw Ji-hoon's sword away leaving Ji-hoon without a weapon.

"Never!"

Ji-hoon punches Yuri in the stomach and runs to grab his sword again but Yuri reacts quickly and throws his knife at Ji-hoon hitting him directly in the back.

Ji-hoon falls down next to his sword and almost grabs it but Yuri kicks the sword and lifts Ji-hoon off the ground and into a series of punches to the mouth, filling Ji-hoon's mouth with blood.

How is this possible? He's strong but...how is that possible? What kind of abilities does this guy have in his hands?

Yuri takes his knife off the ground and stabs Ji-hoon in the stomach 20 times leaving him in a pool of blood.

Ji-hoon's eyes return to normal.

"Hm, looks like I didn't need the team after all."

Yuri wipes the blood off his face and kicks Ji-hoon in the head.

"You can all go out now, we're done here."

The team comes out of the darkness and looks at Ji-hoon grinning at them all.

At the same time the second team also appears, with a girl who is in the lead and she has a talisman around her neck.

"Oofff are you done fighting already?"

The girl is upset that she couldn't give Ji-hoon a beating.

"It's not my fault you're late but we can leave already."

Yuri spits on Ji-hoon's face and walks away.

"..."

The monster took Oh Donghae in its teeth and tore him apart with its sharp teeth

The others swallow their saliva and start running but their brains are fried by the system.

The only people left standing are Soo-min, Min-ji and Cho Taemin.

The monster takes one look at those left alive and turns away.

"Is...Is it over?"

Soo-min's voice shakes.

"No, I don't think it's over, this chip is risky, if we make the wrong moves or panic worse we'll have our brains fried"

Taemin says and at the same time thinks how to leave that place without their brains getting fried.

"Min-ji, do you have a solution how to get out of here?"

Min-ji looks at Taemin in fright.

"I have no idea how to get out of here."

"Hm, that means we have to wait for help to come, that is if of course they come to rescue us"

Taemin approaches Soo-min and helps her up.

"It'll be good if we calm down, at least that creature left us alone and we don't have to panic anymore"

Taemin lets Soo-min walk but she falls back down.

"Hm, you still have trauma from those unexpected deaths, I'm not judging you, it's hard to overlook something like that"

In Japan, Hatoru and Ren sit in that room and hold each other's heads because of the deep pain they are in.

"How can we get rid of this pain?"

Ren holds his head tighter.

"I really don't know, the chip is implanted deep in the brain so we can't remove it at all easily without the help of a professional doctor."

Wait, professional doctor!

"Follow me Ren!"

Hatoru leaves the room and heads for the elevator and Ren is behind him.

Both of them are still holding their heads but when they try to open the elevator, the elevator simply doesn't respond to commands.

"Come on!"

The elevator doors finally open and they enter. Hatoru presses the button for the 9th floor and the doors close and the elevator goes up.

Ding

The elevator doors open and they exit the elevator and walk to one of the rooms.

"Mr. Kijyo's office"

"Let's go in."

Ren almost puts his hand on the doorknob but Hatoru slaps his hand away.

Knock, Knock.

"Oh? You can come in."

"That's the way to do it, asshole."

Hatoru walks in with Ren and closes the door behind them.

"Mr. Kijyo, we're having problems with the chip, everyone in the organization is having problems, how can we fix it?"

Hatoru pays attention to the doctor who pulls a sheet out of the desk drawer.

"Read this, it's from Mr. Tanaka, plus unfortunately I can't do anything to you, any intervention of mine could fry your brain instantly"

Hatoru takes the sheet from Lord Kijyo and reads it.

' Hey Hatoru, you know I'm old and I won't be carrying it much longer so I'm leaving the organization in your hands, I'm still alive but I'm not able to keep the organization active anymore, so I'm asking you to take it and take care of it, I'm sorry to put you under so much pressure from me but I feel like I'm going to die soon, let everyone else know about my departure but don't tell them that I feel like I'm going to die '

Hatoru's eyes fill with tears and he drops the sheet from his hand.

"Help him!"

Hatoru puts his hand on Mr. Kijyo's throat.

Ren steps in and pushes Hatoru aside.

Mr. Kijyo gasps for air.

"What's wrong with you, Hatoru? What's on that sheet?"

Ren picks up the sheet and reads the same text but remains calm.

Hatoru's pain deepens.

"Stop fussing, you're the one who said not to."

Ren takes Hatoru's hand and places him on a chair and then approaches Mr. Kijyo.

"Can't you do anything? I mean you can't save him from his illness at all?"

Mr. Kijyo points to his hand and Ren looks at the back of the page.

' Hatoru, I know your problem that you have when you suffer and that you become a monster but I can no longer be saved, the verdict has been given, the cancer has unfortunately won '

"Hey Hatoru, let's join Mr. Tanaka for his last days"

Ren is calm and approaches Hatoru.

"Make Mr. Tanaka's wish and become the leader of the organization in Japan, I support you"

Hatoru gets up from his chair and approaches Mr. Kijyo and Mr. Kijyo wants to run away.

"You don't have to run away, I'm sorry sir for what I did earlier, it will never happen again"

Mr. Kijyo is skeptical but eventually accepts that Hatoru really doesn't want to do anything else to him.

"And Mr. Kijyo, there's nothing we can do about the chip?"

"If you told me in detail what it is I could ask Mr. Kato if he knows how to do anything to the chip, I am a doctor but not a technician"

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Everyone in the organization including South Korea gets the same pop-up.

' Excuse the problem, this is Mr. Kato, the organization's technician from Japan, I have solved the chip problem, soon you will get all your old functions back '

Everyone in the organisation has no more headaches.

"Looks like Mr. Kato has done his job.

Mr Kijyo gets up from his chair and looks out the window.

"I'm backing you to be the new leader of the organization"

Hatoru looks at Mr Kijyo and Ren.

Ren nods approvingly that Hatoru really deserves it.

"Thank you very much however I want to talk to Mr. Tanaka at least one last time"

"Then come on."

Ren opens the door to the room and steps out into the hallway.

"Let's at least talk to Mr. Tanaka one last time."

Hatoru smiles and walks out of the room as well.

"..."

As the two teams wanted to leave, Ji-hoon wiggled his fingers.

Ji-hoon gasps for air, choking on his own blood.

"You didn't die?"

They all feel a shiver down their spines as Ji-hoon rises from the ground, yet Ji-hoon wobbles left and right, showing that he's still really badly affected.

Ji-hoon walks over to his sword and grabs it, looking back and Team Horizon's leader runs over to Ji-hoon, pulling out her pistol and fires a laser weapon at Ji-hoon.

Dust rises as the laser destroyed a support pillar of the building.

The dust is everywhere and Ji-hoon has disappeared from the place.

She looks around and when she looks up at the ceiling Ji-hoon jumps behind her and strangles her with a rope.

"Where did he get a rope?"

Yuri fires a gun at Ji-hoon but he uses the Team Horizon leader as a human shield.

Her howl is a high-pitched one and eventually Ji-hoon drops her and seems to teleport behind some of her team and decapitates them.

Yuri looks back in terror and sees Ji-hoon standing with his bloody sword and the heads of his comrades on the ground with blood oozing from their bodies.

Ji-hoon turns his head towards Yuri, Ji-hoon doesn't have a single emotion, in fact the blood on his face, and he licks the blood laughing at Yuri.

"Let's fight fair!"

Ji-hoon throws his sword at another team member's head.

"Oops, I dropped it."

Blood jumps onto the faces of those standing next to the guy and his corpse once making contact with the ground makes a loud echo.

They are frightened and look in awe at Ji-hoon, who sits in place without saying or doing anything.

[Announcement]

' New skills available '

A long list appears in front of Ji-hoon.

' Unlock # Dead Skill # for 30,000 won '

' Unlock # Blood Skill # for 20,200 won '

' Increase the power of # Shadow Hands # for 60,000 won '

' Unlock # Blood/Death Skill # for 25,000 won '

Just like a video game I used to play.

A red aura appears around Ji-hoon, visible to the others and then 2 more yellow and white auras appear.

"He's a demon?"

Veins freeze in everybody else.

They all feel the adrenaline rush Ji-hoon is giving them, and it scares them all.

His auras move into his fists and now they're gone.

Everyone else is ready for a crucial fight with Ji-hoon.

' Dead Skill activated '

Ji-hoon clenches his fists and points behind Yuri.

Yuri looks back and at that moment takes a punch to the jaw from Ji-hoon.

"Get up from the ground, Liliya!"

"It's no use, it's useless if she gets into the fight!"

Ji-hoon punches Yuri in the mouth.

However, Yuri tricks to block the other attacks and knocks Ji-hoon to the ground but Ji-hoon quickly gets up just as Yuri was ready to boot him in the head.

The others use their abilities and try to attack Ji-hoon but he dodges each of their attacks and jumps with his fist into the head of one of them, blood splattering everywhere, including on his face.

The deceased body falls to the ground.

"1"

They are all terrified of Ji-hoon's brilliant ability and try even harder to kill him, reaching their limits.

However, Ji-hoon just jumps from side to side dodging each attack like a rocket.

Liliya uses her talisman which emits a bright light blinding Ji-hoon for a few seconds, enough time for her to knock him to the ground.

"You think I didn't know this attack was coming?"

In another split second Ji-hoon is on his feet and Liliya on the ground.

Yuri and a few of his team jump to attack but Ji-hoon teleports to the opposite side.

His eyes are red and blood is pouring from them.

Everyone's heart freezes when the lights come on even though the factory has long since lost power.

"No one will escape alive"

A sword appears in Ji-hoon's hand, a dark, extremely dark sword.

[Announcement]

' Congratulations, you've unlocked the Shadow Sword skill '

I don't know why they all have abilities, I don't know why I have abilities, but I'm definitely going to be washing with them on the floor tonight.