[Announcement]
' This is how Song Ji-hoon will die '
"Who the hell are you?"
A bright light comes out and hits Ji-hoon non-stop and that bright fist goes through Ji-hoon's body, making him vomit black blood.
A blue light appears from where the creature's eyes should be.
Ji-hoon's black shadow disappears and Ji-hoon's blood turns a normal red.
' Play the video again? '
(Yes) (No)
What the hell? A white light with blue eyes that attacks and kills a man and that man sheds super dark blood and when his shadow disappears the blood returns to normal. What the hell?
Hatoru clicks to repeat the video and pays closer attention this time.
Let's see.
Looking closely he sees that Song Ji-hoon's shadow completely disappears including that of a normal human and that shadow has reddish eyes.
What the hell? Another figure with a color in his eyes? But why is this one seen as a shadow with red eyes and the other one as a white one with blue eyes?
Something is not right, something is super not right, I mean it's impossible for entities to exist right? I mean it would be kind of hard to believe that there are entities that are in the human body.
Hatoru looks into the footage.
But nothing is impossible, after all I have access to see other Timelines and when they are created or stuff that might happen in the future.
The message disappears and another one appears.
[Announcement]
' The fight between Horizon and Toyazo vs Song Ji-hoon will start in 12 hours '
' Anything strange must be quickly examined and resolved '
' First of all you need to check Song Ji-hoon's information which is available in room 256 5th floor '
How annoying to not have the ability to see other people's statuses directly from the chip.
Hatoru gets on the elevator and presses the button for the 5th floor.
I wonder what stats this kid has.
The elevator doors close and it starts to go up.
The more logical question would be, what is that shadow of this kid? It doesn't seem to be a human shadow at all, and the fact that it completely disappeared after Song Ji-hoon's death is even weirder.
The elevator opens on the 5th floor and Hatoru exits the elevator walking towards door 256.
Hatoru puts his finger in the scanning spot and the door makes a clicking sound.
Hatoru enters the room and stands at a table with many monitors.
Let's see where Song Ji-hoon's folder is.
Hatoru looks for the folder titled "Song Ji-hoon" and clicks on it.
A new window opens and then click on "Status.exe".
Let's see.
Ji-hoon's status appears on the screen.
[Song Ji-hoon's information]
Name: Song Ji-hoon
ID Number: 6654
Abilities: Unknown.
Blood type: AABO
Allergies: None
Physical Condition: Perfect
Rank: Class 3
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Previous missions: None
Tech Rank: 6
What? Did he grow in strength that fast? Why can't I see what ability he has?
Hatoru takes a closer look at Song Ji-hoon's blood type and is shocked.
What the hell is AABO? Is there even such a blood type?
Let's see if there is, but I don't think so.
Hatoru searches for this blood type in the organization's folders but finds nothing.
So there really isn't such a blood type, but still why does it appear in Song Ji-hoon's status?
Hatoru was paying attention when suddenly an alert popped up on all the computers, filling the room with a reddish light and a high-pitched error sound.
[Error 404]
' The system will automatically reset itself '
At that moment all monitors shut down leaving the room in complete darkness.
What the hell?
Hatoru pulls out his phone and illuminates the room with his phone's flashlight.
The monitors open but another error appears.
[Corrupted System]
' The system has been corrupted by a virus '
' All files will be restored due to automatic backup'
Hatoru calms down seeing that the system has saved everything and all folders will be reinstalled.
' 17 hours left until finalization '
Hatoru remains silent but nervous after seeing how long he has to wait for the backup to reinstall everything.
What the hell virus corrupted the system? I didn't introduce anything to corrupt the system.
Hatoru gets up from his chair and walks out of the room taking one last look at the monitors which still show the information reinstalling.
[Announcement]
' 12 hours till battle '
' Be prepared to go to the address as there is a long way to go '
A map appears next to this announcement, guiding Ji-hoon to the location set by Alexei.
12 hours, still a little bit until the fight, I'm excited to fight someone. Especially since it's some enemies.
Although Ji-hoon is ready for battle he feels a sting in his chest that makes him fall down.
What's going on?
The black shadow appears in front of Ji-hoon and he trembles before the shadow.
The shadow's eyes glow a bright red and blood drips down the shadow's so-called cheeks.
[Corrupt system]
' System 6827419 '
' Είσαι αδύναμος '
Ji-hoon's heart pounds, feeling a kind of fear that makes him clutch his chest.
What's that hieroglyph?.
Ji-hoon runs out of air and begins to choke.
[Το σύστημα καταστράφηκε]
' Το τσιπ θα επαναρυθμιστεί αυτόματα και η επαναφορά θα διαρκέσει 2 ώρες '
' Να είσαι έτοιμος να κοιμηθείς κάπου ασφαλές '
"What the hell are you?"
The shadow enters Ji-hoon's body and he falls asleep.
"Hey Soo-min, is it true what you said about that dream or were you trying to scare us?"
Soo-min stays silent and keeps walking totally ignoring Min-ji.
"Stop ignoring me, Soo-min!"
"What do I have to bother you for? Why should I tell you if the dream is true or not? Of course it is but you don't believe me like no one else does!"
The others in the group look at Soo-min and Min-ji.
"What's wrong with these girls?"
"I don't know, they're arguing for no reason, let's just keep going."
They keep walking leaving Soo-min and Min-ji to argue.
"Let's drop the subject, whatever it is, let's catch up with the others"
Min-ji walks to the front followed by Soo-min.
Meanwhile at the organization in Japan, Hatoru has an important speech.
"Lately I have encountered some problems that have persisted worse with time so I said to let you know what has happened during this time"
Everyone is eyes and ears to hear Hatoru's announcement.
Hatoru takes an abbreviated break from speaking to take a breath and continues speaking.
"Over the past few days there have been problems with incoming information, an alternate timeline has been created and it bears the name Courage, an odd name especially since no one in our organization has set this number"
They all look strangely at each other and then back at Hatoru.
Ren raises his hand.
"Um, how is that possible?"
"Possibly it's a hacker but clearly not from the year we're in as it looks like this alternate timeline was created in the past or future by someone using a time machine there"
"Can it be fixed?"
A girl asks.
"Yes, we will take swift action from now on and see how we deal with this situation and how we manage it"
"What are our chances of winning?"
Ren asks.
"I don't have statistics on this, one thing is for sure, it's a hacker"
"How do you know?"
Asks the same girl
"When I went to check some information I got an error that reset everything on my computer but luckily I had a backup and everything was saved"
"And how dangerous is this alternate timeline?"
Ren asks.
"It's pretty serious, this alternate timeline will create problems in our original timeline that we live in and there's a chance it will fail because we don't know many details about who this person is and what their purpose is"
Everyone is left silent and terrified at the same time hearing that this action is also likely to affect the original timeline they live in.
"We will try as hard as we can not to escalate the situation into something worse"
Everyone remains silent.
"I will seek more information about this phenomenon and try as much as possible to fix what that person did wrong"
"Okay."
Ren said.
"The discussion is over and thank you all for coming."
Hatoru gets off the stage and walks out a door.
[Announcement]
' Song Ji-hoon '
' His details have been deleted from the database '
What the hell? Who deleted them?
Hatoru runs to the elevator to go up to the 5th floor room 256 again to see what's going on.
He runs up to room 256 and quickly enters there and sees a big error on the screen.
[Corrupted System]
' All backups have been deleted '
A picture materializes on the screen of a time machine.
' Do you know this? '
What the hell is going on?
A high-pitched sound starts and Hatoru runs to turn off the computer but nothing happens so he yanks the cables from the computer.
What the hell happened here? Why were Ji-hoon's details deleted along with the backups?
Hatoru sits in the dark thinking about it.
At that moment Ren enters the room.
"What's dark here, is someone here or?"
Hatoru puts his hand on Ren and Ren freaks out activating his ability by mistake, illuminating the room.
"Hatoru! Why do you want to scare me?"
"I don't want to scare you, you idiot, it's just that there's a lot of trouble here."
" What do you mean? What trouble?"
"All the backups on the computer have been wiped, I don't know if I still have the data stick and even if I did, there's a virus in the components."
"What virus?"
Hatoru slaps Ren upside the head.
"I don't know, believe me I have no idea, but one thing is for sure, someone somehow inserted a virus into the computer that destroyed everything on it and the virus is now circulating through the components"
"Virus running through computer components? Wouldn't that also affect the functionality of our chips?"
At that moment a headache gripped both of them as well as others in the organization.
"Shit..."
In South Korea the situation is worse, including without exception even the team of which Soo-min is a member.
"Why is there this pain?"
Everyone in the group falls to their knees in pain and holds their heads, feeling as if their heads have a little left and explode.
Great footsteps can be heard on the ground which also make it shake and when Soo-min and the others raise their heads they see the monster. Soo-min instantly freezes seeing the monster just like in her dream.
"Is that the monster you were telling us about?"
Yeji asks and tries to run away but stumbles and falls to the ground.
Soo-min says nothing and stands like a stone pillar looking terrified at the monster who smiles broadly at her staring.
Yohan tries his # High Speed # skill but the chip fries his brain and he falls to the ground.
"Don't use your skills or they'll fry our brains!"
Lee Junho shouts and the monster looks at him smiling as grotesquely as he smiled at Soo-min.
The monster stands on all fours just like in Soo-min's dream and approaches Yohan's dead body and devours it in front of them.
Soo-min and the rest stare in horror at the monster eating Yohan.
The monster howls making them cover their ears from the monster's sharp sound.
The monster gives an even more grotesque grin and cuts Yeji quite deeply.
Yeji screams in pain and her costume has been destroyed and toxic gases enter her wounds blocking her airway and blood supply.
Yeji tries to move but can't anymore, blood is dripping everywhere and the monster eats her head and her body falls to the ground.
Everyone else shudders at the sight and the monster looks at them, smiling even wider and more grotesquely as blood drips out of the monster's mouth.
What to do? WHAT TO DO?
Soo-min yells in her mind to herself that she didn't do her best to call off the mission and make everything okay.
WHY DIDN'T I STOP THEM? WHY?
All is lost for Soo-min and the rest of the team, as they watch in horror as the monster approaches them.
...
Ji-hoon gets up from the ground with a pale look and his eyes are completely red and shadowy hands appear behind him.
Kill them all with everything you've got.