COI C36

Somewhere outside the incident, many officers surveyed the area for any clues for the missing deputies. The last contact happened where they are standing right now, not knowing how to get into the secret zone. Few Horsin recruits stand watch while the other available police were around the district patiently waiting for any chance of the suspects to escape. Ruby is there among the force where they waited a so-called explorer. Walking through the dark parts of the streets, moving in with the materials he needed to break through the hidden zone. Many look at him indifferently. His name was random and they say

"The rat" /  "Myrrkei" /  "Professor . . ."

The police force and Ruby were almost given an impression of him until they see his serious face. He almost looks like he is going to kill someone. Ruby and the others don't know why he had that impression and one of them said to him.

"What's with that look?"

Myrrkei look at them angrily

"You'll understand when we opened the realm"

Myrrkei pulled the materials and began working on opening the secret zone. Under a few minutes had past, he opened a portal to the black and white zone without any noise. The police were not ready and they underestimated how he managed to open it that fast.

"How did he managed to open so quickly?"

"This place is notorious of not entering this part of the zone"

Myrrkei didn't act he normally would do but he won’t be wasting time when they about to see. Tonight, he knew what's going to happened after hearing who they are. The shred of a rift coming from the zone heard a woman's scream, Ruby quickly springs into action without any delay. Where the others followed, Myrrkei asks one of them

"How long are they missing?"

"Almost three . . ."

A strong sonic boom coming from the zone where something just happened. Others outside get the shock of the boom and quickly ready themselves.

Myrrkei walked away from the portal that he couldn't face what the citizens never witnessed before. Ruby was there and saw the horrible scene. One of the police officers was torn and cut off one of his limbs. The policewoman tried her best to stop the bleeding with her uniform. She was soak by his blood near half naked

"Please, save him . . . he is not going to make it"

Tears go running down from her cheeks where the others are coming to rescue them. They found a suspect who wears a hoody. Ruby immediately searched for the others in top speed. She found them, but covered in strange blood, blood splattered leading to the manhole, but there is no sign of Ironno.

The police force checks on the suspect, through a thorough investigation from his equipment. He has no device, the ID he has are the same as it was from their home world. No data found on him, but the archive version shows his verification from his IDs. It is certain, this man, among the defectors they couldn’t believe. They came, and he is now here in this infamous zone. The hidden realm of the gangster. Police called HQ

“We found one, please prepared the maximum-security protocol”

After that call, they look again to one of their colleagues covered in blood.

“Oh . . . My . . . GOD!”

Hours earlier, the three are hiding close to the walls in black sight. They see around them with only two colors; black and white. Neither of them can't see nor recognized one another except for the Rusic with his runes. The rune words remained clear and it presented its danger. They heard something behind them, loud and obvious, and they rush toward them while something in front of them are coming. Rusic remained in front tried to hide his runes to make an ambush. U'ecin and Haw reached the people who were following them and tackled them against the wall.

The officers tried to counter them, but Haw already thrown the dust from his alchemist set and blinded them. The policemen lose their control of their mana. They got hit by U'ecin then slam to the wall again. U'ecin leans closer to their necks with his safety suppressed gloves. It was supposed to give contamination when exposed to their flesh.

"I know you are not one of them. How did you managed to get here?"

The young men choke but didn't feel the plague effect of the glove

"Cough* You were on the move for a moment. We have orders to . . ."

Haw's dust kept their powers in check, hurting their focus. Holding one of them quietly put them to the side of the black area. Haw shushes them and replied.

"We already setting in to find your outcasts"

"What?"

"Traitors, I mean defectors, the people who left the city. They come back"

They turned and see the other side of the alleyway where Haw and U'ecin came out from. No sounds over there but a motorbike helmet just rolled by to their direction. The helmet glows the same runes like Rusic's. Rusic came out with three unconscious people. They sigh in relief while Rusic spit out to the wall looking disappointed.

"Heck, You four over there. Stop making noise, we need to hide before more of them come. Strip anything from these younglings before something dangerous will come"

Haw and U'ecin followed him to get the loot. The two officers found a special key from one of the suspects while the Enders continuing to loot them boldly, as in including their clothes. The police want them to stop but they ignored them.

"Sir, hand over the key. We might know how to use it"

Rusic hands it over to them. The officers scanned the key, a UI pops up, and directs them to the secret room. Shadows of unfamiliar people are coming to their direction, they tried to hide the body before they escape. They don't have much time and left them lying unarmed on the ground. The gangs found their friends and help them up. The team and the policemen went to hiding somewhere inside the secret room. To what they opened is like any ordinary room.

One of the officers leaned closer to the window where the gangs bringing their unconscious friends back to somewhere else. Haw softly said to him

"What are you doing? You might get caught"

"Don't worry, secret rooms supposed to be hidden to anyone except to those who are inside. We are safe for now"

Rusic collected many stuffs after he beat them up. U'ecin and Haw had some questions to him from his abilities.

"Rusic, how did you take them down?"

Rusic raised his police baton with the rune words empowering it.

"I did make a good job carving it, but the materials it made couldn't take them down . . ."

Rusic shows his frustration.

He continued

". . . It was kind of handy for me to use their devices as lights if more had come"

The officer complained

"You could bring it with us"

"How so? Once they wake up, it will magically disappear"

He forgot about that, and his partner watched them outside.

"We should follow them to where how our key could access this far"

U'ecin seeing the officer to act professionally where he too stared the defectors moving away from the scene. Haw and Rusic are preparing their equipment and followed them out from the secret room. The two policemen head on first to check any possible route within the building.

Rusic talks to Haw

"Hey lad, did we just get out from the room instead from the building?"

"We are in their realm now, Rusic. Just follow them"

The policemen were doubting to pursue them. The secret key helps them identify this realm so quickly. Most realms are like that, they made it simpler when the item shows them the information.

"Partner? I don't think we could handle this situation"

"I know but . . ."

His inspection eye piece detects unfamiliar items hidden Haw's alchemist set.

". . . Are you going to chase them?"

U'ecin remained silent while following them. His appearance in black and white look intimidating as his eyes covered by the black filters.

They continue to move on in each passing use of the key.

"Hey!"

The policeman asks again. Nothing . . . then they stop.

"I'm not going this far to chase them. Without a proper cooperation here . . ."

His partner looks provoked as they can’t see U'ecin’s eyes. It felt an intimidation for them. Rusic pats U'ecin's back and said

"Hey stop focusing on the target, they are talking about you"

A sudden appearance of U'ecin's eyes looking at the different direction without moving his head. One of them sigh and whispered to his partner.

"Now I know why the black and white gives a deceptive look. We can't differentiate friend or foe"

"Is there anything you want to know?"

U'ecin ask them and quickly turned his eyes back at the defectors. Once his eyes shown in white turned back to black where he changes view to the other person. The zone's tricks put them in the middle of an optical illusion. The policeman changed the subject

"In this zone, we are in the middle of a trap with no escape. I heard one of your friends, you can escape here"

U'ecin turned to Haw and gave him a nod. Haw answered for him

"There is, but you two will be left behind"

Two of them were too committed of their job and starts to regret where they are in.

"I never thought of it that way"

The other policeman gave a pathetic look while the three let them watch their faults. Worried, they ask them

"Do you know how to get us out of here?"

Haw gave an honest reply.

"Your fail safe, can it able you to leave?"

Both of them are getting nervous but remained calm on the outside.

"Not with that hacker"

"Hacker?"

"It's more like a disrupter to our magics"

"Then we can't help you"

Haw said to them in such direct answer where Rusic is carving while walking with the loot they got. U'ecin talks to the policemen

"Seems like you need to take a break. Let me use the key to continue following them"

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"We can't do that. We need to leave . . ."

"I am not here to reason with you"

U'ecin punched the glass and erupt a quiet thud sound. The defectors stop and notice the sound.

"We can manage to escape. How about you?"

The policeman react

"How did those guys heard that soundproof glass . . .?"

The other policeman broke his silent and respond harshly

"Are you mad? If any case that you people would . . . "

He look at U'ecin knowing the dangers and remained unscathed in this situation. That moment where he raised another fist preparing to hit the glass. They immediately throw at him with the key.

He catches it and begins running through the door. The two stay and continue to carve their loot. The policeman asks them

"How do you guys get along in this life-threatening situation?"

Haw and Rusic were in a middle of a conversation

". . . One of the principles of the five mana. That's why your runes managed to hurt them"

"If the baton made with the rune words, then it will be a magic weapon . . . Hey I hear some sad drunken sounds"

Rusic respond the blurred question from the police. He repeats

"I said how you three worked together like this. The old man just run off without you guys"

Rusic watched them sit down where both of them had some bad omen in their mind.

"It's more Horsin culture than you think, you little lads"

Haw holds a guide of carvings and help Rusic to make guidelines after he carved the others. The police where confused

"Culture? you what he did is culture"

"It's more like we don't like you"

"What!?"

His partner stops him and understand what the dwarf said.

"Do you remember? The demon girl warned us before inviting them to our city"

The policeman stops and can't figure it out. Haw remained quiet on this topic and expecting Rusic to tell him. Rusic didn't like his obvious ignored face and told them.

"The world had many histories of Exodus, where many lives entered this world but never leave. You may not understand it but the most common other worlder entered this world during ‘the heroes and demons’ era or what it was truly called as the invasion"

Both of them don't have any idea what history in this world. They hope that the dwarf made it simpler as he continued.

"Same as you people, people entered to this world with no idea why. Until it reached to the fall era, to make it brief, all people entered to this world were had evil intentions. More like soon to happen, do you understand?"

Haw had enough of Rusic's brief explanation. He is just adding more opened questions than a story being driven by a mad rusic

"There are people who aren't have the same humanity than you"

The two policemen focus on Haw where he should be easier to understand.

"Like I said, we are more of a failed civilization. Your ways already proven to be a better city, but you will soon involve our world's problems. If you know everyone in this continent, it will help you understand that you must succeed to leave. Because, the previous other worlders had caused dark time from the brink of their own successes”

Haw gives his finished layout guidelines to Rusic

"Thanks lad, it's better you’re to experiencing it for yourself. You know how weird our world is, isn't it?"

The policemen checked their devices showed their signals are out of reached. Seeing there are still needed improvement but they witnessed so much from the past month. First were the new devices then the combination between magic and technology, and so on

"Every day, we had seen what we never thought was possible, where everyone who are interested about this world after what they made. Either it’s from the tournament to the demands of valuable resources or the solutions this city made for improvement . . ."

Rusic look at them as they are too new and opened about it, they only thing they could understand them as foreigners seeing the new world. ". . . Or maybe because we thought to live easier here than back to our own world"

Again those lines, It's the same motive but different reasons. Rusic and Haw knew about other worlders with weak motives to leave, even the world turned into an apocalypse. They are still willing to stay, oh what the world they are living in. Rusic said to them

"Neither did we knew why they want to stay here nor why the ancients let it happened"

"Ancients?"

The policemen questioned about it. Rusic continued on

"You know that elves and demons lived longer and witnessed this world's sufferings. We dwarves lived thousands of years but to them when my ancestors came here, they lived beyond that. I was born after the fall, probably 80+ years old . . . Heck, I don't even need to remember my age"

Haw didn't bother to know why the world become like this. More so to the other survivors to stop thinking about it, it was written in the very beginning when many race did entered this world freely. They soon take a break until U'ecin returned with an urgent news.

"We need to go back"

"Really now? I . . ."

"Be quiet Rusic, You two! did you have someone with you when you got here?"

"Yeah . . . Wait! Is she in the zone too?"

U'ecin throws them the secret key as they rushed back to get her. Haw throw away the things he is doing and followed them. Rusic stays and said to U'ecin

"Are you not joining them?"

"Waiting for a short moment then I'll go"

Rusic raised his eye brows for what he is about to hear. U'ecin made himself think what he saw then he said to him

"Have you seen a crazed debauchery between men?"

Rusic's runes from all over him started to glow and the heat grew on his armor.

Rusic stands up and just walked away. U'ecin never seen his runes erupt by him saying it. Then he himself followed them after. Reaching close to where they were before the zone to appear. The police stop and saw her lie down on the ground, they tried stealthily moved towards her. They immediately saw something shocking. The two suspects are almost getting on the streets. Their silence wasn't concealed and the other suspect noticed them. He shouted in disappointed

"FUCK!"

and disappeared while the other suspect sitting next to the wall. They quickly apprehend him and checked their partner.

"Hey wake her up, pulled out the med kits to wake her up"

She screams as she about to wake up and one of them shut her mouth.

"We are still within the zone . . ."

In the middle of the conversation the policewoman, half naked, is warning them that the other suspect reappeared behind them. The suspect returned and kick one of the policemen's head. Knock backing him against the wall, the other partner managed to withstand the other blow. The policeman saw the suspect, a woman and only wearing a lingerie. The policewoman tried to pick up her things and hide somewhere else to get dress.

"What is that sexy looking . . . I mean freeze"

The woman looks seductive as she looks disappointed, with annoyed expression where she bit her lips. Daring to fight in her underwear and he could see is a fine-looking black lingerie. He took her first punch and parry it with his arms, she quickly used her other hand to grab on the nuts, and his face says it all and her grip was fierce. The policeman's uses the blink ability and breakaway her grip. She was annoyed by that trick

"Fucking gamer"

and the policeman shouted his partner

"Hey, pick yourself up and do something"

His partner was knocked out cold where he was hit on the neck like the policewoman.

She forced herself to grab him by the arm mended both their arms together. She used her left hand holding his right hand, now holding hands together, she committed directly attacking closely. The policeman lifts her up and slam her to the ground, he holds her down by using her arm into submission. He grappled her down, she didn't expect it and continue in the bind. Haw reached to the crime scene seeing people on the ground.

"HEY! help me with this will you"

The policeman felt her arm faded where his grappled broke free. The woman escapes by disappearing again.

Haw pulled out a flask and throw the fluid out of it to the air. The Fading body returned to her physical form and he tried to grab her. She landed on the ground while Haw tries to get the hold of her neck. She easily broke it off and throw him against the wall. The policeman followed it up and brought out his taser and shoots her. A strong current flow through her and put her down. Haw forced himself up and pulled out another flask then poured out on to her. Her body solidifies and felt the full volts of the taser. The taser automatically stops when the target is unconscious, and the policeman kept pressing it.

Haw got injured and prepared himself a potion, and made only a weaker quality. The police woman reappeared from the shadow looking at the situation.

"Relief* Thanks for coming guys, I should have leave sooner"

The policeman turned to his partners. It was not good for them to stay longer because of how bad the conditions were. The woman remained conscious and didn't move, Haw slowly moving after that hit, he forgets that he is facing an Isekai citizens. That woman managed to take him down without any struggle. He felt he was overwhelmed by the moment of contact.

Haw took the other suspect's hoody and cover the woman. Once he taken off the suspect's hoody, he looks at the woman in disgust without any complaint where she fighting in her underwear. He sees the other suspect traumatized for some reason. The policewoman shouted at her

"What an indecent woman are you? Nearly naked and go beat up a police officer"

Her partner busy tending the other policeman as time is not in their favor. Noise of a fight coming from the other side as they forgot they are in the zone. The policewoman opens up her sub inventory and pulled out a cover. She had only one and placed it on to the other suspect lying next to the wall.

The suspect lost his hoody was already paralyzed and her med kit was gone. She thought it was him who used it and said

"Using public service resource, it will be added to your case"

The man was covered and he disappeared. The other policeman didn't have any covers for the woman as they already used it from the previous scene. The policeman had to carried his partner and told her

"We need to go"

He throws a secret key to her while Haw throw some powder to the upcoming people behind them. She used the key and pulled the woman with them. The policeman reacted

"Are you going to bring her too?"

his partner replied

"Do you want her getting ganged up by them?"

The policeman face turned red and flustered with an almost grin happening on his face. She continued

"This is not porn you idiot"

"Sorry!"

Haw focused down on the woman where he checks her face. A quick smudge writing on her forehead, he finished it and it disappeared. The woman felt it. He carried her up on his shoulder where her butt cheeks were big and satisfying to see for the policeman. Policewoman saw him carried her

"Thank you, we should . . ."

Magic missiles fired to their direction and she got hit. She felt a bump and knock her down, Haw pulled her up while getting barrage by other magic projectiles

"Alright, alright let's move"

The powder managed to weaken the projectiles, but still strong enough to feel the force. Haw bear it all while they escape. Either be the gang or the defectors were aiming at them where the powder should cover their view. They didn't know that the two who were supposed to follow them where not yet seen until now. The suspect was hidden and protected by the cover, and only the officials will find him. The police managed to escape along with the woman. Now the incident of the noise was there and the previous suspects running are going back and check it. Reaching where the fight starts, they found something strange.

The gang member called to their leader through their device

"Boss, we found another one of our gangs, beaten, and lost their stuff as before . . ."

"Uh huh, regroup with the others"

"Okay I could do that"

The police watch the people outside from the secret room where they repeat like last time. U'ecin and Rusic were on the other side of the secret room after looting new targets. Haw placed the woman down on the ground and look at the scene outside. The gangs pulled one of their men up and saw their backs shred apart. He heard them said

"How did they know about this place?"

"I knew the special zones were not worth it. They somehow know about the keys"

“You idiot, those keys are giving guide about this place, remember?”

“Then why did they give notification like that so easily”

“Like those motherfuckers know about these other world thing shit”

“Shut up! They have our keys, but they still don’t have the portal to the other realms. We can still escape”

“Or be humiliated just like the others got beaten up by two people”

The gangs hurriedly leaving this place before more ambushes coming. They are annoyed how the same route they go to get ambushed. They heard the police from the outside are searching there. It won’t last long as the last secret realm was exposed under several hours.

The man who got shreded by Rusic or U'ecin gave a clue for Haw. Haw looks at the woman, who he smudged her head, it should be easy for them to find her again if she escapes. The fluid that he poured on her is drying up, it will be a matter of time she will break loose. He first checks on the people below and read the message. A risky decision they made for themselves and were everyone gathered in this empty rooms. The policewoman called him

"Hey, let's get going"

Haw carried the woman to an unsuspecting corner, the police went ahead as the knocking by the window where the gangs are searching for them.

He dropped her down for a moment at the hallway and look at her in her eyes awake. She acted disgruntled for being paralyzed after the taser, she couldn't believe how they are confident with their weapons. Haw turned to look at the police leaving opened up another door, he told her

"I don't know how powerful you are or why you are like this . . ."

He gave a piece of cloth soak with unknown colored moisture on her shoulder

". . . I only know you are not one of them . . ."

She looks at him surprised and he noticed on her expression.

". . . That look of yours, already giving away. We might not see each other, but you will meet my people. Remember to tap your forehead every time they questioned you"

The police woman called out to Haw again

"What are you doing? Come here or . . .!"

Haw was alerted and throw a pouch where the magic projectiles appeared. The bag exploded and the person caught by the explosion. Haw carried her again and run as fast as he can while still in pain. The woman sees the person getting caught by the blast where his body melted together with it. Shards of crystals appeared and with the man trying to break free but sinks or melts in a deforming way. The woman was shock as someone is being deform by some powder

"What the actual fuck? What did you do to him?"

The people who are behind the crystal wall were breaking through, with every strike they did, it just pushing it to their direction than shattering as a whole. When Haw reached the door and people behind him kept pushing forward where the crystals won't break. He got to the door where they teleported to another room, he whispered to woman

"You didn't kill me, then I won't kill you"

She gulped down from her throat, Haw placed her down and offered some water. He nursed her with her face looking afraid than being grateful. The police continue to take care of each other where the police man ordered his partner.

"Hey, take care with the woman. I don't like some guy doing with her"

The policewoman ignore the signs of a pervert and followed his orders. Haw changed places with her and prepared to wake up the other policeman. The policewoman began to sustain her by handcuffing and said

"As a police officer . . ."

She opens up her device and check on her.

". . . no records found, just like before. This means you are a defector too"

The woman is getting hold off than before, with the fluids washed off or dried out, she began to move again. She looks at Haw and planning to take him down first, while being hold up, it would be easy for her to break free.

The policewoman finished holding her down, she asks her partner.

"We have a problem here, this woman is one of them who left the city"

"In this zone, most people are. She already beat one of our partners here"

The woman watching them talk and Haw preparing a remedy for the other policeman. It was her time to escape, and Haw then turned to see her then nodded at her. Just one head down with a serious look. She decided to stop and waits, he knew and more to her expectation. Haw kept his eyes on her momentarily. Her face is slowly forming back to his actual face without knowing.

Haw look at her and rub his face then turned back to the police. She looks down and saw her face was melting then quickly fix it. The woman can't describe how she felt or what he felt, that kind of persona made him should be enticing for him. Yet as a man facing a dangerous man with the things he did. The crystal wall with someone stuck to it, made him afraid. If he did kill the attacker, then he will be like that man from before. The man in a woman form made him think more than he should. When there is a time they might meet, he would probably be friends with him. The gamble of the male sex offender.

The gangs failed to reach them, and their actual first action was breaking free the man who was crystallized as he charged them. Comparing the ambushes until now, they shouldn't have underestimate them. The man's body was gone, merging together with the crystal shards. The crystal remained solidified where they tried to figure it out. An unknown man covered his face comes in and gives a nasty response.

"ARGH! NOW YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED!"

The man pointed out the crystal as he uses his own bare hand to compress it. Once compressed, the remains were literally gone but the crystal was formed. The covered man said to them

"How does it feel to see someone died like this?"