“Whew, that was a nice sweat breaker.” Coming out of the Battlezone, Angelina flexed her legs and stretched her arms. Finished adjusting her muscles, she went back over to where Mawol was. “So how did I do? You’re not mad that I destroyed your robot are you?”

“No, how could I be? You did fantastic out there, the battle data that I’ve collected will help improve my future inventions drastically.” Mawol interacted with the slim tablet device in his hand before setting it aside on a counter. “By the way, I forgot to mention a new feature that I’ve added to your suit.”

“New feature?” Angelina looked slightly startled. “What’s that?”

“Come here, let me show you.” Angelina got closer to Mawol, he told her to turn around and positioned himself at her rear. “Right here below the nape of your suit are two switches; a Self-Disabler-Switch and a Self-Changer-Switch. Press this one and see what happens.”

“O-okay.” Angelina motioned her hand to the back of her neck, she used 4 of her fingers to apply pressure to the Self-Changer-Switch. Moments later, she felt like a burden had been lifted off her shoulders. The battle suit lit up, moreover, it began crumbling into section pieces which eventually disappeared inside of the Self-Changer-Switch. For a brief interim, Angelina was completely naked save for her underwear. Seconds later, a new set of threads came out of the Self-Changer-Switch and covered her exposed flesh. Now she was wearing a regular blue and white long-sleeve shirt with a hood along with dark sweatpants.

“Hey, did the battle suit just change into regular threads? This is so cool.” Angelina went over to an area in the workspace that had a mirror and stared at herself in amazement. “How many designed does it have?”

Mawol went over beside the mirror. “For now that’s the only one. But If you want to add more thread designs you can always install them by using this Thread Modeller Kit.” He gave her a one-foot-tall transparent cylindrical device. “Remember that the suit is powered by Ghoul Souls, so as long as you have them in supply you can always replenish its damages. Assuming that the core switches are intact. If the Self-Changer-Switch along with the Self-Disabler-Switch is destroyed then the suit will lose all functionality.”

“I understand, thanks a lot. So what does the other switch do.?” Asked Angelina.

“The Self-Disabler-Switch just terminates the suit’s functionality temporarily.”

“Oh, I see. So if I wanted to take a shower I could just hit the Self-Disabler-Switch and my clothes will become undone.”

“Basically yes. The suit will revert back to its original state which is just a common Ghoul Chip. The chip is also waterproof so you’ll have no problem showering with it equipped.”

“Is that so? Not bad old bro, I can see that your Ghoul Engineering skills are drastically improving. Keep it up.” Angelina bumped her fist on Mawol’s shoulder playfully.

Mawol chuckled. “Thanks, A.J, I appreciate the compliment. If you want more cool stuff in the future continue bringing me more high-quality Ghoul Souls.”

“Don’t worry, old bro I’ll never forget about you. You’re my best pal after all.” Said Angelina smilingly.

“Best pal?” Mawol blushed. “Oh, before I forgot…” Mawol walked by Angelina towards another counter and picked up a Glowing Motors Cube. “I finished repairing your Motors Cube a while ago moreover, I made some few upgrades. Do you want to have a test ride now?” he asked while handing over the Motors Cube to Angelina.

“No that is enough testing for now. Night is already outside and I promised my step-mom that I would return early.” Angelina placed her items inside her bag. “Okay, I’ll be going now. Take care of yourself.”

“You too A.J.” Mawol watched as Angelina exited her workspace and walked towards the exit.

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The door slide opened, Angelina came out and was met by the guard robot. “Leaving so soon Miss Julie? Did you have a fun time with the boss?”

Angelina glared at the guard robot. “What the hell are you talking about Rust Bucket? Shut your trap before I toss you in the can, get that?” Angelina spat at the robot then walked away.

“Please come again, Miss Julie!” Said the guard robot. When she disappeared from its sight, its expression became dark and cold as it whispered: “I dare you to speak that way to me again when next we meet.”

Angelina didn’t hear the robot’s last sentences, otherwise, she would have flipped her switch and beat the bolts out of its ass. By that time, she was already outside of the huge residential complex.

The city was very pretty and bustling at night. Huge skyscrapers were all around, some had billboards along with colourful monitors which depicted visual advertisements. A lot of ground and aerial vehicles were travelling back and forth.

Angelina was peeved at the scenery around her. “Uh, I hate when they are so many people around. They’re like a large colony of ants. What a disgusting sight.” Angelina formed a disgusted expression as she went off into the crowd.

On her way back home, Angelina was conversing with herself. “Maria is probably still up worrying about me. I don’t know why she pretends to care so much though. She only married my father for his resources and made sure to have his baby to lack him down. Most women are the same, they are only capable of pretend love, trying to make the lie their truth.”

“So what about Bradnoyd? Do you despise him?” Angelina’s inner self asked her.

“Of course not! Brad is my father’s child after all and my half-brother. Even if he wasn’t I still wouldn’t hate him. But Maria is a different case, I can’t trust her. I know she’s after something, call it a lady's intuition.” Answered Angelina.

“Then, for now, we should just play along with her games until we know what she’s after.”

“I agree. Huh?” Angelina was only 600 meters away from her home when she realized that she was being followed. She changed her trajectory and went in the direction of a nearby park. “I wonder who it could be.”

Arriving in the centre of the park, Angelina stopped moving, glanced into the nearby forestry and shouted: “Show yourself!” A vague silhouette came out from behind a tree, rushing towards Angelina without any form of warning.

“Huh, it’s attacking me head-on?” Angelina was startled for a bit but she quickly regained her composure. “Alright then, come at me!” Angelina flashed forward, already holding her dark blade.

“Hm, that’s…?” The vague silhouette paused after seeing the dark blade then smirked and continued advancing. “I finally found you.”

“What?” Angelina didn’t understand what the vague silhouette was saying. “It finally found me?” she slashed at the vague silhouette’s chest, hoping to injure it but her heart skipped a beat when the vague silhouette just suddenly vanished. “Where did it go?”

The vague silhouette reappeared behind Angelina, throwing out a kick of much intensity. Angelina got blasted 10 metres away, rolling over the grass like a rubber ball, and her blade fell out of her grasp. She held her side and coughed slightly.

“That almost hurt. Good thing I had this battle suit equipped. Old bro said that it could withstand over 500 pounds of force.” Angelina found her footing again, she stared at the vague silhouette who was grasping her dark blade.

“Return!” the dark blade suddenly trembled, in addition, it flew out of the vague silhouette grasped and returned to its mommy.

“Oh, I forgot that it could do that.” said the vague silhouette after witnessing the dark blade flying back to its master.

“You! Who the hell are you and what do you want with me?” Angelina was a little bit scared of the vague silhouette because apparently, it could teleport. ‘How can it do that?’

Hearing Angelina’s question, the vague silhouette grinned then pulled back its hooded cloak. A yellowish hair became apparent on the vague silhouette’s head. The moonlight shined on its face, slowly revealing its countenance.

“Huh, you’re…?” Angelina gasped in astonishment when she laid eyes on the no longer vague silhouette’s face. “Rat-boy!”

Resotnero vanished, reappearing within breathing distance of Angelina. Because of her fright, she fell flat on her bottom. Resotnero took advantage of this to pin her on the ground.

“Hey, what the hell are you trying to do? Get off me!” Angelina struggled to free herself from Resotnero’s grapple but failed. She resorted to her only option. By sucking in a mouthful of air, she screamed out at the top of her lungs:

“RAPE! SOMEBODY HELP! RAPE!” Angelina’s scream travelled far and wide, some people heard her scared voice and began rushing in the park’s direction.

A man who was walking by with his friends flicked out his pocket knife and they started rushing over to where the park was. “Which sick bastard is trying to commit rape within my community?!”

“Let’s go cut off that son of a bitch ball sack and feed it to my dogs!”

“Yeah make sure he can’t ever have any rapist descendants!!”

“Come on! There is a damsel in distress that needs our help!” A lot of people started converging at the park’s location.