Darzarh is known for various reasons. Its city lights never turn off, even during daylight; which is strange to many. The numerous streets intertwining in-between its small buildings seem to have at least more than two ways to go around and it's easy to get lost. As a matter of fact, in every street corner, there is a reference map with a red bullet point telling where the person is in Darzarh. It also abided a special absence from policial force as Darzarh is a district infamous for its criminal activities to the point the police couldn't infiltrate as much as they wanted, despite being numerous attempts of this, it never ends well for the policial force.

Mainly speaking, life to this district comes at night, unlike any other. Preparations for every night are taken with caution and there isn't a night when this isn't the case. Each corner of its streets and strictly speaking; its main long streets---are decorated by tall electric pillars of red-colored lamps with a strong resemblance to Chinese red lanters, the vast difference being that instead of being lanters, they are lamps with flying engines to them, so they can reach the night sky and flutter around although never for once can they go beyond a certain point as a measure for them to not go out of control.

Amalgan in general holds the population of 35 million, and 5 million of those people were inside Darzarh; making it the second biggest district in Amalgan when it comes to population alone. Each street in Darzarh roughly contains at least 40% of its residents in them at night, causing a constant flood of people in Darzarh's streets. It is, practically impossible, to not be around a single person in Darzarh at night. The side streets intertwining in-between the corners of each building are full of people as well. It's by no means something that doesn't sleep, but one that refuses to sleep.

Christmas was right around the corner but around a week or so was still up for the wait. Although an event definitely anticipated, it wasn't a reason for prior inactivity to such an event. Still, those Christmas alike events were usually celebrated on the main streets with a seemingly no end to them. Such was not the case in halleys, which, Darzarh has what seems to be, infinite of them. Through one, another is created and so on. Each of those alleys are painted with a dark obscurity to them as they always lack solar light or any light at all as the lamps are primarily placed on the main streets. In addition, they are not half-as clean as the main streets; piles of unkept garbage stock up to no end in them, sexual activities are conducted shamelessly, robbery, rape, killing, and even kidnapping, are common occurrences in the alleys of Darzarh.

What is not a common occurrence is the sight that a group of 5 rapists caught during that night. Not one, but three girls were being raped by them; one against the slimy wall covered in graffiti, one slamming the other with a kama sutra, as the other three took turns on the remaining girl, who was slightly prettier than the other two. Their attention quickly turned around to a whole new point as a bombastic landing occurred right in a dumpster a few meters to the right.

"Shit, what?!" Surprised by the sudden noise, one of the rapists quickly turned around towards the dumpster as the rest also saw a gigantic throne in the middle of all the pile of garbage "...Ughhh...." Daniel, nauseous from the impact let out a soft complain as he was yet absorbing the fact that he was warped elsewhere "...This shit has to stop happening...." He further complained, now opening his eyes up to their full potential, seeing what was happening.

Eight eyes in total were on Daniel, and after seeing the scenery, Daniel was confused by what he wanted to do. He quickly relived all of what had happened before he was warped here and came to realize something. Thus, he didn't move from the throne, checked if something was in his pocket, and only after checking if it was there, did he start his idea.

"Who're you? Haven't seen you around these corners..." One of the rapists put out his dick from the girl he was raping and the girl let out a relief sound as she came into contact with the ground after being released against the wall "Hey." Another rapist put tracks to his drive and spoke to the other three who were ganging up on a single girl to come with them "...Fuck off, man, I don't wanna! Deal with him! Ain't no way I'm letting go, shit she's damn tight!" The one who was using the girl the most declined "Fuck you, bitch! When I'm done I'm gonna..........Aaaa......" The response became meek as the amount of blood within that person rapidly grew thin, as his body fell on the floor.

Not only that, but the other rapist quickly fell subsequently.

"Yo, what?!" The other three finally became alerted, as Daniel was trembling with nervosity in his throne, hoping that the process would be quicker "...." The brain box quickly became almost full and now the targets of the black lines switched from the now dead three rapists to the closest girls, as Daniel continued to absorb all of the stored blood onto his own body via the throne; with a limitless grin on his face---his eyes closed as he enjoyed it to the maximum.

After absorbing as much blood as he could, Daniel opened his eyes and scouted the perimeter. He caught sight of the skinned out rapists, and as for the other girls, although Daniel regretted their deaths, they were beyond saving. Thus, he left the throne, emerged from the pile of dumpster garbage all the way down below. He stretched his head back a little, rejoicing the amount of vitality he was feeling and felt euphoric. On his way out of the halley, he passed through two girls who were skinned out, and Daniel looked at them.

"That was dumb..." He expressed his regret upon seeing their bodies which were practically naked from the previous rapists "Would they let me join if I had asked...?" Daniel pondered as he now crossed the remaining girl that was being gangbanged by three of them "...No, wait, where am I? HEY, YOU GOTTA STOP DOING THIS SHIT! THIS AIN'T FUNNY, I CAN'T JUST TAKE THE DAMN SUBWAY AND HOPE TO GET BACK TO----" Daniel shouted angrily towards the unresponsive throne but realized that he was being chased out by a number of people and thus, he kneeled down and started to tremble "O-Oh God..." His knees trembled as well as he grew hopeless "I'm fucked, I can't even go back... Shit, all of this shit started to happen after I ate that brain and---" Something caught the attention of Daniel.

A seemingly lifeless body was looking at Daniel with her body on the floor although very weak. It was right on Daniel's right side as he was kneeling down and Daniel caught a sight of her eyes, semi-open, looking at Daniel.

"...." Daniel doubted for a second and attempted to reach with his right hand at her eyes to check whether or not something would happen "NO!" A loud shout came from her as she slapped Daniel's hand with all of her might as she quickly retreated with her back against the wall "AH, WHAT THE FU---" Daniel agonized over the overwhelming pain he felt in his hand.

The girl that possessed long free black hair with a tidy fringe, covering her eyebrows and only highlighting her eyes, covered her pale skin and mainly her body parts---her chest with her two arms and her vagina with her legs as she cowered in a reserve way as a way to protect herself while keeping an eye on Daniel; trembling with fear.

"AHHHH..." Daniel further agonized as he was not expecting it "MOTHERFUCKER, HOLY SHIT, THAT HURTS!" He was seriously in a world of pain, even his eyes were closed and midst this, the girl went for a knife that one of the rapists was holding as she wanted to stab Daniel with it.

Now with the knife in her grip, she got up; although relatively meekly and with a reluctant hesitation in her movements---holding the small knife with her two frail hands towards Daniel, who was no longer agonizing but now looking at somewhere outside of the knife, even if his eyes were looking in the direction of her knife.

"Wow." Daniel simply said as his eyes opened to their full potential "GO AWAY. NOW!" She demanded with tears running down on her face as she slowly threatened Daniel with the knife "...." Daniel felt the threat immediately and got up with his hands on the air, slowly backing off "...Is this fine...?" Daniel asked "NO! I SAID, GO AWAY! WHAT PART OF THAT DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!" She shouted, angry at Daniel for not completely disappearing from her sight, this time swinging the knife even closer to Daniel's body "....Um..." Daniel grew nervous as he didn't want to put her in a further bad mood but had something to ask, regardless, he didn't ask "Alright, bye." Daniel turned his back at went north.

Relieved now that Daniel was out of her sight, she curled down and began to unleash a loud series of tears, screaming in pain after what she had gone through. She also mourned her two friends who were now dead, unknowingly. The last thing she wanted right now was for someone to see her. And much to her dismay, he came back.

Through her arms, she caught sight of Daniel, who had a very nervous expression.

"...What..." She let that out, slightly baffled "...Um... M-Mind telling me something?" He meekly asked but as soon as he did, she took ahold of the knife on her right and threatened him again "GO AWAY, I SAID!" This time, she went for his chest, but Daniel intercepted it with the palm of his right hand, allowing it to pierce all the way "AGH! FUCKING HELL! LOOK, I JUST WANNA KNOW WHERE I AM! ANSWER ME QUICK AND I'LL GO!" Daniel didn't hesitate this time around as his eyes began to close due to the pain he was feeling from the stab "A-AH... S-Sorry.........." She regretted it and apologized, unknowingly "......" She took a moment of silence to recapture the reality and then said "Darzarh--" As Daniel heard that, he immediately took out his open palm from the knife "THANKS!" He thanked her loudly, quickly exiting the scene.

This wasn't the first time this had happened to Daniel, so he took this moment to find a way around this. He ventured towards the north side and from there on out, he took three ways to the left, two ways to the right and found himself nearing some illumination.

Midst that, Daniel also realized something. He realized that the girl should have died from his power, but she didn't. This confused Daniel for a moment as he stopped to think about why this was the case.

"My guess is that the box accumulated enough blood to the point where it wasn't necessary to absorb it any further..." He claimed "So, she got lucky, essentially." He claimed even further "I just need to find a new way to..." Daniel wanted to retreat back to his original district, but knew that he was being chased "Why am I being chased...?" He asked himself, in an angry tone "But well, if I'm homeless now, I'm not bound to any place..." Daniel looked at the starry sky with countless stars in them and pondered his options.

However, one option remained supreme to all the others for Daniel, as he knew that asserting his financial situation would prove advantageous to himself.

"I could've at least asked her---No, no way she'd let me..." Daniel let out a small comment before making his way to the center of Darzarh.

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Daniel had infiltrated an area of Darzarh known as the "Grand Mars" otherwise described as the entire street that one could go in and out of Darzarh; should anyone enter from the beginning and follow all of it up---containing roughly 80 kilometers---then it's possible to exit Darzarh. Although, no one in their sane mind would attempt this feat. Grand Mars had something that no other district had, and it immediately caught the attention of Daniel who was stunned just by looking at all the facilities that had such advertisements.

"I think I'm finally understanding just exactly what Darzarh is all about..." Daniel said as a brutal number of people passed through him, with a grin on his face.

But nevertheless, Daniel continued to travel onward, as what he was looking at, didn't collide with his goal at all; at least not as of now. Through the Grand Mars, there were no side-roads. Furthermore, no cars nor bycicles are commonly seen. Not only is it counterproductive, but there usually isn't any space to circulate with a car, even though the Grand Mars exerts over 50 meters in width. The Grand Mars is strictly for pedestrian use only; however, there is an electric chain of aerial electrics. They are above 500 meters from the Grand Mars and are used for those who want a rather exquisite triip through the Grand Mars as the view is magnificent; especially in night time.

All the buildings within the Grand Mars are covered in red and there is, almost no exception to this. In addition to that, all the light lamps emit a red light instead of the usual solar-light-alike illumination commonly seen. Every five meters, there is a pillar with five lamps subsequently placed in a vertical order all the way to the top; on each side of the Grand Mars. If all the lamps in total were to be counted, the number would easily go beyond at least ten thousands.

After a couple of minutes of walking, Daniel found something akin to what he was looking for in the first place. He secretly took out the contents of his right pockets; double-checked them, and only after asserting a big portion of confidence within himself, did he take a turnover to the left side and walked in; immediately causing a bell to ring from both sides as he walked in.

Daniel's confidence practically vanished the moment he walked in; which was also the moment he wanted to walk out right away. The place he had bargained into was a small hin with a cranky staircase of three steps to it. The floor was mundane to say the least as the brown color to it was mixed with weird-looking chemicals. There were no waiting tables, but instead a large snooker table on the right accompanied with a dart border on the wall to the right side as well. All of which, barely seemed functionable.

Mainly speaking, there would be a reception desk on the front side, while on the left side, there would be plenty of valuable objects with price tags to them. Naturally, they were all expensive, but what freaked Daniel out was the actual nature of those objects. Thus, without making his presence be completely known, Daniel attempted to walk away.

"Welcome." The receptionist welcomed Daniel from the desk with his cigarette on his mouth "....I got the wrong place..." Daniel further attempted to make his way out, but he left those words with him; causing the receptionist to pause his cigarette on the smoking mini-table within his desk "I don't think so, pal. Nobody walks in my place without wanting something." Daniel gulped "...But I don't think what I have is in your line of---" The receptionist walked up to Daniel who had a strong grip on the doorhold "Shut up and show me what you got." He demanded, now completely close to Daniel.

Beneath his dark-blue hat with a long frontal, medium-length blonde hair could be seen alongside his powerful blue eyes. His skin was a mixture of fair and tan; not too fair neither too tan--the ideal balance in-between. His height was slightly taller than Daniel and he wore a pair of blue jeans with a medium-length black jacket; roughly treated sports shoes of black and blue as a finisher. His voice was powerful and not meek; contrasting Daniel's.

"...Hold on." Daniel halted as he wanted to say something, so he manouvered himself to the back of the door "...Are those for sale?" Daniel pointed at a specific object within a confined capsule with liquid inside; the object floating in it "Beat it, pal. Show me, I know from experience that people like you just want money and you're here for that, aren't you? Go on, show it to me." This time, the receptionist further demanded and Daniel presented the contents of his right pocket "Figured it would be something below my interest..." The receptionist expressed bore as he examined each one of them carefully "I told you it would be below your line of interest..." Daniel murmured, making sure that he wasn't heard "Shut it. So, how much?" After he was done, he launched that question to Daniel.

Daniel was surprised because he didn't think that he would get that type of offer, considering what the store has for sales. He thought for a bit and then made his call.

"A thousand dollars for all." He considered the expenses that he wanted to take into account and opted for a quantity of money that would not only suffice but leave plenty left "That's a good one." He chuckled "Now, the real deal." He demanded, leaving Daniel confused "No, that's it. A thousand." Daniel said, dead-serious, making the receptionist silent for two seconds before unleashing a massive loud laugh at Daniel's face "What a riot! These don't even reach a hundred! And that's a reach! A REACH!" He slammed his right closed fist onto the reception desk "....." Daniel became mad as he was mocked.

Silently, feeling laughed at, Daniel took the contents, or attempted to do so, but the receptionist didn't allow him, as he snatched them away.

"HEY! THOSE ARE MINE---" Daniel's shout was interrupted with a firm grip onto his jaw by the receptionist's left hand "Zip it, pal. Let me tell you something, these are fake! It's easy to think that you have real gold in your hands but these are simply painted with gold paint... Who the hell do you think you are if you think you can walk in my damn store and demand a thousand for shit like this?!" He further tightened the grip on Daniel's jaw "Give them back...!" Daniel didn't quite give up despite the pressure as he wanted his contents back "..." The receptionist held the grip a bit longer but let go after two seconds, allowing Daniel to breathe normally again as he curled down in recovery.

The receptionist took another look at the contents on the desk, but this time with a pair of round glasses covered in hard red steel, that he pulled off from below the desk.

"What?!" He shouted, gaining Daniel's attention "These rings...!" He couldn't believe his sight "But they are fake, so how..." He continued to make blank comments as Daniel jumped to the desk "Did you find some value in them, after all?" Daniel just had to ask "..." The receptionist took out his glasses, placed them below the desk and addressed Daniel "Name." He said "What?" Daniel didn't understand "I said, give me your damn name." He explicitly said this time, to the confused Daniel "Oh... Well... Daniel." Daniel reluctantly said, covering his head, looking down below "Kyle's the name." Kyle added "So, Daniel, let's make some business." Now suddenly interested, Kyle wanted to do business.

Daniel found this odd but didn't exactly know why Kyle found a sudden interest, so he attempt an idea.

"What're those glasses for? You know, the ones---" Kyle interrupted Daniel as he saw through his idea "No way, pal. You want money or not?" Kyle shot a spear of truth to Daniel as he knew that Daniel was definitely desperate for some money "I do... But I need at least 500 dollars..." Daniel double-downed his initial offer as he knew that it wouldn't work "No can do, Daniel. Maximum of maximums, I can do a few 200 dollars, and that's out of pity." Kyle mildly chuckled "Oh come on, man! I'm homeless and I'm desperate for money! You gotta help me out, Kyle!" Daniel finally decided to beg for some help "Desperate for money? How did that happen? Did you waste it all on hookers here?" Kyle asked "...Not yet..." Daniel murmured but this didn't go underheard by Kyle "So that's your plan." He simply said "No, I---" Daniel attempted to refute "No, no, you simply don't come to Darzarh unless you want to taste some fine blood." Kyle speaks confidently with a wicked smile on his face.

Regardless of the topic, Kyle struck back rather swiftly.

"Look, Daniel. I'm a nice guy. The others, well, not so much." He emphasizes and examplifies "You're out of luck if you try other stores that give you money over this. It's not a matter of whether or not what they offer is low, they will simply take it away and that's that. But here I am, still talking to you. So, let's be realistic for a second, Daniel." He closed in on Daniel "200." He whispered to Daniel's ear "...350...." Daniel dropped down on his offer more, now very nervous "250, and we're done." Kyle confidently spoke, trying to close the deal "300, please... I'm seriously homeless, man. Come on, Kyle..." Daniel makes eye-contact with Kyle, but Kyle makes his final offer "275 or we're done here. You can try your luck somewhere else, Daniel. I've said my words." Kyle looked at Daniel while feeling extremely nervous, though Daniel couldn't tell "...Goddamn it..." Daniel sighed "...Fine, just... Just give it to me..." Daniel surrendered "....My God." Kyle couldn't hesitate and let out those words against his will while taking out dollars from the place where he kept his money, with a grin on his face that he just couldn't control.

After saying goodbye to the ten golden skull rings that he had just traded off for 275 dollars, Daniel regretted not being able to trade the rings that he had found on Ferdinand's house for more. What's more, he had no clue what to do with just 275 dollars. Truth to be told, Daniel's plan was to simply gather money, but after receiving way below what he had imagined, Daniel was left in doubt as he took the dollars from Kyle.

"...You wouldn't happen to have more of those, Daniel?" Kyle asked Daniel on his way out "...." Daniel tried to remember Ferdinand's house and didn't find any objects that connected to the word "rings" so he stopped thinking "Well, not rings, no." Daniel said "...H-Hold on..." Kyle tried to get a hold of Daniel, but Daniel just left the store and merged with the crowd.

Once mixed in the crowd of many, Kyle shouted Daniel's name but it went to vain as the chattering around the Grand Mars made it impossible for it to be connected to Daniel. Kyle then went back to his store, in a rush and reached out to his phone, dialing a call in the fastest way he could. After a while, would the other side pick up.

"You will not believe what just happened! Some dude just walked in with Mania rings! We're gonna get rich, get your ass in here!" Kyle started to celebrate.

Kyle took a greedy look at the ten rings that Daniel had just traded off for a good amount of 275; but to Kyle, giving 275 dollars was nothing of a short sacrifice.

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Daniel had to figure something out. Although he had just gotten money, the crucial question remained. How would he benefit from this? He pondered this quite hard as he continued to walk through the Grand Mars. He had to do something about the clothes he was wearing; plus he needed to take a bath. Weirdly enough, despite almost being a day out without sleeping, he wasn't feeling sleepy at all, completely vitalized instead.

However, something was on his mind. As a matter of fact, it was in his mind at all times, as Daniel found impossible not to think about it. Every corner, every two facilities, red lights with alluring titles in the form of blinding lights invited the kind of man Daniel was. Daniel also started to think about whether or not 275 was enough for what he had in mind. Yet more importantly, Daniel just didn't know what to do, so he stood still for a while while people passed over him.

"No, it's gotta be Whitley!" He shouted out loud, earning some attention but only short temporary one from the people passing by.

He became determined not to be seduced by the attractions, but this only lasted thirty seconds as Daniel spotted two very appealing girls in the back alley of a striptease club otherwise known as "Cherry On Top". They had their names on their chests; namely on their clothing where their chests were beneath; in a name tag. They were Ashley and Cindy.

Ashley's height was medium, waving between 1,65 centimeters if not slightly lower. Her outfit consisted of a mini white skirt practically revealing the contents below, purposely. Her top was completely short as well, as she wore a red underboob type of clothing; wearing golden necklaces all over her neck. Below her alluring waist, she confidently wore long black boots reaching the surface of her knees. Her skin wasn't pale but it almost seemed so as it possessed an akin color to it; beautiful as snow. Ashley had a complete arsenal of silver piercings; one on her lips on the right side, one on her left nostril, one on her belly button, double-helixes on both of her ears, accompanied with industrials, and lastly jade-colored falling earrings. Her hair was painted in light blonde--threatening the color of white and it was long; all the way to her bust. In addition to all this, she held golden-looking eyes in her seemingly perfectly-structured face as her jawline position was stunning to observe. Her general bust size is of 96; waist of 67, and for her hips, a grand total of 92. On top of it all, she was smoking a cigarette with her slim-fit red gloves with a devilish smile, showing her impressively white teeth.

As for Cindy, her height was far shorter than Ashley; amounting to 1,53 centimeters. Her outfit was the same as Ashley but it was all black instead. She didn't have any piercings but did have round black earrings reaching all the way to her collarbone. Cindy had fair skin and was arguably closer to Ashley's type of skin. Her makeup and eyeliner were completely black as well as her small bob-cut hair; reaching her neck's end. Her facial structure was slightly skinnier but nothing too alerting. Through her piercing black eyes, she hid a powerful glare; however containing an enchanting sentiment to it. Bust size of 68, waist of 62, hips of 82; fairly reduced compared to Ashley, but diversity is a common factor within this establishment. Furthermore, just like Ashley, Cindy was also smoking, with a smile as well.

It was these two that captured Daniel's attention as he immediately forfeited his previous vow just at the sight of their beauty.

"Holy shit..." Daniel's eyes widened as he looked at Ashley and Cindy; both of them noticing and smiling right at him "Wow, he's cute." Ashley says from afar to Cindy while looking at Daniel, causing him to grin "..." Daniel tried to avoid their gaze out of shame, but as Cindy whispered something to Ashley, they decided to approach the indecisive insecure Daniel "Heeey... You're a new face here, aren't you?!" Ashley said, with a flirtatious tone, her eyes capturing Daniel like a trapped animal "He's definitely new, Ash. What's your name, cutie?" Cindy also asks in a charming way, Daniel completely blushing, while looking at the ground, unable to maintain visible contact with the two of them "...My name's Daniel..." He answers meekly, causing Ashley and Cindy to look at each other while giggling.

Maintaining eye-contact was beyond impossible for Daniel, so they saw the opportunity and took it, now going into the entrance of their club; covered in a rotational elevator.

"Daniel! That's a cute name!" Ashley noted in an excited tone while wrapping Daniel's left arm on her breasts "How can I possibly assist your needs, Daniel...?" Cindy whispered to Daniel's right ear while also taking hold of his right arm with her chest too "W-Wait, I... don't really..." Daniel wanted to leave out of shame, but Ashley and Cindy were dragging him into the club through the red carpet full of golden droplets on each side "Aww, he's so shyyyyy!" Ashley teased Daniel while squeezing him harder "You're gonna have a lot of fun here, Daniel!" Ashley said as they entered the club otherwise known as Cherry On Top.

As Daniel entered the club, loud noises were spread all over the place from the top to the bottom as three upper floors made of transparent glass could be spotted above. A DJ sat on the end of the first floor faraway bumping the loudset of music; not allowing much noise from voices to be heard. Red-colored chairs in the center of the floor could be seen as a general drinking table lay at the very center. On the wide floor there are iron-thin poles every five meters all lining up in sequence; while to each there are backrow seats with comfy seats where the viewers can enjoy the sights to their full lust's potential. Furthermore, the strippers in this club had no limitations of clothing, so anything was allowed when it came down to the bare core; nipples and even other parts were sometimes stripped down depending on how much money it was given.

Currently speaking, the house is completely full as on each corner and on every pole there is a stripper along with a crowded audience. No matter where, men could be seen throwing dollars at girls who were young, beautiful, attractive, and most importantly, not afraid to reveal their bodies to such strangers in order to win some money. Needlesss to say, Daniel was beyond surprised as he saw just how much variety there was around.

"..I don't think I should be here..." Daniel said, but his expression showed complete lust and desire while gawking at the bare naked bodies on several poles "No way, Daniel! Come on, let's have some fun!" Ashley said with a smile, still guiding him through the club to the north side where a private hallway lay in "..I really should be here..." Daniel argued against himself seeing Ashley's smile "You're funny." Cindy noted with a small smile to Daniel as he silently stared at Cindy while blushing.

Little did Daniel know, but this was practically what he had been striving for a long time and now down the private hall with doors to each room; Ashley took out a key from her skirt's pocket and put it on the doorhold.

"Hey." Ashley spoke to Cindy in a slightly less gentle tone "Gosh, I know, just hurry, okay?" Cindy unwrapped Daniel's arm and started to go back; looking only slightly at Daniel---sending a kiss with her hand to him alongside a small eye blink "And here we gooooooo!" Ashley opens the door and guides Daniel to the private room; immediately throwing Daniel softly to the red couch on the right.

The room was fairly small, containing a small table in the middle with a TV remote and a roller with condoms to use. Aside from the couch; which was wide enough for four, there was a TV on the left-top corner of the room. There wasn't anything else besides a bed for two at the end of the room as the room was self-explanatory for its usage. Upon seeing the condoms, Daniel's tension grew as it was all developing beyond his imagination.

Daniel knew that he shouldn't waste his money which, although not little, wasn't by any means something to be overjoyed at. But still, at the sight of Ashley mouth-grabbing the pile of unused condoms, drove him bewildered as he started to unzip his pants; or so he attempted to, but Ashley put a stop to his action with both of her hands.

Their eyes met; Ashley moved her hands to Daniel's chest, aiming to feel Daniel's body.

"You---ought to work on these~" Ashley reprehends Daniel when touching his abdominal area "I---" Daniel attempted to speak but Ashley placed her soft right index finger on Daniel's lips "I--am not complaining, it's just---" Ashley went for Daniel's right ear, delivered a small bite "A-Ahh..." Daniel let that out as Ashley whispered the main words "So, champion---how far do you wanna go~?" Ashley asked the question that Daniel deep down wanted to hear.

Daniel showed small hesitation but after a second, he didn't hold back.

"....All the way." Daniel surprised himself with the sheer amount of confidence in his words despite saying them without much strength to back them up "...Really now---" Ashley was surprised and sighed while backing off a bit from Daniel; still on top of him "Alright, five thousand, please~~" She demands with her eyes closed; extending her right hand forward "...." Daniel suddenly felt extremely nervous.

He wanted to ask what Ashley meant by five thousand but he was loving this one-sided attention and the fact that Ashley was on top of him, so he was in doubt.

"...Hey..." Ashley looked at Daniel now suspicious "How much do you exactly have---Daniel?" Now angry and beyond suspicious, she starred down at Daniel, who had gulliable eyes "Um.... Say, what can I get for---100....?" Daniel asked with a desperate grin; to which Ashley just moved totally away from Daniel with eyes of disgust and pressed a button hidden within the reserve surface of the central table "...What did you do...?!" Daniel suddenly felt in trouble as an alarming sound started to bombard throughout the room emitting a flashing red light every second "Not so smart of you to just do that to yourself, mister Daniel." With a rather spiteful tone, Ashley changed the way she spoke as Daniel had to figure out what to do.

He could either wait around and figure out what this meant or he could make a run for it and try to escape this place while he still could.

"Damn it!" Daniel got up and aimed for the door.

As he opened it in a hurry, his way up to the end of the hallway was starting to get crowded with security guards on the right. Noticing that he couldn't go to the right, he looked for an alternative; as he thought of a way to get out of this mess. Thankfully, there was a way up to the upcoming floor midst all the noises incoming from the other rooms.

With speed and stride, the four security guards in black suits started to rush toward Daniel; showing no mercy in their pursuit.

"Fucking get him, you slowpokes! He tried to rape me, what the hell are you waiting for?!" Ashley started to cry, expressing tears on her knees down on the ground "What----!!" Daniel was furious at her accusation but in-between refuting against her and running from the guards, Daniel clicked his tongue and ran to the upper floor as the end of private hall had a stairway case to the second floor.

After running through the stairway which consisted of transparent glass while looking down just to catch the sight of the guards, Daniel started to notice that their distance was slowly getting closer.

"Shit!" Daniel said as he passed through the second floor; which he could go into via the private hall, but opted not to.

Thus, Daniel continued to run with all of his might to the upper third floor but didn't take his chances as he thought that there might be security guards on the wait for him behind every door; so he took his chances to the rooftop which was an emergency door away from reaching. Via brute force, Daniel pushed the door and noticed that he had nowhere else to go as he ran through the rooftop to the edge of it. Small peables and ventilation machines were all present within this dark-cold parameter only illuminated by the lights below.

The rest of the security guards passed through the emergency door and came face to face with Daniel.

"You're coming with us." A bald security guard with black sunglasses approached Daniel "Wait. wait! Just wait!" Daniel insisted as he gew closer to the edge of the club; threatening a 100 meter fall "I didn't do anything to her! It was all her!" Daniel pleaded not guilty to deaf ears "They all say that. Get ready to get locked in." The bald guard approached Daniel even further now completely closing in on him without any quarters left "This is so not fair... She didn't even let me grab her ass!" Daniel shouted in agony as the guard attempted to reach out to him with a hand-grab "?!" He then noticed the abrupt movement from Daniel.

With all of his speed, Daniel ran back while looking forward still; not looking to where he was running and fell 100 meters below all the way to a dark alley behind the club's main entrance.

"AHHHHH-----" Daniel's terror scream came to an end when he broke his spine and neck from the fall, no longer possessing any consciousness; thus summoning the throne back to him.

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Kyle's shop was suddenly packed in with a few members. About ten to be exact, they spread out in Kyle's shop starring at the contents for sale. A man with 19 years old of Asiatic heritage was face to face with Kyle. He wore a long dark red coat covering all the way from his neck to the knees. His pants black as well as his shoes. As for his hair; his sides were almost completely cut off, but some hair was still there; his frontal hair forming a crescent upward cut midst its black color. His height was smaller than Kyle's 1,71 centimeters for about 6 centimeters less. As for his skin, it was completely pale and he always wore a calm expression despite having his eyebrows twisted down often leaving the impression that he was mad.

"Here..." Kyle reluctantly decided to offer the glasses he had used to view the rings earlier but he declined silently as he watched the rings on the table with his eyes alone "We hit the spot, Tsuwoon!" Kyle desperately speaks to him, now calling him by his name "We?" Tsuwoon took hold of one of the rings and simply asked that question to Kyle as the remaining members started to pay less attention to the contents within the store and shifted their eyesight to Kyle instead.

Kyle gulped but didn't succumb to pressure immediately.

"I at least need 50% of this! I'm the one who apprehended them!" Kyle struck with the facts to Tsuwoon but he remained unresponsive "C-Come on, man! I've always been the one who did this! I deserve some credit, don't I?" Kyle was mildly laughing attempting to ligthen up the atmosphere "It reeks." Tsuwoon simply said, and Kyle attempted to form an understanding of what Tsuwoon was talking about, so he smelled around and apologized "Gee, sorry. Cleaning is not my thing---" Kyle was interrupted "These---they reek of it. You want me to believe that someone just walked in and sold you these?" Tsuwoon questioned Kyle.

After a bit, Kyle began to understand where Tsuwoon was getting at, so he backed off a few steps from the balcony in fear.

"Wait, you seriously think I'm lying to you?" Kyle asked Tsuwoon "I don't know. Are you? You've always been loyal to me, Kyle. Do I need to suspect you or will you cut the shit?" Tsuwoon apprehended Kyle's jacket with a firm grip of his right hand "C-Cut the shit?! What the hell are you talking about?!" Kyle didn't like this and just had to ask "This. This right here. It's plagued with Mania. No sane person would just sell these! Why are you lying?" Further strength was added to Tsuwoon's grip as Kyle's body started to elevate from the ground "I-I swear I'm not lying! A guy desperate for money just walked in and sold me these, I swear!" Kyle insisted that it was the truth "헛소리!" Tsuwoon spoke in a foreign language, threatening to kill Kyle by adjusting his grip onto his neck, suffocating him "W-Wait! I know the guy!" Tsuwoon's grip decreased; allowing Kyle to breathe through his saliva bubbles "He even gave me his name! I'll find him in no time!" Kyle reassured.

Now that Tsuwoon had gotten valuable information, he decided to not waste further time and took possession of the ten rings from Kyle's table. He adjusted his coat before leaving his final words to Kyle.

"You have six hours." Tsuwoon said "W-What?! Come on, Tsuwoon! Give me at least a d--" Tsuwoon starred with his eyes glowing a faint red aura to Kyle--sending multiple chills down his spine "...I understand..." Defeated, Kyle looked down on the ground as Tsuwoon left with the rings in his possession; as well as his members.

Still with a ragged breath, Kyle massaged his neck in frustration "Damn it..." He regretted talking to Tsuwoon about this and was determined to find the one who had delivered the rings to him.

Therefore, he got up, supporting himself with his right elbow on his desk while grabbing his phone on his left side of his jacket and dialed a call.

"...Come on, Jess, pick up, damn it...!" Kyle coughed after coughing again and again "..For fuck's sake, the one time I need you!" He bashed his left hand to his desk, causing a slight shake as he wasn't successful on connecting to the other side.

Kyle threw his phone down on the ground in fury as he began to grew more desperate. He couldn't understand why the other side wasn't picking up, so Kyle decided to take another approach instead. He grabbed his store's keys, and then closed his shop's lights; ultimately shutting the entire place down.

At the given moment, it's eleven o'clock, practically one hour to midnight and it was now that the Grand Mars was starting to peak when it came down to it. The number of people inside the Grand Mars made any sort of walk seem miserable as one would get merged within the crowd rapidly. Kyle, instead of joining the Grand Mars, took a short-cut through the endless alleys within the seemingly infinite avenues within Darzarh, to reach his end destination.

He ran with all of his might towards his location and only after fifteen minutes did he reach the location.

"What do you mean he just jumped?! You incompetent buffoons, I swear, ARGH!" Kyle heard a loud feminine voice shouting all of that from the entrance of his desired location "What's happening...?" Kyle talked to himself as he approached the entrance of the club; several people nearby as a scandal was going down.

The entrance of the club otherwise known as Cherry On Top or---COT---was filled with a multitude of people that didn't allow Kyle to walk in, but nevertheless, Kyle pressed forward as he wanted to meet with the one whose voice he knew of.

"Let me pass!" Kyle attempted to walk in and he did so successfully but only after trashing a few people out of his way, until he reached the entrance through the staircase to only find two security guards blocking the entrance "No further clients may walk in---I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Kyle was blocked out of his way in, but he didn't give up "Ashley! Can you hear me?! It's urgent, let me in!" Suddenly, the loud chattering from the inside was reduced and a brute sound of forward steps towards the entrance was heard; a singular eye peeking through the door's entrance "Kyle? Look---now's not the time---" Ashley attempted to talk but Kyle spoke louder on her turn "No, now's the time! Where is Jessica?!" He demanded to know "Will you listen---Argh, make way, DAMN IT!" Angry, Ashley demanded the security guards to make way for Kyle to get in, to which he didn't hesitate to walk in.

Ashley and Cindy, both on the inside of the club were now visible to Kyle, who had yet to make his point. There, on the inside point of the club, near the entrance, they began to talk.

"Alright, mind telling me what's happening?" Kyle undoubtedly got curious and decided to see what Ashley had to say "One of my damn clients just tried to rape me, that's what!" Ashley didn't hesitate to pull the trigger "....." Kyle didn't think this was enough for the commotion "So, all this because...?" He pointed at the security guards running around, walking in-between the side doors from place to place with a sense of urgency "Turns out he escaped to the rooftop and his body dropped dead." Cindy added with a confused expression "That still doesn't explain it. People die here all the time!" Kyle replied in a furious tone "There's no damn fricking body!" Ashley spoke "That's impossible, if he really fell down the rooftop. Or maybe he survived. I don't know." Kyle sighed and continued "I really couldn't care less." He added and further continued "Look, just---where is Jessica?" Kyle finally asked.

Ashley was ready to argue back against Kyle's insensitive words, but her and Cindy looked at each other for a second and realized something.

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"Probably with a client, no? Unlike you, we are ACTUALLY busy earning money!" Ashley unleashed spite "I can't get a hold of her through the phone! And I need her help, right now!" Kyle replied back in the same volume "Just hold on..." Cindy called her but after almost a minute, no reply was formed from the receiving end.

Not only Cindy, but both Ashley and Kyle decided to do the same and in the end, there was no response. Although this worried Ashley slightly, she decided to change the subject.

"Look, Kyle! The fucker didn't pay after the service and that's a problem!" Ashley threw a tantrum "That's your fault, stupid! Enough with this shit, why---" Kyle was interrupted by Cindy this time "Hold on, this is mega weird. I can't get a hold of Catherine and Matilda..." Cindy said and Kyle just didn't understand the necessity of her words "But weren't they with Jessica when she went out with some clients?" Ashley started to get where Cindy was coming from, but not Kyle "I'm sorry, but what does that have to do---" Telling Kyle to shut up, Cindy placed her right index finger on her lips with an angry expression.

Kyle wanted to tell her some words of fury, but held his tongue back as he wanted to see where they were going with this.

"That's weird, Jessica is a social butterfly and the other two aren't exactly the opposite of that. If Jessica is gone for too long then some of our most loyal clients will be pissed off..." Ashley assumed while stepping on the ground repetitively, in a nervous manner "So something happened to her?!" Kyle, now nervous too, just had to ask "I don't know! How am I supposed to know, Kyle?! God, you're just dumb sometimes!" Ashley doesn't hold back "But what exactly do you need her for?" Finally, Cindy asks the real question "I want to use her damn social network to find a guy!" Kyle speaks the truth to Cindy "...She is quick to find someone in Darzarh, that's true..." Cindy approves "Kyle, we are LOOKING for a damn thief and rapist!" Ashley insisted, again "Didn't you say that he tried to---" Kyle was going to argue back but bit his tongue the moment Ashley's eyes lit up a fire telling him that he was going to die.

At the same time, the main security guard, the previous bald man in a black suit with a black tie and white shirt beneath approach Ashley.

"There's nothing, no sight of him!" His breath was exhausted as it looked like he had been searching around for the culprit nonstop "Are you kidding me?! He not only tried to rape me but he didn't pay! Find him, shithead!" Ashley brutally unleashed that order "...Yes." The security guard with no choice, went back to searching after alerting his men through the walkie-talkie.

A strange thought occurred to Kyle, so he hurried up and tried to confirm his suspicion.

"Hold--Hold on---" Kyle halted his right hand forward while laughing a bit "It can't be, that would just be---" He started to sound crazy "The fuck, speak clearly!" Ashley couldn't stand Kyle's vague attitude "This guy, was he wearing a FUCKING black tank top in the middle of practically wint---" Kyle was interrupted by both Ashley and Cindy without a second thought "THAT GUY!" They shouted "Damn it, you fucking had Daniel in your grasp and you allowed him to leave?!" Kyle started to argue against Ashley "I didn't know you were looking for him, you moron!" Ashley spat saliva onto Kyle's eyes "Oh my God---Fuck, let's just---UGH!" Kyle, disgusted, whipped Ashley's saliva bullet out of his eyelashes before continuing "We'll split up and search for him! Use as many contacts as you can to your advantage!" Kyle said, immediately taking off "Wh--- Kyle, Kyle! Wait, damn it!" Ashley wanted to say something else to Kyle, but he was long gone now.

Exasperated, Ashley placed her hands on both sides of her face and kneeled down; to which Cindy patted her right shoulder.

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Daniel's stroll through the Grand Mars made him realize that he needed new clothes. Not only was he being chased by the security guards of the club otherwise known as Cherry On Top, but he had left a clear impression about his clothes as he was wearing a black tank top with black sports' pants with Nike shoes. So, he walked through the Grand Mars as he infiltrated the multitude of people; barely being recognizable.

Feeling upset after what had happened, Daniel's expression was sour and filled with oppression, but nevertheless, he tried to brush it off the moment he entered a clothes store. He decided to not be too extravagant with his new clothes so he opted to go for the exact contrast of his current clothes. He chose a pair of white jeans; leather at it, amounting to 20 dollars. Furthermore, he went for a simple black leather suit shirt, along with a black cozy coath in the form of a suit, both amounting to 60 dollars in total. Covering his neck, he went for a light-brown scarf of 10 dollars; while ultimately going for a pair of black leather shoes and some fake black glasses, both suming up to 50 dollars. Ultimately together having to pay 140 dollars for everything.

He used a bathroom in the clothing store in order to wet his hair and slick it back completely; and Daniel figured that he was unrecognizable.

"Hold on..." Daniel realized his stupidity "I'm almost down 100 dollars!!" Daniel wanted to bash his head into the bathroom's mirror but held back.

Daniel had to come up with something as he needed some money, so he took a dump and tried to come up with something. He came up with an idea, but this idea was something that Daniel didn't want to seriously consider and instead, opted to think of something else, but in the end, Daniel found nothing.

In order to get more money, he needed to make money and Daniel was starting to realize that money didn't show up on trees but through something that would be equivalent to the value of money.

"....This shit is gonna be the end of me, but..." He gulped and took a heavy breath, adjusting his fake glasses with a stern graduation "He was selling all of those so... No doubt about it, if I present him with something of that caliber then he's bound to want some..." Daniel became confident that his idea was going to work, no matter what.

For his idea to work, Daniel didn't have to do much, it was just a question of whether or not he was in a mood to do it. Which was the current problem as Daniel couldn't stop getting mad at Ashley's accusations. Nonetheless, Daniel wouldn't dwell on it forever and would strike forth with his plan.

After he left the bathroom, Daniel exited the clothing store without looking at the female clerk despite the latter not stop looking at him for some reason. As he left, Daniel had to make another stop at a drugstore where he was hoping to get what he needed. Drugstores were not something Daniel could easily find in the Grand Mars, due to how little of them are there. Fortunately for him, after a few minutes of walking, Daniel spotted a shady looking store that seemed to sell bizarre items for his liking.

The store was located in the slight north of the Grand Mars on the left side of the chain of buildings; the store in particular being small despite having a building on top of it. The illumination was poor and every product was jammed into all sides; the store containing just ten meters of width and frontal length in-between the entrance and the reception desk. However, upon seeing the products for sale, Daniel knew that he was in the right place.

He ordered a few things, took a bag with him and proceeded with his plan after leaving the store. Instead of infiltrating the Grand Mars, Daniel took a detour through the myraid of hallway avenues partial to it. Through the dark alleys, Daniel started to get shivers as he wanted to back down.

So, he stopped for a moment, took another deep breath, and only then, did he march forward. The alley would continue on the east side, where backdoors and dumpsters are commonly present. Furthermore, the horrid smell within these alleys are powerful enough to make one vomit. The walls are so discolored that there is always more than one color to each wall, regardless if they were initially red, they have tainted green and mostly a dead yellow to them from the accumulation of dirt.

A similar scenario came up for Daniel when he landed in Darzarh, in a dumpster with his throne. However, this time, it was just a singular hoodie male individual pressuring a young hooker with short curly blonde her to have his way; bashing her against the wall.

"Perfect..." Daniel looked at the two of them but simply whispered that "HEY!" Daniel shouted in their direction still mildly far away "Help me! Ple---" Daniel interrupted her "HEY! I'M TALKING TO YOU! LOOK AT ME!" Not towards the girl but the hoodie person who immediately unleashed his tight grip on her, did Daniel shout "The fuck do you---" Without any hesitation, Daniel executed his plan.

With a hunter's knife that he was holding, Daniel swung it all the way to his right side of the brain; successfully piercing it, ultimately falling to the ground due to his own consciousness loss. Immediately after, a loud roar emerged from the night sky in the form of a sonic boom.

"Hm?" Far away to the south of the Grand Mars, Tsuwoon's crew spots a descending throne falling from the sky, uncaring of what's in its way "That's a new one, right?" One of them asks Tsuwoon; who is eating a Kebab on a Kebab stand midst the Grand Mars; his eyes completely focused on the throne that was falling down "......." Tsuwoon left the stand immediately, not paying; emerging with the multitude of people within the Grand Mars--as well as ignoring the owner's demand for the money.

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Daniel carried the contents within his bag through the Grand Mars on his right side, but he was constantly switching sides because he couldn't handle the weight of the bag; as it was too heavy. The wide black trash bag was carried out without a question as it was impermeable. Meaning---no further liquid from the inside could ever be infiltrated on the outside.

The bag was around 20 kilos in weight, which was a lot to Daniel, but in the end, before midnight struck, he had managed to get into his desired location.

"Closed? What....?" Daniel dropped down his heavy bag on the ground; which was closed with a triple knot.

Daniel knocked on the store's door firstly as he didn't want to seem overly intrusive. He did knock more than a few times, but was unsuccessful as there was a massive "Closed" sign hung on the door from the inside. Daniel's idea was to knock as much as possible so he could get the owner's attention, but this just didn't work, no matter how much he tried, which was making him beyond impatient.

"Goddamn it---" Daniel took a deep breath "KYLE! IT'S DANIEL, OPEN UP!" He shouted, earning the attention of people nearby, but not anyone acted against Daniel, as he was trying to get some sort of response "Seriously man! I got the goods and you just disappear on me like that... That's rough..." Daniel was feeling a bit hopeless now that the situation wasn't in his favor.

However, a large smile emerged on Daniel's face when he turned around and saw a very familiar face, though perplexed and confused by the sight of Daniel. Daniel dropped his bag and went to greet him with a grand smile and an out of character strong handshake.

"Kyle!" Daniel couldn't be happier "Holy shit..." Kyle was surprised for various reasons "Can you let me in? I got a few things I want to sell to you! Please!" Daniel struck his bargain prematurely "...Sure." Kyle simply opens the store up with his keys, turns on the lights and starts to walk to the reception desk without looking at Daniel.

Kyle's rushed footsteps sounded strange to Daniel, but more importantly, how nervous Kyle's face was.

"......." Daniel senses that something was strange "Kyle?" Daniel asked in Kyle's direction in a serious tone "Give me some time, I'm out of cash, so I need to go to the basement and get some, yeah?" Kyle says in a very serious manner "Oh yeah, sure." Daniel gives the thumbs-up and allows Kyle to go down the basement that is behind the desk.

Daniel, while waiting, made pure silence as he was feeling more vitalized now after having performed his previous actions. He felt everything twice as much when it came down to the core of things. Just with a touch on the desk's wood, he could feel the particles to the absolute core and more importantly, his hearing severely improved alongside with his vision.

"...Get your ass in here, he's here...!" Kyle, trying to keep quiet from his basement which is 30 meters below the desk whispered that "Bring as many as you can---look, I gotta go or else he might grow suspicious!" Kyle terminating the call and only after bringing some dollars with him, did he ascend to the desk "I'm here----Oh no, no, no. NOOOOOOOOO!" Kyle was freaking out with brusque movements the moment he noticed Daniel's absence and the door of his store hanging back and forth "DAMN IT, DANIEL! DON'T YOU RUN AWAY FROM ME, I'M A DEAD MAN HERE!" Kyle shouted; having lost his mind and determined to find Daniel before any guests could arrive.

As for Daniel, he had abandoned his bag in Kyle's store due to the weight and how it would delay his movements. For now, Daniel was completely on the run as his mission was simple. Despite being unsuccessful in his endeavor; he still had a bit of money left so he could try the same idea on a different seller. However, Daniel just wanted to get the hell out of Darzarh now, so he started to run down to the south of the Grand Mars.

"How can I get out of Darzarh?!" Daniel kept asking to the random people he was passing by and they all pointed down south; however, it's pretty easy to figure out because in the flow of direction---people go all the way to North and only a few go down South, which is a major indication that the exit fo Darzarh is indeed on the South side.

A loud shout from the north arrived at Daniel's ears from afar, as he looked back and saw Kyle running in his direction---even going as far as knocking people over.

"DANIEL!!" Kyle shouted like a madman in Daniel's direction but Daniel just kept on running forward, spending his stamina while he could "IT'S NOT A SET UP---" Daniel interrupted Kyle from afar "FUCK YOU, I HEARD ALL OF IT! DAMN IT, KYLE!" Daniel argued back despite being on the run, now crossing a circular bridge with a small river; going as far as zig-zagging people just to get away from Kyle.

Daniel's stamina was running low after all the running---even if the path was linear. His abdominal cavity hurts and Daniel suddenly wished that he had spent a greater portion of his life dedicated to sports and not something else. Nevertheless, Kyle was also getting extremely tired and it wouldn't be long before he would lose sight of Daniel.

Now freed from Kyle's shackles, Daniel had the option of continuing forward, but he was simply too tired and so, he decided to stop by a bar to the left after losing sight of Kyle.

The moment Daniel entered the bar, midnight rose to full height.

Highly illuminated, the bar contained a chain of tables for two with even sides on each on the left side. At the end of the bar there was a snooker table, two bathrooms, a bingo machine, and a dart board. To the right, there were a couple of mini-tables with short seats where as in the central serving line was on the very center---where customers would seat in the chain of seats with any drink that they could ask from the bartenders which were three.

Daniel took a seat all the way to the left, close to the snooker table; and caught his breath. Repetitively, he calmed down his breath.

"Howdy." The bartender in his 30's greets Daniel, who had yet to order something, so he just asked whatever was on his mind "Monster, please. Any kind will do..." Daniel says, tired, without even casting eyesight toward the bartender "One imperial coming up!" He shouts to the other bartender in charge of preparing the drinks "Oh, th---Wait, not beer! Ah..." He realized it went to blind ears "Fuck it." Daniel just accepted the cold imperial with his right hand, gulped down three times and slammed it on the wooden table "OH YEAH, THAT'S THE STUFF!" Daniel unleashed a shout of happiness "ONE MORE, BOSS!" After he was done with the first one, he immediately demanded a second one.

Despite drinking so much, Daniel couldn't feel drunk.

"Huh?" Daniel realized something "How come I'm not hungry..." He gulped down another shot "It's been almost two days and I haven't eaten anything, if I recall correctly..." Daniel argued against himself, but this realization made him stop drinking as his eyes widened "Oh God... What have I been---eating..." He started to tremble as he couldn't muster the will to grasp the transparent glass of beer in front of him.

He placed his head on the top of his right forearm and attempted to rest for a bit, despite not feeling sleepy at all. However, this was short-lived due to the sheer presence of four men and two women who walked in the bar. Not only did their outfits draw attention on their own, but they specifically chose to seat in the seats right next to Daniel. Their stark white suits accompanied with black shoes and black ties were all neatly lined up; this was not an exception even for the two female individuals.

"Chief! Imperial for me!" A male in his 20's with a tall bulky build and short black hair with facial hair beneath gently requested "Whisky on me!" A 15-year-old male with semi-long blonde hair of short height demands "Ignore that, boss! Get a milk for him!" Another male individual, in his 18's, with a balanced height and a black hair with a buzz cut corrects the order, causing the remaining to laugh out loud, including some other bar members "No fair! I don't wanna wait until I'm 18!" He insisted but the latter just brushed the young boy's hair with brute strength though in a gentle way "Hahaha, this guy! Vodka for me!" He finally demanded "Unlike these brutes, I'll actually have milk if you have some." One of the two female members with short height and tied black hair in a ponytail refused to have alcohol "Same here. I hate bars, Christ..." The other female with short brown hair of medium height confesses "...Water." The last male member, a medium height man in his 30's with long black hair---curtain style---simply demanded that.

Daniel really was trying to get some rest as he wasn't sure whether or not Kyle could show up at any moment. Nevertheless, thoughts of leaving were starting to surface Daniel's mind as he wanted to leave Darzarh as soon as possible.

Without looking to his right, Daniel gulped down the rest of the beer until there was only a bit and paused it with a bit of brute strength.

"..." Daniel felt stares; six collective ones, midst the silence, but due to the pressure, he couldn't look "I don't think I'm ever getting used to this. I mean, dying all the time is ACTUALLY pretty painful!" The female individual with short brown hair expressed herself "....?!" Daniel found that entire comment beyond nonsensical and tried to pay it no mind "Look at the bright side, when you REALLY die, it won't be as dramatic, Rebecca." The male with the buzz cut added "But it's still painful. It's one thing to do it every once in a while, but on a daily basis? You'd have to be a psycho, Dave!" The other female with a ponytail argued back against Dave and Daniel started to feel like something was off "You're way off, Ann! There's gotta be a secret to it, right?! I mean, otherwise, killing yourself so much will drive you insane." The younger male member decided to join the party.

Daniel started to get up as he realized the obvious.

He left 10 dollars on the table and attempted to leave without making any eye-contact with the six of them. But, this didn't go as Daniel wanted because one of the male individuals---Dave---purposedly pushed Ann onto Daniel with his hand, which forced her to crash his way.

"Ouch!" Daniel hit the ground "S-Sorry! Are you okay...?" Ann, with a smile offered her condolences to Daniel as he opened his eyes after the impact with multiple people from the bar starring at him "Ah... I'm---" Daniel's line was interrupted as she looked at Ann's face only to see blood coming from the left side of her head like a fountain "A-Ahhh..!!" Daniel crawled back and looked the five others, who had the exact same feature----a seemingly fatal wound to their left and right sides of their heads with blood streaming down to their faces all the way to their suits---emitting some sanguine droplets "OH GOD...!!" Daniel freaked out and didn't look back as he pushed the door with all of his might making his exit "Are you sure about this, Boris?" All the five of them looked towards their older member with long hair as Dave asked him the question "It's not fair if everyone doesn't get a chance..." Boris simply said and the rest shrugged with a smile on their faces while getting ready to leave.

Daniel's objective became clearer than ever. All he had to do was just leave Darzarh and the chase from Kyle and the security guards from Cherry On Top would most likely come to an end. But, Daniel felt that there was something greater at play here that he was not considering at all.

Something that he should have seen, but couldn't.

Once out of the bar, Daniel struck the left side of the Grand Mars with precision and speed more than ever, going through people as fast as he could with no end at sight. A road of hundreds of people filled this seemingly infinite avenue. Naturally, Daniel was bound to stumble upon someone sooner or later, but it happened faster than he expected as he bumped into someone, causing the person to fall to the ground.

"Ouch... Man, relax, will you?" The person says with their butt on the ground, patting his short blonde hair "S-Sorr----AHHHHH!!!" Daniel unleashed a scream the moment he saw that the middle-aged man possessed a white suit---the exact same as the previous ones---but most importantly, had blood all over his face falling down from his hippocampus.

Needless to say, Daniel kept on running but this time, he started paying attention to the crowd as he spotted several white suits in the crowd. One was a short girl not too older than Daniel who waved at him like a friend waves at a friend from a distance. One other was a very tall man who was whistling toward Daniel's direction. Another man near his 40's, drinking a caned beer eyed Daniel and tipped with his black fedora hat in Daniel's direction. And many others. Daniel slowly but surely realized that, although he didn't know what he had done to those people, they were definitely aware of him.

What creeped Daniel out, however, was the fact that none of them were doing anything to Daniel. Their mere unknown presence at any given moment made Daniel's heart feel like a tennis ball on the tip of the court's net.

A lady in her 20's on the right side of the road was advertising her clothing brand to which caught sight of Daniel as her voice was extremely loud; but also because it was getting a lot of attention from the other people.

"Young man! You should try some, it's free, JUST FOR YOU!" She pointed at Daniel and multiple eyes were on Daniel from all angles "HOLY F---AHHHH!!" Daniel didn't even think twice and just kept running at the sight of her white suit, with people confused as to why he was acting that way.

Another thing that was frustrating Daniel was how much he had to run just to try and get out of Darzarh. At a given point, Daniel started to search for a map in which he could see where he was in Darzarh---through a red bullet point on the map---and he took notice that he was just slightly away from the entrance of Darzarh; meaning that he wasn't that far from exiting the district.

Daniel felt a familiar smell coming from a cigarette on his right side.

"I'm lost..." The man scratched his temple "Can you help me?" He asked Daniel, who finally made eye-contact with him "...." Daniel thought of running but instead, he went for a more interrogative approach "Why are you people after me...?" Daniel questioned the white-suited man in his 25's with a somewhat tall height and medium wavy black hair with firm glasses; similar to those that Daniel is wearing "So you noticed. Well, we didn't make an effort in hiding it but... It's pretty obvious. Diego wants what you have. We don't know what that is, and neither do we care to know, but we would just like to have it back." Daniel understood what he was saying and what exactly he was referring to "I can't give it back; it's impossible. Tell Diego that..." Daniel further argued, now noticing that there were several white suited individuals spread all over the perimeter, cutting his way "The nerve...!" He cracked a grin now completely face to face with Daniel; the latter shivering from the pressure "That's enough out of you---we just need the body intact." Losing his patience, he decided to take out a pill from his white pants' pocket, threw it up in the air and gulped it once it reached his mouth's surface.

Although Daniel could wait around and see what would happen, the moment the man started to lose his posture and fell down on his knees unleashing a violent scream after taking the pill, Daniel decided to, once again, not fight as he saw a way out of this scenario for him. At the given moment, the road is full of people yet most of them are on standby due to the current moment where all of the attention is on the white-suited man who is screaming in agony. Thus, Daniel followed all other way up to the left; exiting the Grand Mars and as that happened, finally, the white-suited individuals began their chase one by one toward Daniel.

"...I gotta take them all out at once...!!" Daniel committed himself to a plan as he sprinted forward into the darkness of the midnight alleys of Darzarh.

He knew that he couldn't bet on his running ability, so Daniel stuck to one particular formula. First, he ran down a linear hallway with trash cans all over the place, therefore he had to zig his way around in order to not fall down. Not once did he look back in order to not lose time as he judged it would be crucial in the long run. As the hallway allowed two ways to the left and right at the end, Daniel took the right side immediately, following that up with a quick turn to the left. Subsequently, he took a way to the right. After that, to the left, and another left.

Now, Daniel decided to go all the way down south; crossing the exact road that he had started with the moment he decided this run. Around seven white-suited individuals chase after Daniel and the very distance in-between them wasn't far off but moreso, they were coordinating between each other through their phones in order to send several members to block the upcoming corners on the left side from their perspective, but Daniel didn't take the right side now from the south but repeated the exact same path.

Harboring a total of 10 individuals and more coming right behind, Daniel was leading a horde of white-suited people. He repeated the course of going to the right side of the avenue after a bit, then turning to the left rapidly; another right, a left turn, and a single left.

Ultimately, Daniel was actually shooting himself in the foot as he dared to repeat this again, by going south once more.

"Is he mocking us?!" A white-suited male spoke feeling insulted as Daniel just kept on repeating "Just cover all the tracks we've been through, he will run out of gas soon!" Reinforcements now started to stay on the exact same halleys that Daniel had been through so he couldn't go back as it would lead to an ambush.

Daniel's stamina was about to deplet, so he made the decisive call of his plan. Now repeating the same pattern, Daniel took the right, but instead of taking the quick turn to the left side, Daniel progressed forward and started to throw the trash cans and whatever he could, including the dumpsters to block the way. However, this was of little use as they simply jumped over it. Daniel's breath was so ragged and all over the place that it was a clear win for the white-suits. He tried one last turn to the long right this time, successfully achieving what he had seen all along when he looked at the map previously.

The titled "SS" on the map stood for subway station and Daniel knew better than anyone that he could thrive here. Instead of taking step by step down the three stairways---25 steps each---Daniel opted to jump instead of taking on step at the time; his jump containing 3 steps per take.

Multiple people were in shock due to the chase now amount to 20 people after Daniel, who still were unable to caught to Daniel, despite Daniel feeling immensely tired with his abdominal cavity hurting all over. After jumping through those staircases, Daniel had to jump through the machines that would only allow passage if a ticket or a passport was passed through them.

"HEY-HEY!" The two security guards which were laxing around doing little to nothing on their posts noticed how a horde of people were jumping through the machines and began their pursuits.

However, this was to little to no avail as they were out of shape so much that they couldn't even perform an urgency jump and had to pass their passports instead. Daniel took the way to the right where a subway ready to depart under exactly one minute---with its doors still open for anyone to come in. Firstly, Daniel infiltrated the subway from the first carrier from the left, the first from the ten carriers.

When done, Daniel immediately executed his plan even further.

"HELP ME! THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL ME!!" Daniel screamed and shouted to the people in the subway in their own seats and even to the ones who were up, as he kept on running, now far slower and showing despair in his actions.

As Daniel ran through the first carrier, he didn't receive help at first, but a brave soul in the form of a man in his 20's tried to talk back to the first rank of the white-suits who were relentless on this pursuit, only to receive a bullet to the brain in cold blood, creating a chain of screams as shots were fired.

"What the fuck?! They had guns all this time and didn't shoot me?!" Daniel looked back and noticed the flaw in their actions and asked himself why they hadn't shot Daniel at least in the legs to slow down his movements.

Multiple people started to exit the carriers once the white-suits passed through them as they felt no longer in the massive alerting danger of getting shot once they were through their way. Daniel then didn't hesitate to move to the second carrier as fast as he could, which wasn't much by any means.

However, as Daniel kept looking back and forth, he noticed another flaw in their movements. Despite their great numbers, most of the members were not running and were simply walking in Daniel's direction, to which, Daniel found weird but nonetheless kept on marching forward with his plan as he moved to the third carrier.

Some of the individuals on the chase started to even take seats as they didn't feel the necessity to chase Daniel any further.

"...?!" Daniel couldn't help but be extremely alerted as although he thought he had it figured out, he did the one thing that actually kept him from becoming prey to the white-suits' plan.

Through the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ultimately eighth carrier, as the doors were closing, Daniel immediately took the right door that was closing as the subway took off like a bullet. He expected the remaining white-suits in the train to be fuming but they were actually laughing at him, some even rolling on the ground of the carrier they were in.

"What?!" Daniel couldn't make any sense of what was happening, but then through his hearing, once the subway had departed, did he hear loud collective steps emerging from the two stairway cases on the left and right side of this subway stop.

Pratically speaking, Daniel was about to get checkmated, so he took instant action before the remaining upcoming individuals could close in or get a glimpse of him. Daniel jumped down to the railways of the subway that had just departed and crooked down beneath the gap in the edge of the subway's entrance doors usually lay. From there, he took a stride as fast as he could to the left, successfully infiltrating the railways path.

From here on, Daniel ran as fast as he could until he collapsed from exhaustion, no longer being able to get up. The sight of a cockroach did scare him but provoked no reaction as Daniel just couldn't afford to muster a reaction; a physical one to be precise, so he took a few deep breaths, inhaled repetitively and began to think, now with his back against a rusty iron wall made out of gas tubes.

"Ah.... Ah...... Fuck..." Daniel's recovery wasn't going great "...I need to think..." He reassured "Maybe I really should've just gone for it when they were chasing me..." Daniel got up and began to walk further, hoping to reach the next subway station soon.

After walking for a couple of minutes, Daniel did reach the other subway station by walking on the right side of the railways so he wouldn't get caught in-between the subway. He threw his fake glasses away and untied a few buttons of his jacket as well. Once Daniel was able to see illumination from the obscurely dark tunnel, he knew that the subway station was at sight, however, he also noticed that there were white-suits from one side awaiting for him on the right side.

So, Daniel waited until a subway passed through and only after stopping, did Daniel switched up to the left lane where the white-suits weren't present in the station and from there on, Daniel took off as he had once again, escaped to the surface, to his surprise.

However, as Daniel ascended into the Grand Mars, an unpleasant surprise met up with Daniel as he was a few steps away from someone who was chasing him not too long ago. Daniel thought of immediately going down, but this time, he simply surrendered as he figured that whatever this person had in store, would be better for him than this relentless chase.

"Hi, Kyle." Daniel said, with his hands up "What's the plan?" Kyle on his guard after Daniel's sudden attitude, began to grow confused but didn't waste this shot "Shut the fuck up and come with me..." He took hold of Daniel's right arm via brute force and began to walk with him on the right side of the Grand Mars "Kyle---Are you with the white-suits?" Daniel tried to analyze as much as he could out of Kyle's reactions to try and see whether or not he was lying "What...?" But he judged that Kyle wasn't based on the level of confusion in his face "You deserve an academia award if you really are. Listen----do yourself a favor and get away from me. Some white-suited jackasses are chasing me." Daniel spoke the truth to Kyle without sparring anything "Ain't no damn way you're..." Kyle wanted to refute but noticed the absurd amount of spread white-suits looking at Daniel in specific "Holy shit, you're not lying." Kyle realized.

Several of them began to approach Daniel with fast steps, so Daniel had to make his move.

"I don't get why you want me, but if you really, for whatever reason, want to get out of this mess, then we really should cooperate here..." Daniel began to warn Kyle "What mess? Tsuwoon's gonna fucking kill me if I don't have you for him! This is not negotiable, shithead." Kyle was determined to keep Daniel "Tsuwoon?" Daniel attempted to get some information out of Kyle while the latter just kept on pressing forward, basically dragging Daniel with both of his wrists locked in "Doesn't matter and---" Two tall caucasian men in white suits appeared in Kyle's direction from afar and they both had their mini-guns, not ready to load on Daniel, but---"HOLY SHIT!!" Kyle was tucked down by Daniel who managed to let Kyle live another day "Get up! We gotta go, NOW! Take me back to your store without them getting in our way!" Daniel unrealistically demanded that tall order out of Kyle, taking advantage of the situation while Kyle grabbed Daniel's hand "Shit! They fucking shot at me! We're not stopping, you hear?!" Kyle led the way.

No longer holding a leash onto Daniel with his tight grip, Kyle took a detour down the alleys that he knew better than Daniel.

Soon after running and running, through Kyle's guidance, Daniel would arrive to Kyle's store and only after checking up that no white-suits were at sight, did Kyle open the store's door; stuffing Daniel on the inside while closing the door with utmost precision.

"Alright, TALK! I won't settle down for such bullshit like earlier!" Now with everything closed, as Kyle peeked out of the window, did he demand Daniel the truth "I---" Daniel attempted to speak but Kyle had the urge to vomit suddenly "UGH! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SMELL?!" Kyle smelled something and then he noticed the bag that Daniel had left in his store earlier; spreading a baffling smell from it "This is what I wanted to show you earlier but you turned full-prick mode and told someone to get their asses in here..." Daniel accused Kyle as he opened the bag, causing Kyle to actually vomit on the spot "Oh my fucking God---HOW DID YOU GET ALL THIS SHIT?! FROM WHO DID YOU STOLE IT FROM?!" Kyle kept on vomiting in paranoia "Huh?! Why're you so surprised? You sell that type of shit here! A person walks in and sees fucking intestines for sale! Dry legs for show! Eyeballs in bubble capsules!" Daniel claimed while looking at Kyle's products for sale.

Kyle's shop was nothing more than a human organ trafficking store, something beyond illegal. In every standing row there would be organs inside round capsules with green water inside; helping to preserve the organs. With that said, it came as a surprise why Kyle would be so shocked by what Daniel had to present to Kyle if Kyle himself was already familiar with this to the point of owning so many human organs.

"This shit is not mine, you MORON!" Kyle refuted "Fucking GOD, you think I would even touch a fucking organ like that?! I just sell the products and pay for those who can get it to me!" Kyle confirms, cleaning up his mouth "So, I get the pass, right?" Daniel saw no reason as to why he couldn't get money from Kyle based on what he had "Bitch! All this talk, don't change the damn subject! I almost got shot back there! Spill the beans or I'll break your fucking nose!" Kyle, now violent threatened to hurt Daniel "Not unless you tell me why you were snitching on me earlier..." Daniel bargained, giving Kyle a headache "You little shit---It's those damn rings! They're obviously not real gold, but did you know?!" Kyle vaguely asked Daniel, which left him perplexed "Shit, I'm asking you if you knew that they were filled with Mania!" Kyle finally delivered.

That was a word Daniel had never heard before; not at least in the context that Kyle was speaking.

"Mania? What the hell is that? Look---I stole it from some old man's house." Daniel confessed "Could've just said that before! Look, I'm gonna give Tsuwoon a call and when he gets here, you're gonna tell him everything you know." Kyle without hesitation dialed a call to Tsuwoon and quickly ended the call after some ad-lib in the end "And now, we wait." Kyle creates silence and Daniel takes this opportunity to catch a breath and recover "........Not that it's any of my business but..." Kyle made some small talk with Daniel "Hm?" Daniel looked at Kyle while observing some of the organs from the stands "Did you really try to rape Ashley?" Kyle genuinely asked, upsetting Daniel; immediately turning around "Fuck NO! She's lying through her teeth! She asked me five thousand dollars just to take a little swim!" Kyle cracked a grin at Daniel's final words "If there's something worse than narcissistic girls, then it's definitely narcissistic whores---and---" Kyle wanted to continue but his eyes widened as he saw horror outside coming in full force through the side windows "How! How?! This is ridiculous!" Kyle couldn't believe it and neither could Daniel "Damn it... Tsuwoon's gonna fucking bend my spine if you're dead, so get your ass into the basement!" Kyle opened the door at the reception desk; allowing Daniel to go through the stairway case below leading to a dark basement below.

As Daniel descended down the dark stairs below, wondering what would be awaiting for him; he heard a hall of bullets being fired through the windows and as Kyle stepped on the driver's seat with a dash towards the basement below with Daniel, it was clear that the white-suits were not in the mood for a conversation.

"Shit! How did they know?! I made sure I wasn't followed! Fuck!" Kyle kept on cursing as they followed the very end of the stairway case "They just show up out of nowhere! They ALWAYS know where I am!" Daniel says but this didn't help to ease Kyle's nerves "Fucking delightful and insightful, Daniel! Any other useless information you might have to share?!" Mad, Kyle just had to go on "Yeah, well, here's one! What the fuck now?! Hiding in the basement is just gonna get us killed!" Daniel realized that hiding in a basement with only one way out---being the entrance above---is the equivalent of checkmate "Shit!" Kyle kicked the wall on the right.

Kyle's store basement was beyond dark and with little to no time in his hand as well as the upper illumination serving from the stairway, Kyle had to make his move as it became clear that he was now a target.

"Goddamn it, help me out!" Kyle ordered Daniel as he went for the left side and started to move heavy wooden closed boxes to the side "Move the boxes, man!" He further ordered, to which Daniel did move the boxes to his right side, but he struggled doing so as his physical strength wasn't suited for the heavy artillery within those boxes.

After Kyle's store door had been breached, Kyle heard the bell which indicated that a new client had just walked in.

"Slide in or become their prey!" Kyle jumped to a sliding tunnel that the empty space that the boxes were covering unraveled "K-Kyle?!" Daniel panicked as Kyle wasn't very informative "Wait, where the fuck are we going?!" Daniel then heard footsteps coming from the stairway case and chose not to dwell on the vagueness too much as he slide in; but only after putting a heavy wooden box on the entrance of the slider, though this didn't cover it entirely as it was impossible.

Through a very dirty slider with numerous cockroaches prawling around, Daniel and Kyle slode zigzag after zigzag and ended up in a sewer path, now completely on the ground with a water river of about one meter in width on the left side---a quite outrageous obsecenly sewer river.

Kyle got up and shortly after, so did Daniel, as they knew that they wouldn't be the only ones who would find themselves here. So, Kyle took the lead once again and led the way for Daniel forward as they ran full speed away ahead within a slippery ground of elusive cockroaches occasionally.

"Where are we going, Kyle?!" Daniel asked, while looking back and forth on Kyle's side "...." Kyle didn't answer this time "Kyle!" Daniel urged him to answer but after a while, Kyle saw a manual ladder to which they could use to rise to the surface "Use this and pull it all the way up when you're done so they can't use it!" Said Kyle as he took the initiative to pull himself up to the top of the ladder as so did Daniel, ultimately pulling the bottom of the ladder with a stretch back to him so no one could use it unless they used other alternatives.

By pulling up a sewer cover commonly seen in the streets, Kyle and Daniel emerged to the surface with hundreds of people watching in the Grand Mars; though the priority of these two was not to be surprised, so they continued their way forward.

White-suits began to emerge from the sewer cover that they used and their numbers showed to be close to 30.

"Kyle!" Daniel wanted some answers "To the left!" Kyle took a detour down to the left side tresspasing several people via brute force, Daniel now starting to recognize the familiar place "Kyle---you fucker!" Daniel had successfully been taken back to where he also didn't want to be in, as multiple security guards immediately put Daniel's body down along with the right side of his face to the cold ground "You owe me, just saying..." Kyle, slightly out of breath spoke, not in Daniel's direction, but someone else's "We'll figure that out later, Kyle. And as for you---" Ashley puts the very sharp edge of her right boot's heel on Daniel's head "You're in for a whole world of pain..." Ashley steps on Daniel over and over "ARGH!!" Daniel, unable to withstand the pain from the sharp edge unleashed a scream while looking at Ashley from below with a demon's face "Get... Your fucking---" Daniel attempted to backlash at her, but she simply continued to press on his head, leaving him unable to do get back up.

Daniel was dragged inside by the security guards via brute force; having two guards on each side of his arms, completely locking him out of movement. Subsequently, he was forced to kneel down in front of what appeared to be now Ashley, Cindy, Kyle, the head of the security guards, and all the present security guards, amounting to a total of 30.

"If some fucking white-suits pricks enter the perimeter, shoot them down!" Kyle tried to order the head of the security guards "I don't take orders from you." He refuted Kyle "Whatever..." Kyle brushed this off with little to no concern "Hey. Hurry up and do it." Ashley spoke to the head of the security guards, and this man delivered a frontal kick to Daniel's face "!!!" Daniel silently felt agony and pain but didn't unleash a scream "You OWE ME five thousand dollars, damn rapist!" Ashley, once again, didn't hold back on the accusations "...Fuck you..." Daniel silently said that "The fuck did you just say?" Ashley mad, rushed in to Daniel's position and released a kick with her high frontal heels to his face, causing an immediate fracture "AAHHHH!!!" This time, Daniel couldn't hold himself back from screaming "Hey-hey! Don't fuck him up too badly! I need him to talk to Tsuwoon! He'll be here soon!" Kyle reveals "...What? Oh..." Daniel realized that he had been tricked by Kyle.

Kyle's trick was fairly simple in a way. However, Daniel didn't care too much about this; as his eyes were on nothing else but the door's entrance which was tightly guarded by several black suits. Kyle and Cindy would watch back and forth to the door attempting to figure out what Daniel was thinking about as Daniel endured more and more beating.

"H-Hey...!! HEY! You fucker, you had all this planned out!" Kyle accused Daniel, while Daniel couldn't help himself but smile a bit though he reverted back to his initial expression "I thought you're smarter than this Kyle." Daniel said with the utmost of confidence "Kyle, what the hell?" Cindy asked Kyle who was just as confused "This is a fucking set up! Fuck this shit, I'm out of her---" Kyle attempted to leave the spot to save himself, but a rain of bullets began to be heard from the door's entrance "Shit! Shit! Every time, they just know! How?!" Kyle lost his mind at the unexplained phenomenon as the door was rapidly breached by the white-suits; dragging down all of the black suited guards mercilessly.

Calmly, the multitude of white-suited individuals with blood running down from their temples across their faces, entered as they opened fire to all the black suited guards.

"Shit... FIR---" The head guard of the black-suits attempted to issue the order but his face was pierced with a shower of bullets coming from the back rank of the now spread white-suits "Motherfucker...!!" Kyle enraged, looked at Daniel as the remaining guards were all shot dead with no exceptions, causing absolutely zero white-suits to fall down in contrast "O-Oh my fucking---GYAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Ashley screamed beyond her lungs as she started to run upstairs "A-Ashley! Wait u---" Cindy's torso receive a grand total of seven bullets and her body hit the floor in no time "Oh God, Oh God! Fuck no, I'm not dying here!" Ashley also attempted to make a run for it "I'm no-------" She ended up receiving a bombardment to her chest from behind as well as several headshots; her body emitting a fountain of blood now completely decorating the red staircase with her eyes lifeless.

The last one standing---Kyle---took the only approach he thought would make him get out of there alive.

"Don't shoot!" Kyle threatened the white-suits as they halted "Don't you FUCKING shoot!" With a mini-gun Kyle had snatched from the now dead head guard, Kyle forcefully pointed it at Daniel's right side of the head while holding him with his left elbow through a neck-lock "I don't fucking know why, but it's him that you want, so, you either fucking listen to me or---" Kyle's face was pulverized with numerous bullets leaving no quarter for him as his body dropped down on the ground---his left arm running through Daniel's left shoulder "...." Daniel immediately took ahold of the gun that Kyle was using.

At the sight of this, none of them dared to approach any further, which confirmed something that Daniel had already been suspecting about.

"Let me guess---"Don't kill him, no matter what."?" Daniel asked the multitude and one particular man stepped forward, possessing long black hair---and someone that Daniel had previously encountered in a bar "Impressive, but if you already know, then you know how this ends for you." He claims, leaving Daniel in a long think "...." Daniel then looks at the gun and decides to aim at him "If you won't kill me, then I'll just have to get rid of you..." Daniel pulls the trigger onto the man, which leaves him with a hole on his chest "Follow with the plan. Commence!" A female individual ordered, completely uncaring of what had just happened.

Every white-suit in the area marched forward to Daniel's position, and Daniel shot as many as he could, though not with utmost accuracy---he got five in total however, missed around two individuals and just as he was about to be grabbed by them, he shot himself in the head.

"ALL OF YOU, BACK AWAY, NOW!" The same voice orders, thus all the white suits began to retreat, moving out of the club.

Furthermore, while they could, they took Kyle's dead body, Cindy's dead body, Ashley's dead body, and as many other dead bodies as they could carry as a loud roar alerted in the sky above coming down to Daniel's position. From the rooftop of the club, the throne came crashing down nonstop, to which Daniel began to regain minimal consciousness.

"........." Daniel extended his hand towards the throne, with the will of being in the throne and he was warped right back to the throne in its positional stance as the remaining blood in the box began to fill Daniel.

Not only that, but the throne started to emit black lines attempting to capture the blood of any living body nearby; which was witnessed to reach those within the street; causing several people to die, erupting chaos in the Grand Mars. Fastly, the brain box was filled with blood and Daniel managed to recover rather swiftly.

"....." Daniel looked at the brain box and noticed that it wasn't completely full for some reason "That's odd. It always tries to absorb as much as it can, so what gives...?" He got up from the throne and started to walk forward; noticing that none of the dead bodies were present "......" Daniel's confusion grew as he also noticed that he wasn't fully recovered yet was feeling authentically vitalized "Hold on, don't tell me that it has a..." Daniel assumed the logical thing "So it has a range." Diego, from a Taco stand, eating on his own in a crowded reception stand in the Grand Mars, on the phone with one of his subordinates confirms "Yes---the black line stopped chasing any further than what seemed to be a hundred meters." The man know as Dave, now with the rest of the white-suits awaited Diego's order as the former put the call on speakers so everyone could hear Diego; meanwhile, havoc ran rampart as the sheer amount of dead people within the Grand Mars was not something to laugh at "I see. We'll follow with the plan then. Also, how many?" Diego vaguely asked, now finishing his spicy taco while adjusting his fisher hat "Six, Boris included." Dave delivered.

As Diego heard this, his eyes began to glow a smooth golden fluctuating light aura as he focused on something of his own caliber.

"......." Daniel now at the entrance of the club didn't witness a single white-suited individual nearby as the club was now more dead than ever. Only a few people remained at the entrance afterward gossiping what had gone down earlier.

Daniel wasn't fully recovered and he felt mild fatigue now that he was away from the throne. Even if he went back to it, Daniel was convinced that it wouldn't matter because it had stopped draining blood from his surroundings. However, Daniel went against his mind and returned back to the club, sat down on the throne and hoped for a new result.

"...Why? There are people nearby..." No such result was achieved, as Daniel was hoping to drain the life of those near the entrance.

For some time now, Daniel had assumed that the throne would simply suck the life out of those nearby him, transferring all their blood onto the brain box, over and over.

"Is that really not the case?" Daniel started to realize the limitations of his power yet couldn't find the answer to this particular problem.

Daniel left the throne for good this time while trying to think of what to do now. Back to the entrance of where he was just a while ago, Daniel thought if leaving Darzarh wouldn't be met with an overwhelming force of white-suits. In the end, Daniel realized that no matter what plan he made, if he had received the same treatment as earlier, that it wouldn't matter.

But, this didn't meant that everything was lost, as Daniel got an idea.

On his alert, Daniel looked over and over to see if he could spot white-suits, as he was dying to face them, willing to turn on his power were he to encounter some. Nevertheless, much to his dismay, he found absolutely zero white-suits within the Grand Mars. Although there had been severely reported dead people, it would be a temporary thing as many people don't actually care if one lives or dies; the district known as Darzarh has no strict laws or someone to enforce them.

After some minutes of walking, for the third time, Daniel got inside a place where he had obtained money; Kyle's store. The entrance of his store was all blown up from the gunshots and the door that was rather cranky already from the get-go. But, the door was completely thrown sideways, so all Daniel had to do was to elevate his left leg slightly higher and he could pass through. Daniel tried to light up the illumination lamps but this only lasted seconds, to his displease.

Water was spilled all over the floor, to be more precise---chemical liquid was. This was due to the gunfire earlier, completely blowing up most of the organs that were in the water capsules. This further meant that most organs were actually spilled on the floor. Daniel thought that he would throw up at the sight of exposed organs, but he was able to calmly look at them without throwing up. He felt slight disgust but nothing that went beyond that.

These organs on the left varied from intestines, pancreas, livers, stomaches, lungs, hearts, kidneys, urinary blades, larynxs, and many others. However, amongst those organs, only one in particular caught Daniel's attention--an organ that he had not noticed the two prior times he was there before. This particular organ was unscathed by the gunshots, as it was on the very top of all the stands, on its own, without any other capsules nearby----Daniel found himself immediately drooling and his stomach howled louder than any other time he had starved before.

Daniel's mouth saliva increased over and over, carelessly dripping to the ground, as his mouth became more detached. However, this particular organ was out of reach, as it was on the very top of the shop's ceiling; without a way to get to it. Considering that the shop's height was over than ten meters, without a ladder to get there, Daniel wouldn't be able to get it.

"It's green.... Oh, that beautiful... Green..." Daniel found himself saying words that he didn't particularly agree with "If only there was a way, I would be able to fulfill this..." Daniel started to look around the store for a way to get there.

In his mind, there would be no conceivable way for Kyle to hold on to something like that without a way to give it to a customer, so he looked for a hidden mechanism within the store. From Daniel's perspective, the left and right side of the store all contained space for the organs to be accumulated. Daniel figured if there really was a hidden mechanism that it would be within Kyle's reach, and not just in some random customer, like Daniel, for example. Therefore, Daniel went to the reception desk.

In there, Daniel looked below it to find something that would catch his attention but he only found an empty wooden gap in-between. He tried to search for some sort switch but he found none.

"Motherfucker...!" He continued to growl, extremely hungry with his stomach feeling like he had a thousand needless inside "No way you'd just keep this without a way to get it..." Daniel became dogmatically convinced that his belief was right, so he checked the area where the money was kept for something interesting, but he firstly stole all of the money and placed it on his jacket's left breast pocket inside.

He collected over five hundred dollars, which, with his previous money holds a bit higher than six hundred dollars, so Daniel's financial situation had slightly improved to say the least. In addition to that, Daniel stole Kyle's glasses that he had used to analyze the rings and simply placed it on his right pants' pocket, not doing anything with it just yet. He closed the money switch once, looked at the highest ceiling where the organ was placed, hoping for something to happen, but it never did. He tried this again, two times, but nothing happened again.

"It's not here..." Daniel was struggling to keep his patience, so he gave up on trying to find some sort of mechanism.

This was mostly due to the fact that there was no illumination and Daniel had no phone to work with. Furthermore, the stands with the organs were not placed in sequence---for example, Daniel couldn't climb from one to another manually because they were sustained by steel chains from the top of the ceiling, which made things even more complicated for Daniel.

"If I had away to bring those steel chains down from the top, then it would be possible..." Daniel then realized "No doubt about it, the mechanism holds a way to bring down those chains, but..." He saw no way of bringing those chains down.

Daniel then gave up on trying to find a mechanism in the current area and went to the place where he was in, not too long ago. In the darkness, Daniel took one step down, another, another successful one, and...

"OH SHIT!" Daniel tumbled down at least twenty degrees until he hit the rock bottom, his back hurting from the impact as well as his overall body from all the edges he had got hit by "...Damn it...." He got up very slowly, supported by his right forearm on the ground; his back all crooked.

Blindly, Daniel tried to tap into a place where a light would work, but over a whole minute of going back and forth, he was unsuccessful in doing so. However, after a while, Daniel, all the way to the left, found a trigger switch that upon hitting it, immediately covered the entire basement with poor yet sufficient illumination. Daniel practically saw a conjunction of wooden boxes everywhere, but he started noticing that they were all locked with locks that only were possibly opened with a key designed for such an opening.

As before, Daniel tried to see if there would be something below the boxes that were perfectly aligned to the right side, in this low-height basement. If Kyle was hiding an escape root through below the boxes, then Daniel figured that hiding something in addition wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

"Found it." Daniel said, as he drove one of the heaviest boxes to which he could not even see what it was inside, to the left side.

What Daniel found was a wooden cover in a square shape that had a manual switch, to which Daniel simply pushed up, revealing a manual ladder with a way below. With little to no hesitation, Daniel opted to go down, and there he saw that he was in the sewers once again, with only a major difference.

"A control panel..." Daniel went to his left side and saw a panel hogged on the rustic spiky steel wall with dozens of buttons to press on the center, and three manual switches on the bottom layer "Great, there are literally no fucking indications..." Daniel was looking at a panel without instructions with no clue where to press, however, he had to start with something "Let's go with this one." Daniel attempted to press the first manual switch to the left from the bottom, but then he heard a rumbling from above "What the fuck was that...?" He ran to the ladder where he came from, looked at above and saw only darkness "?!" He climbed up the ladder, noticing that he was completely blocked out of where he came from due to a wooden box completely covering it "Damn it!" Daniel tried to move the box, but it required too much strength to pull it up, and as Daniel's physical strength isn't his forte, he ultimately couldn't "HEY! LET ME OUT OF HERE! DON'T THINK YOU'LL GET AWAY WITH THIS!" Furious, Daniel spared no comments but no comments came from the other side in contrast.

Helpless, Daniel descended the stairs and made up his mind quickly. He had been in this scenario only from a different position in the sewers. His plan was to go back to the surface, eliminate the threat by coming back to Kyle's shop and then he would repeat the process and try to find which switch allowed Daniel to obtain what he wanted. Therefore, Daniel started to run to his right without wasting any time.

"....." Daniel halted as he saw three white-suited individuals just below one of the sewer covers that would allow Daniel to go back to the surface via the ladder "I don't have time for this...!" Without any introductions left to spare, Daniel didn't waste any time and took out a mini-knife that he had bought from the drugery shop, and sliced his throat, causing a bombastic rain of blood to flourish from his throat as his body fell down on the ground "Jesus Christ...!!" A white-suited individual, a 16 year old boy, backed off two steps as Daniel's lunatic commitment instantly threw him off guard "Dude's batshit crazy, what the fuck!?" A black haired woman in a white suit also points out as a loud sonic sound is heard from the sky, even to this underground.

As usual, the throne would appear right to Daniel and he would be able to retreat back to safety.

Or, so, would one think.

"It took a wall of at least 30 of us to stop its movements!" From the outside of Kyle's shop, Dave informed Diego from the rooftop of the store, where thirty dead bodies squashed by the throne that idly stood on that rooftop, remained "Good work. Just bring the body. All this for one person; this is luxury treatment." Diego hangs up and Dave, along with the rest of the still alive white-suited members start going down to Kyle's shop, in Daniel's direction.

Noticing an unfamiliarity, Daniel with just his life at 1%, completely enters paranoia as he doesn't see the throne anywhere near him.

".............W...............hattttt.........." Daniel could barely speak through his sliced throat, as he dragged his body forward mashing his dripping blood on the ground "We figured that you could just call your throne if you killed yourself, or... tried to... I don't know how you're still alive after that, it makes no sense..." The black haired woman couldn't figure out why Daniel was still able to hang on "But you're nothing without your throne, Daniel!" The remaining third member, now emerging from the shadows, shows up in front of Daniel, in a white suit as well, to Daniel's complete dismay "..........H-How............." The sight of his red hair, the unpending terror in Daniel's face grew rampart as Rodrick unveiled himself "Missed me? Yeah, I fucking know you did!" Rodrick unleashed a kick on Daniel's stomach and a punch to Daniel's temple completely knocking him out.

Daniel's consciousness began to fade away, as his body was carried over by the three of them.