After leaving the ghost city of Zoron, I realized I must find her before the rest of the group. No matter what. I will head north towards the city of Doto, the capital of Safrin. As I head there, I thought it would be a good time to pin locations on the map. As I concentrated on the towns and locations of countries they appear on the map. I also did this with the members of my group by using [Esp] on the map. [Esp] is a mental ability I created to find and sense anyone in this universe. I was surprised by seeing that all nine of them were highlighted on the map. Yet a smile creaked onto my face at the thought that I could find them again. As I looked at the map, the markers locate the exact location of each person, their age, and their name. She is in the Demi-Human country, I wonder why I can't I locate her exact location. I can only see where she is on the continent, I might need help. Hmm? This is? WHAT THAT CLOSE?!? 

{Twelve Years Ago}

Mommy said that we are going somewhere today as a trip. I have never had a vacation or trip before! I am very excited. Mommy said to pack everything I have in the box to take with me, I do not know why but I did it. I went to see mommy and daddy and ask when we are leaving.

“Alrighty then, let’s take this piece of shit out of your way. Here are your money and food, I hope you enjoy it.” A man’s voice coming from mommy and daddy that I never heard before said.

When I see mommy and daddy I smiled and ran up to her leg and hugged it. I looked up to mommy’s face, why does she look mad at me? I wanted to help her feel better. No-one should feel mad or sad.

“Are you ok mommy?” I asked her first. She looked at me in disgust and using her arm pushed me off of her leg and pushed me into the wall. Mommy may have been playing but the hurt a lot.

“Mommy when are we leaving?” I asked mommy when I looked at her while being against the wall.

Why aren’t mommy and daddy talking? Did I do something? Who are these men, are they bad? AM I BEEN SENT AWAY WITH BAD MEN MOMMY?

“Mommy, Daddy why are you sending me away with these bad guys? D-Did I do something wrong? Was I a bad boy?” I asked my parents, as they ate the first hot meal I have ever seen in my life. My mouth started to water

“Shut the fuck up and leave our site you disgrace.” My father told me as he kicked my small stomach. The layers of fat that should have been there would have lowered the amount of pain, yet since there was only skin and bones it felt like my body snapped in half. CRACK. The pain is instantly felt everywhere in my body, I almost passed out by the kick. My stomach hurts so much daddy. I guess bad boys can cry too… WHAAAAAAAAAAA. Did mommy and daddy never want me? Wait why is the bad man grabbing me by the arm. OW! My whole body is hurting so much. What did I do to deserve this? THONK. What was that thing the bad man had? Why did the bad… hit… me…

{Days later}

Everything is fuzzy, I can only see a few images then I pass out again. Mommy and daddy never wanted me… I guess I shouldn’t have been born. Wait it seems like the loud big box had stopped moving. I slowly moved my hand to the very painful spot on my neck rubbing the sore spot. As I looked through the hole on the side of this box I saw a very small house. The house looked run down, barely holding on for dear life. On the front door was a black cube, nothing else was present on the door. The man grabbed me by my ripped up, old shirt, pulling me out of this moving box, and threw me onto the ground. My tummy, still damaged from my daddy, felt more in pain than before. It felt like my insides were stabbed, I started to cough up a red liquid. I only see this liquid when I have been a bad boy. Daddy would hit me until this liquid would come out, then he would stop.

As I coughed, I looked up to see the man grabbing something from the front of the moving box. When he looked at me, this time with the item he pulled me up and pushed me to the front door of the house. When we reach the door, he lifts up the item he grabbed from the car. Now I can easily see what it was. It was two-dimensional cube-shaped badge. He lifted the badge up to the door and pushed it into the same shaped hole on the door. The door opened automatically when the badge was pushed into the hole.

“Welcome to hell, you rat. Remember to do everything you are told or your toast. Oi director, I have number zero here!” The man yelled towards a skinny, tall man wearing a red lab coat.

“Well done.” The director said as he walked over to us. He walked up to me, and lift his left arm revealing something round and long. When his hand reached my collarbone he stabbed the needle behind my collarbone and squeezing in a liquid into my body. Since I am used to pain, I don’t freak out or scream at all.

“A dead one, Huh? Well, it won’t matter, since you are my first. It will make things easier this way anyways, no life no fight. Am I right? I will do everything in my power to make you bow. Get him to his zone, we start the testing in an hour!” The director happily said. Zones are locations in the Black Box which you live in.

{Five Years Later}

I have been in this shit hole for five whole years now. Ever since the first tests on the day I arrived I have changed. I am glad that I won’t be the only person fucked anymore. I am leaning on the wall next to the gates to the underworld. The location where people can enter and exit. There are going to be more people thrown into hell with me! I am excited. I really don’t care about what gender they are nor do I care anything about them. Only that I can not be the only one to share this torture. Apparently the new program, Neurological Extract of Creatures Operation or N.E.C.O for short, is going to be the main focus of this test subject. While I am the test subject for the Attribute Enhancement Program or A.E.P for short. From what I understand from the test, they are slicing DNA of animals and humans to create a creature that has both attributes for war purposes. Chameleon was the first test, which didn’t work out. Zoe the only other person to ever come here beside me exploded on the test to blend in. God that was a mess to clean up. I hope they do any other animal then Chamelion, I hated the cleanup so fucking bad. Then there where the other fifty-nine subjects. Nevermind that, I don’t want to think of the fucking messes. Oh, wait here they come! As I looked at the door sliding open, I see the most beautiful girl in the world. She looked about twelve with beautiful golden hair that went all the way down to her back. Her eyes were amber in color. She had a school uniform on, this just added to her appeal. I smiled as I looked at her. I thought at the moment I first saw her, was to protect her. When James, the same man who brought me in, yelled out to the director. I moved at my now normal speed and appeared behind her.

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“Don’t be scared, the name’s Hyu. I will protect you no matter what. What’s your name?” I quietly said as nicely as I could. She jumped, yet quickly regained her composure.

“A-Airi.” She quietly spoked.

“That is a beautiful name. Don’t be too scared I will visit you later.” I whispered back as I moved away.

After meeting her, I didn’t see her for the next few weeks. After these weeks went by, we finally met face-to-face. I was leaning against the wall in the waiting room for the director to call me in. When she walked in shyly, trying not to draw attention to herself. This caused me to look up, to see her appearance changed.

“You look more beautiful than the first day I met you Airi. It looks like it was a success. I’m glad, I really hoped that nothing would happen to you. There seems to not be many changes with you at all.” I said as I smile at her, while still leaning against the wall.

Honestly, she had grown more beautiful since I saw her a few weeks back. She only had a few changes with her appearance. Her eyes had now become two different colors. Her right eye was still amber in color, while her left eye was now blue in color. Her hair is now halfway down her back and her ears were gone. They were now cat-like ears. This had caused my heart to skip a beat when I saw her. Yet, I didn’t lose my composure.

“Y-You’re Hyu? P-Please don’t look at me, I look like an animal. You don’t look like me, does that mean you didn’t go through what I did? Where are we at? Do you know when we will ever be released? Why do we-” She frantically started to send question flying towards me. I interrupt her mid-sentence.

“Hold your horses there. One question at a time. First of all, you’re cute with those ears. Embrace them like they are your own, as they now are. I will look at you since it’s just us, as test subjects. I am your only family now, same way with you. We are at the Black Box, I don’t know much about it. Only that when we are needed we will go to war. No, we won’t ever be released since we are liability and it would be easier to kill us instead of sending us off. We were picked because no-one cared about us. So they will use us since no-one wanted us. That’s why we were taken here. Also since your here that means we will train together. I will help you, and as I said earlier protect your cuteness also. Don’t worry anymore, I am only here since I have no place to go. No-one can stop me. Also, be grateful that you are not in the other Black Box locations, the test subjects are sent to war every day.” I told her as she sat down in one of the chairs. Once I finish talking, the director walks in to guide us to the same old training location. I don’t know how they do it, but every time I completely flatten it the next day it is perfectly fine.

{Five Years Later}

Today is the final batch of people to this Black Box location. We will receive a hundred people, which will fill the zones up. I had my arm around Airi, as she was buried into my chest. She was scared that the new test subjects will fear her because of her ears. I kept reassuring her that she had nothing to fear since I would kill anyone who would lay their hands on her. After hearing the truth, she loosened up and watch the new test subjects walk into the underworld with me. I laughed as I saw how scared each and every person was. At that moment, I felt a soft playful smack on my arm. I looked over to see Airi giggling. I smiled and thought that I must protect her even if I die I will protect her. I kissed her forehead. Ever since she was dropped into this situation, we had begun to grow closer and closer. I guess you would say our relationship is dating. I honestly don't want this to end. This is another reason why the Black Box has helped me. Besides the endless experiments, torture, and examinations this place had given me a lot of things and taken a lot of things in return

"I really do love you."  I said as I smile at her.

Only eight of the original hundred survived the tests. I guess the odds are pretty low, Huh? They called us Moons, for some reason now. Well, that really doesn’t matter anyway. No matter how long goes by they don’t know their place. It has been months after those five test subjects survived and now they are acting like they own the place. The only thing that does matter is that these five know their damn place, the other three are perfectly fine. Yet, I can’t do shit since the director is blackmailing me to not use all my powers. If he touches a hair on her head I will fucking murder every single one of them. I will keep my promise and not use my powers at their full power. If I didn’t have Airi to keep me calm, I would fucking chop off the heads of those five for even talking to me let alone trying to bully me. I can’t believe that I have to act like a disabled retard to save my girlfriend, yet I would do anything for her so I will put it up for her. I will act as a team member as long as I have to, as long as I can hold her and see her smile. As time goes on, I made a few friends out of the three that separated themselves from the rest. We trained together, while I was limiting myself. This gave me the ability to actively limit my power, this was the main reason for me doing this.

{Two Years Later}

I wake up to see that Airi wasn’t next to me. I imminently moved to all zones belonging to those five to try to find Airi. I know they want her, so I broke the promise and moved at full speed to locate her. I couldn’t find anyone, not even Airi. While I was thinking this the director went on the intercom. (THIS IS CHAPTER ONE IS TAKING PLACE HERE)

{Present}

H-Hanzo? He is very close to me. It says he is sealed in the Dungeon of Shinjiru. If my thoughts are right I need his help. The dungeon is in the city of Doto, the capital of Safrin. Knowing that Hanzo is sealed in the dungeon I knew I had to get moving and fast. I used [Step] to teleport straight to Hanzo, for some reason I couldn’t teleport inside of the dungeon at all. Since I couldn’t use it to get to Hanzo, I [Step] to teleport to right outside of Shinjiru. As I walked up to the entrance of the dungeon, two men stepped infront of me.

“Do you have a guild permit? If not, you can’t step into the dungeon. Along with the permit, reveal your face. Put down that hood!” The man on the right said to me.

!?!

At that moment, I had two spears inches from my neck. When this occured, I gave up being somewhat nice to these fucktards. I used [Step] to instantly slice their necks and procceded to make them limb-less in that same second. Three cuts per person made the killing quite fast. The blood launched from their bodies like a water fountain, covering my coat in blood splatter. This decorated my coat in pattern both terrifing and beautiful. The people around the entrance of the dungeon started to scream and scatter, leaving only a few people drawing their weapons to me.

"My friends, I just want to enter. Is that such a problem? I have to enter, or will you stand between us?" I casually said, while smiling. At that moment, I released all my murderous aura and at that moment I sliced down all four of the people. I moved at such a high speed that it looked like I didn't even moved. One second they all were breathing, scared of death. The next they were welcomed by the thing they were once afraid of. I turned around to looked at the door that blocked the entrance to the dugeon. I fucking blew that shit up, and walked in. 

Is this a !?!