The Mercedes Series S coasted down the highway, all the while with Alice hanging her arm around Crist neck. A rather distracting issue, mind you, while the car is charging forward at more than 140km/h. 

“Alice, could you mind not distracting me while I drive?” Crist moved his shoulders unnaturally. He could not help but feel the awkward at the soft sensation he felt transmitted from his arms.   

“Crist, if you can’t even drive properly with this little distraction, how did you expect to protect me when you enter Golden Imperial University? Will you be distracted by all those pretty girls then?” Alice said while snuggling even closer to Crist, as if she was marking her possession. 

“Alice, you know I have no interest in girls. Besides, this is an entirely different matter!” Crist replied in an outburst as he tried his best to suppress the rising emotions within him at Alice’s actions. 

“That’s why I know you will be mine forever.” 

A chill travelled down Crist spine. His sister just mentioned something really scary, didn’t she? 

“Hmm…Crist, why are you looking at me like that?” Alice, tilting her head, said while looking at Crist. 

“Nothing…Nothing at all…”

The car continued cruised along the highway leading directly into the heart Imperial City. By right, there should be a multitude cars heading from the suburbs to city too. However, there is none. This oddity was not missed by Crist. 

“Alice, get down at the count of three. ” Crist said. He had long forgotten about his embarrassment at Alice with the arrival of this new threat. 

Alice nodded her head in assent. She knew that this was not the time to play coy. Trusting Crist to protect her life, she prepared herself for the signal to duck. 

Sliding one hand nonchalantly down to his side, Crist continued to drive the car as if nothing was wrong. His hand, however, had already clasped on to a pistol hidden in the side holster of the car.

“3”

“2”

“1!”

Adrenaline coursed through his veins in that instant. Pointing his pistol towards the side of the car, a single bullet was fired. 

“Bang!” 

Cries of agony tore through the silence of the empty highway. A single hooded man dropped out of one of the building in the distance, clutching on his chest, his heart in shreds. 

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

The second and third gunshot occurred concurrently, before shower of sparks signalled the collision of both projectiles. Meanwhile, Crist, grabbing onto Alice, jumped out of the car whilst it is still moving.

“Boom! Bang!”

The humongous explosion blew the expensive hundred thousand dollars Mercedes S exploded into shrapnel tearing through air. Crist eyes flared green for an instant as a fourth gunshot miraculously weaved throughout the shrapnel before reaching the brows of another hooded man, outpouring another cry of agony into the empty highway. 

However, it is not over. The shrapnel from the explosion tore through his bare flesh as he desperately used his body as a shield for Alice as they jumped away from the explosion. A roar of agony left Crist throat as he felt his flesh ripped off by the shrapnel. 

A safe distance away from the smothering wreckage of the car, Crist laid crouching on the ground with Alice by his side. His eyes, by now flaring with an intense shade of green, traced an path through the air as he scanned the surroundings. Right now, they are in the middle of an industrial park, filled with factories and warehouses, all abandoned.  

“We are still 30 minutes away from entering Imperial City proper.” Crist ruffled his hair in frustration. “Whats worst, even the nano-carbon reinforced car was destroyed. If we stay here, we would be attac—ouch!” 

Crist grimaced in pain as he felt a finger gently prod at his wounds. Turning his head around, he saw Alice looking at him with tears in her eyes. “Sorry…” she whispered, “It was all my fault.” 

Bringing Alice into a gentle embrace, Crist ruffled her hair while speaking to her with a tinge of warmed in his cold voice. “It is not your fault, Alice. It isn’t the first time this has happen anyways.”

“But…but…” She was silence by the tender touch of Crist finger on her cherry pink lips. 

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“Don’t say anything more, okay? We need to contact <> as soon as possible and ask them why are we being assaulted! Didn’t they swear to gurantee our safety?!” A touch of anger creeped into Crist voice. 

—————

<>. That was the name of the organisation that found Crist in that facility so many years ago. 

“Work for us.” That was the only thing that was said to Crist by a faceless individual Crist couldn’t care to remember. Shielding Alice behind his back despite her protest, Crist looked on at man with cold, heartless eyes. 

“Why.” A single word came out of Crist. 

“For your abilities. You know you are special, right? The <> that you possess, the <>. This facility was created for you. To kill you emotions, making you nothing more than a killing machine. Even the girl behind you, Alice, was created to affect you the most emotionally, so that when you kill them, you will feel the most pain. However, it looks like the one behind you was a defect.”

“…” 

“Do you want to take revenge against the people who made you so? Find them, kill them, and make them experience the hell you have been through. If you work for us, we can tell you where to find them.”

“There is no need for that. All I want is the guarantee that she,” gesturing to Alice, “would be safe.” 

Alice looked up in surprise at Crist. A cacophony of emotions clashed in her heart. Even though she should be hating him, somehow, in her heart, she felt a stirring of emotions that she could not understand. “Why? Why are you helping me?!” she screamed at Crist. Why was that murderer helping her? 

“Because we are family.” That was the only reply. 

—————

Leading Alice by the crook of her arm, they quickly made a dash for the nearby warehouse. Shooting the lock open, they scrambled in just as another bullet clashed onto the tarmac in front of them. 

Once they are in, Crist took out a transceiver hidden in his jean pocket. The transceiver was beeping with a rhythmic tone, signalled a incoming contact.  

“Are you all right!” A anxious feminine voice shouted into the transceiver the moment Crist picked it up. 

“Yes, Angeline, we are currently taking shelter in an abandoned warehouse. Now, can you tell me WHAT IS GOING ON!” Crist voice got progressively louder as he spoked into the transceiver. There are in Imperial City territory, where <> headquarters is located. Why are they being assaulted in <> territory?!

“Crist! Calm down! It is <>. You got to watch out. We are still trying to track their positions but it appears that one of Archangels are after you. They want—“

“That’s enough, isn’t it.” A voice deep in the warehouse whispered. “I am one of the Archangels, Azrael, the Angel of Death. Hand over <> Alice and I will grant you a peaceful trip to the afterlife, <>.”

Against the side of the wall, eye’s devoid of any colour, leaned a pale ghastly figure dressed all black. Grasping on to sword crowned on the hilt with a skull, his empty gaze locked on to Alice. 

Author's Notes: 

From now on it will be one chapter per day. 

Whoooo....finally can we get into some fighting action! Now, in regards to Crist not being are heartless person, he still is. Except that he only cares about his sister, kind of like Tatsuya from Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei if you think about it. Heck, thinking about it now, my story is kind of like Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei too. Damn....

In regards to the VR portion of the book, it will be tied onto the main plotline too. So don't worry if it will be clashing or changing the story. The ratio of RL to VR action will kind of be like 4:6. 

Now, how to write the VR part...

P.S: Need help deciding whether to make the RL portion supernatural or sci-fi. Would you like cool magically abilities or sci-fi technology goodness.