After waking up, he noticed something was different about his left arm. A steel prosthetic arm replaced it. On the side of it, XIO was written. Ross was confused about how he got a prosthetic limb when he was not conscious and didn't go limb replacer. It was a mystery to him.

'Wait, what happened to my limb?!'

Before he could answer his question, another one came to his mind, 'How am I still alive, and why didn't it kill me?'

His question is answered when the monster dashes toward James, smashing into an invisible barrier and making a loud noise. When hitting the shield, an outline rushes from bottom to top. However, it was damaged so badly that one more strike would shatter it. So, a second later, it went inside the barrier.

Ross thought of a way to find Samuel and the exit, but his thoughts were interrupted when the Iron Jaw destroyed the barrier. It jumped toward Ross, almost about to bite his head off if he didn't block the attack. The XI0 was inside the Iron Jaw Monster's mouth.

James hit the monster's side with his other hand, making it fly back. Sparks of dust were created after the beast hit the wall.

Nothing happened to his left arm when it was inside of the strong monster's maw. It was strong.

'Wow, my new hand is strong!' He thought after seeing that.

The monster gets up, and fairs of light come from its eyes, followed by dashing toward James.

The Iron Jaw Monster jumped over Ross, surprising him when it went behind him, so James clapped his hands. Shock waves from clapping threw James and the monster backward.

***

From the XI0, nanobots dashed toward his back, forming a protective black armor inside his back, protecting him.

The Iron Jaw Monster prevented it from getting injured by using its jaw, which stuck it into the wall. However, it forcefully removed its jaw from the wall by consuming lots of drywall to get unstuck. After escaping, it rushed toward James.

When Diamond saw shockwaves, she threw her lunch to the ground in the security room, wasting well-done steak and gravy on top.

"James, you are a cheater. Whatever that shadow was, it gave you that arm—then placed a barrier to protect you from my master's design until you came back." She was walking around while talking to herself.

"Should I call him?"

A man appeared behind the darkness and said, "Who are you trying to call, Diamond?" He was always there waiting for Diamond to stop talking to herself.

"Holy shit! You sacred daylight of me, Horse?!" She jumped up after he suddenly talked.

He asked again, "Who are you talking about, Diamond?"

She replied to Horse, "I was talking about your brother, Shoe. Happy now!"

"Why?"

Diamond was getting angry with Horse bit by bit, so she was about to snap if Horse didn't decide to summon his brother, Shoe.

He didn't want to deal with her anger, so Horse cut the flesh from his hand with his bare hands without fleeing pain, tossing it in the air, wobbling and wobbling until it glowed green. It formed into a human shape with a mouth, eyes, ears, brain, heart, limbs, and other things humans need to function. The body from the flesh of the Horse was Shoe, his younger brother, who had crashed into the ground from the air.

'Talk about a flashy entrance!' She was impressed.

"Diamond? What do you want from me?"

"I wasn't expecting your brother to summon you." She counted, "Now that you are here, I have an order to tell you about."

Diamond shared her thoughts about Ross's situation with the brothers. They listened and left after hearing her.

Horse and Shoe twin conjoined brothers with complicated bodies of having the same body most of the time. However, the difference between them and common conjoined twins is that they are not stuck. They both are inside of a single body and operate normally. If they want to separate, they need to cut one of their skin and toss it up.

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The twins have different personalities, with Shoe, the younger brother, being talkative. He will talk for days and nights if nobody stops him. Diamond and Shoe get along very well, even if she sometimes annoys him.

Horse, unlike his younger brother, is very quiet. Only he talks to Diamond, not even with his brother or the boss. No one in the White Clan knows why he's not as calm and silent toward Diamond. Is it to annoy her with his question, or does he like her? Who knows how his mind process works? Only Shoe knows. They have the same mind, after all. But he keeps quiet about his older brother's secrets.

The twins, Horse and Shoe, always change their control over the body they share. For example, one brother might walk and speak, and the other see, think, smell, etc. They mastered it by constantly doing it for the rest of their lives!

The shared body's appearance is different from that of their separate bodies. They have gorgeous red wine-colored eyes, beautiful black hair shining, and a top hat. Armor patches on their elbows and kneecaps protect and boost their attacks, while a white hood covers their faces. In this state, their allies called them HorseShoe.

Shoe's speed is slightly faster than his older brother, Horse, when he's in a different body. He would be dangerous with his primary weapon of choice, his hands! His speed is so fast that people get stabbed by Shoe and don't realize they are impaled until they die!

The older brother, Horse, would be way quicker than his younger brother, Shoe if his Flow weren't wasted too much. However, his ancient dagger helps him when he stabs his enemy with it. Not only does it injure them, but it also drains people's Flow, which gets penetrated. Only Horse could use it.

***

James was riding the monster back without letting it go, punching it constantly with a robotic fist and right fist with his brass knuckles.

"Die you, ungodly creature!"

James and the beast were tired of fighting each other and wanted to finish it off quickly, so the beast violently shook Ross out of its back to throw Ross off.

That plan failed, so it ran around like a hooligan, breaking a couple of pillars along the way, making Ross thrown out from its back, and hitting many supports. Ross wasn't fleeing any pain when Model XI0's powers were active by forming steel around his body to protect its user from injuries.

The Iron Jaw Monster finally got freed from Ross. It got tiring doing the same thing, so it opened its mouth, a railgun raised from its stomach to its mouth, and charging quickly. Without warning, it fires a boiling-temperature beam of light from the railgun toward Ross, which hits his left arm without anything happening.

James and Diamond were surprised that Model XI0 did not melt from the attack, which made Diamond remember what her boss said.

"The boss said that the railgun from the Iron Jaw only melts human skin and human-made technology! It is good to know that stupid shadow wasn't a human. You might as well have plot armor, Mr. James Ross, or should I call it plot arm?"

The monster wasn't smart enough not to do the same thing to fire another hot temperature beam at James, which Ross blocked with his left hand, reflecting it to the monster. The laser's hot temperature stabbed into the monster's skin, causing a small molten pimple to grow rapidly until it turned Iron Jaw into ashes and fell into the ground. Diamond was wrong; XI0 easily could withstand it.

"Do I remember what he told me, right?" Diamond questioned when Iron Jaw died by the same beam.

"I need to copy that overkill power into my attacks." Ross loudly spoke to himself.

Clap!

Clap-clap!

Clapping sounds from two directions were coming closer to Ross. When the cheering ended, a person from the shadows started talking.

"We are impressed that you killed our boss's creation without effort."

James started being on edge when he felt two strong auras around him. He looked around at two entrances where people could enter that area and yelled, "Show yourselves!"

"As you wish!"

Their voices faded, and they appeared in front of his ears and whispered into his ears, "Your sentence is death!"

Before getting stabbed by the enemy's hand, he grabs the enemy's hand and throws it into the ground, blood pouring out of the enemy's mouth from the impact.

"Your Sight is impressive." They clapped their hands.

"However, can you defend yourself from two people? Horse, it's time to attack!"

From behind, Ross gets stabbed, but armor protects him, so seeing that the twin brothers, Horse and Shoe, retreat into darkness.

"Diamond was right about him having plot armor, right Horse?" These brothers have telepathic abilities when they separate.

It doesn't matter if he has the most powerful armor. Together, we can still kill him," Horse said.

They lose track of time when they start discussing Ross's weaknesses and how to stop armor from forming when he gets attacked.

"Who are you, two?!" Ross said.

Shoe responded cockily, "HorseShoe... Now you know our name. It's time to say goodbye!"

Ross cracked his fingers, not the robot ones, and answered,

"Let's see if you guys can!"

To be Continued.