He then shut his eyes while maintaining the attack position of the samurai, while his flying sword gathered around him, all in defensive mode.


    And all of the robots are ready to shoot Kenji in it.


    "Take this…" His Kusanagi sword glows with a red aura, and in a second, he sends a wave of slash to the robot.


    All of the robots surrounding him were slashed in two, and brutally annihilated.


    But the problem is the robot came endlessly, when cut in one, two will take that place.


    "These robots are so persistent, they are basically like a cockroach~~"


    "You have to get out." Amabella again channels her power into Kenji''s POV. From your left, there is an emergency exit.


    But from Kenji''s left, more robots show up.


    "Yeah, I think I will escape the other way.


    Kenji summoned more flying swords and sent all of them to attack the incoming robot while keeping him concentrated again, with Kusanagi in his hand. He stances himself like a samurai and concentrated


    And once again, a red aura is glowing in his Kusanagi sword.


    Then, he sliced the wall, which the walls was sliced, created a big hole.


    "Finally, an exit~~ I supposed that I just have to trust my sword rather than your plan, you little ~~"


    Kenji then continues to escape toward that hole.


    "Yeah, but the entire time you doing that silly stance, you know they are coming from the emergency exit, which you can just slice them through and escape from there."


    Kenji remains silent.


    "You didn''t think this through? You sword motherf*cker?"


    "Sorry, what did you say~~~?? I am busy escaping this sh*tshow~~"


    "I know you heard me, you piece of sh*t"


    "The robot keeps chasing me~~ I suppose I just have to block the exit~~"


    Kenji, ignoring Amabella''s ranting, continues to escape. The outside of the hole is a big garden. Nobody in it.


    After escaping, Kenji looks at his pursuer. The robot kept chasing him, and he managed to cut several robots down.


    "Time to say goodbye~~~ Sayonara~~~"


    With a pointed finger toward the roof of the hole, Kenji let his flying swords strike through it, making it collapse, trapping the robot and blocking the exit.


    Kenji then continued to run from the garden to the outside of the house entrance.


    "Hah, hah, hah…"


    He was exhausted. All of his swords quickly disappear, thanks to his fatigue. He was sweating profusely.


    "My, my. Finally. What a spectacular show." Amabella is finishing her popcorn while praising Kenji from a small earpiece. "I am impressed by your performance. Really impressed. Your action deserves an A, while your teamwork and your intelligence, meh. It''s D to me."


    "You really are a little piece of sh*t. I risk my life just so that the mission is completed~~~."


    "Barely completed. You see, I originally wanted no incident in the infiltration mission, yet you somehow successfully changed it to a raid mission. Now, get back here and help me figure out how to explain this to Captain!!!"


    "You know what?? You figure it out yourself~~ I am out for spa and massage. Bye-bye, squirty~~"


    Kenji departed from the scene, with countless complaints from Amabella that could be heard from Kenji''s earpiece. He disappeared from the shadow.


    <hr>


    Meanwhile, Maxwell saw the whole thing from the footage while biting a big red apple. He was still half-naked when he watched that thing.


    Beside him is Valerie.


    "Satisfied by that scene??" Valerie takes the apple from Maxwell''s hand.


    "Well, I am impressed so far, well, a little. That Nishitaro kid seems to uphold his sword reputation. It''s such a shame that he didn''t join our little band."


    "You are a weird one, aren''t you?? He managed to destroy your home. And your expensive combat robot, right??"


    "Nah, that house has no value to me. Besides, that robot was mainly created by me. I can always make more. Besides, the robot factory belongs to me."


    "Ahh, yeah, lucky for you, to get the inheritance from your daddy dearest.."


    Maxwell finally looked at Valerie with his side eyes.


    "Ouch, sorry, did I touch a touch subject to your sensitive heart?? Don''t take it personally, it''s just a joke."


    Valerie feigned sympathy for Maxwell, and Maxwell knew it.


    Maxwell took the apple from Valerie''s hand.


    "If you''re trying to piss me off, you''ll have to do better than that." Maxwell took another bite of his apple.


    ''Aww… C''mon. Let me soothe your heart." Valerie then stood up and touched Maxwell''s chest seductively. And then kissed him intimately.


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    Maxwell, while kissing, let go of his apple and then watched as the house was in ruin. From the invisible screen on his wrist, he presses a button. A red button.


    "Duar…"


    Thompson''s house exploded. Fire emerges from within. Before long, the entire house is on fire.


    Maxwell continued to focus on Valerie, both kissing, and began to have sex in the bed.


    <hr>


    The house burned down overnight. Minutes later, the firefighters arrived to put out the fire. The crowd and the reporter surround the scene. The whole scene is captured on the hospital room''s TV.


    "Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire at the historic Thompson estate. Theodore Thompson''s architectural masterpiece, which stood for over fifty years..."


    With nothing better to do, Wang Yong watched the news mindlessly. He was still treated for the wound he suffered a while ago.


    Beside him was Lisa, who was sitting next to him, cutting the red skin from the apple. Carefully cut it into pieces and put it onto the plate that was placed on her upper thighs.


    While cutting the apple skillfully, she sometimes steal a glance at a doctor near Wang Yong, who was busy looking at the chart and the report from the invisible screen wrist, while monitoring Wang Yong''s wound.


    That doctor is a typical tall, handsome man with a baby face in it. Thanks to that, he was popular in the hospital. Smart and handsome are the killers of the younger maidens out there, and Lisa is one of them.


    On the doctor''s coat, there is a nametag that says "Jin Jun Sang".


    "Was someone from the Thompson family affected by that fire?" Jun Sang looked up from his screen, where the charts were spread out.


    Lisa stayed silent.


    "Lisa??" Jun Sang looked at Lisa. Lisa was startled and accidentally hurt herself with the fruit knife in her hand. Her thumb is slightly sliced.


    "Ouch…"


    "Hmm?? Are you alright??"


    "Umm, yeah, it''s all right. I just accidentally cut myself. Nothing to worry about."


    "Let me see." Jun Sang grabs her hand to check the sliced wound. Lisa blushed.


    "It''s not deep. It should be okay. I will inject this healing liquid. Your wound should be healed instantly. Tell me if it hurts, okay??"


    Jun Sang then grabbed his injection from his pocket and slowly injected it into Lisa''s wound. The wound closed instantly, without a scar.


    "There, it is healed. You are fine. Lisa. Jun Sang then looked at Lisa.


    Lisa, still blushing and remaining silent, became aware when Jun Sang looked at her again. "Ohh, umm… thank you."


    "You are welcome, but be more careful next time, okay??" Jun Sang smiled at Lisa, which made Lisa''s heart beat like crazy.


    And Wang Yong, who are watching the situation, looked at them mindlessly.


    And Lisa realized Wang Yong is watching.


    "Ohh umm…" Lisa quickly finished her apple-cutting session and began to offer Wang Yong a piece.


    "Here. You haven''t eaten anything since this morning."


    "Thanks, Ms. Frister. But I don''t want to eat it right now." Wang Yong pushes it away gently.


    Lisa, somewhat surprised, placed the plate of apples on the table beside Wang Yong. "Oh, okay. I will leave it there then."


    Jun Sang noticed Wang Yong''s movement and made notes on his screen. "The medicine I''m adjusting should help with the pain while also boosting the healing greatly. How''s your mobility today?"


    "Better," Wang Yong flexed his bandaged hands with a half-hearted mood. "But feel stiff, though."


    "Let''s see your movement muscle, Please raise your hand up and down." Jun Sang''s eyes glow as he can see the inside of Wang Yong''s body using his X-ray power.


    Wang Yong moved his hand per instructions.


    "Good, from what I can see, your muscles around the wound look fine to me. The blood flow inside the muscle shows no problem, too. You should be back in action in two days or more."


    "How about the eye, Doc? Will I ever see out of this eye again?" Wang Yong touches his left eye.


    Jun Sang set down his invisible floating screen and looked at Wang Yong while trying to find a way to explain it. After a moment, he spoke.


    "Since you want to know, I will tell you. Generally, the eye doesn''t have a regenerative cell. So I am sorry to say, even with modern medical powers, we can''t regrow an eye once it''s destroyed."


    Wang Yomg remain silent, and his expression was also blank.


    Lisa want to comfort Wang Yong, but she don''t know how to do it and now Wang Yong lost his left eye.


    Suddenly, a door opened, and Aiman stepped inside the room, bringing the basket of fruit.


    "Good morning, boy. How are you doing??" Aiman look at Wang Yong.


    Wang Yong remains silent. He was still processed with the information that he would be partially blind permanently.


    Aiman look at Wang Yong with curious eyes, but when Lisa slightly shakes her head, he understood completely, and try to change the subject.


    "Anyway... our two troublemakers will be back shortly after they served their punishment." He crossed his arms over his chest.


    "Are they in serious trouble?" Lisa asked.


    "Well..." Aiman let out a slight smirk. "Fortunately, we didn''t find anything that led to them. Bella said that she would delete the record if evidence somehow pointed to us. They still got the punishment, but nothing to worry about."


    "That''s a relief," Lisa said. "Though I''m sure Kenji is at fault. Bella complained most of the time every time she paired up for the mission with Kenji."


    "Yeah, but she needs to know what teamwork is. ACP cannot tolerate individualists. That''s why I purposely paired her with Kenji."


    "I see…"


    "Now that we''ve addressed that mess, we need to discuss your next steps, boy." Aiman approached Wang Yong, and sit next to him.


    Wang Yong finally looks at Aiman. "Umm... I need to know something."


    "What do you want to know??"


    "First, how am I even alive? I was sure I was dead." His hand touched his neck, which was slightly bruised.


    "Well…." Jun Sang presented Wang Yong with a profile of the small plastic vial. "I inserted this in your neck while you passed out before the execution. And then I let Lisa freeze your neck. That vial is for changing our respiratory system so that our skin can breathe like how frogs breathe instead of using our noses. Sort of like a temporary mutation that I developed. It only lasted for around 5 minutes, though."


    Lisa leaned forward, catching Wang Yong''s attention. "That''s why I freeze your neck. To hold the vial intact."


    "I see… I thought you just wanted to silence me."


    Aiman and Lisa notices the change in Wang Yong''s behavior


    "Maybe, but it isn''t wise to speak up, boy. After all, we plan to save you. We have to do it the hard way. People are watching."


    "Yeah, right." Wang Yong let out a sarcasm.


    This time, everyone in the room was concerned about Wang Yong''s behavior.


    "And when you are hanged," Lisa continued, "the ice broke, so did the vial. And they did the job. A minute is all we need to ensure the public knows you are dead."


    Wang Yong''s fingers twisted in the hospital blanket. "What about my mother?"


    Aiman spoke out. "After your execution, she''s at the temple. Praying for your brother. She didn''t even come to your funeral, boy."


    "Funeral?"


    "We arranged a funeral for you as a formality. We had to make it convincing, so we placed a coffin, flowers, and the works just for you. Though the coffin only contained a junk robot."


    "A robot?"


    "Yeah, don''t worry. It is just a useless robot. We have to make it look convincing. Truth be told, as cruel as she was, I expect your mother to attend your funeral. But she didn''t."


    Wang Yong became silent. He wants to cry, but no one cares about him anymore.


    But he suddenly remembers someone. Shi Ying.


    "What about Shi Ying? You know, a girl with a black jacket and ripped jeans..."


    "I know that girl, boy. Your precious girlfriend."


    "She is not… hah. Whatever, where is she? I haven''t seen her since I was captured by you."


    Aiman, contemplating whether to speak or not, looks at Lisa. She gave a nod.


    Aiman then continued. "Well, actually, we have sorta bad news regarding her."


    "What do you mean?" Wang Yong''s voice becomes more restless.


    "Bella tracked the suitcase, remember? We tracked the suitcase after it was stolen from you and your girlfriend''s hand. Well, she gave it to Maxwell Thompson. After that, she went outside the country. We lost track of her ever since. Well, almost lost it."


    "Almost?"


    "Based on the direction she took and our intelligence reports, we believe she''s headed to join Gambit."


    "What is Gambit?"


    "A terrorist group, boy. The group that is causing chaos across the region."


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