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n--Shylock City, The Empire of Yodan--

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n~Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap~

nIn a very dark, dimly lit and creepy hallway, a young man drenched in blood from head to toe hastily plunged across the hall fearfully.

nHis blood-coated hair stuck to his face, and his clothes were also dyed red too.

nNo! He didn't want to get caught again.

nHe couldn't take it anymore.

nHe just couldn't take it anymore again!

nThe young man ran barefooted, leaving trails of blood behind with his every footstep.

nAnd as he advanced, he continuously slipped and slid many times while looking back from time to time.

nPlop

nHe fell to the ground and quickly rose to his feet before running frantically once more.

nHis hands constantly left bloody paw-prints on the already creepy-looking walls.

nAt this monomer, his chest started hurting badly, as he felt a suffocating pain swallow him whole.

nHe gritted his teeth and panting heavily while advancing as fast as he could.

nHe turned his head back again as if looking for his pursuers.

nBut no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't see anyone.

nNonetheless, he could hear the sounds of sharp, heavy footsteps slowly knocking on the floor.

nAnd even though the sounds of these footsteps grew louder and louder, he knew that the people after him were probably taking their time strolling behind him in the shadows.

nDammit!

nIf not for his injury, he would be able to get out of here fast.

nToo bad he didn't even have the energy to keep his heavy eyelids open for long.

nWas this the end?

nWhat should he do now?

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nThe young man ran frantically across the hallway before branching off towards the right while looking back.

nBam.

nHe seemed to have bumped something, or rather, someone, who made him stumble to the ground in agony.

nPlugh

nThe fall seemed to have aggravated his injuries even more, as he felt a wave of blood forcefully trying to gush its way out of his mouth.

nWho?

nThe young man looked up, only to see a tall giant staring at him from above.

nMommy...

nThe moment he saw the figure, he subconsciously shrunk his head backwards like a turtle and used his hands and less to slide back on his butt in fear.

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"Y-y-y-you... You bloody bastards!

nIf you have the guts, then mill me and be done with it.

nKill me! Kill me! Kill me!

nAnything is better than that!

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nLooking at the badly injured man sliding away on the floor, The tall figure smiled coldly before calmly advancing like a snake watching its prey.

nAnd soon, several other men, all dressed in a similar manner to the tall figure, slowly revealed themselves from all ends of the hallways.

nJust like that, the young, bloodied man found himself surrounded by these brutes.

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"Kill me if you have the guts!

nTake my life!

nKill me now!

nKill me! Kill me! Kill me!

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nThe young man had no clear idea why he was going through all this. But deep down, he had a hunch.

nThe lead tall figure ignored his screams of anxiety from the young man and calmly stooped down before squeezing the young man's jaw fiercely.

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"Isomi Fernard, a spy for the Pirate association, born xxxxx...

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nWhat?

nIsomi looked at the tall figure in disbelief.

nHis eyes opened wide in shock and alarm.

nSo all this time, they had known of his true identity?

nF***!

nIsomi didn't even have time to think things over before getting dragged away by his legs like a piece of meat dangling in a butcher's shop.

nBam Bam Bam.

nHis body smacked the sides of the walls and floor harshly as these bastards dragged him without a care in the world.

nWould it kill them to move carefully?

nHe felt like a chicken waiting for slaughter.

nAnd soon, he found himself in a very spacious room filled with 80 people who all wore masks.

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nThe moment the tall, burly man came close enough to the masked leader in the group, he calmly dropped the bloodied man before dropping to the floor on one-bended knee.

nPlop.

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"Your excellency, I have brought the traitor back.

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"Hmmm.

" The masked leader stared at the bloodied man coldly.

nWhat he hated the most were backstabbers.

nAdditionally, he also heated the operating organization more than anything else.

nSo how could he not be pissed?

nMaster K almost had a heart attack when he remembered the sudden changes over the last few months.

nWithin Yodan, his main base, which was his headquarters, was utterly destroyed by those damn lawless pirates!

nHe didn't know about other bases within Yodan and Deiferus.

nOver the last few months, things were really hard for him.

nFirstly, someone was killing the temple survivors or those that weren't their respective bases during the attack.

nHe highly suspected that it was the pirates.

nAnother thing that bothered him was the reports he got.

nThe first thing he did was head towards the temple's 2nd most popular base, somewhere in the woods around Shylock City.

nBut what he saw gave him goosebumps.

nThe place was also destroyed as well.

nSeeing this similar pattern of destruction, his heart skipped a bit as fear quickly made a home in his heart.

nCould it be that all his bases were destroyed?

nNo! That's impossible!

nThinking like that, he quickly sent some of his men to head towards the other bases in Yodan.

nBy now, some of them should've already arrived at their targeted destinations.

nAnd in a few more months, he should receive letters from them about the matter.

nHe didn't believe that all his bases could get destroyed all at once.

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nMaster K passed his hands through his fingers, deep in thought, as he thought about the matter once more.

nEverything about the pirate organization annoyed him silly.

nAnd now, seeing a spy amongst his men made him even more pissed off than before.

nHe looked at the bloodied man as if looking at a corpse.

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