The night sky was beautiful and it was a full moon night. The forest was calm and the silent darkness covered the woods. The lake which was located in the middle of the forest. The silent atmosphere was spine chilling. A man was walking in the woods. His footsteps were dead silent. He was wearing a cape that covered his whole face and body. He stopped. He was wearing a black mask. He turns and looks behind him but sees nothing. He slowly takes out his M4 out of the cape and holds it in front. He slowly moves forward. The silence around him was too much to handle. He looks aside and turned back. The man can sense something but couldn't track it. He looks aside again and he pointed his gun but it was too late. A shot was fired from miles away. The bullet hits him in the head and his skull burst open.
The screen turned red and Kento took his VR headset off. "Damn it V next time I want to be the sniper." It was a simulation. The huge room was revealed. A room made for virtual training purpose. Kento was inside a pod which is meant for high quality virtual experience. V gets out from his pod and stepped closer. "You are not paying attention to the surroundings. I gave you multiple openings you missed all of them." Kento gets up and takes off the vest. "I need a break." He walked away without any answer. V wears his headset and jumps back again.
The cafeteria was mostly empty. A group of operators were sitting, a group from combat unit and individuals. The VE organisation had a couple of units. Kento takes a coffee and sits down to drink it. He looks at them but everyone seemed to be avoiding eye contact with Kento. Meanwhile a man from a distance was staring at him. Kento looks a few times but doesn't say anything. He was drinking while looking another way. "Is he still watching me?" He turns around and sees the man was no longer there. Looks around. "Hey you!" The man was standing behind him. Kento turns around and looked at him. He was muscular and his hair was blonde. "Mind if I sit?" Kento smiles awkwardly. "Sure."
Kento and that man were sitting side by side.The man was drinking his coffee and Kento was drinking his. The man takes a sip and looks at him. Kento who was an introvert couldn't start a conversation. He hesitated. "So you're the special recruit?" The man takes a sip while saying it. Kento looks at him without any reaction takes a sip. "You know everyone wants to be special but only a few get the opportunity. Make sure you use it properly Akari. Everyone is counting on you." Kento was confused and felt something off about the situation. The man was looking at his eyes. He gets up and forwards his hand. "Do your best. One day we can be partners or rivals. Depends on your strength." Kento felt something. It was something he didn't feel in a long time. A friendly offer. He smiles and shakes his hands. The man turns around and leaves. Kento looks at him with a smile on his face. He felt the joy of the moment. A friendly approach.
"His name is Sho."Kento got jump scared. V was standing behind him. "You really need to stop it." V sits down with his coffee. "Kizuhara Sho, the captain of the combat unit. He's only second to Rez." Kento looked surprised. A powerful man just gave him an offer he couldn't refuse. Kento takes a sip. "Hey V." V looks at him. "Let's get started." Kento's eyes filled with ambition.
The messed up table. Files and documents were laying around. The room was a mess. Inside Kento was sitting and Monica was there sitting in front of him. He looks at her but she avoids eye contact and was reading a file. Kento looks behind and sees a picture of a beach. "Nice painting." He was desperate to have a conversation. Typical introvert approach. "It's trash. I will burn it later." Got your answers? Kento looked uncomfortable. She dragged him earlier for an awakening session. Eventually every exterminator has abilities. Mirror dimension creation, enhanced physical strength and ability within a dimension. It was Monica who volunteered for the awakening of Kento's ability to teach him how to control void energy and abilities. "What's she doing? The VR was way more fun than this. It's been half an hour and all I am doing is sitting here." Kento thinks about the whole situation in his mind. "Then go and play that video game but it won't teach you how to fight those guys." Eventually Monica's whole personal cabin was a veil. An alternative reality which can be entered and exited by free will but it gives her telepathic abilities inside that space and full control over time and space. Kento now remembers that she can use her abilities. "Damn she heard it." Kento whispers in his mind.
"I am still listening." Average telepathic abilities.
Kento got impatient and stood up.He is ready to question. "You said that you are going to teach me stuff all I am doing is sitting here." Monica looks at him and slightly smiles. "Are you sitting." He feels down. Not on the floor but in a deep pit. Kento screams. He's falling at a high speed. He looks up the lights are getting out of sight. He screamed. He sees the end. "What the hell." His screaming covered the pit. He holds his head and curls into a ball mid air. Suddenly he bumped backwards and falls in the chair. "Welcome back." She smiles. Kento was breathing heavily and his whole face became red. He couldn't say anything and he looks at her while he holds his chest and breathing.
"So here's the fun part Kento. As long as you let your void energy flows naturally your body and mind can withstand any dimension and any reality within it. That hole was there since you entered but you didn't notice because you didn't focus on your void energy."
Kento breathes heavily. He pushed himself back and stood up.
"You mean if I use that energy I will die within the reality?"
Monica leans on the desk and crosses her arms.
"If you don't learn how to control it perfectly it will be ok. Right now whenever you use your energy or if it gets activated your body and mind disrupt the balance and it becomes useless. I will teach you how to control it and use it on one condition."
Kento calmed down and takes a deep breath. He's ready to hear about the condition. "What is it?"
"Let me cut your heart out and modify it."
"Oh heck no."It was a joke.
Kento has now understood what he has to do.He needs to learn how to stabilise and control his void energy in order to unlock abilities like other exterminator. He turns around and walked towards the door. He opens the door. "Hey kid ready for my session?" It was Rez standing in front of him. Smile on his face and a friendly yet powerful approach. "I..I was. But miss Monica and I...." He was confused and for some obvious reason he tries to avoid training with Rez. Rez becomes serious. The smile wiped out. "I am taking him Monica."
"All yours." He drags him away. The door closes. Only Monica is left. "I hope he will make it out alive." Rez and Kento were walking towards the training ground. The steel walls reflected their footsteps. Rez walking in front Kento walks behind him. "So I guess I will have to do physical training with you right?" Rez looks back and smiles. Kento was feeling excited and was feeling a bit off as well. Rez was looking so strong. Kento noticed his gun had a word carved up in its grip. Both sides of the grip had two signatures carved up. They stopped in front of the elevator. "There's no such thing called physical training." The lift doors opened and they entered. The lift screen shows the floors. Floor 56 , floor 55. As they went down Kento saw the beautiful view from the height. They were inside the skyscraper. The look from the elevator was amazing. Down there people were working. "So if it's not physical training then what is it?" Kento asked him due to his curiosity. "It's all about instinct Kento. A fighter without instinct is worth nothing no matter how much weight they put in. Muscle strength and brute force becomes useless if a person doesn't fight with his instinct." The lift stopped. Floor -1 the underground layer within the bunker. The training grounds.
A beautiful and perfectly decorated room. The fireplace was artificial but indeed a beautiful sight to hold. The vase was beautiful yet it had no flowers. A bookshelf with hundreds of different types of books. The door opens. Ema and V entered the room. Behind them another girl entered the room. Red hair, black eyes, a wolf cut hairstyle. Mimi Ayame the third ranking officer of the main unit. The main unit has three members Ema , V and finally Mimi. The combat unit has four ranking officers and the intelligence has three. Mimi and V sit down while Ema walked towards the bookshelf and grabbed a book. Mimi takes out a strange purple box and placed it on the table. Ema sits down and V placed a key on the table. "It took me seventeen days to find it Yu." Mimi's voice was extremely soft. She called Ema Yu. Ema smiles and grabbed the box. "I knew you were the perfect candidate to retrieve it. Excellent." Mimi jumps in joy. She gets up and hugs Ema. V was looking a bit irritated. Ema hugs her too and she sits down. V pushed the key in front and Ema grabs it. The key was not so big but it had a very attractive look along with its very charming design. "Let's see if we can get it done this time."
V looked at Mimi. "What's wrong?" She looked at V while saying it but V didn't give any reaction. She smiles and says "did you miss me this much, sweetheart?" V gets annoyed and made a face. "The heck I didn't."
Suddenly a huge shake was sensed by everyone a shockwave.The whole skyscraper shook under the bunker. The surface area felt a massive shock wave and all the staff tripped. The boxes fell and the helicopter and cars got displaced. V gets up but Ema stays quiet. "It's ok V. It's Rez. Kento is with him."
V's face turned up.He was shocked. "Are you crazy. Rez is a maniac he will kill him." Ema opened the book. She turned the page. "Instinct V instinct." Her voice was calm and chilling. Mimi smiles while V stood shocked. Kento Akari is now with a man who is known for his destructive powers.