“Drag him in here! Chop chop!” Yoshi’s voice was barely heard over the battle din. No one paid him any attention. But he was satisfied with his achievement so far. He had injected Ren’s body with a lethal drug that he recently developed. One that was never supposed to work on an ordinary human. Which only confirmed one suspicion that had burned in his mind all this time. Whatever had happened to his cousin had managed to dull his humanity. Ren was not purely human anymore. And it was Yoshi’s job to find out what he was. He had received orders from the higher-ups, but he could not deny that this experiment would satisfy his personal curiosity. And help him actualize a burning revenge for the humiliation meted to him a few weeks ago. The Ninjas were all too busy fighting for their lives to see what had just happened to their Headmaster. Kurosaki fought hard to protect his sister who was weak and injured, brandishing his blazing hot weapon against the modified soldiers that lunged.

“Aht aht! Calm your horses, sire.” Rowan’s voice dripped mockery as he stepped forward. “We've heard your scores, of course. But I must warn you. This is not the time and place for such displays.” Shin’s jaw ticked terribly as he stared from man to man. “I don't want any trouble. I just want my wife.” “The one you sort the Blackthorn family's permission to marry or which? The one you took away on a fucking motorbike?” Rain heaved a sigh and shoved his fingers through his hair. “Guys,” he added in a softer tone, “that was hilarious. But, let's not do this, okay? This whole back and forth thing is only going to hurt our sister more. So, Mr. Carter…why don't we all just head in and have a little chat over some wine?”Shin Nightfall took his time observing the triplets, even though his heart slammed with anxiety over the absence of Hana upon his arrival. His initial plan had been bursting into the mansion and ransacking it until he found Hana. Then storming out of the place with her sa

Shin felt a chill run down his spine the longer he stared at the egregious state of Juno’s pallor. It was a state of immense unrest which had Shin wondering what might have happened in the lab, following the moments before the explosion. The Kohāi had not moved in a long time since Shin squatted next to his body. And the Guardian Ninja soon discovered why. It was another one of the telltales of a truth that Shin was not yet ready to accept. The lower side of Juno’s abdomen had been pierced by a thick shrapnel of metal. Probably happened in the explosion. And he had lost too much blood as well as oxygen flow to vital organs. Shin could tell all this just by looking at him lying there so still amd pale. He had hoped to be of help in the way he could…but it turned out he was too late to even do a thing. Juno was gone, in the blink of an eye. Not a goodbye, not a warning. Just when the Guardian Ninja was beginning to get a little fond of— “NOOO!!!” His head fell back in a roar th

The siblings stayed that way for a long time, weeping and holding each other. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” Ren pleaded the whole time. His heart tore with grief and relief. And when he pulled back, he could hardly recognize his beautiful sister, the fairest of them all. “W-what happened? I thought you were..” Rei nodded, wiping the tears that streamed down her cheeks. “Dead. Yeah, I thought as much. I stopped waiting around when I realized you might not even know what happened.” Ren frowned and sat up. “Tell me everything.” He pulled her up by her wrist and they sat there on the interlocked floor, their knees touching. “We didn't die in that clinical trial,” she began in a voice thick with pain, avoiding her brother’s gaze. “None of the trial patients died...at first. Someone did it to frame you, but whatever they mixed in the drugs made our bodies weak and almost useless. We were better off dead.” Her voice caught in her throat and she took a moment. Ren waited patiently as he gen

The assassin would not disclose who sent him to attack Ren. He just launched further attack with everything he got. Moves that were seriously lacking in comparison to the skills Ren acquired during the academy’s Okdu training. Ren was infuriated. He had his hands full trying to defend himself against the assassin, wondering who might have sent him, and what they wanted with him. He also found his gaze straying to his sister’s body every now and then. The story she had told him was still too shocking to be accepted. How could those twenty-eight patients have been alive all this time? Who would engineer this scheme, and why? Why would anyone target him? He just could not understand it, any of the things happening in his life anymore. The police sirens were getting closer and Ren knew this had to end soon if he wanted to get himself and Rei out of there. But how could he do that when the assassin bastard just cut a tendon in his leg? He staggered back, dodging fast as the