Los Angeles, 21:30

  Mari and Eissen have moved away from the CEO’s room and building. Mari has already gained the CEO’s memories and found out about his scheme to buy a certain something that would ruin his business competitors to the ground. She has prayed for him, hoping he will repent of his dirty schemes. They are currently standing in a lone park in the city with no people, given the hour.

  “So, why are you bringing me here, Eissen-sama?”

  Diva was also brought here. She was tied up, and Eissen carried her on his shoulder this whole time. He places her sitting on the ground.

  “Diva-chan, quit your current job and start living a normal new life! Leave everything about the Underworld behind. Ask everyone else in the group as well to come with you!”

  “. . .”

  Diva takes a few seconds to process Eissen’s suggestion.

  “But, why, Eissen-sama?”

  “Because it’s better that way! The Underworld isn’t a place for anyone!”

  “Eissen-sama, that’s rich coming from someone like you! You who would do anything for the sake of the mission!”

  “And now, I have left all of that behind! I am no longer someone like that! God has led me away from my old ways, and I have zero intention of coming back!”

  “I see. . . You hear that, guys?”

  *!*

  All of a sudden, there are four other people with them in the park. They all walk towards them from four different directions, surrounding the three of them in the center.

  “Wow, it really has been a while, Eissen-sama!”

  A guy appears from the north side. He is 17 years old with fair skin. He has short black tidy hair, which is combed backward. He wears a pair of dark blue, square-framed glasses over his pair of dark blue, sharp, slanted eyes. He wears a dark blue body suit that tightly fits his body. He is 168cm tall and weighs around 61kg. His body is slender and slightly muscular. His name is Robert Eisntein.

  “How nostalgic it is to see your face again, Eissen-sama!”

  A woman appears from the west side. She is 19 years old with fair skin. She has dark pink short bob hair that hangs above her shoulders. She has a pair of light brown eyes with a lot of eye bags under them from her lack of sleep, though she always performs optimally during missions despite it. She wears a dark red body suit that tightly fits her whole body with white lines here and there, contrasting against it. She is 168cm tall and weighs around 69kg. Her bust size is D-cup. Her name is Raiya Phoe.

  “Yoooooo, leader Eissen! It’s been a while!”

  The guy named Raven Brownwingz appears from the South side. He is 21 years old with tanned skin. As Eissen said previously, he is the physically strongest guy in the group. He has dark, short, spiky, medium-length hair with a thin beard growing under his chin. He wears a white head wrap like a durag, covering most of his hair. He wears a dark green body suit that tightly fits his body, with yellow lines here and there across the entire design. He is 178cm tall and weighs around 82kg. His body is big and muscular.

  “Eissen-sama! Please go back to your senses and go on missions once again with the rest of us!”

  The last person is a 20-year-old woman with fair skin. She has long, dark brown hair that reaches her back. Her bangs are swept to the left, showing her beautiful forehead. She wears a dark purple body suit that tightly fits her body. She is 169cm tall and weighs around 62kg. Her bust size is E-cup. Her name is Martina Suave.

  Each and every one of them is wearing a similar belt to Diva’s with small detachable pockets on each side of their waist.

  “Everyone! It’s been a while! Are you guys doing well?” said Eissen.

  “. . .”

  Mari did not say anything. She was being cautious towards everyone in case something went wrong. She had already sensed their presence shortly after she got here.

  The four of them gather around Eissen, approaching him without any killing intent.

  “We’re all good, Eissen-sama! How about you?” asks Martina.

  “I’ve never been better, Martina!”

  “Huh? Why is Diva-chan being tied up?” asks Raven.

  “Uuhh, she fails her mission because I showed up, and I wanted to ask questions about her and you guys!” explains Eissen.

  “But you don’t need to tie her up like that, Eissen-sama!” said Robert.

  “Why are you interfering with her mission, though, Eissen-sama?” asks Raiya.

  “That was because she was also in the way of my mission!”

  *!!!*

  “EH? YOU’RE STILL DOING MISSIONS, LEADER?” says Raven, being excited.

  “WOW!! I WANNA SEE HOW FAR YOU’VE BECOME SINCE LAST TIME!!” said Robert.

  “I wanna see you in action again, Eissen-samaaaaaaaaa!!” said Raiya.

  “W-Well, it’s not exactly the same type of missions that we all used to do. I now help people from their sinful behavior, and pray for them!”

  *!!!*

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  “You. . . help people?” said Robert.

  “Sinful behaviors?” said Raiya.

  “Pray for them?” said Martina.

  . . . .

  “BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”

  After taking a second to process what Eissen said, everyone suddenly laughs loudly, including even Diva.

  “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”

  “. . .”

  Eissen stays quiet, hearing them all laugh heartily at his current lifestyle.

  *PAK PAK*

  Raven slaps Eissen’s back a few times as he laughs.

  “LEADER EISSEN!! YOU KNOW YOU CAN THROW BETTER JOKES THAN THAT, RIGHT?”

  “AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! SERIOUSLY, EISSEN-SAMA!! QUIT IT WITH THE SILLY WORDS LIKE ‘PRAY’, EISSEN-SAMA!! IT’S SO UNLIKE YOU!!” said Robert.

  “HAHAHAHAHA!! I almost choked on my own spit, Eissen-sama! Of all the things that you could have said, helping people is definitely not what I expected coming from you!” said Martina.

  “Alright, that’s enough!”

  *!!!*

  Mari suddenly appears next to Eissen, standing in the middle of them.

  “You laugh at Ei-chan one more time—”

  Mari raises her right arm, activates her Vein armor, and clenches it into a fist.

  “I’ll knock you all out with one hit!”

  . . . . . . . .

  Nobody says anything to Mari’s words.

  “Eissen-sama, who is this girl?” asks Robert.

  “My closest friend right now! It’s also the person I work with every day!”

  “So, basically, your next girlfriend, huh?” said Raiya.

  “Wow, you’re dumping Diva-chan for someone like this?” said Martina.

  “Martina-chan, don’t say that!” said Eissen, smiling.

  “Ah, I’m sorry, Eissen-sama!”

  “So, what are you guys doing in this place? It’s so nostalgic to see everybody do the same missions at once!”

  “Nah, we were on different missions just now, but Diva-chan alerted us that she found you!” explains Raiya.

  Diva stands up, and she has already broken free from the tie on her own with her Vein armor.

  “Eissen-sama, remember about our creed?”

  *?*

  “Ah! So, it’s about that, huh?”

  “Yup! We ditched all of our missions for this!” said Raven.

  “But how did all of you arrive so fast after Diva told you guys??”

  “We all always take the same missions in the same city. If some of us were not getting any jobs in the same city, then we simply stood by until the ones with a job finished theirs! This way, we can all stick together no matter where we are!” explains Robert.

  “I see. . .” said Eissen.

  “Then, let’s just get to business, Eissen-sama!” said Diva.

  “What have you guys been talking about all this time? I’m lost.” said Mari.

  *!!!*

  All of a sudden, the five of them jump back three meters away. They all summoned their Armaments and pointed them all at Eissen and Mari in the center.

  Diva held her sniper rifle, Raven is wielding two giant axes in both hands, where its handle is two meters long and its blade has a span of three meters wide, Robert is holding two UZIs in both hands, Raiya is wearing two red gauntlets that looked futuristic, and Martina is holding two black disks in both hands with a sharp edge that glows in purple.

  “All Armament types, huh?” said Mari.

  “Mari-chan, could you let me handle them and just watch! Don’t help me unless I really need it!” said Eissen.

  “HUH? But I don’t wanna risk putting you in harm’s way!”

  “Please, Mari-chan! This way, I can show you who I am as a person accurately.”

  “. . .*Sigh*. Alright, I cannot argue with that! Have fun, Ei-chan!”

  *BWOOOOSSHH*

  Mari disappears from the park completely.

  “Thanks, Mari-chan!”

  “Okay, Eissen-sama, please remember that we are not doing this because we hate you or anything!” said Robert.

  “Yeah! Remember, you were the one who made that promise back then!” adds Diva.

  “If possible, all of us would like you to lead us again as previously!” said Raiya.

  “But it seems like you already made up your mind, huh?” said Raven.

  “We’ll at least make it painless and instant, Eissen-sama!” said Martina.

  “I understand, everyone! Then let’s begin, shall we!” said Eissen.

  *BANG*

  Diva made the first move. She shot her unmissable shot at Eissen’s head.

  *!*

  Eissen suddenly vanishes from his spot and appears behind Diva.

  *ZRRTTTT*

  “AAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!”

  He zaps Diva on her back with his baton.

  *THUD*

  Diva falls to her knees from the numbing pain. The bullet turns around towards Eissen.

  *WHAM*

  He clenches his fist as hard as he possibly can and punches the incoming bullet, completely destroying it.

  *SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH*

  “OUCH! OUCH!”

  But her fist turns red a lot and smokes from the heat.

  “(Geez! Mari-chan made it looked so effortless that I thought I could do it as well.)”

  *BWOOOSSHH*

  Raven lunges at Eissen while Robert lunges at Diva.

  “YOU REALLY ARE FAST, LEADER!!”

  “And you’re still the straightforward type, Raven-kun! In a way, that’s good! But I think it does more bad than good for you in the long run.”

  “GAHAHAHAHA!! HAVEN’T HEARD YOUR LECTURES IN A WHILE, LEADER!!”

  Raven swings his two giant axes.

  *GRAAAKKK*

  He hits the ground and cracks it in a 3-meter radius. Robert has already retrieved Diva from her spot.

  Eissen warps away again and appears behind Raiya this time.

  *!*

  Raiya turns around and immediately swings her red right gauntlet at his face.

  *DAHK*

  “Your punch is still as strong as ever, Raiya-chan! But that means you’ve been stagnant! Haven’t you been training properly?!” said Eissen as he blocked the punch with his baton.

  “All this tells me is that you’re also getting stronger, Eissen-sama!”

  “Ah, is that so?”

  Raiya retracts her punch and swings her left gauntlet this time at his face again. But at the same time, Martina has thrown her two sharp black disks at Eissen’s back.

  *!*

  Raiya ended up punching Martina’s two black disks away into the distance.

  “Tch! He’s as fast as ever!” said Raiya and Martina.

  Eissen vanishes again and appears behind Robert, who’s supporting Diva to stand.

  “I apologize, leader, I’m touching her just to support her! I have no ulterior motive!” said Robert.

  “Eh? We broke up peacefully! Whatever happens now has nothing to do with me anymore.”

  “Heard him, clear, Robert-kun?”

  “Loud and clear!”

  Eissen thrusts his baton at Robert’s back.

  *!*

  Diva suddenly throws Robert forward, avoiding Eissen’s baton.

  *THUD*

  She falls to the ground with her entire body still feeling numb a bit. Robert immediately recovers on the ground, turns around, and already holds his two UZIs and fires them.

  *RATATATTATATATATATATATATATATATATA*

  *!*

  But Eissen disappears once again and appears behind Robert.

  “Your bullets have the ability to melt and turn solid afterward to keep someone in place. It can even kill someone if it melts and turns solid after it enters your body! Though I find it pointless since you can normally kill someone by simply shooting them.”

  “Wow! First time I’ve heard your opinion of my Faith power!”

  *BAAAAMMM*

  “ARRRGGHH!!”

  “Well, maybe there are instances where it would be useful, just like that one time!”

  Eissen punches Robert from behind on the side of his head, and he falls to the ground.

  *!*

  Eissen turns around, and Raven is already behind, swinging his giant two axes vertically at him.

  *GRAAAHHKK*

  Eissen dodges the axes by jumping away instead of teleporting this time.

  *ZRAAASSHH*

  *!!!*

  But all of a sudden, Eissen’s right arm was grazed by Martina’s black disk that she threw secretly from behind Raven’s big body. It bends to both sides of Raven’s body and caught him off guard when he was jumping away from Raven’s axe swings.

  *THUD*

  He lands two meters away from Raven.

  “YOU CAN’T REST YET, EISSEN-SAMA!!”

  *!!*

  Eissen turned around, and Raiya was already swinging her right gauntlet at his face.

  *DAHK*

  “URGH!!”

  Eissen couldn’t block in time, so he let her fist hit his shoulder instead. He was sent flying from the impact back towards Raven.

  “HAHAHAHAHA!! WE’LL GIVE YOU A PROPER BURIAL LATER, LEADER!!”

  Raven was already swinging his giant two axes once more, and he timed his swing so that he immediately cut Eissen in two as soon as he was in range.

  *BANG*

  *!*

  But at the same time, Diva shot her unmissable bullet at Eissen as she was still in motion from lying on the ground.

  *RATATATATATATATAA*

  Robert also starts firing his UZIs at Eissen.

  “(Guess I have to interfere!)” said Mari in her head as she observed everything from afar.

  *!!!*

  But Mari quickly eliminates her intention to help Eissen because she saw him smiling confidently and a little bit creepy, so unlike his usual self.