Like a suffocated corpse returning back to live—Masa Ed who was lying seemingly lifeless on a black bed suddenly rose on his back with one of his hand grasping for an unseen hand out of reach while he gasped for breath and wheezed noisily for the next multiple seconds—his chest heaving up and down, and his widened eyes turning bloodshot from the terror of death—until he secured that one breath that restored his system and dragged more with it, pulling him up from the edge of death he hung to.

  "Aaaah ah ah..." Like a man that found an oasis in the desert after many days of searching for one, Masa Ed greedily gulped breaths in overdose, almost choking from it. And to someone watching on the side, he looked like a being that discovered living again after eras of searching for it tirelessly—a being new to living—because after Masa Ed secured his place in the land of the living again, he starts looking around like a lost baby at the stark and unusually quiet enclosed chamber he found himself lying on a hard bed just big enough to fit him inside it before he rose dramatically—sitting up on it.

  "Not again." Masa Ed became fearful. He has looked around the unusually spacious room that is dimly illuminated by dancing rays of the moon from a window high up on his right—the only opening he can find. Also, he has seen a strange glowing plants in a pot placed on a counter table at his left side after two empty stools. So no one is in the room, no door in sight, then as a result, the memories of his encounter at the strange place flooded his mind, making him think he is up for another wild ride that will get him killed at the end, definitely.

  'Won't I commit suicide at this point?'

  As Masa Ed was about to expand more on his depressing thought, four torches of golden flames at the four corners of the room magically lit up and drag up by few levels the illumination of the room. And despite this unexpected sudden change, he did not flinch one bit for he has no reason to anymore since from this point onward, he no longer values his own life, so he wouldn't care whatever strange thing that happens. Instead, he look once again at the black metallic walls of the room in front of him, thinking he should get down to business as usual, but before anything, he heard a click sound and as he turn his head slightly to his left where the sound came from, he saw a door on the wall to his left opened inward, and then he saw three people, one at the front—someone tall and elegant—lead the other two behind her to him with the echo of their shoe on the floor—rhythmic and strangely pleasant.

  'Who are this guys.' Masa Ed wondered. To satiate his curiosity, he proceeded to invest his focus on the leading person who has an eagle mask on their head, and matching the black pants she wore, wore a black vest under which she wore a plain gold shirt with a black tie complimenting it.

  'She must be a woman.' Masa Ed concluded. He has realized her feminine elegance and grace on a level with the pinnacle he has ever imagined and he has glimpsed the deep and narrow cleavage of her large bust revealed by the gold shirt she wore that is unbuttoned at the top. Then, as this elegant and feminine masked person and her identical retainers behind her paused next to his bedside and close to the two stools, he heard her introduce themselves:

  "We are aliens. We are from beyond the frozen land. Mr Eda, you are our captive. You are on our flagship going to our royal capital where you will marry the only daughter of our king... The most beautiful and most graceful in all the lands, princess Margaret Goldy Brown. Yeah"

  The elegant and feminine masked person pose.

  "Huh!?!" Shocked, Masa Ed blurt out like an idiot while looking the part.

  Aside the fact she is speaking his language with a weird funny accent that would have send him into a hell of laughter before everything started and the fact her pose is like that of a young girl, what shocked him as expected was what she said.

  "Aliens, flagship, princess. What are you talking about?" He inquired.

  "Yes, its as you heard Mr Eda." She clarified while bringing out a paper from who knows where that she then stretched towards him. "If you sign this, you get to marry the most noble and beautiful princess ever, you are excited right? Right?"

  She almost stuffed the hard paper containing written words in his face. And anyone with a healthy head can see her manner was simply like that of an excited young girl executing her first scam after days of practise, and going by Masa Ed lackadaisical reaction, he is definitely not as stupid as her to respond to her fairy tale offer. Instead, he returned to lying on the bed and wait for the next thing his creator on crack arranged for him.

  But if he paid attention, he would have noticed one of the two identical breathtaking beauties dressed in a Victorian maid outfit, standing close behind their masked leader glared fiercely at him, oozing ferocity like of a beast about to pounce on an annoying prey it has been chasing for hours but is now cornered and helpless.

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  However, after a while, Masa Ed who ignored this people completely; simply unbothered by their presence glance at them.

  "You are still here?" He questioned them sarcastically, and without delay, he returned to staring blankly at the plain black ceiling, leaving them out of his field of vision which moments later lit up from the brightness of vibrating arrows made of golden lights with each carrying intents powerful enough to level mountains not to talk of his measly figure, all pointed at him, all looking ready to pierce him.

  However as he was about to dismiss them after he sneered, the masked person gained his attention with her voice.

  "Masa Eda. Born Year 957 on the twelfth day of the ninth month. One of four children, the second child. First among his peers, both at his homeland and at a foreign land. An avid reader who has undoubtedly read more than any mortal in recorded history. A virgin man who has never been sexually involved with another but has been involved with many others romantically, although its always one sided on either part. His favorite food: anything edible. His favorite hobby: reading dirty magazines. His favorite person: any beautiful busty woman. His favorite dress style: street beggar style. His favourite human character: honesty. His current job: owner and CEO of a farm. His favorite curse word: fuck. Time he likes sleeping: early morning. What disgusts him: dumb idiots, stupid idiots and fools. What..."

  "Just shut up." Masa Ed snapped; he shut the person up before he sit up as the floating arrows of destruction above him vanished, and he turn to look at her. "What do you want exactly?"

  The being before a verbal response removed the mask on their head to reveal a literal angelic androgynous face of bright golden curly hair that matches her golden eyes, which for a brief moment transfixed Masa Ed because he has never seen anything close to its beauty and charm ever, but if he stop being stubborn and look to her side at her two identical breathtaking retainers that are girls in their first prime, he will realize their ultra feminine doll-like beauty is in the same bracket as of the angel of a woman.

  "Mr Eda, I will cut to the chase. You are in grave danger right now, and I am your only way to safety; you need me."

  After her words said in a grave tone in a mature voice unlike her previous girly voice and an accent that totally matches his own unlike before, the angel of a woman took her seat on one of the stools and placed the eagle mask on the other, and from one of the girls—her retainers in maid uniform—she collected a newspaper she passed to Masa Ed who is focused with a furrowed brow.

  "You have been missing for nine months after the incident. Right now as we speak, you are a salem meat pie of the spiritual world; every hungry practitioner—dark and registered—is searching for your trail. Only I, Margaret Goldy Brown can save you. Here take it, sign it."

  Masa Ed ignored the woman that might have a mental issue as she has reverted back to her pretend girly self and her paper she stretched towards him passionately with twinkling eyes. Instead, he looked closely at the headline of the newspaper in his hand, engaging his mind after grasping its story related to him.

  [MEDI ISLAND RAZED TO THE GROUND; NOTHING SPARED]

  'It must have been that strange fire that fell; its the last thing I can remember; but how on earth can it burn down an island of ten thousand people and I am the only one that survived? There is no way it could have instantly cover the whole island, right?... Maybe...'

  "Mr Eda, if you are wondering. You are indeed the only person that survived. The whole island down to the abyss was consumed, nothing was left, not even a trace. So I am sure you understand the gravity of your situation. Both the mortal world and the spiritual world is after you; some want to know how only you survived and the others want to put you to justice, they think you are responsible for it..."

  "So funny." Masa Ed scoffed at the woman's word, specifically the last part. And after dropping the newspaper on his laps, he locked eyes with the angel of a woman and resumed passionately, his voice rising with every sentence:

  "Why will they think I am responsible? Its not like I started the fire or something. And if its about the spiritual stuff you are talking about, there is no way I will have that kind of power and live isolated on a fucking godforsaken island; fuck! I am clearly a victim here!! Why am I being treated unfairly?! After everything I did to get away from you motherfuckers, why am I going through all this pains?! Can't you just leave me alone and do your stuff?! Must you always involve me?!"

  Masa Ed having violently expressed himself, huffing and puffing uncontrollably from boiling yet suppressed anger, calm down himself and was able to regain his usual composure. Then he smiled at the angel of a woman who has been watching him and his unusual display keenly with a warm smile.

  "So... why will they think I am responsible? Lady Margaret."

  To answer his question, the angel of a woman stretched her hand and collected a document from one of her twin retainers that have been watching her and his interaction attentively, one clearly annoyed and the other somber and pensive. She opened to a page of the document and passed it to Masa Ed.

  "Every book you have read, their names and order, and every searches you entered on the internet, we have them documented. Mr Eda, you are a category 2 target on our watchlist. We have been monitoring you and your actions since the result of your IJTE where you set the record for the highest score, everything you do and say since that day has been within our radar..."

  "Wait, you said I set a record for the IJTE. What exactly is the record? Why don't I know about it?"

  Masa Ed have to interrupt the angel of a woman because he remembered in his IJTE exam, he got two seventy points out of a total of five hundred points, so how could he have set a record related to the highest score when he is clearly acquainted with a freak that scored four hundred and eighty, two points behind the record highest.