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Chapter 4

While Enid and Avis were driving their way to Glenndoa. They were almost there to invade the headquarter, but Avis suddenly stopped his car to look at Enid.

"Kind of cute...sleeping in my car." he said to himself, but he heard something that was falling from the sky.

"What the-?!"

Enid woke up when she heard a couple of loud thud. Two ninja-like robots came out of nowhere with their weapons out. Enid had no time to put on her armor and so, she took out her swords from her back sheath and charged at them, one robot wielded a double sword and the other wielded a huge ball in chains.

The two ninjas robots both melee and long range attacks, but Enid was fast and more skillful to even overcome the robot's weapons as the huge ball was barely hitting her and the swords were barely slashing and stabbing her as well.

Avis watched the girl fighting with a couple of ninja robots in her casual clothing. She was also very strong without her armor on and he collected more data on his pad.

"Interesting, very interesting..." he kept on saying to himself.

Enid defeated the one with the swords by cutting it to pieces and as for the one that wielded the huge ball and chains. Enid dodged an attack that hit the engine of the car. Avis screamed and he got off the car while he clenched his left hand.

"Ahh! My week old hummer! You son of a bitch!" Avis jumped in front of Enid and he charged at the robot that is using its weapon that was thrown at him. Enid closed her eyes when he was already a dead man in a few minutes. However, he caught the giant ball with his left mutated arm and he threw it back at the robot. The giant ball smashed the robot and it's arm twitching...

The battle was over...

"Heh...hehe..." Enid laughed.

Avis panted when he used his mutated arm to carry a heavy ball. Enid was amazed to see that arm that can carry such weight and threw it back like it was it nothing. She tried her best not to let her laugh be heard by covering her mouth and Avis turned to her.

"What's so funny?"

"You...you remind me of my master." Enid blushed to herself.

"How?" Avis gave her a confused look.

"...Your temper."

"Oh, uh...I dislike people who destroy my inventions that's all." Avis walked to the car that seem to had a busted engine, but when he started the engine again. "Engine seems to be okay, this is one lucky car that survived a hit like that."

"Hehe." Enid hasn't felt like this in a long time, a relief to see her master again, so she climbed on the car again for Avis to drive their way to their destination.

A little camera was flying around the discarded robots and the car in the distance. Two women were looking at their pad to see the pieces from the two strongest robots that have pinned down by two people.

"So she got herself a companion huh?" said the one that was holding a pad.

"Whoa! This one is smashed!" said a chubby girl.

"I can't see!" said the third one that was so short, she tried to pushed her chubby sister away, but it was too dark to see who is who and she accidentally pushed her other sister that was holding the pad. The pad broke on the floor and their surroundings became completely dark.

"When we get home...you are going to be punished!"

"No...I don't want to be punished!" the young girl whined to her oldest sister and she was slapped really hard on her right cheek.

"Welcome to Glenndoa kid!"

"Whoa..."

Enid had never been in such a humongous city as she stepped out of the car with her eyes locked on the lights below the night sky. The brightness flashed on her eyes and took a step forward...

"Hey kid! Wait!"

"Stop calling me a kid! Such a scoundrel person!" Enid yelled.

"All right, no need to get mad. We might be wanted people, so I suggest we should make a plan to blend in."

"Huh?" Enid tilted her head. "Blend in?"

"We need to be citizens of this city! You know, a disguise? Come on kid! Catch up!"

Enid eyebrows twitched and she turned around with her arms crossed. "Why should I listen to a rogue like you? I can do anything alone in times like this."

"Have you ever been to a city?"

Enid stared at the bright city and she hung her head.

"That's why I'm here, here you go kid."

Avis gave Enid a strange object from her dark vision, then she opened them again to see Avis' face again. He has black eyes, a pretty color, but she looked away when Avis smiled at her.

"Take a look at yourself sweetheart!"

"..." Enid looked at herself from Avis' left eye that created a screen that acted as a mirror. She was disgusted by her new appearance. Her whole body was different, she was wearing a dress over her thin long socks, and she clenched her teeth.

"Aww... you look so cute."

"I am not wearing this sick outfit!" Enid stomped her foot realizing that she was wearing shorter boots.

"Hey, look at me."

Avis was a different person when he wore a pair of shades, then his appearance changed in an instant. He was wearing a casual suit with regular glasses on. Enid shook her head when Avis looked normal than her and she crossed her arms again.

"You look better than me..." Enid said.

"Hey, I'm a guy who doesn't have anything else to wear. Now suck this one up! We're in Glenndoa! A city that is well-known for the biggest headquarter that is a size of a tower. Catch up kid! You need to know everything about this world!"

"I see, then you shall accompany me to this city."

"That is what I'm saying cute little girl!"

"Then let's go and don't call me a little girl."

Enid and Avis went around the city and Enid unexpectedly was amazed by the clothes display in front of windows. The colors blend with the strange fabrics had impressed Enid's golden eyes that shined like stars.

The smell from the air had Enid's mouth watered and she stare at the surrounding people that were holding small trays of food. Somehow Enid's stomach gurgled from the sight of those sphere-like edible things...

"Octopus Balls! It's been a while since I had those!" Avis said with a smile on his face.

"May I have some?" Enid asked.

"Why not? We could use a break anyway! One pack please!"

"Here you go sir!" said the cooker.

"Thanks!" Avis used a small object that transfer money to the cooker and he used a toothpick to pick up an octopus balls.

"I can feed myself."

"Come on, you know you want it!"

Enid stare at sphere-like object and she took a whole bite from the soft and starchy treat. Then she felt something hard from her teeth, and she took it out.

"That's a octopus leg, of course you can eat it!" Avis took in the whole octopus ball and chew it up with his normal teeth.

Enid stare at the small and purple-like object and she put it back in her mouth. It was hard to chew up, but she managed to swallow it. She smiled from the strange taste of a mysterious food.

"Is there more?" Enid asked.

"One more."

"You dunce! You ate that much?!"

"You didn't tell me to save some for you! I can always buy some more!"

"That will be very plea- Wait a minute! We're here for the tower!"

"Yeah, so what?" Avis said.

"You ignorant dunce! You were distracting me!"

"I wasn't acting like a little girl that saw a pretty dress on display!"

"I was amazed by the colors, so do not think of me as a child!"

"Come on! You were smiling like a kid you are! You missed a lot of shit in that cave with that old geezer!"

"You do not call my master like that!" Enid raised her voice that had the citizens looked at them and she stomped out of Avis' way.

"Kaylenna, come on!" Avis tried to approached her, but she slapped his hand away.

"Ahhh! She's having a heart attack!"

A woman screamed when another woman next to her held onto her chest. Avis turned around and Enid watched him getting near a woman and started pumping her chest. The female citizen was lying on the ground as Avis gave her CPR. Enid lowered her eyes when this monster was saving a human's life and she walked out of the crowd.

It was a bad idea to side with another human that wasn't the same as her. She didn't even know this man before and she never once asked on who he was. She could never care on such a human such as him and she let her feet moved onto a dark place. Cold air surrounded her temperature which she is used to with her old crippled master that always used his cane for useless leg. Enid would always see him that always made a smile whenever he talked about his past and his stories were always interrupted by his nasty cough. Her master was getting old and sick by an infected virus that had stayed with him for his entire life. Enid had no medical skills to save him the virus, but he had lived longer than she expected him to be. If only she saved him back in his last battle, then she and him would still be together...

"!"

Enid was touched by her shoulder and she turned around to see a bunch of men that were snickering at her.

"Hey there sweetheart! Where's your boyfriend at?" said a man with alcohol in his breath.

"I do not wish to have one." Enid tried to walk away, but she was caught by the arm.

"Why don't you play with us?"

Enid realized that she was in a dead end and she was surrounded by sneaking male humans.

"You are all fools..." Enid lowered her eyes, and then she kicked her grabber's face brutally enough to removed a few teeth from his mouth.

"Shit!" said one of the men and some of them backed up on Enid.

"Fuck! Shit! Fucking kill this piece of shit!" said the man with a broken face and some of the men charged at her.

"Fools...fools everywhere..."

Enid dodged an incoming punch behind her and she returned a punch from the man. She took out a knife that was under her short boots and she slashed a man's throat that had him bled in an instant. She took another man by stabbing him in his lungs and then, soon the others ran away, but Enid did not want them to run away. She took down another one and then the last one had a broken face...

"Please! Please don't kill me!" The half faced man begged for his life, but Enid stare down with her cold eyes and she raised her knife.

"Stop Kaylenna!"

Enid stopped herself to see Avis stepping towards in front of Enid's prey.

"Ahhh!" Enid's last prey ran away with only an injury from his face and she gave Avis a frown.

"Why did you-"

Enid was interrupted by a stinging pain from her cheek, shocked by this unfamiliar pain, then she was dragged away from a crime scene.

The strange heat was back again when Avis was taking her in a nearby hotel. He wasn't looking at her face as she gave him another frown when she was pushed on a huge bed.

"What the fuck was that?!" Avis yelled at her.

"That was self defense, so I had no choice." Enid said.

"You liar! I knew your master's intention on why he kill! He needed new weapons from his database for the high killing rates! You intentionally were imitating his youth!"

"So what if I were my master?" Enid got up from bed with her dress covered in dried blood. "I am doing this for myself and I am no monster just as yourself."

"Look at you! You're the monster that was created by a former dangerous mercenary! Why are you destroying yourself! You are a free woman!"

"I am not free! Not yet, I'm not!" Enid stare at his black eyes and turned away. "However, I am stronger than you, so it is best for you to no longer follow me."

"Didn't I fucking say I have nowhere else to go? And I'm here to find out of this mastermind myself?!"

"You will die."

"Didn't we had this fucking conversation before?"

"..."

Enid stared down at the floor when she remembered that this man had shown his strong heart. Just like her master, then she gave him a smile.

"What the?"

"You are just like master, someone who have such bravery onto challenging obstacles. If you survive this mission, then you would be proud of yourself." Enid lowered her eyes. "However, what now? After going through such a sad event. What will you do if you were hunted? The humans who made you have known you will fear you, and you will live the rest of your life in a bad ending by one choice."

Avis stare at her eyes and then he looked away from her face. She stood up from her bed and went in the bathroom to get herself clean up.

"Kyaa!"

"Thank you." Avis took a few extra towels from room service and he placed them next to Enid that had sneezed from her freezing head.

"It's cold..." Enid complained.

"Here." Avis placed a towel on her head and he rubbed her head.

"I can't believe such a cold water splashed on my head before I knew that button said cold."

Avis sighed. "Why didn't you tell me to help you out?"

"I can handle things myself, beside, a man cannot get into woman's private things."

"True, true..." Avis nodded. "This is going to a while to dry since you're hair is very long. Are you thinking about getting a haircut?"

"I do not wish to my hair cut."

"Come on, what happens if you're fighting on a windy day and your long ass hair is on your face?"

"I have very good hearing instinct."

"Brat."

"What did you call me?"

"A brat, because you are one since you are very stubborn too."

"Why you!" Enid tried to punch him, but he managed to catch her arm.

"What?"

"Look here, I know your data and your master's data. However, you still are a kid with weak strength and speed." Avis looked at her eyes and made a smirk.

"Insolent dunce." Enid said.

"You got a big mouth and all, but what you lack is respect toward others. I want to know why you wanted to kill that guy that was begging for his life!"

Enid snatched her arm away and crossed her arms. "Humans made my master go through a mistake he made in his life. Killing people, making him as a half robot. He had none to begin with, memories of his past were taken and he received nothing throughout his life."

Enid stood up from the bed and let her cold head take over her temperature again. It was very cold, but she was used to the coldness from a cave that she and her master hid for many years. They would sit and talk for seasons and they grew used to the changes of degrees that she and her master had endured for survival and her training.

"...You know, you haven't heard my story... I guess my past can compare to your master's story."

"Will you tell me yours? I do not have a story of my past." Enid sat on the bed beside Avis.

"Yeah, I still remember my childhood days, but somehow...I always remembered that day when I first came in that headquarter who gave me these...

Enid stare at his left eye and his visible infected arm. She lowered her eyes when her curiosity grew and she swallowed her saliva.

"There is much to talk when my master and I would do that routine for years. Will you start with yours?"

"Yeah, it's been a long time since I was in a conversation with a real person, so you better like it kid! I got a sad one to tell ya."

"I am well prepared for that." Enid smiled and she locked her hands on her bend knees.

"All right, it all started out when I was just a typical kid with everything I wanted...Babes, drinks, and no family since I was an orphan."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

Avis shrugged his shoulders, "anyways, I learned how to use a gun, had training in some boot camps, and as a young kid. Heh, I was the bomb. Until I became 17..."

The conversations grew, Enid seemed to be a bit comfortable around him, for now...she was able to trust him…

Only for now...