Chapter 10

Both women were exhausted, but they haven't given up since their core was running out fast and they were close to deactivation. They were close to become ashes and so, they took off their masks and both collapsed in fatigue.

At the same time, they snapped their fingers to have their summons come together and made a huge explosion.

When the smoke emit...the two women stood there in exhaustion. They were on the verge of collapsing on the floor, but they stood tall and they charged at each other to make a hand to hand combat.

"Why do you want to destroy the New World's Order?" Remila asked and she punched Enid's face.

"For my master!" Enid still stood up and kicked Remila's face, but Remila stood there, then she punched Enid's face again and it sent her rolling on the floor. Enid had to stand, but her legs were failing her and she fell on the ground.

"I gotta hand it to you! As a foolish girl like you, I'm afraid you're going to have to join your precious old fool!"

"..." Enid clenched at her broken blade that was snapped in half. She panted in great exhaustion, her punctured lungs were not functioning and she coughed heavily.

"Any last words? Kaylenna? Or should I say...Enid?"

"..."

"None? Very well then."

Enid slashed Remila's lips with her broken blade, then she raised her middle finger high in the air.

"You little bitch!"

When Remila was about to stab her face. A bloody right arm grabbed her hand, in between the two females was a man with a missing left arm was breathing heavily to himself...

"Both of you enough! You two are going to die if you keep on going!"

Avis looked at both women with his bloody face, but they didn't looked at him.

"Stay out of this, Avis!" Enid yelled at him.

"Yes! This is our fight!" Remila struggled.

"You guys are being set up! You're giving yourselves time and exhaustion to get yourself killed by that monster I encountered in the building! This is what he wants! He wants to take us with him!"

"What?" Enid and Remila said at the same time and a heavy footstep was heard from their surrounding.

"Shit! He followed me!"

"Oh my god..." Enid could not look away from the person that just walked by. He had gray hair with unshaven beard, he was also wearing a blue and gray armor wrapped with white bandages around his hands and mouth which leaves a long bandage hanging around the back of his neck.

"Master Xero...no...XV's virus had taken over you?!"

Avis backed up in great fear when XV torn down his reliable left arm. He clenched his bleeding torn wound and panted heavily to himself.

"So that's what it was? Oh father, you are such a son a of bitch!" Remila had to laugh at herself on what she just did when use her powers to shock Avis's heart earlier.

The old Xero roar and he charged at Enid, but Remila jumped in and blocked his attack.

Enid was still shocked to see that her master that is still in his old body is attacking Remila with those tired hands from fighting, but she has to fight to prevent the XV from killing everyone in this place.

"Enid!" Avis shaked Enid's body with his only human arm. Enid remained still and exhausted. Avis sighed and he raised his bloody right arm.

"Huh?" Enid was finally back in reality when she felt a huge sting from her cheek. Then she looked at Avis clenching his teeth.

"Come on! Wake up!"

Enid had no time to think about on Avis' action. She looked at her master that was punching Remila's face. Remila cannot get up from the monster top of her and so she teleports away and she coughed out blood from her poisoned lungs.

"Master!" Enid yelled and she forced herself to get up from her exhausted legs to walk towards her infected master. However, she was punched in the ribs. She hacked the blood out of her painful lung, but she kept on getting up. "...Master! You spent your entire as a criminal and finally, the day of freedom has come! Why did you let this virus take over? You think that this thing is going to take your chance to die once more? This is bullshit master! I completed your mission! It's all over now!" Enid found her revolver that was near her and she pointed her gun at his head. "Please pull it together! Fight it as Omega did!"

"..."

"Master Xero?"

Xero stomped on the ground a few times and looked at Enid with his gentle crimson eyes.

"That was rare for you to cuss Enid, hehe."

"Master!" Enid sighed in relief to hear her master's voice again, but he grunted in pain.

"All right, you know what to do?"

Enid nodded at him and she held her revolver at her master "...Remember this?"

"Ah, that gun, it sure brings back memories, lots of it."

"I'm glad you have lived for me, thank you master , and I hope your friends are proud of you as well."

"I have plenty of stories to tell them."

"You do..." Enid smiled.

"Hurry! I won't be able to hold it much longer! Do it!"

Enid readied the revolver and points it at his head, but her hands had shaken so much and she could not make a good angle to make it to the center of his head.

"Enid." Avis touched her hand to relieve her trembling, then she has found the courage to make the shot by feeling Avis's warmth.

"See you in hell."

"Hehehe...good luck...Enid."

Once a shot has been made, Xero slowly fell on the ground, showing his weak smile on his dead face. Enid had to drop with Avis and made a big wail that echoed throughout the surrounding.

Enid made a proper burial for her master that has finally went to heaven to see his old comrades once again. She looked at the dark sky alone while smelling the burning body. Avis came over to her to pat her bare shoulder with his one arm that was attached to him. The other side lost and yet, bandaged by Remila's emergency kit.

"Thank you for making my master's grave with me."

"No problem." Avis nodded, and kept his eyes on the burning body.

"...Is there a reason why you're still here?" Enid clenched at her broken weapon. "Remila?"

"...I knew everything about his duties, his orders, and I also know about the Bolverk Squad." Remila said in a hoarse voice, but she kept on going. "My own father did most of the planning when he was only focus on the Bolverk Squad more than anything else. I was made after the three squad members died, only one remained."

Enid had never seen Remila like this before. Her expression, her attitude, and her position had changed completely. She pointed her weapon at her and Remila did not flinched.

"You fought with my master?" Enid asked.

"Strange, I've never seen her in my team when I fought Xero." Avis pondered to himself.

"That's because we were on separate team, you and I were in a different class, so that is why we never seen each other. I had to cooperated with my father just because I was controlled!" Remila clenched her broken fist. "Humans like you wouldn't understand."

"!" Enid looked at her golden eyes and she lowered her weapon.

"My father wanted to take control of the whole society, so he made his own script by slowly taking away what his own father possessed. He sent that military leader with a strange head wound to the Omega project to assassinate his own father, but that didn't work. Instead, the one called Omega has taken the leadership to the Bolverk Squad." Remila laughed and made a nasty cough. "He knew that his father wanted revenge and so he gave Omega lover's a malfunction to betray her own comrades since the other one was always loyal towards him."

"Kary 08 taking orders for her own freedom and yet it wasn't her intention to do that. Master..." Enid said to herself.

"He needed the organization to be taken down since it was making a ruckus to the society. The MBORF had the Bolverk Squad making a ruckus! He wanted everything out of his way, so why not let the team kill each other? After the overseer died, and Bolverk was no more. My father and his son realized that Xero was still alive, so they needed to dispose him to complete his plan to make his own organization so that he will not disturb them, but years have passed by and they still hunted for him. That is why...they needed to make something, a synthesis that needed enough powers to destroy Xero. He also needed a good engineer to track him down and make weapons for his soldiers..."

"..." Avis looked at the ground.

"I see, it makes sense now." Enid gasped at Remila's words when she explained the whole situation to her.

Enid widen eyes when she saw the sudden change from Remila's face. She was showing a sad and gentle smile that reminded of her reflection from a river.

"What year is it?" Remila asked.

"This year is 2067." Avis said.

"...18 years..." Remila paused and she fell on the ground.

"Remila..." Enid walked towards her and she heard a loud whimper from Remila.

"Don't come over! I don't want you to see this disgusting face!"

"...You don't mean..." Enid gently bent down and placed her hands on her cheeks.

"No!" Remila tried to struggle, but Enid's strength was firmly grasping her smooth face.

"It can't be...you have the same eyes as I do."

"That's right Enid, this here is your lovely mother." Avis smiled.

"How did you-?" Remila yelled.

"What?!" Enid stood up and looked down at Remila.

"Dear Remila 09, he finally hacked into your brain to get your memories back, I'll give him his message: Consider this as an apology, my best creation."

"...!" Remila heavily breathed to herself, then she disappeared.

"Remila! Where are you going?!" Enid yelled at her surroundings, but Remila was gone.

Remila stood on a cliff far away from Enid and Avis. She turned her back and limped away to leave these two people alone in the middle of nowhere. "We shall meet again someday. Goodbye Enid, my sweet daughter."

"I-I can't believe that this is all over." Enid's voice trembled.

"What are you going to do now?" Avis softly said.

"I don't know." Enid sighed. "There was one thing...that I was thinking about." Enid took out a purple knife from the back of her belt.

"No!" Avis grabbed her arm, then Enid dropped the knife. "Open your eyes Enid! You're free! You're free from the existence of violence, isn't there something that you've always lived for? A normal life? You becoming a real woman for the first time?"

"...I knew you would do that, Avis."

She slowly wrapped her arms around Avis.

"Huh?"

"I'm not sure what this feeling is, but I feel like hugging you like this."

"Enid..." Avis hugged her with his right arm...

Enid sighed to herself, she was half relieved that she didn't need to fight Remila anymore. However, Remila as her mother, she will find her again.

Enid looked at Avis and she gave him a smile that haven't tagged on her face for decades. She had forgotten about that feeling for too long.

"!" Avis gasped loudly and he continued to look at her smile.

"...Thank you...Avis Grefield, for assisting me all the way."

"Anything for you, Kaylenna." His voice was soothing and he squeezed her body. Enid was surprised at herself that she didn't mind having Avid holding her like this and his face went closer to her.

Enid's lips grew warm when she kissed Avis again. She can finally taste the sweetness from his lips. They heard their hearts beating closely on their chest and they stood under the comfortable bed of vast universe.

"This is my life, my freedom, and my hope for changing the world from the lives that I had taken. Karma shall come to me someday, but right at this moment... I am free at last..."