In the burning square of the Outcasts' village, the silence was heavier than mountains. Everyone, soldiers and rebels alike, was amazed and shocked by this woman's audacity and boldness in front of the Supreme Leader, "Zoro". This monster, who made the empire tremble, was now standing calmly before her!
Zoro turned to his soldiers, his eyes burning with terrifying anger, and shouted with an earth-shattering voice: "Everyone to the vehicles! Leave immediately!"
No one dared to disobey. Jin, Mika, and Kyle boarded the armored vehicle. From behind the dark glass, they watched the scene in shock. Zoro, the invincible leader, seemed for a moment to weaken in front of this woman. His harsh features softened slightly. "What on earth is happening?" Kyle whispered to himself as he watched.
Outside, Zoro approached "Elara" (Julia's mother). There was no one around to hear them. He leaned toward her, and his tone changed from anger to a terrifying grandeur, whispering words that froze the blood in her veins:
"Elara... your daughter is in my grasp. Any wrong move from you, any attempt to cause another riot, will lead to her immediate death."
Elara's eyes widened in deadly fear, and she took a step back, placing her hand over her mouth. Zoro left her collapsed and turned to head back to the capital.
Meanwhile, upon arriving at the capital, Kyle did not go to his room. Instead, he sneaked into the dark lower levels and entered a room filled with screens and wires. There sat "Sylvan", a malicious systems genius and Kyle's friend, with half his face covered in black metal and a sly smile.
"I need an eye that never sleeps, Sylvan," Kyle said maliciously. "I want a spy device that can penetrate even electromagnetic shields. I want to hear the heartbeat of Inspector Number 1."
Sylvan smiled and handed him a tiny chip that looked like a metal spider. "This chip will record every whisper and every heartbeat, Kyle. Place it in his room, and it will bring you his end."
At the top of the tower, Jin opened the door to his private suite, exhausted from the day's events. But what he saw made him freeze in place.
Julia was sitting on the floor, laughing loudly and beautifully. Jax (the vent rat) was doing funny acrobatic moves and telling her sarcastic jokes about the System's guards. She was smiling, her eyes shining with a happiness that made her forget her sorrow for a few moments.
Suddenly, a strange fire ignited inside Jin's chest. It wasn't an alarm from the System, but a purely human feeling... it was jealousy! How could she laugh with someone else like that while she cried in front of him?
Jin walked in with heavy, terrifying steps. "Jax!" Jin roared with a voice that terrified the skinny young man. "Get out of here... right now!"
Jax fled toward the vent like a mouse and disappeared in a second.
Julia stood up in fear, backing away until her back was pressed against the wall in the corner of the room. Jin approached her with his overwhelming presence and placed both hands on the wall, trapping her completely. The distance between them was almost nonexistent. His warm breath brushed against her face.
Julia looked up at him with her blue eyes in fear, but she didn't find cruelty in his dark eyes. Instead, she found deep contemplation, sadness, and a hidden desire to protect her. Jin kept looking into her eyes for a long time, and his anger began to fade little by little, replaced by a strange, electrifying romantic silence between a killer machine and a rebel girl.
Suddenly... the door opened!
"How romantic!" came Kyle's sarcastic voice.
Jin was immediately startled. With a quick, fake movement, he grabbed Julia's arm roughly and pushed her away from him. "What are you doing here, Kyle?!" Jin shouted, trying to cover his confusion. "She was causing some trouble, and I was disciplining her so she knows her place."
Kyle smiled maliciously as he entered the room, his hands in his pockets. "I came to talk to you about what happened with Leader Zoro and that woman. Isn't the scene strange?"
While Kyle was talking and distracting Jin, his hand moved swiftly to place the "spider chip" under the edge of the metal table.
Kyle left a few minutes later and returned to his room. He turned on his screen and began to watch and listen to Jin as he apologized to Julia with his eyes and approached her again. Kyle laughed a demonic laugh: "This will be the final blow, Jin."
As the days passed, Julia began to get used to Jin's presence, realizing that he only acted cruel to protect her.
One night, Jin received an encrypted call from Dr. Aris, asking him to come to a secret basement under the capital. There, Aris told Jin about the weakness he noticed in Zoro in front of Elara. "There is a big secret, Jin. Why would the Leader show weakness in front of a woman like her? We must find out."
The two planned to sneak into the Outcasts' village. Thanks to Jin's shields and Aris's stealth, they reached Elara's cabin.
They found her sitting in the dark, crying bitterly in front of an old, torn picture of her murdered husband and her daughter, Julia. Dr. Aris engaged in an intense conversation with her, trying to pressure her to reveal the nature of her relationship with Zoro, but she refused to answer and kept her mouth stubbornly shut.
"She won't talk," Jin said in a low voice.
And before they decided to return... the cabin door burst open!
Kyle entered with a demonic smile of victory, and beside him stood Mika.
"What are you two looking for here in the middle of the night?" Kyle said with absolute coldness.
Jin turned around at lightning speed, his hand on his weapon. "What brought you two here?!"
Mika looked at Jin. Her gaze wasn't as harsh as usual; instead, her gray eyes were filled with a look of deep sadness, as if she were saying goodbye.
Kyle spoke words that struck like lightning: "Leader Zoro wants you now. You have been exposed. Today will be a very bad end for you, Jin."
Jin and Dr. Aris returned to the capital in the vehicle. Fear gnawed at the doctor's heart for Jin, as he realized that Kyle had handed him over to death.
Jin arrived at the command headquarters. He walked through the corridors until he reached the massive black door. The door opened, and Jin entered the "Abyss Room."
It was a room of terrifying grandeur, dominated by pitch-black darkness and bone-chilling cold. Nothing could be seen inside, except for two eyes burning in the dark like embers from the fire of hell... the eyes of Supreme Leader Zoro.
Jin stood firm, even though his heart was beating violently.
Zoro spoke with a heavy, slow voice, filled with a deadly anger that made the walls shake: "You betrayed me, Jin."
Zoro began to reprimand him harshly and terrifyingly. "I made you to be my invincible sword. I stripped the weakness from you and gave you perfection. But you chose to be tainted by emotions! You lied to me, hid the girl, and let your heart beat with treason!"
"My Leader..." Jin tried to speak.
"Silence!" Zoro roared, emerging from the darkness holding an energy sword blazing with red. "The price of treason in my empire is blood."
In a terrifying and sorrowful scene, Zoro pointed his hand toward the shadows. Ten heavily armed elite guards emerged from the pitch-black darkness, surrounding Jin from all sides.
"Tear him apart... and bring me the girl," Zoro ordered with a voice that carried not a single ounce of mercy.