Dora was whispering, like telling a scary story, and when she finished speaking, she stomped her foot heavily causing a loud bang to happen. The place was deserted, so the voice echoed loudly, adding more tension to the atmosphere.

"See? If I step wrongly over the door, then we all will die."

"Stop scaring the little," James said, "After all we are all in danger."

"Why are you saying that?" Dora jokingly asked, with some upset from his interference in her little play.

"Because we aren't alone," Charles said, as he motioned to the front, where there was a group of ten people standing there, like guards.

"Are they trying to…" Dora asked, as she took out her gun.

She wasn't the only one with this high reaction, as Charles and Rigo reacted even faster than her. As for James, his first reaction was to push Eli to the side, before taking out his gun as he started shooting the guards nearby without pause.

The battle has just begun.

Four against ten, the odds were standing with the majority, logically, but as the element of surprise was on the side of the minority, the battle started in the favor of them.

The earliest gun shots managed to eliminate nearly half of the ten, flipping the scale fast to be a balanced battle. If not to the rapid reaction the remaining alive had, they would have lost more than that.

But they timely reacted, guarding themselves behind the curvy nature of this place, taking it as a shield against Dora, James, Rigo, and Charles attacks.

"We can't stand here, we are too exposed," Charles said.

"If we retreat, they will send for more reinforcements. We need to keep pushing them," Dora replied, refusing Charles' suggestion.

"Any brilliant ideas then?" Charles asked with some high tone that made Dora turn to glance angrily at him.

"We have to push them away from their guarded places," James said, interfering to prevent any inside quarrel at this delicate time, "I want to ask about the guarding system here, if, and I'm just saying if, I used a bomb, will the defensive mechanisms here get activated?"

'Unfortunately yes," Dora replied.

James sighed, as he thought of using one of the cannons inside his storage bracelets, but he couldn't do it now.

"I will advance, you make sure to follow my suit," Rigo suddenly said, as he didn't wait for anyone to confirm his words. He moved, without even looking behind, with a strange high speed, towards the cowered enemies.

He, after all, was a humanoid, someone who was built based on the most supreme conditions of a human, using all the advantages of both humans and machines, so he could use superhuman speed, or even he could take some shots from any gun directly without being fried.

And that is what he intended to do, as he darted without thinking of his safety, aiming to cross all the distance up ahead in the shortest possible time. even his gun wasn't used, as it might delay him, and he wasn't intending to reach there without receiving some hits.

When he moved, he could evade most of the attacks, as mostly they weren't meant for him, but when he crossed half the distance towards the enemies, more shots became focused over him, and that made his mission to dodge more difficult, or even impossible.

"Is he insane?" Dora muttered with disbelief, watching what Rigo was doing.

"No, he is using his advantages for real, if you want my opinion then he is just bullying those stupid out there," Charles uninterestingly said, as he kept firing his gun, without any care to Rigo.

"Stop, you might hurt him," James boldly said, as he pushed the gun in Charles' hands.

"Don't touch me again like this," Charles ruthlessly said, "if it isn't for your butler, you won't be able to reach your stand here or even touch me."

He was rude, however James wasn't that weak minded person to be intrigued by this cheap trick, as he replied, "I don't care what you think, after all I captured you sneaking amidst the commanding deck like thieves, and got you cornered in that room until my friend came and save you."

James didn't describe Rigo as his butler, as he was considering him as a close friend, even a brother, "For your knowledge, I intended to kill you before leaving that room, as I got sick of your lies. Without Rigo's intervention you might have ended dead and you won't be here chit chatting like a little kid."

Charles looked towards James, who just looked back. Charles felt more worry towards this man, as he proved with time he wasn't the simple minded, easy controllable person he thought to be.

"Fine," Charles just said, putting away his gun.

"Now what?" Dora asked to stop this untimely quarrel.

"Let's follow him," James said, as he started to run after Rigo's back. Rigo had already reached the place of these enemies, and as Charles said, he was enough to kill all of them before the others reached him.

"Good work Rigo," James said, patting his shoulder in an intentional move, which made Rigo quite surprised. He sensed something was wrong here, but he couldn't know what it was.

"Now let's go ahead," Charles said, after giving Rigo a silent glance that held no meaning at all.

"Is everything alright?" Rigo whispered to James, as they started to move after Charles.

"He and Charles got into some fight a while ago," Dora said, and when she saw the angry look over Rigo, she added, "James was trying to protect you, as Charles kept firing even when you were blocking the way."

Rigo moved his eyes between her and James, then to the forefront Charles.

"Don't bother, he is just a scum," James muttered.

"He is always a scum," Rigo said, as if he wasn't that surprised by that man's reaction just now.

"It seems you two have quite a history," Dora cautiously said, trying to peep over the truth between the two. she wasn't alone, as James was interested as well. The difference here was James could know anytime he wanted from his man, but she couldn't, and as a lady she had that irresistible urge to know.

"It's another talk for another time," Rigo simply replied, before Charles cut all this with his distasteful voice, "There is another group ahead, it seems we will have to get used to our welcoming parties."

James didn't speak, as he looked silently to Rigo, who kept running forward when everyone stopped. They opened fire at once, trying to kill those away from them first, learning from their previous lesson, they managed to decrease the load, and kill over half this time.

So, Rigo's mission was easier, as he managed to reach those remaining before they could handle their matters and arrange their line. When we hurried after him, we found, as usual, he killed all of them.

"Perfect performance as always, why don't you keep going ahead and let us have some rest here?"

Charles was teasing Rigo, who just ignored him while James said:

"If it's bothering you this much, then you can go ahead while we rest here."

Charles smiled silently, a smile that wasn't a smile at all, before he started to move ahead without saying a word. Everyone then moved, and this time Dora grabbed a gun from the fallen and threw it towards Eli, who kept running at the back, keeping the pace with them.

"Don't be always this cute, as death won't bother if you are like this."

Eli grabbed the gun, with an anxious face, however she held it firmly without any hesitation or fear.

"Oh, you didn't drop it, I'm impressed," Dora said, faking her surprise, as she didn't care if she had a gun or not. She just did this on a whim, without any intentions at all.

"Thanks," Eli softly thanked her, and before Dora could reply with her high tone, she recalled she might need her help in the future. Something couldn't be known by her, and thus Eli was in the perfect spot to help. She needed someone James wouldn't suspect, a spy! and Eli was considered the perfect spy in her opinion.

Recruiting a spy wasn't easy, but she intended to do so with her. She had no other option, and she was sure Rigo and James had their own plans which she knew nothing about.

So she smiled, warmly and with sincere this time, as she whispered:

"Don't thank me, we are sisters after all." Eli's face changed slightly, and when Dora noticed that, she added at once, "after all we both were saved by him, so technically we are sisters, and I like you, you are cute."

Her words were a random mix of any word she could think of and might please this pure girl beside her, and from the look over her face, Dora knew she succeeded. Eli was happy, and her nodding on her meaningless words just now proved she had crossed a big shot in forming a new spy, which was gaining this spy's trust.