It has been a while since the blonde drill-haired girl and her white-haired friend had spent time together. Linnet Kishima has never felt more at peace in her life.

"Here's your tea Milady, Lady Kishima." Such a polite butler. Irogan has always been a very gifted butler. She sighed; if only he could work with her she wouldn't have to see her incompetent butlers and maids. Not all of them were useless but, the majority of the time she couldn't get her tea as she wanted it.

"Ah, thank you Irogan." Said the emotionless girl as she took a sip of her tea. Hmm, delicious as always her butler knows how to make the best teas. Linnet proceeds to drink her tea.

"Does it satisfied your taste Lady Kishima?" The drill-haired girl nodded.

"It does. I must say your tea is one of a kind Irogan."

"You flatter me."

"Now that we have our tea we should discuss other topics. Like why did you decided to come back?" Questioned Emuna.

"Oh, it's because I decided to study at Lycée High." That got the attention of the white-haired teen.

"Oh?!"

"You see while where I was they have the best teachers they could offer...it did not have the one thing that I want."

"That is...?" Linnet smiled at that.

"You." Emuna rose an eyebrow at that. Nevertheless, the white-haired teen was curious about the blonde drill-haired girl's specifications.

"Me?"

"Yes. I didn't have someone to interact with. Someone who I have known for years. You know, what do those commoners call it? Oh yes, a friend." A friend? So, Linnet's reason for coming back was because she felt lonely. While that may be a viable reason the white-haired girl feels there's more to it than that.

"Hmm, I see well I am glad to have my friend here with me."

"Likewise." They both took another sip of their tea. Irogan was standing observant of the two teens. He will only serve them tea whenever they felt to want their cups to be refilled.

"I wanted to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"I heard that you fought against some team named Team Alpha." Ah, she must be talking about Aeris and her group.

"Yes, they were very talented."

"I didn't know you were a player in Omega."

"Fufu, I played when I have free time." Said Emuna.

"Oh." The conversation was interrupted by a ring from a telephone.

"Excuse me." Irogan excused himself before picking the phone. "Chariot Resident. Hmm? Yes, she is here." Irogan nods before he looks toward Emuna. "Milady is from President Leos."

"Father?" Linnet questions wondering what her father wants with the white-haired emotionless girl.

"I see." She picked up the phone. "Yes, this is Emuna speaking."

"Oh! Emuna! Sorry to interrupt your friendly reunion. I just wanted to inform you that we might need you and your dolls...assistance."

"Excuse me." She looks toward her butler. "Irogan bring Regalia she needs to hear this too."

"Right away, Milady." The tall butler went to fetch one of Emuna's first doll. A few minutes later Irogan came back with the blonde long haired doll.

"Please continue," Emuna said now holding the doll in her lap. Leos if it was a person to person conversations would have a visible sweat-drop. Nevertheless understanding the owner of the Coffin of the Soulless need for her doll to hear the conversation continues.

"Alright, It seems that during one of our scans, Lahaska and Team Omega were face to face with a bug. From the description, it seems the bug had a V symbol on its shell."

"I see, how dangerous was?"

"Nothing too dangerous it seems that our hacker gave us a little warning. You know for being their first day on the job, they handle the situation pretty well!"

"Well, we are talking about Richard Kurosagi and Alice Hishikawa."

"Ah, you're very right! In any case, would you be able to help?" Asked the president.

"Hmm...Regalia?" As this conversation continues Linnet was more curious about what her father wanted. From the looks of it, it seemed to be something important.

"I see. Alright, We will be there as soon as possible."

"Thank you, Emuna." With that their conversation concluded.

"Well?"

"Seems we have to cut short our little friendly reunion it seems your father wants us to come to his company building." Informed the white-haired girl in which, Linnet sighed.

"Of course. Well, if Father said to come it must be very important. Very well, We'll have to make an appointment for our next reunion."

"We're friends, remember? We don't need to make appointments just come whenever you want." Told Emuna with a smile.

()

Meanwhile, on the Hishikawa Mansion, The brown-haired boy was still training his powerhouse form with his best friend and failing miserably. He was still not used to being slower than he normally is. Even despite being the same class as Alice now, the red-haired teen was still more powerful than him.

"Come on, put some muscles into those swings!" At least someone was having a lot of fun. Alice easily parries the brown-haired's slash with her pole before backing him. Alice chains Richard before slamming him down the ground. The poor boy didn't stand a chance as he screamed before landings on the ground with a loud thud.

"Lady Alice maybe we should let him rest." Suggested Jessenia. Alice looks to see the boy with spiral eyes. He was getting good...but he still needed to adjust himself to the changes. She frowned, she is happy that he is relying on her to become a better powerhouse but it feels...

"I guess you're right." Said the red-haired with a sigh. "DOBI end session."

'Ending session. Login out of this world.' With that, they all come back to the real world.

"Lady Alice, since is the right occasion to tell you this; Milady is coming to the mansion next week." For some reason that made the red-haired teen flinch. This didn't go unnoticed by the maid. "Is something wrong?"

"Eh? No, it just hearing that caught me off guard is all. So...mother is coming home." Ever since the day that her mother assigned Jessenia as her main maid the little bond between mother and daughter was becoming more and more distant. She doesn't want to show it but...It hurts.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a groan. The two females looked to see the brown-haired boy awakening.

"You're up, Richard Kurosagi." Said Jessenia with her usual calm expression.

"Did someone get the license of the truck that hit me?"

"Sorry." Alice apologized before helping him up. His hands...they were very rough, it has been a long time since they held hands. A slight cough got the attention of the two teens.

"Lady Alice, if you must I will like for you to let go of Richard Kurosagi's hand please." Informed the maid. The red-haired noticed and instantly let go.

"Sorry!" She blushed. Richard just tilted his head confused by why was the red-haired apologizing for before it hit him.

"Oh! You don't have to be embarrassed about it! I guess I am still a long way before I can go the distance with being a powerhouse. Man, how does Harry do this on a daily bases? Is beyond me." Said the leader of Team Omega. Thou the reason for why the red-haired was blushing was different; she acknowledges what he said. The World Tournament is a lot more different than the Representation Tournament. For starters is 9 members instead of 3, they can have 1 coordinator to help them with information about the opponent without any weakness exploits, and lastly which is the reason why she is training with Richard is that the core must exhibit at least in a match each and every class that is currently active in Omega for at least 10 minutes each. The brown-haired boy couldn't even survive 5 minutes against her in his powerhouse let alone he will survive 10 against a well-rounded core.

"You know we haven't seen Emuna at all since that day."

"Oh yeah, I wonder where could she be?" The white-haired small girl has not appeared ever since Harry's sister Linnet arrived here in Paris. They have decided in asking her to be their 8th member as she will fill the role of Wall. That will leave Magical as the last spot. Too bad Lahaska refused as she said that her default class was scouter and her Magical will just do more harm than help. On the bright side, she did accept the role of being their coordinator so that was a victory on itself.

"Anyway let's go one more time!"

"Eh?" Alice said. Jessenia was impressed by the boy's tenacity. Hmm, perhaps this is the reason why Lady Alice...

()

Arriving at Omega Corp. Linnet, Emuna, and Irogan were met by the bespectacled secretary Inès.

"Oh hello, Inès." Greeted the white-haired girl who moves the hand of her doll Regalia as a gesture of greeting.

"Hello Miss Emuna, Miss Linnet, Irogan." She looks at the doll and smiles. "Hello to you too, Regalia."

"Did father sent you Inès?" the blonde secretary nodded to answer the drill-haired girl.

"He wanted to make sure that I guide you to your assigned pod."

"I see it wouldn't be Leos if he didn't do this." Chuckled Emuna.

"I am sorry Miss Linnet but your father will like you to stay in the observation room, is for...safety reasons." Linnet gets the message.

"I...understand."

"Please lead the way Miss Inès." The bespectacled secretary nodded to the white-haired girl before guiding her to a room.

"Hmm? Yes, I will be counting on both of you."

Entering the specialized teleporter Emuna and Regalia await until they're teleported. Once they land in the sector Magdalene joins them.

"Master."

"Hm, A.V. Gamma should there be anything we should worry about in this sector?" asked the white-haired teen.

"As of now no. However, keep your eyes peeled for any suspicious movements. Also, the guardian of Sector 6 will aid you in your investigation." Ah, so Natalie will join her. Natalie also was known as the "Ice Princess" Is the guardian of the Icicle World. A snow woman she rules the Icicle World and encloses her foes in ice for all eternity. Few have lived the tale to tell about her beautiful but deadly face. That is what the lore says about Natalie.

"Alright." Just then an icy cold wind is felt by the white-haired teen. She, Regalia, and Magdalene turn to see a pale woman as young as Alice. She was dressed in a white kimono. Her lips were blue along with long beautiful black hair, her eyes were just as crystal as frosted flakes in the winter while she held in her left hand an ice crystallized sword with the handle being the shape of the letter E. She was tall towering the white-haired small emotionless teen and being almost as tall as Regalia.

"Miss Chariot." Said the calm but cold voice of the Yuki-onna.

"Is been quite a while Natalie Catori."

"...Yes. I was assigned to accompany you on the mission to scan and find if there are any strange activities in this world." Emuna nodded.

"I appreciate your cooperation. These are my loyal dolls, Regalia and Magdalene, they will aid us as well." She signals to her dolls in which the pale snow princess nods in acknowledgment.

"Very well, shall we start?"

"Yes." With that, the group of four starts their investigation. Unknowingly to them from the distance a bug camouflaged in the snow was observing towards them before making a buzzing sound.

()

Linnet was looking at the screen in the observation room. She was watching how her friend and the guardian were looking through the icy wasteland. She also was admiring how great her childhood friend looked in Omega. Those two with her one of them looked like the doll she was carrying earlier. Was that Regalia? And the one on her right...hmm, I think the name was Magdalene? In any case, seeing the dolls here makes her wonder if her friend talked to her father. That's probably it.

"Miss Linnet." The small teen looks to see the bespectacled secretary of her father.

"Inès."

"Do not be concerned, Linnet. Miss Emuna is a very strong Omega player and anti-virus, she is also in the company of Natalie the Ice Princess. You should know if you have seen what she is capable of that your childhood friend should be safe."

"...O-Okay." She continues to watch the screen and prays that this is just a normal scan. Then, she will plan what to do with Emuna for the rest of the day.

()

Emuna and her group so far have scanned 35% of the area. She forgets sometimes how big this area is.

"Miss Emuna."

"Hm?" She turns to look toward the pale guardian.

"I will like to know your opinion of who do you think this black hat hacker's intentions are." Hmm, she has been thinking that as a matter of fact.

"It has been on my mind since Leos's described what Kurosagi and his group saw during their scanning section with Sammy and Zoë. To be honest that bug's symbol, if I am not mistaking must be..." Just then the sound of a loud scream was heard. It sounded like a Polar Bear. The environment changed too. It seems they were no longer in Omega and even if they are...It wasn't normal.

"WARNING! WARNING! High-level Malware invading! Preparing the anti-malware program." The system warned.

"What is this place?"

"The better question is...What is that." The white-haired emotionless teen signaled to their enemy. The beast was just three times bigger than an average adult polar bear, it seems to have a pinkish fur on the bottom and side but not too much. The claws were double the size and could easily shred any tree with ease regardless of how sturdy it is. The one thing Emuna noticed was the V-shaped symbol that was encrusted on its forehead.

"Master," Regalia said getting in front of her master in a protected matter. Magdalene did the same.

"Hm, it seems that our black hat hacker friend has come out to play." The beast roared before it opened its mouth and it charges. After a few seconds, it generated a huge blast of energy. Regalia uses her chainsaw sword to seemingly saw through the blast before the split passed them from the sides before it landed far and exploding. Magdalene follows with an arrow from her crossbow who hits the bear only for this one to roar and push out the arrows that were encrusted in its skin. Natalie using her sword slashed the bear before following it up with her touch.

"Freeze," she commanded as the creature was then slowly but surely getting encased in a block of solid ice before the entire body was nothing more than just that. To her surprise, the imprisonment didn't last and the beast broke through it.

"Hmm, this will be more difficult than we anticipated. Dhalia, Lilith!" Out came two dolls these ones wearing blood-red gothic outfits. One was holding a battle-ax the other a Black blade with a skull handle. The two dolls at the command of the white-haired small teen's signal with her sword string went after the beast. Using their weapons they cut the bear this, however, seems to have little to no effect on the creature as it regenerated its wounds.

"So it has instant regeneration." The white-haired teen knows that this kind of enemy is the most difficult. Her legendary piece glowed before she heard a voice.

('I must...fulfill...my master's request.') It's master's request? She wonders who this master the creature is speaking of is. She would have asked but knowing her enemy is obvious that it will not tell her nor hint her. This world also...She has never seen it before. It seems very futuristic and she doesn't mean in a S.K.Y.H.I.G.H. City way. No, it seemed more like that classic movie her butler told her about. The more she observes it the more similarities with that environment she can pinpoint.

"Master."

"We will have to use that attack." Regalia is surprised by this.

"Master!"

"Are you sure?" Magdalene also asked this with surprise in her voice. The white-haired teen wouldn't use this attack if the threat wasn't this high.

"If we were in the real world I wouldn't be using such an attack. You as well as everyone knows that our scale in this world is at the most planetary destroyer." Emuna pointed out to her doll. Yes, they are normal humans in the real world but in Omega, they're 10 if not 100 times stronger than their human counterparts hence why they can do all these feats easily. Regalia wasn't worried about her master using the attack since every single stage in Omega was designed to resist even universal buster attacks. So far none has reached such level. She is not surprised if there are any Solar buster attacks in this game already.

"Emuna, do you need time in order to use it?" Asked the calm Yuki-onna.

"A little bit think you can give me the time?"

"..yes." with that the pale snow woman used her sword to freeze the bear in order to stall for time while Emuna used Core Shift to change her default Wall form to her Magical form. This form made her dress slimmer while gaining two orbs surrounding her. Her string sword became as thin as a magic wand while her dolls that she created change also, giving them a slimmer armored like-dress of their color. Their weapons replaced with arm cannons with a strange violet-colored substance that swirls in their arms.

"Audi magistrum tuum, plenus potential emittam furorem tuum et conversus ad planetae pariter!" Emuna summoning 1,000 dolls chanted this spell before the dolls along with Regalia and Magdalene go to the sky while others grabbed the creature as it was distracted by Natalie. From the sky, the dolls opened their mouths as they charge a blood-red blast. The glow of the blood laser covered the sky. With one final signal of the sword, she closed her eyes.

"Dolls Of Arrêt." Unleashing her Dolls Of Judgment attack, The blood-red sky descended toward the ground. The dolls this includes Dhalia and Lilith launched the creature toward the attack before moving to their master to encase her in a doll shield. The blast covers the creature completely as it roars. Natalie thinking quickly uses her powers as a Yuki-onna to encase herself on a powerful ice castle. The explosion was so large when it landed was so powerful that if there were multiple cities united, they will no longer be there. Heck, this would've most likely reached the earth's core and obliterated it with ease before the force of the power in this attack makes the planet explode.

('Such a terrifying attack.') Thought the pale woman. She has done attacks with similar feats of planetary destruction levels such as her Deep Freeze attack but to see a human girl use such an attack on Omega at such a young age...At this rate, Emuna might reach solar system levels of destruction in a few months which makes it even more frightening.

After the attack subdued the dolls remove themselves from their master before surveilling the area.

"..." Emuna was scanning the area for any trace of the creature but no results it seems that she was successful if the big hole in the ground didn't give her any more proof.

"Emuna," Natalie said.

"Seems we have taken care of the problem." the emotionless teen smiled before feeling weak. Strange even if she used this attack her Capacity Power shouldn't be very low. Could it be the environment?

"Good job girls. we'll take care..." To her and the other female's surprise, a giant claw captures the white-haired teen at a speed so fast that even the guardian couldn't have reacted fast enough to stop this claw even if she wanted to.

"Master!"

('Damn.') Cursed the small girl. The fact that she is getting weaker in this place didn't help. The claw starts forming a body before it transforms into a giant humanoid creature with a grizzly bear with razor-sharp teeth similar to that of an angler fish. The beast growls before slamming the girl into the icy ground creating a crater before slamming his free fist into her face.

"Emuna!" Screamed Linnet as she saw her childhood friend taking this attack.

Emuna now with a broken nose has difficulties breathing before another fist connected with her stomach making the girl cough blood meaning she got internal injuries from the attack. Before a third fist could connect the arm of the monster froze and Regalia used her chainsaw sword to cut the humanoid in half after the sound of saw and flesh was heard for seconds. Magdalene took the girl away from it.

"Master." Emuna felt so much pain is as if...whoever did this...

Their master got hurt. That creature will pay. All dolls including Regalia, Magdalene, Dhalia, and Lilith's eyes suddenly glowed blood red they all opened their mouths before they blasted on both halves this time they made sure that not even a single cell remained. The bug that was inside the creature was seen by the Yuki-onna.

"Freeze." The bug froze before the snow woman crushed it into a million pieces. Natalie felt her strength losing after doing this. It must be the environment she presumed so this is what happened to the white-haired teen. Tch...

"Stay put we're trying our best to solve this!" Fear...understandable she is a human and if the safety is off...she just hope this girl gets a full recovery if that's the case...

()

Linnet was frantic, to say the least. She just saw a monster just beat up her friend to a major injury state.

"Make way!" A couple of medical staff rushed to aid the white-haired teen.

"Her injuries are bad, we must rush her to the healing capsules immediately." Regalia was there in her doll form. If she had a human body she would rush to help her master. Being in the real world...She feels useless. Irogan picked the doll.

"Irogan...I."

"Don't worry Miss Inès, I am well aware of the dangers that Milady was taking with this. Have the issue been solved thou." Asked the butler. He is not upset by his mistress getting in this condition. He knows about the dangers of fighting black hat hackers or real-life threats because he has experienced them both.

"...Yes, but it seems that we need to investigate further. Seems that the person that attacks Kurosagi and his group is responsible for this attack also." Irogan closed his eyes upon hearing this from the blonde bespectacled secretary.

"I see." It seems that however this was, he deemed Emuna as a dangerous threat to his/her plans.

"Regalia." she seems to be worried about the doll. They did displayed frenzy when Emuna was hurt. They have never exhibited such behavior before but is understandable...their master was injured for real this time. Anyone will exhibit that after someone close to them is on the verge of death. Irogan however, knows how strong his mistress resilience is after all after what happened to her parents, you have to be very strong to keep yourself together.

()

With a threat like Emuna out of the way, the plan is almost in its second phase. Now all he needs is for Richard Kurosagi to enter Omega with his friends and finally have a match inside. Then he will demonstrate just what happens to those who try and take his place as the #1 virtual reality game in the world.