"WHY AGAIN?!"

  Julo quickly shouted these words while running to the front door. The reason? The spiders have somehow managed to find their ways into his house, yet again in front of his face while he was sleeping.

  'I thought the room was insect proof' Insect proof was on the description of the house, however it seemed like insect proof doesn't equal spider proof. Julo was a little pissed, he recently just moved out and he gets a spider problem. The previous house owner didn't even have these problem.

  Julo wasn't deathly afraid like other people but who in their right mind would remain calm if a huge spider was in front of their face. No one would, unless we're talking about some people, of course.

  For some reason the spiders doesn't appear when he tries to sleep, only appearing when he wakes up. It all just looks like a prank from a devious god.

  Julo washed his face and went to the kitchen. He tried to find the fridge. He looked around the kitchen, he didn't find it.

  'Wait, did I even have a fridge?' A thought randomly kicked in and it was the right one because he currently didn't have a fridge. He haven't gotten rid of that habit since it was only day one since he moved in.

  He went outside and just as he was about to take a deep breath a drop of rain landed in his nose.

  He looked down and rubbed his nose. Looking up again, he was quite annoyed, he quickly dismissed the annoyed expression as it was a level of bad luck he could handle.

  'What else could possibly happen?'

  Light drops of rain quickly became faster and not that long after it quickly turned into extremely heavy rain, heavier than yesterday. All of that happened in less than 3 seconds.

  Julo's mouth twitched.

  ***

  Click click click click

  A barrage of clicking noise could be heard in a room. The one responsible is Gino, of course. Currently, he was busy sorting out documents. His morning routine was always the same, wake up, smoke, drink a coffee, eat breakfast, smoke, go to work, smoke and sort out documents.

  'Now that I think about it, I should probably stop smoking'

  He heard a door opening, he didn't pay much attention to it since it's the member's working hours.

  'Well, it's called working hours but other than me, they just mostly play around if we don't have a problem at hand. Heck, some of them don't even come on certain days'

  However, the kind of work they do are dangerous and good enough for the government to not fire them. After all, they are risking their life everytime they need to work.

  He continued working until he was done. He took a puff and left the room.

  He looked around to see who entered and to his surprise a person wearing a raincoat and a backpack was there. It was Julo. It was quite early for him to come, the others usually comes 30 minutes after the start of the working hours. However, not only Julo managed to arrive early than the others but he managed to arrive perfectly.

  Gino always dreamt of a member like that and it seemed like that dream was coming true.

  ***

  'Why is he looking at me like that' Julo did not arrived perfectly on purpose. In fact, it was because working hours and his 'little' spider's waking alarm were only 30 minutes apart. The perfectly timed rain was also a factor in the arrival.

  Julo looked away to look at the rain outside. Gino's stare was already creeping him out, so he decided to distraction himself.

  "You haven't gotten yourself a gun right?" Gino's voice entered his ears, he turned around to look at him.

  He hesitated for a bit.

  "I'm not sure why I need one, captain?"

  Gino's eyes sparked with anticipation.

  "Of course you need one. The kind of work we're doing is dangerous even for us uncoiled."

  "I'll lend you my card. Go with the first person to get here"

  "You don't have a armory?" Julo asked with a hint of confusion.

  Gino replied after a short pause.

  "I doubt they would actually give you permission to the armory right now"

  "The armory also has a few high level Versile tools that might kill you if you don't handle them properly"

  "Don't worry, you'll eventually gain access when you becomes a Uncoiled"

  With that Gino went back to his office.

  After a while Julo stood up and walked around. He haven't properly explored the department yet, so he decided to do just that.

  The department itself wasn't too big nor too small. It was slightly smaller than his house. There was a wood reception desk in front of the main entrance, there were a few couches around the desk. On the left of the room was a hall that had multiple rooms, Gino's office was in one of the rooms. However, Julo didn't know about the rest of the rooms nor does he want to enter then to find out without Gino's permission.

  He didn't want to immediately get fire or worse get executed because he accidentally went into the wrong room. It might seem extreme to think such a classified thing would be present in a random room without any locks but being a little more cautious couldn't hurt.

  On the right of his room had a door, Julo walked over, pulled the handle and went inside.

  'A living room?' Julo was surprised, he didn't expect the department to have a entire living room with a tv and few couches. He looked around and it turned out this section of the building was entirely like a apartment, albeit a little smaller. There was a kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom and much more you could find in a apartment.

  After putting his backpack and wandering around he went to kitchen to make some coffee, he found a coffee machine and used it. He sat down on the couch while waiting.

  After waiting for around 30 minutes, he stood up and looked at the direction where the coffee machine is.

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  'What's taking that long?' As just he thought of that, the machine suddenly ringed.

  'Finally' He went to the machine and took the cup out, looking at the rain pouring outside, he took a sip.

  A sip was all he could take before spilling the rest of coffee. It was hot, simply too hot. It was well above 100° yet the water didn't boil. The coffee landed on his body, fortunately, he haven't found a proper spot to put his raincoat so he was mostly protected.

  Well mostly, some still managed to hit his hand.

  Julo quickly dropped the cup due to the pain and grabbed his hand. His right hand had some first degree burns by now. His lips were also hurting, thankfully, he managed to spit it out before it entered his mouth.

  'Why the fuck was it that hot?'

  he went to the bathroom and quickly washed his hand. He returned to the living room and opened his backpack. Inside, there was a single laptop that he bought on his way here and a few snacks. He took out his laptop and put it on the table.

  There were multiple reason he bought a laptop, first of all, he could play games in it, it might not be a good idea to play games during work hours but he had already asked Gino about it.

  There was something he was working on for years, from what he had calculated, the code for it would be done today. Well, that is if he doesn't procrastinate. The code was actually supposed to be done a week ago but since he was going to turn 16 years old he decided to procrastinate for a bit.

  The project in question is an AI. Not just any AI, it was suppose to actually have the ability to think and learn manually instead of feeding it millions of information. In short, it was supposed to resemble a human, basically an AGI. It might not be perfect but with his Versile, he would improve the AI in no time.

  Unfortunately, the hardware requirements for such AI are outrageous but that was to be expected. He had bought 1 petebyte storage for 50,000 epo and a few hardwares for 100,000 epo.

  'Time to get to work, I guess'

  ***

  A person having yellow hair, yellow eyes and wearing yellow clothes was walking down the street.

  After a while, he stopped at a building and went in. He shook his head in order to get rid of the water in his hair, he was wearing a raincoat but due to his carelessness some managed to went into his hair.

  As he shook his head, some of hair dye disappeared, revealing his white hair. Normally, he would panic and dye his hair again but this time he didn't notice at all. He took off his raincoat and put it away. He went into the living room to relax until he saw Julo.

  Travestita, just like captain, didn't expect him to come earlier than him.

  Julo, noticing him quickly waved a hand until he stared at him for a little while. Julo's face screamed out confusion as he looked carefully.

  "Travestita, that's you right?"

  "What you thought I was someone else or something" Travestita's face was the same as always, full of devious thought.

  "Your... Your"

  "Your handsome? Come on, I know that already"

  "No, your makeup is falling off"

  Travestita's face instantly paled as he grabbed his face, what he felt was a soft skin, it was her real face.

  "And your hair"

  ***

  'Travestita is a she?' Julo thought as he looked at her. He looked up and instead of seeing the yellow hair, he saw a sliver hair.

  "And your hair"

  She quickly ran to the bathroom, presumably to fix her makeup and hair.

  Julo looked at the bathroom for a couple seconds before working on the project.

  Just as his hand was on the keyboard, Gino suddenly opened the door and looked around.

  He looked at Julo and asked.

  "Where's Travestita?" Gino looked down to see a couple drops of yellow liquid, he traced the drops and managed to figure it out.

  "Don't answer, I know now" Her makeup and hair dye were probably labeled as water proof despite it not actually being water proof.

  He went up to the bathroom and knocked.

  "It's captain, your gonna need to help Julo buy something to protect himself"

  "Captain, can you buy me some actual water proof dye and makeup?"

  Gino sighed before replying.

  "Sure. Sure"

  Gino went to his phone and ordered a few water proof dye and makeup. He knew how important to do this. Travestita's current personality was made possible to the disguise she was currently wearing. The problem is if someone that she doesn't know saw her actual face then her emotions would become unstable. Lucky, she has known Julo for two days, two days might be short but it was enough for her emotions to not become chaotic.

  Gino took a puff and waited for the makeup to arrival.

  ***

  "Aight, I'm done" Travestita said while exiting the bathroom.

  Gino walked up to me and handed me a card.

  "Go with her and buy something to protect yourself with" Julo nodded and tried to leave the room. However, Gino grabbed his hand and stopped him.

  "What happened to your hand" Gino looked at my hand that got burned and looked up.

  An expression of realization showed up on his face and he turned to look at the coffee machine.

  "You got burned by it, didn't you"

  Julo looked slightly to his left.

  "Yeah"

  "We should really need to put up a warning about the coffee machine using Versile water"

  Julo slightly tilted his head.

  "Versile water?"

  "It's water made from or cleaned with Versile or Versation.

  "Oh"

  'Why do they need water made from Versation?' There are multiple Versile in the world, some might more useful than the other but there is no such as a useless Versile. Well, not that he had heard of at least.

  Gino took out a band aid and pressed to Julo's hand.

  'I'm not sure if it'll help my burns but it's the thought that counts, I guess'

  "You guys should get going now. It'll be problematic if we need your help when something happens"

  Julo went to the front door and waited for Travestita. It didn't take long for her to follow him, after all, she's a uncoiled. Her physical ability should be higher than a person like Julo.

  Julo exited the building and followed Travestita, as for why though, Julo didn't know any place where he could get a trustworthy weapon or even a gun.

  Lucky, the rain have stopped by now, so Julo wouldn't need to wear his uncomfortable raincoat.

  They walked for a while before stopping at a subway station. Julo was confused, he didn't think there was a gun store in a subway station, unless it's a black market, however it would be better to buy one at an actual store instead of a illegal one.

  Julo whispered to Travestita.

  "This is the place right?"

  "It sure is" She said confidently.

  Julo decided to not ask any more questions and followed her into the station. In there, Travestita looked around, trying to find something or someone. Her eyes landed on one of the guard.

  She went up to him.

  "Do you need help, sir?" The guard asked. The guard had white hair and brown eyes, his hair was a little messy.

  "Could I buy a chocolate gum"

  Julo looked at them, wondering what they were doing. He thought they were going to use the station to go to the gun store but he didn't expect this. Julo haven't read enough to know this was a secret code. He was just playing games most of his life. He only read popular manga or novel.

  The guard's eyes suddenly turned black, looking closely at Travestita, it was only then he realized who she was.

  "You should really stop changing it"

  The guard said with a smile, and looked at Julo.

  "This your companion?"

  "Yup"

  "Aight, come here for a second" He said while looking at him. Julo did as he was told and walked up to him.

  He grabbed Julo's shoulder and closed his eyes. Julo suddenly felt a foreign energy flowing into his skin but the energy quickly disappeared. Julo looked back at the guard, the guard's expression was completely blank. He didn't expect that his versation mark won't have a effect on Julo's body.

  One of the special thing about his versation was that it could last for a long time. Another thing was it won't get destroyed by Versile as quickly as other people. The effect was enhanced by becoming an Uncoiled. However, it doesn't seem to work on Julo's body.

  The guard shook his head and gave Julo a black card. It was covered in his versation.

  "Go to the employee only room over there and give them your card once you entered"

  They went to the room and Julo began to looked around.

  "What are you doing?"

  Julo answered after making sure there was no one around.

  "Checking for people"

  Travestita stared at him and replied after a short pause.

  "They can't see the door and if they see us, they would just feign ignorance. Even if they try to pay attention to us, they would just forget what they were doing"

  Julo became a little afraid after hearing such thing.

  They entered the room.

  The room was pitch black, everywhere he looked there was darkness. From what he could tell

  A voice suddenly appeared, Julo suddenly jumped. His instinct told him the voice belonged to a powerful figure. He began shaking a little bit, although it wasn't that noticable. He looked at Travestita, she was just barely better than Julo.

  "Give me the ID"

  Julo took out the card the guard gave him, just as he took it out, the card suddenly disappeared. Julo almost screamed but managed to hold it back. The pressure was too much.

  The room suddenly flooded with lights. The previous small room became as big as a small district. Julo found himself looking at the multiple stores in front of him. It didn't make sense, the electronic he could sense were now gone, replaced by new ones. It seemed like he was in a completely different space.

  The black market wasn't like what he imagined to be. It was just like the outside, the stores looked normal, other than the fact that there was a celling everything looked normal. There were even restaurants.

  'Why do I have a feeling this won't be the last time I come here'