Gate Guardian - Song Of The Frozen Soul

I was interrupted by a soft hand that blocked my face.

"N-No…" Amy waved her hand at me. Her face is not as red as a few seconds before. "T-This is not right."

Oh, okay. I gave an agreeing smile as I slowly put her down. Have you ever felt so h.o.r.n.y that you forgot your allies are in the middle of a life-or-death battle?

Meanwhile, back in the battle against the stripper magician...

"I"m sick and tired playing with you weaklings!" The evil wizard frowned. "Maybe the girls from the other room would amuse me more!"

Suddenly, the dark wizard swiped her ax, slicing up a dimensional rift. Then she casually entered the portal as she waved her hand goodbye like a beauty queen.

"I won"t let you get away!" Heushac made a horizontal slash, but the portal disappeared just before his blade touches it. Now the enemy has escaped.

"Why are you holding back, Kristoff?" Amy"s eyebrows irked. "Are you distracted by her s.h.i.+ny white skin and soft-looking legs?"

"You know I can"t afford to hurt girls." Kristoff said with a smile. "At least I fought. You guys didn"t help at all."

"I"m your leader. I call the shots. You guys are suited for fighting, and we"re your tacticians. Taking hits from the team is one of your roles. If you"re against my protocols, you are free to walk away from my team." Amy said in a sky-high voice.

"…But I"m an archer…" Kristoff said under his breath. "I"m not supposed to be fighting in the frontlines."

I don"t know why she keeps following Amy. Yes, he is in love with her, but if I"m on his shoes, I would conclude that it"s not really worth it. I quite admire his b.a.l.l.s, but I don"t want to see it.

"We should regroup with Key and Tiara," I said. "They might be in real trouble right now."

"We have to extract the data from the computer first." Amy said as she pointed the terminal which is still rebooting. Is this an IBM computer? So slow!

It would consume a lot of time if we waited for the download to complete. Guess we have to divide the group into two.

"We have to split up," Amy said. "Ric and Kristoff, you go rescue the girls. Heushac, you"re good with computers, right? You a.s.sist me here."

All three of us guys were dumbstruck as we stared at our leader.

"Why am I so surprised that you shuffled our teams?" I said.

"You two are fast runners." Amy tilted her head and then held her hips. "Heushac without is slow as a snail, so it"s only logical for him to be left here so that he can help me extract the data out of this terminal…  At least I can feel safer because he"s not perverted like you two."

"I"m not!!!" Kristoff and I shouted. Then we looked at each other with an embarra.s.sed face.

"Heushac, get that printer over there." She said, and then turned to her two ex-lovers (Me and Kristoff). "Stop yanking and go!"

"R-Right!" we both answered. As we faced the exit, our bodies were covered with electricity, and tremendous static entered our nerves.

"!!!" We both shouted as we leave the room in a speed of lightning.

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We finally arrived at the scene. We"re in a large warehouse-wide room filled with horrifying human-sized tubes. Those tubes contain embryos swimming in a green liquid, but some are already developed that they already look like a baby. Most of them are already deformed, meaning, they don"t have eyes, they have three tails or even wings.

These children are so pitiful. Even though they are just artificial humans, I think they still have a soul. They still deserve to live, but those aberrations on their bodies will certainly make them unable to do so.

"This is horrible."

The shocked Kristoff backed out a little, and he accidentally b.u.mped on a tall silhouette. It"s partially dark on this place, so all I can see is that this tall man is naked, has brown scales covering his skin. He has no genitals, and oh, he only has one eye that is colored red.

"Raaaaaaugh!!!"

"Aaaaaeeeeeeeeek!!!" Kristoff jumped like a p.u.s.s.ycat! He fell to the ground because of the sudden shock!

The giant grabbed his feet and started to drag him, but then…

"!!!"

A shrine maiden knocked the giant out with her amazing rugby skills! Now the abomination was crashed on the other gla.s.s tubes that made this place a lot messier.

"I-I"m glad that we have found you, Rikkun, Mister Kristoff!" Tiara said. She"s carrying the Key on her back as if she wanted to flee. "We have to get out of here, now!"

"Wait, why is there a mutant zombie? Why is Key unconscious? Why do we have to run away? Where is that succubus wizard with an ax? What the heck happened here?" I barraged Tiara with a lot of questions.

But the only answer I got is a terrifying roar coming from a humongous monster.

"RUAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

"Run!" Tiara cried.

Suddenly, all those gla.s.s tubes were destroyed and shattered gla.s.s pieces went showering to us.

When we looked forward, the most horrifying homunculus has appeared. He"s four-meters tall, but his body build is more like a three-year-old baby. His head is like a rhinoceros, but his nose is like those of a pig. At least this giant is wearing x.x.xXXL diapers.

He has this red eyes with triangle sigil in it. He"s definitely a human, or rather, a Cursed Guardian. He is wielding a pillar that must have been used to smash those other test tubes.

The evil wizard teleported beside the gigantic rhinoceros infant and sat on her magical floating ax.

"Behold the power of my baby!" Mia the Cursed Guardian laughed as she proclaimed like a proud mother. "This is Project 501, an artificial Gate Guardian with several anomalies. Well, I baptized him with my sin, so he"s my dog now."

"I"m Rikkun"s dog too!" Tiara shouted with excessive determination.

"For Pete"s sake, Tiara…" I made a facepalm. Just ignore her… We should focus on Key"s reaction.

"Brother…" Key looked up at the gigantic abomination.

"Oh, Project 522. Key, isn"t it? Too bad, he"s not your brother now!" The evil sorceress smirked. "He"s nothing but my new toy!"

The enemy used a Weapon Gem to materialize a whip, and then smacked it to the poor gigantic baby"s head! Because of that pain, the baby started hollering out loud!

"UWAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"

Argh! It"s so loud and deafening that all other giant test tubes got broken! The ground shook for three seconds, and it only stopped when the baby halted.

I think my eardrums just got damaged. All I can hear is this long beeping sound. But I was so grateful that there"s no blood that came out from my ear.

Suddenly, Key stepped on the ground and tried to stand with her own feet. She touched her cat-eared headband, and two quadcopter drones materialized, which kept swirling around her.

"My brother is not a toy." Key"s voice is still in monotone, but her eyes are saying that she"s so angry. "Leave him alone."

"Or what?" The floating wizard is still in the mood to play with words.

"Or you will regret it." Key glared. Her golden cross sigil glowed, and then she muttered these words. "Activating 4th Guardian Ability, "

Particles of light gathered around her and installed themselves on her skin. Slowly, the particles were molded into an exoskeleton metal suit! It also added photon blasters on her arms, boosters on her feet, and cybernetic wings on her back! She looks like a futuristic angel!