Meanwhile, Fulario is walking down the left hallway as he checks every single room he can find before he stumbles upon an old door. Just standing in front of the door, he felt immense heat coming out of it. Almost as if he was inside of an open fire. He looked at it for a few seconds before focusing on its handle knob. Steam was coming out of the door handle and although he knew that the door would be hot, he touched it just to see whether it is locked or not as well as to check how hot It is. As soon as he touches it, his fingers were instantly burnt to the flesh and got cauterized almost immediately after. He quickly took back his hand as he looked at the now-closed wound of his fingers.
Meanwhile, Axel runs from the room, bolting through the messy hallway as he soon reached the main hallway of the entrance. There, he notices from the corner of his eyes that something moved. He stopped for a moment and looked at the general direction of the movement. He stood there for a solid minute before sighing and then continuing to run to the left hallway.
A few minutes had passed when suddenly, a mass of dark red flesh came out from multiple dead machines that are scattered in the main hallway. It moved towards a single point before combining themselves to make a single entity. The entity was almost 3 meters in height and 1 meter in width and length. It has the flexibility and stickiness nature of a jelly. The entity then sinks slowly into its own shadow as its presence fully disappears from the main hallway
Axel ran through the left hallway as he looks inside every single door. One noticeably different thing about this particular part of the building is that the hallway's temperature is higher than the rest of the place, and it even slowly rises higher as Axel runs deeper into the hallway.
Meanwhile, Fulario is still in pain from the burnt wound on his fingers. He then notices a running sound coming from the other side of the hallway as he took out his pocket watch and prepared for combat. From the corner of the turn, he sees one of the machines but this one is half-melted. Fulario was about to use his Abnormal when suddenly, a violet blade cuts the machine in half rendering it useless. The person who wields that blade is none other than Axel. Fulario sighed as he fixes his posture.
"This is bad, this is too hot. We need to quickly find Sophie before anything happens!" Axel exclaimed as he slowly walks towards Fulario and took out the key that Tara gave him.
"Axel, where did you get a key?" Fulario asked in confusion from the sudden appearance of the key which seems to be for the old door.
"Tara gave it to me on his final breath. He's no longer with us," Axel replied in a low and almost regretful tone.
"Rest in peace, Mr. Tara," Fulario said as he frowns with a hint of grief and sorrow on his face.
Axel then quickly puts the key into the keyhole and turns it to open up the door. Inside the room, they saw a bunch of kids that can be counted to be more than 20, all hugging each other tightly in fear. However, one kid was standing between the door and the group of kids. There, stood Sophie with a little difference in her appearance. She has a pitch-black scale covering her right cheeks and left side of her neck. Her whole right arm is covered with the same scale and her left arm is only partially covered with it.
When they took a closer look, they noticed that one of her eyes are glowing in a flame color, one that could mesmerize many people if they were to see it. Then, around the kids who are tightly hugging, is a form of barrier in the shape of a dome covering them in a scale pattern with vague lively orange colors.
Axel took a step forward as his jaws dropped in awe as he looks at Sophie when he asked her, "Sophie, is that you?"
"Yes, dad. I am Sophie, and I will protect these kids here," Sophie replied with a gaze full of confidence and determination that is different from her usual timid and cheerful self.
Fulario was also in shock as he thought to himself, 'Is she... becoming an Abnormal?' his thoughts were all over the place when his train of thoughts stopped to focus on her appearance. 'She looks like a reptile. What could her power be, I wonder?' Fulario pondered to himself at the sight of a newly born Abnormal.
"Sophie, this place is too hot! We need to get out of here!" Axel exclaimed as he took another step forward but was stopped by Sophie.
"No! I will protect these kids. If I have the power, I'll use it to protect!" Sophie exclaimed in yet another determined voice as she stares directly at Axel. Suddenly, a massive impact shook the whole building and its contents making it unstable and starts to fell apart.
Meanwhile, at another place inside the City, a young woman with purple hair that stretches to her feet and purple-colored eyes appeared from inside a huge lump of flesh and blood. Upon closer look, she doesn't seem to wear any clothes as her body is covered in a thick concentration of blood. The area where the woman appeared was strange, not only did she appeared out of lumps of flesh and blood, the surrounding walls, floor, and even the ceiling are made out of flesh.
Soon after, another woman appeared from an entrance formed by the lumps of flesh on the wall. She has short brown hair with brown eyes. She also doesn't appear to wear any clothes, however, her body is covered in pitch-black crystals that have smooth surfaces yet it looks as though it can stop multiple bullets from penetrating. On her hand is a purple cloak with black striped edges.
She throws the cloak at the naked woman, "Hey! put this on, we must hurry up, you know?" she said as her voice carries a certain note that can only be described as being sharp and ominous.
"I understood. Let us begin right away," the naked woman said as she puts on the cloak which covered her body to just below her ankle. Her voice has a calm and settling voice that matched her jewelry look.
"Tch! The ceremony is starting. Let us hurry up and get ready for it, Lily," the woman in crystals said as she clicks her tongue and walks back through the flesh entrance. The woman named Lily then followed along, as she walks through the flesh entrance.