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Chapter 2 - 2. A Pale Character

"So my own father wants me as his bodyguard? I expected more from him to be honest." Alester sighs through the radio, unsurprised by that sudden promotion to the highest rank for a sniper could get.

"[The cruiser will arrive in 5 hours, expect you to be alive by then Phoenix. It'll cost a lot just to realise you're dead by the Republic]" the man from the other side said before shutting the transmission, leaving Alester alone behind enemy lines.

"That bastard.. could've accompanied me at least, he really has to leave me like that?" Alester said to herself, noticing the amount of scout aircraft going above her. Luckily they haven't noticed her yet so she's in the safe for now, but there is one problem...

"... Where's the nearest city to here anyways.." she asks herself, noticing how she hasn't eaten anything since last night.

She suddenly grabs her pistol and turns around aiming it, "Who are you!?" She shouts towards the unknown man who approached her from behind. His footsteps weren't capable of being heard on such rocky terrain, he's clearly someone skilled.

The man stops around 5 meters away from her, his hair almost white but a bit of blue, his skin looking like a frozen pale corpse, and his eyes being crystal blue. "It's good to meet you, someone from the Empire?" The man asks, noticing the uniform she was wearing.

"What's your purpose here, and also your name!" She demands to know, gripping onto her gun tightly. Alester knows she's facing not a man, but an assassin or some sort.

The man laughs for a moment and suddenly changes to somewhat of a psychopath, "the names Athan Phantom, a member of the Ein-deutch Harz real estates."

"... The what now?" Alester was dumbfounded by that explanation, 'A fucking REAL ESTATE!?' she thinks to herself, trying not to burst out laughing. They're on a desert planet just for the readers note.

"Laugh all you want Alester, it's the truth. We own planets after all." Athan explains towards the dumbfounded Alester, "father is buying genome 2 from the Republic, so it's quite a waste trying to invade it don't you think?"

"... Your telling me that all my marine fuckers just died for nothing!?" Alester shouts in despair from the realisation, "you son of a-" her pupils shrunken and her voice suddenly became silent as she could feel the aura of a bloodthirsty man under the pale body, he's not normal.

Athan started laughing from the sudden change of her expression, "oh my~ I thought you were harder to break, I guess I was wrong about it. Now then.." he grabs onto her arm, with a smile that one could say, a smile of a man who sees no fear, he only desires bloodlust. "Let me bring you to the nearest city I know of, and where I currently live temporarily~"

(Sorry if it's short this time, it's meant to introduce the 2nd protagonist)

[Alester][16]

[Athan][20]