Sector 8, Wyvern Street—3:12 P.M.

Thuck Thuck Thuck...

Ryan hurriedly dashed forward, quickly sending multiple frozen spikes towards two gang members at the front of him. Soon after, he leapt over to the two as he quickly created a frozen dagger, swiftly slashing through them.

"Arghh!!" The gang member staggered back from the hit.

"Huff... Huff..." Ryan breathed in heavily as he scanned his surroundings. His eyes locked over towards a side where there were a few gang members rushing up to him.

"Grrr get that bastard!"

"You'll pay for this!"

The gang members cried out as they jumped towards Ryan.

"Tsk...!"

Noticing that the gang members were coming right at him, Ryan hurriedly sidestepped to the right side, in order to avoid them, however, he was a step too late.

"...!"

As the gang members closed in on the distance between Ryan, they immediately activated their powers, as a large force of aura protruded the area.

The moment they were about to attack Ryan, a hurdle of flames burst forward from the left, quickly enveloping the gang members.

"Argh...!"

The gang members screamed from the pain as they leapt backwards, quickly glaring with bloodshot eyes over to the direction of the attacker—Eric.

"What are you looking at?" Eric sneered at the sight of the glaring members, "You tryna pick a fight with me? Oh, wait—"

Eric leapt forward towards the gang members as he held onto his Tachi, quickly his blade unleashed a burning flame onto the ground, quickly knocking them back.

"—You were already picking a fight with me in the first place," Eric smirked.

"Argh damn!" The gangs cursed as they hurriedly stood up from the ground.

"...Retreat! He's insane!"

"Ahh!"

The gang members quickly ran away one by one, leaving Ryan and Eric left on the streets.

"Huff... Huff..." Ryan quickly bent his legs as he gasped for air, "Seriously... What is up with them? These guys have been picking fights with us left and right!"

"Well doesn't matter, I get to fight and that is all is needed."

"Hey, you remember this is supposed to be a patrol right? And we ended up going through a marathon of fights... This is the fourth one so far."

"Well, it doesn't seem like we have to protect the citizens? All of them seemed to be locked behind doors or very far from this area."

"...So you're saying it's useless for us to be here?"

"Well, not useless! We get to fight, and that is all that matters."

"Cough... Are you serious right now?" Hearing Eric's argument, Ryan sighed in disbelief, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"If I'm not being serious, then what am I trying to be?"

"..."

Ryan helplessly sighed as he walked ahead of Eric, quickly moving over towards the next block.

"Hey? Where are you going?" Eric shouted.

"Back to patrolling, and hopefully... We don't get into any more fights."

"Bah! At the very least wait for me!"

...

As Ryan turned over towards the next block, he felt chills run up from behind his back. Quickly, he scrutinized the area, looking at the empty and dull streets of Wyvern. Soon after, he looked towards the buildings, where he noticed the many eyes were peeking out through the windows towards him, glaring at him.

"..."

Ryan turned his head over towards one of the buildings, glancing towards the window, the eyes that were looking at him from the window quickly disappeared the moment he locked onto the person's gaze.

'This...' Ryan could only sigh as he saw the scene occurring around him. The eyes were glaring at him with envy, apathy, fear and many others while they watched Ryan walking the streets. He was helpless in this situation, what could he do to even change this? Many thoughts ran through his mind, but... There was no answer.

'All I can do is... Prevent more corruption from appearing.'

Ryan thought to himself, as he glanced over towards the sky, then towards the tower within the middle of the city.

'The authorities... Just what are they doing to the point of turning a blind eye to this?'

Ryan clenched his hands as he fastened his pace.

"Argh, Hey Ryan! Would it kill you to slow down a bit?" Eric frowned as he continued to walk behind Ryan.

"Let's just go finish up patrolling the streets and then call it a day." Ryan said in a sad tone of voice.

"What? What gives?"

"I just want to finish up the patrol for the day. I'm exhausted from the excessive fighting we've been doing for half the day," Ryan said.

"Bah, so you don't want to fight no more, I get it. Then let's just finish up for the day then."

"Right. Then let's be on our way."

Ryan and Eric continued making their way through the streets as they glanced over towards the alleyways and buildings, on high alert.

...

Within a dark and unknown place...

"Huff... Huff..."

A young girl limped through the alleyways, barefooted with torn clothing on her body as she gasped for air.

"Hey! Where the hell did she go to?!"

"Find her!"

From behind the girl, resounded voices of a few men in a hurry. The footsteps grew crazy as they echoed through the area.

"P-Please... Someone... Help me!"

The girl shouted out as she continued to limp through the alleyway. In the next moment, a loud sound protruded from behind her, a gunshot.

BANG!

The moment the loud sound was heard, the girl quickly fell down to the ground.

"No..."

Her eyes turned despaired, as she forced herself up, however it was in vain.

"Hey get her! She's over there!"

"Make haste stat!"

Footsteps rushed through the alleyways as they made its way towards the fallen girl.

"Someone... Please... Please...!"

The girl pleaded as the men caught up to her.

"The runaway target is found. We shall now proceed to bring her back." A man said as he approached the girl.

"Tsk, your such a hassle you know that?" The man next to him clicked his tongue as he forcibly grabbed hold of the girl tightly.