Warning:

- This story portrays mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-harm.

- This story contains violence, gore, strong language, sexual themes, drugs, and adult humor

- This chapter contains, situations such as sexual abuse, rape and child abuse

Reader Discretion is advised.

Foreword:

Hello, I'm GameMaker8YT. The author of this light novel series. This is my first light novel and I apologize in advance for my inexperience. I hope you enjoy it.

Ash taps Amber on her shoulder, “Amber wake up, we have to meet Caprio in the lobby now” Ash says, “Ok, ok” Amber says. Amber wakes up to see herself all coddled up on Ash, Amber gets embarrassed and her face turns all red, she gets out of bed at the speed of light and never asked Ash if he noticed. 

Amber and Ash exit the room and meet up with Wade and the others. “How did sleeping with Ash feel like, Amber?” Leon says teasing Amber. “Caprio should be with his squad down in the lobby” Wade tells the Squad, “Fine can we go already” Brandon says. Everyone takes the elevator down to the lobby, and there Caprio was standing with Riot, Kurohe and Elana. 

“You are all fucking late” Caprio says, “And you never set a specific time…again” Brandon says, “Any way we have a lead on the slave dealer, it appears he takes residence on the back of a strip club. 

We will infiltrate the building and take the leader hostage all other persons associated with this man can be eliminated” Caprio fills in the Squads. 

“Let's fucking go! We get to go in a strip club” Leon says with a sparkle in his eye, “I’ve never seen or grabbed anyone’s tits before guess today is the day huh” Brandon says. “What about you Ash, are you going to be looking at all the naked girls in there?” Leon teases Ash, Amber looks at Ash intensely as he is about to answer the question, Ash looks at Amber’s curious face, “Why would I look at nude girls, I don’t care” Ash says, “Come on, you could at least get excited about something once in your life” Leon says, “What's the point of being happy when it all ends up in sadness” Ash tells Leon. “Sheesh man don’t need to get all serious on me” Leon says. 

“Shut the fuck up guys, let's get moving”, Everyone exits the hotel, “So are you and Ash going to take the lead on capturing the leader?” Wade asks Caprio, “No, Ash will take that responsibility upon himself as the highest ranking one in your squad, it is important to train your squad to attain S-rank assignments” Caprio says. 

“What number are you again?” Leon asks Caprio, “I am #007” Caprio says, “Hey Ash what number are you?” Leon asks Ash, “#016” Ash replies. “Holy shit, how did you get up so high, without an umbra core?” Leon asks, “I don’t know I just never received an Umbra core” Ash says. 

“Were you even given an Umbra core?” Brandon asks Ash, “I was but I never received any abilities” Ash says, “How strange” Wade says questioning the fact, “Ash is still the most powerful one here even more than Caprio, *hmph*” Amber says, “Hey! I’m still stronger than Ash” Caprio yells out at Amber. 

Amber puts on a pout face towards Caprio, everyone continues to walk toward the strip club. Some 20 minutes later everyone arrives at the strip club, “Hey guys, I’m getting kinda nervous about entering the strip club, heheh there’s going to be so many girls there, what do I do!?” Leon says, “Why are you asking us we’re all fucking loners” Brandon says. “Heheh, unlike you guys I’m an expert in this sorta thing” Kurohe says. Everyone enters inside, nude women flaunting their breasts to the men on the lounge, women dancing on poles with just a g-string. Leon and Brandon start blushing intensely. 

Ash stands there with a straight face, while Amber looks at him intensely. “Come on twats, the leader should be at the back room” Caprio says, Everyone walks to the back room door, while walking past the whole room of strippers. Caprio stands next to the door with an MP5, held tightly in his hand, Riot, Kurohe, and Elana stand next to him, and Wade stands on the right side of the door with the rest standing in position behind him. 

Ash stands in front of the door with his sharp sword grasped tightly in his hands, Ash strikes his sword through the front door, and the sword goes through the head of a guard, Ash pulls back his sword and opens the door. Caprio moves inside first and sees that the area is clear, everyone else moves inside as well. Amber moves towards the door in which the slaves are held in. 

A guard on the other side of the door shot through the door which luckily didn’t hit Amber, Riot kicks down the door, and Elana and Kurohe enter the room. 5 guards appear in the room, withholding child slaves, Wade powers up his fists with elemental energy, and Amber puts energy within her bullets. Wade crushes one of the guard's faces into flesh, Amber shoots another guard with a bomb bullet, which ends up blowing up another guard. Riot swings in on the left side of the room jumps on the wall and strikes his scythe slicing the neck of another soldier. 

Ash enters the room and runs through passing by the other last two guards dodges the bullet fire of one of the guards, ducks under the guard, and puts his sword through his whole stomach slicing it open intestines slowly exiting the stomach cavity. Ash spins his sword making it go at an incredible speed and chopping one of the other guards' arms, then slicing the guard's eyes. All of that happened in a flash. 

Thus, the room was cleared and another door led to the base of the operation. We opened the door and saw a whole lotta guards, the office of the leader was at the very back of the large open area inside the factory. Caprio and Ash go to the right side of the factory and go eliminate all the guards through the catwalk on that side, the others went on the left side to clear and sneak up on the leader’s office. 8 guards appear on the right side and Caprio takes his MP5, swings to the left side of one of them, and shoots the guard on the side stomach, then on the head. Ash swung on the left side of two guards and sliced both of their abdomens with his sword, Caprio slides underneath another guard and shoots both of the guard's knee caps off, and Ash

comes from behind and finishes off the rest of the guards in a gruesome manner.

Caprio and Ash advance towards the office, and that was when they spotted many child slaves kept in cages in the area underneath the catwalk, “Do you want to save them? Your call” Caprio tells Ash, “Focus on the mission at hand first then we can detour afterwards” Ash replies. “Very well, continue on” Caprio says, Ash and Caprio move towards the door of the office, they can hear rumbling going on inside the leader seems to be a coward desperately looking for a way out. 

Riot and his group arrive outside of the office, “Hey guys we made it, so how are we going to approach the leader” Riot says, “Ash is going to go in front, Amber and Wade you will stand next to Ash on both sides with your weapons pointing at the leader, Riot and Elana you will stay outside as a lookout, I will negotiate with the leader, Brandon if the leader fails to comply you will use your illusions to force him” Caprio says. 

“Sound like a plan Captain” Riot says, Ash pushes down the door, and everyone lunges into action, Amber and Wade next to Ash with Brandon standing Behind them just like a team. “So “Leader”, have you ever heard of a Sentinel” Caprio asks the leader, “No..no, of course I haven’t” the leader says, Caprio slaps the leader's face, “Whats your fucking name anyway?” Caprio says. “My name? My name is uhh Ryosuke Hana” Ryosuke says, “Oh so you’re Japanese huh, must be from the Akira region then” Caprio says, “So tell me Ry-o-suke, where did you see that fucking Sentinel??” Caprio asks Ryosuke with a devilish glare. 

“I told you…I don’t know what a sentinel is” Ryosuke tells Caprio, “This is your last chance” Caprio slightly stabs Ryosuke in the head, “Where the fuck did you last see the Sentinel?” Caprio asks. “I—Don’t know” Ryosuke says, “Brandon use your Umbra Core” Caprio requests. 

Caprio moves in closer to Ryosuke, “What's your biggest fear Ryosuke? Maybe it's death or perhaps it's something else, guess we’ll figure out” Caprio says. Brandon focuses and uses his Umbra Core by saying “Death Continuum”. Ryosuke wakes up in a dark room, his Mother suddenly appears in front of him, “You let me die you coward!”, “How could you, I loved you and you let me die”, “I wish you were never fucking born?”. Ryosuke starts screaming in mental pain, Knives appearing all throughout the room and stabbing his mother all throughout her body. His mom starts walking slowly towards Ryosuke with knives stabbed all around her, Ryosuke breaks down, eyes completely drenched in red and throbbing. “Come on son, don’t you want to join me?” Mom said, his mother hands him a knife, to kill himself with. 

“Make it stoop!” Ryosuke screams. Brandon stops his illusion, “So how was that experience huh? I bet it was fun” Caprio says. “If you still don’t tell me where you last say that sentinel I will make you go through all of that again” Caprio says, “All right, all right I’ll to you” Ryosuke says. 

“Nice job Brandon you got this pussy to speak” Kurohe says. “I was just outside the Xethain region and that’s when I saw a large rocky beast, rocks all covered throughout its body, eyes colored red, it was almost the size of the building, but it did have some major scars scattered throughout its neck. It was resting in… Lerana Cave” Ryosuke says, “Now…now how hard was that, should we keep you alive?” Caprio says, “I don’t know, I feel like if we kept him alive he would ambush us and might steal valuable resources from the Sentinel” Wade says, “Just fuckin’ kill him” Leon says. “But he…he gave us the answer, don’t you think we should keep him alive?” Amber says. 

“True, true but yeah--- kill away” Caprio says. Ash approaches the shocked Ryosuke, takes out his sword and slices his neck clean blood gushing out and yet again Ash feels no remorse and everyone leaves the scene. Amber with a saddening look on her face as if this murder was wrong, but to Ash it was just a normal day. 

“Nice job you kids, perfect performance” Caprio says, “If you keep performing like this you’ll be the best Squad the Umbra Corps has ever seen” Elana says cheerfully as everyone was exiting the factory, “Shit almost forgot about those slaves down there, heh” Caprio says. “Riot you and Elana take care of it I’m taking a drink at the bar in the strip club” Caprio says, “You gotta be fucking kidding me right?” Riot says, “Nope” Caprio replies. “Fuck you, come one Elana let's go” Riot says. Caprio approaches the bar, “Give me an Armanda Special please” Caprio asks, “Sure thing” the bartender says, the bartender starts to get the drink ready, “Hey Leon and Brandon, stop looking at the stripper's tits” Caprio says. Ash sits down on the seat next to Caprio, “Hey Ash, are you interested in becoming a Captain someday maybe even taking your sister's place?” Caprio asks, “Not at all, I don’t have any leadership skills and I could care less” Ash tells Caprio, “Yeesh don’t need to be so harsh” Caprio says, Amber approaches Leon and Brandon, and she continues to rattle them out about looking at nude women, “Hey perverts! Why do you keep looking at the naked strippers, we need to focus on the mission, you better not be influencing Ash into doing these kinds of things *hmph*” Amber says. 

Amber slaps Brandon and Leon on the head, “All right, all right ill get going…MOM” Leon says, Amber and Leon proceed to run around the whole strip club, “Ahh those two, they’re like sister and brother” Brandon says out loud, “We can hear you!” Leon and Amber say with a glare in their eyes. Riot and Elana open the door and enters the strip club again, “Hey Caprio we’re finished, we let them all out through the back exit door” Riot says, “Apparently we could’ve just gone through the back door this whole time heheh” Elana says. “You gotta be fucking kidding me” Caprio says, “Anyway let's get the hell outta here” Caprio says. Let's report back to headquarters, Everyone exits the strip club “Oh do I hope we might get to go to another strip club again” Leon says with such determination. 

P.S.

Thank you for reading the 15th chapter of the "Project Sentinel" light novel series.