A .50-Caliber Bullet

Yuri is on the fourth floor, clearing the hotel building and searching for the princess. Gunshots are heard from the top of the building. A devastating bomb explodes up in the sky and the pressure breaks the windows next to him. He braces and blocks the glasses from hitting him.

"That must have been the hammer guy. He saved us all," Yuri said. "I have to find the princess. AI, is there any way we can find the princess faster?"

"Yes, master. Magitek can also be a power source. But it will reduce your health points to 0.5/10, as I will convert your health points as energy. With that, we can turn on the power enough to use the Surveillance cameras inside the building."

"0.5/10? But are you sure, you can keep me alive enough to save the princess?"

"Yes, Master. But after you remove the Magitek Exosuit, it will take some time for you to regain your health points," Yuri had doubts in his mind but this was the only way to find the princess and the gangster that holds her hostage as soon as possible, he thought. "Alright, AI... I trust you."

"Thank you, Master," the AI said.

Yuri's right hand wrapped in Black Magitek gloves morphed into some sort of machine injection. He could feel as if his hand had a mind of its own. Artificial Intelligence was controlling it. The injection smashed itself into the wall and joined itself to the electrical wires and the surveillance camera wires. Yuri's Exosuit sucked a portion of Yuri's health points to charge the power system.

"Aaaaargh!" Yuri shouted. The AI turned on the surveillance system. All the cameras in the building turned on and the AI analyzed the footage to find the princess.

On top of a building next to the hotel, a police sniper wearing a Special Assault Team uniform was looking through the scope of its sniper rifle. It could barely see Yuri from the hotel window, but it had enough visuals to shoot. The sniper had his crosshair straight into the back of Yuri's forehead. The .50 Caliber bullet passed through the window, but the AI was able to detect it and it moved Yuri's head out of the way.

Yuri looked to where the bullet came from, he could see the police sniper ducking and disappearing from sight. "The police are getting more aggressive," Yuri said. "We need to move."

"Master, I have found the location of the princess. She is on the eighth floor of the building, the Yakuza gangster is trying to push her through the window, to move to the adjacent building," the AI said.

"Let's go!" Yuri rushed to the fire exit stairs and leaped from floor to floor climbing at the center of the stairwell to the eighth floor. He walked slowly inside. "Are they still here?" Yuri asked.

"I've disconnected to the surveillance cameras, Master."

Yuri held his sword in front of him and checked every room in the hotel hallway. It was empty except for some shoes that had been left by some people who had run in panic. And the lights were off. It was dark but the Exosuit allowed Yuri to gain night vision.

In the furthermost room, Niko had the princess in bondage and was pushing her over the window to get to the other building.

"Get going, you bitch!" Niko said. "I'm going to take you to the bosses. They might have gotten us, but there are other bombs all over Japan. They can't stop us now."

The princess struggled to get free but Niko was stronger and had the gun pointed at her. When she pushed Niko back, he slapped her in the face that removed the knot of the gag around her mouth. "Help!" she shouted.

Yuri heard the princess scream from across the hallway. He dashed towards the room and kicked the door open. Niko held the princess by the neck and pointed the gun at her.

"Stay away! Or the princess is dead!" Niko said. "You hear me, you freak!"

Yuri analyzed the situation and even with his E-class Dexterity, he was not fast enough to stop a bullet only a few inches away from the princess' back.

Yuri stood in front of them and could do nothing. "Lower your sword!" Niko shouted. "I'm not joking, the floor will drip with royal fucking blood all over!"

He lowered his Lesser Magitek sword to the ground. All he needed was a small window of opportunity to separate him from the princess and disable him.

"You freak! You must be one of those freak assassins that the fucking rich are hiring nowadays," Niko said. "Drop all your gear and hand them over to me, now!"

"I can't do that," Yuri said.

"Fucking hand it ove-" A .50 Caliber bullet passes through a small opening in the window straight into Niko's right shoulder. He dropped the Kalashnikov to the ground, and the princess pushes herself away.

Yuri ran toward Niko, kicked the gun away, and tried to stop the bleeding.

"Where are your bosses!" he shouted. "Where!"

"You'll never find them..." Yuri, on his own, transformed his hand into the machine injection used to connect to the surveillance cameras. The AI is surprised that Yuri could do it on his own now. He injects his hand into the wound on Niko's waist and charged it with energy.

"Aaaarrrrrgh!" Niko screamed from electrocution.

"Where are they!" Yuri shouted. "If you don't I'm going to make sure, your last moments feel like an eternal hell!"

"Fine..." Niko said. "They're in our headquarters in the redlight district in Shinjuku. Everybody knows where it is." Niko laughed then with his left hand, took a knife from his pocket, and stabbed Yuri in the right cheek that wasn't covered by the Exosuit. The AI was not able to dodge it but in retaliation, crushed Niko's neck with Yuri's bare hands.

[User: Yuri]

[Status]

[HP: 0.5/10 -> 0.4/10]

[Magitek System user will die in exactly 89 seconds... 87 seconds...]

Yuri lay on the hotel floor, unconscious with a knife to his face.

"Master, wake up," the AI said. "Master... wake up..."

Princess Yuna ran to her savior in a black armored suit. She held her on her lap and shouted, "Wake up! Please!"

The Artificial Intelligence in the Exosuit used its childlike voice and talked to the princess.

"Yuna. You can save him," the AI said.

She was surprised that the man's armor seemed to be like a robot talking to her. "What can I do to save him?"

"If you give half of your health points to him, I can use it to heal him," the AI said. "You won't die but it will be extremely painful, and it will take some time for you to recover."

Yuna put her hands on Yuri's face to stop the blood flow. "Do it!"

The Magitek Exosuit morphed into a black metallic slime and wrapped itself around Princess Yuna. The AI enveloped Yuri and Princess Yuna together and enjoined their bodies to transfer Yuna's life force. Yuri connected to Yuna's body. "Commencing Life Steal," the AI said.

"Uhhhh... uh," Yuna tried her best to not scream in pain as Yuri's body pulled her HP toward him. Yuri's unconscious body started to heal and his wound closed but he also felt the pain of the process. He grunted at every gush of life force that entered him from Yuna's body. The black glossy metal sludge covered both of them.

The process took several minutes when Yuri's HP turned 5.3/10. The AI ended the life steal process.

It let Yuna go and wrapped itself around Yuri again, reforming the Magitek Exosuit.

Yuri woke up and his Health Points recovered, he put his hand on his cheek and the wound had closed. He looked to his side and saw Yuna, naked and lying on the floor next to him. She tried to stand up, half-conscious, and she put her hand on Yuri's face.

He looked at her. She looked at him and said, "cute... blue eyes-" She fainted.