The Corrupted River 3

Ted didn't understand who she was referring to but then Melanie said that her aunt was there and was willing to drive them to her house. Ted looked outside and saw Rexx waving at them, Ted jaw dropped as Melanie held Ted's hand and takes him to her aunt's police car. They entered the back seat and Ted almost touches Melanie's thigh, "I heard you were on a case aunt Rexx, May I have permission to know Ma'am?" Rexx responded, "I'm afraid I can't and you shouldn't be taking an interest in things like this... We should get going." Rexx drove away from the café, knowing that someone was watching them, they arrived at Melanie's home where she recognized something was off, "what's the matter?" Rexx was deeply concerned for Melanie and felt something that Melanie didn't want to tell her. Ted finally snapped out of his trance and he followed Melanie and Rexx as they entered inside. Someone opened their curtains and they saw Melanie, his mouth was drooling and his hand twitching uncontrollably, he then saw Rexx and his expression changed to disappointing, that was then when he saw Ted and he was holding onto Melanie's bracelet. This angered the watcher so that they destroyed their window, Rexx heard this but ignored it, and they made it to Rexx's home where she had it slightly messy, with ted even commenting on it. "Yeah well, if you think this is a mess, then you haven't seen Melanie's..." Melanie hit her aunt lightly on the shoulders, "Don't listen to her, please make yourself comfortable." Ted sat down on the sofa alongside Melanie, his left leg broke and it sent Melanie close to Ted, he felt a bit scared and a little nervous about Melanie being too close to him, it didn't mean he liked it, it was just that he didn't make any actions that she found troubling and make their situation awkward. he helped Melanie up and went to see if he could fix it in any way, "These wooden legs look incredibly old, made somewhere around 2023... Incredibly, it can stay stable for this long." Rexx received a phone call from her boss and told Melanie that she will be outside, "Hey, I'm going to get changed, help yourself to anything in the fridge except for aunt Rexx's sugar snacks and she keeps them there for 'some reason' that I don't know." Ted understand and waited while Melanie got changed in her room. Ted looked around and found a purple laptop open, Ted was about to close it but then a new email came from a user named, "CiInDu234" he went through the email and realized that this was a threat to Melanie, "Didn't I tell you that shouldn't be talking to boys? What's so special about that shaggy navy boy I saw outside? I gave you these warnings and yet you deny them! I would suggest turning around." Ted heard screaming in Melanie's room and ran inside, he saw Melanie on the floor while someone in a sack with holes was trying to touch her but when he saw Ted, he chuckled and took out a wrench that he mercilessly beat Ted up with until his head split into two. Melanie watched in horror until pushing her attacker and running out the door. Her aunt just returned and saw Melanie as she looked traumatized, "T-t-t-ed! He-H-he-he's..." Melanie struggled as she couldn't speak of what she saw.

Rexx and Melanie saw the attacker exit her room and fall to the ground, Melanie was shocked to see Ted alive and not injured. She ran up to him and hugged him tightly, Ted calmed her down as she was crying uncontrollably, the attacker groaned and this triggered Melanie to attack her attacker, Ted pulled her away before she could do any more damage to them. Rexx rips out the sack to reveal a Cyber Psycho named 'Bug Landley' which surprised Rexx as he was one of the victims that supposedly committed suicide. She examined the Rabien chip but realized that it had been tormented shown by the chip's damaged state. "Whoever did this must have gotten after you... look at this, it's been programmed to be used as a hitman chip and that means, whoever placed this chip on poor Buggy, would have chosen a target and there's this, your face... this was from the apartment opposite to us."

Rexx dashes out of the apartment, Ted was about to follow behind her but Melanie stopped him, telling him, "I don't want you to get hurt... Please stay." Ted wanted to stay with Melanie but he needed to back up Rexx if anything was off. That was when he remembered reading another email about a bomb in the opposite house, Ted ran out of Melanie's house and pulled Rexx back into the apartment, "what's your..." before Rexx could say anything else, a large explosion erupted. The home fell apart and rubble hit the other houses around it. "I will succeed Rexx! Even if it means that I will die, YOU'll SUFFER!!!