"Aj." Andrew's face stopped a meter away from death.
He flipped his body and then rested his feet on the ground.
Then he started to walk back to his home.
On his way, he suddenly heard a very feminine sound.
"Bam."
Andrew looked towards his right, to find a lone girl standing on an empty ground.
She was about 10 cm shorter than Andrew and she had long dark blue hair.
She was holding a black colored gun with her left hand and pointing at her shadow on the adjacent wall with it.
"Bam."
She spoke the same word again.
For some reason, Andrew felt very curious as to what she was doing. He was dead tired, but he found it in himself to check out what the girl was up to.
Andrew walked closer to her and looked at her side profile.
Her messy hair was laden with sweat and her face was unrealistically beautiful. She looked like a real-life doll, her visage unreadable yet extremely gorgeous. Her nose was cute and it went well with her V-shaped jaw. Her blue eyes reminded Andrew of the ocean, and her long bluish eyebrows reminded him of the sky.
"Bam."
Her thick eyelashes fluttered as her cyanosed grey skin cracked below her right eye.
Her figure was slender and curvy, yet perfectly symmetrical in terms of proportion and her dress was that of a school girl, a black sailor girl uniform.
"Bam."
Andrew kept staring at what she was doing. Until eventually, she put her finger on the trigger and fired the gun.
"Aj." Andrew spoke.
The bullet slowed down as soon as it came out of the gun.
And then it slowly began to spiral towards the wall.
It moved towards the head of the girl's shadow but stopped traversing before colliding with the wall.
"Hmhmhm." The girl smiled as she saw the stopped bullet.
"Hey…" Andrew felt odd seeing her reaction.
It was different from how normal people would react. So he decided to talk to her and see what was up.
"My name is Ella." She abruptly looked towards Andrew.
Andrew blinked a few times.
He was aware about how many people were very energetic and he thought Ella was also a similarly playful young girl.
"I'm Andrew." He offered her his right hand.
But Ella then did something uncanny.
She pointed her gun towards the midair stopped bullet and fired her gun again.
Another bullet came out and crashed into the former one before ricocheting into multiple small metallic fragments.
Those small sharp pieces penetrated into the wall, circling around the head of Ella's shadow in the shape of a perfect heart.
"It's nice to meet you, Andrew." Ella grabbed Andrew's hand and shook it.
Ella's hand was smaller and softer than Andrew's rough hand, but it was colder and had a tempting feel to it.
"Same." Andrew nodded his head.
Andrew felt weirdly nice talking to her, his previous depression seemed to rapidly fade away the more he interacted with Ella. He genuinely liked Ella's eccentric way of talking, and how she moved her lips in synchrony with her sweet voice, but to be fair, Ella was much prettier than his previous partner.
"And my name is Anastasia." A different girl's voice resounded.
"Anastasia! I was waiting for you!" Ella quickly pointed her gun at the new woman.
Andrew turned to find a girl similar in height to Ella, with long silvery hair, wearing a black chic gothic lolita dress and holding a long sharp sickle chain.
The moment he laid his eyes on Anastasia, a huge blank silence emanated behind him. It was different from his usual time stopping routine, and it oddly bugged him.
"What…?" Andrew turned his head back slowly to see all the houses, walls, property and everything behind him missing till the horizon. Just an endless urban desert of destruction was all he could see anymore.
Something had grazed everything down in an instant, and Andrew had been unable to catch it in the nick of time.
His fighting instincts immediately kicked in but he knew that he had been too late to retaliate.
"Aj!" Andrew stopped the entire world's time and tried to search for Ella and Anastasia.
However instead of finding the two girls, Andrew only found the sharp blades of the heavy sickle chain rapidly moving towards him. The chain slowed down the closer it came to Andrew, until eventually, it stopped right infront of Andrew's face.
"Interesting." Anastasia's voice resounded from somewhere again.
Heavy winds started to flow, tearing everything away on Andrew's two sides.
"You're the first person to stop my attack."
The sickle chain infront of Andrew disappeared and reappeared behind his head. Then it flashed like lightning, and also appeared over his head, under his feet, around his waist, all around his body.
Andrew was holding it back from killing him, but the chain was getting closer every time it came back.
Quickly, Andrew activated Goto on the chain and pushed it away from him.
"Check." This time Anastasia came infront of Andrew and punched him.
Anastasia's fist almost touched Andrew but Andrew used Aj on himself to throw his own body backwards.
But Anastasia flashed behind him like lightning, and punched him again.
"Goto!"
Anastasia's fist was stopped and thrown backwards in time. Meanwhile Andrew reverted his body back to its original spot.
"Aj!"
And then Andrew caught Anastasia with his Jenna and imprisoned her in time.
Anastasia smiled like a crazy killer, her lips raised up on the two corners of her face and her topaz colored eyes widened like a maniac even though she was caught.
"Hahahahaha!" She laughed furiously. "This is so fun!"
Andrew sped himself up with Kal and dashed towards Anastasia, but the moment he reached her, Anastasia disappeared like a fluid draining into space.
"What?!" Andrew was stunned to see her skills.
All his life on Earth, he'd never encountered anyone with supernatural powers except for himself. So meeting Anastasia was a new type of thrill and horror at the same time.
"And Checkmate."
Andrew turned his head back without delay, but it was far too late.
Too late, since his body had been already cut into two clean halves.