Right after having dinner, the two siblings headed straight to the office of the Handler Sarah to receive their first ever mission. They were already expecting the mission to be simple like gathering information at some nearby SF stronghold or eliminate some high ranking SF ringleader just to prove that they are fully capable on the battlefield, and some burden for the Handler.

Ryu reached out for the doorknob, but she suddenly stopped and locked back at Justin.  “We are just going to wing it if she is going to ask some personal questions, right?” She asked, Justin nodded.

Entering inside the office, it was dark and creepy. The only light source was the large window, the siblings walked carefully to the desk of Sarah. She spun around the chair to face the siblings as she turned on a small lamp, the light was enough to show her body and face as she looked at the siblings with a serious expression on her face.

The atmosphere of the office was heavy and suffocating, the siblings gulped at the same time as they glanced at each other. Sarah sits up straight.

“I apologize about the lights, I will have it fixed tomorrow morning.” Sarah said, sounding apologetic.

The siblings let out a sigh of relief, they thought Sarah was going to drop some insane evil shit. But, it seemed that the Commander was just this kind and gentle woman who takes care of her T-dolls as if they were actual humans themselves. Completely not foreshadowing anything.

Sarah opened a drawer on her desk and presented the siblings a folder, Justin took it and opened it. Ryu leaned sideward to Justin as she read the document.

“Your first mission is simple, gather some information about a nearby SF stronghold, collect how many of those bastards are there then come back here, hopefully without any injuries after all…” Sarah smirked at the siblings. “You two aren't expandable as T-dolls.” She said, her voice sounded so cheerful, yet it was also threatening.

Ryu had a fake cough. “Will it be just us two? Or there will be others coming too?” She asked, changing the topic.

“There will be two more just to monitor you both and gather reports of your performance on the field. I can't just blindly rely on a person’s words without evidence…” Sarah said, her voice slowly trailing off as if she remembered a bad memory. “Rest assured, they will also protect you.”

“If you say so.” Ryu commented.

“Alright, if there's no more other questions, departure time is tomorrow at 2000 hours.” Sarah said.

[Back inside the dorm of the siblings]

“From what it looks of it, the SF stronghold is between three hills while there's one main road.” Ryu said, pointing at the holographic map.

“We should assume the hills are already occupied with SF forces, which we need to do on field survey to confirm my theory, that might lead into a fight.” Justin commented, rubbing his chin as he looked at the map.

“I wish we were brought here with some kind of CoDM system instead of AB since we can use things like an Advanced UAV.” Ryu said, leaning back on her chair.

“It still will be pointless since those things require like how many kills? 12?” Justin said.

“Let's get ready for tomorrow, open up the gunsmith.” Ryu said.