Faceless left Eden's operating theatre and moved on to Ed's. He was intubated with wet gauzes all over his place but for his left temple where his bridge was connected to his brain.

"Is the bridge operational?" He asked as he entered the room.

"We are uploading the software and running some tests to check if his brain accepts the new adjustments" the technicians answered pointing at a screen where the code was running, rewiring Ed's brain while keeping copies of Ed's personality, memories, feelings and knowledge.

"Do not make any adjustments. Do not impose retrograde amnesia on his brain. When the bridge is fully functional, create a peer to peer connection with mine and be ready to resuscitate him, if necessary. The time frame I asked is still valid."

Faceless left that operating room as well and headed to his quarters. He locked the door behind him, took off his clothes and sat on the floor in the lotus position. He started focusing inhaling slowly through his nose, keeping the air inside for a couple of seconds and exhaling slowly through his mouth till time lost its meaning.

His bridge was suddenly activated and he was transferred from his orbit to Ed's house. Ed was already there tearing everything apart looking for something.

"Is this what you are looking for?" Faceless asked and revealed Shylock under his coat. "I know that you have a lot of questions but it's time for you to find out that your new skills outnumber them".  Faceless threw Shylock towards Ed behind his back. Ed turned around and caught Shylock on the air in a blink of an eye.

"I am unlocking your potential step by step, till you reach your complete form. It's time to reconsider whatever you previously thought of as impossible or unlikely. You surrendered to my will, Son. I am not satisfied with a slave's leftovers. I demand a Prince's skills" Faceless announced while taking off his hood.

Ed grabbed Shylock in his fist and pushed Shylock through his own chest.

"Silly boy!" Faceless grinned as Ed was still standing full of surprise, feeling his heart beating still beating despite Shylock being nailed into his heart. "When your surrendered yourself, you didn't surrender to me only your right to live but you right to die as well. That's why this blade is called Shylock because it's not allowed to shed a single drop of your blood."

Ed took the blade out of his chest and threw it to Faceless who caught it in the air.

"You are not allowed to die or kill without my order. Are you going to waste my time testing boundaries that you already know that you are unable to cross?" Faceless asked Ed and Shylock disappeared from his hand. Grumpy showed up and stood next to Ed while he was touching his face that was intact.

"We are not really here, are we Uncle?"

"No, we are not. You have been training dogs for the biggest part of your previous life. I have been training people. Did you teach your dogs to attack at real targets in the beginning? No, you didn't. You wouldn't endanger the outcome for a doubtful reaction of theirs. So what is it going to be? I can keep you trapped here; spiraling, searching for a non-existent way out like a hamster running on its wheel but Ed is going to wake up soon and her primary thought will be to kill herself. Unlike you, she knows by instinct how to do it. 

Are you going to fight a lost cause or are you going to submit?"

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*Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. Peers make a portion of their resources, such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth, directly available to other network participants, without the need for central coordination by servers or stable hosts