The young lady with the frizzy hair bowed.

"My name is Mun. I am the current boss of the Portobello Family, which has allied itself with the Carbonara for quite a while now. It is a pleasure to meet you at last, Yiernoshi Lai."

Yiernoshi blinked.

"How did I get here?"

"You see, Sam gave us a phone call to tell us to bring six stretchers and medical staff."

"You know Sam?"

"Why not? After all, Sam was my ex-tutor."

"Really?"

"Yup."

Sam kicked Mun in the head.

"Don't digress, stupid ex-student."

"OW! Sam, that hurt!"

Yiernoshi sighed. At least Sam wasn't that violent to her...yet.

"Well...anyways, we found the five of you covered in various injuries, and all out cold, so we lugged you to hospital."

"Wh...what about Claire?"

"Oh, the prefect? We found her tied up and unconscious on the first floor. She's in a seperate ward, after nearly murdering some innocent citizens for disturbing her sleep."

Yiernoshi shivered.

Claire...was very scary.
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A week after, they were all discharged from the hospital. To celebrate, they decided to go to the mall for a pizza, and maybe a movie. Just the five of them (Claire refused to group up like herbivores).

As they were walking down the street, they heard an explosion.

A building on the opposite side of the road had gone up in flames.

There was no time to react, for at that very moment, a girl was thrown out of the building, and landed on Yiernoshi.

"Ow!"

"Hey, you! You injured the Fourteenth!"

"Christine...no need to get so worked up..."

The girl who had landed on Yiernoshi blinked.

"I'm very sorry! I didn't mean to land on...wait, are you Yiernoshi?"

"Huh?"

"It's you, Lord Yiernoshi! My name is Alene, from the Portobello family! I've been trying to find you for quite a while now! I needed to give you..."

Before Yiernoshi could actually find out what it was that she was supposed to get, a voice emerged from the chaos and the smoke.

"OOOOOI! Hurry up and hand them over, trash!"

They all turned to see yet another young girl emerging from the smoke. She held a softball bat, and was tapping it against her leg, menacing grin on her face.

"Come on, little piece of trash, mingling with outsiders now? I'll kill you all!"

"Excuse me."

Victoria pushed past Yiernoshi, and launched her ball at the girl.

The girl raised an eyebrow. Tightening her grip on the bat, she swung it, and it contacted with the ball, creating a loud crack sound.

The ball landed at Victoria's feet.

It had been cut into two.

The girl in question was smirking. Her bat had somehow morphed into a katana, which was probably why Victoria's ball was now in pieces.

"HEEEEY! Is that all you've got? How pathetic!"

Sam sighed.

Yiernoshi stepped forward, lollipop at the ready.

"Heeeeey! You're gonna fight me with that oversized piece of sugar? Go ahead and try!"

Yiernoshi swung the lollipop at the ponytailed figure.

"Ahaha! Missed me!"

Another swing.

"Pathetic!"

Yiernoshi reached into her mini-sack of candies, and pulled out the toffee. She threw.

"Oh? What's this?"

The other girl reached up, and caught the toffee.

"Hmm, interesting."

She stretched it, and threw it back. The web of toffee caught Yiernoshi, and pinned her to the wall.

"Fourteenth!"

"Yiernoshi!"

The girl with the bat-sword laughed.

She strode forward, and picked up a box that Alene had dropped in her fear.

"Well, I'll be taking this. Consider yourselves lucky that your lives were spared by the Chip!"

"Nooooo! The Carbonara rings!"

Chip ignored Alene's scream, and disappeared into the smoke.

Yiernoshi blinked.

"Wait...what rings?"
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Back in the hospital, they all were crowded around Alene's bed.

Rachel stood up from where she was bent over Alene, and sighed.

"She's severely injured, boss, but she won't die."

Mun nodded.

"Thanks, Nyamie."

"Don't call me that!"

"Whatever."

Yiernoshi cleared her throat.

"So...what are the Carbonara rings?"

Mun looked at her.

"You don't know?"

"No."

"Very well. Let me explain. The Carbonara rings are a very precious artefact. They were split into halves, and kept seperately, because the complete ring would give the owner immense power. Over the years, a lot of blood has been shed for them."

Yiernoshi cringed. Thank goodness that creepy girl with the sword had taken them.

The next words Mun said, however, proceeded to freak Yiernoshi out.

"But guess what? I have them right here!"

"EHH? I thought they were stolen!"

"These are the real ones."

Yiernoshi paled.

"Why me?"

"Because the Carbonara ring is proof of the next boss of the Carbonara family."

"What?!"

Sam sighed.

"The ring is probably too early for you to have, but we have no choice."

"Why not?"

"That girl with the sword you fought just now. Her name is Chip, and she belongs to the Carbonara's ultimate independent assassination squad, the Cheddocheezaria."

"Hey! Wait a minute! Won't they find out that the rings are fake?"

"Of course. When they do, they'll come here for the real ones."

"What?! But we'll all be killed!"

"The fakes we created were pretty good. They won't find out for about ten days. In these ten days, you will train vigorously to take them on."

Yiernoshi felt her heart sink.

Training?