"So, I will ask once again, where is the eighth patient?" Asked Chrono/Alfonso.

"…" Mindbreaker didn't answer.

"Oy~"

"…"

"Doctor~?"

"…"

"Doc-"

"Stop it"

"What's your problem kid? I am doing this for you!" Said Chrono.

"Yeah sure, I told you to stop a few times now but you ignored me, now you want to stop!?" Said Alfonso.

"What are you nagging about?"

"HE IS ALREADY DEAD, YOU IDIOT!" Shouted Alfonso.

"What?" Chrono was surprised.

He checked the pulse of Mindbreaker and, indeed, he was dead.

"Fuck me, when this did happen?"

"About the time you broke his one hundred sixty-six bone" Said Alfonso.

"That's quite odd, I was sure that I did it carefully, how come he died?"

"I was surprised that you actually managed to keep him alive that long, however…" Looking at the one mad doctor who has known the skin of a human being, Alfonso couldn't help but trembled a little at the brutally of Chrono.

"This sure is savage"

"I was easy on him, if it was at my prime, having his stomach eating by a vulture for all eternity would have been showing mercy, as for this punishment? It was almost like not punishing him at all" Said Chrono.

"You are insane you know?"

"Of course, I know"

Alfonso made a resignation sigh while looking at the already open door in front of him. Mindbreaker wanted to enter this room before Alfonso came, however, they managed to cough him before he went too far. Now, he wondered what was inside that Mindbreaker was so desperate to seek the protection of.

"We will know once we go inside" Said Chrono/Alfonso.

Inside the room, there was a long staircase to what it seems to be a secret basement. Chrono/Alfonso went without fear, however, the more he kept going down, the more he felt that was something was strange.

"Wow, this sure is interesting" Said Chrono.

"How come the soul power is so intense here?" Asked Alfonso.

Chrono closed his eyes for some seconds before twitching a little.

"Well, well, this is very interesting, kid, is your turn" Said Chrono.

Without waiting for Alfonso to answer, he closed his eyes and his fierce aura disappeared.

"What?" Alfonso almost lose his balance for the sudden change.

"I am back? What is going on Chrono?" Asked Alfonso.

"Kid, you better prepare yourself, you are going to receive quite the shock, hehe" Said Chrono.

"What do you mean by that?" Asked Alfonso.

"If I tell you, it wouldn't be funny, would it?"

"Fuck you"

Alfonso felt like an idiot for thinking that he could count on this kid.

"Well, let's get goin- Ah" Alfonso was about to take another step when he noticed something.

"AHH! Fuck! My leg!" Said Alfonso.

He had forgotten that he didn't have his cane with him.

"Well, it's not as unbearable as before, it must be thanks to the blood" Though Alfonso.

"It still hurts a lot though" Said Alfonso.

He descended the stairs slowly due to the pain, he managed to arrive at the very bottom where a person was sitting on a chair.

The person was wearing a long clothed that covered him all.

"Hello?"

[Eighth patient found!]

A message from the system came, alarming him

"!"

"So, he is the one?" Though Alfonso.

"Who are you? Where is the doctor?" Asked the clothed person.

"He is dead" Answered Alfonso.

"Oh" Answered simply the clothed person.

"Are you my new master then?" Asked the clothed person.

"Master?" Alfonso was confused.

"Doctor was my master, now that you killed him, you are the new master?" Asked the clothed person.

"What the hell is going on?" Asked Alfonso to Chrono.

"Hehe, this is getting funnier and funnier~ where is my popcorn~?"

"You motherfucker!" Though Chrono.

"Answer, are you the new master?" Asked the clothed person once again.

"I am not, I came here to ask you if you want to come with me" Said Alfonso.

"Is that an order?" Asked the clothed person.

"No" Said Alfonso.

"Then I won't" Said the clothed person while sitting once again.

"Why?" Asked Alfonso.

"I must wait for the new master" Said the clothed person.

Alfonso was troubled, he didn't know what he should answer. He wasn't as hypocrite to said that he wouldn't say yes to someone that told him that he or she wanted to be his or her master, after all,he had a couple of subordinates, however, he considered them as friends or, at the very least, equals, if they wanted to feel otherwise, he respected that.

But, this person, he didn't know anything about him, what was he supposed to do?

"What is your name?" Alfonso decided to ask.

"Is that an order?"

"No?"

"Then I won't answer" Said the clothed person once again.

"…"

"You have a will, if you want to answer, you could answer" Said Alfonso.

"Will, huh? No, I don't have one"

"Yes, you have" Said Alfonso.

"Is that an order?"

"Ah, my head" Though Alfonso while furrowing his eyebrows.

"Let's, let's just say that yes, it is an order" Alfonso admitted defeat.

"Then you are the new master, yes?"

"…"

"No?"

"Yes, yes I am" Said Alfonso.

"Good, what's your name, master?"

"Alfonso Lockheart"

"Alfonso Lockheart, I understand" Said the clothed person.

"Then, as my new master, please give me a name" Said the clothed person.

"You don't have a name?"

"I do, a lot in fact"

"What do you mean"

"My previous masters gave me different names, that's why I have a lot of names" Said the clothed person.

"For instance, the doctor called me Number Zero" Said the clothed person.

"Choose whatever name you like the most" Said Alfonso.

"Is that an order?"

"…Yes, it is"

"Okay"

"What name did you choose?" Asked Alfonso.

"Before that master, I need to make the seal of slavery" Said the clothed person.

The clothed person lifted her arm and put in front of Alfonso.

"Let's begin" Said the clothed person.

On the hand of the clothed person, blood began to flow until it dropped on the ground.

Alfonso felt some familiarity with this action.

"This… is like that time with Cerberus" Though Alfonso.

"The blood oath!"