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Chapter 57 - Side Story

fiver, Fiver!.. wake up!!

A girl was tugging and pulling and pushing a dazed boy, who looks like a teenager with a strand of light red hair streaks..

Huhh? where am i, as i look around i was at my old room, at my father old cabin, he was an oil gas worker, not a bad for a person job but it wasnt the best after all, i never wanted to be like him

I wanted to be different, but right now, seeing my old friend it feels like its a dream as i just smile, i rather be an oil worker than this to dissapear

The girl who had a mechanical enginner of a uniform, having tarnish a bit, a bit disheveled and dirty, as she suddenly pulls my face

"Stop being like that fiver, its morning and your still in your room"

I look at my hands, "Isnt this place destroyed? why am i here...its been so long"

thinking about, as she just sighs.. having a medium long hair longer than a boy, as she grabs my hand and walks outside "Your probably dreaming, and why are you saying destroyed, calamity falls on someone who wish upon it after all"

My eye's shine, yeah it probably was just a dream... "Yeah,, sorry"

"Your acting weird, cmon!... let's head towards the counter there might be no food left"

Fiver mother, having a uniform the catertaker around the small building besides the cabin, "Thankfully, Amy was here to wake you up..." she smiles "oh look at how cute you two are"

Fiver sighs, "Stop that" as amy blushed a bit, and ignore's it...

Fiver mother gives her a small piece of coins, as Amy take's some of it... smirking "Heheh, i deserve it after i wake you up, Professor Mono would have hit you with a stick for being late"

I realise, "His too old anyway to remember every student he experience"

"Seriously someone who live's around the Education building, being late.. that's absurb"

Walking into the learning area, the cracks on the floor pavement, knocking inside as a long haired curly black lady was making the student's exercise and leg and stepping jumps, "You two are almost late, now come and do a morning exercise with the students..." she huffs, being in a serious tone

"Now take 3,2,1"

Making the kids exercise, seriously i always wondered why we needed to learn things, when im gonna forget this topic and just gonna assign a job once i grow up.

We continue this school work, having some graphite chalk on our hands the teacher teaching us some stuffs about centripical force, being noon at my friends sitting and doddling on something

Arm wrestling toward's who is truly the strongest on this town, of course it was me..

"Dammit, fiver why cant i just win, i trained so hard to be strong after all"

I smiled, "well its because i train smarter

Time pass very slowly, as we were now assign to work on something as i waved goodbye to all my friends the sun was setting on the ceiling, covering an orange light, seeing my father work so hard to repair the pipes

And mechanical engine, moving and pulling something as heavy as a truck, he looks at me... "What are you doing idling and looking! Fiver get over here, and do something"

I sigh and runs toward him, as i help him carrying large engine, the large rotating and rocker shaft shifting it so it wont harden, by the oil...

after this time he smiles, having a ciggarete as i was now covered in oil and dirt disgusted, oh so this was the reason i hate this job

"Im sorry fiver that your living like this.." 

"I promise, ill give you a better future than i will ever have"

Sitting on the steel, looking at him.. yeah you did father, thank's to you i didnt work on this job and have a better one instead

...

..

...Huh, why do i know that?

I open my eyes as i was on the fireplace again, with those people, oh... so it was a dream after all, i cough intensely.. taking a pill

as Kineki curiousily tries to cook his bread with fire, thinking it would be like his original bread

as before he wrapped all the bread he can, and crumble them and combine them together...

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Suddenly, footsteps echoed behind me. Yoku, alert, grabbed his flintlock from the bag. We turned.

A woman emerged from the darkness—malnourished, filthy, her long black hair tangled. She hadn't bathed in months. She coughed and smiled faintly, her pale white eyes locking on us.

We froze.

"Uh... hello, stranger?" Yuri said, voice trembling. If a robot could sweat, Yuri would be drenched.

Kineki stepped forward. "Excuse me, but can you—"

She suddenly bolted toward the boy, frenzied. He dropped his bread in shock.

Yoku raised his gun, ready to fire.

"Wait!" Fiver grabbed the flintlock, stopping him.

With one motion, Fiver whipped his rope around her, entangling her mid-lunge. She thrashed awkwardly, like a rabid animal, falling to the ground and gnawing at the bread she found there.

Yoku's jaw clenched. He couldn't stand this. Better to end her suffering now. He pulled on the gun again.

Fiver's grip tightened. This guy...

Yoku braced himself to overpower him.

"Don't kill anyone aimlessly," Fiver warned.

He cracked the whip again, making the woman flinch and crawl backward. She lay on the ground, still and exhausted...

Yoku looks up sighing, not taking his eyes of another person... Humans are extremely dangerous no matter how weak they are, seeing the skylines the final stairway

Sigh is there really something at the ceiling?

His stomach grumbles as we make soup, fiver with his insecurity just looks at the soup and them, and just eat a dried up cordyceps

Yoku looks at him, gesturing a soup.. His eyes shine as he eats with them

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