The man isn’t conscious while sitting tied to a chair. They didn’t tie him that tight. It’s clear he won’t be able to stand up due to the deep wounds Arifin left on his both thighs.Even the wounds only received minimal care, and only were wrapped in bandages just to prevent infection. Nothing more.Ronald pats the man’s cheek so many times to wake him up, until the man wakes up in aghast with a terrified face.“Aaah! Please, don’t kill me!”Ronald scrunches up his face, thinking that this person might have been tortured for interrogation. However, there are absolutely no signs of torture on the person.“Where? Where am I?” asks the man looking around cluelessly.Hannah comes to Ronald and whispers. “Could it be that he was unconscious when they brought him here?”Ronald then unties the man. “Can you get up?”“No way! That kid punctured me on both of my thighs.”A moment later, two of their friends come to inform them that they have secured one of the trucks which belonged to those fa
That self-entitled soldier is just a mercenary. He has no burden to be loyal to the people who hired him. So, there is no reason for him to keep anything a secret at this point.“We are just mercenaries. Our client is the people from The Defiance Atlantis. They gave us those devices to identify people who were affected by the meteor’s radical radiation like you.”“And for what purpose?” asks Andrew.“It’s not our policy to ask the motive of our client. The order is simple, to take these people to a place they had facilitated, where these people will be treated. But before accepting this request, we had already learned about the emergence of awakened soldiers. I didn’t know what this awakened thing before, until I saw that kid with the white hair. And, you!”“And about The Defiance Atlantis?” Asks Andrew by taking his face closer full of intimidation.That man immediately shakes his head fast. “I’m just a lackey in my organization. One thing that I know, The Defiance Atlantis consists
In the meantime, the cops are now conducting a brief investigation over the death of the two guards that Andrew killed. Their first suspect is the fake soldier that these people held captive, which no longer be there at the moment.Yet they had also learned from Prof. Irwan that the man was badly injured, and there’s no way that man would be able to harm anyone.Henry examines the destroyed chin of one of those dead guards. “I couldn’t think of any ways to inflict this kind of damage to someone.”“The best I could think of, you heat a metal baseball bat so hot, and then use it to hit him,” Nathan speculates. “But why would anyone go that far just to kill while one can simply use the normal way.”Henry shakes his head weakly. “It’s like he was cremated. But how are you going to cremate someone locally like this. Only his mouth and jaws are gone, while the rest of his face still looks normal?”“It must be the work of that freak!” Prof. Harun accuses.“Hey, hey! Don’t start it again,” Pr
It seems like the leader of this troop is quite able to identify the weapons and also the trucks that Henry and co. currently taken. “Who are they?” mumbles the driver. “Just stop the car! Let me go there!” says the troop leader. That one troop leader, with two lines scar on his chin, leaves his truck and takes only four of his men to approach Henry and the others. Nathan approaches them and greets flatly. “Excuse me! Are you soldiers from the national army?” “Yeah, my name is Parjo, the captain. I heard there are evacuation centers around this area. Am I lost?” “No. This is one of the evacuation centers in this city. Sadly, there were monsters’ raid yesterday. We could only save a few people. Now we are back here just to make sure if there are still any survivors.” “So?” Nathan shakes his head. “We haven’t found anyone so far.” That man named Parjo turns his attention back toward his friends for a while. After being silent for a moment, he asks Nathan to lead them to see the
Parjo issues a few of his men to look for those people. They drag one of the citizens to lead the way, the one citizen who has been so vocal so far.The discordance becomes chill, since there’s no longer the need to continue the debate. Those self-entitled soldiers already get the people who have been exposed to the meteor radiation.The few citizens who tried to protect them can only show their discontent looks to the traitors. Well, it’s hard to judge them as traitors, since they are the majority by a huge margin.“Hey, you forgot about someone here!”That voice attracts people’s attention. One of them points out about Grace, who has been confirmed to have experienced awakening.Grace looks in panic, glancing around like she is being surrounded by predators. She feels like she has been trapped in the wrong ecosystem. In fact, those people have been trying to distance themselves from Grace since the beginning, thinking that she will bring harm to them.One of those soldiers comes to
Awakened or not, Arifin still has his limit. He tore a few of his muscle fibers in his right hand and his left calf muscle. It’s not an injury because of the monster’s attack. It’s simply because of him forcing to use his body beyond its limit.He will only be able to eat another blood crystal without side effects later in the late afternoon. So he just lets that injury untreated for the time being, while laying down on the bed without doing anything.“Have you tried to call her?” asks Arifin to Tony, who is currently sitting on the window frame.“It's not like you, suddenly ask about my girlfriend,” replies Tony trying to avoid that question.“I’m just bored,” says Arifin.Suddenly, Arifin’s facial expression changes like he feels something different. He hears his mom accepting a guest. And he clearly hears that the guest is asking for a chance to meet him.Somehow, that weird feeling is getting stronger, until he finds that one guest stands right at the door which is wide open. The
Again, Arifin is puzzled by that man’s words. But he admits that his sword is not a normal one.At least, he once witnessed that the sword turned so black and thick when he was trapped in that ancient ruin, before he was dragged back to the past.“You seem to know something about this sword?” asks Arifin.For this one, Mike turns silent for a moment. He then tells Tony to leave them, and threatens him not to try to eavesdrop.After making sure that Tony is away from the room, only then does Mike respond to the issues raised by Arifin.“I was always by your grandpa’s side during the great war,” says Mike nonchalantly.“Bullshit! The great war had ended even long before I was born. Are you saying you joined war while you are still in your mom’s uterus?”“How old do you think I am? Just saying, I was born six years earlier than your grandpa.”Arifin scrunches his face. But Mike immediately ceases his curiosity, because there’s something more important that he needs to confirm first.“So
Parjo’s face really looks so clueless. Now he feels so stupid to disguise as a soldier from the national army. It gives him the impression of an amateur for not knowing that situation.Prof. Irwan also looks confused with Mike’s joke. But he admits that the possibility for a coup could just arise given the current circumstance.Mike unbuttons his suit, and pulls the left part of the lapel while putting his left hand into his cross pocket. He deliberately shows off the gun in his waistcoat.“You really have no idea what is happening out there, huh? The one who hired you must be stupid.”Parjo can identify the gun under Mike’s suit could be a micro Uzi, the type of full automatic pistol in the size of a handgun.It’s the type of gun which is able to launch 15 bullets per second. And it's rare for someone to carry such a gun around, unless he intends to have a war. That kind of gun is not simply for safety.“You’re correct!” says Parjo. “We are not soldiers from the national army. So, wh