"I've... failed...?!" Daniel, so stressed by the message received from Syndrana, a girl whose age resembled that of Daniel's, began to distort his eyebrows as he wanted to weep "Awwwwwww!!" Syndrana smiled; exhibiting her stark white teeth as well as narrowing her eyes as if to enjoy the moment more while massaging Daniel's left cheek with walls of blood covering it "You so did! Like, whaaaaaatttt?! What was that, haha?!" She brushed her forehead alongside her black hair's fringe on Daniel's forehead while laughing like a maniac and then fastily withdrew herself "You had all the tools to your advantage, mister! Now, you can't complain, OK?! You had EVERYTHING to win, but you lost because you got overconfident due to your absolute, almighty powerful resources provided by this superbase!! YOU SUCK!!" Syndrana said that last line completely seriously and in a mocking manner to Daniel.
Forced to swallow the truth, while bleeding out from his mouth and ears; forming a small pool of blood underneath his body which is on the floor, Daniel's eyes widened.
"....No...." He refused to acknowledge it "No, I didn't lose! Fuck you and your reasoning, that's not what happened at all! It's this tube, damn it! It's making my brain hurt so much that I can't move properly! I HAD HER IN THE PALM OF MY HAND; NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS!!" Daniel shouted at Syndrana and so, she took this opportunity to dive her lips into Daniel's and performed a kiss "?!?!?!?" Daniel was taken aback to say the least, as she didn't close her eyes and they remained utterly serious in front of his.
Wrapping her tongue with his, Syndrana bit Daniel's tongue forcefully.
"?!" Feeling in pain, Daniel tried to shout but couldn't unleash any such scream as Syndrana grabbed Daniel's tongue with her right hand "I soooo don't like sore losers like you! Get over it! You're done for! You've been here before, and you know that too! So, why are you lying to me when saying that you didn't know how this would affect you? If you are too close to the tube then it will make your brain go WAZOOOOOO because it's filled with radioactive particles that intersect with your cortex in the range of at least twenty meters! It hurts, doesn't it?!" She tried to confirm it as she saw Daniel's physical expression struggle to keep itself together "At first it's the reaction... Your brain receives a strong tumor; you feel like you've been hit with a meteor! Then you start to feel compulsive waves that go around and around; alternating in turns---isn't that it?" She asked.
Daniel couldn't answer and that made her happy; so she put her two glossy lips together and titled her head forty degrees to the right and smiled.
"Oh, who am I kidding here?! Of course I'm right! But wait..." She noticed a grave flaw in her reasoning "Something doesn't add up. Your brain reacting to it is only possible under one circumstance and one alone. That girl wasn't affected by it and so aren't I. Coincidence? It's not! You did something, didn't you...?" She got sadistic and started to press Daniel's tongue "UUUGGGGGHHHH!!!" Feeling the intense physical pain from her long polished dark yellow nails on his tongue, Daniel was quaking "That circumstance is: your body has been endorsed with the soul liquid and that alone is suicidal! Did you know that the soul liquid has a 37% toxicity rate? It is absurdly fast at killing you! With that said..." She gave the final click by pressing her nails onto his tongue further "How are you alive, Daniel Lead? There is no other possibility. No, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, just waaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiittttttt!!" She got dramatic as she realized another flaw in her reasoning.
Syndrana gasped and was taken aback a little bit before continuing.
"This is the only source in the entire island where you can obtain soul liquid. You couldn't have possibly gotten any liquid on your own from the tubes or any receptor terminal that contains soul liquid because it's encrypted to the point where only class three members or the leader himself can obtain it. You are literally a trialist! This is all a test! Yet you had access to such a cheat hack like that! Holy shit, talk about unfair?! Now that's fucking hilarious, mate!" Syndrana laughed at Daniel's face but immediately put on a stone-cold facial expression "Hey, who gave you that shit? It's strictly prohibited the intaking of soul liquid or any liquids from the factories in this superbase while in the middle of a trial or trials, for any reason whatsoever, but oh lol, answer me, please!" She got very impatient "Just the name. I swear to God, ever since he went away things have just been... Ahhhhhhhhhh!!" Syndrana got frustrated and rotated her head back and forth as if to relieve her stress.
Realizing however that he was put to a stop, Daniel found himself in a predicament. He knew it was Hyunda who gave him the soul liquid. Furthermore, the soul liquid almost killed him. For that reason alone, in order to get revenge on Hyunda, Daniel could simply speak his name and it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that Hyunda right face consequences from the mysterious organization itself.
But...
Daniel perceived this situation from a less emotional angle.
He started by trying to speak.
"Leth gou ouf mayh tanghue..." He put on a serene face and erased his distressful expression from his face "If I do, will you tell me the name?" She asked with cold eyes "Mhmm." Daniel nodded and after a while, Syndrana let go of his tongue "Ahhhh!! Ahhhh...." Daniel tried to breathe but was nevertheless feeling in pain due to his now lower proximity to the general tube at the middle of the area "Spill it, mister Daniel Lead. I'll give you another kiss, how about it ♥️?" She closed her eyes and smiled to Daniel.
Daniel made his move.
"Let me continue the trials and I'll give you the name by then, I promise." Daniel made his offer which pissed her off; making Syndrana erupt her posture which towered Daniel's since he was still on the floor "THAT WAS NOT THE DEAL!" Daniel counterattacked immediately "No, it was." He stood confident "Huh?! It was NOT!" But she also did "You never said when, Syndrana." She realized her mistake "......." Thus, Daniel continued "I need to continue the trials! I've come this far and I won't give up on my progress! No matter how many more I have to kill, I will keep on doing it! If you don't allow me to continue then I won't tell you the name. But that's not all." Daniel earned her attention "Not all...?" She got curious which provoked a light laughter from him "Truth is... I wanted to meet you." This surprised Syndrana "Ohhhh?! Someone's got a crush, hahaha!!" She laughed in his face.
But Daniel was dead-serious.
"It's about the anti-death equation...!" Her eyes widened "WHAT?! How do you know that?! WHO TOLD YOU THAT?! OH MY GOSH, I WILL DECIMATE THIS PERSON TO SHREADS!" She unleashed a violent chain of screams afterward which led Daniel to believe that she was deep down insane "Andddddddddddd?! What about it?!" She was definitely curious and wasn't taking no for an answer "You're missing a component aren't you?" Once again, she was shocked beyond belief and decided to sit down on the floor in the middle of the blood pool with her legs crossed "Ok, you got my attention now." She said as if that wasn't the case already "The equation starts of with Death + Life. This hints at a person's dead blood and a alive person's blood to be extracted to start off." Daniel started his speech.
Thoroughly impressed already at the fact that he knew just the simple of things about the process, Syndrana kept her mouth shut and began to listen to Daniel.
"...It helps if the person who is about to die has a conveying wish that will also be absorbed by the ID liquid; only through the ID liquid can that last thought; that imperial remaining spectrum--- be captured. Henceforth, it's necessary to add Mind-Body Dualism to the equation which is a simple reference to how the mixture of the dead blood and the alive blood alongside the terminal thought of the lingering consciousness with the ID aligned will result in the existence of a Mind-Body Dualism incident." Daniel was speaking with an obscure level of confidence to which Syndrana was starting to get worried "The Ego, the ID, the Soul, are the remaining components that need to be separated and that's all that is, in theory, necessary to finish the rebirth process." Syndrana now got suspicious "Is that all...?" She tested him with her vision slightly narrowed.
He was simply waiting for her undivided attention on the matter here. For that reason alone, he tried to get up from the bloody ground, adjoined his right hand to his brain, and started to massage his head while talking to Syndrana, who was now below him in height.
"Emotion and self-condemnation; how often do you use them?" Syndrana didn't understand something and so, she avoided the question with another question "Self-condemnation? I've never heard of that! I know that Emotion is a factor that can be obtained through the mixture of the Ego, ID, and soul; that's how you start the next step. Explain!" She desperately wanted to know "If you don't know self-condemnation then you don't know the other factor, do you? Tell me, what's the factor that comes after Emotion?" Daniel asked her.
Knowing fully well that she was revealing information that no ordinary person should know, she found herself wondering why someone like Daniel, a trialist, had knowledge about the intricacies of the rebirth process. Let alone knowledge that she wasn't aware of.
Therefore, without resorting to any lies, she delivered the truth as she wanted to see what he had to say.
"It's Alma---that's all there is to it. By obtaining the Alma which is the liquid that results from the division of all the liquids except the Emotion one; you then use that mixture liquid in the cortex machine so it's able to give you the Alma matter. The Alma matter is only obtainable after you pour the entire liquid into the cortex machine and by then, you are able to advance to the rebirth process." She spoke very confidently as if to let Daniel know that she wasn't wrong.
He looked at her and saw that she wasn't lying. That alone allowed him to gain certainty of his next move.
"Wow. Did you really think it was that simple? Just because you got satisfactory results in the end?" Daniel asked her with seriousness all over the place "It's all there is to it! The Alma matter is the most crucial thing in the process. With the Alma matter alone, the rebirth process is possible." She argued "Very true. The Alma matter is indeed a crucial factor and it's entirely possible to finish the process alone with it." Daniel didn't deny it, as a matter of fact, he agreed with her.
Which would make her undoubtedly curious and adamant about knowing what he had in store.
"You don't have access to the full equation do you?" He pinpointed something that made her immediately try to rush to Daniel's body in order to physically overpower him from below, but Daniel took ahold of one of the miniguns on the ground and instead of aiming at her, like any would imagine in this situation, Daniel aimed it at his head "Huuuuuuuhh?!" Stunned and perplexed, Syndrana didn't fully commit to the physical act but was now mirroring his posture "Here is how it's going to go down: I will advance to the next trial, kill the remaining intruders; especially that fucking fucker that was recording this whole place and me---and I will complete all the trials which will allow me to still be in the examination. If you do agree with that term, I will tell you the name of who gave me the soul liquid sample and furthermore, I will tell you the rest of the equation to which... you still have a lot to go about it." He taunted her "You are missing---self-condemnation aside---fifteen components." He delivered with utter confidence.
She didn't want to believe Daniel, but at this point, the fact that Daniel already knew the entirety of the process that she was deeply familiar with, meant that he couldn't be lying about this.
Impressed by his boldness about taking his own life, she smiled both ways until her face no longer allowed; showing all the corners of her mouth as well as highlighting her crazed yellow eyes.
"Oh. My. God." She laughed subsequently "You would take the secrets with you? But then you can't revive her..." She taunted him now "That won't work. If I can't finish the trials, then I will never have a chance at performing the process as I need her dead body and in order to get to that, I need a session with the leader." He said, but that alone confused Syndrana "Huh...?" Her puzzled expression confused Daniel too "What are you talking about? Who on Earth is feeding you so much distorted information?" Daniel knew not how to absorb this information "...Are you saying that the organization and the leader don't have enough power to make it happen?" Daniel was showing vulnerability suddenly as his right hand was shaking.
Noticing this, Syndrana tried to take advantage of the situation.
"...The organization can make it happen, surely. But a session with the leader? That's not how it works. Your ranking determines your access to your power options and how you can greatly benefit the organization from your decisions. You can make it happen through your achievements and let me tell you something; something of that degree does not need the leader's approval. He has no time for such a peculiar actio-------" Before she could finish her sentence, Daniel gave her a death stare that made her fear for her life transiently "Watch your fucking mouth, bitch." He warned her.
After composing herself, Syndrana lightly laughed and brushed it off.
"Aw, so sensitive you are. But---I have a deeper point here... Listen, you want to reach her dead body, correct?" Daniel didn't answer as he already had said his answer in that regard "I have a high position within the organization. I won't tell you my ranking, but I can make it happen. But only if..." Very much like Daniel earlier, she also struck her bargain "You tell me right here and now, the full equation and you have my word that I will make it happen. As a matter of fact, if you give me the full equation, I will take on the personal responsibility of reviving her for you! See how good this is for you?! Even though you will fail the trials, it doesn't matter because you will get what you want in the end without having to join! Think about it!" Syndrana expanded her deal greatly.
On the surface, very charming. Furthermore, the deal contains all that Daniel could wish for.
However, there was the uncertainty factor. The lack of certainty and the absence of the one that wants to make it happen by his own hands and his alone---no one else's.
Daniel sighed and withdrew his minigun from his head.
He looked at Syndrana who was waiting for a reply.
By checking his minigun's barrel which contains nine bullets still, Daniel made sure that there was in fact a bullet to pull the trigger to begin with.
"Alright then." Daniel quickly pulled the minigun to his head and strongly suggested that he was going to off himself by raising the finger to the trigger "WAIT! WAIT, NO! DON'T DO THIS, NO!" She started to panic "Do you have some sort of cognitive problem, woman?" Not addressing her by her name, Daniel put on his apathetic voice "W-What?!" Offended but nevertheless nervous about the possibility of Daniel offing himself without telling her the equation, she blurted that "I'm asking you; are you mentally retarded? Do you have a problem understanding my words and their meaning? Do you need me to repeat them for you so you can process them slowly but surely this time around? Or are you going to stick to your paper-thin lies?" Daniel unleashed a verbal barrage at her.
Normally, Syndrana would attempt maximum verbal persuasion in any situation since she sees her potential benefit, as incredibly high.
In contrast to such expectation, however, she felt that Daniel was actually going to pull the trigger because she thought that Daniel didn't trust her words at all and wanted to do the process on his own.
Capitalizing on this, she whistled out loud which left a lasting echo in the air.
"Fine. Fineeeeee... FINE!" She showed variations "But you..." She immediately grabbed the minigun on his right hand and disarmed the bullet barrel from it; leaving the bullets to fall on the floor while subsequently grasping Daniel's right side of his face only to lick the blood from his lower cheek to the area close to his left eye "You will keep your word..." She whispered into his left ear; her wisteria smell overpowering Daniel's nostrils "Or I will make sure you never see her body ever again." She coldly said as she stared into Daniel's bloodthirsty eyes, but this time she did not falter.
A moment of aggression between the two was about to happen as their energies matched; but they quickly withdrew from it.
They both laughed at the same time, ironically--with their eyes closed.
"HAHAHAHA!!!" Maniacal laughter unraveled in the area "You're funny!" Daniel complimented her "Awwwww, you're not though! Can you hurry up and die already?! Hahahaha!!" She continued to laugh and insulted Daniel.
She did do something while saying that which was to access the secret computer within the right side of the grand soul liquid tube and decreased the intensity of the radiation which made Daniel feel incredibly more relieved.
"It's very potent, I can imagine---or rather, I know for a fact how it feels!" She tried to emphasize with Daniel, but even though he was feeling better, that was not his top priority "The component has been stolen---or rather; I failed to retrieve it. I always take back the component after I'm done with all the killing. But since the fucking tube got in the way, I couldn't kill the damn bitch and she went ahead to the next section because Euporia gave her the lift..." Daniel expressed angst and rage as he approached Syndrana from behind "............" She looked at Daniel with a baffled look "...What?" Daniel didn't understand her sudden skepticism "Nothing." She turned her head around and started to type into the computer "Heeeyyyy, don't look! Fuck off and be a good boy, will you?!" Syndrana got mad at Daniel trying to peek at what she was trying to do.
Daniel turned his body around and waited for her orders.
"There you are... Her trip to Alexandria is still not over but we will not get her in time. She will die, of course, given the circumstances here, but you will have to work for your meal since they will know you are coming. You have played with their lack of knowledge a bit too well for my liking even, but it did show its results. A bit fucking sadistic, I will say..." She lightly laughed while saying those last words "Anyways; we will go there via capsule just like she did. Once there, you know what to do." Syndrana was done with the capsule request through the manual control panel.
There was, however, one thing that Daniel desired from this as well, so he didn't hesitate to speak his mind.
"Syndrana." He simply said, but she didn't look in his direction as she was typing and couldn't therefore be bothered "What now?" She asked "What's the leader like?" Out of curiosity and a bit of admiration, Daniel asked her "...That was random as fuck." Her voice turned stone-cold "You seem affectionate about him. He must mean a lot to you." Daniel picked precise words and decided to confirm something that he was feeling curious about, ever since Hyunda had played that ID card swap event "How old are you?" Daniel asked a basic question on the surface "Seventeen. Young and beautifulllllllllllll!!~" Syndrana happily replied.
But this provoked laughter from Daniel and just before she could turn around to ask what was the laughter was for; he spoke precise words.
"I'm talking about your actual age; the one behind all the bodies that has lived on far beyond the average human being. Hey, Syndrana? What's wrong, you got quiet all of a sudden. Did I touch sensitive territory by some ch---" She looked at Daniel with an abhorrent and displeased look as if to say that his joke was not funny "Shut the fuck up, Daniel." The two capsules, now branded in red and glitter gold, appeared on the ground's surface right in front of the tube.
They both got inside their respective capsule and put on the seat belts which were made of steel.
"Are all of you that old?" Daniel asked Syndrana who was not in the mood for his insensitive talk "No wonder she killed herself." Syndrana delivered that as the capsules dove straight below the ground at a fastening speed.
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Through the underground railways that connect every section of the island, the capsules that look like the head of a bullet train with a shielding window in the front allow anyone that drives it; albeit the predestination protocol does not require a pilot to maneuver it-----travel at a staggering 670 kph. Every trip to each section via capsule would take less than three minutes and no further.
By the time the capsule had reached its destination; it would erupt from the ground onto a valid arrival station within that section. Generally speaking, the direction of the departure will matter because the arrival is coordinated with the departure's direction. For example, should the departure come from the south side of the section; the arrival will be at the south side of the predetermined section. Given that there are many arrival/departure points all over the sections, it's fairly versatile to land in any place you want.
Of course, that's only if you know how it works.
For someone like Lulu, who had no idea how it worked; she was left speechless as she found herself surrounded by the first floor of a nearly destroyed eight-floor building in a destroyed city. Naturally, she could see through the cracks of the craters in the ruined building and she saw many other destroyed facilities just like this one.
Thoroughly recording everything, as her phone's battery was still kicking at a grand sixty-three percent; she made sure that everything was going on camera. This included the rumbles of the fallen building she was in, the highly advanced capsule that had already emerged to the ground as soon as she arrived, and more importantly; herself.
She turned the camera to herself and the camera could capture the horrified face of Lulu as her eyes became heavy, the area beneath them clearly showing. Her long blonde hair strands were loosened now and no longer had any clean remarks about them. Her face was entirely red and her blue eyes were blurry from all the crying thus far.
Breathing heavily and panting all over the place, Lulu recapitulated the experience she had gone through.
"I... My name is Lulu..." Her voice got slightly weaker as she spoke "We've been wrongfully deceived about a trip to a deserted island by Percy Phoenix, who is dead... This island contains dangerous criminals who should be executed on the spot but nevertheless, we were stupid and went to such a place, although we never had any idea what was waiting for us... In reality, this seemingly deserted island is actually the house of a highly advanced technological subworld where there are unbelievable environments hidden beneath the deserted island! It's all a facade and as you have seen from the trip so far, I have managed to escape the killer's wrath after he had some sort of meltdown..." She panted "Right now... I will look for survivors; my other classmates and I will tell the truth! I don't know about the others but... Realistically speaking, they are probably dead already... I don't know how he did it, or if there are others, but I need to seek out my classmates and... if I can't..." She gulped "I will find a way to escape by myself. I'm sorry." Lulu took off as she exited the building while recording the environment of the broken city where dreams once lay.
On the south side of Alexandria; the designed name for the eighth district, there is an uprising broken asphalt road that leads forward once someone walks out of the building where Lulu is. Exploration to the higher levels of the building could be made, but Lulu opted to continue forward instead of wasting time.
It was necessary to go from right to left or vice versa in order to avoid the multiple areas where there were missing parts of the road. Abandoned cars, disfigured light pillars, and even decomposed skeletons could be found on the asphalt road.
Thus far, Lulu was only following the road forward as she could see from afar that there was an upcoming quarter full of destroyed buildings which contrasts the previous standalone building.
"There appears to be clouds---no, some sort of gas underneath this bridge..." Lulu pointed her phone's camera to the left side of the road and below it, she saw that the area underneath was clouded by gray fog which she labeled to be gas and not clouds "This is not the first time something like this has happened... I don't know why but the places here are utterly unbelievable..." She concluded as she walked forward.
The temperature was lukewarm. Furthermore, there was this chilling silence in the atmosphere and a sensation of dreadfulness that the destroyed city of Alexandria emitted to anyone who came near it. The lingering skeletons left questions with no answers and given how dark the illumination was thanks to the sun being on the end of the horizon on the right side of the map; it was evident that this place did not welcome people in general.
Now approaching the quarter of buildings that all collectively have fifteen floors to each; with broken windows and rumbled structures, Lulu found herself horrified by the absurd number of skeletons in the area.
She took a step into the asphalt road that was made of two sides alongside dismembered cars on each side as well. The overwhelming shade emitted from the height of each building led her to be physically covered with a looming shadow.
"There appears to be no way forward..." Lulu said as she saw a broken uprising bridge leading up to another zone where there are more buildings on the north side "There are also no other connecting bridges on the left and right side..." Lulu noted as she despaired when looking from the center to her left and right side "........" Lulu felt silent and remained a bit in the same place as she tried to figure out her way forward.
Unaware of what to do, Lulu tried to go forward by advancing two hundred meters forward where the broken bridge would lay. Taking shallow steps by backing it up with a reluctant attitude, Lulu hoped for something as she could not figure anything out; while also continuously looking back in order to see if Daniel was anywhere nearby somehow.
Posing her shoes on the edge of the broken bridge, Lulu saw nothing with her own eyes.
"........Wait..." She tried to zoom in the video camera to the other side forward "!!" Her eyes widened and a desperate reaction came forth "HEYYYYY!!! HEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY!!!!" Lulu desperately shouted to the figures on the north side as much as she could.
At first, there were no reactions from them as the distance between Lulu's position and theirs is almost over a kilometer.
However persistent, Lulu didn't give up and as she knew a person from that group with a large number, she summoned all of her vocal strength and performed a loud shout with all her remaining strength.
"MUUUUUSSSSSIIIIII!!!!! LOOOOOOOKKKK TOOOOO THE SOUUUUUUTHHHH!!!!" Her posture felt forward slightly as she felt her voice decreasing in vitality; however, that shout was able to capture the attention of a person in the group, that was not Musi, however.
On the north side, while traveling forward; opposing Lulu's side, a male member of Musi's group which is made of sixty as a whole, called out to her.
"There's someone on the other side... Hey, Musi check that out!" He called Musi out very quickly "Hey, did you hear something too?" Members of the group started to wonder whether or not they heard something "I think I did, but it was very far away. It looked like it came from the south direction..." They quickly grasped onto the possibility and turned all of their attention to Musi "Really?! There's someone on the other side...?" Skeptical, Musi asked "I did hear something, let's check it out... The bridge is broken so maybe there's someone trapped there...?" The one that heard Lulu's scream suggested "Okay, let's check it out, Valiant!" They made their way to the opposite direction and faced the broken bridge.
Now on the edge of the broken bridge from their side, they used their cellphones and zoomed in on the edge of the broken bridge from the other side.
"Wait, there really is someone there?!" Lulu's body was captured panting for some air totally crooked on the edge of the broken bridge "You're right, oh my God!" Musi was shocked to hear it too "CAN YOU HEAR US?!" Musi tried to scream, but everyone around her noticed that it was relatively low and that she still had a long way to go.
John, one of the male members who was arguably confident in the volume of his voice to reach out to the other side, took a step forward and unleashed a powerful scream.
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"CAN YOU HEAR US?! YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT IF YOU CAN'T, BUT TRY YOUR BEST TO!!" This time, it was enough for Lulu to hear a reply back and so, she restructured her posture and shouted to the other side "I CAN HEAR YOU!! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU GUYS BUT THE BRIDGE IS BROKEN!! IS THERE SOME WAY FOR ME TO GET THERE?!" Lulu shouted, but the potency of her voice was arguably lower, so many couldn't actually hear her full sentence "...What did she say...?" Some asked as they were curious "She asked if there was some way for her to get to our side, I think." One of the girls gave her thoughts on the matter and she was right.
So, John asked Musi what to say first.
"Musi, what should we say? Do we trust her?" He asked her "Of course! Tell her!" She gave her order "Alright." He turned his attention from Musi to Lulu and put his two hands on each side of his mouth in order to increase the potency of the shout "IF YOU WANT TO CROSSOVER, YOU NEED TO ENTER THE BUILDINGS AND DESCEND DOWN UNTIL YOU FIND A SUBWAY STATION!! THERE IS A TRAIN THAT PASSES EVERY FIVE MINUTES!! WE WILL WAIT FOR YOU BELOW, HURRY UP!!" John thoroughly delivered that information in such a way that Lulu couldn't possibly have missed it.
Instead of giving a confirmation, since Lulu wanted to deliver the secrets she was holding, she turned her back on them and went for the nearest building to her right side where she discovered a massive stairway leading below.
"There it is. I had no idea...!!" Lulu was still recording this and ignored the upper levels of the destroyed buildings and focused on descending down the linear downward staircase containing twenty degrees; each upholding twenty centimeters in height but a massive five meters in length.
Unlike the obscurely destroyed structure all over the buildings, the stairs were actually in a decent state showing signs of test against time. Leading below, artificial lights were first seen as soon as Lulu reached the end of the staircase.
"This... This looks... So normal...?" Lulu was surprised by the seemingly normal aesthetic approach of the station's design while capturing every detail with the camera.
There is another stairway on the left side, and on the right side, there are machines that allow one to buy tickets in order to validate on the validation machine on the north side. There are, in addition, two central attendance stations on the left side of this area, but the focal point would be the north side; beyond the validation machines.
However, unlike most validation machines, there were no borders which meant that anyone could simply walk forward to the subway's platform without requiring a ticket.
Such elements as additional stairways below, multiple bathrooms, abandoned cafes, and a multitude of clothing shops, were all present.
Focusing on the way forward, Lulu trespassed the validation machines and went straight to the subway platform where she saw two railways; indicating that there were two subway trains that could pass through them---hopefully in different directions.
Looking back on her left and right side, Lulu became increasingly horrified by the quantity of skeletons in the metallic benches present.
".....Jesus Christ, UGH!!" This reaction was due to her getting close to the railways in which she observed a large portion of shattered bones in the railways which belonged to several previous bodies "WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SKELETONS AND BONES EVERYWHERE?!" Her shout echoed in the area and she impulsively turned the camera in her direction "This place is most likely the remaining bits of an ancient city and given the technology here which is considered modern by our standards, it's probably fair to assume that this place is at least a century old which already implies that in the early years of the previous century; this place was already constructed which is crazy! It's so obvious now! The killer wants to erase us all because we are uncovering so many secrets!" Lulu laughed in a desperate manner.
The train going in the opposite direction of where Lulu wants to go was passing through and it stopped. This allowed Lulu to capture the essence of the six-carriage silver train which contained a total height of six meters and a length size of ninety meters.
"It's empty but there are skeletons inside...!! It's most likely run on some sort of seemingly infinite battery or on electricity because there is no actual driver... This is... a ghost station..." Speaking a line that would make her look absurd without evidence, Lulu found herself more scared once she realized something "If it's run on electricity and it's been doing this over and over for decades nonstop, then... Just how much money was put into this as a whole...?!" A train approached Lulu's side of the station as the other automatically departed in its direction.
Opening its doors, the train welcomed Lulu as she had to climb two metallic steps first before entering the train filled with skeletons in every single seat of the train; with no exception.
"What the hell!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!" She unleashed a despairing scream while trying not to look at the chilling sight "Departure to the Parasonborg in ten seconds." A familiar robotic voice spoke out loud inside the train and after ten seconds, the train took off to the north side.
Waiting on the other side, Musi and her group of sixty people, a grand mix of males and females, were all anxiously waiting to see a train emerge from the other side.
It wouldn't take long, however, as the train would arrive at its pre-determined destination with impeccable consistency; always.
"She's here." One male member said as he saw Lulu, who was eager to leave the train.
Once the doors opened, Lulu was received by all of them on the boarding platform.
Although conversation here could be initiated by so many angles, Lulu decided that what she had to say, reigned absolutely superior to any of the many possibilities of dialogue here.
"Everyone, you need to hear me right now!" She panted "Are you ok---" A member tried to sympathize with her, but Lulu dismissed it "No, you don't get it! There's no time! This is all a setup! There's a killer chasing us down and he will kill us all! It's Daniel Lead!!" To them, Lulu's words were not making any sense "What are you talking about...?" Musi approached Lulu and noticing that her words weren't breaking through, Lulu decided to terminate her current video "It's easier if I just show you...!!" She claimed.
Harboring all of their attention and playing the video at x32 speed; given that the video itself lasted over forty-eight minutes, they all formed a circle while Lulu stood in the very center upholding the evidence for them to see.
She explained everything from the start to them as they grew afraid of what was being shown.
"At first it was alright, nothing too crazy, but the fact that we were walking on ice trails in an area where it was like winter, it was already messed up to begin with! How can it be winter when the environment of the island above is tropical?! It doesn't make any sense!" Lulu had a lot on her mind "We decided to start recording because Yoh, our group leader, told us that we needed to record evidence---after Daniel Lead had slaughtered a consequent number of us when we finished walking into the bridge... It's not recorded but it really happened, I'm telling you!!" She started to cry; fearing that they weren't believing her.
However, it was fairly evident that as they watched the video, they all started to believe in Lulu's words.
"I believe you... The video shows all of their reactions and how scared they are..." They were talking about the group of girls surrounding Lulu as they showed horrified expressions "But wait, what happened to the boys...?" Musi asked, albeit hesitant "...They died to him, most likely...!" Lulu confirmed "Most likely?!" She was being pressured "I don't know, it was all Yoh's idea! He wanted to use the boys in order to stop Daniel from making a breakthrough on us and killing us all which worked in the end because I got out of it alive but it was only due to sheer luck!" Lulu admitted.
By now they had watched all of the footage all the way until Daniel encountered Lulu face-to-face in the central room in the previous section.
"Wait, hold on, put it in normal!" One of the members got curious about Daniel's sudden outburst and so, Lulu put it in normal mode "AGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!" Daniel's agonizing screams from the pain inflicted could be heard and that alone brought forth some questions "I'm glad you're safe from all of this but what caused this suddenly?!" This question was met with a displeasing reaction from Lulu "How the fuck should I know?! If it wasn't for it, then I would be dead!!" Lulu spoke a fact that was impossible to refute "And that's how you got on the other side? After you placed the component which was the ax that Yoh always carried; you were given permission to advance to the upcoming section?" Musi wanted to confirm this.
Putting an end to the footage and creating a new one, Lulu started to record it.
"This is the second video!" She ignored Musi's question and redirected the camera to Musi's group which was something that many weren't exactly comfortable with "After crossing the map via subway, I managed to unite with them and they know everything there is to the prior event! Right now, we will focus on placing the component in its place as fast as we can! By doing so, we will advance into the next section and warn the others in order to prevent the same tragedy from happening!" Lulu essentially answered Musi's question "Musi, what are the components?!" Showing a nervous attitude, Lulu wanted to know more in order to gain some upper edge on Daniel.
Instead of Musi answering the question, two twin brothers---James and Lionel---stepped forward with each holding a silver rod in their hands.
James spoke first.
"These two rods are the necessary components, according to what Ryousuke Kawahara told us..." Lionel continued "If we both position them in a line, whoever walks in-between them will be paralyzed. This has been tested before and is a known fact." This gave birth to an idea "Wait, doesn't that mean we can paralyze Daniel Lead?!" Lulu proposed such said idea but was quickly countered "You're insane! The video you've shown us demonstrated that Daniel Lead possesses firearms!! If we are in his sight, he will kill us all!" A member spoke sound logic to Lulu.
However, that was not Lulu's aim, so she corrected herself fairly rapidly too.
"That's not what I meant! We can bait him into walking into the rods' range! He wants to kill me!! I have all the evidence and he clearly wants to get rid of it! I don't know why, but he was beyond furious!" Lulu told them "Bait him? But... Lulu, are you suggesting that you're going to make yourself the bait...?" One of the members spoke and this sudden realization, shocked Lulu a bit "W-What...?! I didn't say that... If we can get a read on his position then... We just have to position ourselves into a place close to the components' location and Daniel will eventually walk right into it..." Lulu hid the true intent of her words with some logic behind them "Anyways! We can't waste time here! Tell me everything you've found thus far, Musi!" Lulu spoke directly to Musi this time around.
As Musi and Lulu spoke to each other while exiting the subway station, Daniel and Syndrana, who had arrived at the building that is exactly on the right through the capsule transportation, are now located on the higher level of the destroyed building.
Up, Daniel is intercepting radio waves of speech through one of his gadgets and is able to analyze what any voice is speaking in a radius of five kilometers maximum. Therefore, he, alongside Syndrana, has heard all of Lulu and Musi's conversation; as well as the other members' interactions.
Mildly provoking the serious Daniel who is forming a plan to escape the potential baiting plan that is being made by Lulu and Musi, Syndrana spoke to him.
"Awwwwwwww!! They're so aware of you!! Holy shit, you must get off on this attention wave a lot, huh?!" Daniel didn't necessarily find her funny and kept on hearing the radio waves "I will let you know something already; I am not able to help you---you are on your own here, mister. This is your trial, after all!" Syndrana didn't speak new information to Daniel, from his perspective "Then, what is your purpose here?" Daniel didn't look at Syndrana but nevertheless posed the question "Meeeeeeeee? Aww, you're finally showing interest in me? Well, my dear, I'm a monitor. My job is to make sure to let the trialist in the trial, especially when they have clearly, abundantly, and utterly, failed in the trial, know that their ride is over!" She spoke with a great verbal spark.
Daniel shut off the transition as he became aware of the full extent of the plan that Lulu had in store for him.
"I see. You are utterly useless then." Daniel stuffed his radio gadget onto his central belt and insulted her "Whaaaattt?! That's not true! I am just, of course, not able to help you. It goes against the protocol!" She tried to defend herself, but Daniel finally looked at her and spoke with certainty "Fucking liar, don't you dare say those words and how you care about the protocol. You on behalf of your own gain, have gone against the protocol by letting me continue in the trials." He silenced her with the truth that she couldn't deny "........" Her physical expression became slightly agitated "It's too late, Syndrana. You are under my control if you want the full equation. I'm not going to send you to your death; you will get the equation---that I vow. But you're going to have to work for it." Daniel established some ground rules.
Syndrana didn't like Daniel's attitude and how bossy he was becoming around her.
"That's no way to talk to your superior." She coldly said "You're not my superior. I'm a trialist; only if I get into the rankings will you then, maybe, be my superior." Syndrana laughed at Daniel in an overwhelming manner; almost rolling on the ground purely laughing---she did however crook down her posture as she put her hands on her belly "HAHAHAH!!! Maybe?! MAYBE?! You're lucky if you even get the pass at this point! I will be reporting everything to my superiors! The nerve you got, oh my God!!" She started to cry tears of joy from laughing so much.
Aside from this, Daniel took note of Musi's group of sixty people---now sixty-one with Lulu included; leaving the mirroring fallen building, as they started to approach the east side of the map. Their aim was to, of course, reach the capital of Alexandria.
"Everything? Surely you're not talking about the times when you clearly broke the protocol, right?" Daniel remained vigilant of the group that is five hundred meters below him while engaging in a passive-aggressive dialogue with Syndrana---who was also becoming vigilant of them "You can cut the asserting dominance process, Daniel---tell me what's on your mind already... It's clear you so desperately want my assistance, am I right?!" She was trying to make him admit it "You're a partial existence. Nobody knows who you are." Daniel spoke vague words "Ouch?! What the fuck was that for?!" She slapped Daniel's rigid back muscles with some backing strength out of spite "Lulu didn't record you and I have never encountered you prior to before. So here's what you're going to do..." Daniel lay down his thoughts to Syndrana.
Lulu and Musi's group adopted Yoh's strategy. Even after his death, his idea is still being used.
Right now, there are about close to sixty people recording everything they are going through. The purpose is the same as before; to present this place as evidence and hopefully, for it to get enough attention so that the ones behind this supernatural island can be condemned for their unethical crimes alongside Daniel Lead's demise.
They had already crossed the somewhat broken bridge with multiple open ruptures in its asphalt and they were going straight into the capital of Alexandria.
The knowledge about the capital of Alexandria was gained through the general map of Alexandria which is present in every subway station. Each subway destination is marked with a small oval ball but Alexandria's capital, Fatherland, is pinpointed with a highlighted red oval ball. Upon absorbing this knowledge, they set out in Fatherland's direction which is located on the Northwest side of Alexandria. Given that they started from the south side, they still have a bit to go.
Familiar with the usual scenario of broken buildings and disfigured asphalt roads accompanied by abandoned cars already, Lulu and the others noticed a slight difference as they approached the upper east side of the map.
"Holy shit, that's huge!" One of the members pointed their camera at it "It's almost the size of one of the buildings! But..." They noticed something was missing as they got closer to the center of it "It's missing a description, who is this guy...?" Some girls and boys, who were more in-depth with history as a subject, tried to figure out what exactly they were looking at.
Or rather---who---they were looking at. At this given moment, multiple cameras and their eyesight were capturing the entirety of a colossal golden-covered statue of what appeared to be a male figure in his thirties. Dressed in a formal suit but with a recognizable cape flowing downward on his back; the figure held both of his hands slightly up and he was shown to hold two balls in his hands---which were the Earth's globe as well as the sun on the other.
His face looked serene and upheld a compassionate expression.
Extracting further information was proving to be a waste of time, however.
"Let's get going... It's probably a person who is responsible for this island..." Lulu viewed the figure with disgust and by her order, they were quick to stop wasting time.
Ahead of them lies a path forward with buildings on each side. There are two paths to the right and to the left; as well as the path in the opposite direction, where they came from.
"I just realized something, couldn't we all have taken a subway to the Fatherland instead of unnecessarily walking?!" A great point was made "No, because Daniel is most likely waiting to ambush us since that's just an obvious thought! We are going against the tide, so we need to outsmart him!" Many thought Lulu was overrating Daniel and that the possibility was low "...I guess..." However, they didn't completely discredit the possibility.
A silence was made as they continued to film everything while going forward; surrounded by old buildings.
Against that silence itself, a powerful cry for help was heard loud and clear from not too far away.
"HELP!! SOMEBODY!!" A female cryout was heard by all of them "?!" Lulu became nervous and alerted "Hey, let's go and check it out!! Somebody else could be trapped in here!!" Musi immediately took the initiative and her group looked ready to advance "Wait, wait, wait! Just wait!" Lulu didn't find this sudden initiative to be a good choice "Lulu? What's wrong?!" Musi didn't understand Lulu's distrust, but another member somewhat did "She thinks it's a setup, most likely." Lulu further justified herself after the boy had started it "It's very fishy and doesn't make any sense! Just think about it! No one from my group has survived and I surely don't recognize that voice from the girls in my group so it's not from the prior section! Your group isn't missing any members, is it?!" Lulu quickly wanted to assert the facts.
They were starting to understand Lulu's point and Musi was too.
"So this is... a bait...?" Musi became a little scared "But how? Was there a girl with him?!" Someone questioned Lulu with stress all over the place "Not that I know of, but what if he took some girl as a hostage and is forcing us into a trap?!" Lulu reasoned but didn't propose a solution to this "Then, what should we do?!" Musi wanted a solution right away and Lulu offered one "We have to ignore her, of course! He has firearms! And if he's baiting us, he will kill us all! What do you treasure more?! The life of some random or your own?! Come on now!" Lulu made the speech of a demon "But... You... were in the same position... were you not...?" Musi's point landed quite well "....That's..." Lulu couldn't refute it.
There is a reason as to why Musi's group contains a large number like sixty people to it. Not only is Musi compassionate, understanding, and thoughtful, but she isn't pessimistic, unlike Lulu, who is filled with distrust due to the lingering trauma from the past event.
Seeing how stressed Lulu was, John placed his right hand on her shoulder and spoke in a calm manner.
"We understand you're scared, but we, just like you, want to prevent any further casualties! We will talk to her and find out the truth!" John showed a smile but Lulu couldn't say anything as she was too scared of Daniel.
Every time she thought about him, a sensation of hopelessness and sheer horror consumed her soul.
Nonetheless, Lulu cooperated with them and they followed the voice which was in the nearest left building.
"PLEASE, SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!" The agonizing scream filled with loud noises of someone crying was received by the rest of the group who noticed a girl with medium-length black hair running from the subway station below all the way to their direction by climbing the staircase "Are you ok?!" Upon seeing the girl whose age resembled theirs, Musi and her group took heed of the girl right away "He---He wants to kill me!! Please, you have to help me!!" Everyone witnessed her genuine tears as she wore the perfect expression of an individual who was terrified and fearing for her life "Who is trying to kill you?!" Lulu catapulted the progress by asking the primal question "Daniel Lead!! We saw him when Percy Phoenix showed the criminals' bounties!! I've escaped from the ninth section through a secret evacuation room but I know it's just a matter of time before he comes for me!!" She cried while explaining her situation.
But something wasn't making a lot of sense to Lulu.
"The ninth section...? But Daniel Lead was in the seventh just a while ago... He couldn't have made such progress..." Lulu immediately noticed the flaw in the girl's explanation "W-What? No! I'm talking about way before that! I, alongside my classmates, entered the ninth section by mistake upon getting lost on the island for a bit! It was two days ago when we were collecting the components! He killed all of them and I was the sole survivor! Please, trust me!" She pleaded for their understanding but Lulu grew far more skeptical than before "How can you enter the sections by mistake?! The only way to enter them is through the way we all entered!! You're lying!!" Lulu lashed out at her immediately.
Certainly, Lulu's attitude wasn't an example and was downright despicable in a sense, however, many saw that Lulu was in fact, making a point. They knew for sure that entering a section was previously impossible because they all had to collect the components in order to make such an entrance possible. And even then, it was only accessible through the main temple and only through an elevator that would lead them to such a section.
The girl's explanation did not include such details which immediately earned the distrust of many.
"Hey, what's your name?" Musi asked her while she sobbed "A-Ann..." She replied "Ann?! You're Ann?!" A girl from the group stepped forward and looked at her "Y-Yes? That's my name!" She said but also gained a little distrust from the girl who just asked the question "Wait... You're not Ann... You look a bit similar but you are definitely not her... She's smaller than you are and she certainly doesn't have such weird-looking balls covering the ends of her hair!" The girl made a wild accusation to which the girl in the question here, looked extremely mad for a second but was quick to withdraw that expression "We must have the same name then!" She further attempted to reason.
However, Lulu and many others became convinced that this was practically a setup. Even Musi wasn't fully trusting her.
"............." The girl put on a serious expression and decided to storm through the group in order to make her escape "?!" Many saw her run at a fast travelling speed which confused some but also let them know that she had to be apprehended.
Thus, Lulu, instead of Musi, gave the logical order to James and Lionel, who were nearby.
"You two, use the DAMN RODS ON HER!! RIGHT NOW!!" Feeling pressured, James and Lionel went for it.
First of all, James pierced the rod into the ground and the first link was established. Secondly, since Lionel is actually faster than James, he used his speed while looking at the rod that James had placed on the ground, and only after confirming its location did Lionel aim for it. Overpowering the girl in speed as she showed a despairing attitude while climbing the staircase, Lionel plummed the ground while mirroring the rod in the same direction as James' rod.
Musi gave a loud shout to anyone near the two rods' intersection. A short but omnipotent electrical burst was born as the girl was paralyzed after a brutal shock.
"EVERYONE GET BACK!!" Musi's loud shout was intertwined with the girl's scream as the electric shock was felt all the way to her body's fibers; almost posing lethal range "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!" Her body was rendered useless as she became static and paralyzed in the middle of the staircase's degrees.
Twitching consistently, the girl's body was thoroughly affected by the massive electrical shock and upon noticing that it had worked, James and Lionel took the rods off the ground which made it possible for anyone to walk into the line where they were again.
Slowly but surely, they all withdrew from the central part of the subway station and placed their undivided attention on the girl who was without a move.
However, it was all set and perfectly timed. The timing of the paralysis alongside the train's arrival; wasn't something that any of them thought would be connected, even Lulu.
That's why, when they noticed that a train had just arrived at the platform, many didn't look back. But some did and once they saw Daniel's figure with a machine gun aiming at them; their screams were all for naught as the body count began to drop.
"RUN FOR IT----AGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!" James was caught in the crossfire as Daniel from a ten-meter distance was already successful in killing ten people "CLIMB, DAMN IT!!! DON'T GET IN MY W---" Meltdown took place as many began to trample over one another while climbing the staircase which was already a physically tasking choice and would lead to Daniel having a slight advantage due to the nature of such a task.
Before the remaining survivors could climb outside the station and run for it, Daniel had successfully killed twenty-seven of their members.
Given the weight of the machine gun that he had obtained from one of the secret rooms from the prior train station---each train station contains such firearms in the respective control panel room, an area that they didn't explore in the train stations---Daniel dropped the machine gun on the ground right where the stunned girl lay in and once outside the train station, he caught a read on where the survivors were going for.
To his right side, there was a path leading up and down while on his left there was a long asphalt road leading all the way to where they came from. But more importantly, the numbers were greatly focused on the right side, especially to the north path.
"That fucking bitch..." Daniel noticed that Lulu and Musi were leading the majority of them to the north side of the map "......" He focused his attention on the six fugitives that were going to the left side.
Instead of using miniguns, pistols, or any bullet-related weapon, Daniel took out two grenades that he still had in his central belt---made a run to the left side for about five meters and after untying the rope of the grenade; threw it in the direction of the nearest fugitives.
But now with a wider swing to the air, specifically aiming at the fugitives that were even further away, Daniel tossed the remaining grenade into the air and performed a roundhouse kick on it so it would fly over a hundred meters at least, in order to hit the furthest ones.
Not a single one of the six survived those grenades as they saw their lives flash before their eyes once they had been vaporized by the toxic grenades.
Passing through the same avenue again, Daniel took quick care of the five fugitives that had taken the south path to the right side with his two dual pistols. Given the overpowering speed produced by his right leg's calf, he was substantially faster than any of them, so catching them was not a problem.
The bigger problem for him was the fact that since he had invested time into killing the ones that had gotten away and since he wanted to save Lulu for last, it also meant that he was behind in tempo.
As of now, the distance between Daniel and Musi's group which is composed of twenty-two people, is a staggering seven hundred meter difference. Although Daniel has to run for it, it annoyed him the fact that the earlier machine gun round of bullets didn't kill more. Furthermore, as Daniel unleashed his speed onto them from afar, he noticed that the group of twenty-two people had split itself into two; eleven to each side.
They took different directions and entered the subway stations in opposite directions in the hope that a subway train to arrive at the perfect time.
Face to face with the right and left buildings in which they have entered a few seconds ago, Daniel knew for a fact that at least one of the groups was for sure dead.
"She went to the left one..." Daniel immediately started to sprint to the right side and entered the building where a train station lay beneath "SHIT, RUN FOR IT, HE'S HERE!! GO INTO THE RAILW---" Daniel pinpointed the eleven with surgical precise bullets to their heads although some of them made their way to the railways.
Though, given that the train had yet not arrived, and there were twenty seconds for the arrival of it, Daniel went down the railways and hunted the rest down with bullets to their torsos.
He didn't waste any time and went back to the streets with the aim of going straight into the other group's direction, which was in the opposite building.
".........." By the time he had arrived at the mirroring subway station, Daniel saw that the eleven of them were already inside the train, but even so, Daniel fired as many bullets as he could "QUICK, GET DOW---" Lionel tried to be heroic and warn the rest, but he and two others received fatal injuries due to the landing bullets and were dead.
But, against the odds, the remaining eight of them, though terrified beyond their margins, had just successfully escaped Daniel's wrath.
And this wasn't something that Daniel could simply use his physical prowess to overcome because a train naturally runs faster than any human being. That's simply not debatable.
So, in other words, Daniel had one realistic option, which was to use his knowledge of the subway stations and know exactly where and in which building the train would stop. But even then, Daniel knew that he wouldn't actually be fast enough since the building where the next stop from this specific line lands is three kilometers away. And running three kilometers in less than two minutes is not possible for Daniel.
In a conundrum, Daniel was forced to take the drastic option.
"..........." Displeased, he took out the same gadget while fighting Yoshi and Kokoni that he used in the previous section and ran towards the railways, aiming straight to the end of the train from a grand total of thirty meters as a difference "!!!!!!!!!!!" Feeling the tremendous physical pressure emitted from the grappling hook, Daniel's body was being tossed sideways as it was being transported through the hook's line.
Hitting the tunnel's walls with his body, Daniel had to endure brutal physical turmoil as the train's speed didn't allow him to gain a firm grip.
"Huh?! No way. No way. THERE'S NO WAY!!" Lulu saw her worst nightmare flying from left to right like a doll but she also noticed that there was a grappling hook attached to the end of the train which was keeping Daniel locked onto the train despite the physical struggle he was put through "HE'S HERE?! OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!! WHAT THE FUCK DO WE DO?!" One of the girls was desperately trying to think of a solution to this "W-We have to talk to him, somehow!" Musi didn't see a way out of this situation and spouted that line out of impulse.
Certainly, the moment the train arrives at its destined station, it won't matter if they run for it, Daniel will be able to physically gain more advantage in tempo as he is faster than them. And betting on his body's condition to be worse from what he's going through, isn't something that they realistically think is possible.
"...The driver's... This train must be running on something! If we can control this train then maybe we can delay the inevitable!" Lulu proposed "Let's go to the front then!" One of the boys started to run ahead and all the remaining eight members went straight for it.
However, as soon as they got on the first carriage and went straight to the driver's room, they realized something that filled them with dread.
"There are no fucking remotes nor buttons!! WHAT THE FUCK!!" Lulu was furious as she knew that the time between the train's departure and arrival was growing shorter "I think we should try and at least talk to him! If we just run, then we will end up dead!!" Musi spoke while tearing up, completely terrified but not given up on the idea of reasoning with another human being "........Yeah, we should try that... I mean, if we don't, he will just hunt us down, hahaha!!" One of the boys showed deep despair as he didn't believe in any other alternative to this matter "Let's quietly surrender and pray..." One of the girls agreed.
Lulu kept her silence as she had another idea that she didn't want to share.
The train's arrival alongside the robotic voice signaling the location's name was the nail in the coffin.
They left the train while looking down and the seven of them went down on their knees and put their hands behind their back, hoping for a peaceful conversation.
Showing a sign of surrending, in many cases, leads to peaceful endings.
"I don't know why you are doing this, but we have no desire to obstruct you! I am sorry if we ever did any wrong to you, but this is the truth! I wish to speak to you and negotiate terms!" Musi upheld a respectable attitude meanwhile Daniel climbed from the small stairway on the left side of the platform, showing levels of pain.
He took a few steps forward, took out his two pistols; placed both of them on each of his hands, and began to shoot from the right to the left; only sparring Musi in the process.
"W-Why....?! Why would you do that?! WHY?! THEY DID NOTHING WRONG TO YOU!! YOU DEMON, HAVE YOU NO MERCY?!" Musi let out her angry emotions as she grieved over her fallen comrades; now face to face with Daniel with his pistol in front of her "This was never negotiable." Daniel shot Musi in the head mercilessly "........." Counting the number of their bodies, he saw seven.
Something was not right; the number wasn't adding up.
Daniel looked at the train which was about to depart and thought about getting it.
"So that was her plan. She's hiding in the train and now she's forcing me to do this again, huh." Daniel spoke out loud an assumption that Lulu had used that moment as a distraction to still be on the train, hoping that Daniel to not notice the number difference.
Noticeably, the train immediately took off as Daniel said that.
And so, two hands connected with each other; tapping her breathing and her mouth. Beneath the train's platform, just a little back to the railways, Lulu hid herself completely as she listened to Daniel's dialogue.
".........." In silence but in pure anxiety as well, Lulu heard Daniel's footsteps on the train's platform.
At first, they were far away which indicated that he had ascended to the streets of Alexandria. However, after a short period of time, they slowly started to gain more sound which meant that he was, in fact, extremely close.
Multiple rivers of tears alongside an impulsive urination were only natural actions, as Lulu noticed that she wasn't hearing any footsteps.
For a moment, in that utter perfect silence, she felt relieved.
"Thought you could run, huh." Daniel's upside-down face almost gave Lulu a heart attack "OH GAWD------" Trying to spell her sentence with her fingers covering her mouth, she couldn't hide her horror as she saw that Daniel had discovered her.
Twisting his body and performing a simple flip, Daniel landed on the railways.
"Please noooooo----" She begged as Daniel pulled with a firm grip, a vast majority of her blonde hairstrands located on the upper side of her head; dragging her out of her hiding "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! NOOOO, YOU CAN'T!!! I DON'T DESERVE IT!!! I JUST DON'T!!! FUCK YOU, DANIEL!! YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND KILLING PEOPLE FOR NO REASON!! WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS ILLOGICAL AND UNETHICAL!!!" Lulu spilled snot from her nose as she unleashed a verbal rant while crying too.
Now fully dragged onto the upper platform, Daniel let go of her hair strands, and with his two hands, he slapped her cheeks at the same time but didn't let his palms go afterward.
"AGGHH!!! THAT HURTS!!" She complained but was forced to meet Daniel's cold eyes "I have to admit, this is very personal." He confessed "Your existence alone has led me into a very unfavorable position. If it wasn't for you escaping at that time, my trial procedure would have been clean and perfect. But you did escape. And that's why I, now, am at the mercy of someone that is from the organization and knows that I fucked up." Lulu, horrified, couldn't comprehend where Daniel was coming from "I'll do anything... Sex, you want to have sex?! I'm pretty, aren't I?! I know I am! Come on, I don't mind being raped, just let me live, pleaseeeeeeeeeeee!!!" Lulu begged once more.
But Daniel had different plans.
"I don't get the whole rape thing. I'm tired of having to be met with the same assumption every time it's a female. Can't you creatures think of a better method for negotiation other than your body? It's despicable how quickly you give up your honor. There's no way I could ever fuck someone as low as you, who abandons herself like that." Daniel spoke his true thoughts "But you have to die." He continued "Noooooooooooo...!" She continued to cry on the other hand "Not just an ordinary death. I have something extraordinary planned for you." Daniel took out a guerrilla knife and withdrew his palms off her face "?!" Lulu couldn't understand where Daniel was getting at.
She thought that Daniel was going to stab her in the heart since he was adamant about rejecting the sexual offer, but Daniel pierced both of her eyes with the guerrilla knife subsequently as well as rapidly.
Also, Daniel tapped her mouth with his left hand as he didn't want to hear her screams.
"Shhhhhh..." He tried to silence her, but Lulu was feeling a pain she had never felt before; now blind from her two eyes "Death is not suffering. Suffering is living without death. And what better way to demonstrate that, if you can't see for the rest of your life?" He put back his guerrilla knife in his central belt and took out one of his pistols with his right hand, now allowing Lulu to scream "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH!!!! MY EYEEEESSSSSS!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, WHYYYYY?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Her screams of horror filled Daniel with unparalleled joy.
Daniel added one final touch, while erupting his posture back up, as he saw that the train was about to pass through.
"I would love to continue our sensitive session, but I have a train to catch." Daniel shot both of her ankles "AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!" Lulu placed both of her hands on her ankles; feeling the gushing blood emitting from them "You might get lonely but I'll let you onto something; these trains are always here for you! Five minutes to five minutes! Now that's consistency!" Daniel humored Lulu as she cried in pain while entering the train "FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!! YOU WILL DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!! ENJOY THIS WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMETHING FAR TERRIBLE HAPPENS TO YOU!!! SOMETHING WAY WORSE THAN ALL YOU'VE EVER DONE WRONG IN THIS WORLD, DANIIEEEEEELLLL!!!" Lulu's screams were heard loud and clear as the train took off with Daniel.
It would take a while for Daniel to arrive at his desired station; but he decided to relax a bit on one of the central benches within the train---accompanied by multiple skeletons, whose identities remain forever a mystery.
On the other hand, still paralyzed in the stair degrees at the subway station, Syndrana looked bored as she couldn't move her body.
It was one thing to almost suffer lethal damage from the electrical shockwave that the rods instantly emitted to her body, but another to have to wait for someone to pick her up.
".....Uggghhhhhhmmmmmhhhh, this fucking suckkkkkksssssss...." Her voice looked slightly dry "...Oh..." Her yellow eyes widened a bit as if revived when she heard footsteps coming from below.
Daniel's slow footsteps were a major annoyance to Syndrana as she turned her head around and noticed that Daniel had gotten more blood on him again.
"Took you long enough... Nah, that was way too long, wasn't this supposed to be fast?" Syndrana was referring to the early part of the plan back at the rooftop "You did decent." Daniel collected the first metallic rod located at the south of the staircase "Decent? That was S+ acting! I perfectly timed my apprehension with the train's arrival! You will not receive that kind of synergy anywhere else, mister!" She spoke proudly of herself "You were supposed to drag them all the way to the train's platform... But you didn't, you allowed them to remain at the entrance which fucked up everything since I had to kill the rest that ran away. If they had been at that same spot, I would've killed them faster." Daniel was critical toward her, to which she showed a displeased expression.
Finally grabbing the other rod and now in front of Syndrana, who remains motionless on the ground, Daniel looked at her from above.
"...If you kill me, you won't get in." She tried to defend herself "Really? How so?" Daniel was evidently curious "You are on one of the superbases of the organization... You are a fucking idiot if you think that you'll get away with killing me here, Daniel." Syndrana was hinting at the very fact that every place on the island is somehow being recorded through a myriad of surveillance cameras in several spots; the current place included "Hmm..." Daniel looked a bit indecisive as he was forced to acknowledge what Syndrana had just said.
He put the two rods on his belt just like two police batons and talked to Syndrana once again.
"Get up." He ordered her "Huuuuh?! Can't you see that the rods emit a stupid volt on the human body enough to paralyze it for at least thirty minutes?! I can't move! You're gonna have to carry me!" Syndrana gave Daniel the order "I'm not carrying you." Daniel stated "No, you are. Man up and carry me. I want princess style too!" Syndrana began to abuse her current condition to try to convince Daniel to have her way "You have a hard time processing my words, Syndrana." Daniel grabbed her right wrist only and began to descend down the stairs "H-Huh?! Wait, you're not going t----" Syndrana's face was hit over and over by the sharp edge of the staircase degrees as Daniel dragged her all the way to the train.