Furlheim city, or as it is called by it’s residents, Sweepstake city having endured a year of solitude from the outside now sees itself brought to life again,
In light of the dragon’s defeat the people who were once seen as ‘zombies' came back to consciousness though their bodies were drained to the point of death, many had to be attended to at once, along with the destroyed mess that was the city,
Shiryu and Mf the two strangers were left aside for now….
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“I KNEW IT!
I knew Kage wasn’t dead!” Shiryu is exclaims loudly
“No need for the commotion,” Pinoki shushes him,
Shiryu now draped in gray cloak walks alongside Pinoki and MF who rides a treaded motorcycle on the bumpy ground of the city….
“My bad, I just,
I knew it, gahh.. where is Aki I need to gloat to her so bad right now.” Shiryu throws his violet eyes across, they still looks like that of a snake’s but unless staring at him you wouldn’t notice,
“ I still haven’t picked up a reading on anything hidden or buried here,” MF says looking down at the screen on his bike
“Come on Shiryu, are you sure there is some hidden requiem here?
No one has heard or knows of it.” Pinoki urges to stop
As the city had been significantly destroyed and repairs had not ensued yet Shiryu chose to take the opportunity to look for this other requiem….
“I guess we won’t find anything…” he sighs,
“Plus I don’t want to drag you all across the entire city,”
“Hey I don’t mind,” Metal Fingers slows down to a halt,
“I’m really interested in investigating many of the sites and structures of this ring,
Magic stones and such,
This is a new to me and very, very intriguing,”
“Don’t you have a family or people to return to?”
“Not immediately, where I’m from many people don’t make it out,
They die from either violence or disease.”
“Is this second ring such s terrible place?” Pinoki raises his eyebrows in alarm
“Nah, not ring, just my home, I was originally from an Island called Metallica, it’s basically a dump where all the old appliances and tech goes, it’s only because I used to play with so many tech as a child that I started getting help from the government because I was intelligent,
Everyone else there isn’t as lucky.”
“Well I don’t know what an island is but it sounds awful,”
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“Alright seal this entire section off!
There are too many decomposing bodies for us to do anything here right now!”
Shiryu, leaving behind Mf and Pinoki wanders into a group of people busy clearing things up,
A lot of people from Soterra and neighbouring villages had already started coming in to help with the reconstruction,
(I wonder where Aki is) he thinks passing his eyes around…
The warriors of Bakufu move out and about looking for each other to regroup, Aki hadn’t even let Shiryu have a word after Dracula left, she immediately set off to get her people together…
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“…Are you really the same Shiryu?” a voice suddenly whispers behind his ear,
“agh, Amelia, don’t do that.”
“Are you the same Shiryu?” she repeats
“Yes, obviously do I look that different?”
“…
…” Amelia takes a good while to visually examine the young man,
“…
No, you still look like monster to me,”
“Oww, thanks for those motivational words.”
“Now tell me Shiryu, the last time I saw before you looked like this, you were missing an arm and leg,
Now you have both limbs.”
“Yeah because I got pulled into the requiem,” Shiryu whispers under his breath
“It probably regen–”
“–I don’t care about that” Amelia cuts him off
“I just want to know if they always heal back,
Cause then I could cut off a few myself,”
(I forgot this woman was crazy)
“Did you find your brother?” Shiryu tries changing the subject,
“He died.” Aki replies blankly
“Waitt,
Claude died!?”
“Huh, someone called me?” the young man head bends out from the group of people currently busy
Amelia flashes a wide smile at Shiryu’s dumbfounded face
“Of course he isn’t dead, or I wouldn’t be talking to right now.”
“You are a sick woman,”
“I feel really good actually…” Amelia trails off as her brother joins them
“I heard you looked different now,
But are you really the same Shiryu?” is the first thing Claude asks
“A lot has happened in a short amount of time,
You know you people bounce back real quick, it’s been less than a day and things are already being done,”
“I feel like it’s because of the sky,” the young man looks up at the fluctuating layer of colors above
“Everyone feels weirdly motivated by it,
It’s like we’re in a dream.”
(Why is the sky like this?
Geedorah had nothing to do with it,
Kage I wonder….)
“This kind of scenery is common where I’m from.” Shiryu says shrugging
“I just don’t know why it’s her…..”
Now Shiryu is the one trailing off his words as he spots the Chief moving through leading a couple of her people,
“Aki, hey!” he abruptly leaves the twins behind to catch up to the point woman,
“What, did you find this other requiem you mentioned?” the woman answers annoyed
“No, not yet but I was, I’ve been hoping we could talk,”
“We’re speaking right now.”
“No, I mean about what’s next,
With Dracula, the sky, Kage, we have all–”
“Look Shiryu that isn’t my concern I have a nation to manage,” Aki brushes him off,
“Wait, what’s wrong?” Shiryu pulls her back
“Don’t touch me.” She pulls away,
“I don’t know how to break this to you lightly Shiryu, so I’ll just say it how it is,
We’re not friends, we never were, I needed to use your ability to survive,
I don’t need to do that anymore, so I don’t need you,
Don’t touch me again unless it’s a fight, don’t hug me, don’t love me, sorry but that’s it for us Shiryu,”
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