Ryuzaki sighing as he walked down the middle of the street of a half destroyed part of a former City. A fast sped car hits breaks as it turned a corner to see the man in the middle of street. The driver  shouts leaning out of the window "Do you think the world revolves around you!?"

(At least that's what Ryu heard)

"Huh.." noticing a rich dog barking he shrugged and slowly walked to the side, he was headed towards the central city where the rest of them lived.

Ryu started thinking to himself about the past how he used to have all these hobbies and passion in his life until it all got wiped out during invasion. Most called it a calamity while some even dare call it a new ascension while disregarding the concern of the people who lost their loved ones while they were hiding safely in their bunkers. When it all comes down to survival they will always be selfish, but now I don't really blame them. The more powerful people will survive that has been made obvious in the law less world during the calamity.

My family wasn't even lucky as I was.. my mother had a weak body and the calamity had only made it worse for her  as it lead to new diseases with no known cure, while my father had volunteered to be part of the army and his high exposure to the new atmosphere which was more concentrated near the portal finally turned him into one of those monster right in front of us while he shouted run as his voice turned into roars, he had come to get us to a safer location. But even though afterwards he didn’t attack us, he was certainly not in control as he jumped into the portal with rest of those fuckers in the end...

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“Now I am flooded with old family loans and my mother's hospitals bill that I” ..pauses... sighing “I even Lost count of..."

"I wonder why misery took so much interest in me.."

Ryu's phone rings, he picks it up slowly almost knowing who the call could be from as he continues to keep walking down the street. The same old voice of an annoyed women who had been repeating the same thing for days said "Hey, excuse me sir but yours mother's hospital fee still haven't been payed for a month, we are not running a charity so u better pay it or forget the treatments." Ryu trying to talk in a believable voice says “ I will do it, It’s just that theirs a delay In transactio.." the other end of phone cuts.

Sighing Ryu looks at the sky, the clouds always seemed to have a dark shade of grey since the calamity, maybe it was mirroring the endless misery of the people outside the central. The central was huge, yet he was not one of those lucky ones who could reside in it.

"How am I going to get out of this hole, man it was so fucking deep that relentlessly trying to crawl your way out for even years never helped"

Ryu had reached near the Central, the big screen display on the main street had been displaying an interview of a normal man who become a monster hunter and flipped his life from all the poverty and misery.

It was another one of those monster hunter ads. There were tons of poster ads like this almost everywhere, especially outside the central. The rich and powerful people in the central seemed to wholeheartedly believe that all of us are worth only to serve under them while even risking our lives for that purpose.

“If I were to go down this path the first thing I would need would be luck, exactly what I lacked the most my life, also after what happened to my father and considering just the fact that his blood runs through my veins this would not be a clever choice."