Now that I am alone in this abandoned place, I have time to well, talk to my self and stuff fun I get to become a mentally unstable person that needs a psych. Now how do I get the attention of the Aku-no and what do I do when I get their attention, hide, fight, run? I really need to think out these plans more do I, hey that can be solved by future me. Now I to head to the first line of defense before the trenches and see what the Aku-no are doing.

Now I never really get to have a good look at these things, but this is an opportunity better than most people and an effective way to see if my luck skill is at max or not. Now I head into the room with a big open space and look at every conner and every inch just to make sure that it is safe to move in that room or a death sentence, I step in and look out the well big window to see fuck all but the city that was in H-55, it is almost nice to look at just seeing what we left behind to seek refuge, the buildings look intact but crumbled like the ones outside of the city although I have only seen pictures of the ruined building they still looked very natural in a way and I don’t know why, now if I remember correctly the Great 3rd war happened what 200-250 years ago and last light was formed roughly 210-230 years ago so recently close to when the war started and most likely ended and I believe after 150 years or so it was safe to walk outside but have to wear 6 layers of anti-radiation clothing and 70 years ago it was fine to walk outside with no anti-radiation clothing but have to wear a gas mask as the air is toxic to breath and now it is still that same as 70 years ago, toxic air so wear a gas mask although that might have change as the holes in the dome for the sector lead outside and I should have died by now if that was the case, maybe we can breathe normally outside now.

I would not bet on it though so just to be careful I am going to have to the gas mask, I go into my bag pull out the gas mask and fasten it to may face to the point I cannot move the straps, pull back up my hood grab my gun and head out.

I pass buildings that are ruined and slowly being claimed by nature and other buildings perfectly intact and no damage to be seen. Cars in the street’s destroyed or abandoned and left to become forgotten memories of the past who knows what memories people had made in these cars good bad who knows, all I want to do is walk and find my missing people or give closure to their families so that they don’t have to deal with having their loved one being just missing.

I walk and hear the sounds of gunfire further down the road I still walk, I have time and if they were my men they would have found ways to get out of combat by now and find a new location to start combat once again elsewhere, as I get closer I can see some of the Aku-no backs facing me but when I get to the point where I can easily be killed by them if they turned around to face me, I guess what they are currently focused on is more important than me being right behind them I get so close to them that I can breathe on them if I want to.

I walk back and go inside a building to see who is taking the Aku-no’s attention, I head upstairs and pass windows getting glimpses of the Aku-no slowly moving in for the kill, the gunfire continues and seems to never stop then I reach the top of the building and look down to see Noble men with whom I presume to be Kyle Kites as the soldiers use themselves as meat shields to protect him when the Aku-no fire there Spikes I see roughly 400 men with that number going down as fast as the stock market 16 years ago.

It could be entertaining to watch them slowly die until Kyle is the last one then go in save him and then get the info I need to save Beth from them, no stop thinking that, what is wrong with me we should not kill our own we need to stay together but these pricks want to break what we got going on, why is it that I feel like we are going to have rift between us all and we are going to have to make new city’s other than last light if we keep going the way we are going and if the people don’t think we can trust each other. Why am I think about that now of all times why.

I walk to edge set up a repelling system ready to take Kyle so I can get information out of him about what is going on outside of the sector as information from outside is ‘secret’ and ‘forbidden’ as to keep secrecy as to have no one that is not part of last light know what is going on in last light, but at the moment it will be best to get information on who is leading the uprising and where I can find, but if there commander is smart they would make sure they would not tell who is leading the uprising and where there location is.

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I slowly move down the building behind the unexpecting Kyle, the yelling he is doing, and the gunfire cover the sounds of the carabiners buckling and rattling that they are giving off, I get to point where I can hear him breath heavily and in quick and Sharpe style of breathing, I get closer to the point I can easily take him up and out of sight to interrogate him.

I slowly and carefully move my hands to a point where I can hold him mouth so the sound of yelling and screaming is muffled, and the other hand ready to grab him, I move quickly putting my hand over his mouth and being off target for the grab but I can hold him as he is, I kick a peg I hand cranked drilled into the wall and we went flying upward towards the roof, once we were there I drag him up to the roof and tie him up and took off his mic so he can’t talk to the other or call for help, I get the rappelling equipment off me and walk toward him knife in hand “Hello, I am a certain person you wish to have dead but I wish not be that, I want information on who started this uprising and where a person named Elizabeth is, do you understand” I get closer to the point where he can kick me if he so wishes to.

“I will say nothing to you as the new leader will take control and will make this city right by getting rid of the most horrid of people that being the people who control the military and the government, and replace them with people wo are better and know better than you filth do” I look at him, what does he know what is he hiding, can he hold out from the torture that faces him, so many questions yet so little time, him and I are going to hate this.

I hold my knife to his finger ready to cut it off at any moment, I wish you would just give me the information I need so I don’t need to do this, he looks at me wondering if I am going to do it “now tell me where is and who is your leader of the uprising an where is Elizbeth or you don’t tell me and you lose a finger” he looks downward breathing heavily almost in panic then “I still won’t teel you anything” why just tell me so I don’t have to hurt you dammit, I slowly move the knife upwards cutting into his finger, I see him gritting his teeth and hear him groan in pain, then the knife hits the bone, I pull out the knife and place it top of his finger, “now before you finger is gone do you wish to share information with me” he stay’s quiet so I respond with his finger coming off with blood squirting out going everywhere I move to next finger to be cut off, we do this for a while to where he has one finger left one his hand there is blood all over the floor of the roof, all of what had happened he decides to tell me information on the uprising, “Jacob Road is the leader and the person you want the location of is only known by him that is all I know now please let me live” the gunfire of the soldiers has stopped by now I look over the edge to see the mutilated bodies that remind me of that day, arm’s missing or located someplace else heads gone, organs spilled all over the place and litter everywhere, everything soaked in blood and a stream is formed to drains or gutters.

I look at Kyle I know he is going to tell the others that he leaked there information and other important information, do it send him over the edge on the rappelling system and yell for the Aku-no to come back and watch him die slowly, who is inside my head who is it and who are you, I grab my head in pain as that voice is just forcing its way into my brain, is it the people I did not join in death or my brother? who ever it is I want it to stop I understand that you wish for me to die and join you but stop I don’t want to kill a fellow survivor of our race, we need to stay together, but those who are rebelling are the one who will kill people just for a laugh so just throw him of the edge no killing by Aku-no just death by falling then how about that, no I will not kill another person I will not do that at all.

“what are you going to do with me then am I going to be killed, I have a family I have two kids waiting for me to get back to them, if I die my family has to deal with the pain of being fatherless” I look at him although he can’t see the face I am giving off, I think he understood what emotion I was giving sorriness as he will not be able to see his kids or wife again at all they will miss him, huh I think now I understand why I don’t wish for Beth to be with me, I don’t want her to feel the same way as his kids and wife are going to feel when he dies I don’t want Beth to go through that and the reality of me being a murder.

What would Beth think if her lover were to be a murder? is that what you are afraid of, I think she has already come to terms with that.

Half an hour later.

What happened the last thing I heard, and saw was me looking at Kyle and the voice talking about Beth. I look at over at where Kyle was and the scene I saw before me was brutal Kyle was cut all over the place, arms broken and all of his fingers gone legs broken, throat his throat was cut open more than a river to the point his head may fall off, did I do this? was I a factor in doing that, Yes, but I did it so you don’t have to, Richard I am you and you are me I am just the side that takes things too far and you are the side that wants a reason to do things, look we have limited time before we have a little problem on our hands, so just work with me, ok.