The Southeast Military Base

17:46

Everyone seems to have woken up for some time now and are doing their daily tasks around the base of the morning. And of course, LUK3 stresses out his group again about going out. He thinks to take RY4N as well, but when he arrives at his room, he doesn't seem to be present. He searches a bit for him until he enters the Great Leader's office, where RY4N was simply sleeping on the couch.

[LUK3]-Oh, so he slept here?

[MY4]-...Seems like that.

[KYR4]-Just don't do anything stupid, LUK3!

[LUK3]-Why not? It's my time to get revenge on the LENKOV brothers!

[KYR4]-And what exactly did Officer RY4N do to you?

[LUK3]-Well... I mean... I'm getting revenge on what CHE5TER did to me! You saw it! He always punches me and knocks me on the floor! But since He isn't here, I can get my revenge on His brother!

[KYR4]-And you blame Him? You deserve to be punched in the face just because of your mentality!

[LUK3]-Come ooon! I just want to have a bit of fun! I'm not killing him! I'm just messing around with him!

[KYR4]-*sigh* N04H, tell me when you want a new teacher and I can ask around for you, 'cause if you stay with this guy more, I'm afraid you will become like him.

LUK3 goes towards RY4N, quietly, who was still sleeping. He gets closer and closer to his ear and starts whispering.

[LUK3]-RY444N... RY4N, wake up...

[RY4N]-...LUK3, leave me alone...

[LUK3]-RY4444N... I said... WAKE UP, YOU LITTLE SHIT!

He manages to scare the shit out of him because of the scream in his ear, that's for sure. LUK3 is even laughing a bit about this situation. He sure got his moment of fun.

[LUK3]-Hahah! See? I didn't do anything wrong! I just woke him up!

[KYR4]-Well, you better run before he smacks the shit out of you. Just a suggestion.

[LUK3]-Oh, come on! He isn't the Great Leader after all!

[RY4N]-...So what if I'm not, you little brat?

[LUK3]-Oooh, so you do have courage to try and fight me? What are you gonna do? Hit me with your rifle?

RY4N gives him a death stare probably for the first time in his life. The next thing everybody knows is that LUK3 is on the ground, as RY4N is pulling his hand and keeps him on the floor.

[RY4N]-...Just because I'm a sniper, doesn't mean I don't have basic knowledge on martial arts.

[LUK3]-Well, at least it doesn't hurt as much as it used to hurt when your brother was doing this! In the end, you are not as powerful as you appear!

[RY4N]-I don't know how to tell you, but I'm not a copy of the Great Leader. If CHE5TER based his moves on strength, I base mine on what I know about the body. For example, I know that if I do this...

He then pulls his middle finger hardly backwards than it should normally be able, so instead of the finger touching the palm, it touches the back of it as much as he wants. Only that thing makes LUK3 go insane over an insufferable pain.

[LUK3]-OUUUCH! ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! YOU WIN! JUST LET GOOHOHOOO!!!

[RY4N]-But I thought you like a good fight, no? Don't they call you "Danger Lover"?

[LUK3]-DOESN'T MEAN I LOVE PAIN TOO!!

[RY4N]-Then why do you challenge CHE5TER so often? Don't you know about the rule "don't mess with the boss"? You know titles are earned somehow, right?

[KYR4]-Aww, someone loves to kiss the floor? How does it feel, LUK3?

[LUK3]-YOU AREN'T HELPING, KYR4!!!

[KYR4]-I'm not even trying to help you. I'm just enjoying this amazing show!

[RY4N]-I don't know if you are aware about this, but CHE5TER was always going easy on you. And that doesn't mean I have to take you easy as well.

[LUK3]-WHAT!??

[RY4N]-Oh, you didn't know? Guess you underestimate your own Great Leader. It's true, he is still more powerful than me, but that's why he takes you so easy. I'm afraid that if he took you in a serious fight, you wouldn't last two seconds without losing your consciousness, not like you last two seconds on your own feet or something. Guess not only N04H has to do some training...

[LUK3]-OKAY! OKAY! I'M SORRY!! PLEAAASE! LET GOOO!! I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!!! PLEAAHAHASE!!

He finally lets go of his finger, and eventually his whole hand. LUK3 stands on his butt and looks a bit at his hand, while RY4N looks back at the audience.

[RY4N]-So? Why is everyone here?

[KYR4]-LUK3 wanted to take us out again.

[RY4N]-Of course he wants...

[LUK3]-WELL, IF I'M THINKING ABOUT IT, I DON'T THINK I'M INVITING YOU ANYMORE, FUCKER!

[RY4N]-Oh? Are you afraid of me now?

[LUK3]-N-NO!!

[RY4N]-Anyway... *sigh* So I guess we are going to visit the bar again?

[KYR4]-Yeah, something like that.

[RY4N]-Alright... then I guess I have to change. Just give me some moments.

He leaves the room while the others remain. LUK3 seems as he still stands on the ground though.

[KYR4]-So, LUK3? Was it worth this revenge of yours?

[LUK3]-SHUT UP!

[C0NNER]-Can I take some lessons from Master RY4N from now on? At least I can beat his ass on my own when he drives me mad again.

[KYR4]-To be honest, C0NNER, I think I want some too now! Should we ask him when we get outside?

[LUK3]-IT'S NOT FUNNY!! STOP!!!

The Underground City

18:38

And now, as usual, they got to the daily city visiting. The group seems to walk around the streets of the underground, though RY4N seems to be still in a battle with himself.

[KYR4]-So? Where are we going this time?

[LUK3]-Well, the same destination as ever! Why do you even ask at this point?

[KYR4]-Can't you just let us decide where should we go like how we did a few days ago? Why do we have to go to the same spot every time?

[LUK3]-The last time I've let you decide where we should go, you left me alone in a place unknown to me! I had nothing better to do than just walk around and see the people that were close!

[KYR4]-Yeah! But MY4 and I at least had a better rest that time!

[LUK3]-What rest?? MY4 was still working for the shelter, treating the people around!!

[KYR4]-Then I guess I had a good rest.

[LUK3]-You are selfish, KYR4, you know that?

[C0NNER]-Oh? If she is selfish, then how are you, LUK3? You always want us to go wherever YOU please so that we can rest the way YOU want. Maybe we don't want to go to the bars that often, did you think of that?

[LUK3]-Well, I wasn't talking to you, kid!

[C0NNER]-Doesn't matter that. We are a group here, remember? Every person has the right to speak.

[LUK3]-And what if I don't give you that right, C0NNER? What are you going to do?

LUK3 looks a bit at C0NNER who seems to be smoking at the moment. He takes his cigarette out of his mouth just to tease him a little and throws it on the ground, stepping violently on it. But C0NNER, though he got a bit mad, he just looks straight into his eyes, before he blows the smoke right into his face. He cracks a small smile seeing LUK3 coughing and trying to get rid of it. But it doesn't take long before he takes another cigarette and his lighter out of his pockets.

[C0NNER]-What is it, LUK3? You don't like smoke?

[LUK3]-...You have a problem. *cough* You know that?

[C0NNER]-Oh? I have a problem? How come? It's just some smoke, it doesn't affect you in any way. Didn't you look in the mirror this morning or what?

[KYR4]-Enough, you two! I'm starting to get bored of your fights!

[C0NNER]-Weren't you the one who started this whole fight in the first place, Officer? I only tried help you, but seems that you don't really appreciate what you receive.

[KYR4]-Well, thanks, but I don't need your help anyway!

[LUK3]-HEY!! HOW COME YOU THANK HIM AND NEVER THANK ME??

[KYR4]-God dammit, LUK3!

[LUK3]-WHAT?? YOU NEVER TOLD ME A "THANK YOU" AND I'VE BEEN DOING NICE THINGS FOR YOU EVER SINCE WE WERE KIDS!!

[KYR4]-Ughh... you are such a child. Poor N04H didn't say a word ever since you started talking, I swear...

[LUK3]-*mumbles*

While the group seems to argue all the time, RY4N stands behind them, covering his ears with his hands. He doesn't seem as he wants to hear any fight between his teammates at the moment. After all, that's the last thing he wants to confront now. He seems to be in his own world, trapped in his own mind, with these thoughts that are haunting him. Maybe now he understood even a bit how his brother was feeling all this time. But even so, there is still no reason for Him to act the way He acted in these past moments with him.

MY4 is probably the only one who notices this. But what can she do? She suffers too, just like him. In the end, she just lets him be, there is nothing more she could say. But after a while, RY4N finally uncovers his ears only to say something...

[RY4N]-...I have to go somewhere quick. I will come back, don't worry.

...and leave everyone behind.

N04H did notice that he wasn't so happy in the end and tried to stop him, but MY4 didn't let him. After all, sometimes we have to face our problems on our own.

18:58

He arrives in an old apartment which barely has something in it. Everything is covered in dust, and it doesn't seem as someone visited this place in a long time. He looks around for a bit as he recalls some of his memories, but then he sits down on what seems to be a bunk bed.

Then, he starts searching for something under the bed, but doesn't seem to be anything that lays down there. Yet even so, he takes out an old book that seems as it was hidden on the back of the bed and starts blowing the dust on it away, before starting to speak to himself.

[RY4N]-...You really didn't leave anything behind, did you, Father?

He looks a bit at the cover of the book. By looking at it, it has no colourful cover or anything like that. It's a simple book with a very thin text, representing the title of the book, "Legend of the God of War".

[RY4N]-Heh... I remember how much you've struggled to find this book when you were trying to tell us stories of the past. How much I adored it... I even hid it from you so I can read it over and over again without you knowing. I wonder what would you say now if you finally discovered where it was...

He stands a bit silent, reading the title again and again. But he speaks once more.

[RY4N]-...Did you know what will happen to him? *sigh* Probably not, right? Maybe if you were alive, you would've been surprised as well... How can I change this fate, Father? How can I stop him from becoming just like this god? I don't want to live and know what happened to Him. Why would I want that?

He takes a moment of silence again.

[RY4N]-...It is rather amusing that the one who doesn't believe in this god at all is acting just like Him, is it not? Stubborn and merciless... until a day that he regrets what he has become and disappears from us too. But he is no god, Father... He is a simple being like all of us. Like how you were, or anybody in this world was. So then... why does he consider himself a god that is able to change this hurtful world, when in reality, he is just trying to push everything he has away from him? Why does he think that he can do everything on his own? Power is still not enough to change history.... right?

He takes a small pause again, but this, with a huge breath and closing his eyes.

[RY4N]-I wonder... Did that... god... do the same as he did?

There is more to this story that he holds than he thinks though. Legends are common, but a legend like this one is more than anybody could think of. A god who was once one of the most praised man during the war from 250 years ago, who killed thousands, or even millions of people just with His own blade, and who disappeared one night after watching the sky alone, lost in His own thoughts. He was a simple child once, but became a merciless murderer because of this war that has started when He was young. And it seems that someone follows this same fate as this god did, but not because He wanted, but rather because He was obligated to do so. If He refused, He couldn't survive to this very day. And maybe He, too, regrets the man that He had to become only to protect this city. Maybe... it is a reason behind His whole disappearance.

Warrior, warrior,

How does it feel to fall?

Where it was once a land of peace,

Now are innocents that crawl.

Where it was once a land of beauty...

"...Now are memories you recall."