13.06.1636

14:05

"...After we searched for a new place in the morning, we three went outside alone to find someone who could hire us again, while others remained behind, continuing their sleep. We asked some people around until we finally found someone who said that he will pay for an easy task. We had to serve some people with a few clothes that he made. Compared to the person before... this one was better as he was nicer and he was actually paying us a decent amount of money. I mean... he was an R born after all, maybe that explains everything."

The kids do seem this time as they have an easier task as he said, yet with everything that happened the day before, they are still in a bad mood. So after they got paid, they just went back to their place to rest as well, except... nobody was present.

"To our surprise though... when we came back, nobody was were we left them. We searched for them but couldn't find any person from the group. We stood and wait for a while but nobody came. It was something unusual for them to leave so sudden, so we waited and waited, but still nothing."

Then, Four noticed the strange device they found, but unlike before, it seems as it had a light that flickers. So, she starts talking with little Eight.

[4S58]-Hey, Eight?

[8LK1]-...Yeah?

[4S58]-Do you remember the device from yesterday?

[8LK1]-Didn't the boss take it?

[4S58]-Seems like it fell out of his pocket, 'cause it is here.

[8LK1]-Okay... Then what about it?

[4S58]-Look at it. Did it do this before?

[8LK1]-Do what?

[4S58]-It has a... small light that flickers.

[8LK1]-Hm? Maybe... it's suppose to do this?

They both get closer to watch the device, as it was strange for both of them to see it do this weird action. They knew they are rare and never seen one with their own eyes, but they've never imagined that it has a small light flickering. Six was watching them as they were looking at it trying to figure out what's its purpose.

But then, two soldiers of the M came close out of nowhere and took them so that they can't get away, and as Six saw them, he was screaming at them to run, but they couldn't do anything anymore. Then, another soldier made his appearance and took him as well. Alongside them, it seems to be an Officer and also the man who killed Three. The man took the device they found and somehow disabled the small light. Six was trying so hard to escape the soldier's arms, yet in vain.

[A4LEKH]-Hmph... I didn't understand why these brats were so ungrateful, but now that I know they are C borns, it explains a lot. How foolish of them to rob me, and even take my creations...

[MOfficer]-At least you were lucky that they took a prototype of a tracker device by their own stupidity. So the forth one of those kids you said you killed him by yourself, right?

[A4LEKH]-Yes. Yes, I did. These kids broke into my house last night and took some of my money which I use in making you devices and in research.

[MOfficer]-But you informed us only about four kids. When we came here for the first time, we found over nine more people without these three.

[A4LEKH]-They probably lived in a group so that they can rob more people at once. I wasn't aware of the rest, Officer. I only knew about these children.

[MOfficer]-Alright, Mr. A4LEKH.

Six got angry as he heard about what they were talking. He even tried to get to them and kill them with his own hands, but the man was holding him for good. So all he could do was to scream at the top of his lungs.

[630G]-SO YOU WERE THE REASON THEY DISAPPEARED! YOU ARE MONSTERS!!

[MOfficer]-Oh, so the small one dares to talk back? Hah... Don't worry, little devil. You will join them sooner than you think. In Hell, where you all belong.

[630G]-YOU ARE THE DEVILS! YOU ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE EVERY SINGLE DAY! IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOUR PEOPLE, WE ALL NEVER HAVE LIVED IN FEAR!

[MOfficer]-How talkative is this one... Take them to the execution room with the ones convicted at the moment.

[630G]-YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS! YOU WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE, SCUMBAG!

[MOfficer]-...And do something about his voice. It annoys me...

14:37

The soldiers threw then in a room with around seven more people. Before they locked the door, Six tried to push the door to escape, but he didn't have the strength nor the velocity to do as he planned. He started hitting the door, thinking that he has a chance, while the other people were looking at him hopeless. Eight and Four started holding him each by one hand so he could stop, and so... he gave up. He fell slowly to the ground as tears were coming from his eyes. Both of his friends started sitting next to him, maybe trying to make him feel better.

[630G]-...You were right, Eight. We had to fear death from the beginning... Maybe, if we did so... we weren't in this situation. But now... it's too late. It's over... We lost...

[4S58]-Six, it's not over yet. We are still alive. Maybe we still have a small chance.

[630G]-Even so... everyone else is dead. The boss, Three... everyone. There is no one left, Four...

[4S58]-Listen to me. Everything is going to be alright. We will get through this together, as we always did. You just have to trust me, alright?

He looked at her, maybe trying to believe what she was saying, but he had no hope in this situation anymore. Just looking at the other people makes you know that there is no way back. Everyone is staying, waiting for the Light to come and take them away.

"In the end... it was over for us as well... We were trapped with no way of escaping, with my friends around me and a room full of strangers with faces that make you sure you have no way of surviving. All I could do was to... stay on the ground, waiting for my death... before a man started talking to us."

["MBorn"]-...I must admit, you got some guts, kid. I saw as you were trying to get away while the soldiers were holding you. I've never seen someone try this before, as everyone knows that you could be killed without any hesitation in a few seconds.

"...The man didn't seem to be one of our kind, nor an R born as he didn't have any kind of symbol on his clothes, like the insignia we used alongside our disguises so that the M borns thought we are R borns."

[630G]-...Why are you here? You are an M born, you are one of them.

["MBorn"]-Heh... Just because I was born as an M, doesn't mean they can spare me, little guy. You've never heard of an M being getting executed before?

[630G]-...?

["MBorn"]-I can tell by the look on your face that you are more confused than ever. Don't worry, we have some time left as the executions usually start on the hour. But let's take it easy at first. So, how should I call you?

"I was... looking at the man as I didn't understand what should I exactly do. We did not trust the M people so much, so it was impossible for us to tell him anything about us... and even harder for me after what they've done to my people."

["MBorn"]-Alright... Seems you don't want to respond to that question... Very well, ask me anything you want. Maybe this way we will have the opportunity to talk rather than stare deadly at each other.

"I... didn't want to ask him anything though, even if I had so many questions in my mind. I thought that he could lie at any second, maybe trying to trick us into believing whatever he is saying. But Eight couldn't hold his curiosity like me."

[8LK1]-...Who are you?

["MBorn"]-Who am I? My answer depends on what exactly do you want to know. Do you want to know about how am I called, or who I was before I got here?

[8LK1]-...The second option.

["MBorn"]-Oh, we are starting like that. I see... Well then, I was a determined citizen of this city, to put it gently. I've worked to serve the city for years now and I'm meeting my end as well in this day that we are witnessing now.

[8LK1]-Eh?

["MBorn"]-Or, if you want the easier answer... I was a soldier, just like the men that took you here.

"Eight got a bit scared when he heard that, but I only got angrier. I was holding myself back so that I won't start a scene now, but I wanted to kill him, to do everything his kind did to me."

[630G]-...Then why are you here?

["MBorn"]-Well... I've got caught selling information to your kind. This morning, while I was meeting with one of the C borns, a camera recorded us entering a building, and someone from the building heard our conversation. So, the person reported something about a guy telling an unknown figure about an information that only the General and his workers should know about and, of course, they checked the cameras and caught me. I'm actually surprise of how I managed to continue for so long without getting caught to be honest...

[8LK1]-But it doesn't make any sense... You said you worked for them! Why did you betray them?

["MBorn"]-Just because I used to work for them doesn't mean I agreed to every decisions they've made. I've realised after some years that I'm simply on the wrong side. I've... saw things I shouldn't see, and lived even more memories that I've wished I didn't have. What's the difference between our kinds anyway? Our blessings from the gods? We are the same, even if we appear different, you know? We have the same believes, same gods, same wo--

[630G]- --No. We don't.

["MBorn"]-Hm?

[630G]-...We don't have anything in common. We are not the same! Your people punish us for something we don't even know and you expect us to be the same!? You M borns are sick minded and you will forever be this way! You've killed thousands of us without any regret, probably even millions!

Yet the man stops for a little and looks at the boy who was trying not to cry, only giving him a small smirk before leaving him in peace.

["MBorn"]-...Everyone is different, little boy. It's true we are not the same and sometimes we have different mindsets, but we are simple beings at the end of the day, all of us. It's only the way you see it which makes the difference.

[630G]-...

"...I didn't believe a word of what he said. I knew he was lying. I was only getting angrier and angrier at him. So, I stopped listening to him... Eight was putting more and more questions though, but I was only looking at the ground, waiting for what was about to come. After all, that day, I developed the most powerful hate towards these people. Not only that they killed one of my best friends, but also killed the people that raised me, and now... they wanted to get rid of me as well."