It could mean the death of all of us, says Kei in a panicked voice. What do you mean? asks Wasa. I mean it was there all along. The giant stone in the ocean is what gave the first ancestor of our kind eternal life and this curse of the horoscopes, where we gain the part of the body or ability of the twelve signs. Of course then that if you want to take it all away from people you block the biggest transmitters of them all, what is now a giant stone ocean in our ocean. And how better to do it then with satellites. Oh no, I don’t feel so well, says Kei. But you’d need a lot of them, says Wasa. How about a million? asks Kei as he pulls out his phone. What are you looking for? asks Phenos. Here, there are already news outlets that report a darkness occurring over the stone, says Kei as he shows the articles to the people in the room. What the fuck, says Ken as he takes Kei’s phone and turns on the volume. Thousands of satellites are being launched today, says the news caster. Kei snatches the phone in a panic and mutes it. That means that they’re not done yet. That means that we still have some time to try to stop them, says Ram. Or we’re too late. We can’t take them down, says Kei. What about finding someone to overwrite the system? asks Phenos. And where are we gonna find someone like that? asks Kei. I don’t know, says Phenos. That’s the problem, says Kei as he is pacing around.
We have everything we need, says Mary as she interrupts everyone. We have bigger problems, says Kei. What if we get to them before they can complete whatever they are trying to do? asks Ram. And then what? It’s not like there’s one key to breaking all this, right? We need to figure out a way to tear it all down, says Kei. So was all the work I did for nothing? asks Mary. No. But we’ll have to catch them after we deal with whatever they are doing now, says Wasa. An officer bursts through the door. The guy in the infirmary said he wants to talk, says the officer. Please go, Wasa tells Kei. Okay, says Kei as he nods.
As he enters the infirmary he sees a bunch of officers sleeping and recovering from the explosion. At the end of the room, there is N, looking out the window. Hey, says Kei. Who are you? You muse be new here, says N. You don’t know me, but I know you. I’m Kei. And around here, you’re known as N. But might I ask for your real name? asks Kei. My name is of no importance. N is fine by me. Do you remember ten years ago? Because for me it’s like it was yesterday. I lost everything that day. My daughter… My father… My voice… My sanity… I thought I was dying. My body was in immense pain. I thought I’d join them in death. Yet at the end, I couldn’t remember anything but that nightmare of a day. I still can’t remember my birthday, my full name, how to write, what I was. It was all so confusing. And here came this man that beat me, because I couldn’t remember anything but that day and the death of the people I cherished most in my life. And even them, I can’t remember their faces well anymore. I can’t even remember my own face or how I look like. I know that you’re looking for answers. And I know you’re trying to prevent what happened ten years ago, again now. But, I can’t help you. All I remember is getting a phone call about my father, then seeing my daughter suddenly drop to the floor on the pavement and an immense pain shooting through my body. That key of death thing, was something my daughter had found on the floor. The paramedics came and took her, and I couldn’t go with her, because I couldn’t speak anymore, says N. I’m so sorry to hear that, says Kei. Can I be alone now? asks N. Yes, says Kei.
As Kei enters the room everyone else is in they turn towards him with the biggest smiles on their faces. We have an idea, says Ken. We know how to stop this, says Wasa just as Kei collapses.
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