Guilty Crown : Redemption
Chapter 1 : Chance
"If you had another chance, be more nice to people!", that thing Rowan just said earlier still echoing in his head. He just stand there in the elevator, shocked after Rowan sacrificed himself to save him. "Rowan, You idiot, you don't have to save me" he thought to himself. After a while, the elevator opened, it was chaos, with the whole place crumbling, and the gunfight between the remaining Undertaker, the UN force and the GHQ squad. Daryl took the chance to flee, unfortunately a GHQ squad started to chase him, at the second, he was considering to join the Undertaker to escape when he saw that they're retreating from the building, mainly, because he remembered a certain girl in the group, a cheerful and smart girl. But he had to escape on his own knowing that the GHQ already blocking the path, and so, he just keep running, ignoring the squad that chased him and shooting him, after a long run, he saw the river, but just when he got close, his leg got shot, he stumbled and fell, "shit, almost there…", he crawled, and crawled, and started to get up, he was finally at the edge, when he was going to jump, a GHQ Helicopter blocked him, and a particular man came out of it, he recognized him as one of GHQ's commanders, he and his squad had him surrounded.
"Daryl Yan, just where do you think you're going? You know we can't let you go away like that, you've known too much", the commander seem to have known him very well.
"It's over! GHQ is over! And I'm not serving you guys anymore!", he snapped.
"well, actually it's not really over, oh whatever, I'm very sorry, but we have to eliminate every evidence, and that my friend, including YOU! Fire!"
The entire personel shot him , luckily he managed to slipped through and fell right to the river with a few bullets in his body. "Damnit! Go search for him, bring me his head!", the commander left, leaving his squad to search for Daryl. Meanwhile Daryl who's still drowned kept thinking to himself, (is this my punishment? If so, I accept it),he lost hope, but then he remembered what Rowan said to him earlier, he blinked (no, I can't die here, not yet, I have to atone for my sin, I have to redeem, for all that I've done), "…be more nice to people", he smiled, (maybe I could try that… and maybe…) a flash of a face appeared in his head, It was Tsugumi, (… and maybe I could meet her again someday, that's why I can't die here).
He gain up his remaining strength and heading to the surface, he hang in a scrap of metal, probably the remaining of an Endlave, and followed the stream of the river, unaware of where it takes him, he felt tired and he lost consciousness.
"Hey watch where you're going! What if I get hurt!?", "oh, right timing, please hold this, and this, and this…." the memory of his first meeting with Tsugumi kept playing in his head. "you're in the way runt!" the memory of when he protected her from the other endlaves, "why, why did I protect her that time?", he kept thinking that, and he woke up, his eyes opened, he noticed that he was in some kind of room, the sunlight pierce through the window, it was sunny, he were topless and bandages all over his body. He look around and he saw an old man sitting not far from the bed he was sleeping on lately. "that was quite some wounds you got back there, son" the old man started talking. "what is this place? Where am i? who are you?", he asked. "Relax, one question at a time, I'm just an ordinary old man happened to pass by the river and found you, you got a lot of bullet holes in ya, fortunately my daughter is a doctor, so I brought you here in my house, and we did a surgery right away to save your life". "how long?", he asked again. "I'm sorry?" the old man confused, "how long have I been passed out?", "oh right, you've been passed out for a day, quite fast for a young man like you with some serious wounds", " I guess…. Ehmmm… thank you?", "no problem son, you might want to go back to sleep, don't force yourself, you're wounds are still-…" the old man grab him by the shoulder and pushed him back to bed when he finally snapped, "DON'T TOUCH ME!", the old man shocked and pulled back, Daryl started to feel bad for the old man, "I'm sorry, I just had this Mysophobia, I just can't get over it…", he looked down, "hmph, it's alright son, Mysophobia can be cured slowly, you just have to get used to it." The Old man reassured him. "Oh, by the way, I haven't introduced myself, I'm Sadogawa Kensei, I was a salaryman, but now I'm just a retired old man".
"I'm…. My name's Daryl Yan, I was….. I was….." he tried to find the right words, what will the old man do if he knows that the boy he just saved is actually a GHQ lieutenant, and moreover, a fugitive. "Your name is more than enough, besides, anyone will surely know that you're a GHQ officer from your Uniform, you're not gonna use it anymore right? It was damaged by bullets." Kensei cut him off, " Wait here". Kensei instructed him, Daryl just nodded and lay back in the bed.
After a while, Kensei returned with a plastic bag in his hand, "here, I borrow some clothes from my neighbor, he said that the clothes didn't fit his son anymore, so he gave this to me instead, go try it on.". He put it on, it was a white buttoned shirt with a short sleeves, and a blue jeans trouser. "hmph, seems like it fits you just fine."
"i-… um don't know how to repay this, but thank you, Kensei-san", he looked at himself in the mirror, still looking at his new appearance. "Never mind, kid, well then, judging from your condition, and your wounds, I can tell that you're a wanted person, I don't know what you did to the GHQ, but that means, you can't stay here for too long, this place is pretty close to their headquarters, soon, the GHQ will send in a scout team to look for you, my advice, you better get out of here quickly, I'll give you some money, you can take a bus if you walk straight down this road, try to hide as best as you can, if not, try to blend in within the crowd, Tokyo is big you know." Kensei said to him as he looked through the window and checking the streets. "why….. why are you doing this, if they found out that you're helping me escape, they'll take you to custody." Daryl asked him, still couldn't believe that an old man he just met helped him to survive. "the world is big, son, there are many kinds of people, it's just that it's rare to find a people like me these days, people nowadays just care for themselves."
With that, Daryl prepared to leave, "Thanks Kensei-san, I'll be sure to repay you if I managed to get out of this mess" "hmph, just take care, son, remember my words."
Daryl Yan leave Kensei's house, he's doing exactly what Kensei's said to him, he's taking a bus, still don't know where to go, he just hoping if The Undertaker could take him, the problem is, where can he found them?