Chapter 24

When Lives Hang in the Balance

Monday, 9:45 p.m.

Mango was unpleasantly surprised.  He was losing to the boy.  'What the heck is he?'  He thought as Roshi's aura flared moments before he slammed into the left side of Mango's jaw, cranking his head around and causing the Ouzaru to stumble.

Mango attempted to pound Roshi into the ground.  He only succeeded in imbedding his fist into the turf as Roshi darted through his legs.

"Damn it!  Stand still and fight me you insect!"  Mango bellowed as he spun around to face behind himself.  He caught sight of Roshi's aura and quickly fired off a breath blast attack catching the demisaiyan by surprise.

The breath blast sent Roshi through a small hill and into a large lake.  Water boiled away and the entire lake swirled around him forming waterspouts as the water absorbed the heat of his ki. 

'Now it is time to show him why even the Changelings fear our Ouzaru form'  "Citron!!"  Mango yelled as he fired off a huge yellow orange beam.  The beam slammed into the swirling lake and vaporized most of it in an instant.

* * *

Roshi let the Kaioken drop away and hid his power while he hovered in the vapors of the former lake.

'This is not working.  I need more power if I am going to beat even one of these guys.  This guy is the weakest and I am barely holding my own.'  Roshi's thoughts were cut off as he suddenly felt Ichigo power up in the distance.  'What the hell?'  Realizing that there were only two ways she could have suddenly been healed to greater strength then she started out with, and that Dende was not anywhere near the battle, he reached instinctively for his belt.  'Oh no! I lost my senzu beans!'

A sudden blast of ki signaled the end of Roshi's respite as an Ouzaru suddenly charged in through the mist.

'Crap!  The new scouters must be better then ours.  Oh, this is going to hurt but if I want to beat him I have no choice.'  "KIAOOOOKENNNN TIMESSSSS FOOOOUUURRRR!!!"  Roshi yelled out as his body was engulfed in pain.  He smelled the acrid sent of burning hair as his arm hair burst into flame.  Looking down at his arms he thought, 'this is probably not a good sign.  Better make this quick.'

"MASENKO!"  He yelled as he fired off his attack as full strength at the charging Ouzaru.

* * *

Mango was elated.  'I must have hit the worm.  His power level is down to a mere 5.  Oh, this will be fun, time to finish him off' He thought as he charged in.

Mango almost stopped his charge as his scouter picked up a sudden spike in the boy's ki.  He went from 5 to 448,000 in a few seconds.

'Shit,' was all that Mango had time to think before a 15 meter wide ball of yellow ki smacked into the middle of his chest.

* * *

Banana was in the middle of smashing the last house in a village when his secondary scouter went nuts.  '448,000??  Where the heck did that come from?' He thought as he saw the command indicator for Mango suddenly fade away.

'That brat can control his ki better then any being I have ever seen in my life.  He just killed Mango, and now appears to be flying right for Papaya.'  "Papaya, expect company, eta 20 seconds.   The rest of you, converge on Papaya's position.  We have already lost Pineapple, Kiwi and Mango to this rabble.  It is time we started working together.  Once we are done with the moron, we can have fun with the planet before heading home."  Banana commanded as he set off for Papaya's position.

* * *

"Slip, can you patch the feed from the GKSS through to us here so we don't have to look over you shoulder?"  Goshu asked politely.

      "Ah. Ah. Ah. I'll try."  Slip said shakily.

Slip was visibly shaken.  She was not handling the stress well.  Having had her father rip into her for costing the family face and money did not help things.  Teddy had finally had to sedate her husband so that she and Goshu could work with Slip.

"Slip honey," Teddy asked.  "Could you tell me why the image for Roshi keeps fluctuating so much?  And why it keeps having a blue and white and sometimes red outline?"

"Ah, I can answer part of that for you."  Goshu cut in.  "Roshi is controlling his ki.  It takes a lot of energy to keep one's ki at full power.  When we left for this trip Roshi was working on his ki control.  It looks like he has managed to acquire some degree of control.  As far as the colors I couldn't tell you.  Slip do you know?"

"Ah yeah just as second.  Ok, according to the Help file thing, the white is when he is powering up.  The blue is when he is at what the computer has determined is his full normal power level, or when he is exceeding it through normal means.  It gives a bunch of explanation but it doesn't mean a thing to me, maybe it would to you but anyway, the red is when the computer detects him using something called the Kaioken.  It also has yellow for Super Saiyan and Green for Fusion and..."  Slip could have rambled on for a while but was cut off by Goshu.

"Wait! You said the Kaioken?"

"Ah, yeah, the red is for something called the Kaioken.  Why, is it important?"  Slip asked back.

Goshu took a deep breath before continuing. 'Where could have he learned the Kaioken?'  "Ah, yes it is extremely important.  No one has been able to successfully do the Kaioken since Goku taught it to Ubuu.  It is an extremely powerful technique, but if done wrongly it could be fatal.  I tried it once, and it took me about a week of bedtime before I could walk again."

"WHAT?!?!  Slip screamed in panic.  You mean he could die from using that?!?!"

"Yes, yes he could, let us hope that he is doing it correctly or else there may not be much left of the Earth when we get...  Back."  Goshu finished as he saw Slip faint on the screen.

* * *

'He was toying with me.  He was just toying with me the entire time!'  Ichigo thought as she watched Roshi fight with the three remaining Ouzarus.  'THAT STUPID JERK WAS JUST TOYING WITH ME!'

Getting knocked out and then waking up to eat a senzu had helped clear Ichigo's head.  She was no longer in a daze.  No longer watching from the outside looking in.  It had taken her a few moments to recognize Roshi without any hair but she had.  Now she had only one thing on her mind: Revenge.  She was going to destroy all those who had mocked her and betrayed her and belittled her and taken advantage of her.  'He took my tail, he wants my kingdom, and he must die!'  She thought as she watched Roshi fight the three.

'But first, I will deal with the other traitors.  They betrayed my father and their own people and for that they must pay.'

Rationality forgotten, Ichigo flew in to fight.

* * *

Roshi was breathing raggedly.  His energy was dropping rapidly.  It hurt to breathe.  It hurt to fly.  It hurt to stand.  It just plain hurt.

"What's the matter?  Getting worn out by all of us?  Banana yelled at him.  "Fine.  I will fight you one on one.  I will crush you and then I will crush your world."

"I'm not done yet!"  Roshi gasped as he tried desperately to catch his breath.  Roshi focused his thoughts on Slip, and the people on the moon who would die if he could not beat the Ouzaru's in a straight up fight.  He then thought about his camping trip with Mariah, and how he already missed the light airiness of her laughter.  And Kit's wit and quick tounge.  If he died, if he failed completely they were as good as dead.  Banana would kill everyone he couldn't use and then move on from there.

'I must not fail.  For Mariah, and Kit, and Tee, and Boxers, and Slip and everyone else, I must not fail'  Roshi thought.

Suddenly Ichigo appeared between him and Banana.  He spotted his pouch for the senzu beans stuck into the strap of her shorts.  He also noticed that getting beat up and then healed once again brought her power level up.  She was now somewhere in the 100,000 to 110,000 range.

'Catching up rather fast' He thought before stumbling and having to catch his balance.

"I challenge you Banana!  YOU will pay for what you did to my father and our people.  Moreover you will pay for what you tried to do to me!"  Ichigo screamed.

'Is she insane?  She doesn't stand a chance with a power level that low!'

"No, This fight is between Banana and I, stay out of it!"  He heard himself yell.

Ichigo spun around and looked at Roshi with eyes of pure hatred.  "I will deal with you later."  She said before turning and opening her left hand.  Blue white energy played up her fingers for a moment before she screamed out. 

"Blaze!!"  She screamed directing the one handed version of her super hot Flare attack at Banana.

While the Flare attack was more powerful, the one handed Blaze version was a more tightly packed beam of energy rather then a wide bursting cone.  Banana swung his arm around to shield his face and the beam ignited the hair on his arm and chest.

"AAAHHHHRRRGGGHHHH!"  Banana screamed in pain before smacking Ichigo with the back of his right hand.  She was thrown right into Durian.  Durian caught her and pitched her like a baseball right back at Banana.

Roshi watched on in horror as Banana's fist suddenly started to glow yellow.  'He knows the Ki Punch!' Roshi thought moments before Banana hit Ichigo straight into the ground.

'I have to stop this!' Roshi thought.  'But I don't know if I can'

* * *

"Goshu, is this as bad as it looks?"  Teddy asked quietly.

...

"Goshu, are you sure you should be watching this? Teddy said.

Goshu clenched his fists as he watched the most powerful two Ouzaru toss the person the GKSS had faithfully labeled "Unknown Saiyan Female" around like she was a rag doll.

Teddy went to shut the screen off, but Goshu stopped her.  "Goshu, no one should ever have to watch another person die.  I can't imagine what you must be feeling now, but I can read the numbers.  They aren't going to win."

"Never say that!"  Goshu spat.  "We don't know what will happen.  I for one will never forgive myself if I allowed you to shut that screen off.  If Roshi does loose and if he does die, I Have to watch."

"But why?  Why put yourself through that?"

"During the Cell games, Goku died to save the earth.  When Cell came back, it looked like his sacrifice was in vain.  But in the end with his father talking to him from heaven, Gohan was able to beat Cell.  I may not be there to fight with my son.  And I may not be able to talk to him.  But by Kami, I will watch him fight, so if nothing else I can lend him my prayers and support."

Teddy didn't know what else to say so she just watched in mute horror as her nephew fought.  In the back of her mind she knew that she also needed to watch, because if Roshi failed.  If Roshi died fighting these Saiyans this night.  Slip would probably not live much longer.  Teddy had many regrets, and if her only child, her precious daughter died before she could tell her just how much she wished she could have spent more time with her, she herself would die inside.

* * *

"Come on Tee we need to move faster!"  Boxers called out to his cousin.

"Shut up!  Stop deluding yourself Boxers!"  Tee yelled back.  "I'm not about to give up, but you know as well as I do that this battle is going to be over in a few minutes.  We won't even reach it for another 30 minutes or so, and that is assuming the battle keeps moving towards us!"

Boxers had nothing to say.  'Roshi what is happening to you?  I can almost feel your pain.  How are you finding that strength?  And why did you always have to do it alone Tee and I should be with you.  If we hadn't been so cocky, so irresponsible we would be.  Maybe we could have helped.  Maybe not, but at least we would be there to fight and die with you.'

"Stop that Boxers!"  Tee yelled.  "I can sense you getting depressed.  This fight isn't over yet.  A lot can happen in five minutes!"

"I know, I know" Boxers said back.  "But will the right things happen?"

* * *

Roshi watched as Banana picked Ichigo up and started to squeeze her in his fist.  Banana mashed his oversized thumb into her chest.  "Scream for me bitch!  I want to know if this is as good for you as it is for me!"  Banana yelled into her face.

"PUT HER DOWN!"  Roshi yelled.

Banana stopped and looked down at Roshi.  "Or what?"

'Oh Dende let me do this.'  "KAIOKEN TIIMMMESSSSS FIVVVEEEEEEE!!!!"  Roshi yelled out.  The pain was immense.  He felt his skin crack and start to bleed.  His vision blurred as blood seeped into his eyes.  'If I keep this up I will die, but I have no choice.'

Banana looked down at Roshi.  'Figures.  560,000, the boy has a power level of 560,000.  Exactly the same as I do in my Ouzaru form.'

Banana threw the limp unconscious Ichigo over his shoulder.  He would deal with her later.

"Fine boy, let us fight.  We shall see who truly is fit to be king."  He said before sending an open handed blast at the point of ground Roshi was standing on.

* * *

'He's going to kill himself' Goku thought with concern.  For the first time since he had gone down and "borrowed" Buu to train with, Goku was truly worried.

"I told you not to interfere" Kaioshin said from behind him. "Now look at what has happened.  The girl wants to kill your Grandson, and her men are going to destroy the Earth before the night is through."

"Not if I can help it," Goku said as he walked over towards Buu.

"No.  I forbid you from taking Buu back to Earth.  You caused this chain of events, now you must watch it unfold."  Kaioshin said.

"How can you be so heartless?!"  Goku asked disgusted at the thought.

Kaioshin took a deep breath.  "Goku, it is not that I am heartless, but rather that I know what must be done.  You are one of the few beings who has ever become stronger then myself.  If I were to get involved with every little problem in the galaxy, no one would ever reach their own potential.  I would also not be allowing for the normal flow of life.  You saw fit to change the way life would unfold on Earth when you removed Buu so he would not kill the girl.  Granted, you could not see the path that that would take, no one can.  But as a guardian, you are responsible for more then just Earth or a few people.  You are here to protect everyone.  Sometimes that means allowing things that we would rather stop.  But it is the Right thing to do."  Kaioshin finished.

Kaioshin turned around and started to walk away.  "You may use your telepathy to talk to Dende once more, and to teach Roshi the right manner in which to perform the Kaioken, but then that is it.  You will not interfere with Earth again."

Goku looked at the Kaioshin distastefully.  'Must be the influence of Kibito.  The Kaioshin was never this strict before he fused with Kibito.'

Goku didn't like it, but he really did have little choice in the matter.  He set about helping Roshi start performing the Kaioken correctly.

* * *

Roshi dodged the ki blast and flew up to punch Banana right in the tip of his nose.  Crunch, he felt bones break, and blood started to seep out of the end of his snout.

He felt the other Ouzarus trying to close in and help.  "KIIIIIIAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"  WHHHHOOOOO BOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!  He yelled spinning in a circle sending a supersonic wave of force out to knock the two other Ouzarus back.

In the moment that he had focused on the other two, Banana caught him in his fist. 

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"  Roshi screamed in pain as Banana started to crush him in his grasp.  The damage to his body from the use of the Kaioken made the pain that much more severe and Roshi almost blacked out.

'I won't stop' He forced himself to think.

'That's right, you won't' A second voice added in his head.

'Whaaaa?'

'Roshi, we have no time for you to ponder.  Concentrate on this feeling.'  The voice said to him.

'Ok... why not?' He thought.

As he attempted to mimic the feeling that the voice had sent him he felt his body relax.  Some of the pain went away.  He felt energy flow back into his muscles.

'There, that is how you are supposed to focus the mind for the Kaioken to work.  Now use it and beat these brutes ok?'

Roshi didn't even think back a reply.  The whole thing left him a bit... well unnerved.

He did however focus his ki enough to break out of Banana's hold.  He blew open Banana's hand in a burst of ki and flew up to kick the brute in the eye.

"AAAHHHHHHHHH" Banana yelled before blindly firing off a breath blast that vaporized several mile long gully into the terrain. 

He felt a ki spike behind him and turned to see Durian fire off an Ouzaru sized Rot Beam.

'Perfect chance' Roshi thought.

He flew around Banana who was still rubbing his eyes and kicked him up and into the oncoming beam.

BOOOMMMM!!!!  The beam blew up burning even more of Banana's fur off.

Aach!  Roshi winced as he felt something in his right knee pop when he kicked Banana.

Roshi was very rapidly running out of energy.  He was still bleeding from when he had improperly used the Kaioken, and the blood loss and toll of the Kaioken were really starting weaken him.

He spun as his sensitive ears heard screaming.  About three kilometers away one of the other Ouzarus was attacking a village.

'THOSE BEASTS!!!'  Roshi thought.  He started to fly in that direction when Banana hit him with a Ki Punch.

* * *

      "Ah!"  Teddy gasped as she watched the image of the strongest Ouzaru slam Roshi into the air.

      "Dende no! She said as the power level reading for Roshi fell away like rain in thunderstorm.

"Wake up Roshi!"  Goshu yelled as they watched the Ouzaru send a huge breath blast at Roshi's spinning body.

At the last possible moment they saw Roshi dart away from the beam of energy and narrowly avoid it.

"Oh Kami... Dende please help him."  Goshu said.

* * *

Slip came to. 

She looked up at the monitor saw Roshi take the Ki punch and passed out again.

* * *

Roshi was fading in and out of consciousness.  'I must focus.  I can't give up.  Everyone is depending on me!' 

"Ahh, did that hurt?"  He heard Banana rumble as he slowly walked up to where Roshi was laying.  "Don't worry, in a moment you won't feel anything ever again.  First I'll kill you, then I will kill the princess, then I will kill you world."  Banana laughed.

Roshi knew he didn't dare use the Kaioken again but he had to do something.  He jumped up and started to run around Banana's feet.

Banana's scouter showed that Roshi had a power level of 39,045.  He was harmless.  He turned his head to follow Roshi's movement.

"Where do you think you're going?  You have no place to run boy!"  He said as he lifted his leg to stomp on and crush Roshi.

This was exactly what Roshi had wanted as he jumped under the uplift leg.  He focused everything he had into his hand.

"Kienzian!!"  He yelled as he threw the spinning disk of ki up at Banana's tail.

Belatedly figuring out what was happening, Banana tried to twist away.

Shhunck!!  The Kienzian sliced through his tail.

"AAAGGGGGHHHHHHHhhh!!" Banana screamed as he shrunk and transformed back into a man.

Banana had passed out before he hit the ground.

Roshi fell over.  His entire right leg was throbbing.  'I probably tore a ligament in my knee, running on it is not the smartest thing I have ever done.'  He thought

Roshi would have just let himself pass out there had he not heard a distant explosion and heard more screams.

He could sense Durian coming this way to investigate what had happened to his leader.

The other one who Roshi guessed was Papaya was still attacking the village.

'I have to stop him, no one else can.'  Roshi got up and flew past Durian who seemed content to ignore him.

When he got to the village what he saw shocked him.

Papaya was using small ki blasts to kill any person who ran out of his or her house and then randomly knocking down houses were people had not run out off. 

"AHHH MOOMMMYYY a little girl of maybe four yelled as she ran from under an over turned car to a building were her young mother cried out for her.

Papaya saw this and ripped the roof off of the building.  He picked up the cowering mother and child and tossed them into his mouth like candy.  He then chewed with his mouth open letting blood and body parts flow out onto his chin.

'NOOOOOO THAT MONSTER!!!!!' Roshi yelled within his mind.  'I failed these people!  I failed...'

Just like the previous night Roshi lost himself in rage.  He felt the floodgates open and sensed a well of ki within himself.  He fed upon it with abandon.

"Kaioken TIMES TENNNN!!!!!"  He screamed as ki flowed through him like heat in a blast furnace.  He felt a blood vessel burst on his forehead and it felt like a great massive fist were clasping his heart, but he didn't care.

BIIIIBIIIIIBEEEEP!!!!  Papaya's scouter wailed.  He turned his head in time to see the nova flash of ki emanate from Roshi.  His scouter read 1,120,000 and climbing.  He opened his mouth to gap.  Part of the little girl's head fell out and slowly fell to the earth.

"KA...ME...HA...ME.....HA!!!  Roshi yelled.

Papaya was dead before her head hit the ground.

* * *

Durian's scouter had been destroyed.  He felt blind.  He knew that Banana had failed because Papaya had told him so.  So he had set out to find the boy and kill him.

He realized something was very very wrong when there was as sudden flash of red light in the sky behind him were the village he had just left was.  He spun around in time so see a brilliant blue-white beam of energy like what had destroyed his scouter fly into the air.

He saw the distinctive red aura that the boy seemed to have while on the offensive and saw what was remaining of Papaya in the dieing light of the boys attack.

'Banana was a fool.  I knew something was terribly wrong here the moment we learned that Ichigo had lost her tail.  The fact that her power level had gone up to the mid forty thousand range as she flew at us should have warned us something was up.'

Durian pondered what he could do for a few moments.  'I will finish the mission.  No more delaying, no more playing, no more stupidity.  I will kill the girl and return to Saiya.  I may not have a scouter to record her death, but returning with her head in a box should be good enough.'

He took off in the direction of where Ichigo had fallen.

* * *

Roshi slowly flew back towards Ichigo.  'I need a senzu.  I lost it there.'  "Ahhh" he gasped as his muscles went into a momentary spasm.

His vision blurred and he could barely tell were he was going, but he found her.  He landed unceremoniously falling and flopping on top of her.  Slowly pushing himself off wincing at the pain in his joints.  He felt her pulse and found it to be almost non-existent.  Focusing on her injuries he saw that she was if anything worse then he was.  A broken rip was piercing her side.  Her femur was snapped off at her left hip and was protruding out of her leg and up past her side.  'I need to give her the last one after I give one to myself.'  He thought as he grabbed the pouch off of her hip.

Wincing and gasping in pain, he opened the pouch and tipped poured out the continence.

One bean fell out. 

'One!  Only One!'  He gasped in anguish, as he wanted to cry out.  He almost sobbed but it hurt too much.  'I had three left!  There should be two.'

Roshi weighted his options.  He knew that she was mad at him for some reason.  He knew that because of her these men had come to the Earth.  He knew that he shouldn't feel the least bit sorry for her.  But he could not even after everything that happened eat that final bean and then watch her die.  Every life had value and to value your own at the expense of others was a sin beyond thought to Roshi.

He forced her to swallow it.

* * *

Ichigo woke with something pressing on her neck.  She reflexively grabbed it to toss it away.  Then she realized that it was someone's arm.

Startled, She jumped up.  "You"!! She gasped, 'What is that stupid jerk doing?'  She thought.  She jumped back and started to charge a ki blast to finish the jerk off when he suddenly dove at her.

"Watch out!!"  He yelled slamming into her and pushing her out of the way of a huge ki blast.

She rolled to her feet and turned to see what had thrown the blast at them.  Durian walked up laughing.

"So you are awake again.  I don't know how you seem to be able to heal from certain death so easily, but this time you won't escape.  Your protector can't protect you now."  He laughed.

Ichigo turned to see Roshi sprawled out unconscious where he had fallen after pushing her away.

Then she realized what Durian had meant by his comment.

"HE was NOT my protector!  I would Never sink to such a level.  I would never mate with the likes of a traitor like him OR YOU!"  She screamed in rage as she launched herself at Durian.

Durian laughed and knocked her away like a flea.

"Give up!  You have no chance of beating me!"  He bellowed

"I will never give up!" She screamed as she shot a ki blast upwards at him.

"Yiahh" He yelled as he knocked the beam away harmlessly.  "Surrender, I might let you live long enough to see your father again before you die!"

That comment brought her up short.  "What do you mean you might let me live long enough to see my father?!!"

"Banana lied to you.  Blizzard captured your father alive and is slowly torturing him to death for pleasure."  Durian smiled as he pulled his fist back to knock her out of the sky.  Trying to keep her frazzled he continued.  "I may even give you the pleasure of my company on the way back as so you know what it is to be with a man."  He said laughing.

"YOU DISGUSTING PERVERT!!!"  Ichigo wailed as she dodged under his fist and then flew in to deliver an uppercut Ki Punch to his groin.

Durian collapsed in pain.

"That was for even suggesting such a thing."  She started to charge a ball of light blue ki above her head.  "This is for what you did earlier today!"  She said as she threw the ball at him.

It blew up gouging a chunk out of his arm, but did not kill him as she had hoped it would.

Durian recovered quickly enough and hit her with a Rot Beam.  It sent her tumbling away.  Durian raced after her.

"Give up, you don't stand a chance!" he said staring down at him as his head eclipsed the moon.

"If you really believe that, Don't move!" She yelled as she got up. 'If I can't use the moon to become an Ouzaru, why should you?'  She thought to her self as she started to charge her attack. 'Might as well use the jerks favorite toy, seems to work for him.'

"KA..ME..HA..ME..HA!!!"  She yelled throwing her spinning version of the Kamehameha right at Durian's head.

Upon seeing the blue light gather in her hands as she charged the attack and then hearing her chant Durian paused for a moment.  'That is the attack that beat my Rot Beam!' Realizing it was too late to counter attack and not truthfully knowing how strong Ichigo may actually be, he was not about to just stand there like and idiot and take it.  He jumped back mere moments before the beam would have hit him.

"You missed!  It is over now!"  He yelled as he started to charge a beam between his massive hands.

Ichigo laughed as the entire sky lit up for a moment.  "No I didn't, and yes, It is over."  She said pointing.

Durian turned to look at what she was pointing at in time to see the impact flash die away and the moon start to rip apart.  He felt the pull of the moon on his body lessen and then disappear.

"NOOOOOOooooo!!!"  Was all he could yell as he faded out of consciousness as his Ouzaru transformation ended.

Ichigo calmly walked over and booted him full in the crotch.  "And THAT is for being a Chauvinistic PIG!!

* * *

Slip woke to the sound of alarms blaring.  She frantically looked for a way to silence them.  What she saw took her breath away.  The moon was gone.  It had been destroyed two minutes early.  Slip knew in an instant that she did not want to look at the numbers of survivors.  She had known from the moment Roshi had called her that people would die.  Even if everything went perfect it would take half an hour to evacuate the moon.  They had been given 3 minutes.

Slip looked at the screen.  1,280. One thousand two hundred and eighty people out of FIVE thousand had survived.  She looked at the GKSS and was shocked to see that only the girl she knew as Kinomi was conscious.

'This is all her fault'

* * *