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Decision Gone Wrong
Chapter 2
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"Again."
How long was he suppose to endure all this?
"...! I said, again!"
"But sir, we're losing him—"
Ah yes, they always dragged him back to this hellhole when he thought he could finally breath his last breath. Time and again, when he thought that he was free from all these, he was dragged back forcefully.
It was a miracle he lived this long.
He had silently prayed that one day one of these hateful test would go wrong and that he could close his eyes forever. No pain, no feels— Void, he wanted it.
"Sir, this is too much for a child to handle!"
"... He done well for the past tests. He can rest now."
"Thank you, sir!"
The binds were lossen, oh it ended already?
He sat up in pain, staring blankly at the now-bloodstained floor, once again he questioned his life.
How did he survive losing this much blood?
He took his time, dragging his weak body outside.
And here, shall he endure the stares once again.
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No one dare come near him as usual.
He sat alone by the sand, lifelessly playing with the warm pile in his hands.
Perhaps it was his way of filling up the void inside, perhaps it was something else— Sand building was always his favourite in the park. Touching the warm pile of dust just calmed him down so much. It reminded him so much of human touch.
Tests after tests, he could sense that his hands were slowly unable to tell the temperature. He knew that soon, he could no longer sense "warmth", it was just the matter of time, really. Even his sight now — This is definitely not how a child's eye should be.
"Hey you."
He looked up from the sand, a child standing before him.
"I'm Yuu."
Ah, a newcomer.
The other children are staring at them now.
He said nothing, simply staring into those deep cobalt eyes, he felt his heart stung. Once this child learn about him, this child would turn around too. Leaving him here in this sand alone.
A child was running towards them, touching the raven-haired child by the shoulder before whispering something into his ears.
Those eyes widen in disbelief.
He answered that with a tired smile, a way of him saying "good bye" to the others.
"... I get it. Thanks."
A soft "You're welcome" was heard, followed by the sound of the latter child running away from them. But the shadow was still there, he noticed.
"..." He looked up once again.
"I'm Yuu. What's your name?" The child repeated.
He pointed at the group of children staring.
"It's you I want to play with."
He narrowed his brows. The finger he pointed slowly directed towards himself, me?
This was the first time people are willing to communicate with him. Not one of his roommate ever did that— Then again, they'll die anytime so communication was not really a thing, he answered himself. One day, he'll be like his roommate. Dead, and no one would know that they even die — They were not known to the world after all.
Answering this child wouldn't change a thing, what can a child do?
He stared longer.
Maybe… At least I'll know that someone would cry for me when I'm gone?
It was childish.
"... Walker."
But he was a child to begin with, so it doesn't really matter.
"I'm Neah Walker."
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"Sir this is too dangerous!"
"Are you telling me that all that we're doing is not dangerous—"
"No sir, but he's just a child-"
"I WANT NEAH WALKER GONE!"
He stared at the two adult before him. Really, did they think he was deaf? Screaming of wanting him to be gone in front of him…
"THIS-" A finger was pointed at him now, "THIS ISN'T SUPPOSE TO BE HERE — I WANT IT GONE."
A laugh escaped his mouth.
It was indeed a mistake talking to Yuu — Look what happen now. More tests to come.
"It's you I want to play with."
It's okay.
It's okay now.
At least someone will know that he once exist.
"You are Allen, not Neah."
As if name changing would change anything, he smiled a bitter smile at the adult.
"Listen to me, Neah. You are Allen now."
He know what they're trying to do, it's just that this adult before him was the only one that cared enough to make it crystal clear for him.
To replace Allen Walker, that was what those tests were trying to do.
Yuu came into his mind once more, drawing a smile on his face.
He was glad.
Even if it's just one person — Someone will remember him as Neah Walker, not Allen Walker.
That's all that matters to him.
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Alright, maybe it is a bad decision talking to Yuu.
The tests was getting worse.
He couldn't even feel anything anymore.
These hands buried underneath the sand couldn't even feel the warm any longer.
"Playing with the sand again, Neah?"
"... Yeah."
But happy times always end fast.
He had run to hid behind Yuu, "I don't want to go back there!", crying so that Yuu would pat him on his head and calm him down a little. He had to go back to the tests eventually but it won't hurt to feel more comfort before it, right?
"It's not like we won't see each other tomorrow."
You have no idea, Yuu.
You have no idea.
"I'll be right here tomorrow."
And I'll pray that I will live through tomorrow.
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Yuu reported them.
The police barged into their rent house, yelling everyone to put their hands up.
Locked up in the basement, he and several more children were shushed. They were all shot with something in their vocal chords, not a sound could be made no matter how hard they tried.
"I believe this is all a misunderstanding, police officer."
"Someone reported you."
"Yes, and I understand that it's your job to check once someone complain and all but," There was a brief silence, "I know that you're just doing job and I praise you for that."
"This-"
"Take it as a sign of my gratitude. I believe this is more than what you earn monthly, am I right, officer?"
And the officer left, thus leading him to being dragged out roughly.
"What did you tell that child, Allen?" The adult questioned.
"Don't try to act all innocent here. You were the only one allowed to the park here."
Maybe if you guys bother to clean up my blood and wounds before letting me out would save you all this trouble.
"SPEAK UP."
"Sir, he was injected with the serum—"
Thrown into the wall, he coughed in pain.
"Tell that child to mind his own business. The next time this happen, I'll make sure he never speak again."
He could only nod.
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"He left me."
Allen smiled at the two occupants in the house.
"When I was a child, there's this playground I always went. And that's where I met him."
Kanda stiffen.
"We would play together, days after days. Until one day, he stopped coming."
At this, Kanda raised a brow.
If Allen Walker was the same child back then, wasn't it Allen that stopped appearing in the park?
"He left me there without saying anything."
Allen could still remember the feeling of betrayal flowing in his blood back then. He had blamed the child for entering his life without consent and proceed to leave just like that. His heart cringes so hard, twisting it such a way that it was way too painful for him to handle — Everything hurt too much.
"Indirectly, I lost something precious to me," Allen stopped Alma who were going to speak up, "I'm not telling you what it is."
Yuu's leaving was so bad that it had triggered something inside of him.
It was almost ironic that his last conversation with Yuu was about him not dying easily as well. Technically, he still lives — With the cost of something else.
"You need to stop this. I don't know what they're doing to you but you're going to die if this continues!"
"Yuu, I don't die that easily."
"You still will!"
He lived; he tricked death with a payment—
— A payment that leads to his downfall as Neah Walker.
"This is the most important procedure. Make sure Allen's in good condition after this test."
Waking up, he stared at the white ceiling above him.
Something within him changed, he could feel it.
The same hazel eyes; the same brown hair — There was a while he thought that he should stared at them longer for reasons unknown.
And his instinct was right.
After another break down from his absent friend, he had went into a small coma. Waking up was the worst for him.
He remember staring at his reflection for so long, with tears flowing down his cheeks.
His once hazel-coloured hair was gone, replaced with such pure silver. His eyes too; it was so foreignly familiar — He knew these eyes too well.
More tears streamed down on his new facial.
He knew, that day was the day Neah Walker died, and also the revival of Allen Walker.
The ugly scar on his eye aside, his deformed hand too — He looked exactly like his dead brother.
They succeeded.
They managed to change his appearance into a perfect replica of his brother's.
Living under someone else's name, body and even — appearance.
"Allen, don't act like Neah. He's bad, you're good."
So he would start living as Allen Walker now?
"Neah's dead and you're not."
So the one dead was Neah Walker now?
"Your brother died because he was a bad child."
Such laughable statement.
"Died because he was a bad child"? Seriously was that what the man thinks throughout all the time he tried to revive Allen — This very man who killed Allen himself?
"So, please. Be a good child, Allen."
Fuck you, Leverrier.
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"You sure about this, Allen?"
"Have I ever been unsure about something?"
He chuckled, "Oh I don't know, perhaps back in the days where you were suddenly getting married and didn't even invite me?"
The end of the line sighed, "You're still mad about that?"
"I'm not." Throwing the cigarette in his hand to the floor, Tyki stepped onto it, smashing it while talking to his phone.
"You clearly are."
"I don't stay mad long, Allen. You, of all people, should know that."
"Point taken."
He stared at the crushed cigarette, clicking his tongue at the sight of his favourite shoe being dirtied by said cigarette. Once again, he wondered if he should start changing to vaping instead.
"Really, what's with the sudden marriage? You never did explain it to me what happened."
"It was nothing much, Tyki."
"Most probably something that you even texted to stayed over at my place and then changing your mind last minute."
He sat himself at his seat, turning on his laptop as he waited for an answer, "Well?"
"... I thought they didn't want me."
They? Tyki narrowed his brows, his fingers still working on his laptop before a new email popped up.
Oh, finally it's here. He smirked.
On the day Allen changed his mind on crashing at his place, he had asked a private investigator to check on Allen. Seems like this investigator is quite fast in his job.
"Who's they, Allen?"
"His family."
Tyki sighed. Sure, Allen's appearance were different from the others, but do people always feel the need to judge everyone they see?
"...!" His eyes scanned through the words in the email, reading it word by word again, and again.
"... Allen, did you perhaps forget to inform me anything?"
"Aside from the marriage, I told you everything."
He hummed.
Interesting, interesting indeed.
"Allen, I despise lies."
"There is no lie."
"If you say so, Neah." He ended the call.
Now, who is this male standing next to Kanda Yuu and Allen Walker?
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TBC
A/N: Yes, your eyes did not deceive you- It's a double update on this~! Hope you guys enjoy this as well.
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