his guard and his goaler
6.
The truth was hard to swallow. Ryoken had been both right and wrong, it appeared. It was the same with his father. He'd tried to create Eden's fruit and had created poison instead, and it had sacrificed six children to do so. For Spectre, at least, it was a blessing in disguise but for the other five, their lives had been torn apart for something that, instead of saving humanity, may become the instrument to their demise.
And SOL Technologies decided power was worth more than humanity, worth more than their survival.
So when his father asked for help, Ryoken swore to help him: because his father hadn't gone about things the right way, perhaps, but he'd tried to save humanity and he was, despite how they'd poisoned him for it, was trying to save humanity again. 'I'll help you, father,' he said, and that meant the others: Faust, Baira, Genome and Spectre, would help as well.
Yuusaku… No doubt, if they moved into the open, Yuusaku would one day cross paths with him. But would he agree? Or fight against them?
Surely, if he knew…
But would his desire for revenge crowd out the danger to humanity? He didn't know? Five years of friendship and he didn't know. He couldn't risk it. Not yet. Maybe not ever.