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Beta reader Phoenix Helix
Chapter Three-Evolution
(With Kohta)
Currently, the otaku was cleaning there used guns. He thought about the place they were staying at. It was a giant mansion turned fortress.
Even while doing this relaxing chore he couldn't help, but be troubled. His changes were still his mind, along with odd clothes. Earlier he tried to change them, but couldn't almost like they were apart of him.
'What's wrong with me? I'm in better shape now, then before in my life. How is this possible? Maybe I need to see a doctor,' thought Kohta still cleaning the gun.
"I see you're enjoying yourself," said a female voice behind Kohta.
Kohta looked to see Saya.
Saya had changed into a shirt and dress with fills.
"I guess so," Kohta replied unsure.
Saya sighed. "Well at least you're keeping busy."
Kohta only nodded.
"What's the problem?" asked Kohta.
"I think it would be best to leave here," Saya answered.
"Why is that? This place is safe," said a confused Kohta.
Saya shook her head. "I wouldn't bet on it."
Kohta raised an eyebrow at the statement.
(With Kazuyoshi)
As for the newcomer, he worked on making a bunch of pipe bombs. Even though this place was safe, you can't let your guard down.
"Oh my, you busy working," said a female voice curiously.
Kazuyoshi looked to see Shizuka standing close to him.
"Yep," he replied with a nod.
"That's nice," replied the blond sadly.
"What's wrong?" asked the young man concerned.
"I'm…conflicted," she answered.
"About what," replied Kazuyoshi.
"This place is so confining," Shizuka answered.
"I agree, this place is confiding," replied the young man with a nod.
"Your right and from what I found out. Their leader isn't back yet," replied Shizuka flatly.
Kazuyoshi nodded in agreement. So far, it has been taxing on them. They just felt so…boxed in.
Shizuka leaned onto wall, sighing at feeling trapped. She hadn't changed clothes yet, she still had the dress on from yesterday.
Shizuka's thoughts went to her earlier job, helping Rei recover from her fall. She only hummed in thought about everything. Even the mystery of Kohta's change crossed her mind.
'I wonder why he changed so much?' thought the blond nurse concentrating.
She remembered seeing him once and for something to suddenly change him like that. It wasn't natural.
Kazuyoshi started to work on his pipe bombs again, thinking about his next move. He didn't have to stay with the group that took him in, but at the same time. He didn't have to stay at this make-shift fortress.
Kazuyoshi felt a nice breeze blowing in; he took a deep breath to enjoy it.
'This is so nice. You forget the pleasures of simply living. Why there no better enjoyment, then THIS!' thought the young man suddenly blushing at seeing a very nice site.
"EEEKKK!" yelled Shizuka in fright.
The poor woman didn't realize her dress now blowing in the wind, revealing her purple throng with lace to the young men in front of her.
"NO, DON'T LOOK!" screamed Shizuka with embarrassment while trying to stop her dress.
Lucky it stopped. Shizuka sighed in relief, but glared at her spectator.
"I-I'm sorry," Kazuyoshi apologized to the nurse.
Shizuka glare lessened. "Apology accepted I'll see you later."
With that said, the blond woman left to change clothes, hopefully not able to expose her underwear next time.
'Dang, she knows underwear,' thought the red faced young man.
Those panties helped to enticed her already nice figure and long legs. Kazuyoshi shook his head to shake the image out of his head.
'Don't think about it! Focus on working right now,' thought the young man trying to get back to work.
With that in mind, he went back to work.
(Later)
Everyone gathered around a middle aged man. He was dressed in a uniform welding a katana. His sharp feathers and black hair helped to show his seriousness.
"Everyone, take a look at this," he called out to everyone present.
Beside him, a caged corpse that tried to get the man.
"Here is a dear friend of mine, that gotten bitten. He is no longer human so, you must do what must be done," replied the man motioning to open the cage.
They opened the cage and with it. The corpse went after his former friend.
"Sayonara, my dear friend," said the man while raising his sword.
With one swift stroke, he beheaded the corpse. There were gasps of horror at this act of barbarism.
"Tsk, swords are so insignificant," replied Kohta with distain.
"Hey, that's mean of you to say Hirano," said Takashi to the otaku.
"I'm not! Swords chip when hitting bone! A gun can solve that problem easy," Kohta shot back.
"Well yeah, but…"
"Let it go Takashi-kun. He wouldn't change his mind," said a calm female voice.
They looked to see Saeko dressed in a kimono. Kohta looked at her calmly.
Toshimi also appeared, dressed in simple pants and shirt. Her shirt was colored blue. Her hair was in her usual pigtail.
"I'm going," Kohta replied leaving the area.
"Man, what's wrong with him?" asked Takashi mad.
"His getting antsy, I know that I am," Toshimi said to Takashi.
Takashi nodded in understanding. They couldn't help, but be antsy at being here. The group of adults didn't want them to fight. This brought conflict between them.
Even Toshimi was frustrated at the adults; they didn't want her to get more arrows to use.
'I'm being to think that we should leave," thought Takashi.
He has been talking to everyone in his group; so far they said the same thing. They didn't like it here.
"Stop it!" said a male voice with fear.
Takashi's group went off to see what was wrong. They looked to see, Kohta clenching the various firearms they took with them.
"Come on, fork them over. We need those to protect everyone here," ordered an older man while reaching for them.
He was joined by two other men. They all had overalls on that were smeared with grim.
"I can't! They are borrowed and besides. No one can use them good as me," replied Kohta almost crying.
"What's going on here?!" asked Takashi with rage at the site.
"We're trying to take those firearms," answered the man simply.
"I won't give them up! With, without these! I'll be no one again!" cried Kohta in sadness.
"So you want to keep them," stated a strong male voice.
Everyone looked to see, there leader walking to the place.
"Daddy," muttered Saya at seeing the man.
Takagi Soichiro nodded to his daughter. "I'm glad to see your fine Saya."
Saya looked away, mad at something. Soichiro looked at Kohta again with steel.
"If you want to keep them, then what are you going to do?" asked Soichiro firmly at the otaku.
"I, I…"
"If you want to keep them, then show me your spirit!" replied Saya's father dead serious.
"He needs them to protect your daughter!" replied Takashi to Soichiro while moving beside Kohta.
"That's right, he been protecting all of us!" stated Toshimi with steel while walking by Kohta.
The rest of their group joined in the protest. Rei walked there with Shizuka's help while wearing a robe. Shizuka changed into a blue shirt with white pants.
Soichrio's looked soften a little.
"Okay, that's enough with this melodramatic shit," said a male voice with distain.
Everyone became alarmed at hearing this. They looked to see the two that watched them earlier. Both of them were standing on the fence close-by, calmly.
"Who are you?" asked Soichiro with steel ready to fight.
The two just jumped off the fence and landed close-by.
The survivor's eyes widened in shock at this feat they just did. That was about twelve feet away from them.
'What the hell! That's not possible!' thought Saya in shock at such a feat.
Even the ground caved at their landing.
"I've had it with your ignorance! You can wipe the floor with these…humans and you're scared at them taking away. Your big bad guns don't make me laugh," said Bokuden with a growl while pointing at Kohta.
Kohta in disbelieve pointed to himself.
"That's right, you baka!" spat out Bokuden not caring about anyone else.
Even his friend looked mad at Kohta.
However, the older man glared at this young punk, no fancy trick was going to scare him.
"Hey! What is your problem punk; we're having a talk here. So, get lost!" ordered the man with steel.
The two didn't back down if anything, they looked at him. Almost like a…insect needing to be squashed.
'What are those two? I'm getting a bad feeling from them, even that dog is cautious,' thought Soichiro at seeing Zeke's reaction.
The puppy growled at them, but scared.
Bokuden sighed. "I guess we need to leave…not!" he replied sarcastically.
The old man's blood boiled at their defiance.
"Why you young man, don't think I'll kick your ass!" he replied while rolling up his sleeves while moving toward the two.
Bokuden laughed at this.
"What's so funny?!" asked the old man enraged.
"Hey Ryu," Bokuden called to his co-worker.
"Yes Bokuden," he answered.
"Why don't, you show our little evolved. What we're talking about, I'm sure a demonstration is in order," replied Bokuden with a cruel smirk.
"I agree," Ryu replied with a nod.
At hearing this, the man raised a fist.
"Bring it on! I'm still strong enough to-"
*Slash*
*Thud*
"AAHHH!" screamed Shizuka in fright.
The poor man was slashed in half!
They looked to see that Ryu had done it, but not with any normal weapon.
"What in the hell is that?!" asked Saya completely shocked at seeing it.
Ryu simply waved around a sword-like object connected to his arm. The sword had an orange-like color and spines between it. It was clearly a long range weapon.
"Now tell me," Bokuden said while pointing to Ryu.
Kohta only looked in fear with everyone else.
Suddenly, Bokuden's arms also changed. Like his co-worker, orange-like mass become his arms, but had swords at the end.
"Why would you need guns, when you use these," replied the sword wielding man with dark glee.
"What in the hell is going on?! I know we have 'them' to worry about, but this takes the cake!" said Takashi in disbelieve.
'It can't be, there like them!' thought Saya's father in shock.
There was a deadly outbreak in America years ago. He looked into it with help from…various sources. They told him about beings with incredible power like those two.
"I don't, I don't understand! What are you talking about?!" asked a frantic Kohta while readying one of his guns.
"Your changes for one and why you are so much more powerful," replied Ryu calmly.
Kohta almost dropped the gun at the answer.
"You know what happened to me?" he asked eager for an answer.
They nodded. Everyone looked at this exchange, wanting the answer.
"It's simple really. You've been infected with the Blacklight virus. The same virus that Mercer Alex used in Manhattan," answered Bokuden simply with a smirk.
"WHAT, the same thing that almost destroyed Manhattan! No, that's impossible!" Saya replied in shock.
Even her group looked shocked at this information. They heard stories of the outbreak, but didn't know the full details. Barely anyone did, they kept a tight lid on the information about it.
"Yes, but that's not the full story. You see Mercer was trying to evolve humanity to the next stage, but failed," replied Ryu this time.
Saya fell to her knees in shock. "I've heard stories, but to think that…virus is the cause of 'them' it's too much."
After hearing this, Bokuden laughed out loud.
"What's so damn funny?!" asked Takashi.
"At what she said, Blacklight has nothing to do with those failures," answered Bokuden.
"What?" Takashi asked.
Everyone became shocked at this revelation.
"If it's not the Mercer virus, then what in the hell is it?! How did I get infected with this so-called Blacklight?" asked Kohta.
"I'm afraid you not getting an answer to why those failures were made, but," said Bokuden.
"But what, tell me?!" Kohta threated with his gun.
Bokuden scoffed at the show. "Well since you want to know. From what we pieced together, you ran into that experimental Hydra."
"Hydra?" muttered Kohta lost.
Suddenly it became clear.
"It was that tendril monster at school!" Kohta replied in realization.
Bokuden almost clapped his hands. "Very good, you're right on the yen."
"So that means you're the ones responable for my near death!" Kohta replied in rage.
"Maybe or maybe not, we didn't get enough time to study him. That Hydra was more important than you…well before your transformation," replied Bokuden with a shrug.
"That's it, I'm going to feed you lead!" said Kohta about ready to fire.
"Hirano-san please calm down!" replied Toshimi to calm the enraged otaku.
She almost stopped the enraged otaku. There might be people hurt by him shooting recklessly.
"Scary, but how about this!" replied Bokuden with his arms glowing.
"Oh merciful Kami, what is he doing now?!" asked Kazuyoshi with fear.
Bokuden let out a roar. Everyone covered their ears in pain.
"You couldn't wait to test your pack leader," stated Ryu calmly not effected at the roar.
"Oh yeah, I've heard some Brawlers were ready, so why the hell not," replied Bokuden with glee.
"What do you mean Brawlers?" asked a shaky Kohta.
Even his friends looked lost at term, but Saya's dad didn't.
'Oh no, they don't mean those things!' thought man in fear.
Suddenly, two roars answered the call. And then they appeared.
Two massive beasts jumped over the wall and landed by Bokuden. They used all four of their limbs, but seemed they could stand on their hind legs. Both were heavy muscled and with sharp claws. Their arms and back seemed to glow.
"It can't be, that glow is like that monster from school," muttered Saya in fear of those monsters.
"They seem a little smaller than expected, but then again. They are the first batch," said Bokuden looking over the beast.
"The first batch, how in hell did you make those things?!" exclaimed Rei at the statement.
"That's our secret, now let's get started," replied Bokuden with a smirk.
The group of survivors tensed.
Bokuden pointed to Kohta. "You see that guy right there?"
The Brawlers growled there answer, ready for anything.
"Good, now sick him!" Bokuden ordered darkly.
They charged at the otaku with surprising speed.
"Oh shit!" cried Kohta at seeing those monsters coming after him.
Everyone ran off to dodge this attack, but not Kohta, who started shooting at the Brawlers with his gun.
They took the shots, but kept charging at him!
"Dammit, why wouldn't they die!" exclaimed Kohta still shooting franticly.
"It will take more than that to stop them," answered Bokuden simply.
Suddenly, Kohta run out of bullets.
"NOT NOW!" yelled Kohta in fear.
Desperately, he tried to find another magazine, but didn't have one.
"Out of all the time to be out of ammo, this is the worst time for it!" replied Kohta dropping the useless gun.
Suddenly, one of the Bawlers hit him with their claws.
"AHH!" screamed Kohta in pain while holding his arm.
Lucky for him, the cut didn't tear off his arm, but still hurt.
His group screamed in fright at this.
"Come on, you're going to have to do better. There not going to stop Intel your dead," said Bokuden.
Kohta snared at jab, but jumped over the Brawler and landed behind it.
"Dang, he can jump," muttered Kazuyoshi in awe at seeing it.
"I don't know if this will work, but what the hell," replied Kohta with a punch to monsters back.
Surprisingly it had an effect on the monster. Kohta followed up with another punch, followed with a kick.
All of these attacks made it the Brawler fly a little away from Kohta.
"Damn, I didn't know he was that strong," muttered Kazuyoshi in awe at seeing such strength.
'Now I'm glad, he didn't hit me with that!' thought Takashi with relief.
It would seem that the otaku had mean punch.
Kohta heard a roar behind him; he looked to see the other Brawler coming at him.
"Oh great," muttered Kohta.
Luckily he was able to stop from biting him, but struggled to hold him.
"He can't keep this up! Those monsters are going to kill him! We need to help him!" Toshimi pleaded to everyone present.
The rest of the group nodded and were about leave. But Ryu's whipfist stopped them. No one was hit by it.
"You're not interfering," stated the evolved firmly.
They could only watch this fight in fear.
Kohta continued to hold the Brawler with everything he had. He was able to punch the monster off him and jumped away, but the Brawler followed him.
"Damn your persistent!" replied the otaku with rage.
Like its name, the Brawler punched him in the chest. Kohta winced in pain; this was the strongest hit he ever felt in his life.
Kohta landed on ground after sliding a few feet. He looked to see his opponent still coming after him.
'Dammit, I don't want to die like this!' thought Kohta while glaring at the monster.
Suddenly, a feeling came to him. It was foreign, but familiar at the same. He answered it.
*Zip*
The Brawler roar in anger, various tendrils now held him.
"It can't be, that looks almost looks like the one from school," muttered Saya in fear.
The rest of the group looked shocked at seeing those tendrils.
Kohta suddenly kicked the tied Brawler with a kick. This made the infected creature loss its balance and fall to the ground. Kohta then jumped up into the air and pointed both arms at the other Brawler.
Various tendrils came out of his arms and latched onto the monster. All of them landed on ground and after a short while, the concrete broke and flew at Brawler.
"That was like a black hole," said Takashi at seeing this attack.
There even nods of agreements. Then they could now see Kohta's arms.
They changed like the evolved, but were different. They had black mass with patches of glowing orange-reddish on them. Even his hands changed, they became three fingered.
Shizuka shivered at seeing those tendrils. "I…hope he doesn't use those on me!"
Everyone close to the nurse looked at her with disbelief.
"Why are you worried about that?" asked Saya.
"Don't know what you can do with tendrils," whimpered the nurse.
A throbbing vein appeared on Saya's head.
"This is not a porno! If he were to use those on you, I'm afraid you'll be dead!" replied Saya with rage about ready to hit the nurse on the head.
There was some sweat dropping from this exchange.
As for Kohta, he attacked the downed Brawler with more tendrils. It couldn't take the pressure anymore and ripped apart.
Lucky, Toshimi covered Alice's eyes from seeing this.
'I'm beginning to feel very inadequate right now,' thought Takashi with a sweat drop.
Lately, it felt like everyone was taking his thunder away.
Kohta breathed heavily from his injuries. He could tell they were healing very fast, but still hurt.
'It's not good, I'm starting to get…hungry!' thought Kohta looking at the other Brawler with hunger.
Acting on instinct, he fired another black hole at the beast. After the debris hit it, Kohta jumped at it. With his jump, various black tendrils pouted from his body. They latched onto the monster while Kohta grabbed it.
Kohta felt something was stopping him, so he started to squeeze its head.
"Oh merciful Kami, what is he doing now?" asked Saya in fear.
She got her answer when the Brawlers head caved in.
"He's, he's eating it!" exclaimed Saya trying not to throw up.
Everyone also tried not to throw up at this site. Some however, failed to do so.
Kohta kept consuming his meal without a care. There was barely anything left of the Brawler, Kohta sighed in contentment. Suddenly, he felt a change going on with his body.
The otaku started to tremble at this.
"Now what's wrong with him?!" asked Saya.
"Maybe he has indigestion," replied Shizuka sheepishly.
Saya glared at the nurse. "Indigestion, indigestion my butt, a human doesn't just eat like that! Hell, barely anything on earth eats like that! Enough of the jokes!" exclaimed Saya.
Shizuka stepped back in fear at pink-haired girl's outburst.
The two evolved watched this inquisitively.
"Well, I'll be we've underestimated him. It would seem that he in way consumed that Hydra and now. He gaining a new power like we did," said Bokuden with respect for the otaku.
Kohta give off a cry, finished with what was happening to him. He felt his hands had changed again. During his fight, he didn't care about them.
"What in the hell is this?!" said the otaku in fear at seeing his new claws.
His hands became four fingered, but each with a sharp metal claw. Kohta fell to his knees while shaking.
"What's happening to me?" he asked softly at everything that was happening to him.
"Evolution my friend," answered Bokuden walking toward him with Ryu.
Kohta only looked at man with confusion.
"When you consumed that Hydra, it was only the first step to becoming an apex predator," explained Bokuden.
"You make it sound like, I'm no longer human," replied Kohta.
"That because you aren't," stated Ryu this time.
At hearing this, Kohta became more lost, but felt like it was right. All the things he just did weren't possible for a human.
"I'm…no longer a human," muttered Kohta with his head down.
"That's right, now it's time for you to leave," said Bokuden.
Kohta looked at him. "What do you mean leave?"
"You're much more important to leave alone plus," Bokuden snarled. "Those humans aren't going to help you. More than likely, they will try to kill you or make you an experiment."
Kohta only stayed quiet.
While this was going on, Soichiro drew his sword.
"I will not let you do that," he threated the two with his sword.
The two evolved looked at the man.
"Oh and why is that?" asked Bokuden with a raised eyebrow.
"I will not let you take him down the path of evil," said Soichiro.
Bokuden glared at Soichiro. "Why are so sure about that, Soichiro?"
Soichiro showed a little shock at him knowing his name, but didn't falter.
"The ways of you're talking. It reeks of ill willed intent," replied the man firmly.
"Oh, I wasn't made aware. That we needed your permission to act like your so-called correct ways, you damn human! I've had my fair share of trying to be a good civilian and let me tell you. It wasn't all that pleasant! Can you say the same for that guy over there!" exclaimed Bokuden while pointing at Kohta.
Kohta only kept quiet, but was griping the ground. He can remember his own problems with doing that.
"Hirano-san, you must stand firm for-"
"Shut up!" Kohta interpreted Soichiro with a glare.
Soichiro looked shocked at the otaku's reply. Even everyone else looked shocked at the otaku.
"You don't know me. Hell, before you were going to take away my weapons and for what! Because it was the right thing to do! I'm tired of trying to do that! Do you know what I want, can you answer that?" Kohta spat to the man while standing up.
He even looked ready to use his claws on the man.
Soichiro looked unsure about taking on the enraged otaku.
"You act so high and mighty, but when I got this power. You act like I'm an important person or…a weapon!" Kohta snarled at the man.
'This is bad, he is losing it,' thought Saya while swearing nervously at the happening.
It was bad enough if Kohta snapped with his guns, but this was much worse. There was no telling what he could do now.
"Onii-chan, please stop!" Alice pleaded to Kohta.
Kohta looked at the young girl. He could see her crying.
"Please stop, you're not a bad person. Please don't become a bad person," pleaded Alice.
"She's right Hirano-san. Maybe it was wrong of them to take away your weapons, but please. Don't go hurting them like this," Toshimi pleaded this time while holding Alice's hand.
Kohta seemed to be calming down at the two requests.
"Oh, so they finally speak," muttered Bokuden while looking at the two.
"It looks like we're about to have company," said Ryu.
Bokuden looked to see, various people running at them. Each armed with a different weapon.
"Well, it looks they came prepared," said Bokuden sarcastically.
He looked ready for this so-called army.
A ringing noise filled the air. Calmly, Ryu shifted his arm back to normal and answered his phone.
"Yes," he answered.
There was some sweat dropping at this.
"Okay, I understand Pariah-sama," replied Ryu after hearing something.
Ryu looked at Bokuden. "We need to leave."
"Oh, about time for our job," replied Bokuden disappointed while changing his arms back to normal.
"Yes, Pariah-sama needs us there now. We can't be late," said Ryu with a nod.
"Damn, there goes my fun, but what about him," Bokuden said while pointing at Kohta.
Kohta tensed, ready for anything.
"For now, we leave him alone. It looks like he won't leave willing right now and we can't waste time fighting him. So let him play with the humans, they will do it for us," said Ryu.
Bokuden smirked. "Your right, we don't have to anything right now. After all, humans have a way of screwing each other over," replied Bokuden maliciously.
He looked at Kohta. In which Kohta stiffened.
"Try to stay live. I'm sure you could easily do that. Just don't let any human kill you in your sleep," said the green-haired man.
Kohta only stayed quiet.
The two evolved jumped away, leaving so fast. That they seemed like blurs.
"We're here! What's going on?" asked a frantic Yuriko while holding a pistol.
The group of armed people looked around. They saw some kind monster running around and two strange persons. It looked like they missed the action.
"What the hell! There's a monster right there!" exclaimed one of the persons in fear of Kohta.
The rest looked at the otaku and pointed there weapons at him. Even Yuriko pointed her weapon at him.
Kohta growled while readying his claws.
'So they were right! They are only going to kill me! If so, I'm going to tear them apart!' thought Kohta darkly.
"Don't you even think of hurting Onii-chan!" exclaimed Alice stepping between the two.
"What? Get out of the way girl, he's dangerous!" said one of persons to Alice.
Alice only glared at man, she was shaken by the man, but didn't back down.
"You're the ones dangerous right now," said Toshimi while walking toward Alice.
The pigtailed girl now stood by Alice and glared at the group.
"What is this?"
"I should say the same about you. Where were you earlier?" asked Toshimi with steel.
"Well…we had to get some weapons," answered another person sheepishly.
"Okay, but Hirano-san isn't a monster! He saved us! So put the weapons down!" Toshimi ordered.
The group became lost at the turn of events.
"Do as she says," ordered Soichiro while sheathing his sword.
"But dear, he's like the evolved from…" suddenly Yuriko stopped herself.
Everyone looked at woman lost.
"I know, but he's not with them. We need to calm down, before we do something reckless," said Soichiro to everyone present.
The group slowly lowered their weapons. Even Kohta relaxed.
"That's fine and dandy, but what the hell now?!" asked Rei with rage.
They looked at girl.
"We're not going to ignore at what just happened! Those…monsters are still out there! My dad could be in danger and here we are just sitting around doing nothing," said Rei.
"Rei calm down. I know, but we can't just fly off the handle," Takashi said to calm down the girl.
"Fly off the handle! Am I the only one who saw that! That there are monsters that make 'them' look tame! Also," suddenly Rei pointed at Kohta. "How do we know he won't turn on us?"
"Rei, that's now being paranoid! Hirano so far has helped us greatly. We can't just-"
"I know!" Rei interrupted. "But he just killed that monster and devoured that thing! Like it was food! How can you be so-"
*BANG*
Rei stop her rant after hearing the gunshot. Every else was also scared at hearing it.
They looked to see that Kazuyoshi was the one. He fired a single shot into the air with one of the borrowed guns.
"I'm sorry, but you have to stop. That wasn't helping any, let's first look at the facts," Kazuyoshi said to Rei firmly while placing the used gun on the ground gently.
Rei nodded, clearly calmer.
"The first fact is that we know those zombies aren't carrying this Blacklight virus, or in this case the Mercer virus correct."
The group nodded.
"Your right there, but what is causing it. From what the guy said, they know what started the outbreak, but aren't going to tell anyone," said Saya while rubbing her chin.
"Right, so we aren't going to get any answers on that. But what about Hirano-san, if he is infected with the Mercer virus, don't we to worry about it spreading?" asked Kazuyoshi.
"Maybe, he is keeping it at bay," answered Shizuka.
"Okay, that sounds right. We don't need to isolate him. Now then, how is this virus able to do this kind of stuff?" asked Saya.
"Don't know you know anything about this virus Shizuka-sensei? You were studying to become a nurse, so maybe you can cure him?" asked Takashi.
Shizuka shook her head. "I wouldn't even know where to begin. The Mercer virus was so dangerous that only Gentek was allowed access to it. They didn't want other counties to have it. Plus, I need to be a virus specialist to know anything," the blond woman explained.
"That's just great! We have no clues on this damn thing! We don't what's it limits are. We just know it grants super powers!" exclaimed Saya in frustration.
"So there is no way to cure me," replied Kohta sadly.
"I'm afraid so Hirano-kun. There might be a cure, but I've heard it was contaminated. Plus that was years ago during the second outbreak. They might have the data to make it, but it's in America. There is also the part where you can die. I can't say what that cure would do to you," Shizuka answered softly.
Kohta only lowered his head at the news.
"Hirano-san, why don't you try to lose your claws?" asked Toshimi.
"Lose my claws," replied Kohta while looking at the pigtailed girl.
Toshimi nodded. "If these two…guys were able to lose their weapons. Maybe you could do the same."
"Okay, I'll give it a try," replied Kohta with a nod.
He focused and his arms went back to normal.
"Well I'll be dog gone. That didn't hurt my clothes," said Kohta in awe while looking at his hands.
"It didn't hurt you, Onii-chan?" asked a curious Alice.
"I didn't hurt at all. It was like…moving a hand," Kohta answered the question.
The rest of his group started to talk to the otaku some more about this.
Soichiro watched them carefully.
"Dear, what do we do about him?" asked Yuriko quietly.
"For now let's keep an eye on him. We can't risk enraging him. Also, those evolved said something troubling," muttered Saya's father.
"What was that?" asked his wife.
"They knew about me. I'm betting they also know what we were doing. So let's hasten our plans to leave. We can't just sit idly by while they know our location," Soichiro replied seriously.
Yuriko nodded. "Okay, I'll get everyone working on it. Also, it would seem they know something that we don't."
"I'm afraid your right. Those two alone were enough to kill us, but why run away? They have a leader," said Soichiro.
Yuriko stiffened. "You don't think it's Mercer!"
"No, they said a person called Pariah. I don't know who he is, but I think I've heard of him from that file. I'm going to look it up," Soichiro muttered to his wife.
"Okay dear, I'll get to work on preparations. And please, you might want to talk to Saya later. She is most…displeased at what we did," muttered Yuriko softly.
"I will," replied the man reserved.
Even though Soichiro didn't show it, he was extremely worried about his offspring. But his duty to his people stopped him from looking for her.
Soichiro left to do his job.
Yuriko watched him leave with a heavy heart. She also felt guilty at not looking for their daughter. With sigh, she looked at her group.
"Everyone listen up! We need to finish arming those buses much sooner," Yuriko ordered.
"Why is that Takagi-san?" asked a brown-haired man that was overweight.
"We have a group that is up to no good. They might return and with more numbers," Yuriko replied serious.
"You mean like those two guys?"
"Yes," answered Yuriko.
"I don't understand Takagi-san? Why are you and your husband so worried about that? I'm sure we could stop them," said Matsudo.
Yuriko shook her head. "I'm afraid with them, no. They are much more powerful than you think and much more dangerous than those walking corpses. So get to work," Yuriko ordered to the group firmly.
The group nodded and went to work.
Yuriko looked at the young group sadly.
'It was bad with those corpses, but now. There might be a worse fate in store with those new evolved appearing. I'm also worried about that Hirano, what choice are you going to make? Will you help us or not?' thought Yuriko.
She couldn't think of an answer, for right now. She just hoped he will make the right choice, that's all she could do.
She left to get started on her work.
"Okay, we've thought of everything. So right now Hirano will stay with us, if he wants to," said Takashi.
Kohta nodded. "I'm fine with that, but what now?"
"I say we get back to looking for Rei's parents or mine. If we do meet up with Rei's dad, maybe we can warn him about those evolved or whatever they are calling themselves," said Takashi.
"I agree with that. We don't know what this group wants and from how they acted. They aren't going to be human friendly," Kazuyoshi replied dead serious.
"So we need a vehicle. We can try to recover the hummer or a different one," said Takashi.
"I think we can get one here. I'm sure there something lying around," said Saya.
"Okay, we have a plan. So we are good for now," said Rei with a smile.
"Ku, Ku, Ku we not entirely done Rei-san," said a chuckling Shizuka.
Rei stiffened and looked at the nurse. She became scared at seeing the nurse wearing two latex gloves.
"We're not done with your treatment. I need to put more oil on your back," said Shizuka while readying her hands.
"NOOO!" screamed Rei trying to run away from the nurse.
As for the Shizuka, she chased her victu-um patient with glee. The rest of their sweat dropped while chucking nervously.
'So evolution huh,' thought Kohta now looking at his hand.
It looked so unassuming, but he knows it about how it looked earlier. With this revelation of him being no longer a human, he doesn't know what to think. He was an outcast before, but took comfort at being human. Now that is no longer an option for him.
Kohta could sigh with frustration at what his future will be. That he will have to wait and see.
To be continued
A/N I thank everyone for the wonderful reviews. As to the question of who has the Blacklight that will revealed in time. Intel next time Sayonara.