Mishima Island, Japan, 19:00, a day after the incident. . .
*Bang bang bang*
Someone is knocking on a metal door, located at the foot of a mountain, the only mountain on this small island. The metal door is located very hidden under thousands of trees inside a forest, and it’s impossible to find it from the air.
*Bang bang bang*
It was a girl who kept knocking on the metal doors.
“Oi! Do I need some kinda rhythm or something?”
*CLANK*
Someone finally answers the door. A man slides open the peephole on the door to peek through.
“What do you want, little girl?”
“I am the heiress of the Pendrago family! I am no ordinary little girl. How can a normal little girl even locate this location, might I ask?”
“. . . Alright, what do you want?”
“Business.”
“I don’t do business with a teenage girl, especially someone this famous. Go scram!”
*CLANK*
The man closes off the peephole on the metal door.
“Alright, you wanna do this the hard way.”
*GRAAAHKKK GRAAAAHHHKKKK*
*!!!!*
“HIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
Suddenly, the entire metal door, along with chunks of the concrete around it, was lifted open, away from its spot. The man behind the door immediately freaked out and fell on his butt as he crawled slowly backward away instinctively.
*CLANK*
The girl threw the metal door behind her.
“Now, do you wanna do business? Or do you need some other kinds of convincing?”
The man immediately raises both of his open hands towards the girl.
“A-Alright, alright, I apologize! I genuinely thought a high school girl was pranking us or something! Please forgive me!”
“You’re only correct on the high school girl part. Here.”
*!!!!*
The girl raises hundreds of human-shaped rocks from under the ground, floating into the air.
“W-What are these? Bodies?”
“Correct! And they’re all fresh! Died yesterday. From the earthquake.”
*!!!*
“WHAT? Those are some real hot items. How did you even bring these many bodies here?”
“That’s not important. Just give me the money for all of these bodies and organs!”
“Alright, alright, but you’ll have to wait for a long time because we need to examine each and every one of them. And you said there are hundreds of them.”
“Fine! Just try to do it faster and quicker.”
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At the same time in Sierra’s mansion. . .
I’ve arrived at that bitch’s mansion. The front gate is locked, and there are no lights at all at the mansion at this hour. It really is empty.
Rampaging through street gangs and thugs' hideouts results in nothing. They don’t know anything about the underworld. What a waste of time.
I activated my Vein Armor and jumped over the tall gate. I landed inside and immediately ran towards the mansion.
*SHATTER*
I jumped high and crashed into one of the windows on the second floor, and landed inside. I walk over the dark hallway that is only lit up by the moon in the sky, piercing through the windows.
“. . .”
I stopped in front of the door to her room. I slowly open the door and walk inside.
“. . .”
The moment I stepped inside, instead of the empty and dark large bedroom, I looked at all of us playing that racing game together, smiling and laughing all the time, having fun like there’s no tomorrow.
It was a very joyful memory. At least it was supposed to.
“. . .”
I shed tears without realizing it. I started crying silently as I kept reminiscing about what happened in this room.
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*Sobs sobs*
I wipe my tears and snot away. I steeled myself and reminded myself of the reason I came here in the first place.
*inhales exhales*
After a deep breath, I regain my focus. I tried turning on the light, but the power in this mansion has been completely shut down. I summoned my giant scythe and planted its bottom handle into the floor at the center of the room. The blade of my scythe burns green, and it becomes a source of light to light the room up.
I walked towards the desk on the left and pulled out the top drawer.
“. . .”
I ransacked the contents of the drawer, but I found nothing. Then I opened the second drawer, ransacked through it, and still found nothing. I did the same thing until I checked all the contents inside each drawer.
“. . .”
I looked behind and saw that there were still many drawers left in this empty room. I walked towards all of them and ransacked all of them as well.
*!*
And I finally found something suspicious that belongs to Sierra. A piece of paper that says ‘Mishima, foot, forest, mountain’.
“. . .”
I immediately activate my Vein Armor, unsummon my giant scythe, and jump through the wall, creating a hole to leave the area. As soon as I land outside, I put all of my strength into my foot.
*BWWWOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH*
I jumped really high towards the sky, into the heights of the clouds. My jump created a giant shockwave of air on the ground that reverberated through the entire mansion and across the ground around it.
SIERRA!! YOU BETTER HAVEN’T SOLD THEM TO A BLACK MARKET OF THE UNDERWORLD!!!
IF YOU DO!! I SWEAR I WILL RIP YOU APART!! I HATE YOU, SIERRA PENDRAGOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Mishima island, in front of the same metal door at midnight. . .
*BANG BANG BANG*
Someone is banging on the metal door loudly and violently.
*BANG BANG BANG*
Without giving the person inside to answer, the person knocks on the door again.
*BANG BANG BANG*
And once again, the person keeps banging on the metal door.
*CLANK*
“OI!! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU? STOP BEING SO LOUD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, YOU PRICK!!”
Someone from behind the door opened the peephole and spoke through it in anger. But then the man behind the door sees another teenage girl in front of the metal door.
“HUH? Now, who are you? I had had enough of being slave-driven by a teenage girl for the day! GO SCRAM!!”
“Open the door or I'm gonna cut it open along with you.”
The girl demands, but the man doesn’t take her seriously.
“If this is some type of Halloween prank, then you’ve come too early! Halloween is still a while away! GET LOST, KID!!”
*CLANK*
The man closes the peephole, completely disregarding any of the girl’s threats.
“Alright, the hard way it is.”
The girl summons a giant scythe and positions it above her head. The blade catches green fire, and she swings it downwards and sends out a green fire slash towards the metal door.
*FWWOOOOMMMMMM*
*CLANK*
*BAAAAMMMM*
*SPLAAATTT*
The metal door was cut open in two, and the man behind the wall was startled, but he was crushed by the left part of the cut metal door, and he died in an instant. The loud sound caused by the metal door slamming into the floor inside startled people who live inside the metal door.
“What is this place? Some kind of bunker?”
It’s me, and I’ve arrived in this place that Sierra wrote on a piece of paper. I walked inside the cut metal door.
“. . .”
The room inside is just a small hallway, 3 meters wide and 5 meters in length, and the ceiling is just 3 meters tall. I walk slowly inside, and then my nose immediately smells something really stinky. I immediately cover my nose with my hand. I almost puke purely from the stinky, pungent smell alone.
I brave myself and keep walking deeper into the hallway.
*THUMP THUMP THUMP*
And then I heard a lot of footsteps coming towards me from below.
At the end of the hallway, there is a turn to the right, and it’s just staircases for about five stories deeper underground. I walked down the stairs, and then I saw a lot of men with muscular body builds, carrying a firearm each, approaching me, but they stopped the moment they caught me in their sights.
“WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU, LITTLE GIRL? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?”
“WAIT! LOOK AT THAT GIANT SCYTHE OF HERS! SHE’S A BELIEVER!!”
“WHAT? WHAT IS A BELIEVER DOING HERE?”
“Calm down, I am just. . . retrieving my friends. They were brought here by mistake. Can you please return them to me?”
“Huh? Friends? Are you lost, kid?”
“And, what was that loud noise just now?”
“Sorry, that was just the sound of the metal door being cut in two and crushing the guy guarding the door into smithereens.”
“What did you say?”
“DID YOU KILL OUR DOOR GUY?”
“Yes. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.”
“FUCK YOU!! DROP DEAD!!”
All of the men pointed their guns at me. I think those are called P90 or something. I’ve learned gun names mostly from playing FPS games.
*RATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA*
All of the men exhausted all of their bullets immediately, shooting at me. I sense the dangers coming with my danger sense, but I ignore it. I simply activated my Vein Armor and took all of their bullets without a care in the world. All of the bullets were deflected when they touched my skin and clothes.
*!*
Afterward, they ran out of bullets without even harming me at all. I also noticed that my clothes are perfectly fine.
“Hmm, so Faith power does affect clothing. That’s nice to know.”
“W-WHAT ARE YOU, LITTLE GIRL?”
“I’m just. . . someone who wishes to retrieve all of her friends back. . .”
“I’m sorry, kid, but we paid millions of dollars for those bodies! Yes, you heard me correctly. Dollars, not Yen. Ain’t no way we’re just going to give back what we bought for free!”
“Hm. . . so, you’d prefer it if I take it back by force?”
All of the men suddenly felt dread as soon as they heard my threat. They just witnessed that hundreds of bullets didn’t even harm me. What could they possibly do to resist my power?
*!*
My danger sense popped off when I saw someone from the back of the line secretly throw a grenade at me. I catch the grenade in my hand and throw it back towards all the men, milliseconds before it explodes.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM*
*GRRRRRKKKK*
The grenade explodes and blows a hole in the walls and stairs all around it. All of the men can no longer be seen, and a bit of blood and chunks of their body parts were scattered on the stairs.
Normally, this horrific scene should have left me petrified, but sadly, I now have experience seeing blood and human flesh, and it doesn’t bother me one bit.
I continued walking down the stairs all the way to the bottom, and then I finally reached a very large room underground.
“. . .”
The room is very big and the ceilings are very tall, contrasting with the very small hallway. The room has lights, but it’s still darker than any room I’ve ever been to in my life. I see hundreds of hospital beds with dead bodies in each one of them, inside body bags.
*!!!*
Immediately, the stench of hundreds of dead bodies quickly infiltrated my nose. I wanted to puke, but I held it back using my willpower alone. I steeled myself and approached one of the beds and inspected it.
“. . .”
“There is no name, no ID, no anything. I’m going to have to open them up one by one.”
I unzipped the first body bag in front of me.
“. . .”
It’s not one of them.
And so, I spent myself opening up body bags, checking all of their faces, seeing so many dead bodies in a short amount of time, but again, this is nothing compared to what happened at school.
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An hour later. . .
This is like the 200th something body bags. . .
I unzipped it.
*!*
Tears were suddenly flowing down my face really quickly. I saw Honda’s lifeless face inside the body bags, and it immediately reminded me of her last moment with Sierra. She was still showing her kindness even after she killed all of her friends.
“Honda-chan. . . *sobs sobs* let’s go home. . .”
I pick up the body bag and place it in front of the stairs. I walk back towards the hundreds of beds and continue to search for my other friends.
