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Chapter 10 - Factions

***Once again, this is a work of fiction. Any similarity to real life is pure coincidence***

The tension in the meeting was becoming higher and higher. Everyone was on the edge; the nerve-wracking feeling could erupt anytime soon.

"I believe Ms. Y is the newest member of our faction, Mr. L," said Mrs. C as she turned to Mr. L.

Mr. L slightly nodded and said, "You're right Mrs. C." He turned to Yuu. "I believe you need to know your position before everything else."

"Then please give me the pleasure to explain it for you, Ms. Y," said a man on the left side as he stood up.

Ten years ago, Abegunia was ruled by President Cloves, a businessman instead of a politician. On the other side, Cubel was ruled by President Diamond, a communist politician, and North Kody with their communist leader, Spade. At the end of Abegunia and Cubel's presidents' ruling period, three of them crashed on each other and held each others' necks. Then, they started to divide themselves into factions, which was started by Abegunia Faction and Cubel Factions.

Cubel started to pick a fight with everyone around. They claimed to have more spaces in the Pacific Oceans based on geographical measurements. They tried to claim Esika's salmon fishing places and caused Esika to join Abegunia Faction. Second, they decided to claim Eldokia's a distant island and caused Eldokia to enter Cubel Faction. In the middle of chaos, North Kody joined in and nullified its peace treaty with South Kody and caused South Kody to seek protection and joined Abegunia Faction.

At that time, an Unknown Faction took advantage of these choices and sent an animal infected with C-Virus to Cubel's well-known research university. A researcher who was working there contacted the animal and actually got affected. From here on, the spread couldn't be suppressed, and it spread all over the world.

When the world was busy finding vaccines for the virus, Abegunia started to poke on Cubel's nerves; it forced Cubel to shut down its five essential companies. Cubel got no choice but to obey the order, but Cubel didn't back down easily; it also forced Abegunia to shut down three of its leading companies. These attacks continued for some time. North Kody's leader, Spade, felt the nerve-wracking of both countries reach him and launched their lethal chemical weapon, a hydrogen bomb to South Kody, and finished seventy-percent of their population. Because of this, World War 3 started.

10 years later, the world was left with a fourth of its original population as the war's aftermath, even though the war has yet to subside. Soon, the world started to crumble. Humans began to fear their closing doom and invented their replacement, called the Ageha-human. They could replace most of the humans' jobs and they also could replace humans in giving birth. The creator of Ageha-humans called themselves as Peace Faction. They declared to be on the justice side, they yearned for peace and wanted a perfect past life. They started by providing every human with the standard type of Ageha-humans. They demanded them to reproduce at least two in less than three years to keep the Ageha-humans' ownership.

Fews months later, they decided to reward those who could contribute to the Peace Factions in both information and research. Here they received the first person who came out with the idea of their own personal custom design Ageha-human. The person also contributed to making a program for the custom Ageha-humans to be more perfect and feel more emotions than the other Ageha-humans.

Then the first person started to gather more and more researchers and called themselves Neutral Factions. They commenced tattooing their identity with the faction' symbol, which was located on the right side of their lower back. It was two wings and a halo. The other factions started to join in and began to identify themselves with their own symbol. Abegunia Faction was an eagle with meat in its mouth, Cubel Faction was a panda holding a bamboo, the Peace Faction was a one-winged dove, and lastly, no one knew the Unknown Faction's insignia.

"If my assumption is correct, I believe you got the Neutral Faction insignia tattooed on your lower back when you handed your research to the Peace Faction, Ms. Y," said Mr. A.

"Yes, Mr. A," said Yuu in pain. She could still vividly feel the pain of the tattoo on her lower back.

"I think we can conclude today's meeting everyone," said Mr. L tapped the table twice. "I called everyone here to introduce Ms. Y." He moved his gaze toward Yuu and glanced at everyone in the room before continuing, "And to warn everyone to be careful of your own Ageha."

Everyone in the room glanced at each other with worries and uncertainty.

"Dismissed," said Mr. L, and the light in Yuu's room turned off.

"Don't let your heart sway, Yuu," whispered a voice in Yuu's right ear, and the light turned back on.

'What did he mean by 'don't let my heart sway'?' grumbled Yuu, confused. 'And how did he know my name?'