LOCATION: Ebermen Cafeteria, City Project Connection
DATE: 30.07.2044
On a certain sullen and ominous corner of the cafeteria, two people were staring at each other.
After staring for a minute which almost felt like a decade, the boy stood and demanded, "What did you want to talk about, Lisha? And why should I believe you?"
The girl on the contrary responded, "I will just say what I know, it is up to you to believe it or not."
Regi listening to the girl's words advanced, "Then speak, I don't have all day for this."
Lisha illuminated, "That day. It was your friend Otsuka who told Wera to visit the bridge. I just know it because Wera told me that she was informed by Otsuka to meet Hazza at the bridge. That's it, I thought I might tell you about this."
Saying this, Lisha stood up and walked out of the cafeteria dropping a bomb at Regi. Regi felt like he was betrayed, he was feeling confused as to why Otsuka would tell his sister to go to the bridge.
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At his home, Otsuka was lying on his bed thinking about what happened on that day making all of his friends' transfer and Regi so rude towards him. He was wondering what happened to Wera to be hospitalised for a month, he was not informed that the reason Wera was in that state for a month was because of him informing her.
He thought, "Did Hazza and Wera had an accident?"
As he was lost in his thoughts, he received a notification.
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[ Notification! From PrettyGirl_Lish ]
- ๐๐ฆ๐บ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ.
Suka replied,
- ๐๐ฉ๐บ? ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ.
Lisha responded denying,
- ๐๐ฐ, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต. ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ต, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ. ๐๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ง๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ช๐ณ๐ญ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ.
Suka was in disbelief, he was so naive that he was thinking Lisha was his girlfriend. He was friend-zoned the whole time. Overcoming his naive thoughts, he replied,
- ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ข ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.
Lisha responded,
- ๐ ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ต?
Suka hesitantly put forth,
- ๐ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ, ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฆ?
Lisha confusingly responded,
- ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฉ? ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ.
Suka not accepting, messaged,
- ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ข, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐บ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ?
Lisha rudely responded,
- ๐๐ฐ, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐ด๐ฉ*๐ต, ๐๐ถ๐ฌ๐ข.
Suka exclaimed,
- ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฆ? ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ!
Reading those words, Lisha sent,
- ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง^๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ข๐บ? ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ข ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ? ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ถ๐จ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ถ๐จ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ด๐ด.
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Seeing those words made Otsuka's naive and weak heart shatter into pieces. He realized his naivety and the truth of this ugly world.
He slept that night whimpering hoping that someone would soothe him but he was too naive to think that anyone would.
In the morning, the other day Otsuka got up and readied himself up for his school like usual.
He was done with his naivety and his whimpering for ungrateful people. He decided to change, better himself and no longer let other people judge or decide anything about him.
As usual, he walked his way to his school. On his way, he saw Regi walking towards him furiously.
Confused as to why, Otsuka stopped walking and decided to greet his friend. But Regi wasn't thinking of friendly greetings, he came towards Otsuka and held his collar asking,
"Hey, assh*le! I wanna talk to you about something, answer my questions."
Otsuka gasped at the sudden action replied, "What happened, Regi? Let me go and what are you talking about. Let's go to the cafeteria and have a talk."
Regi disagreeing responded, "No need, just follow me."
The both of them went to an alley where they stopped, Regi asked, "Were you the one who told Wera to visit Hazza that day?"
Otsuka remembering the day positively replied, "Ah yes, now that I remember wha-"
Before he could complete his words,
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a wind-cutting punch landing on his abdomen making him cough some of his breakfast. Regi punched him four times before he could ask anything, making him throw up all of his breakfast.
Regi started mercilessly thwacking him, making his face swollen like a boiled potato. Amongst his beating, Suka muttered, "Re- Regi, what happened? Why are you beating me?"
Regi ignoring his victim's queries continued to provide him with jabs and punches making him unconscious at last.
After seeing that his victim could no longer bear his beatings, he left the indigent boy unconscious in the alley.
A long time had passed since the unfair one-sided fight, the boy was awakened by some people walking by the street.
The boy was sent to the school clinic by some passersby, even though he was not injured severely he had gotten weak after getting punched continuously.
The boy reported that the assailant was unknown and he couldn't see their face hiding the fact that it was his own friend. After getting informed about her son's condition, Miss Sophia rushed to the hospital. She saw her child lying on the bed like a malnutritioned lost puppy, she couldn't bring herself to see her child in that condition and vowed,
"Suka, my dear. What happened? Are you feeling okay now? Who was it, was it someone from your school? Did you see his face?"
Seeing the concerned face of her mother, Suka replied,
"It's nothing momma, we fight like this daily. It's for training purposes, it's just that I tripped today. Don't worry, it's nothing serious."
The mother could see through her child's lies but could feel that he didn't want her to worry so she let go of the matter and said,
"Are you sure, son? Will you be okay? Let's go home, I will make you some of your favourite food."
The boy let out a sigh that his mother was no more interested in knowing the identity of the assailant, he responded energetically,
"Yeah, momma! I am totally okay, I am strong you know. Let's go home, I wanna eat a ton of food today with you and Luci."
The both of them returned home that day and had a hearty family meal together.
...
Due to the weakness of the injuries he received from Regi, Otsuka didn't show up to school the day after.
The day after his recovery, Otsuka woke up and readied himself as usual for his school. On the way out, his mother yelled,
"Suka no more fights now. Don't tell me that it was for training either. Be careful on your way and contact me if you get in trouble, you understand?"
Otsuka comforted his mother, "Yeah mom, don't worry."
After that, he left his home and was on his way to the school, when he encountered a bunch of three students coming towards him. He didn't give any attention to them and continued walking. Suddenly, a flabby boy who had curly and scruffed black hair stopped Suka on his way.
Suka didn't give any attention this time either and walked away from the other side.
Seeing Suka evade them, another one who looked like a little man with his belly hanging like a bunch of grapes reproached,
"Hey, you! Stop, don't you see us or do you want some sense beaten into you."
Saying this the little guy pulled Otsuka's bag making him stop.
The last one among them who looked unusually taller than his age confronted Suka and said, "Hey, you are Regi's friend right? We are his friends from Albus Military Academy. We got to know the reason why Regi is always so rude and cruel, it's because of you isn't it."
Suka addled responded,
"What?"
The tall one suddenly changing his tone added, "The reason why Regi has become like that is all because of you. Don't you know what happened that day? His sister was rap-"
Before he could complete his words, the flabby looking boy intervened,
"Don't mention it, Enya! He probably knows about it too, he's just acting like he's an innocent."
Suka completely disoriented at what the three were talking about let out,
"What are you guys talking about? What happened to Wer-"
The same fate which occurred the day before yesterday started occurring today as well, all the three boys started beating Otsuka. Otsuka tried his best to defend but it was useless, the boys looked two years older than him and there were three of them. Thinking he couldn't defend himself, he accepted his fate as a punishment for his unbeknownst sin.
He was beaten up until the boys were satisfied but it wasn't bad as the day with Regi because he defended his face and abdomen leaving the three only his back. He knew that if he went to the school clinic, his mother would be informed about it. Hence, he didn't attend school that day and went to a nearby shop to buy some ice packs so that he could soothe himself.
After buying the ice packs, he went to a nearby public park to sit and check his ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ . -[1]
He switched on his ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ and a blue virtual screen augmented above his wrist.
He went to DIGID to check his old messages when he suddenly noticed something he didn't before.
He opened up a page and was going through the information.
๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ค๐๐ ๐ข๐ง|
๐ฉ๐ฆ/๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ|
๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐ท ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ผ๐พ๐ท๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฎ ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ ๐ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ต๐ธ๐ท๐ฐ.|
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต 17 ๐|
Otsuka stopped at the words "Just 17" and checked if it was the real DIGID of Fin or not. And to his demise, it was Fin's DIGID. He quickly opened up another page and checked through it too.
๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง_๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐๐ฒ|
๐ฉ๐ฆ/๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ|
๐๐ท ๐ช ๐๐ธ๐ป๐ต๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ด๐ท๐ฎ๐ผ๐ผ ๐ต๐ธ๐ธ๐ด ๐พ๐น ๐ช๐ฝ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ช๐ป๐ผ.|
๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ 16 ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ|
He couldn't believe what he saw, their ages were different when he checked it a week ago. He was still in disbelief and went through their DIGIDs multiple times to see if it was a mistake but alas to his disappointment it was a bitter truth.
They were 6 years older than him and he started to sort something out and lost himself in his thought.
{Were the three of them together playing with me and my feelings}
{Is Lisha older than me too?}
{Wasn't Fin the one who told me that Hazza wanted me to inform Wera to visit him at the bridge?}
He started to get some things sorted in his mind,
{The two misters at the cafeteria talking about the r*pe of a 12-year-old girl. Isn't Wera 12 years old? Was she the one-}
He got all of it, he understood the truth that he was the one, responsible for all of this. He was responsible for his friends getting transferred, he was the reason why Wera was still mentally unstable, he was the reason why Regi became so vengeful.
But he couldn't get why Fin would lie to him about Hazza, it can't be a coincidence.
He rushed back to his house, sneakily avoided his mother and went to his room.
In his room, he switched on his ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ and connected it to a little cuboidal device.
He started typing something and with the help of the little device, it looked like he succeeded.
{Yes, merf's account was a basic account. It made it easier for me to hack it}
He hacked Merf's account and checked Merf's conversation with Fin.
Merf- ๐๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐จ๐ช๐ณ๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฃ.
Fin- ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐น๐ฆ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐บ 5000๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐น๐ฆ๐ฆ. -[2]
Merf- ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต! 5000๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ด? ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฏ, ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ข ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ฌ.
Fin- ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐จ๐ช๐ณ๐ญ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ด. ๐๐ฏ๐บ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด, ๐ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข
Merf- ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐บ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ.
Fin- ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ.
"I-I'M A FOOL..."
Whimpering those words, he sighed heavily, letting his head drop. Tears welled up in his eyes, a single tear rolled down his eyes like rain on a dusty plane.
He couldn't take it anymore, it was too much for his fragile heart.
Overwhelmed by his emotions, he started laughing. Laughing at himself but his face showed something else.
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His face turned pale, gasping breath erratically. He covered his face making his hands wet from his tears and running nose. It was a laugh that could be described as a scream, a scream from the deepest part of his heart. The laugh was his heart sobbing from The Truth.
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๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ - A quantum wrist watch commonly used throughout the universe taking place of the old digitals.
๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ด- Currency used universe-wide. It was named by the species 'Verconians'.
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