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Chapter 37 - Rei: Part Three

"Thank you", says Fausto with animosity towards the soldier. To break the tension between the soldier and Fausto, Paul asks her, "So what's your name?"

"My name? My name is on my tag", she says as she points at her name tag with a disregard towards to how dark the shed it and how her black uniform isn't helping. Both men squint and try their best to pierce through darkness. She realizes this and reaches for a small flashlight in one of her many jacket pockets. Turning on the light, a bright gleam reveals a firearm that is slinged across her torso but quickly adjust her light to shine on her breast pocket, revealing a name tag. Both of them simultaneously read the name out loud, "Mori".

"Oh I have a weird name? You know what Mori means, it means death!", boasts Fausto. "In comparison from my name to yours, I think I can get away with because my name is just a story associated with it but yours, yours just means what every living creature is afraid of!", adds Fausto.

"That's not what my name means! This is the thousandth time I heard that shit since I got relocated here. My name doesn't mean death, it means forest, forest! You got it!", says the Military girl infuriated with Fausto. "Yeah whatever, Grim Reaper", mocks Fausto. "Oh so you want to continue making fun of my name do ya!", says Mori as she begins to butt heads with Fausto. They begin making faces at each other if they were like little kids fighting in a playground.

Paul at first embarrassed for Fausto, and of him, begins to feel that even though this confrontations of names is kind of stupid, at least he is talking to her like a normal person would, kind of. "You know what happens at the end of the story?! He gets his ass thrown into hell!", angrily says Mori. "Yeah but you know who does it? Not the lame-ass grim reaper!", rebuts Fausto.

In order to regain some sense of equilibrium, Paul asks, "So what's your first name them?"

Mori stops arguing with Fausto and then looks over to paul, "Rei."

"Ok, then Rei can you explain to us, or at least me while you decided to wrestle me to the ground and why were you hiding in this shed?", asks Paul. Rei doesn't acknowledge Paul's question, instead she finds her attention more drawn to Fausto and his ridiculous high ground. They continue to throw insults at each other.

"Faust."

"Mori."

"Devil."

"Death."

"Can you please tell us!", shouts Paul.

With a quick jab, Rei swings her fist towards Paul's mouth, hitting him and knocking him down. Suddenly, Fausto is taken back into reality, all this fighting over stupid names was no longer of his concern. "Do you really want to yell at someone who is carrying a gun as big as this", says Rei as she brandish her military rifle. "It was fun fighting with your friend, I like him. I don't like you." With sweat drops running down his forehead from all the fear running through him, Fausto thinks, "She likes me?"