Kuro opened his eyes. All black, not a single feather was visible. He thought the Obvious, "Am I Dead?"
He was in a completely black space.
"Maybe, this is what happens you when you die." He thought. "AAH!" , his head started hurting. All of a sudden, his memories of previous events flashed.
3 DAYS AGO
Kuro was waiting in the Elevator to get the the 4th floor. After, being patient for 2 minutes he finally got there. Just when he was walking through the corridor to get to the meeting room, he was bothered by a voice.
"Hey! Kuro, can you help me out with this problem. Mrs. Amhara gave assigned me this, can't figureout this API." Toya asked in a genuine friendly manner.
As a young software developer, Kuro would have loved to help Toya. But he other affairs today.
"Not right now! I have a presentation lined up. Try Yuki..."
"No, not Yuki!" Toya frowned, knowing she will not say yes to him. Yuki was Toya's long time crush. Unfortunately, it was completely one sided and Yuki knew about it from the day he started texting her. Girls have a hunch for these kinds of guys.
"Hey! Yuki" Kuro raised his voice to call her; she was just entering the corridor.
"What you doing? You don't need to ask her.." Toya had a red face.
"Would you mind helping Toya with the new API, I have a presentation lined up right now." Kuro asked in his usual tone.
Yuki would have refused under normal circumstances. But it was Kuro this time, she was a women of strong character but she wasn't the person who usually refused anyone. She just played the card of "strategic ambiguity".
"I'll see what I can do." Yuki replied while acting busy.
"That should do it." Kuro smiled. "If you still don't get it, I will work with you after the presentation. See yah!" The reply was satisfactory for Toya. Kuro's jobs was done with here, he walked towards the meeting room where the fellow clients were waiting. Mr. Edward was waiting next to the door patiently. Kuro greeted Mr. Edward & both of them went inside the room together. Few of the people greeted Kuro individually. Mr. Mozaki was wearing a Blue tie, Kuro complimented him. Mr. Balzac nodded to Kuro in a mature fashion. Mr. Kabala said hello as well. The others were more interested in the presentation. Finally, when all the formalities were over Kuro went to the podium and took his position next to the screen. He waited for everyone to be comfortable in there seats. There were 8 people sitting in front of him & 2 chairs were empty. One was his own & someone else was missing. He thought for second, "Who's missing?". At that point, he was mostly focused on the presentation. So he shoved away that question from his mind.
"Is everyone ready?" He politely asked & received a patient nod. "Lets get started then."
"Good morning, everyone....KJajjhfrvtvttg.
Quake}{{} the whole building started shaking like rubber. It looked like the wind is blowing the building away. An earthquake had hit Japan. The people in the room were not even trying to stay alive. Mr. Edward fell out of the window, Mr. Balzac's head was smashed with a paper weight on the table, Mr. Mozaki was alive but was acting dead by the shock of the whole situation. The seismic waves were so high; the floors were falling, a few at a time. "What the hell is happing?" Kuro thought to himself. There was no hope to stay alive.
In this chaos, Kuro did not understand what was happening. The shouting, the pain, the fear, the deaths; nothing bothered him at all. As the building was deconstructing itself in the earthquake, he saw a brick, it felt special. There was an intimate attraction; 2 seconds later, that brick flew towards Kuro & smashed him unconscious.
"Hah", Now it came back to him. All of it came came back to him; it was clear now. An earthquake hit them. He was in the meeting that day and the building started falling & that brick knocked him out. He was under the debris for a few days & his sister found him, she was catering to his wounds when those bastards came in; Toya, Ken & Otsu these names were now printed in his head.
"Initiating revolution system..." A voice came from the dark, a few seconds later a giant loading screen appeared in front of him. "System Initiated, Ivar installed."
"What is this? What is this revolution system thing? Who are you?"
The screen disappeared immediately. Kuro was back in the dark.
"Hey!" He called in disagreement.
A small light started glowing from a point a slowing the source of light got bigger as it came closer towards Kuro. It also brought warmth & comfort towards him; it was still mysterious but Kuro was confident that it was something he wanted to interact with.
"Hello! Kuro, I am your system, Ivar."
"What's going on? Why are you here? What is this place? & Where is my sister right now?" Kuro asked in frustration; his mental fatigue was obvious. He had went through a lot in the past few days his body & mind had lost patience. He had a thrust for answers now.
"You been through a lot boy. So many questions at once, lets start with a simple ones first."
Ivar started giving all the answers. Kuro at this point was standing in his own Mindspace. He was chosen by as a member of the Revolutionaries & was Gifted with Ivar an Artificial Intelligence as his System; specially created to support him in his journey. Years ago there was a prophecy of the Great World Revolution.
It said, one day the all the systems of governance will be destroyed. The new systems will consist of smaller groups of people with there own leaders. The society of revolutionaries all across the world knew it would happen. They were planning a revolt on a global level to overthrow there governments through a Mass Global Revolution. The question was when?
The great earthquake was the opportunity, there were multiple sesmic points all around the world. That is when the revolution started in all the countries & the governments were overthrown. But who would control the order of the world after that. Who knows?
For this purpose the Revolutionaries started developing systems which could be installed into minds of people, just like Ivar. Specially, those who had the potential to be the leaders of the new world. Systems unlocked the human potential giving them different abilities, mutations, magic & anything else you can imagine.
When all the governments went down, a void of power was created & to fill that void, the world will need leaders. New people will rose to powers. The world today, is divided into to small gangs, tribes, clubs, factions & other Organizations. The corporate & governance structures of the old world have already been destroyed.
These small factions will compete among each other to gain more power. With a competition between different organizational structures & systems the best one will rise to the top. The armies, air force & navy have already joined different factions. Some even became mercenaries. The cities are burning at night, civil wars are going on.
The battle for leadership of the new world is on & you are a part of it. People will come after you, they will try to kill you & if you hesitate you will die. There is no law, there are no courts, your power is your Law & you are the Judge. Don't worry, there are others like you as well.
This whole thing was not an accident. It was a plan; for a better world; the new world.
Listening to this Kuro was astonished. He did not know what to say, for a few movements he just forgot about his sister.
"Any other questions?" Ivar asked. Kuro was still thinking, it was too much to take in at once.
"Well, If you have any other questions you can talk to me anytime you want, I'll always be with you. Now, I think someone is waiting for you out there." Ivar concluded.
Kuro's body slowly started disappearing.
"Wait! But what am I suppose to do now? How do I acquire power? And what will you do about it. What is my ability?"
His whole body had faded except the area above his neck.
"Think of Me as a King Maker & your personal advisor. And keep those questions for the future, all of them will be answered."
"Hey! I"
His mouth disappeared as well.
Finally, Kuro was back. He slowly opened his eyes and sees the face of his sister above his head. He was lying in his Sisters lap. The face was unidentifiable; the marks that the fat man left on her face made it look like a potato but Kuro knew it was her. Water already filled his eyes.
"Komi!" Kuro said in a weak voice.
His sister smiled at him. Kuro broke into tears, but Komi kept smiling. He tried to talk but nothing could be understood ,he was not strong enough. Komi just kept smiling for her brother.