Ju was always a calm and careful person. Never on his life has he panicked.
But at this moment it was different. A very agressive country has just declared on international television he will enter war with his nation and loud explosions are going on in the distance.
Yet still ju didn't panic. He walked torwards his front door and looked around. It was like the world had just slowed down for him. Many people were running about with faces more confused than his.
Looking in the distance Ju quickly realised where the screams were coming from. A close by town had a huge pillar of smoke rising from inside. Even at this moment explosions added more smoke to the column.
Ju glared at the town burning in flames motionless util he felt a pull.
"Mr. Ju!" It was the young man that accompanied Mistia back when she came to check if he was still alive.
Ju stared at him with confusion.
"We need to go!" The strong man easily pulled Ju and ran with him held by the arm. It took a while but it finally clicked to Ju as he looked back to his grandparent's home.
'Is it... All for you?' Ju had a complicated face and he had a sudden instinctive pull. He immediately let go from the young man and ran for his home.
"!!"
"Mr. Ju! It's dangerous!"
"I don't have that much stuff! I'll be quick!" Ju gave the toung man a short glance before entering his home.
"...stuff...?"
"!!"
"My belongings!" The young man suddenly remembered. His survival instinct had overwhemed him and he forgot about bringing his personal belongings.
The surrounding running neighbors watching this unfold also realised them themselved hadn't brought any items from their houses and rushed back.
Inside his house Ju grabbed his few clothes, his portable TV and the World's Orb. He then went outside to meet the young man. Waiting for a minute he found the young man coming out of his house and running in the direction of the bus station. On the way there they heard more explosions coming from the distance. And many families running away. At the bus station there were already over 20 of these vehicles. The busses wouldn't be enough for every person from this town sized village so the farmers from around the village brought their trucks equipped with wooden and metal wagons to carry more people. In 10 minutes every man, woman and child was loaded and tightly holding for their lives.
From the bus station Ju could feel the tremours and the sound of explosion getting closer.
Eventually everyone could hear a loud explosion on the end of the main street and screaming of soldiers.
"It's here! Fire!" They screamed
Hearing this the drivers couldn't hold their anxiety anymore and started engines. Thankfully all residents were present besides the old who couldn't move anymore who happily accepted to be left behind to make room for the younger.
However some bullets obviously reached the vehicles and hit the people inside. There was once again another wave of screaming and crying, some passed out from the stress. However Ju couldn't be bothered to worry about it as he himself was in a crisis.
The intence anxiety and stress were piling up on his weak body and causing side effects. His entire body was releasing a blueish liquid quickly evaporating.
'Fuu Brethe in. Fuu breathe out'
Ju was having a hard time controling himself.
'In, and out, in, and out...'
'Ok, i'm okay, i'm fine. YOU'RE fine, you're avsolutely fine. Nothing will happen, you're okay calm down.'
Ju kept breathing in and out calm meditating trying to slow down the liquid coming from him. Luckily on the current situation no one paid attsntion to his weird breathing and the weird liquid. Soon Ju calmed down and quickly checked his Sundust units.
'Fuck!! It spent over 100!' Under the heavy pression ffom the situation ju was uncobtrolably producing cells as a defence mechanism. He had accidentally produced well over one million microscopical beetle cells and they were breathed in by the surrounding passangers.
'Luckly they won't evolve...' Ju was a little worried by what he had just unleashed into the world but not for the time being. The insects inside Black Rock were in a pocked dimension created by the insect's Creator, that place was their element and they evolved much faster than regular animals yet it took them well over thirty thousand years to evolve. In earth they woud at most live like bacteria inside these people and die.
"Mr. Ju." A familiar voice catched Ju's attention.
He looked up to see the young man from before.
"A-Are you okay?" He seemed concerned.
'Legit concern after so long...'
"Yes i'm fine. How about you? Are your parents and blood relatives here?" Ju returned the concern trying to ignore how surprising the ammount of Cells he had from the bunch Ju spread just now.
'Hopefully this won't be a problem in the future... Hopefully...'
"Yeah they're fine. My parent's and sister actually went on a trip to the big city a few months ago." He said with some difficulty because of how cramped the bus was.
"Sigh. I see. That is good, have you forgotten anything?"
"Thankfully nothing too inportant. My phone, some clothes, money and a credit card. I was thinking about cancelling any other card i have forgotten..." The young man started seeming relieved but by the end he seemed to be contemplating something.
"Sigh. What do you want to ask? I have taken everything i have by the way no need to worry." Ju had seen this expression many times before and knew what it meant immediately.
"Oh... No i'm sorry this was not what i was wondering. It's just..." The young man swallowed dry and asked.
"Did you ever think... It would get to this point?" He seemed to be hiding a bit of hatred behind.
'To this point hehhh?' Ju looked around while pondering the question.
"Hmmm. Stars has always been a separative and violent country. The reason the two nations became two in the first place was because of the fear the easter side would eventuallu thrust them into a war. Thought it was really unexpected that Rivers would be their first target." Ju answered in a rample.
The young man had again a concerned look on his face not knowing if the answer he received was what he was looking for.
Ju seeing that took a deep breath and said again.
"Ahaaaa. What is your name again young man?"
"Drew Limer."
"Eastern name?
"Yes."
"Drew then. No i did not. I didn't think a country like Stars would be willing to ruin their internarional influence for such a stupid reason as "Race". It's not even racism or anything even stars has black people on high ranks. They just decided at some point that people from poorer countries are inferior."
Drew heard attentively util he finished and gripped the iron bar he was holding with a tighter grip.
"So it's just ignorance huh? I see."
Ju watched his reaction and empathised with him.
'Yeah. I agree. It's because of these fools that value human life so little that we all eventually suffer.'
"I'm also certain there was some greed involved in all of this. Not sure where though." Ju concluded.
Drew was quiet the rest of the ride as was Ju.
One day later they arrived at a safe city and each registered to be able to get a temporary shelter. When Ju entered the room for register he was quickly questioned.
"Full name and date of birth?"
"Manny Ju, i go by Ju. 05 or april 2005."
"...You're 42?"
"AAS."
"My apologies. Do you have any blood relatives or a house in the city?"
"No blood relatives, i do have a apartment inside."
'I actually don't but i still have qyote a bit of money left.'
"Understood." The woman ripped the piece of paper she was writting in, stamped something on it and gave it to Ju.
"Enjoy your time in Ruble city." The woman gave him the paper and a smile.
Ju grabbed it and walked into Ruble city. Inside he quickly searched for the first ATM he could find.
He put in his account informarion, personal information, password and when he opebed his account his heart sank.
Balance: 0,00
Last retrieve 2 hours ago ***,***,**
"..."
"What?"