Screech ~
The sound of Evangeline's car wheels wailing ranges in the surrounding streets as she pushes the brakes.
The car was forced to halt suddenly, making the surprised and the not-ready John who was sitting above it fall to the ground.
Even though he fell, he was not hurt, but he couldn't help but say, "Boss, can't you stop the car more gently next time or at least notify me before you do it"
"if you can't even realize when the car is going to stop then it is better to resign from this before you get yourself killed, Mr. John", Alexandra said with a disdainful gaze as she got out of the car.
"ouch, captain can't you think about my feelings before you said that"
"Why, would I? Anyhow let's cut the short talks here, are you sure he will not hold it against you since you couldn't fully do what he said to you"
"hmm, I don't think so, I did my best after all, he also didn't seem unreasonable, it's an insult thinking about him like that after all he executed"
"heroes can turn into a villain quickly if they are pushed to the edge, and you should know that he didn't become one willingly"
"what you said is reasonable, but...."
"shut up you guys, John lead the way it's almost the time", seeing that they were going to start a long discussion, Evangeline interrupted them.
"Ah yes boss let's go quickly before anyone goes there before us", as he said that he started running, Evangeline and Alexandra closely flowing behind him.
Not long after, they finally reached where the gate appeared the day before, "we have arrived, it's here Johnn said as he looked at the space where the gate appeared yesterday.
"there?", Alexandra tilted her head as she looked at the roadway.
"yes it will appear in any second now", john said as he looked at his phone clock.
Suddenly small tremor shocked the ground, and a second later, the gate of the store appeared
"see! Just like I told you."
"OK! Let's go in then, we only have an hour, we need to make it worthwhile".
As Evangeline said, she didn't hesitate to open the gate. Then looked back at her still-standing comrades, "Are you not coming?"
....
"hello there customers, my name is Leo I am the owner of this store, it a pleasure to meet you"
The moment the gate was closed behind the three, they heard the welcoming voice of Leo.
"It is also a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Leo Lancer, my name is Evangeline the leader of the organization [Red Sharks], the other two behind me are my comrades in arms, the black hair girl is Alexandra, while the idiot beside her, as you already know is John"
"oi, boss don't you think you are being too harsh on me"
"No one will think you are dumb if you don't talk Mr John"
"ouch", John clutched his heart as if it was stabbed by an invisible arrow
"anyhow Mr. Leo can we talk?"
"ah, sorry please sit down", as Leo said a table and chairs materialized, surprising the group of three, John a little less since he had seen something like this before yesterday.
As they sat down, Leo apologized, "I am sorry I didn't put anything on the table, it's not like I don't want to, but I don't have anything to entertain you"
"it okay Mr Leo", Evangeline said in a slightly polite voice that she wouldn't have used in front of other men usually, because of her deep hatred toward them,{how could he not have anything, when his store was filled with ingredients, but he also didn't seem to be lying, then does that mean that these goods are not his but he only sells them?}, these thoughts od her changed quickly when she saw the black menu that Leo had passed them.
{this contrasts what John said yesterday, the goods were only written on a board he said, but now they are on a fashionable-looking black menu made of paper}, looking through the goods on the menu she touched one of them, the description about its benefits, how and where it got caught, and its price appear.
{so he was the one who caught them, that also means they ate his, then why did he say he couldn't entertain us before, ah Evangeline this is not what you should be thinking now, ten min had already passed}, waking up from her thought she said, Leo leo I would like to make a deal with you"
"a deal?,what deal are you talking about?"
"I would like to monopolies your goods, I wonder if that is possible"
"This store although it mine, is also the world's, so while I get my benefits here I also need to protect its interest," Leo paused for a moment then said," Earth more widely used Gaia, doesn't care about human interest, it also doesn't care if humanity exist or go extinct, no that's wrong it wanted you all to go extinct before"
"you said before, does that mean, her opinion changed?"
"it was forced to change, earth since its formation, had been inhabited by different life forms. Lifeforms come and go from dinosaurs to mankind. Man is somehow a unique race, at the beginning of its existence it was no different from others before it, only lately that Gaia was fed up with it, as Man civilization grows, the more they destroy the world's environment and textures, that was more noticeable with the creation of Man's most evil and destruction weapon, the nuclear bomb. If it weren't for the great disaster in 2018, Gaia would still have the thought of driving you to extinction, but now it needs your power so you can say that you are still alive because of the disaster that took you to the brink of getting extinction, hahaha how ironic", Leo who said that couldn't stop himself from laughing for a while.
"Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh"
" It's alright, but I never expected you to laugh at something like that, after all, that you did", Alexandra who was silent finally joined the conversation
"what i did do?"
"I mean saving the world, aren't you angry that it's trying to destroy what you have been trying to keep safe"
Leo tilted his head and said, "Why would I get angry, that is it's right, we are living on its surface eating its food drinking its water enjoying its protection from various things, such as the heat of the sun, we can live because its oxygen, but even though we know all that we are still destroying it for our selfish intentions, not because it's necessary, we don't feel any grateful toward it, if not because there is no other safe planet to live in beside it we would have already ditched it without a second thought, if she didn't want to eradicate us it would be a surprise, also humanity's continuous existence or end is not my problem, although I will try to protect it even if its end my heart would not feel even a dust size of hatred toward Gaia"
Hearing what he said they all were surprised, they wore the expression, | This is not what I expected from someone like you|.
"Anyhow, you guys had not come here to hear my thoughts, I am also sorry that I had gone out of the topic a little", as he said that he paused and took a breath then said, "What I was trying to say that mankind's position had changed from Gaia's point of view from"A target that should be annihilated" to "A target that should be strengthed", the reason why that is clear to you although slightly shrouded in mystery, and will take a long time to clarify, so I will skip it now, in short, the answer to your previous question is no, I can't have you monopolise these goods for no apparent reason, they exist for all mankind to use", Leo said in a calm voice as he looked at the three who had varied of expression
{these guys are thinking of me as a hero, how funny, the only reason I became the so-called hero was so I could save my parents, and loved ones, although I wouldn't mind saving strangers, I mean I will be very happy to save them but if I can't I will not feel burdened}, as Leo thought of that, he asked john who didn't speak the whole time," so john have you done what I said before?"