Rico, upon hearing Alice's words, was slightly surprised. However, he smiled and clinked his glass and spoon again. Joe Walker, feeling panicked, immediately kicked the glass far away.
Everyone who witnessed it was angry at Joe Walker for his actions. Meanwhile, Rico briefly glanced at Joe Walker and then tried to retrieve his glass that had been thrown quite far away.
While everyone except Maria started to express their anger towards Joe Walker, Joe Walker was completely unfocused on them. His instinct made him focus on Rico's actions, but he was confused about why he did it.
Why did I kick the glass? Instinct? No, this is my intuition. I sense danger from Rico's glass
Rico suddenly clinked his glass again after retrieving it. Joe Walker looked around and saw Maria starting to get angry at him. Maria, who was previously confused, now joined in the anger towards him.
Realizing this, Joe Walker quickly ran towards Rico and pushed him far away from their group, throwing Rico's glass away and dragging Rico out of sight of their group.
Rico resisted, asking, "Why are you still conscious?"
Upon hearing this, Joe Walker realized that all the strange events that had occurred earlier were because of Rico.
Joe Walker and Rico were now in a place where their group members couldn't see them, but angry voices from their group could still be heard.
"What have you done to them? What actually happened to them? What's are you doing to them?"
"I don't know, why did you suddenly attack me?"
"You did something, right? I know you did something! You bastard!"
"What did I do?"
"I don't know!"
"Aren't you just misunderstanding?"
"Misunderstanding? Who? Me?"
Joe Walker's grip weakened as he hesitated.
Was I just misunderstanding?
Seeing an opportunity, Rico smiled and swiftly kicked Joe Walker's leg, causing Joe Walker to fall to his knees.
Rico then smiled widely and quickly struck Joe Walker's face with his right knee repeatedly. Blood from Joe Walker's face scattered everywhere. Fortunately, he managed to escape after Joe Walker struck Rico's left leg while Rico used his right knee to hit Joe Walker's face.
Now it was Rico who fell, and Joe Walker did not waste the opportunity, immediately grabbing Rico firmly with the intention to kill.
"You're dangerous!"
"Ahahahaha," Rico chuckled, enduring the pain.
Joe Walker, realizing something was amiss, looked behind him. He saw Jonathan ready to strike his face with all his might.
At that moment, Joe Walker couldn't do anything. His body weakened, his consciousness fading, and his leg was even stepped on harshly by Rico, causing it to break.
In that desperate situation, he saw Maria trying to help by pointing a rifle she had hidden in her vehicle.
Joe Walker smiled at that moment.
It seemed Maria had regained her senses.
But Alice was behind Maria, pointing a pistol at her.
Maria, being threatened by her own sibling, could do nothing but surrender. However, as Maria tried to lower her gun...
Bang! Bang! Bang!
There's no need to explain what gunshots rang out at that moment.
Maria immediately collapsed onto Joe Walker at that moment.
Joe Walker, seeing this, tried to look at Maria's face, now asleep with bloodstains.
Joe Walker cried, his vision becoming blurry.
"Maria! Maria!? Wake up, Maria! Why are you sleeping! Mariaaaaa! Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Aliceeee!? Why you do that?"
Rico laughed and said, "Alice, shoot Joe too for me. I never thought you both had gun, ahahaha."
"Alright."
Alice aimed her gun at the fallen Joe Walker while hugging Maria and crying.
But Alice's hand suddenly trembled on its own.
Joe Walker stopped crying and watched Alice closely.
"Hey! What are you doing? Quickly shoot!" Rico shouted.
Meanwhile, Alice murmured, "What am I doing? Why are Maria and Joe hugging each other with red liquid around them? Why am I holding my gun and pointing it at Joe with my own gun?"
"Alice? Are you awake? Alice, run away from here quickly!" Joe Walker shouted.
"Run? Why? From what?"
Rico panicked and tried to grab Alice's gun, but Alice instinctively sensed danger and shot Rico in the head, instantly killing him.
The same fate befell Jonathan, who was about to act, but Alice's bullet was quicker than Jonathan's movements.
Suddenly, a distant scream was heard, "What have you done to my husband!?"
Alice was immediately thrown back, and Joe Walker tried to reach her. However, the pistol was already in Zenith's hand, and now it was Alice's turn to experience what Maria, Rico, and Jonathan had gone through.
Bang!
"Forgive me!" were Alice's last words before she could no longer breathe.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!...
Zenith fired a series of shots filled with hatred while crying.
Zenith also noticed that Joe Walker was still alive, so she shot him once in the chest.
Bang!
Shortly after, Zenith wanted to kill herself with the pistol in her hand. Unfortunately, her last bullet had been used on Joe Walker.
Klik-klik!
Suddenly, the cry of a child was heard. It was Rio's voice asking, "Mom! Where's Dad!?"
Zenith cried and said, "Come here, Rico, come to Mom!"
The last thing Joe Walker saw was Zenith and Rio embracing each other.
Rico? Why she call him 'rico' and not 'rio'?
Rio is rico?
...So, who's Rico?
After that, his eyes closed, and he died.
Shortly after, Joe Walker felt like he could still think clearly. His vision was clear, and he found himself in a different place.
Looking around, he realized he was back in the 'observer' place, in the cosmic room where he discussed with the leader of that place.
"Ah, it's a shame, it seems to have ended," someone next to him said, and Joe Walker turned to find Alice sitting next to him, smiling.
Although her voice made Joe Walker realize it was actually Sebastian. but the visual presented was Alice, and it made him cry.
Unconsciously, his body moved to hug Sebastian, who appeared as Alice. Joe Walker repeatedly apologized while hugging Sebastian, saying, "i'm sorry, alice!"