The one who gets to choose the weapon first will have the
advantage. That's what Bara thought but he anyways choose start first in the
race, but why is that? Well the answer is pretty simple, he thought "I know
that his will be a little disadvantage but there's no way for him to beat me,
so I'd rather not hear the crying brother disturb me any longer, anyway it'll
be over in an instant I'll put an end to this very quickly". Bara couldn't be
more serious about something as he was right now, that's the reason why he
wants to rush the whole situation, since he feels like he is risking absolutely
zero, but will he be right? Ray interrupting Bara's thinking says "the first
weapon that you'll choice will be the one that you'll wield during the match,
so be careful while choosing, anyway… choosing the weapons is already part of
the game, so I'd rather receive your bets before proceeding." Paul was about to
speak when Bara choose to start first but he bit his tongue just as he was about to speak since he knew that his brother
Mike would choose that, and in fact he had a little smile over his face, that
men isn't a person that gets too much exited or in general that goes through
strong emotions, so for his brother Paul that really meant a lor for him. Bara immediately answers to
Ray "I'd like to know EVERYTHING that they know about the other guests that are
on this planet with us." Bara usually isn't a very goal driven person since he
prefers to make things happen in his life and then decide what to do about
them, and that's also one of the reasons that make him be able to take quick
decisions, he in fact is often forced to take important decisions in a low
amount of time because he waits until the last
moment to make them. Instead, his companion Ray is somebody who plans
everything before, no, actually way before anything happens or is even in the
mind of the people involved.
"I want to know how to escape from that 'thing' if there's
any means to do so. Since I know that you're really close to him, aren't you
here for him?" Mikes asks this to Bara, but he doesn't know how this makes him feel,
Bara without noticing started to clench his teeth very hard, it seemed that his
jaw could explode at any moment. He then got so thoughtful that he forgot to
answer, so Mike insists and asks again "So? Did a cat bite your tongue? Or was
it a lion? Because it may seem that there's nothing left of it." While hearing
those words Ray didn't feel a word, he couldn't either do or say anything since
this was Bara's burden. His and his only, and Bara made it clear with him
already various times. So Ray couldn't interfere, NO, that's wrong, he would if
it'd be useful but it wouldn't. Some things can stop chasing us only if at the
right moment we deal with them alone, even if naturally it's not always like
this, instead very often doing the right thing at the right time can be
decisive. Bara with a calm look turns around "I'll tell you what I know", those
were the only words that came out of his mouth, probably he preferred not to
talk about something that make him suffer so much. One of the things that had
the most impact on his mood was that he
of his whole life.
Ray knew everything he needed to know, and he throws on the
floor the grains of sand that were on the palm of his hand, that was made out
of exactly 207 thousand grains of sand, it wasn't a bluff at all. He understood
it from its weight, the shapes of the grain, the pressure that they had on his
hand, the air passing through his hands and lots of other factor, it could be
said that he has very high level of perception, but that is something that is
very useful in combat too, in fact fighters after they reach a certain level of
strength, they have to learn how to be
faster and how to react as soon as possible, since the fights take place in
instants that are so little that even a billionth of a second can look like a real
eternity. Naturally Ray overdid, since his powers go over what can be
considered as useful in battle. Ray then says "It's time to take responsibility
over your choices, come here and decide the weapons that you want to use and
that may even become your grave. Mike
says "I want to begin using this sword" Paul thought hearing his brother's
decision "The choice of the weapon in the first round may be the most useful
since it decides the only weapon that you'll be sure to use. So there's no
reason to choose a weapon that is not
the best of the best" or so he thought.
"I want to choose the box full of needles or whatever they are". The weapon
chosen by Bara could look like a meaningless choice but he actually made good
choice since the sword if he attacked from the distance his choice would make
Mike's sword totally useless but everything has yet to be shown. "I choice the
teaser". So says Mike, that probably wants to test Bara's confidence in his own
speed capabilities. Anyway, he isn't making moves that are too risky since even
if he picked weak weapons until the end It didn't necessarily mean that he
would be the one to wield them. Or would it? Bara keeps choosing "I choice the
snap-gloves"
The snap gloves are a weapon that is long range. It's used
snapping the finger as the name suggests, and it's a kind of weapon that is
attached to the hand, but it's actually connected to the whole body, since it
enables to use all of the muscle of the human body, making their pulsations,
produced electromagnetic energy that can be used like a water gun. In fact the electromagnetic burst can be
interrupted and created at any time for how much time do you like, until… well…
your body can't get over it anymore and you may die… because of extreme muscle
strain but, well, sometime you have to risk it to achieve a giant amount of
power, but you have to be careful because it could devour you. Mike thought
that Bara's choice was make to take time like he did until now, or to trick him
into thinking that he wasn't very confident in his own speed to get the upper
hand with the next choices, anyway he wanted to be sure that he'd no do that
and because of that he choice once again one of the 'weak' weapon and decide the
last one after hearing Bara's choice, or at least this was the plan. "I choice
the pistols" these ones were a couple of peculiar guns; they were long ranged
and required time to reload the bullets. The bullets were also limited, and
they had a strong recoil that was really dangerous, even for the one using
them, the pistols were also bounded together by a cable that made it impossible
to shot separately with them, meaning? They could only shoot two bullet at a
time.
It was then Bara's time to choice and he says "I choice… the
weird coat". Ray hearing this says "it's not weird, instead I think that it's
actually very fashionable, it'd look good on you Bara, but maybe on me it'd
look better". "Are you sure this isn't your coat?" Ray without looking at Bara
directly answers him "of course I am" "then I'll make sure to turn it into
dust, it doesn't matter if I'll be able to choice, it or not, this thing won't
survive, I'll eat it if necessary, it won't exist after this match", Ray gulps
hearing Bara's statement. "There's no need to do something like that. Spread
peace and love and it'll come back to you". Bara nods "Yes, yes, yes, the
problem is that you are the biggest murder that I ever got chance to know in my
entire life" Ray nods too imitating Bara "It was inevitable, I couldn't do
anything about it, it just had to happen" Ray wasn't actually trying to hide
anything he was just having fun like always, and also Bara with his passive
questioning was enjoying to tease him a little bit even if he didn't want to
show it. Then it was time for time for Mike to choose his last weapon, and he
actually started seeing through Bara's thinking. In fact the apparently weak
weapons that Bara was choosing, in reality were very good against the one that
he chose, but why would he do that? Isn't he confident to be faster than him?
And if he is why does he choose weapons that would actually allow Mike to
counter him? But then he understood Bara's thinking even more deeply, making
him finally choice. "I chose the claymore".
For the second time it was chosen a weapon that was actually
strong and that wouldn't have been all show, that's because when you achieve a
certain level of strength the best thing you can do is to choice the weapons
that make you use that immensurable energy that flows through you, instead of
using weapons that will never achieve the meaning of true power. Mike making this choice felt a bit relieved,
but not because he felt that he made an incredible good choice but it was the pleasure that comes
from the lack of pain, more in particular the one that comes when you get rid
of the uncomfortable clothes over your
body or that make you feel relieved when you can avoid feeling the presence of
an annoying person. That's because he knew that he couldn't do more than he has
done until now and so it meant that he could relax for a while. But in moments
like this another feeling that is way more scary takes over, often in fact
people feel trapped in a vortex full of things that they have to do and they
feel no way out of it. That's what can be considered the in real life survival
mode. It's a feeling that oppresses the body and the spirit of somebody and
that makes it seem from our perspective that every second that we spend idly is
waisted and will put at big risk. In this case it's actually true since there,
they're risking their own life, in fact probably only one or two of them will
get out alive from that reunion, Ray was thinking exactly that at the moment
but for him the situation if's actually more complex than that "If you flip a coin once and you choice head,
the chance of you being right will be 1
in 2 so 50 %, if you do it twice the chance of you being right twice, it'll be
25%, then 12,5% and so on. The universe it's literally infinite, but if we talk
about the people that live in the same environment, well, there are places in
which millions, billions, trillions, but also trillions of trillions of living
beings, that's why there'll be people that have won so many times that they
forgot that they can lose. Since there are so many of them, there'll be some of
them that won millions of times, but
they forget also something very important, and that is that the
coin has no memory, so are those idiots
on this planet, that will fade away like the flowers after the spring, the only
difference is that the odorous and beautiful flowers will turn in sweet and
juicy fruits, instead they will turn into dust and will only serve the purpose
of a little obstacles to reach my ultimate goal. The most convenient stuff that
mortal beings can do is to choice to live a safe life, until fate lets them
stay in this would and doesn't wipe them out completely. Afterall, being born
and able to perceive emotion is already being lucky, you could also not be
born, or you could be born as a plant. All of that makes sense for almost
everybody, you can only escape this rule if you can see so much far ahead that
you are literally, a monster" that's was Ray's thought.