Birds were chirping in Tokyo this afternoon.
After the battle between Ace and Reiko against Yuno. Now, both of them were covered in heavy bruises and wounds, especially Ace.
In a building, the gathering point for heroes, known as the Hero Council Federation building.
A place where heroes gather for meetings, lodging, special treatment, or intensive training.
Therefore, Ace was being treated in a special care room. He got a private room located underground.
A room lined up from corner to corner, so someone walking down the hallway was heading toward Ace's private room. "Knock... Knock..."
Reiko's heart was still worried about Ace's unconscious condition, with IVs wrapped around his body.
"Hold on, I'm coming." Reiko stood up, walking toward the door with a body largely wrapped in bandages.
"Yes, what is it?" Reiko opened the door, his eyes scanning the hallway.
"Good grief... Stop playing games, damn it!" However, he didn't see anyone in the hallway, his face irritated. "Such a nuisance—" But, as he was about to close the door, something blocked it from below.
When Reiko looked down, cold sweat dripped down his shocked face, his arm freezing while holding the doorknob.
"SMACK!"
. . .
"Okay, so how is Ace's condition?" It turned out, Reiko hadn't seen the nurse when he opened the door.
An elderly female nurse, only 145 centimeters tall. She was analyzing every contour of Ace's body and her computer with a clipboard on her arm.
"Well, his condition is still the same..." Reiko, still holding his cheek from being slapped by the nurse, was startled to hear the nurse's words.
"What?! Wait, wait!" The nurse observed meticulously as the computer started showing something happening inside Ace's body.
She wrote quickly on the clipboard, noting a progression in Ace's body that medically indicated excellent regeneration.
The nurse kept looking at the computer, as did Reiko, who was extremely curious even while holding his slapped cheek.
"What's happening??" Reiko whispered. His face leaned toward the computer.
The nurse, expertly zoomed into the stats of Ace's body on the computer. She kept zooming until cells, DNA, chromosomes were visible.
They saw something abnormal.
Where every damaged genesis cell inside was building new, far superior cells, and those cells were continuously consuming the damaged ones.
"What in the world... Even in biology, this is impossible for any creature!" said the nurse, still scrolling the zoomed-in screen showing millions of microbiological systems in Ace's body.
Finally, the computer displayed another stat: Ace's condition was already 77% recovered. "Reiko..."
Reiko nodded, "Alright." He immediately walked to the enclosed patient bed where Ace was recovering.
"Krekk." The sound of the curtain opening revealed Ace's IV-covered condition. Instead of seeing Ace still unconscious...
Reiko saw Ace snoring in his sleep. "..." His face was flat, showing no signs of pride.
. . .
Meanwhile, on the other side, an official vehicle of the special security personnel was driving from Shin-Fukuoka toward the central defense headquarters.
Its location wasn't far from the Hero Council Federation, situated on a vast forested land.
There wasn't just one vehicle; they traveled with other cars trying to watch for anything suspicious while transporting Yuno's body.
As they entered the forest, filled with dense, tall, and towering trees, a long straight road led to their headquarters.
. . .
Inside a sealed, heavily guarded place filled with many people.
Yuno lay there, being treated by a working robot while being interrogated by the highest military defense general, Sukoku.
He stood in front of soldiers and other personnel, right in the center of the room with Yuno lying under a spotlight.
Lieutenant Sukoku asked in a heavy tone. "First of all... I'll get straight to the point." He crossed his large arms.
His muscular physique, accentuated by the uniform, showed extreme training before he spoke again with a cold gaze. "Who are you people, really? History states..." Lieutenant Sukoku walked, staring sharply.
"You are the organization that licks the boots of the great historical figure, Elevanour, correct?" His thick brows furrowed, jaw clenched.
Yuno, lying down, enjoying being treated by highly advanced robot technology, grinned—staring at the light above him. "What do you all know about us. Ants." His grin faded.
He spoke again slowly, "We have never misjudged history... We are a truth that is wrong." He grinned again with satisfaction, still looking at the ceiling.
Lieutenant Sukoku spoke, trembling, harsh. "We don't care what you did in history. We just want to know who you people really are!" His arms folded tighter.
"Organization Olethros, originating from the Vatican. Unifying ideology and purifying flawed historical logic." The main door opened, revealing a tall figure.
Everyone stared at him, "Sir... Fallen?" Lieutenant Sukoku was shocked.
Then, Fallen walked in with a large black cloak.
He began approaching Yuno. "An organization that can rewrite human history?" He walked beside the speechless Lieutenant Sukoku.
He muttered. "I know why you people have surfaced..." Fallen leaned close to Yuno's face.
Yuno looked with his one eye. Fallen whispered loudly. "Because right now, you can't change it, can you?" His bright eyes narrowed.
Fallen's words instantly made everyone in the room feel ambiguous, causing a scientist there to ask with a trembling body. "What... What do you mean by changing history?" His face was terrified.
Fallen straightened his body again, staring at Yuno who was grinning at him. "They..."
"They can change stories, more precisely, repeat the narrative of life." The scientist immediately staggered. "What... Impossible! IN physics... that's COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE!"
Making everyone present hold back frustration and a fear that gnawed at their reason.
Fallen spoke again with a slightly panicked and rushed tone. "As far as I know, they have thirteen members... And one more is the founder of that organization who has lived for thousands of years."
Fallen lowered his face, his arm extending sideways in front of Lieutenant Sukoku. "Manipulation of Darkness: Boundless Space." While staring at Yuno.
Instantly, a dark energy from Fallen's palm descended like a waterfall. "What are you doing, Sir Fallen?!" exclaimed Lieutenant Sukoku, panicking.
The mass of dark energy spread like a tank being filled with water, but different. This energy absorbed every solid object.
The people there watched as every corner of the room began to darken because the space was being sucked in by the dark energy.
Not just the room, this dark energy immediately began absorbing the entire defense headquarters, causing even sunlight to be drawn in.
Now, only the light above Yuno remained on, and the glow of Fallen's eyes in the darkness—still staring at him. "I know you're not alone. Yuno."
Yuno... He smiled, his eye full of a strange happiness. "We... We are not alone on this earth." His smile turned terrifying. "We will seize the truth."
. . .
"THUD!" Ace suddenly punched Reiko in the stomach as they were walking around Tokyo. "OUCHH!!" Reiko grabbed his stomach, his body doubling over. "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, YOU BRAT?!" His face slammed into Ace's, extremely pissed.
However, Ace just looked at his own fist, confused, and felt an unusual sensation. "What is this..." He looked at Reiko. "Uncle... Reiko?" Everything seemed gray, everything was still as if time had stopped.
Reiko's ugly, furious face was also frozen, not moving at all.
When he looked down, he saw a bright red thread at his feet connecting to everyone present. "I'm scared..."
"What is that?"
...end...