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Chapter 3 - The Nameless Boy

Speedrunner sighed again after ending the stream, looking down they saw that the awakened were still fighting the chaos creatures.

The bear that first appeared began to bite a wolf on its neck biting through it.

Making the wolf disappear and a chaos crystal drop. 

Ignoring the crystal, the savage bear sprinted to the next enemies continuing the rampage.

Looking further down the stream, many awakened began to fight the Wolfes. 

Looking around the parkour speedrunner tapped their mask to times.

Suddenly a blue circle appeared on the screen recording the raid.

Then they jumped from building to building trying to capture as many awakened fighting as possible.

Moving at a slightly faster speed than running speed, because they were pretty exhausted and couldn't run on max speed for some time. 

The first awakened the fast streamer recorded was a regular one, the body of the female awakened was strong, like every awakened, but she had no special feature or obvious ability.

The awakened fought with a big greyish Warhammer, hitting the wolfs on their head.

Recording how the awakened finish of several wolfs, Speedrunner looked around trying to find other awakens;

So they did, seeing how smoke rose from two streets ahead, through curious awakened dashed, not wanting to miss the show.

Only taking a few seconds Speedrunner saw a male awakened.

He conjuredseveral spheres made out of fire and unleashing them onto the wolfs burning them to crisp.

Suddenly another wolf appeared behind the awakened, lunging onto him.

Before Speedrunner could even react, suddenly an earth pyramid shot up, surprising the streamer and destroying the wolf.

Searching further they saw that a wolf was harmed from something like a laser.

Following the path the projectile flew, Speedrunner saw another awakened shooting with a gun.

After several shots the awakened opened the gun and pulled an emptied crystal out, replacing it with another one.

After twenty minutes of a one sided battle, every wolf that was in close proximity was destroyed, most of them even dropping chaos crystals. 

After the awakened from the association and Speedrunner helped the civilians down onto the street.

The last person Speedrunner helped down was the first person the helped up, the young boy with the stick. 

Setting him down on the ground the boy slowly walked away using his stick as support.

'Thank you would be nice,' thought the awakened streamer.

Before doing anything else the boy began to cough, maybe because the dust was scattered over the air or maybe because he didn't have any thing too drink for a longer time.

Before the boy could walk down any further, the awakened grabbed his shoulder stopping him in his tracks.

The awakened shuddered, feeling almost only bones, the awakened thought that the boy surely had nothing left to eat. 

The boy turned around in the middle of his coughing fit, he looked confused but the boy didn't ask why, he barely had any energy left to walk.

The streamer opened a small pocket on top if his right belly area, taking a small waterskin and giving it the boy.

Before the boy could grab it heavy steps came from the streamers left side.

Looking to the left, the streamer saw the bear that helped them earlier.

As the bear drew closer, the the bear turned into smoke revealing a tall man in uniform, the man had to be at least over 190 cm, towering over the streamer 164 cm and the boy, who was even smaller than the streamer.

He had brown hair, brown eyes and a brown beared, a scar ran across his left eye not damaging the eye. HIs uniform was the same color as all the other awakened a matt olive green.

The man walked with a serious face, not clear if he was serious all the time or because the streamer did something wrong.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, giving water to corpses like them is a waste of resources."

The streamer ignoring the man gave the waterskin to the young boy who hesitantly took it.

The boy walked away his bare feet leaving his footprints on the ground.

The streamer decided to also leave the streets, before jumping away on top of a building the man whistled having the streamers attention.

The tall man put his hands into his right pocket, pulling two chaos crystals out and throwing them to the streamer.

"Even if you ignored my advice here, as a payment, thank you for your service. The association could always use more help."

The streamer chuckled at the invitation of the man replied before jumping away.

"No, thank you."

 The streamer worried about the boy, unlike most people he didn't try to find any friends or family and while saving him it didn't seem like he was with somebody.

How can an eleven or twelve year old boy live alone.

Following the boy, not because they were a stalker, but because they wanted to make sure the boy was safe while walking home.

After two minutes the boy was home, but before he could enter Speedrunner grabbed the boy on the shoulder.

"Here you are! Wait, I have something I want to give you. Here!"

Extending their hands Speedrunner held one of the two chaos crystals the man gave them. 

The boy had a clearly shocked expression, eyeing the crystal but not taking the crystal from the awakened streamer.

"Come on, it is clear you need it more than me. I can't let a twelve your old rot here without even helping him."

"... I am seventeen." replied the boy after a short pause, his voice really raspy sounding like he hadn't talked for a while.

"What. You don't look seventeen, you're so short and frail. Can I at least know your name."

The boy muttered something under his breath, the streamer couldn't hear what the boy said and asked that the boy to repeat himself.

The boy now louder repeated what he said.

"Don't have one."

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