Colio was talking to himself inside an empty room.
That was his earliest memory.
A gust of wind blew by. When the wind had stopped, the surrounding was fulled with dusts. Colio Tonis awoke because of the smell of the duests. Before his eyes were a bed covered in dusts and a simple bed sheet.
Colio felt himself waking hp.
It was very bright outside, dawn was arriving. Opposite of the gray glass window, lies a greater gray sky and clouds.
It’s been a long time since he last dreamt.
This is the first time Colio has dreamt as he recalled
Kill Hamyuts Meseta. From that day these words were uttered, half a year has since passed by, Colio stretched his stiff body on th dust covered bed.
He was at the second floor of a small lodging inn. The narrow room had only three beds, the oil lamp hanging from the ceiling even had the corpse of a moth in it. Colio was living in this dirty room that was aldo filled with spider webs.
“…… As long as I avoid touching it, it wouldn’t hurt. Yet, just a slight body movement will cause pain. “
Someone spoke. Beside Colio’s bed was two other men who were in a conversation, he knee their names– Relia Bookwart and Hyoue Jyanfus. Hyoue Jyanfus was lying on the bed without his shirt, while Relia Bookwart was beside him. Relia was staring at Hyoue’s chest.
” Does it hurt when you bend forward? “
” No matter where I move, it always hirts …… Look, it started festering. “
” Hmm…… It really did. “
” Yeah, since last night something felt really wrong about it. “
Relia’s bed was already tidied up. It seems like both of them woke up early.
” What’s wrong? “
Colio asked Relia.
” Hyoue dosen’t feel too good.”
Relia answered thus.
“His wounds have festered, maybe its the dusts that has entered the wound in the chest. I’m still feeling alright, what about you, Colio?”
Colio placed his hands on his chest after hearing Relia’s questiom. He could feel a frw bones and muscles from his weak chest.
Colio’s hand was on the center of his chest, he could feel a big stone in the space on the right side of his heart.
Colio warily touched fhat stone in his chest.
Hearing Relia’s words, made him felt uncomfortable. Even a slight press on the stome would cause him breathing difficulties.
“Maybe it’s because some dusts fleq in, I think it must have been causwd by the air condition.”
“Hmm, I think so too,”
Relia said so while undoing the button on hus grey shirt. Revealing a similarly thin chest as Colio’s.The middle of his chest had the same “stone” that Colio had.
“The air condition here is quite bad…… Dusts can easily gather between the flesh and the “stone”, we should clean it a bit.”
For the sake of hiding the “stone”, some flesh from the chest had been deeply carved out. The skin looked as if it had been operated on before before just like how a frog had been sliced open before. The chest now had a huge cavity, where some of the muscles and bones had been removed or smoothed out.
The “stone” was then inserted into the chest cavity and covered up with the skin that was previously sliced open, and is held in place by a nail. That particular part of the skin was nlw darkened bits and had become dry and full of wrinkles. Dead flesh and muscle and bones was slightly exposed to surrounding air through the cracks of the skin.
The “stone” that was inserted was a clay like auburn stone, and it was the size of a fist.
A lot pf bronze wires couled around it like arteries and veins. Enveloping the “stone” would be barious nails and metal explosives.
Below the stone, a black gun powder fulled vacuum tube is stucked there ysing glue. These black gun powder could easily explode under slightly warm temperature.
“One little slip up will cause an explosion. Although I don’t think that’s all that will occur ……”
Relia gently touched the “stone” while said so worriedly.
Relia and Colio both knew that The clay like stonewas filled with dangerous explosives and that if the vacuum tube ever cracked, the explosives would burn up and everything within yhe proximity will be reduced to ashes.
Relia too had a bomb within his chest.
“We’d better be careful, as once we we explode, other people will join the grave with us.”
Hyoue began speaking, he too of course had a bomb within his chest just like Relia.
The three men who all had bombs within their chests looked anxiously at each other.
“Hyoue, does it still hurt?”
Relia touched Hyoue’s bomb, Hyoue let out a sound of “Ughh” that resembled the moaning that accompanies vomiting.
“…… It feels better now, I think it should be alright after a monent’s rest.”
“Yeah, you’re right. Let’s get this pus off of you first, then afterwards ……”
Relia wanted to continue but stopped as he could not find the rufht words to say.
Colio understood the reason why.
“Relia, we don’t have an ‘afterwards'”
Colio said so, but Relia’s expression remained unchanged.
“That’s right.”
“Before my bomb goes off, I have to quickly murder Hamyuts Meseta.”
Hyoue cringed his eyebrows while saying so.
“That’s right, we must quickly kill Hamyuts Meseta.”
Colio kept repeating this phrase, Relia also kept repeating this phrase
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta.”
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta.”
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta.”
As if the three of then were singing a chorus, they repeated this phrase again and again.
“Have you calmed down?”
Relia asked Hyoue. Hyoue nodded and pilled down his shirt.
Three of them sat side by side on the bed. They were staying at this cheap lodging inn, the room had nothing but the three beds, even tables and chairs and other necessities were no where to be seen.
“Once the pus leaks out, you must clean it off immediately”
Relia said so.
“i know.”
Between the three of them, Relia was the leader.
There wasn’t any specific reason why, maybe it was because he was the oldest , and that he had the most experience and knowledge. Coloo thought that he was probably in his 20s, but could not be sure if it either.
Relia whose eyes held determination and spirit naturally became their leader.
Hyoue was older than Colko, but younger than Relia, so he was about 17 years of age. He did not have any specialties, and looked average, in fact it took Colio some time to memorise his face. This young man had an unpleasant face that made him look unwell most of the time, and he always wore a nervous expression on his face while sitting on the bed having nothing to do.
Amongst the three of them, Colio was the youngest, and was about 15 years old. He was the smallest of size between the three of them, and he slouched too, so even if he stood up, he wouldstill look short.
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