CENTRAL REALM

Kino woke up in some place he never went before. With confusion, he walked, and he meet some stranger with black and white clothes. Just when he realized, he ended up wearing the same clothes too. Someone grabs his shoulder. He turns around to see the man is gazing into his eyes. Kino felt a shiver runs down to his nerves.

MAN 1 : “Hey,kiddo!”

The man glare at him with his big smirking smile.

KINO : “Who…”

The man squinting at Kino.

Man 1 : “Ah… he looks newbie here.”

The man laughs and looking at his grinning friends on his back.

MAN 1 : “What’s your name, kiddo?”

Kino stuttered.

KINO : “Ki…Kino.”

MAN 1 : “Do you know the rules when you get here?”

Kino shook his head innocently. He looks around and finds that the place is unfamiliar.

Everything looks so misty and dry. He felt cold.

KINO : “Where… where am I? What is this place?”

MAN 1 : “Eh?? You don’t know?”

MAN 2 : “Don’t tell me that you forgot how you die?”

They laughed. Kino is taken aback for what the man said. He can feel his body is

shaking.

KINO : “You must be joking…”

They stopped laughing. Those men started to get serious.

MAN 1 : “So, you really don’t know you are dead?”

Kino shudder but trying to suppress the feeling by making a little laugh.

KINO : “That’s funny…”

The moment he said that, the memory of what happened in Mr. Yuk’s restaurant flashed through his mind. He’s shocked. It felt real and he was confused again. He, then, looked at those men. Starting to doubt if it’s real. They seemed wonder. Suddenly, Kino was knock to the ground and that makes him scream.

KINO : “Arghh!!!”

MAN 1 : “Is that your excuses, so you can run from us?”

The man grips his hands onto Kino’s collar. One of his foot, steps on Kino’s belly and one more on the ground.

KINO : “What… what are you trying to say?”

MAN 1 : “Huh… all the dead goes to this place to wait for the judgement. But I couldn’t wait and you… you will be one of my followers. Now, go catch the soulless and give me the credit.”

Kino gritted his teeth. He clenched his knuckles, but he couldn’t do anything when he glanced to the men.

MAN 2 : “Ah… we got a little rebeller here…”

Man 2 glanced at Kino’s knuckles with his sluggish face. He laughs again. Kino grabs on the man 1’s foot and throw it away from his body. He gets up in his uncontrollable breathing. The man 1 almost fall, but then he catches Kino with his ‘armer (weapon)’, and it wraps up on Kino’s leg until he falls again. He shivers. Breathless looking at him.

MAN 1 : “How dare you…”

Man 1’s face fell into darkness. He seemed mad. His ‘armer’ moving like a snake to

Kino’s legs, and it sucks up Kino’s blood. He screamed.

KINO : “Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

MAN 2 : “Now that you have anger Tousi’s ‘armer’, you have to die.”

The man 2 with his sluggish face covered his mouth. Smiling. The man 1 raise his arm to punch Kino. It makes Kino cover his body with his hug while his foot being sucked by the snake armer. He thought those people are crazy when they said they are in another realm where it will determine the next place for their life. But the pain is real. Before the man 1 could throw his punch, something struck his chest from behind. He stunned. An armer get through his chest? Kino remember about the moment that waiter’s flesh scattered on the air. He vomits.

OKY : “How about you being my follower?”

OKY appeared behind the man 1. He grinned. He slowly pulls out his armer from the

man 1 chest from behind.

MAN 1 : “Who…”

The man 1 cough a blood. He fell on his knees. Man 2 and Man 3 gritted their teeth, but they are too coward to come forward. Oky glared at Kino.

OKY : “Hey… you okay, dude?”

Kino startled. His eyes fell to Oky, the boy around his age but full of aura. In his hand, there’s this small armer that he used to stab on the man 1’s chest just now. He chuckled, looking at Kino. He put the armer to its place on his arm. He come forward, but Kino seems to crawl back.

OKY : “Hmm…?”

Oky lifted his brows. Realizing that there’s an attack coming from behind Kino. He grabs Kino collar. Kino once again startled. Oky throw Kino to the other side.He grinned looking at the Man 1 with his armer on. Man 1 is standing up unsteady.

MAN 1 : “Don’t be selfish, Oky. How about you become my follower?”

OKY : “Heh… with your state now? Dream on!”

Man 1 throw another attack to Oky, but he managed to prevent it, until Man 1 become

exhausted for another rounds.

OKY : “Well… well… I have another business than wasting my time fighting with you.

But now, I must take him to that person.”

He grinned again while glancing at Kino. Kino swallow his saliva. In a flash, Oky grabs Kino’s collar again and take him away from that place.

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