13 SENTINELS: Aegis RIM: ANOTHER STORY - [PART I] (BOOK I)

8.3. Juro's Perspective [Afternoon: Heading Home]

After stopping by the video store, Shiba and Juro start walking home.
Shiba sighs and Juro takes notice of it.

Juro: "What's wrong?"

Shiba: "Well, we couldn't catch Amiguchi..."
Shiba: "Y/n, gaming center number two left early due to her dentist appointment..."
Shiba: "And the video store was a waste of time..."
Shiba: "This suck, man."

Juro: "It's true that one video was already rented out..."
Juro: "But we didn't come back empty-handed."

Shiba: "What, that old-ass kaiju flick?"

Juro: "Deimos vs Mecha-Deimos!"
Juro: "It's a real masterpiece from '74."

Juro: 'A sci-fi movie from 1954.'
Juro: 'Heavy on the special effects.'
Juro: 'The first in what would become a long-running series.'

Shiba: "You and your giant robots...'
Shiba: "Luckily Y/n is not here, otherwise she would contemplate with you as well."

Juro: "Haha, that's true."
Juro: "We do love our mechas, after all."

Shiba: "Yeah, yeah."

Juro: "Hey, I got a flyer from that theater the other day."
Juro: "It showed what movies they're playing this month."
Juro: "Guess what was on there?"
Juro: "The original Deimos!"
Juro: "Do you want to go?"

Shiba: "Geez, a hundred times wasn't enough for you?"
Shiba: "Ask Y/n to go in my place instead."

Juro: "I probably will."
Juro: "Anyways, let's go home and watch this movie."

Shiba: "Let's."

???:  "Why is it not activating?"
The mysterious boy walks past them, Juro quickly recognizing him.

Juro:  "Miura-kun?"

Shiba:  "You know of him?"

Juro:  "Well, kinda."

Miura:  "The activation..."
Miura:  "I know I did it right."
Miura:  "Why won't it start?"
He whispers deeply to himself.

Juro:  "Miura-kun!"

Miura: "..."
Miura:  "Juro-kun..."

Juro: "What's wrong?"
Juro: "Is everything alright?"
Juro: "You look awful."

Miura: "..."

Juro: "Do you feel sick?"

Miura: "I'm fine."

Juro: "Wait, your forehead..."
Juro: "Did...it glow just now?"

Miura: "Sorry, but..."
Miura: "I recommend you not touching that."

By the touch of Juro's fingers from mysterious code on Miura's forehead...
Juro's hands start to glow.
It was positioned at the front of Juro's hand, with the words "START" framed along it.

Juro: "!"
Juro: "What the..."

Miura: "!"

Juro: "My hand's lighting up too..."

Miura: "No..."

Juro: "What's going on?"

Miura: "This is bad...!"

Before Miura could finish his sentence, the START sequence automatically activated itself.
???: "SENTINEL NO.13... Transmitting."

Miura: "Wait, don't tell me..."
Miura: "Are you...?"

KABOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A gigantic explosion sound shook and enveloped the entire area, causing shrieks, screams, and yelps from thousands of strangers that was in the area.

Juro: "What was that?"

Shiba: "Over there."

From where Shiba was pointing, it seemed to be of the same robot Juro has been seeing in movies and his dreams.
He was shocked to see it.
Because the robot in the movies, that were supposed to be all fiction were proved wrong...
It was right in front of him, proving itself to be real.

What was it doing here anyways, he wondered.
Why was this robot that he has seen in his favorite movies, Mighty Kaiju Deimos and the same exact robot that he had piloted in his dreams here...?

Here...?
Here...??
Here...?!
Why is it here?!

Juro wasn't excited, but rather, he was terrified.
Miura who somehow knows of the Sentinel is completely shocked of what just happened.

Miura: "He summoned a Sentinel..."
Miura: "Wait, it looks different."

Juro: "That's... a robot from that movie..."
Juro: 'N-no way... what's it doing here...!'

Shiba: "You idiot!"
Shiba: "What are you doing?!"
Shiba: "Send that thing back!"

Juro: "I did that...?"

Shiba: "Okino's damn code..."
Shiba: "He added a forced activation protocol."
Shiba: "Well, this'll be interesting."

Miura: "Are you..."

Shiba: "You leave me no choice."
Shiba: "I'm gonna need you to forget about all this for now."

Juro: "Shiba-kun..."
Juro: "Ugh...!"

Just then, a zap overcame Juro's brain.
He holds his head as if he's experiencing a very bad headache.

It was excruciating.
Thumping pain and more thumping boiled within his cranium, causing him to forget what had transpired.
Before Juro knew it, everything turned blank, passing out without even knowing what's going on.

But to a certain someone who was pulling the strings, it was okay to them.
Because it was not the time for revealing secrets.
It was too early and he couldn't allow his plan to unfold right then and there.

And so, with everything that had transpired in order to be forgotten...
The event came to an end.

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TO BE CONTINUED...
[Unfortunate Events]