The New Ajin

2-4

"Hello, we meet again. It's Sato. As far as I know, the government has not yet responded to my demands. So I decided to get started."

The camera moves and a young man who is tied up with duck tape over his mouth is shown. He shakes his head and tries to get free, but nothing happens.

"That's right, with the top of the batting order, Mr. Wakai."

Sato bent down and touched the man's face.

"And this is..."

Sato stands up, points a gun at the man's head, and pulls the trigger. 

"This is the beginning of the countdown. When the second wave finishes, we'll move on to the third wave. The third is the final wave. I am going to take over this country."

I looked around as the video ended. Kei was still looking at the screen with the same expression he had when it first started, serious. 

Kou was standing up, outraged. 

And me, I had looked away when he pointed the gun at the man's head.

The video was uploaded to AJIN.net only ten minutes ago. 

Everyone in the building we were in gathered to watch it.

Mr. Tosaki had taken us to this location to train us to be his "immortal soldiers".

We were excused from the meeting and had to continue to training.

Today they were tested us with push ups. 

I mean, cmon, all I did in that truck was pushups. 

I blew by this test with ease, Kou was not too far behind me, and Kei, well, let's just say that he was more brains than bronze.

Kei could barely bend his elbows and his back was way out of line. It was like watching a five year old girl do push ups. 

"Why do I..have to..do this?" he would grunt out. 

Before we even reached 100, he collapsed on the green grass. 

"I've had enough," he sighed and rested his face on the grass. 

"You haven't even done 20," Kou laughed. 

"That's because I'm a white collar guy," Kei mumbled. 

I chuckled at that. 

"Yes, people are suited for different roles. But you've put on about four kilos in the last 40 days. At least lose that," Hirasawa, a middle aged man with glasses said. He was the one that was in charge of our training. 

"He called you fat," I said to Kei. 

"He did not. He simply noted that I have gained weight since being here," Kei replied sharply.

"Faaaat," I sang. 

It was quite strange how the three of us had gotten closer since being here. 

Kei was still pretty weird but I could tell that he was getting more used to us, as well. 

Kei liked me more than Kou since our personalities were kind of similar. Kou still got on his nerves, but then again, it just took more time getting used to him. 

Kou was loud and predictable. Exactly what Kei did not like. 

Mr. Tosaki yelled from a window, "Nagai Kei, Don't slack off!"

"I should have killed you when I had the chance!" Kei yelled back. 

"I'll pickle you in formaldehyde!" Mr. Tosaki shouted.