PREAMBUL; And Now... You're Dead. Again.

That Was Just Too Late

Oh, how I wish I could end this story with, 'And then The Latus go away, freed every other Jlanxs, they found out that Alesh's family is in some underground prison but they all fine, and they live happily ever after'

But they're not that lucky. Someone had hit Alesh right in the chest, shortened her breath and reflexively opened her eyes, in result received lights from the flashlight.

"WAAAAAAARRRRGGHHH..!"

A thousand needles feel to pressed her head, spread to her neck and slowly to the entire body. She twitched, making the ceiling crannied by her scream. Closing her mouth to stop her scream, but that was in vain, "WAAAARRRGGHH! RRAARRGGGHH! AAAARRRRGGHHH!"

"AL!" Eidlan tried to reach her, "ALE – RARGH!"

A machines bump his head and the genius nearly loses his consciousness. He tried to think, his head twitching. In vain trying to move his hands or legs, feeling a thick liquid dripping from his head.

"EIDLA – AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!"

Too many lights, she opened and closed her eyes, received lots of lights, then got kicked several times. Her nose bleeding, her body won't stop flinched.

"AAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH...!"

"STOP!" Vasyl cried out, "STOP IT!"

He tried to reach her, but someone has shot his legs. His brother gasped, Alesh still screaming, and Vasyl could do nothing but cried again, "STOP IT! PLEASE!"

"IT'S HUUUUUURRRR — WAAAARRRGHH...!"

A Scietid kicked Alesh right in her chest, make her stop screaming for a while, then jerked and coughing blood. Lots of blood. The back of her head burning, everything feels misplaced. Vasyl's sight blurred, Eidlan greatly trembling that his Jait process stopped.

"Getaway!" Yelled Grier, tried to control his tremble, "taste i—"

A heavy machine threw and dragged him, along with a tall, muscular Scietid who punches his face. His brother gasped in horror, "Grier...!"

The fastest boy tried to move, but a sting sensation filled his feet. Vasyl turned his head. It came from a strange chain given by one of the Scietids. Grier received disadvantage again, both screams, the Scietids don't want to lose and bang him with other machines.

"WARGHOUCH!" Vasyl yelled. Sounds a little weird, his eyes dazzling, yet he still able to saw what happened, "GRI–"

Another attack to head. Vasyl flinched, Grier screamed, in vain trying to use his gun. Another Scietid comes and kicked his chest.

"WARGH!" Grier reaches his gun, "stay aw– WAAARRGH!"

Electricity surrounds him. He collapsed, half-awake. Not far from him, his younger brother got attacked, he screams to the top of his lung when someone breaks his leg. His hands moved everywhere, trying to get out. While Eidlan can not finish his Jait process, his head hurt to bear what he sees and think at the same time. A Scietid shot his mouth, didn't care that he can't protect himself.

Alesh? She couldn't stop screaming.

"AAAAAAARRRGHHH! AAAARRGGHH! AAAAAAKKKHH....!"

She should've fainted, but a filthy short Scietid grabbed her shirt and slap her face, "Open your eyes! Open your eyes!"

Alesh flinched so hard that her body turned, but the Scietids keep making her see the lights again. She caught way, way, way, too many lights. She felt her head explode, her skeleton must be burned.

But it didn't. That just how it felt.

Furthermore, a Scietid slap her again, "TASTE IT!"

Alesh feels her whole veins burned and broke, "WAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHH....!"

Eidlan and Vasyl broke into tears. The genius hates himself for not knowing what to do, not able to do anything. Gunmen surround him, aimed his head and shot several times, making sure he's weak enough to not moving.

Alesh, he thought while moving his fingers, Alesh!

Vasyl felt a terrible butterfly burst out his chest, chocked him from the inside. Alesh's scream, Eidlan's condition, his brother, all of those things cut out his oxygen, while Casya's face circling on his head, scared him to death for thinking he might not come back to accomplish his promise, letting that girl waiting in vain.

"ALESH!"

The genius let out a weak yelled, stumbled to reach her. Vasyl holds his breath, couldn't bear to see the way bullets accompanied his friends' steps.

"ALESH!"

Everything feels too slow, except for the rain of bullets. The genius fell down, shaking for trying to stand up. Vasyl rebelled from his chain, closing her eyes to hear screams.

"OPEN YOUR EYES!"

"Al!"

"NO!" Alesh yelled, so shrill that their ears ringing, "NOOO — WARGH!"

"ALESH!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!"

"ENOUGH!" Roared a heavy sound — strangely, it was Has's, "that's too much you—"

That was too late.

A scietid kicked Alesh.

She flinched, coughing much more blood, and collapsed.

"No..."

The genius fell, couldn't bear to accept what he just saw.

Alesh's health condition says she doesn't have a heartbeat anymore.