The Five Kings: First Step

Hopian 91 - Efficient not Evil

Last chapter, Seric encountered Habram once more in his dreams as the God took the form of a lustful Karia. After Seric woke up, Domino Afolabi, the face of Fixed Reality Casino announced online that he would be holding a set of "games" for a government issued ticket to Dalkan. Afterwards, very soon after he joined, the quartet lost a vital member to their team...

Near the outskirts of the Hopian Continent...

???'s P.O.V.

"...I still can't believe they're going through with the conscription. Just- right when we started our family too, and now I'm going to be forced to serve this place! And right when... when... why couldn't they wait until I'm 27 to do this!" Mom says... I don't know what she means but, she's sitting in our dark car with her curly red hair and blue eyes in the seat across from and in front of me. And more importantly she's crying!

"Azra come on stop, you don't want to ruin our special guys 8th birthday do you? We'll make it through this, promise, they'll let you call us for sure and all anyways. IF we can't bribe you out of having to serve. Anyways. So Nancite, how do you like the drive? Is riding in a car as cool as you thought it would be?" Dad says as he looks at and smiles at me as he holds mom's hand, at least he's happy... but mom... she's still wiping away her tears with her palms and pretty fingernails. O-Oh... well I can't help her I guess, why is she so sad...?

"Yeah, this is awesome. How fast are we going now dad, 15, 20- we're zooming across the people on the streets!" I say with a wide grin as I lean against the window of our car, it's got heated black leather seats and everything, so comfy! Even better, me, mom, and dad can sit together here without even worrying about controlling the car. It's all automatic on the roads tracks, all we have to do is monitor the big screen that's sticking up on a pole between our seats! I think it's to enter in your destination and all that, then the car does the rest itself... man I'm so happy dad bought this for us!

And to think people still don't try to buy these things anymore... dummys. Like dad said before, yeah they're probably just too lazy to drive and work.

Anyways oh right, outside there's all sorts of people, like some weird guys without their shirts on...

"A-aha, sorry for crying baby. I'll check the speed... um... there's all sorts of numbers. Nancite you watched videos on this stuff, so what value is speed here, C°? ZC? KM?" Mom asks as she's looking down at and tapping the control screen that's lighting up the car in between us. Mom and dad always say their jobs make them a BUNCH of money, so why aren't they smarter than the other dummies here?

"......KM, mom. Here I'll check!" I say with a sigh but laugh as I unbuckle my seatbelt and scooch over in between mom and dad so I can look at the screen again.

"Haha hey Nancite come on I know it's your birthday but- you can't just not wear a seatbelt, I'm pretty sure you need them to keep safe!" My annoying dad says with a laugh as he tries to gently pull me away but- like crap if I'm doing that! Everything looks so cool, there's numbers everywhere across the blue screen, there's even a radio option... the-

*BZZZZZZZZZ- CLICK!*

"Ah! Nancite come on, you broke something didn't you..." Mom says as the car suddenly stops and the screen turns off, good thing we weren't going too fast or else I would've gone flying there!

*CHK! HMMMMMM...*

"Wha... um, I don't think I... um..." I start to say as all the doors to our car start to slide up and open, I can see people with black masks on standing right outside again, their holding stuff... um, are those a gun?

"AHHH!! PLEASE WAIT-" Dad tries to cry out but, a guy with a gun slams his head really hard, I-I don't like this-

"Mom I'm scared!" I cry out but, when I look over to her seat she's already being pulled out of the car! Her head it's, it's bloody- there's blood all ove-