The Five Kings: First Step

Hopian 97 Part 2 - Ludicrous

A/N: This is pretty unedited- so forgive me if their's mare spellink nistakes this time- lol kidding that was intentional, but really though try to forgive me if there are.

Last part, a young man named Elio who's a member of the robot Restroid's "New Red Fists" was shown. He was struggling to cope with his guilt for killing the boy Nancite's mother that the group abducted before their encounter with Metallic and Amandeath. After Restroid attempted to ease Elio's guilt with the choice of medication, we started to see Elio's past life as a busy student living in a "registered" apartment with his family.

Elio's P.O.V.

The next day...

"...Man... I'm seriously tempted to buy one of those artificial windows now... but nah- that's all fake. Ha- I really am becoming a rapper now saying nah and all..." I think to myself as I stare at the side of my room's screen wall- which is all made of glass and showing live footage of everything outside- and below our apartment. Of course everything is dark (especially since it's night) and there's no stars out but, at the same time with all the buildings lighting up the world around us, it does make for quite the nice view. I only wish I could see the sun SOMETIMES though... only seen it on TV.

"Xalen, Elio- we're heading to the Aliez's place in 10 minutes, you two are ready aren't you?" Mom calls up from downstairs... firstly I'm not ready so I'll lie about that but anyways- the Aliez's are in the apartment next to ours. And- jeez are they horrible to be with... besides their main problem thei-

"ELIO!" Dad calls out from my room's doorway which sends shivers down my spine as I flinch- damn it.

"OK ok what excuse can I use this time, oh I know."

"Yeah I know I'm sorry dad, I was caught up in a tough algebra question and before I knew it- 10 minutes left." I say with a laugh- however really I stopped working a while back to chill out.

"Ohhhh, I see I see- got you! Well just work on it when we get back, it won't be going anywhere. You know you're supposed to work hard and all but- you don't want to be one of those loner geeks either Elio. Right?" ...Dad says with a smile and raised eyebrows.

"Ha yeah. I'll get ready now." Is all I say- but internally I want to call out how frustratingly stupid that comment was. They literally put a MONITORING PROGRAM onto both mine and Xalen's computer's to count the hours we've spent on the apps we're using for school- and the hours they want to see on there every day are ubsurd. And yes- I've tried finding loopholes in the program to trick it but- no dice so far.

Anyways, even if I WAS doing a random question up until now it would be on THEM not me- never mind this isn't worth the stress, just move on as always.

10 minutes later...

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*BZZ!*

"Hey Mr. Aliez, can we come in?" Dad shouts loudly after pressing the doorbell outside of the thick silver metal door to our neighbour's apartment. On that topic, he's wearing a "fancy" plad dress shirt and khaki pants while mom is wearing a dark red tie dress which actually goes pretty well with her darker skin.

I look to my right to see Xalen fiddling with his short sleeved blue dress shirt tie that has a bow tie attached to it's top- which looks incredibly dumb in my opinion. Then again he wasn't the one who chose to wear it obviously... either way, he's still smiling though like always which is good, I'm hoping he's starting to get over dad deleting his vlog channel.

Anyways the floor hallway with ours and probably about one thousand other "registered" rooms is even more bland than the metal door here. It's walls are a navy blue, and there is a rough cement floor beneath us.