FUKUSHŪ

CHAPTER 12

Chapter 12

"Kill it!"

Came a cold order from her master.

She looked at her best friend, her hand shaking as she gripped on the gun. Her eyes already wet from tears, as her friend's eyes stared back at her full of trust and love.

She closed her eyes tightly before she pulled the trigger, with a loud bang in the air, a whimper could be heard. Her friend. Her only friend and she...

"Good... now dispose it"

As her master walked away, she opened her eyes slowly. Her friend now in its final breath. Its chest rising and dropping slowly. She could feel her knees weak as she slumped next to it, crying silently, covering her mouth with her hand so her sobs will not be heard by her master. Then she felt something wet on her knee. He licked her knee while it was still whimpering in pain. Telling her that everything is alright, that everything will be alright. He accepted his fate and he still loved her no matter what. She placed her friend's head to rest on her lap and felt the soft fur as she rubbed his head. Slowly and peacefully, his eyes closed. She hugged him tightly before she carried it with her to its grave.

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Chaeyoung raised her hand and waved at her audience before she put on her dark grey helmet. It was a specially made helmet that was made from the technology of NerveGear which had a virtual reality 3D vision for maneuvering. At the side of the helmet was written the label "SpHere". Stradling the matching colored motorbike which also had a same label at the side of gas tank, Chaeyoung gave a command from inside her helmet. "Engine, start!" The command was also heard by the audience from the central speaker. She could hear gasps from her audience as the engine of the machine started automatically just by the voice command. The big screen showed the live footage of Chaeyoung's vision monitor. As Chaeyoung turned her head toward Mina , the audience seeing the exact same thing Chaeyoung was seeing.

"Vision, Zoom 50... Zoom 100" She commanded.

"Eh?!" Mina who was seated at the VIP seat was surprise as she saw her own image on the large screen, obviously, Chaeyoung was looking at her right now. She waved and smiles sweetly to her wife before Chaeyoung waved back and turned her attention to the track ahead.

"Sphere, auto pilot...start!"

As Chaeyoung gave the command, the machine started moving at a slow speed and at the first corner, the speed increased while Chaeyoung calmly just straddle's her bike and let the auto pilot take the road.

"Sphere, switch to manual maneuver...start!"

A click sounded indicating the lock for auto pilot was lifted, and Chaeyoung gripped the handle to increase her speed. The screen showed the road, various calculations and meter on the screen inside the helmet.

Letters blinking "Frequency Interference" and "Auto Pilot Mode" appeared before the the word 'Error' in red letter appear on the screen.

"Huh?... Sphere, decrease speed" Chaeyoung gave another command, yet the same letters appeared.

"Sphere, emergency stop!"

The letters blinked again.

"Shit" Chaeyoung swore before she lost all control and crashed into the side road.

In the VIP seat, Mina's face become pale as she saw Chaeyoung's motorbike hit the side block with a loud crashing sound. The medic rushed to the rescue, luckily, the sphere technology had a separate accident counter measure engine, so the fire didn't occur as the carbon dioxide gas already bursted out from the back of the motorbike managing to purge the fire before it broke out.