Theft of the Future
Chapter 40
The next day, Laju immediately asked permission for Iris and the others to get a day off. The day he was going to use to pay a visit to the community headquarters informed by Adrian yesterday.
Initially, Laju wanted to ask about the address given by Adrian to Iris. But, in addition to Parker's work that Iris is taking care of looks busy, also because of his feelings that are not so eager to involve these people with his business with Adrian. The pace prefers to find and come to it on its own.
After all, he can look for a taxi or something of all sorts.
“Please, sir. I want to come here, yes!” Excited Laju gave a business card to the driver.
“…! Heh! Basic human!” said the driver who spit saw the business card given by Laju.
The pace could only wrinkle his forehead.
Is the racism suffered by the city residents really this severe?
Due to Laju's thoughts still focusing on Adrian and his past, Laju prefers not to bring the problem any longer. There are many things that he wants to confirm about the existence, existence, and function as a human being in the community and population of this city.
Actually, it's not that hard. Namely, Laju just needs to go home.
But, his heart was dissatisfied with the overly simple answer.
Therefore, he tried to get more answers to Adrian. He hoped that if they could hang out longer together, Laju would slowly find the answer on his own.
After all, teleportation techniques were not cheap and easy techniques, right?
Even though one of Adrian's community friends has it, he can't use it smoothly either, right?
“Oh! Quickly!” Speak to the view he saw as the taxi walked around the city.
The T-block inscribed on Adrian's business card turns out to be an area where he and Parker attempt to enter the house and are suddenly trapped in a culvert. Perhaps because of yesterday's incident, this house is still sealed by many police lines.
Apparently, their headquarters was not far from this place.
“But...?” A little speculating between the two.
Is there an element of deliberate doing by Adrian in choosing a place for his community headquarters? I don't know. There are many factors that can answer this speculation. In the end, Laju just thought this was all just a coincidence and expected the best.
Wishing no giant mushroom monster would suddenly come back to life, run amok, and haunt his life.
Buk up!
“Cih!” The driver who was a rhinoceros beastman clicked his tongue and spat as soon as Laju closed his car door.
“...?” The pace just warmed his eyebrows next door.
Continued by turning his body, Laju tried to glance right left look at the curious place mentioned in this business card.
Is this the right place?
The rate seeks to match again the address located on the business card with the address attached written in each store. Actually, the taxi driver had done the right thing by delivering Laju at his destination.
This should be the area where Adrian's community headquarters is located, right?
“Then why is this place so sad?”
Although the city of Kannaris is a heartbreaking city when compared to Gloria. Although Kannaris is a dirty city, full of dust and smoke here and there that covers the sky to a brownish green, many buildings are rusty, garbage scattered in the hallways, and many other impurities.
This place is more miserable than that.
If Laju can explain this place with one word, the suitable word to describe this place is ‘kumuh’.
This place is a place where people who are less able to try to scavenge for food tomorrow. A place that has a lot of puddles, a place that is very dark because electricity does not arrive, a place filled with malnourished residents, dirty, swarming with flies, and yellow teeth.
For one second, Laju had compared this area to the building area where Boss Alex was in the human world. But, when Laju glanced over with more observance, this place, this Block T, was more and more pathetic.
As he continued walking, Laju swallowed his saliva deeply.
Not forgetting to give her thin smile, she tried to find a building that matched the one on the business card.
Tok to tok.
Until finally, Laju came and knocked on the building that had a similar feel to the residence of Boss Alex. The building that looked almost collapsed among the poor, yet had an extremely majestic aura within it.
“Oh, can you find this place? Welcome, Ju!” adrian said. “Come in. Consider it your own home!” Further.
Initially, Laju speculated that the furniture inside the building would certainly be very different from the physical outside – only used for camouflage as did Boss Alex.
In fact, which consists in this building is still equally sad, there are no luxuries at all, similar to everything that happens in this Block T residential area.
What you can see in the corners of this not-so-wide building is the wood that has been cracked ready to collapse, the ceiling is chipped, the furniture is half damaged, half damaged, perforated floor – and some rats are chasing in it, and of course lights and dim lighting
“Ahaha! Do you expect it to be like Alex?” adrian asked so pay attention to the pace that his head turned to pay attention to his surroundings.
“Eh? Ja. I think you're taking a similar approach to getting along with society. But the one here is really similar to the outer appearance.”
“Just learn. This is all we can get in this city. Racism towards humans is no longer helpful. We are truly hated, leveled with rodents, never given the chance to live properly.”
“…”
“You must have felt it too, right? Oh yea. How did you come here? Was ushered? Or take a taxi?”
“I took a taxi.”
“Well, didn't the driver do anything to you?”
“...!” The speed of remembering something.
“Because that is exactly what is happening in this city. I'm sure it's not the first time you've been bullied to be treated that low, is it? Spit, thrown, played, beaten for no apparent reason,” Adrian said while taking Laju around the building.
“Report, VS! There's a call from Gloria. The usual client. He asked for a report on the development and results of his investment,” said someone from behind the door. “Oh? Who is this? Are guests?”
“Yes. I'll take him around. Just tell the others to answer. They also understand the condition, right? Say I'm dropping off guests.”
“Alright! I'll take care of it soon!”
And that way, a human who cut off Adrian's conversation just disappeared again entering the room.
“Job order?”
“Yes. Lately things have been bad. This is also one of the reasons I moved from Gloria. The people in this town really hate us. I have to act before they launch another attack,” Adrian replied.
“Se-attack..?” Ask slowly.
“So how? You've certainly been treated unfairly, right?”
“Eh!? Yep! Aye! I've been treated unfairly like that!”
“Then from that, this community will welcome you openly!” adrian said while opening the main door. “We are human beings trying to live quietly in the city, trying to get recognition, trying to be able to live normally.”
Apparently, behind the big door in front of him were dozens of other humans who were working on many documents and other things that were busy.
“We are a collection of people who are victims of the injustice of the city!”
Some who heard Adrian's exclamation began to flick his work and began to pay respect to the motto and ideology of their community.
In fact, some cheered, clenched their hands, raised them high, excitedly burned, surprising Laju who did not understand the context that was being discussed.
“WE ARE HERE TO DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO LIVE AS EQUAL RACES AND BEINGS!!!”
And afterwards, Adrian more loudly called for his words, trying to more spirit burning idealists of the humans in the room, who then called back the words shouted by Adrian.
“Ya!” Excite the one.
“Around!!” Excited the others.
A clueless pace could only stand awkwardly about the call for an equal normal life.
No. gabe.
Actually, Laju slightly understood what Adrian was talking about But, perhaps because this happened so suddenly, Laju was just confused as to what kind of response.
“Eh? Ahahahah. I forget. Just relax. When entering the room and hearing the story of oppression I reflex immediately speech again.” Adrian shouted while patting Laju's shoulder. “Tenace. We're all your family here. We will always help you with what you need!”
***
After that, Laju more familiarize themselves with Adrian and his group.
How not? Compared to chatting with cat girls, slimy blue creatures and have gills, women who can turn into crows, horned men and have fangs, or other strange monsters. The pace prefers to chat with fellow humans, a creature he knows well.
Without any strange organs, without any unreasonable form, without beastmen, without dwarves, without other strange monsters.
And without feeling it, time passed so quickly.
But, since Laju did not feel this bothering him at all, not to mention the attention and appreciation the community gave him actually treated Laju like family, this brat really enjoyed his time in this place.
After weeks of being trapped in the world of monsters, finally being able to feel home by chatting with fellow manuisas makes him forget time.
He felt like he had just met Adrian yesterday.
Apparently, two weeks had passed him.
Zrruutt!
A man shows off their new experimental weapon, a, where a gun given a purple bullet can produce a black hole with a radius of forty inches that attracts all particles and after that produces an explosion in the place where the bullet is lodged.
“What's that gun?”
“Great, right? Adrian managed to find a unique element found in deepening.”
“But, indeed the public can get a gun license as easily as that?”
“Of course not. When do you think weapons can be used? This instead we use to play around too.”
“For what do you need weapons?”
“Of course to protect yourself. You'd forgotten? We humans are always denigrated here, remember?”
“Did you not come home? To the human world?
“We are not like you. For some of us, this is our home. We don't have much choice but to try to live and fight,” he said in a sad tone. “Already. I don't like to talk about topics like that. Hows it? Would you like to try it?” The man offered the gun to Laju.
“Eh!? Nope, no. No thank you!
“Wah, very unfortunate. But having a gun has a heavy responsibility. It is not easy to carry it!”
“No, not so!” Answer a man from behind who is bare-chested. “This boy prefers to fight close range! Not a coward like you! Hahaha!”
“Eh!? What did you say!?”
“I don't care. The pace! Let's go again! Reload duel! I am not satisfied with all these results! This time I won!”
“You sure? With a full body bruised like that!”
“Just take care of yourself! Hiyahh!!”
After cutting off Laju's conversation with the man who was displaying a demo of the use of purple bullets, this bare-chested man immediately jumped closer to attack Laju who looks relaxed, looks open, easily attacked.
But, the opening of the attack carried out by the bare-chested man was full of weaknesses, full of flaws. Thus, Laju can easily dodge and give a counterattack. Especially, when Laju relies on his best abilities; his reflexes, to turn things around.
Not only could Laju avoid the attack easily, with his unsound posture, Laju could hook his legs on the man, he pushed his face back, he was pushing his back, and the bare-chested man instantly practically toppled upside down, falling down hard.
In fact, Laju does not need to use his strength strongly.
As usual, he used the concept to utilize the opponent's strength to subvert his opponent.
“Ugh!!” The bare-chested man.
“You how many times have you challenged this pace? Not satisfied battered continues?”
“At least I fought him manly! Not using a gun that can attack from a distance and run like a coward!”
“This is technology, man! Times have grown!”
“Ah stop! I don't give a shit! The pace! Let's repeat again!”
“...ahaha, alright!”
And that way, the fight that occurred unilaterally was happening again at the request of the shirtless man earlier. Naturally, he was not to blame. As the weakest race, anyone would want to make themselves stronger. In addition to protecting yourself, to protect your family, and others.
But, it was a pity that this man had to fight against Laju, an abnormal boy, who had trained reflexes from his young age.
Despite the age difference of up to 10 years, this man still could not win, except getting bruises and wounds as usual.
“Are you satisfied?”
“Hah... hah. at least for today we have to deal with it. I-I'm getting tired..”
“When not? Your body was battered so. Just take a break. We continue the weekend. Let your body rest first.”
“Already, I understand my own body the most. If I rest and rest I can't fight with VS!”
“Yah... It's up to you too sih.”
“Actually what are you doing anyway? With this great ability are you a butcher? What have you been doing!?”
“Hm... Maybe you can call me working with the police.”
“Police? Are you cracking down on crime or something?”
“More or less.”.
“Which opponents did you defeat?”
“During this time I only managed to do two actual operations. First in the forest. Second, have a discussion with the hostage taking done in a house near here.”
“....who are you fighting?”
“Complotants or such dark groups that I know of. He said they were thugs who had smuggled illegal goods into the city and who had done a riot a few weeks ago. Oh, I also once completed a riot in the city.. as I recall, around in Block F?”.
“... You fight humans?”
“Eh? Da? Ken–”
DOR'S!
A gun with a distance of about eight meters was fired without hesitation by the man who daritadi laughed out loud seeing his friend – shirtless man, battered oppressed by Laju.
A gun was just fired by the man who had been busy discussing with Laju, about how powerful their latest invention was.
I don't know for emotional reasons that are unstable, whether because he has not mastered the gun, or because it is a skillful pace in evasion. Luckily, the bullet did not scratch the skin at all.
Or if so, Laju has disappeared swallowed by the black hole and exploded afterwards.
Not only that, the bare-chested man who was lying tired suddenly got the strength out of nowhere to go back against Laju. Trying to attack him, topple him, regardless of his battered body.
The problem is, the intention is now different from the previous exercise.
His intention now was no longer to try to fight to become stronger. But, with bloodthirsty intent, with killing intent, with the intention of annihilating this brat.
“SO ALL THIS TIME YOU ARE TROUBLESOME TO ALL OF US!? I THINK WE'RE BOTH HUMAN!? DO WE SHARE THE SAME FATE AND DESTINY? AREN'T WE FIGHTING TOGETHER TRYING TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT TO LIVE!? WHY ARE YOU THE ONE WHO IS THE ENEMY THAT IS KILLING OUR PEOPLE!?” Shouted the man who fired the gun earlier.
“I THINK WE'RE FRIENDS!? I THOUGHT WE WERE FAMILY!? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU, BOY!? WHY ARE YOU KILLING YOUR OWN FAMILY?” continued the bare-chested man.
DOR!
With more no hesitation, the gun was fired again at Laju which could still be avoided easily by him.
“DON'T DODGE!!!! LET ME TAKE BACK THE LIVES OF MY FRIENDS YOU TOOK, BOY!”
“T-but...?” Laju is still trying to process what happened to him, what his friend shouted, and the misunderstanding of what happened between them. “This is just a misunderstanding! Relax!”
“WHERE THERE IS A MISUNDERSTANDING! YOU ARE FINISHING IT!!! YOU BETRAYED YOUR OWN FAMILY!”
“I…? Finish them?”
The pace still doesn't understand.
What Laju has been doing is not based on an ideology that he thinks is right? Whatever his flaws, he never tried to harm others, right? Oh naw. He did it to Fadli.
But it's not important for now.
And then, what about Parker?
They say that those people are evil, right? Anyway Laju saw it himself Parker and the others were dealing with the police.
Is this cop in Kannaris really that bad?
The thought of pace blackened again. He suddenly could not think.
The only thing he could remember was Parker's hand rub yesterday, when he successfully completed the mission and his request, praising and flattering with his heavy soft words “I'm proud of you, Ju!”
