Meanwhile, in a rusty Shipping Container in the outskirts of Virginia.
"Honey...did you feel that? It seemed like there was an earthquake just now, but it quickly got stopped?" The mother says, holding a baby in her hands.
"Things like that always scare me, it happens too often, but it looks like we''re still safe." The father says, sitting next to her with a can of beans in his hands.
The man and the woman who go by Lopa, and Selene. seemed to be a couple, and the effects of Kashikoi''s attack hadn''t reached them, they truly were blessed and could continue caring for their newborn child. The two had been living in a rusty shipping container, where no one had looked.
Suddenly, the cargo doors on the shipping container began to shake. Selena''s eyes widen, she notices this and quickly tries to lower her aura, but it had been too late as the two men quickly burst through the cargo doors.
One of the men had been wearing gloves on their hands, raggedy pants, and a muscle t-shirt, while the other had been completely shirtless, and wearing raggedy pants as well with no gloves.
"Honestly, I don''t know where the hell all that lightning came from, but we need some new loot now." One of the men says, gloves on their hands, raggedy pants, and a muscle t-shirt.
Lopa, who had worn a torn black shirt and oversized shorts, decided to intervene, charging his aura as a visible display of determination.
"Look...I don''t know who the hell you two are, and what you are doing here, but you need to leave. We claimed this shipping container as our home, this is where we take care of our child." Lopa says.
"Who are you talking to? You think we give a damn who you are or what you think you claimed. We''re here to rob you, and if you keep acting out of line, then we''ll end this little family of yours." The shirtless man says.
The two men burst into laughter, but their mirth was short-lived as Lopa swiftly closed the gap. His fist connected with the shirtless man''s face, interrupting the laughter. As he poised to strike the other one.
He would be too slow, though, as the man with the gloves kicked Lopa in his leg with enough force to break it. Selene quickly ran over to her partner, trying to help him, but this would quickly be short lived, as the man with the gloves would quickly snatch Selene''s baby, tossing her outside of the shipping container, and closing it, leaving only the two men, Selene, and Lopa inside.
"No! Please! Not our baby! Listen...you can have everything, anything you''d want, but our baby is only two years old. We need our baby." Lopa says.
"Oh? Where''s all that bravado tough guy? A few seconds ago, you had the balls to punch my friend over there, honestly, you knocked the hell out of him. You say that''s your baby, and I can understand that, but let''s be real...that baby would have eventually slowed you down and gotten you killed." The man with the gloves says.
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"Listen...please...have some compassion, my boyfriend, he was just trying to defend us, even if she would have slowed us down, it''s our job to take care of the baby we brought into this world...so please, take all our stuff, and just let us have our baby back...please!" Selene says.
The shirtless man gets up and looks over to the woman, noticing the tears in her eyes. His eyes widen, but he then smiles, and begins to laugh. The man with the gloves begins to laugh as well.
"Compassion! Your job! Your job lady is to survive, that''s all of our jobs in this sad world. If you would have caught us the last thirty five times we did this, maybe...just maybe you would have gotten the slightest ounce of compassion out of us, but that won''t happen...you both are about to lose everything. Sorry." The shirtless man says.
Both of the men stomp on Lopa''s leg, making him scream out for help, before eventually stomping on his face, killing him instantly. Selene screams out her boyfriend''s name, knowing the inevitable fact that he had been killed.
The shirtless man walks up, and kicks the lady in the face, sending her flying to the back of the shipping container. Both of the men slowly walk up to Selene, she tries to speak, but the kick had caused her words to become disorganized.
"Love...child...sorry." Selene says, her face bleeding from the brain injuring kick.
"Aww look at her, those are your last words? How pathetic." The shirtless man says.
The man with the gloves kicks her in the face this time, she raises her hand in a last ditch effort, reaching her hand out to her boyfriend. Even though the woman''s head had been nearly shattered, her last final instinct was to reach her hand out to the one she loved the most.
Noticing this, the shirtless man had begun tearing up, but he quickly wipes his tear, shoves the man with the gloves out of the way, and kicks her again, this time killing her.
The events of this happened only two minutes after Kashikoi left off his attack, the world as everyone knew it had been changed, there is no such thing as sympathy anymore, no such thing as love. As long as you decide to continue walking this earth in the condition that the world had taken, then you will abide by the fact that family, love, morality, is no longer something that exists.
The baby died seconds after, the man with the gloves tossed her with too much force, causing her head to bounce off the solid ground. The death of many others happened as well, chaos only brings more chaos, and no one cared to find a solution anymore, everyone treated this destroyed world as normal, basking in its madness.
(Back at the cabin that Joki, Double and Kazu had lived in)
Outside of the cabin was Double, who had leaped on top of the roof. He takes a deep breath, and clenches his fist. Double looks up at the sky, and the first person he thinks about is Kashikoi.
"Neglect, unfairness, I understand Kashikoi, you may not want me to say that, but I do...Joki told me everything, and I forgive you. Whatever awaits you in the next life, I hope they forgive you too. I hope you can find peace with yourself..." Double says, smiling.