Chapter 1: Firefighter with a System
"Cough"
"Splat"
I still couldn’t believe it, I was on my knees and coughing up blood, while I looked at some of my old companions. People I saved from death many times...
...Among them, there was even the woman I loved, she looked at me with a cold gaze as if I were nothing to her...
"Why?" I asked, making a great effort and coughing up even more blood...
The leader of this group of traitors, who was also someone I once called brother, stepped forward and answered me:
"I don’t need to explain all the reasons since you’re going to die anyway... All you need to know is that this goes far beyond my will, or the will of the others who are here with me... You were... Let’s say... Too kind and correct? You would never accept the changes we’re going to need to make..."
"My kindness, huh?" I thought about acceptance as I finally began to lose consciousness.
As I closed my eyes forever, I heard several screams and explosions in the back of our base, a massacre was happening, and I wasn’t the only one dying...
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"HEY RICK, WAKE UP! They better not catch you sleeping again..."