Project Schemer: Higeki's chapter: Requiem

Arc 2 - Chapter 4: To create a myth.

"I know it's smelly and a little bit disgusting but endure it."

"What is this thing."

"You can tell from the smell, it is fake blood."

"That is why it is heavy and sluggish ?"

"What is your true intention ?"

"We must find someone to blame right ? I am having a plan, what about creating a monster, a killer that using the slum as its hunting ground. Nulv the killer."

A killer who use the slum as his hunting ground, his method is gruesome to say the least, with that profile he roam the street and brought fear with terror. His first attack will be sector 8 while declare he is also the culprit for the bio attack in sector 12, that will also show the fact that he is knowledgeable in a lot of fields. A fiend in the form of an knowledgeable man that the city can't find and the truth will be hidden while the terror continue. Myth turned into reality, turned into a nightmare, a living nightmare walking among them, the killer suspect will be those who live in the city. 

"A killer, a fiend in the shape of a person. The terror in the slum, the city will ignore this but with the current situation, they will fear the fact that the killer can target the city."

"You have a plan."

"No this is just something i just think about but i think it can be a great plan."

Every brilliant idea come from something so sudden or it can self destructive but for now this plan can help everyone disappear with a good reason. Population in sector 8 is not that much so the city will ignore them anyway but everything will slowly build up but now a letter to the city will be perfect. A letter has more meaning than anything, it will create fear and a sense of insecure, the battle against the city leave me no choice but using every method that i can defeat them. After finish the letter written in red ink because the fountain pen can give a beautiful writing but if it is loaded with fake blood the pen will be ruined and there is no second one since the pen is a gift by the butler in that mansion. Beside, i have a feeling that Nulv will send more letters to the city.

And with that plan, everyone left sector 8 we met the polices on our road but they are all put down by Epsilon, Mu and Lambda's nano machine. And Epsilon along with her father erase every trace and we continued our trip in the night and the haven is in our sight. Avios and everyone is amazed, first they can remove their mask for the first time in their life, the large dome closed after the last person come inside and the air is filtered at the moment they removed their mask. A world of harmony with a cognition filter to hide the truth, it is too soon to declare war officially and that is the reason they are surprised. But they also surprise me, the people of sector 8 make friends really fast and just five minutes passed and i can't know the children on the street are children from sector eight or two or our old sector. 

"So sector 8, my father is here right ?"

"Yes, but i think you two should talk and solve everything out. I don't want anyone to have a life like Epsilon or that child we saw in the haven of sector 2."

"I guess you are right, he is the past that i ran away from but now, no more running away. Even after everything, i am still his son."

"I will go with you."

"Thank you, that really help me."

Avios is staying in the greenhouse, maybe old people like him really warm places and the greenhouse is perfect. Avios is sitting in the middle of the greenhouse, enjoying the warmth and the exotic plants and that is maybe what he need. But Avios also know i am inside this greenhouse, maybe his intuition let him know but he never knows that his son is here. Korvos left him at eighteen because of a fight between them and that was 20 years ago. Korvos left his home in sector 8 to live in sector 12 and finally become a gang leader like his father, like father like son afterall.

"Korvos..."

"...I... I think you should say first."

"Alright... i mustered my courage for all those twenty years, all i can say is... my action in the past was driven by emotion, i tried to overcome grief and step up as a leader but in the end, i failed as a father."

"It is not the fact that you are not a caring person is something that i can hate you for. I hate you because you decided to against your own volition and work with the city leader."

"I desired vengeance, i can't forgive sector 6 for what they did. Maybe that is the true reason why i can't forgive them and that is the reason why i work with the city leaders."

"So that is the answer i am always looking for all these years. Now look at us, two old mans so much time wasted for all those year... i am glad that you are telling me everything even it is a little bit late."

So everything end well but the fun only just begin, next morning is enough time for the quiet and mundane morning of the city becomes something that i can only describe with just one word and that is chaotic. People roaming the street to find a place where they can stay with others, no one walking on the street alone, security among the walls around the city is reinforced and the construction of the concentration camp is halted. Iota can be free for a while now, at least she don't have to put her life on the line and playing catch with the police force, with security focus on the wall, Theta, Xi, Delta act free and collect all the data we need. Nulv is the idea i came up like an accident and that accident work perfectly, with the city in distress we can act freely and the next ally should be sector 10.

"I think you should have a conversation with that person. I promise he is not some annoying noble brat."

"Why do i feel like he will act like a brat but i promised right ? I will have a little bit longer family moment and tomorrow i will meet him."

Stargazing night again, it is a habbit in this family but it is really relaxing and calm me down during time like this. Instead of the front door, this time we decided to use the roof. There are countless star in this simulated sky but one star always appear on the dome and it is the reflection of that star from the sky above. I always feel like that star is calling me, not all the star on the sky, just that blue star always calling me... could this blue star has something to do with Tomoe ?

"Everything is good ?"

"Everything is good."

"Are you still looking for the reason of your existance ?"

"Always, i am always looking for that. I still want to learn about the past that i have and i think this person may have an answer."

"Don't worry about that too much, i know you are having a lot in your mind but how about relax for a while, watch the star, hear their voices."

The voices of the stars... what is this... in front of my eyes is a large wall of text... written in the language i can't understand. But something, some memories inside my mind, that language... council of the thirteen... voices of the star, the voices of the star, their wishes, their judgement on this world is decided, no one can change its judgement. The star desire vengeance for the humiliation it took, using the faint memories, all i can see are some words filled with hatred. 

"Higeki... Higeki..."

"Are you alright ?"

"I am fine... what happened ?"

"You just collapse, is something wrong ?"

"No, it is just... i know it is hard to believe but do you think thaumaturgy exist in this world ?"

"No one in this world can do that but maybe not someone from this world can do that."

"Because a star can't make a floating mural."

"But we didn't see anything... based on what happened to you, that could be something that happened."

I know one thing in my mind, i am not crazy and my sanity is remain in one piece, the mural on the sky, the blue star or something is imprisoned among star. A cry for help, the anguish for the humiliation, so that is what i shall do after the liberation of Altoris, i will answer your call and save you my bright, beautiful blue star. I felt we are connected by some invisable bond, a calling or something like that, i am required to save you, so waiting for me dear my blue star. 

"I will listen to you... I think you are living in the wrong universe or maybe you are staying on some far away world. Without respect you think people will listen to you ?"

"Of course, because i have a lot of information about the city leaders."

"You know that isn't some advantage you can use because we have any informations that we need right ? So, be an adults, show some respect for other and maybe you will gained some respect in return."

"You know i can use the location of this place to blackmail everyone here or sold you all out for the city."

"Blackmailing isn't working i can say that, i appreciate you as a guest but i am nothing more than an advisor and i am sure, walking out of this haven will be much more dangerous than staying in here."

"And why would i want to stay in the wolf den ?"

"So you didn't read the news, i am sure the wolf will stay down but a monster wandering the sectors... i am not so sure. You didn't know the fact that the new monster is a genius and a psychopath at the same time."

"The killer... and i thought that is some rumor you people made to slander the police force of the city."

"It is very true, a killer, a monster, a psychopath wandering the street to satiate his hunger for blood. They still calling him by the name he signed in the blood of his victim, Nulv - the moonless night killer."

The noble brat soon learned the fact that his well-being is threatened by the city and the killer and decided he will stay in the haven and tried to be more polite. The rumor is created and repeated to spread fear, using fear to control your enemies movement, this plan won't work if those people live in the city are brave. But they only care for themselves and that is the reason why the rumor is the most powerful weapon against the city, but i doubt the fact that this is only our war. Someone else also used Nulv to attack the city, last night, during my stargazing session, a homicide in the city happened. And that is the reason why fear are spread but this person act is careless and they could got caught, i need to find this mysterious person who tried to use the name Nulv to benefit himself.