Chapitre 40: First Test

With everyone fast asleep, only two shadows could be seen standing close to the bushes by the side of the road.

"He won't survive for long," Logan said, puffing out smoke from his lit cigarette, his back resting against a tree trunk.

"I can't believe this!" Don ran his hand through his hair and sighed. He took a step forward, then back, and sighed again. He had been sighing more often after Logan informed him about Kia. Unlike the others, he was the only one Logan had told about the system, what it does, and now he had just found out that Kia had one of these.

Now he was feeling even worse for the kid. He had firsthand witnessed what happened to Logan when he also failed his mission. Logan, being in the military, had an extremely high pain tolerance, yet the ordeal had left him both physically and mentally scarred. The thought of Kia, an ordinary civilian who seemed to have let himself go, facing the same fate made his stomach churn a little.