Sitting on a yellowish ground with a City covered in yellowish smoke not far away and in his hands there was a ball of fire that was dancing between both hands, left and right.
After doing this the fireball took the shape of a raven and began to fly around the redhead who looked at this with a calm face.
Adryan just held out his hand and the raven flew for a few more moments before coming down and resting in his hand.
"You are more of a bird of fire, you don't look like a raven so much"
He said and the raven just looked at the redhead's red eyes.
The fire raven only had the silhouette of a bird and that was it, there was nothing that said it was a raven in the first place.
Adryan put those thoughts aside and just waved his hand causing the fire raven to turn back into a ball of fire that floated in front of Adryan.
He was very anxious and this was his best way to deal with that anxiety, the fact that Zhou would fall in 12 hours had left him like that.
He had not been able to sleep at all and after spending 4 hours doing anything he had entered the City of Calamities to be able to vent.
At first he had used stronger moves but after two fire lances he started using fire bows, then ravens until he finally got to fire balls.
Curiously, the last two were the ones that calmed him the most and made his mind not be so heavy.
'Who would say that seeing a few crows of fire fly and also playing with a ball of fire would be so therapeutic, maybe they should use this to calm down anxious people,' thought the redhead who was much calm and he grabbed the fireball and squeezed it making it disappear.
Looking at the City not far away, Adryan saw the fire soldiers who were patrolling as usual.
"..." Closing his eyes and feeling his spirituality, he nodded and opening them again, he began to head towards the city.
He was going to walk around for a while but only around the edges where it was most similar to the Asuncion of his past life, he was not going to get very deep, he had not planned to do it before due to the incident but less after yesterday.
Moving around the edges he saw how there were even some stores that he had visited.
"La Bodega", "El Duende", "Biggie" and even "SuperSeis"
But there was also something that had left him somewhat uneasy and that was the fire soldiers themselves, as always the only thing they did when they saw him was to salute and leave but Adryan had noticed a change in them.
'It seems as if the fire they're made of has gotten a little stronger?'
The difference was very small and the only reason he had noticed that change was because of the connection he had with the City of Calamities.
Not knowing what this could mean, Adryan just left the Sefirot and returned to his body that was lying on the sofa bed.
A pang hit his stomach so Adryan quickly went to the bathroom to relieve himself.
"Why the fuck didn't you create the bidet Roselle, I hate using toilet paper..." the redhead whispered angrily as he dried his hands on a towel after washing them thoroughly.
Looking out the window, Adryan saw that the moon had already fallen and the sun was high in the sky. Spreading the towel on a chair, the redhead took Hangover Time out of his pocket and opened his pocket watch.
'10:28 a.m....I should go buy a newspaper to see if there is already anything about Professor Isengar's party'
Closing the pocket watch again and pocketing it, Adryan went to his room and opening his closet he took out his modified jacket and put it on.
With that done he left the house and headed in the direction where the newspaper boy used to be.
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"EXTRA EXTRA...."
'There you are,' thought the redhead, seeing how the boy was still where he always was.
Approaching the newspaper boy, Adryan took 1 penny out of his pocket and handed it to the boy.
"A newspaper please"
"Here you have Sir,Have a good day!" the boy said happily as he handed him the newspaper and yelled again with another one in hand.
"EXTRA EXTRA"
Holding the newspaper, Adryan just took a public carriage back home and began to read it.
When he got to the middle he found something that made him laugh.
-Wanted any information on James Holmes-
_Any information related to the man will be rewarded with a minimum of 90 pounds if it is more detailed it will increase even more, He is a tall man that wears a black windbreaker that barely exceeds his shoulders and is always wearing a mask whose eyes and mouth seem to be in an eternal scream,it must be delivered to the Lucky Bar...._
'Looks like I traumatized the Machinery Hivemind after I visited their house' Adryan thought amused as he continued reading and finally came to the announcements part.
Quickly reading through the ads the redhead found what he was looking for in the lower right corner.
'So the next party will be on Friday at 7:00 p.m. and the code is 2 long hits with an interval of 3 seconds, and 5 short hits with an interval of 4 seconds'
Satisfied with the information, Adryan closed the newspaper and folded it, placed it on his lap and waited for the carriage to come to his house...
"23:00 p.m...It should be soon" whispered Adryan who was in his room and he was looking at the time from the Hangover Time.
Right now the red moon was not yet at its highest point and if the redhead remembered right now Welch, Naya and the original Klein should be studying Antigonus' family notes.
Sighing again, Adryan closed the clock and looked at his ceiling, in an hour the original story would start and all the horrible events would begin.
The moment he had been waiting for so long is just around the corner, this is what he had been preparing for all this time.
'Klein will come to Backlund in October so when that happens I'll only have a few more weeks and I'll have to leave this place,' thought the redhead heavily,he only sighed again.
Backlund even now was too dangerous for him, and he had to get out of here before Klein released the soup from the pot or else he could become the new pot.
Closing his eyes, Adryan began to meditate to pass the time....
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Opening his eyes again and opening Hangover Time he saw the time again.
'23:20 p.m...it should be starting now...'the redhead thought seriously as he watched the hands of the clock turn slowly.
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In a house that seemed expensive and inside a room on a table there was a black hardcover book, this book was open in half and seemed to have writings in the Ancient Feysac language.
The door of the room was open and in the corridor there was a man with a chubby body and pale skin, this man was hitting his head hard against the wall leaving a bloody mark but the man was not stopping he was not even letting out any moans of pain.
His expression was flat like he doesn't even know what he's doing...
In the bathroom of the room there was a woman with a simple appearance and good skin, her expression was also flat and she just covered the sink and turned on the faucet and waited that it was filled to the brim with water.
Once the water was overflowing she put her head in it and didn't get it out no matter how much time passed she never put her head out...
Standing in front of the book was a man who has black hair, brown eyes, an average-looking face, a deep outline, and is thinly built.
This man seemed to be reading the book and his lips were moving but he wasn't saying anything, just like the two previous people he also had a flat expression and didn't seem to notice what was going on around him....
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"23:30 p.m" Adryan whispered as he watched time go by thanks to Hangover Time.
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The same man from before was leaving the house and he had in his left a black hardcover book, it was the same book he was reading.
And in his right hand was an exquisite revolver.....
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"23:50 p.m."
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The same man as before but now he did not have that book in his hands and now all he had was the exquisite revolver.
He was moving through the empty streets of the city of Tingen being only accompanied by the beautiful red moon in the sky that seemed to illuminate his path.
The man finally reached his destination which was Daffodil Street, he advanced a little further until he reached Unit 2.
He looked at the building for a few moments with his expression still flat and calmly entered.
Arriving at his apartment he simply took his key out of his pocket with his left hand and used it to calmly open the door.
He moved through the small apartment passing 2 rooms that held a man and a woman, both fast asleep not knowing what was about to happen.
The man didn't even look at the doors of the rooms but he reached his own and calmly opened the door. He then entered the small room and closed the door behind him.
With that done, he moved to the desk in front of him and pulled out a plain notebook from the top drawer and opened it halfway.
Sitting on the wooden chair and grabbing a pen, he wrote on the yellowed sheet of the notebook a sentence in the Hermes language.
"Everyone will die including me"
With that written, the man raised the revolver to his temple and only accompanied by the red light of the moon he pulled the trigger....
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"00:00 am"
Seeing that both hands of the pocket watch pointed to XII Adryan closed Hangover Time and lowering his hand he shifted his gaze to the red moon.
With a small smile he just nodded and spoke respectfully.
"Welcome Mr. Fool"
'The wheels of history have begun to turn now no one can stop them we just have to move forward or we will be crushed by its passing'
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In the room of the man who had committed suicide, the body that was lying on his desk suddenly gave some signs of life.
After trembling for a few moments, the man straightened his back with difficulty and his gaze was cloudy.
In his temple was a grotesque wound that had burns on the circumference, blood stained around the wound, and grayish-white brain matter slowly writhing within.
This man who should be dead looked confusedly at the desk in front of him, then slowly looked up at the scarlet moon that hung high in the black sky....
Here are the first 5 chapters.
See you tomorrow.