Chapter 2: Departure
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Somewhere the ship is anchored in the ocean. There were a lot of people wearing black and white striped prisoner uniforms gathering.
'How did I end up here? Why should I be in this place!' A bespectacled boy with black hair began to stare blankly at the sky, as if the bespectacled boy still couldn't accept the fact that he had become a prisoner.
"Hey you, don't stop walking all of a sudden like that!" Suddenly a large hand tapped the shoulder of the bespectacled teenager.
The big hand comes from a man who has a large stature and a height of about 190 cm. The big man had a scar on his face, it was very scary like a gangster in general.
The bespectacled teenager could only walk and catch up with the prisoners in front of him.
That's right, the people in the harbor here are prisoners. Prisoners who will be sent to a prison in the Pacific Ocean.
'I am also here as one of the prisoners.' The bespectacled teenage boy subconsciously looked around him.
All around them there were countless people in black uniforms with sub-machine guns in their hands. They are all wardens who are assigned by governments around the world to send the 'Awakeners' to special prisons.
The leader was a middle-aged man with a black beard who was standing on a large podium, he was standing there with his back straight and staring intently at the prisoners.
"Welcome prisoners."
"I am captain Thomas of the prison ship 301."
"Surely some of you already know where you are going. That's right, all of you will be sent to an island in the Pacific Ocean called Tartarus Prison."
"Also, I'm sure some of you all have this in mind. 'This isn't fair!' , 'Why should I?' and 'This shouldn't be happening to my life!' Isn't that right?"
"Honestly, I have a little sympathy for all of you from the bottom of my heart!"
"But don't worry, it won't happen again! It's because you will be sent to the place where the heaven Awakeners will gather!"
"Even though it's called a prison of tartarus, it's a place where you can use your abilities to your heart's content."
"You can fulfill your dream of becoming a ruler! Isn't that what you all dream of? But sadly, in a place like that weak people can only submit to strong people!"
"I wish you all happiness in that tartarus prison!"
Captain Thomas opened his arms wide with a happy grin on his face.
"It is a lie!!!" Suddenly a big man who had been patting the bespectacled man shouted to refute his words.
When Captain Thomson heard the voice of rebuttal, the gleeful grin on his face instantly froze. He narrowed his eyes with a sharp gaze at the voice.
"Heaven of the 'Awakeners' gathered? Free to use our abilities? Make our dreams come true? It's all a lie!!!"
"In the prison of Tartarus, there are so-called executioners. They are the ones who take care of the behavior of the 'Awakeners' inside"
"It's not even uncommon for an executioner to kill prisoners! Not only that, there were even murders for fellow Awakeners."
"It is a hell where one can never come back alive! That's what they call the prison of tartarus."
The big man shouted loudly as he clenched his right fist and slammed it against the wall beside him.
BANG!
The wall beside him was quickly smashed to pieces due to the power emanating from his body.
At this moment, everyone in the harbor heard a very loud mocking laugh coming from atop the podium.
"HA HA HA HA!"
When Captain Thomson stopped laughing he suddenly started glaring at the prisoners below him.
"What a funny joke! Do you all still think that your little life is still as precious as the previous era? Don't get too big of a head!"
"That's because you can't be called humans anymore, but you've become monsters in human bodies!"
"Do you remember what happened 12 years ago?"
"7D Dust of the World!"
"After that dark cataclysmic day, just a week later the world has been struck with great panic."
"Some people have gone berserk all of a sudden for no apparent reason! They all lost control of their bodies after the seeds within their hearts bloomed!"
"They have a mysterious ability that is beyond normal human understanding!"
"And do you know what they did after they lost control?"
"They burn everything in their surroundings, destroying everything they touch, even their bodies that turn large begin to destroy everything around them."
"You are the monsters who disturb the public order, even now your number in all corners of the world is increasing non-stop!"
The prisoners could only stare at him with downcast eyes as Captain Thomson shouted in such anger that the veins in his neck were visible to all of them.
But the big man didn't care at all about Captain Thomson's anger and retorted back with a temper.
"f**k you, did you think that I would do such a thing?! I haven't done anything wrong, but why should I be sent to Tartarus prison?!?!"
When Captain Thomson heard the words of the big man, his face immediately turned gloomy.
Cracks!
At that moment, the wooden podium on which Captain Thomson was standing suddenly began to make a cracking sound.
"Didn't do anything wrong? How can you be sure about that? If you haven't done it yet, it doesn't mean you won't in the future! In the end, all of you will definitely do it!!!"
When the big man heard such a sentence, his expression changed from anger to hostility. It was as if the words spoken by Captain Thomson were a kind of taboo for the big man. Filled with anger, the big man began to run towards captain Thomson who was standing on the podium.
"Damn you!!!"
Captain Thomson was still standing where he was smiling, as if he had expected the big man to resort to violence just because of his words.
"You're prisoner number 95, what kind of abilities are you going to bring out? shoot fire from your hand? dispel the gravity around you?"
In just a few seconds, the prisoners here saw that the big man's body had become bigger with a large thorn on his back and his hands had turned into sharp flippers.
The big man leapt with all his might towards Captain Thomson, and pointed his sharp fins horizontally forward.
"Oh? Transformation ability? No wonder you are so confident to face me! It's because the transformation ability is known as a mysterious ability that strengthens their physical body which will be comparable to iron."
"But do you know why us ordinary humans who haven't been awakened can fight the Awakeners? If it's just a matter of breaking through iron, it's the easiest thing for ordinary humans like us. See it with your own eyes! This is the power of ordinary humans to fight Awakeners like all of you!"
Thomson gave a faint smile as he pointed his forefinger forward.
Some of the prisoners under the podium were a little confused about what Captain Thomson was going to do.
But the confusion lasted only a moment before they heard the sound of a barrage of bullets shooting a hard lump of iron.
Tatatatatata !
It was a sight they would not forget for the rest of their lives.
They saw the mighty power possessed by the big man's body easily penetrated by millimeter-caliber bullets. In just a few seconds, the big man's body was filled with holes. Just by looking at it, they immediately imagined a filter in their kitchen.
The only difference is the blood that flows to the ground due to the hole in his body.
"Report captain, tower number one managed to take down the rampaging prisoner!"
"Report accepted!"
After Captain Thomson heard the report from the walkie-talkie, he smirked slightly as he looked at the people below him indifferently. It was as if the one that had just been shot was not a fellow human, but an uncontrollable monster.
"I hope all of you will be obedient during your delivery to Tartarus Prison!"
Then Captain Thomson began to turn toward the dock, followed by the armed men beside him.
At the very back of the prisoners, there was a teenage boy with short yellow hair crouching down, looking cynically at the direction Captain Thomson was leaving.
"Hehehe, you cunning old man! He deliberately provoked that big, strong-looking man just to extinguish all the flames of resistance of the prisoners here."
Then in front of them all, a very large black ship had arrived to pick up all the prisoners who were in this port.
No, perhaps rather it was a huge coffin for all of them.
- Writer
