Week 4 - Chapter 8 Cooperation
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Drogoz woke up from his stupor.
"Ow, my head hurts so bad."
Drogoz held his head in pain.
"Yo, looks like you're awake."
Hazama who was sitting listening to the song on his mp3 immediately greeted Drogoz.
“Y… You, why are you still here?”
Drogoz stammered a little as he still hadn't fully recovered.
Before Hazama wanted to respond to Drogoz's question, someone's hand grabbed his shoulder.
“Hazama, just leave this to me.”
Suddenly Claris Lily interrupted the conversation between the two of them.
“Drogoz, I'll just get to the point.”
"Work with us."
Claris Lily said in a bland tone as she approached Drogoz.
"Cooperate? Your group and ours?”
Drogoz immediately froze upon hearing that.
"Yeah, how about that?"
Claris Lily nodded her head listening to Drogoz's question.
Drogoz didn't answer Claris' invitation directly, but he looked at Naoto and Jin Kazama.
When Drogoz turned to Naoto, he saw Naoto open his mouth and speak.
"Drogoz, don't expect me to forgive you after what you did to me."
Naoto said it with a cold face.
Listening to Naoto's nonsense words, Drogoz could only snort his nose.
“I'm the one who should say that! Don't think that I will apologize to you for what I did earlier. My view is that weak people have no right to speak in this world.”
Drogoz replied to Naoto's words with a disgusted face.
"You...."
Naoto was starting to get a little angry at Drogoz's insult.
“Naoto, don't fall for his provocation. That's because what he said was the truth."
Jin Kazama stopped Naoto who was about to be provoked.
“Drogoz, I don't know what kind of experience you had about your past. But I understand a little of your feelings just now.”
Jin Kazama then walked closer to Dragoz and Claris.
“How, do you accept to cooperate with us?”
Jin Kazama stretched out his hand to wake Drogoz.
Seeing Jin Kazama's outstretched hand, Drogoz could only accept Jin Kazama's outstretched hand to help him up.
“Before I agree, tell me why you guys want to cooperate with us?”
Although Drogoz is a rude person, he is not a stupid man.
There was no way they would ask to cooperate with the person who was just about to kill him without a good reason.
"Okay I'll tell you what I know, I'm at least 85 percent sure we'll make it through the second layer if we work together."
Claris Lily nodded her head in agreement on Drogoz's terms. It's perfectly natural for us to want to know about strange things that should never have happened.
“In this second layer, we will fight some other prisoners. No, perhaps we'd rather be fighting another prisoner from a different ship."
Claris Lily explained it with a serious face.
"Hmm?! We're going to have to fight other prisoners? But why do we have to fight them?”
Drogoz was confused after hearing the information he had just heard from Claris.
"Of course it's one of the rules that the executioners have made to get information about the abilities we have."
Claris Lily said it casually
“!!!”
After hearing that, not only Drogoz was shocked but everyone who heard it was also shocked.
"Don't you feel that this Tartarus prison is too strange?"
Suddenly Naoto said the thing that was on everyone's mind.
“Yeah, even though I know this shouldn't be an ordinary prison but I didn't expect it to be like this.”
Hazama replied to Naoto's words.
“It was as if they wanted to witness an interesting spectacle from all of us.”
After a moment of silence, Jin Kazama spoke a sentence that made everyone's face change.
That's right before they entered this first layer everyone saw that this was not the normal prison they knew.
The atmosphere around them instantly turned heavy.
But it didn't last long because Drogoz broke this atmosphere with his consent.
"Alright, I agree to cooperate with your group."
Drogoz stood up while extending his hand towards Jin Kazama.
"Hey, I'm not their group leader."
Jin Kazama glanced at Naoto, Claris Lily and Hazama.
"It's okay Jin, I'm not fit to lead someone after all."
He raised his palms in front of his chest and waved.
"Yeah if Naoto doesn't mind then I'll support him too."
Claris Lily then jumped towards Naoto and hugged him.
"Hey!"
Naoto slightly distanced himself from Claris Lily clinging to his body.
"Come on Jin, you are the strongest among us so it's only natural that you will be the leader of our group."
Hazama said casually while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Alright then."
"have a pleasant cooperation."
Jin Kazama shook the hand of Drogoz who was extending his hand forward.
"Excuse me, how about we head back to the labyrinth's crossroads now?"
Naoto advised them all not to stay here too long.
"Of course we're going back there, we've spent a long time here."
Hazama responded to Naoto's words.
Then Jin, Naoto, Hazama, Claris, Drogoz, Crush, and Crist together continued their journey towards the finish line.
On the other hand, to be precise in the inner part of the prison. monitors were watching the movements of the various layers of their prison.
In that place, 8 people were sitting on iron chairs and a virtual man was watching Jin's fight with Drogoz in the first layer.
'Oh? I didn't expect that person to chase me all the way here.'
The man with the 'black silhouette' smirked after seeing an acquaintance on the screen.
"Why is this person in the first layer of prison?"
A woman holding a book asked in confusion while pointing at Jin Kazama.
"Even I just found out that there is a prisoner like him."
Said a man who had an 'X' shaped cross on his cheek.
"Of course you just found out, because he was here 3 years ago."
A woman with a katana sword at her waist.
“So does anyone have any information about this prisoner referred to as Jin Kazama?”
A man wearing glasses asked while turning his head towards the people who were here.
"Wait a minute, I'll search the database."
The woman who had the katana on her waist temporarily closed her eyes and fell silent.
After a moment of waiting, the woman who had the katana opened her eyes.
"I found his information."
Then the woman's eyes shone and a virtual screen popped out of her eyes.
The virtual screen in front of them contained a piece of complete information belonging to Jin Kazama.
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Prisoner = Criminal class S
Name: Jin Kazama
Gender: Male
Age: 22 years old
Imprisoned: In the 9th year of the disaster era at the age of 19
Seed Ability:
Blood type: AB
Background:
Old information: Born in a hospital in the Sunflower country. In the year 2198 both his parents died in an accident and left only a house and a younger brother named Jin Kazuya. Even though his parents had died, they still left enough money to support the brothers and sisters for several years.
Latest information: He entered Tartarus prison at the age of 19. At the age of 18, Jin Kazama was the one who caused a disaster in the Land of the Sun, which caused countless ordinary humans to die. According to the information obtained, he single-handedly annihilated the Sun Country due to a grudge, the exact reason is unknown.
-Information about his younger brother: Jin Kazuya is only 2 years older than Jin Kazama. He is one of the founders of the Eyeless Organization, at the age of 17 he destroyed one of the neighbors of the Sun Country, the Orchid Country.
After that incident, he was named as one of the 7 deadly sins, namely the Original Sin of Anger. It was because of this incident that the Eyeless Organization grew and became as popular as it is today.
According to the information obtained, the reason behind the Orchid Country m******e was revenge for his brother. That's why he began to hate the important people in the government and the common people who had teamed up to capture his brother.
Their organization is now known as anti-government, the organization is very supportive of the human rights of the Awakeners therefore a lot of Awakeners have joined the organization.
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