Rebirth

Chapter 2

Episode 10/Chapter 11
Episode 11/Chapter 12
Episode 12/Chapter 13
Episode 13/Chapter 14

Trigger Warning: Implications of ab*se

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Li was always incredibly observant. Her childhood was literally a breeding ground for capable people. Noah only glanced around, but Li knew he was worried about something.

"Sir, is something the problem?" Li asked.

"Li, have you seen Neo or Yuna?" Noah asked.

He had woken up not too long ago and saw the rest of his family, only those two missing.

She tilted her head, spotting the two children, "They just came up behind you."

Neo was now wearing a white mask while Yuna was borrowing a jacket from Neo as her windbreaker would be too thin now. She buried her face into the jacket, trying to block out the morning cold.

"What do you want?" Neo asked.

Noah stared at him. He put his hand on Neo's shoulder, then patted his head and turned him around, checking his condition.

"Quit it," Neo snapped. He slapped Noah's hand, "What're you doing?!"

"Sorry... got a little worried," Noah replied.

Neo didn't respond. He wasn't used to any attention from Noah. This open affection was strange.

"Someone died on your property, but that's all you care about?" Ian asked, "You do realize that there's no such thing as self-defense to the media right? How are you going to cover this up? 'The son of the famous company pushed an innocent servant to his doom.' Sounds pretty catchy for a headline, right?"

"Your nephew was just attacked and all you care about is how the media will react?" Yuna asked.

"I'm just looking at the future. This won't go well with the press."

"If you were really looking at the future then you should be thinking about how there's probably not going to be much of one."

"What?"

"Look," Yuna pointed at Brian outside the window.

Ian took a look outside and Brian was still moving around, the fall didn't do much.

"What is he?" Ian said a bit disturbed by the sight.

"It's not only him," Yuna pulled up a news channel on her phone, "It seems there's some crazy shit going on."

Oh wait, there's children. Yuna thought.

"Excuse me, there's something weird going on," Yuna corrected.

"What do you mean?" Parish asked.

"It's like they're zombies or something," Yuna showed her a clip from a cameraman being attacked by someone.

The screen was blurry. There was a figure of a man that was approaching the camera. The audio was coming in and out, groans peeking through.

"Sir, are you ok-" The cameraman tried to ask only for the camera to be knocked out of his hand and onto the floor, the only visual being the road, "Ow! Stop!"

There was some noise before a scream and blood splattering on the floor in front of the camera and then it went to static.

"Oh dear," Parish covered her mouth in horror.

"What should we do?" Lena asked, not even needing to see the video to know something was up.

Noah noticed Elise talking to Rika. Rika was one of those undead. It took him too long to realize. "Idiot! Get away from her!"