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Luckily for everyone involved, you manage to lure it somewhere far, FAR away from them. By the time your group eventually grows exhausted of running, your group stumbles to a halt in a mostly abandoned part of the subdistrict.
Well, maybe not abandoned. The road your group is now standing in is clearly undergoing construction. Massive hunks of the road are filled with still wet concrete. Piles on piles of barricades and signs are scattered around to deter any non-construction working from entering.
Piles of bricks, cement bags, and construction tools are littered loosely around the construction site.
A cement mixer lays dormant along the sidewalk while a road roller is packed on one of the far end of the half finished road. None of the crew are here. Maybe it's because it's late? You don't really have time to ask.
Your group eventually turns around to see what's been following them. While you managed to get a good look at him before, the rest of your group is (understandably) shocked to see the giant fucking centipede that's been chasing them.
"Yoouuuu run good. But not gooooood enough." COLD BLOODED INFORMANT scans his gaze across your group before immediately snapping his attention back to you. Your whole body shivers as he stares down upon you. "So many new bugs ssssquirming with you, huhhhhh? That's finnneeeee. You Ameri-" He interrupts himself.
"Hmm, no, most of you from former comrades. Italians, a Russian...even a fellow Japanese man." Half of those barely ring a bell in your head. "I missed that crazyyyyy German lass but...this is interesting." Wendy?
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] Old world countries that have LONG since fallen. It's been over 200 years since any of them properly existed. Probably closer to 220 years.
"Still. You're only bugs. Standing in the way of my briefcas-"
"No! I'm not going to take that FROM FUCKING <span class="mu-s">YOU!</span>" Everyone's shocked to see Adam standing up to screech at the bug. He immediately closes the distance between you and the centipede to slam his fist into the bug. It barely does jack or shit to the bug but it's enough to shock him. "I'M NOT LISTENING TO A SINGLE COPING, PROJECTING FILLED WORD OUT OF YOUR GOD DAMN MOUTH!"
"WE'RE BUGS, HUH? FUCKING LOOK AT YOU! YOU'RE THE ONE HARRASSING US! YOU'RE THE ONE SKITTERING AROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE!" Words laced with pent up emotions are leaking out of Adam's mouth like a leaky faucet. "I KNOW YOUR FUCKING KIND. YOU DON'T GET TO FORCE YOUR DOGSHIT PERSPECTIVE ON US. THIS MELODRAMATIC, HAUGHTY NONSENSE! TELL US WHAT YOU WANT. FLATLY. NOW."
<<span class="mu-b">"I've spent WEEKS trying to get him out of a shitty perspective, I'm not letting anyone else force a perspective onto the people I care about!"</span>> Even Adam's mind is racing like crazy now. Seems like this really got under his skin.
The construction site you're standing in is dead quiet now aside from Adam's deep, shaking breathes.
"I. I apologize." The slightly more cognizant Benedict murmurs out. "On his behalf."