Gantz: live or die

Chapter 43: the tokyo team and new faces



In the blink of an eye, time passes quickly, my days as a high school student are normal and I live my life as I want. At this moment I feel the call back to that rare room, It's that jet black sphere, when a paralysis stops my whole body. It had started again, as if it was only yesterday but it is now, gantz has a new fucking mission after almost a month...Me, Kishimoto and the dog included, left our apartment. 

I, Kei Kurono, am tied to live this...

"Here came others." 

"Look, these ones like costumes as cosplayers."

Some spoke. Once again I was here, standing in front of the black sphere a little over a meter in diameter, visible beyond the balcony was the dark sky and the figure of the tokyo tower. I and Kishimoto arrived wearing our black suits, we are holding hands when a crowd of strangers present turned their attention to us. There were already nine people in the room like in the original story that I remember, they are Sei Sakuraoka, the Buddhist priest, an yankee karateka, a fat military maniac, the soldier, two adolescents looking like slackers, Kiyoshi Miyafuji and the random man who dies first. At the site, the new group established a conversation, I was only planning to listen but somehow we also got involved in their talk. The focus of attention is the priest and he answers the doubts of others. The truth be told, I don't care if they die...

You can ask any question you have, I will answer you within my knowledge..."(Buddhist Priest).

"Where are we? At someone's house...?"(1) One of the adolescents asks. He has brown skin, shaved blond hair, and ugly glasses and hat.

"To make it simple, this is the place where we are judged after we die before we go to paradise..." (Buddhist priest).

"..." (1) He looks doubtful.

"What you said...I didn't understand anything..."(2) The other adolescent complained. He is a adolescent of average height and has a fairly slim body. 

" Exist those who live in paradise and those who fall into eternal damnation. Death brings us together...and this is where our destinies will be decided" (Buddhist Priest).

"Here we will be judged?" (Kiyoshi). A lean man with glasses joins in the chatter.

"To send us...to heaven or to hell..." (Buddhist Priest).

"I see...and how can we go to heaven...?"(Kiyoshi). He asked another question.

"You must raise a prayer. Namu Amida Butsu...over and over again. Those who recite the chant will go to paradise. Those who don't will fall to hell"(Buddhist Priest).

"Hahaha..." I laugh with utter contempt. 

"Young man, you seem to read a lot of manga, Do you have any questions?..."(Buddhist Priest). 

"Prayers are useless. This place has nothing to do with Buddhist heaven. None of us here have died yet, we are all still alive! Listen, It doesn't matter if you think it makes sense or not, we are gathered here to hunt aliens, that's the truth. You just have to know that if you don't listen to me, you are going to die...." I speak to everyone in the room.

"We've been here before. We know what's going to happen better than you do...believe us..." (Kishimoto). Next to me, my girlfriend talks to support me and convince them.

" Under these circumstances, it is not strange that they are going crazy..."(Buddhist Priest). He ignores us.

"Pff...aliens?" "haha how delusional..." (1)(2) The other two adolescents in the new group laugh at what we say.

I personally would not want to relate to them, I would keep my opinion to myself and keep quiet. Anyway the best thing to do is to take the initiative and take advantage of them.. To start the hunt, the group has their own ideas of what is going on, fuck them. 

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