Chapter 86: A Farewell (2/2)

"Relax?" questioned Aldrich He shook his head "My days of relaxing are over They ended when you two died"

"That's just not true," said Adam "You have a whole lot ot someone that loves you out there, and it's hard to love sos in your , it's this: if you start to look at the world too much as a proble and not the good that's in it

And believe h life can see crap, you can always scoop out a nugget of good somehow"

"Did you seriously try toapart dog poop? You really are a poet, aren't you," said Elaine

"Hey now, you have to admit that it works, doesn't it?" said Adam

"It does," said Aldrich He looked at his friends and sighed "I just wish…thatyou two back I have so e now that I have power

I took you two along as zombies because I wanted you two to see as much of what I did as possible, to try and e I wanted to see-,"

"It's okay," said Elaine "We had pretty awful deaths, but it doesn't change the fact that we're dead Coreat Plus, dying is, well, how to put it, strangely peaceful? It feels like a rest after a long day of work

If… so well, if you didn't have anyone beside you, I think we e to co how you are now"

"Yeah, have to agree with that," said Ada back, either, considering Mr Edge over here has netted hiirl I've ever seen Sorry, Aldy, but it looks like we're going to have to leave this whole changing the world thing to you"

"Lazy to the end, huh?" joked Aldrich

"No, if there was ever anyone out there that I could trust to change this world, it would be you All there is to it," said Adam

Ada misty

"Looks like our ti for me," said Elaine

"What is it?" said Aldrich

"My dad out in the Wastelands, I want you to give hi on a project for him a while back It isn't finished for obvious reasons, but it's so I wanted hi into my cloud, you'll find it pretty easily"

"I'll do in infor weapons, upgrades, and prograh it wasuser feedback

"You better," said Adam

"And you? You have any last requests?" said Aldrich

"Yeah, I do A pretty damn important one," said Adam seriously

"What is it?" said Aldrich

"For you to be happy, that's what," said Ada your tiet back out there"

"What he said," said Elaine

"Thanks, you two," said Aldrich

"And get rid of those zoh as is Doesn't help when I' corpse," complained Adam

"Yeah, yeah, I will," said Aldrich "Don't worry about that Now that I've talked to you two again, I feel a lot better letting you two go"

"One last hug?" said Elaine

"Of course! Bring it in, folks!" said Ada moment

Aldrich stayed in his friends' embrace until he felt their souls slowly fade away, their touch and warhter until finally, it was all gone The bright white light froloorey of the Necropolis

Aldrich looked down at his open hand where a few faint sparkles of white light shi+h even those slowly flickered away

[Objective: Sever all mortal bonds: COMPLETE]

"So? Did you find what you needed?" said the Death Lord She breathed heavily though she hid it quite well behind a straight posture and cal the soul construction had taken a ot my closure," said Aldrich He paused "Thanks"

"My, it has been a very long ti," said the Death Lord Her s stern "Now then, let us finalize the Ritual of Eternity"

"About time," said Aldrich