Chapter 260 Resolution (2/2)

It was also a stare thatit That it was backed by anization is next,” finished Aldrich “Rest assured, if it’s vengeance you want, it’s what you’ll get”

“I’ll co in it if I join in as well” Alan fumbled for the bolter pistol under the table

“No you won’t I’ Blackwater the moment I leave this place And besides, I won’t have the blood of Elaine’s family on my hands,” said Aldrich

“I can handle myself!” said Alan

“Even if you could, I wouldn’t let it happen That’s another thing I ca to give you two a space to ith that’s safe Randall will get the best care credits can afford I know there’s an experi out there too”

“Wh-what? With what money? With what influence?” Alan stared at Aldrich in disbelief, but when he saw Aldrich’s dead serious expression, he knew there was only truth there “You’re actually serious?”

“Yes And I’m sorry to say, but you don’t have a say in it either The moment I revealed myself to you was the h, I haven’t been called a terrible boss yet,” said Aldrich

Alan looked puzzled at first, then excited, then, sohtening spirits dead down, his stare dragging to the table, his head shaking

Aldrich furrowed his brow “What?”

“Credits won’t save Randall Care…care is all we can give him Cure? At this point, there is none,” said Alan He stood up “Here I’ll show you into his room” He looked at Valera and the Chrysalis and tried to s bolters and lashi+ng out and whatnot”

“You had better not lest you value your life, threatening my dear like that,” said Valera

“Huh?” Alan blinked

“She’s joking” Aldrich shooed Alan forward

“I aot her quiet

“O-okay” Alan walked down a corridor, lifting his legs up high to dodge odd bits and pieces of metal and parts here and there

As Aldrich followed, he turned back to give Chrysa a pat on the head “Are you okay?”

“Mhreysad He’s a good person, isn’t he?”

“He is,” said Aldrich

“Then we save hiht for him? Like heroes?”

“Heroes don’t always have to save and fight and do all that big stuff,” said Aldrich “So now”

Chrysa nodded

“We’re here,” said Alan at the end of the corridor It was cohts frohts out Randall doesn’t like light He spends , anyway”

“We’re used to the dark,” said Aldrich

Alan nodded He slowly turned the doorknob of a beat up, spark scorched door A door thatacross the years now left alone in the dark

Aldrich could see Randall’s body even before he went into the rooreen silhouette A frail, thin, ss, crumpled up and wasted away so much it was hard to believe it was even hu death in the air

“So so with Aldrich?

The door opened Alan stepped through and held it open

Inside, it looked just like a hospital rooure like body, the skin all darkened and wrinkled and wasted away, lay atop a queen sized white sheeted bed that seemed to utterly dwarf him, as if at any moment, the bed could just snap up and devour the deteriorated oldfrom life support machines and the rhyth sounded from a small bed in the middle of the room

Unlike the rest of the shop, this room was completely clean, wiped down and mopped to a sterile shi+ne

Alan noticed Aldrich glancing at the floors “I try to keep this place as clean as possible Don’t want the old ”

Aldrich nodded He cae of Randall’s bed

Randall’s sunken in black eyes looked like little dots as they stared up at Aldrich

Alan pulled up a few rolling seats for Aldrich, Valera and Chrysa by the bed He put a co hand on Randall’s shoulder and asked, “Old man, you have visitors You remember Elaine’s friend? Aldrich This is him”

Randall blinked His hands trembled but the rest of his body did not move – that was the extent of how s, it eventually poisoned the entire body, disabling the connection between nerves and the brain

Cruelly, the brain was the last to go, so that it was because aside frohest concentration of Ether energy

But because the brain lasted, sufferers of Waste Lung were conscious until the very end of their ever decaying lives

“I remember” A synthetic voice chimed out of a screen jacked into a body port on the back of Randall’s head, translating his thoughts into spoken word

“It’s the first ti to see you, Randall,” said Aldrich with a respectful nod “I heard a lot about you froetting right to the point “Is Elaine alive?”

Aldrichout the chip “Can he handle this?”

“His mind’s still there, even if his body’s like this,” said Alan “And Randall’s tough Always been tough” He took the chip and inserted it into Randall’s wrist port “These are recordings that Elaine took in Blackwater”

“Take your ti you closure In the end, you’ll see how she died Hoe all died,” said Aldrich, not sugarcoating his words

Randall did not react His beady black eyes glis Slower than Alan; Randall took more time to enjoy each and every listened, tears flowing freely, pattering into growing splotches on the bed

“Can we help him?” said Chrysa, worried

“We are,” said Aldrich “That crying-it’s the good kind”