46 Countdown till Hades (2/2)

”Shiro, what are you looking at? I have your fried chicken now. Let's eat and let's get some goodnight sleep. We have a lot to do tomorrow, olay?”

”Oh, oni chama, what are they doing over there?”

”Huh?”

I then got into a seat and started looking the same direction. A flying pegasus perhaps?

”Where is it, Shiro?”

”Over there oni-chama” She then pointed her hand on the top of a very tall building lit by the endearing moonlight.

And in there, on the edge was a multitude of people. There were many watching them, and several others on the ground also have been anticipating the scene...But something is not just right... Something is wrong, I can feel it.

What are they doing there? And then suddenly, the people outside, as if it was premeditated all along started counting, 10...9.....8...

Did something happen while I was busy? Why? A farewell party perhaps? I looked at my clock, and the time still far from 3 AM. What are they celebrating?

7...

6,.. All I can do is watch as the countdown slowly reaches to the point of one.

5... But, something is just boggling me.

4...But, I don't know what that is.

3...

Wait, don't tell me they're gonna!

2...

I quickly got Shiro from where she is sitting while hastily covering her eyes.

1!... And then, unlike any of the luck I despised, came, a very decadent scene that I never expected. Screams and cries, again begun to be heard on the soon-to-be-abolished-city.

Everyone jumped from atop of the building, Shiro is curious about. And the people on the ground starts killing...not others, but themselves. Some are stabbing themselves to death as they brazenly walked the roads. Some are passing a gun to one another as they inflict bullets on their head. Some were intentionally crashing their vehicles. A few others were courageous enough to set themselves on fire, while some? Settled on a more scientific way of drug overdosage. It is a massive suicide outside the facility that we are in. And what I found ugly to feel, is the sense of overwhelming power that is surging towards me, as they succumb to their own vain deaths.

So this is why they were enjoying the hours like there's no tomorrow. Because they are gonna take tomorrow from themselves in their own vocation. It's a brutal scene. Everyone that can be seen outside is slowly dying on their own accord, while some who still have the gut to continue living is probably paralyzed by the horror they are witnessing.

Several things are still unclear to me. How did they persuade one another to do this? Where did the idea come from? And how did they arrange such an event? How did this come to be? They better not have thought that this was only a nightmare and by dying here even before we can step outside to the unknown land, means they can wake up back on Earth on their comfy bedrooms unscathed...

In the myriad of questions that I had in myself, there's one thing that is still translucent to me... Darwin's theory of evolution is void of truth and reality. Those primates which are believed to be men's first forms are far too logical even for this.

Then, as dead bodies came piling up on the vast streets, an announcement from the city's PA systems suddenly stated ”Please calm down. Suicide is not the answer, let us find some solutions. I repeat...” Too late isn't it? Half of the masses are now dead...Less work for Hermes.

I have to take Shiro somewhere else, without her seeing anything putrid. Surely we can't eat with a visage like this in front of us.