This chapter's song: Relient K - Devastation & reform (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4f3OQ9o1w)

23 REMAIN

Minho (C-5) and Jinyoung (E-1) were still together. They decided to make an alliance and take anyone who thought the same and doesn't want to kill with them. "What if we come past someone..." the younger suddenly murmured. "What is it Minho?" the older asked. "What if we come past someone... And we get killed even before we can start our protest..." the rapper continued. "That won't happen", Jinyoung patted his shoulders, "because our protest already started since we entered the arena, because we didn't play the game," the leader was not finished yet, "I'm sure that we will make our alliance pretty big." "I don't know about that..." the rapper doubted. "I even bet that someone will join very soon..." "Call!" Minho smiled. And Jinyoung might be right because...

"Why wasn't I able to stop those damn kidnappers... Why wasn't I capable to prevent this... Why did I not manage to save my members... Why did I not notice it was suspicious? I thought that it was fishy from the beginning but this!? I really didn't see this coming... We lost Daegun, and now maybe even more... I'm sorry Daegun and my other members... I should've noticed... It's all my fault... I am a terrible leader..." this time it was Jinon (A-2) who thought that way. He blamed himself for all of this. He was really frustrated, so frustrated that... He slammed his hand into a wall. Pain. Much pain. "God Jincheol why were you so dumb to do this?" the leader cursed himself while holding his swelling hand. It was normal, all he did during these terrible days was cursing, himself, his weapon, the staff, the arena, the weather, ... Then he felt the pain becoming more and more untill it became unbearable. The leader was breathing heavily and then he couldn't keep it in anymore...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!"

Minho was so surprised that he was holding onto his ally. "What would've happened?" Jinyoung wondered. "I think someone is getting killed..." the rapper answered. "Should we take a look?" the leader smirked while glancing at his ally. "Sh-should we?" the other asked while shivering a bit. "Just go and watch around the corner, that we won't get n