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(Setting) AnoMeat's Gun Store.
| >Cain stands at the back as well.
"This is probably for the best. Boss, If you ever comeback, Please pickup the phone."
>She stops recording a voice message, and leaves the message on a cheap mp3 player.
| "Not—.. late... at all."
> A woman, fully dressed in a business suit arrives. Her long, dark azure hair falls down from her shoulder, hanging free, as she gasps for breath.
"C-cain?!"
> She calls out a name familiar to her.
"Where is this all going? Answer us!"
| "Its going to be moved to a different location, different store, different name. I wish boss would see me, owning a gun store, but not knowing shit."
>Cain looked a bid sad towards the end, she faces the person
"Who could you be?"
| "Uni!"
> Still gasping for air, Uni took a deep breath before continuing.
"Erhm.. sorry for the sudden burst here—"
> Uni's appearance had changed overall, seemingly for a reason.
"But we— I—Whatever. Don't you want to do something to save your boss?"
| "I do, but how? Remember Scrapyard? I'm not good at looking, all I know are computers..."
| "Neither do we, but.. but—"
> Uni takes a second to string together words, as if trying to make a white lie for Cain.
"—We both can try. We both can try saving AnoMeat."
> Even though Uni, is for sure, aware that AnoMeat is probably beyond saving.
"Besides, we haven't told you about that Shepherd — the.. mongrel that disturbed the tale, right?"
| "Who?"
>Cain only heard AM mention That name before, but when referring to Ada.
"Shepherd?"
| "Have you not heard of the antagonist of your story?"
> Flaunting the tale she had pieced herself, without hesitation, Uni rehearses it from the top of her head.
"The deal that your boss have made, the sacrifice he has made, and the fate he will create — your AnoMeat is no longer the AnoMeat you know."
> There was no point to that white lie after all.
"— His fame rise as the Shepherd now, there is no AnoMeat. No one you would recognize."
| > She stops, but continues shortly after.
"You too, would remember that name. How he has been summoned from inside of your boss."
| "Why does he call himself Shepherd? Bullshit! HE IS ANOMEAT! How could he be someone else?!"
>Cain, frustrated, is clutching at her head, beginning to cry.
| "Cain. Look at us here."
> Uni isn't quite the best at comforting a crying person. She's trying her best, however.
"Neither you or.. us knows what he has done. The reason he decided to give himself to the hand of that entity is beyond our eye to see."
> Speaking more softly now, Uni gazes at the sky, before finding the right word for the situation.
"And yet, there is no point in saying he is gone when neither of us here have tried saving him, correct?"
| "Y-y-yeah... I'm s-sorry for that"
>Cain is composes herself to just a few sniffles
"I guess we c-could try..."
>She feels better, being reassured by Uni, She looks towards the now leaving trucks, and back to Uni.
"W-we should get g-going. It remind m-me of him."
| "Before we say 'shall we?' — let us say a stupid proposal we have."
> Uni nervously smile, knowing how stupid her plan would sound.
"The Shepherd is, of course, looking for sheeps to lead to his heavenly grassland—"
> She takes a quick breath, hoping Cain would get her plan.
"—So, promise us that in your fate, you trust AnoMeat in this — and you find faith in yourself."
| "Yeah, I promise... Thanks Uni."
>Cain has pretty much calmed herself, thanks to Uni.
"We should get going now, there isin't much left here for us."
| "Shall we?"
> Feeling a hint of regret for saying the word, Uni looks behind at the store. Having never seen it herself, she can't quite make the emotional connection with it, but even still, she tries to understand how Cain would have felt.
| (Freeze for a while. I gots to travels, ill be back the day after tomorrow probably.)
| (Sure thing. It's 8 PM here after all; going to get a sleep before it's too late.)
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| >The store lies dormant, and closed. while it has only recently be opened, it will soon be closed. At the back of the store 3 trucks sit, completely empty. But the inside has a different story. It's the busiest the store has ever been, because it is being cleared out. Men inside move various pallets and crates like worker ants, working in perfect unison. Eventually, all that is left of the shop is one Duffle bag, filled with mysteries, and the local servers.