Previously..

"Listen up. I'm going to leave Kaiyn and my backpack to you. That bag has food and supplies that can keep you alive for at least a month. All food in there is mostly canned so those can last for a while. Keep going forward and I'll distract that group of walkers." Without warning, Renji immediately goes in and shoots the infected with his drill gun. All of them immediately chased him as he runs to the side where it was a narrow way. Benedict sighs and wears Renji's backpack and carries Kaiyn onto his shoulder.

There was a conveniently placed debris of a tall rock placed at the side of the narrow street. He pulls it down and bashes one of the infected's head in the process. Renji continues to run as he looks behind him, they have already destroyed the debris and continue to run straight at him. Some were even crawling and going on all fours while roaring. Renji leaps into a car and grabs a balcony above him. He kicks the door open and took the stairs onto the rooftop. There were still several infected lurking around the houses so it was a close chase. As he makes a jump to another roof, an infected manages to grab his leg and attempts to pull him down. Renji's hands slip on the drill gun. Luckily, he managed to kick the infected off his leg but another walker comes in, pouncing on him and was reaching for his neck. His left arm was blocking the infected from biting while the right one was searching for something within his pockets. He managed to take a grip on his pen and stabs the infected's eye, bursting out blood onto his chest and face then continues to run.

A rush of adrenaline takes over as he swiftly jumps and sprints into many obstacles. Along the way he came across an open slaughterhouse. There was a rusty chained hook and a machete lying on the ground. Renji scavenged these for self defense and continued to walk slowly as a rest.

...

"That idiot.. risking his life like that. We can barely even stick together properly because of things happening so fast..", Benedict says with a tone of sadness on the last statement as he stares at Kaiyn who was still hibernating. Benedict checks once more if Kaiyn was still with him. There was still a pulse, but it was slowing down and his skin was becoming cold.

Riot shield in hand, while the young man handles a shopping cart on the other with his friend on it, Benedict and Kaiyn wander to find the evacuation center. Instead of that, however, they were greeted with yet another small group of infected still devouring fellow survivors. Benedict slowly sneaks his way to the side where he hid behind the bushes on the side of the road but the survivors immediately die one by one as they get overwhelmed by the increasing number of infected.

"N-NOOOOO! STAY AWAY!"

"PLEASE! I DON'T WANNA DIE!"

Their panicked screams envelop the whole area. It wasn't long before Benedict got was snuffed out. He immediately ran and picked up a pistol from the dead bodies of the survivors then proceeded to shoot while at the same time shielding himself and also pushing the shopping cart where Kaiyn was on. An infected was getting a bit too close to him so he bashes the shield onto the infected's chin and proceeded to follow up with a point-blank pistol shot onto its head. Benedict kept running and running and was unfortunate enough to come face to face with a dead end while the infected were still going rabid for his blood. Having barely any ammo left and Kaiyn still being unconscious, he reloads his pistol one last time and scream his lungs out, charging in and shooting everywhere blindly.

"WELL COME ON THEN YOU PIECES OF SHIT! GRAAAGGHHH!!!"

Benedict places his shield in front of him and charges forward. He notices one infected about to land a hit to his side and immediately hits the infected's hand with the glass part of the riot shield. The glass shards stuck to the palm of the infected and its arm bone could be heard being broken and dislocated. The monster screams but Benedict quickly exploited the window of opportunity as he shoots a bullet into the infected's mouth. However, another infected comes on all fours from behind and was already made its way mid-air to pounce on Benedict whose guard was down and was focused on other targets.

He thinks to himself, "Is this really how I'm gonna go? Protecting some guy with serious anger issues and I don't even know if still alive? My surname... Sephtis... means eternal death. That sure is something. I guess dying this way isn't so bad, being heroic, pushed into a corner and getting eaten by monsters that look like they were spawned from Satan's asshole."

Just as soon as all hope seemed lost, there was a loud sound heard in front of Benedict whose eyes were open and was inviting the embrace of death.

CLANG!

It was Kaiyn, staying silent and having a slightly crooked neck. The infected were biting Kaiyn's right arm but there was something odd. Kaiyn's skin was shining and it remained unscathed while the infected's teeth bled and shatter. He grew horns that seemed to be that of a bull's. Smoke was coming out of his nostrils from every loud exhale he did. Sharp, canine-like fangs were visible being sparkly pearl white but most importantly was the color of his eyes the same as the infected's: a full black sclera and bright yellow pupils. He stares down at Benedict who was at the ground. He comes closer and sniffs Benedict's neck. Instead of biting, he stands back up again and proceeds to walk away slowly and fought the remaining infected.

"What in God's name..?"

Benedict starts to lose consciousness due to extreme fatigue and trauma. The young man wakes up to what seems to be a cart being pulled by horses. He was greeted by several men riding with him wearing knight-like uniforms.

"Hey, you. You're finally awake. You look like you put up quite a fight back there. Walked into an ambush of an infected horde just the same as us. Don't worry though, we've examined you already and no bite marks were seen. The Regime could use someone with guts as strong as yours. Still, you're incredibly lucky that mutant ignored your ass."

"Wait.. what? Where am I? Who are you? What happened? Mutant?"

"Like I just mentioned you were ambushed by a horde of infected. You tried to rescue fellow survivors but failed and you were left behind alone. The Regime has sent several scouting platoons to look for survivors outside the walls."

"Walls? Regime? Does that mean... an evacuation ..."

"Exactly. We'll do more explaining later. For now, just keep resting. We have a long way before the actual city."

Benedict still had plenty of questions he was wanting to ask but sleepiness took over once more as he closes his eyes.

Meanwhile, Kaiyn also wakes up from deep slumber. He had no shirt on and was only wearing pants. His shirt seemed to be torn apart but his jacket was lying on the ground. He immediately grabbed and cuddled it like an animal. He wore the jacket eventually and proceeds to examine his surroundings. It was a forest of some sort far from human civilization. Fresh corpses were being infested by flies around. For some reason, the scent was different for Kaiyn. For him, it smelled very nostalgic like his mother's cooking when he was a kid and at the same time caused him to salivate as he recklessly devours the dead body like a vulture.

"Is that a cannibal? Hey, boss look at this!"

A voice suddenly echoes from the forest. Kaiyn hides within a bush and sniffs around. All his senses were also suddenly enhanced but mostly his smell. From what he could gather it was a group of men, armed, and young adults. As the leader steps in, the face seemed familiar. It was his father's murderer with a new crew of men all armed with guns.

"Hey.. you look very familiar. I can't remember but I feel like I've seen your angry face multiple times while I tried to kill someone else.", he spoke in a smug and sort of teasing tone loudly at Kaiyn. The band of criminals laughs at his mockery.

"ÉG RÍF YKKUR Í PITA!"

(I'LL TEAR YOU TO PIECES!)

The leader smiles and dodges Kaiyn's surprise attack from the bushes and immediately smacks his head by the back of his rifle as Kaiyn falls to the ground.

"Lorenzo Fernandez! Never forget the name!"

Lorenzo's goons were all amazed by how easily he handled the situation. Staying calm but at the same time being cocky, he didn't kill Kaiyn and leads his men back to their base. He stares back at Kaiyn one last time.

"Ahórranos Tiempo y no te levantes."

(Save us time and don't get up.)

Lorenzo Fernandez is a Spanish wanted man for years. Extremely infamous for countless amounts of murders, he is known as an excellent hitman in the underworld. The reason why and how Kaiyn knew the murderer of his parents is because of his memory of the police sketch. Tyrell Jötunnson and Himura Fuyuko were killed in a vacation/business meeting so Kaiyn and Renji never even had to have a proper farewell for their parents. Due to classified reasons, not even the brothers knew, the couple was cremated rather than having a classic burial.