The next day, Kiyo goes out to start a new experience.

Looking at the menu, he ordered a bowl of beef noodle soup with onions.

I heard that eating Pho without onions would be mocked a lot...

One must admit that, for him, there are dishes similar to this, but here Pho is much sweeter, and the meat is tender.

The white noodles mix the delicious flavor of the broth, the brown of the meat, the green of the onions, creating something very "Vietnamese".

After finishing the bowl of pho, he paid and left.

Leaving the restaurant, he still hasn't forgotten the taste of that dish, even though his face is as cold as ice.

Kiyo also had a good experience in this country, except the people throw quite a lot of garbage and the traffic goes so fast that he doesn't know how to cross; and there is also a lot of smog in the city.

Arriving home, Kiyo turned on the CVP power.

"Ah, daddy's back!" - It jumped out, jumped into your lap.

"Wait a long time?" - Kiyo patted his head.

"I don't know either."

Although equipped with more complete and modern accessories, CVP is still a robot with a round ball appearance with a childish personality that always follows Kiyo and patiently waits for him to return, even though the power is off.

Even though it was created by Sunny and him, Kiyo still feels less lonely and a little happier having it.

Suddenly there was a notification from his tablet.

"What is this?" - Kiyo turned it on. "The hell-"

Another not so good message from Cosmic Vietnam.

Another command from him.

Kiyo rolled his eyes, reading every word on the message.

"In order to know how smart Vietnamese people is, kill someone. I will send them to you to do the task. Then you think of a way to attract some Vietnamese provinces. Sunny, Angie, Nam and Junko will do the same thing. You have to do it too."

The four of them... aren't all my classmates and brainwashed?! Are they here too??

No way.. Turns out he used their talents to serve the war! He used Tomoyo's death to have an incentive to manipulate them!

So that's it... He dared to stain her soul to wage a pointless war!

Kiyo tightened his grip on the tablet, thinking he was about to smash it.

He frowned, gritting his teeth, his hair standing up slightly at his hatred and disgust for him.

Kiyo knew that Cosmic Vietnam was evil, but he really didn't think he would do something like this.

It was his message that made him arouse hatred that couldn't be stronger, making him more determined to break his plan.

Kiyo took a deep breath, trying to calm down.

Calm down... It's already obvious. Somehow he will use me and them to do something.

But if he did anything worse..

I will go crazy.

The CVP saw Kiyo's furious and expressionless face, and took a step back.

***

Days later, Kiyo calmed down and began implementing his plan.

He designed a certain room, then gave it to the people working at his old company for inspection and then started construction underground.

To go down there, they built an elevator hidden in the wall right in Tam Dao.

This is very difficult to do, because they may be exposed at any time, but Kiyo still persisted in the construction, saying that it will ensure safety and confidentiality.

And he did exactly that. If not, he cannot complete the plan.

After four months, the secret vault was completed, he now has both switches for two passages.

It was a room painted blue, with a black-and-white floor, with golden columns three meters apart.

Kiyo planned to buy a really big wooden round fence, but thought it was too expensive so he bought a set of blue plastic tables and chairs.

Within four months, he sewed something very unique for himself: it was a gray hat, with a gold star in the middle, attached to a red shawl behind his head and ears.

This must sound like someone close to Cosmic Vietnam, right...?

CVP approached, looked at the hat and said:

"Wow, Dad, why do you have such a funny hat?"

"It's a homemade hat, nothing else."

Even though it was summer, he was still forced to wear a thigh-length dark yellow coat - no matter how thin it was.

In their coats they added knives and guns.

Did they make me dress like this just to look like a killer..?

In addition, he had to go on a business trip to Ha Nam with two other people.

The purpose of this mission was to investigate whether the country's military had prepared anything, and then report it to Cosmic Vietnam.

For four months now, Kiyo has accepted this task, and at the same time he is holding a large amount of important information about all areas.

As long as he revealed a little, he would be guilty of treason, and most likely would be sentenced to death.

But Kiyo persisted in doing so. He accepted death just to give that tablet to a Vietnamese province.

From Vinh Phuc to Ha Nam is 113.8 km, and he has to go through Hanoi.

He will go by car, bearing Vinh Phuc's number plate.

But going by car is very risky, because the armed forces will check closely before going to another province.

If so, then...they know about Cosmic Vietnam already.

So Kiyo had to switch to a new stealth ship.

Strange, does our country have stealth ships too?

But this type of ship is only for exploration and moving to another place, not for attack purposes.

They rose off the rooftops, under the clearing clouds.

Thanks to smart maps and radar, they were able to detect the boundaries between provinces. But they could not lower the edge to the ground, because if they did, the possibility of detection was very high.

After two hours, the place where he stopped was a building with the words "Ha Nam's Provincial Cultural House" written on it.

"We're going in here."

It was a rather large and spacious building, three stories high, painted in creamy yellow with white fringes.

In the middle there was a symbol of something Kiyo didn't quite understand.

But it's impossible to get in so easily, the security forces are standing guard there, and there are 24/7 surveillance cameras.

And he can't use CVP to anesthetize.

So they had to use another option, which was to fly very close, very close to the window to get in.

They jumped into the second floor of the building.

Kiyo turned to him and told him this:

"Go to the other rooms, I'll check this one."

The room Kiyo entered was the computer room.

The strange thing is that only two machines are on, the rest are off.

Kiyo sat on one of the two machines, checking a few things.

Chrome is like Syndrome here.. But faster. Oh, what is this?

"Libary Simulator.. has file MK.chr.."

MK.chr...

Why is this so familiar?

Kiyo pressed on it, not expecting both his soul and body to be sucked into it.

What??

A strong gust of wind blew him through an indistinct, white, empty space.

Then he fell to a brick floor.

Huh?

A brown brick floor.

All around was a strange corridor, yellow walls just like the outside, mixed with bookcases and green doors.

Is this a virtual world?

Bookcase..simulation..

Why is this place so familiar?

It was as if something he had long forgotten was slowly appearing in his mind.

"And this graphic.. I took from the internet."

A twelve-year-old boy with brown hair is pointing at something.

A shy, always being bullied boy.

But his face is being blurred.

Sunny?

When he see someone lying on the floor, blood splattered, those images disappear.

Who..?

The man looked up, trembling and said:

"Ah.. Kiyo.. you're here. It's me, Sunny."

He shivered, for he recognized that hair with those familiar eyes, with the face of an adult, but in a tragic manner.

His coat was covered in blood.

Kiyo couldn't judge anything from that appearance.

"You appeared in front of me again after all these years.. but.. not the right time...

Aha, that's unfortunate.. For you to watch me dying like this. I've been defeated by them, I've failed.

This is probably the most desperate event of my life..."

Kiyo noticed that wry smile, like Sunny was trying to reach for him with optimism.

"W-we're not really close friends anymore.. are we?

But... don't leave me like that. I feel.. guilty for what I did. A sin that cannot be tolerated."

Suddenly Kiyo remembered something unexpected from Sunny up until now:

"I still want to live, but not in a senseless way. Even with death, I don't want to die stupidly, without doing anything."

Sunny stood up, blood dripping from his head, as well as tears from his golden eyes, then reached out his bloodless hand:

"If you can.. at least hold my hand.. like you did.

If you don't want to touch a murderer like me.. then let me give you one last look.

That's enough for me."

Sunny held that pose for about thirty seconds and then collapsed.

That left him thirty seconds to look at Kiyo before he closed his eyes and gave up.

After those moments, space collapsed more and more and something brought him back to reality.

Suddenly he saw blood stains on the table.

Right next to Kiyo was Sunny's body lying down on the table, and he was just like inside the cub.

His eyes were closed, but he was still smiling.

Kiyo couldn't just take the body away, so he had to leave, reporting to the other guy.

Another one of his loved ones has passed away forever.

Kiyo was unable to analyze the strange feelings that were smoldering inside him. Enraged? Mercy? Satisfied? No, it is impossible to be satisfied. Agony? Hopeless?

He doesn't know, he doesn't understand, I doesn't remember what it is.

It was like tightening his heart with red threads.

He didn't show anything on his face.

It's almost like..

when he lost his parents.

Kiyo quietly went home by stealth ship.

Stepping into the house, he turned off the CVP power, put on the traditional black mourning robes of his country, carried a wooden table, and placed two vases - a white rose vase and another with incense, parallel to each other.

Then he printed a photograph, gently inserted it into a black picture frame with a black stripe, and placed it behind two bottles.

That's Sunny's legacy.

Then take a lighter, light a little incense.

He knelt down, held an incense stick and prayed for something.

The surroundings of his house were suddenly silent, strangely cold, even in the summer.

Like there was someone behind him.

But Kiyo didn't mind that.

Even death can bring us back together, Sunny..?