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[The little boy's inner voice, as he listens to the MP3 player, begins to play.]
"Oh, so this is the NEET who got hit by the truck."
Kazuma Sato stuffed a handful of popcorn into his mouth and mumbled something.
"Rudius."
"Mom has something to tell you."
A man walked up to the boy, bent down, and spoke; he was clearly the boy's father.
"Hurry up, Rudeus, take this idiot off."
The man removed the earphones from Rudius's ears, and then the boy was pushed into the ward by his father, who also took Peter's schoolbag.
[By this time, many relatives had gathered around Rudius's mother's bedside; they had all come to visit the boy's mother, who was on the verge of death from illness.]
Rudius looked at his extremely weak mother on the hospital bed, her hair shaved off from chemotherapy, and felt a pang of sadness; after all, a human heart is made of flesh.
[You can develop a bond with a dog, let alone a dog that raised him for eight years, the mother of his life.]
"Rudius, why are you fighting with other kids again?"
Rudeus's mother looked at the scar near Rudeus's eye and asked with concern.
Rudius did not answer his mother's question, perhaps out of shame.
"Rudius?"
"They killed a cat and mashed it to pieces with a stick."
Rudius spoke first.
"You're just like your father."
"They look very alike."
"He is an angel; he is light."
"May, didn't you have a gift for Peter?"
The boy's father spoke first.
【"certainly."】
Mei tried to pick up a small box from beside her bed—a simple action, but incredibly difficult for her. The pain of cancer tormented her deeply, not only physically but also mentally.
"I suddenly understand why Orochimaru researched the Extremis Virus and why the vice president chose to help Orochimaru and his team."
Kitahara Iori looked at Mei, who was suffering terribly from cancer, on the screen and said.
The Extinction Virus developed by Orochimaru is like a ray of light in the lives of people suffering from terminal illnesses or physical disabilities.
"Indeed, when there is no way out, if a path suddenly appears, even if it is a dangerous one, there will still be people who will try it."
Kohei Imamura nodded and said.
【"Give."】
"I've put Peter away for you."
The boy's father helped take the gift box from May's hands and put it into Rudius's schoolbag.
"It's better to open it after I leave."
[Mei looked at Rudius and said.]
"Grandpa, he will take good care of you."
"At least until Dad comes back to pick you up."
"Hold my hand."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
As Nagasaki Motoyo watched the moment of Peter and his mother May's life-and-death separation on the screen, she couldn't help but shed tears.
Nagasaki Motoyo comes from a single-parent family. She can't bear to think about how painful and heartbroken she would be if her mother were lying on a hospital bed like this, dying one day.
Nagasaki Motoyo felt that she couldn't even bear to imagine that scene.
"Rudius."
Rudius turned away, unable to bear looking at his mother, May, lying in the hospital bed.
"Rudius."
"The past is gone."
"Hold my hand."
Just as Rudius composed himself and turned to take his mother's hand, she could no longer open her eyes.
【"drop----"】
The machine emitted a long, familiar beep to Rudeus; the last time he heard this sound was when his life came to an end.
【"mom?!"】
Rudius looked at his mother, who had closed her eyes on the sickbed, and said in a trembling voice.
"No, no, no, no!"
Rudius was devastated. He hadn't expected that in such a brief moment, his mother would say goodbye to him forever.
"Mommy, don't go!"
Rudius was also completely devastated.
【“Follow me.”】
Seeing Rudeus lunge towards the hospital bed, the father pulled him back, his consciousness also rushing into the ward.
【"No!"】
"Stay here and don't move, be a good boy."
The father led Rudius out of the ward, spoke to Peter, and then went back into the ward.
Rudius, emotionally devastated, ran out of the hospital, his mind replaying the eight years he had spent with his mother.
Then flashes of her past life, her pathetic existence, appeared. She had finally resolved to be a better person in this life, so how did she end up like this?
【"No!"】
Rudius ran to the grass in the park, collapsed to the ground, and cried out in pain.
Suddenly, a bright light shone down from the sky. Rudius looked up but was blinded by the light, and at the same time felt a strong wind blowing.
A massive spaceship was hovering above Rudeus, who had stopped crying and was staring at the spaceship in utter bewilderment.
"Am I dreaming? If it's a dream, Mom won't die, right?"
Rudius looked at the spaceship before him and thought to himself, "I feel like I'm still dreaming."
The next second, the spaceship shot out a bright beam of light, sucked Rudeus in, and then Peter flew away from Earth.
"Aba Aba."
The popcorn in Sato Kazuma's mouth fell out, but he didn't react at all.
"This...this was taken away by aliens."
It took Kazuma Sato a long time to react and ask.
516: Rudius: You may have heard of another name of mine.
"If I'm not mistaken, Rudius was indeed taken away by aliens."
Hachiman Hikigaya nodded blankly and said, "What happened to Rudeus in the light screen is no small matter."
I was reincarnated, but not to another world; I was reincarnated to another part of Earth. I thought that was it.
Then came this shocking twist: they were taken away by aliens.
"Did the aliens take him away to conduct research?"
Kirito asked curiously, after all, he couldn't guess why the spaceship had taken Rudeus away.
The Chitauri we've seen so far have come to Earth as an invasion, not as they captured Rudeus and left as depicted in the light screen.
As for Thor and Loki, it's hard to say.
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"Aliens."
If aliens had appeared before "The Avengers" was released, it would have been a very shocking thing, but it still would have been very shocking.
"What are they after if they capture Rudius?"
Kohei Imamura couldn't understand it. Did Rudeus have something about him that was so attractive to aliens?
"I don't know. All I know is that Rudius was ahead of 99.9 percent of his peers worldwide when he was 8 years old."
"No, if we add Rudeus's age before his reincarnation, he should be over 99.9% of the world's 43-year-olds."