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Noon break

Physics lab

Keiro was sitting in a chair talking to a silver-haired guy who was busy doing experiments. He had a delicate face and his large eyes squinted as he arranged the circuit connections for his experiment.

Keiro: "Roju! You spend half a day in the physics lab and the other half in the chemistry lab… Take a break, will ya? Human beings eat at least thrice a day."

Roju: "I'm not hungry yet."

Keiro understood. According to her, there were only two species in this world. Keiro's species (the majority) who lived from breakfast to lunch, lunch to dinner. And then there was Roju's species that would realize that they had not eaten till they lost consciousness or something akin to that.

Because of his eccentric nature, Julis Roju had been subject to bullying from childhood. Since they were neighbors, Keiro had taken it upon herself to protect his species. Keiro had declared.

"It is not survival of the fittest, Roju. It is the survival of those with the fittest friends." 

In the beginning, she could save Roju by fighting those who bullied him. But she was too lazy to learn self-defense and eventually grew up to be a weakling. So Roju started making weapons. Dangerous weapons. He could easily make guns, cannons, and a special type of bomb which worked by a chain reaction...

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                                                      6 years back

Once a bunch of kids came to bully Roju…

Keiro tried to reason with them, but they did not oblige. Soon, it turned into a fight. Somebody pulled Keiro's hair. Keiro kicked somebody's butt. Someone was pushed to the ground. Another one lost a tooth.

Roju stood there, watching their fight.

None of them seemed to be giving in and someone accidentally bumped into Roju. That's when Roju lost it…

He went inside and dragged out his new invention. The kids paused for a second to watch him fire at them what looked like a cannonball. The bullies ran for their lives. If it hadn't missed them by an inch, they would all have been dead.

That's when Keiro realized it... Roju had something missing in his huge brain. Something that God forgot to add while stuffing him with enough intellect to understand Quantum mechanics by the age of five...

This incident happened when they were ten years old and Keiro remembered lecturing Roju that day.

Keiro: "Roju, if you shoot a cannonball at people, they die..."

Roju: "I know..."

Keiro: "If you kill people you go to prison..." (Though that alone must not be the reason why you shouldn't kill people.)

Roju had then innocently looked up and told Keiro:

Roju:  "That's why I have you..."

Keiro: "What..?"

Roju: "You are my best friend... The friend I can call for help to bury a body."

Keiro felt a little proud.

Wait…

Something was wrong here...

Keiro: "Roju, I know the world is unfair, but we cannot go to the dark side..."

Roju: "What's the dark side?"

From that day on, Keiro took care that no one made Roju a murderer.