"Then finish up already ba! Just two petty humans. What are you playing this time? Hide n seek?" The commander joked.

"...Exactly." White responded then cut off the line.

Seems like time is up.

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White was approaching the room where the two remaining crewmates are hiding when unexpectedly a certain someone came knocking unto his door instead.

Surprise passed through White's eyes but then remembered his mission.

"Oh, are you both tired of playing Hide n Seek?" White said mockingly, sitting comfortably at the Cafeteria.

But despite this, Red didn't utter a single word. He's just standing there his head hung low, his shoulders down. His appearance was awfully sorry.

White also continued his silence, coldly looking at the person infront of him who was like about to collapse.

"She's dead."

Red mumbled with a low voice.

"hmmm, is that so?" White said still with no emotions on his face, it was like it's just a matter of fact. An obvious thing.

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Going back a little earlier.

When Red finished touching up Pink's injury. The both of them immediately took a rest. Letting all the information sink into their minds and assess the situation rationally.

However, about two hours later, Pink started to show signs of high fever. There was a cooling medicine in their bags but it was not enough to thoroughly dissipate her sickness.

Red was still thinking of how to bypass White's sight and rush to the medbay to get some medicine when Pink started to convulse.

Red's eyes widen in surprise and immediately rushed to Pink's side. The convulsion last for 3 minutes and sadly, that was her end.

The medicine she took only extended her time not healing her.

It was unbelievable to die with such an injury, it's not even one of her body's vital points, yet how can she die?

It was because the knife White used on her was coated with a poison.

It was a poison that accelerates one's temperature, and the more the body's temperature rises, the more the heart pumps the blood, making the body unable to withstand the pressure.

That's why she convulsed at the end.

And that's why White was not surprised when Red mentioned that the girl died.

It was to be expected.

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White explained about the poison with a roundabout expression. Totally not giving a damn at all.

But Red never blamed him.

Instead he blamed himself. If only he had the courage to face White a little earlier his last comrade would still be alive.

Red knew in himself that despite being calm at that time, his mind was still in a mess. He can't bring himself to face White. Despite deceiving himself that he can die in White's hands, he still couldn't face him.

He was afraid.

Afraid that it won't be the same White anymore.

Well he isn't the real White to begin with but he still hoped that maybe he could have a chance to go back to the old times when everything was still peaceful.

He knew that White's action's were unforgivable, but somewhere inside his heart, there's a little voice insisting him to be with this young man a little longer.

But he can't. Because when he was with White, he was sure that he'll remember all the murder of his friends.

And because of the conflict within him, he stalled his time. In the end, he let Pink die.

White saw that he was still the same as when he approached him so stood up and tried to go near Red.

"Tell me everything." Red said in a low voice. He wants to know the truth.

"Why?" White asked with hesitation in his eyes.

"I want to know everything. Like why do you kill every crewmate in this ship? Since when did you infiltrated inside? White, who are you really?"

'I need to know, who was it really that I fell for? Was it the original White? Or was it the imposter?' Red wanted to add but kept silent.

White didn't know if should say it or not. But in the end, he chose to spill the tea, for the reason that maybe Red will hate him more. But he will keep silent about his mission and blacken himself instead. Maybe Red will muster up his courage and defeat him.

White laughed wickedly, "Well then if you really want to know then I'll tell you."

"I killed everyone in this ship because I want to. It's fun to be exact. Humans like you are mere ants to us, the higher lifeforms." White explained in full righteousness. Like what he said was the obvious fact.

"As to when I infiltrated inside? Let's say since the day one." White continued while reminiscing that event.

Because of an intel from a spy they planted on Earth, the three elite soldiers were immediately sent to the said planet to intercept the ships.

These three elite powerhouses were Code 002, Code 057 and Code 015. They were members of the fleet serving directly under the Emperial Palace. The central of all Intergallactic Star Alliances, a network of allied planets and species.

The members of the said fleet were extremely loyal to the empire. They should be prepared to die at any time so they're deprived of their names and was given a code instead.

And yes, since ancient times, Earth should also be a member of the alliance but because they were short-lived, their hunger for improvement of knowledge led them to desiring the sovereignity of the whole galaxy.

So Earth was forced to be kicked out of the alliances and was forced to leave their technology behind, and start back to being primitive.

These was the reason why as time passes, humans tend to excavate things that are very high-tech that their current level of science can't explain it. Even the mysteries behind the pyramids were because of this.

But, it was a human nature to keep moving forward and advance more. They hunger for knowing the unknown.

The build up of their civilization was in an extreme speed, even though their descendants started from scratch. Searching and researching for answers.

In short, Humans are very curious in nature.

Because of these, the empire kept watch of their movements and finally this incident happened. The humans are once again trying to make contact with the Star Alliance.

Extra terrestrial beings tend to live longer. There were still some elders in each planets that were terrified by the war outbreak three millennias ago.

The younger generation kept saying that this short-lived species as just like ants but in truth they were powerful, because despite their emotions being their weakness, it was also their strength.

Going back. These three elite powerhouses were sent to Earth. While the three ships are on a standby they stealthily hid themselves among the crowd and blended with the applicants.

This was how White, or Code 002, and the others got into the Skeld, MiraHQ, and Polus, unnoticed.

That means White was White since from the start.

White can't say for a fact that he was deliberately being silent and was acting like an introvert. This was the genuine him. He doesn't like to get along with everyone else, be it with this ship's crewmates or his fellow fleet soldiers.

Except for the Commandet who was like a second father to him.

He also felt that he don't particularly need to act like everyone can trust him, he just needs to finish his mission like an outsider as he is.

Or that was the plan.

Red noticing him was unexpected but instead of pushing this charismatic man away, he decided to use him as a pawn and take Red's undying trust to him to his own advantage.

And the biggest unexpected twist was that he came to realize that he was slowly getting attached to Red.

Being a child who grew up in the military, he was deprived of love. All his energy and effort was put on training instead of playing around like a normal kid would.

And Red's warm and gentle care washed over his heart. Cleansing it thoroughly like spring waters.

In these few days he kept cracking his brain on how he could keep Red alive.

They could escape in the galaxy but the empire will still surely find them sooner or later. And he was still not sure that Red would be willing since he was still irreversibly guilty of all the killings, even with the pretext of their Mission.

He was really out of options.

However one is certain.

One of them has to vanish.

Him or his beloved.

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