Warning:

- This story portrays mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-harm.

- This story contains violence, gore, strong language, sexual themes, drugs, and adult humor

- This chapter contains, situations such as sexual abuse, rape and child abuse

Reader Discretion is advised.

Foreword:

Hello, I'm GameMaker8YT. The author of this light novel series. This is my first light novel and I apologize in advance for my inexperience. I hope you enjoy.

“What job are we even supposed to do, there’s really not that much that happens in this city that only two people could handle” Leon says, “I don’t know, but Wade never specified the type of mission, so we could technically just babysit some stoner’s kid” Brandon says. 

Leon checks the Prism mission board.

“There’s this one mission, commissioned by the ex-wife of the client- huh, that’s pretty messed up” Leon says, “What’s it about?” Brandon asks, “There’s this man called Jefferson, he has a Necro addiction, the task is we have to help him get off Nexro basically” Leon says.

 “Huh- so people still use Nexro, haven’t seen any dealer that even sells that shit anymore” Brandon says, “Jefferson’s house is 8 minutes from where we’re at, it’s around a Pizza place, what the hell is it called again…oh yeah Agami Pizzeria” Leon says, “Soooo Creative” Brandon says sarcastically. 

8 minutes later. 

Leon and Brandon arrive at Jefferson’s house on their horses, “shit there’s nowhere to hitch the horses” Brandon says, “Just use this pole here” Leon says. 

Leon and Brandon approach the door, *Knock* *Knock*, “Anybody here? Anyone? We’re coming in” Leon says outside the door. 

Leon opens the door there they see Jefferson, Jefferson coughs “Hi Alicia, do you want me to sing you the lullaby I sang to you before?” Jefferson says in a crutched voice, Jefferson falls to the floor knocking down the table making the bottles of beer break on the floor. 

“Ah fuck, I need another whiff… times running out” Jefferson says, *cough* *cough*, *gmphhhh(inhaling sound)*, Jefferson vomits on the floor, “Alicia, so whaddya say? You want me to sing you that lullaby?” Jefferson asks. 

Leon walks up to Jefferson and grabs him by the shoulders and shakes him, “Jefferson…Jefferson snaps out of it, it’s not real!” Leon says, “A…Alicia?” Jefferson says quietly, Leon slaps Jefferson in the face, “huh… who the hell are you?” Jefferson says, “Luckily Nexro doesn’t have as great of an effect on people above the age of 35, so a simple slap will get them out of it” Brandon says. 

“Listen we’re here on a simple mission your ex-wife posted, we need to get you off your fucking Nexro addiction” Leon says, “So just cooperate please, I don’t get nearly paid enough to give a shit about a small mission like this” Leon says. 

“Jesus Christ, what is this? It smells like you came all over the place, Jesus!” Brandon says. 

Jefferson sits on the couch, *cough* *cough*, “Tell me, why do you even do Nexro? What do you want to see?” Leon asks. 

|Information for public disclosure| Nexro is a drug invented in the Umbran Period, it is an inhaled drug, the drug allows you to see whatever you want, it is mostly used for people who have just lost a loved one but it can become addictive, after a while they think they are inhaling it because they want to see their loved ones again but in reality, it’s because they enjoy the feeling of the Nexro drug|. 

“I… I want to see Alicia again” Jefferson says, “Who is Alicia?” Leon says, “My daughter, she died because… of me” Jefferson says, “Don’t you think you should’ve let it go by now, I mean how long has she been dead?” Leon says, “3 years” Jefferson says, “holy shit you’ve been doing Nexro every single day for 3 years” Leon says. 

“Look at yourself, do you think A…what’s her name, Alicia would’ve wanted her father to become a fucking drug addict?” Leon says, “shut up… SHUT UP, you don’t know anything, I lost everything after she died I lost my only daughter, I lost my wife, my job EVERYTHING” Jefferson says.

Jefferson leans forward and grabs a Nexro Inhaler, Brandon slaps it out of his hand before he can take a whiff.

“Please, just stop” Brandon says, Jefferson picks up the inhaler again and Brandon slaps it out of his hand again, “I said fucking stop!” Brandon yells. 

“Jesus, man, we are trryyying to help you here, if you keep doing this you are going to die and the memory of your daughter will die along with you” Brandon says, “is…is that what you want? Really?” Brandon says. 

“You can’t tell me what to do you’re just an Umbran soldier wanting to make money off my problems!” Jefferson yells at Brandon, Jefferson with his eye’s completely red veins flowing through the side of the eye, he is crying.

“Listen here you little shit, you lost someone do you think we soldiers haven’t lost anyone? Do you think we degenerates are here just because we fucking want to? We hate this Job to the bone, I saw children being burned alive and crucified, I saw all my best friends die in front of me, I’ve seen my self-image of myself slowly, and slowly deteriorate over time. We soldiers are soulless because we’ve seen and experienced the worse possible shit you can imagine” Leon says to Jefferson.

“But…she…she was my daughter” Jefferson, “hah, you daughter is dead, she is never coming back, she is up there right now looking at her father, who is now a drug addict and a divorced husband whose life is crumbling apart, now your life isn’t crumbling because of her oh no, no, no! It’s because of you because you can’t man the fuck up and get over it” Brandon says. 

Jefferson with a shocked look on his face suddenly smiles and says “Thank you that’s what I’ve been wanting to hear for the past 3 years” Jefferson says. 

“Come on Leon, let’s go our job is done” Brandon says, “since when have you become a grown-up huh- hah” Leon says, Brandon closes the door behind him, “ahhhh, shit that was hard my throat hurts, how the hell can Caprio make speeches like that huh?” Brandon says.

“Well I think we did good” Leon says. 

Sometime later, Jefferson’s house. 

Jefferson stands next to a stand next to a cabinet that has a picture of Alicia and flowers on top, Jefferson lays down the Nexro inhaler on top of the cabinet next to the picture of Alicia and says, “Thank you, Alicia, for making me the happiest father alive” Jefferson walks away and steps out of the house, “Goodbye” Jefferson says.

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