Subsequent events

The news of 56 deaths couldn't be hidden. This horrible event not only shook the country of Lhyno but also the world.

During a week, the less sensitive pictures were shown globally on every television network to testify the happening. A massive ban also occurred on social media due to the bloody content leaked.

The monsters killers and provokers of this revolt were revealed to the light. Adding the interview of people who barely went out alive—their scars and wounds as the symbolism of the incident. Even the most skeptical people understood finally that this was not fake news, propaganda, conspiracy theory, or some type of smokescreen from the government.

But what surprised the world even more later, was that this incident was not a simple interlude, but a key to a bigger wave of scandal.

Around the globe, more and more weird things started happening: People awaking supernatural powers, the appearance of beasts and humanoids not from earth's ecosystem, people dying of unknown causes, creatures speaking unknown languages… The number of evidence only increased to shut up every person with the argument 'it's all staged'.

Chaotic defined the situation of the streets, and anxiety was the frequent ambiance on the hearts.

In this modern era, information is nearly impossible to contain. Even if they shut down social media, the details would be spread like an epidemic by other alternatives. The journalist living under the regime of highly corrupted countries are specialists in that.

As the result of these booming news at every moment, even the most obtuse individual understood one thing: the world is changing.

Two months after the Clericland Forest incident, a global conference was held by the leaders of the different nations. Announcing, or should say 'revealing', that during that last two years, portals to other worlds have been opened on the most unexpected corners of the planet.

These worlds, plural, have their unique and never seen flora, fauna, food chain, ecosystem, and even signs of civilization in some.

However, everything comes with a 'but', and in this case, these second planets were not free-land, their original inhabitants showed to be incredibly hostile toward invaders. Also including that with time, these alien species started to become stronger—at the point of killing scout troopers and attacking the earth side of the portal.

The exploring progress has been slow for diverse reasons, despite after nearly two years.

As pair of portals appearing, life on earth started to experiment with changes too, animals, including humans, and plants started to awake supernatural powers. These do have an indication, commonly emerging on the areas around the portals.

Special governmental departments around the world have been silently recruiting these 'Manifesters'. If their final decision is to not join any of the proposed organizations, they would be freed after signing a document where they declare complete understanding of the new 'Supernatural Ability Laws' policies of not using, not revealing, and not inflicting. After a few weeks of supervision, they are then allowed to return to society to do no harm. Financial compensation for the time lost is also part of the program.

Although that story was when things were controlled. Starting from a couple of weeks before the Clericland Forest incident, the number of portals appearing per month broke a record. This, the lack of preparation, and the death of 56 victims was 'the straw that broke the camel's back' for a final decision of the governments to do what they did.

After explaining that the block of the news was done in good faith to not cause disorder in society, ironically, the disorder was caused in society. A big part of the affected people and their supporters protested about the irresponsibility of the government for not appearing on time in the life or death situation. A lot of them also argue that if the information was public, maybe a big number of the deaths could be avoided, it's unlikely, but that's what the "if" works for.

All that was explained to Sebastian much before the average citizens. Part of it by the soldier named Lenard and the rest by his superior Russell Nguyen. They met on that same cold night at the CT room of the hospital.

But moving forward to the time where reporters from the most prestigious broadcasting companies of the world arrived at Zhreta. Sebastian despite being on the victim list, having not a single scratch, the reporters considered, from the spectator view, that he was just a boy who got lucky and didn't even make contact with the monsters.

Other reporters who would not give up discovered that three people on the death list were actually his family, but after Sebastian refused all interviews, the reporters finally left him alone.

He spent the last cent of the donations from the 'Clericland Forest Incident Campaign' and a considerable part of his life savings to pay the best Mortician he could find. Perhaps it was the hardest job on the career of the professional. But Joseph, Molly, and Eva would receive a deserved funeral— peaceful looking, complete.

The teenager rejected any kind of help from his family and his parent's friend. All the process of the funeral was done by him alone, to not let anybody see his disfigured father and uneyed sister, Thomas was only there to sign papers.

The last memory of his family on the world shouldn't be horrible, not for these people that see them as 'my proudest son', 'my childhood friend', 'my responsible son in law', 'my successful daughter', 'my beautiful aunt', 'my college roommate', 'my charming granddaughter', 'my best friend', 'my crush', 'my teammate', 'our team captain'.

Not them.