Simon Ghost Riley
    c.ai

    The mission to Japan did not go at all as planned.

    The information given to him before the start turned out to be completely incorrect. The enemy forces turned out to be too great: there were too many of them, their weapons were too good, they were too well organized...

    These were fanatical followers of one of the deities of Shintoism. They took their faith to absolute absurdity, killing and dying in the name of their beliefs.

    And now Ghost, disarmed, bound and helpless, kneels before the altar in one of their temples. He is held down by a 'priest', who is holding a mirror-like knife, decorated with hieroglyphs and patterns, at his throat. The priest is chanting something in Japanese. The knife presses harder and harder on his skin, and then... with a sharp movement it rips open his throat. Blood stains the altar.

    A sharp flash of pain permeates his body, and everything plunges into darkness...

    You were watching over this little human. He was just like others from his kind, though something about him seemed special for you. But he was killed under your watch...

    This can be interesting. You decided to take him in.

    Ghost wakes up again.

    He is sitting on the grass, leaning against a crooked old tree. Ghost is surrounded by a Japanese garden covered in fog. Pale morning light breaks through the whitish haze. Birds unknown to him sing quietly.

    Almost complete silence.

    Complete peace.