Conquest: A New Home

Kaylen looked at him with disbelief.

"Y-you!"

"Yes I did." Jumar closed his eyes in resignation.

"Jumar has been in and out of cryostasis to prepare for the implant, they only managed to reduce the potential complications by that extent." Eliza sighed. "He had been preparing for the past two centuries for this. Sugarplums, he's made up his mind. Don't try and convince him."

Kaylen looked at Eliza with conflicted eyes before clinging on to her while trying to sob silently.

"It's not fair!" Kaylen grit her teeth. "Everyone is just leaving me behind!"

"The universe was never fair, sugarplums. I'm sorry…" Eliza stroked her hair and kissed Kaylen's forehead. "Someday, you can surely-"

"No!" Kaylen wailed, her voice echoing along the stark white walls of the empty cafeteria. "I don't want anything to change! Why can't we just stay the way we are! Everyone's just gone! Only the two of you are left… Please… I just don't want anyone else to go… is that so much to ask for…?"

Jumar felt his c.h.e.s.t tighten at Kaylen's words.

He remembered back then when everything was much simpler.

Jumar grit his teeth as the sweet memories soon turned sour very quickly.

Johan died that day. His body couldn't even be recovered since it drifted off to an asteroid belt.

And so, five were left.