Death Stranding: Volume Two by Nojima Hitori

Author:Nojima, Hitori
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan
Published: 2021-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

AMELIE’S BEACH

“Amelie!” Sam shouted.

Sam was heading this way. A shabby man desperately trying to survive. Higgs considered it uglier than anything else in the world. So much so that the very sight of him made him retch.

Higgs placed the mask in his hand over Amelie. She didn’t resist.

“You ready to end this? Before the end of everything?” Higgs asked before he thrust both arms into the sky, where Amelie hung in midair. Sam’s grim face was fanning the flames of Higgs’s belligerence. The debris and rocks scattered around the sandy beach ignored the law of gravity and flew into the air, surrounding Amelie in layer after layer of rubble. Everything was moving as he wished. Just as he had envisioned. Several umbilical cords stretched out from Amelie’s abdomen, creating a spider’s web. Amelie lay across the center, both like the prey caught in a trap and the predator lying there in wait. It was all just as Higgs wanted. “I’m just doing what I’m supposed to do,” he said. “I’m keeping the Extinction Entity safe until the slate is wiped clean. Those of us with DOOMS. Her. We’re all bound here for a reason.”

Sam was shouting something back. But no matter what he said, Higgs was never going to hear. Even if Sam had reconnected the world, he was still just a laborer who moved things from one place to another. He hadn’t accomplished anything great. Higgs decided to put him in his place by showing him what kind of place the Beach really was.

The sands swelled and several whales appeared. They cried as they breached the surface and slammed their massive bodies onto the shore. More followed suit, stranding themselves on the sands. The entire Beach was getting buried in the corpses of whales that neither came from the sea nor could return to it.

“We’re all of us a part of the Death Stranding,” Higgs declared.

It didn’t seem to matter how Higgs explained it, but Sam never understood. As long as all he wanted was Amelie, he would never see the truth. Higgs had once been the same.

“And this place, this fucking ‘Beach.’ There’s no repatriation here, no. One of us dies, that’s it. He goes to the other side. Nice, huh? Lucky loser gets to put an end to this rinse-and-repeat bullshit once and for all. So… No BTs, no voidouts, no bullshit. Just a good old-fashioned boss fight. Stick versus rope. Gun versus strand. One more ending before the end… One last game over.”

All Sam had was his ID strand. It didn’t take a genius to figure out how this fight would end. Higgs aimed his assault rifle and pulled the trigger. This gunshot will sound in the beginning of this rite of extinction.

* * *

It wasn’t long after Peter assumed the name of Higgs that he joined forces with Fragile Express. He may have professed himself to be the God particle and may have worn a mask to imitate the pharaohs, but he was still painfully aware of his own lack of power.

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