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SYNOPSIS:

A samurai, a warrior, and a blind boy share the same journey, each searching for redemption amidst a war torn fantasy japan.

Genkei Senshi, a noble warrior and a non-path dealer, travels the country in search of the fabled dragon demon blade smith who is capable of destroying the very weapon that he holds dear and wanted by all while protecting a young son of his friend and brother in arms side by side with a young female samurai bent on avenging the death of her family by killing the man responsible - Genkei Senshi.


HE WHO TALKS TO SWORD IS SET TO BE A NON-GRAPHICAL ANIME SERIES COMING SOON.





ART WORKS ARE NOT MINE, AND NO FORM OF IMAGE COPYRIGHTS IS INTENDED TO BE IN FRINGED

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"The retributors have been around for 60 years, we have been the long arms of justice as led by the council, we have brought peace and stability to states across the world, do you really think it's in the best interest of the council to stop us now? - STELLA COX "assistant director of s.o.w" .

"He was a primitive robot, and to him people were people. … It did not surprise him that human beings had grown so civilized and humane. His circuitry forced him, in any case, to view all human beings as civilized and human; even as god-like, to use an old-fashioned phrase."

‒ Isaac Asimov, 'Robot Visions'..

"Think about the Machines for a while, Stephen. They are robots, and they follow the First Law. But the Machines work not for any single human being, but for all humanity, so that the First Law becomes: 'No Machine may harm humanity; or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."

‒ Isaac Asimov, 'I, Robot'..

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Author's Note




SONS OF WAR SEASON ONE

SET IN A FUTURISTIC DYSTOPIAN WORLD WHERE AI , ANDROIDS AND HUMAN ENHANCEMENT AND FINE TUNNING HAS GONE TO HEIGHTS NEVER IMAGINED.


SYNOPSIS BOOK ONE THE PROPHET

JOHN RIPPER 2167 must stop a mysterious designer and his AI virus from wrecking havoc and carrying out a terrorist attack at a time tensions are beginning to grow over the incessant and almost uncontrollable activities of the retributors and talks of clampdown amidst the election of a new state trooper who has a personal vendetta against all retributors.




"I'm sorry, but you don't understand. These are robots - and that means they are reasoning beings. They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do. They call me the prophet."

‒ Cutie (QT-1 robot), 'I, Robot'.

AUTHOR'S NOTE


Once again, i say thank you to all those who have stuck with me on this journey, thanks for giving me the strength to go on with the book.

AN EDITED VERSION WILL BE READILY AVAILABLE FOR FREE ON OKADA BOOKS SOON, I WILL DROP THE LINK HERE ONCE IT'S READY.

THANK YOU ALL FOR READING.


ROMANS 15:10

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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“did we really do-“

“no, we didn’t brother, God! I wanted to but somehow I couldn’t so I lied to you that we did and I am-“

“Little sister, I found you!” I wept bitterly yet relieved.

“come home brother, come home please, I have to see you!”


“I promise you I will,” I sat there in my dejectedness, for the first time I was just the scared little boy who had seen so much trauma at the hands of his mother that he grew up to hate her and treat women like they were nothing, my anger and hatred brought me here so I did the one thing I could do now.


“oh lord, please forgive me as I have forgiven my mother, I ask for your mercy for I have done so many stupid and ugly things, I have hurt a lot of people and have sinned against you, I believe that through your son Jesus Christ that I am saved, I want to make this right with you so I am begging you, give me the strength to see this through,”

It was the last thing I said before my eyes went shut, death came slowly and painful for Williams Enaboh but not Reuben Esireh, somehow he found God, he found faith, he found strength, he found hope and he found the will to go on.


When I drifted into consciousness for a tiny moment and was certain I wasn’t in heaven but on a hospital bed, I found Annette smiling down on me, besides her was Dorothy in Joseph’s hand.

I closed my eyes and listened to their sweet talks, Joseph was wrong this time, I was not the one destined to save him but rather he was the one destined to save me.

THE END

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It was quiet and somehow peaceful, I was not afraid of anything except death but yet I sat there not willing to fight for my life.

Then that devil of a phone began to ring again, in my pockets, what was the use, I was sure I had only minutes more to leave, why bother with anything else but then I remembered Joseph.

“you will get me out of here,” he just had to said, I might not make it, the tape must have been stashed or destroyed by now but I could still try.


“you are strong and resilient,” Annette said, oh sweet Annette, how would she feel and then I was done feel like a sissy for myself, I felt something strange grow steadily inside me, my will to live.

“Hello,”

“its Silvia, I have the tape, I finally have it!,”

I coughed terribly.

“How did you-“

“I didn’t go anywhere, I got a return ticket the minute I arrived there and since I have been around the house, they are all gone to the court and I got the tape, I am coming to the court to see you-“


“no, not me, I need you to go to my house, someone will be there to take it from you, please trust me,”

“okay, okay, I am on my way,”

Again I could see my effort to apply pressure on my lethal injury fail as more blood gushed out.

“hello Ann,” I managed to dial her number.

“Where are you for God’s sake, you are not at the courthouse yet?”

“I can’t,” I coughed terribly, spewing reddish mucous in the process.

“Will, what’s happening?” her voice made me sad; I could tell she knew something had gone wrong. “Will, where are you, what happened, where are-“



“you need to go my place- Silvia has tapes that can free him, please I need you to stand for me in the court, you have to be his lawyer-“
“will what is happening, are you hurt, what happened to you?” she went hysterical.

“I love you baby, I love you with all of my heart and I will always do, go now for me baby,”

“will, where are you, tell me please?” she begged as my consciousness began to play hard to get.

I slipped in and out now and soon I slipped out and then I woke up with my phone ringing; this time it was Dorothy.

“Dorothy!” my voice seemed horrible as blood fill my mouth; death, is in fact one terrible thing.

“Brother, Brother Reuben!”

“What?, what did you-“

“You are my brother, aren’t you, its Mary, your little sister, the one-“she wiped bitterly. “The one you watched our mother sell to those women, I came to see you at the house when I couldn’t find you at the court and I met a Doctor there, he had some things and some files with him, God I can’t believe it, I found you after all!”


“God, no!, God, no!!” I screamed bitterly like I had been shot more times than I really was.

So many years ago, there was a woman who had become so bitter after her husband abandoned her with a five-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son, so she did the unthinkable to them every day, abusing this kids the way her twisted mind saw fit, to her they were animals, objects for which no affection was spared for.


The woman’s brother wanted to take the kids away from her, but she refused because she wanted them to suffer terribly and die at her hands but one night the mother had some visitors, the boy thought didn’t know who they were or what they wanted but that night, his little sister was handed over to this people, and she was never seen again.


The boy grew up with so much hate and anger in his heart, and so he locked that past in his head, changed his names and did his best to keep his ugly past from the outside world, and it would have been so until the boy found his sister.

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“you drink?”

“only the soft ones of course,” he gave me the stare and I immediately felt ashamed of myself.

“thank you, I believe all this is fate and whatever happens today, I want you to know, you didn’t disappoint me not at all, God works in mysterious ways and sometimes been blind is the only true way to see,”


“that makes no sense,” I pointed out quickly to which he giggled at.

“I will be seeing you very soon, please take good care of yourself,”

Those were his last words before they moved him away, I could see a few prisoners crying and a few policemen in despair as Joseph casually worked past them waving and smiling like the goddamn saint he was.

“hello,”

“Willyboy, meet me at the hot spot, I have got the tape cleared out for evidence but there is something we need to talk about,”

The urgency in his voice told me, he needed me quickly, he hadn’t been around when I came in so I figured he had been working remotely on the tape.


The hot spot was another bar around the corner and by the time I got there Fashi was outside waiting for me.

He got into my car and smiled at me and then he produced his gun.

“drive,” his voice was that of a man I had suspected Fashi to be all along, a psychopathic maniac.

“Fashi-“

“shut the hell up and drive!,” his voice was hard to ignore so I obeyed,; with a gun pointed at me there was nothing I could do but hope I at least got a chance somewhere which never came.


He directed me to a path off the main roads and into a bushy path and then we came down, staring one another in the face.

“so Fashi, are you going to kill me?”


“they want you out of the way, I get paid four million to have that tape handed over to them and you, somewhere lifeless,” the snarl in his voice was scary.

“you won’t kill me, I am your friend,”

“friend, hahaha, Willyboy, you mean like how you are friends with barrister Daniel or Joseph’s fiancée, come on you aren’t that naïve are you, I am a businessman, I do away with you and I get paid, simple!”


I knew I had to act fast so I did what I felt was the best, try to wrestle the gun of his hand; big mistake.

Gboah!

I hadn’t lived such hard life and so I hadn’t been shot before, stories I had heard but the impact of the shock was like in the movies for me, where the poor character whose role ends in a gripping murder, does it as dramatic as he can except there was so much pain in mine.

I swung backwards and crashed hard on my car’s side, right in my chest the fatal shot opened the gates of red thick blood.
I sat there in trauma, breathing like the helpless cow before slaughter.

“you just had to play the conscience card, we could have swing this bastard together and made money, good money!” Fashi walked over to me with his gun pointed to my head.

“Fashi don’t, please I don’t want to die,” tears dropped from my eyes.

This was not Williams the barrister speaking, just the little boy whose life had been through so much hell.

“Am sorry, this is it willyboy,” he said again but his voice creaked under his emotions, I guess my sorrowful state must have got to the hardened police officer.

“You are going to die here anyway, I could as well let you enjoy the last pitiful moments of your life, yeah you can have it,” he said as I bled profusely where I sat.

He walked away hurriedly, I sat there observing how weak and numb I was becoming every moment that I laid there.

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I ordered for some bottles at the bar and made sure I played the part of a miserable drunken man as I walked out in hopes that Akpin’s boys didn’t report my movement as suspicious.


I had just one more thing to do and this was going to be hardest so I did it anyway.

“hello,” fash’s voice was indifferent to me.

“can you meet me at the deluzy bar by 5 pm,”

“and why would I do that?”

“oh come on man, for how long have we been friends, I need your help, am begging you please help me, I can’t do this without you,”

“are you buying?”

That was Fashi alright.

“yes, sure I am, thank you so-“

“we will talk and drink and then talk some more if its good I will bite, Willyboy,”

How I always hated that name of his but hearing it seemed pleasant somehow to my ears.

I hung up quickly and went home.


I drove to the deluzy bar and realized how long it had been since I had a bottle at this bar, I found Fashi drinking and smoking somewhere with a young petite girl that could as well be his daughter but that had nothing to do with me.


“willyboy, you look good,” he said.

We soon got down to the drinks and I had to play it cool with him, let him have his fun now I kept cautioning to myself.

“this is all for the boy, isn’t it?” he asked finally.

I nodded dully; he seemed disappointed, but managed a smile.

“I always knew that kid was fire, even my boys are under his spell like crazy, they won’t touch him,” he chuckled. “even the prisoners are ready to die for him, that’s unheard of,”

I told him that was the kind of person Joseph was, and he seemed to agree.

“but they want him to hang and you have nothing to stop that,”

“I do now,”

I went on to explain the about the tape I had with me and how it could provide something of worth or at least a bargain.

“the clips need to be sorted out, your boys run a media lab that can help us get the exact tapes I need and you could help me certify them as credible evidence,“

He smiled, realizing how crucial our reunion was to Joseph’s case.

“you want me to back it up it up as credible evidence,”

“with your say so, the boy stands a chance,”

“it will not be enough, you know that,”

“I do but we have to try,”

Fashi sat there for a long time sipping his beer and then nodded to me.

“let me have the tapes, I will get them sorted and confirmed,”


It was all I could ask for right now, I handed the tapes over to him and I bid him farewell, tomorrow was going to be one hell of a day I imagined.

That night I was without Annette and somehow I was grateful for it, my thoughts were companion enough, I tried reaching out to Dorothy but she hadn’t picked, I felt bad for her and hoped she was fine where ever she was so i sent her text telling her how sorry i was.


The next morning was colder than usual, I had some nasty dreams to give me a headache or two, but I was not to waiver.

I went for Joseph, this time he was preparing for his trip to the courthouse, we stared at each other for the longest.

“Am sorry for what I said to you the other day,”

Of course, he had to be self-righteous Joseph, didn’t he?

“No I am sorry, I knew what I did-“

“we can talk all about over a bottle once I am out,” he beamed with a pitiful smile.

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that boy gets the rope because of you, you can keep her but come Monday, my laugh will come last,”

Again I sat there looking lost and confused, a client who hated me and a prosecutor who despised me, what was I to do tomorrow I wondered.

“you didn’t mean that did you?” Annette said reappearing from behind; somehow I sense she heard my chat.

“I don’t know what else to do, I can’t let him hang for this,” I said sympathetically.

She rushed to myself and let my head find comfort between her bosoms.

“you will find a way, you always do, you found yourself in a dark place and got yourself out, you got me and you will get the boy free, I know it, its what I love about you the most, you never give up or give in to anything, you are strong and resilient, you will make a way for the boy,” Annette’s word sent fire to my soul, like voodoo magic gone berserk I came to life, energized and full of hope.


She was right, tomorrow I was going to win this case against all odds, Joseph once said that this was fate, that I was meant to free him and I owed him to try.

My mind began to pace around, Akpin’s boys were still on me and I had forgotten about them that Friday night at the hotel – the hotel!

“my keys, I need to get my keys!” I sprang up to my feet, she must have sensed the magic of her words and saw me off to the door.

“take care of yourself now, my hero,” she said to me.

I went nuts with my driving just this once, my destination was sunny city hotel.

Two days ago when I made for that same hotel I had remembered how much I disliked the place yet maybe it was just my instinct but I had seen some little black cameras in and outside, could they have something I could use, had Akpin been that lousy not to have known or was this just a waste of time, questions I could need help sorting once I reached my destination.


I found my way into the hotel aware Akpin goons were somewhere outside waiting for me to make the walk back to my car.

I walked up to where we had sat that night and made sure a camera was pointed at our direction and indeed there was.
I asked for the manager and was immediately take upstairs to see him.


Slim, lanky and bland character he was but he seemed welcoming and held out his hand for a hand shake which I took.

“your cameras, I noticed you have them around, I need videos on one in particular on Friday night – I and some friends of mine were here that-“


“am sorry I can’t help you with that you should know-“

“tell me, how much do you make from this set up monthly?”

He regarded me with searching eyes.

“that’s also something I cannot-“

“your employees are getting smaller by the minute, your establishment doesn’t do much-“

“so what is it to you?”

“I want some information, it’s very necessary that I get-“

“two hundred thousand and I will give you what you want,”

“let’s make it half of what you are asking and you have a deal,” I drove a hard bargain.

“Make it a hundred and fifty and I will personally go get them right now,”

Call it desperation or just a businessman at the road’s end, I gave in, he seemed pleased and satisfied when the alert came through.

“just you wait here, I will be back with the disc,” he rushed out and boy was I glad I didn’t have to spend the next ten minutes waiting.

“that’s all of it, the entire Friday, we can’t go through the process of sorting it all because it will take days so you can have it all!”
There was joking in his voice but money well spent, I had no idea how crappy the video would be or if it was going to be audible but it was something I could hold on to.

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I was still sitting there when Fashi walked in, with a vicious smile of “I told you so” on his face.

“from hero lawyer to string fiancée lawyer, you are certainly living up to your new-found conscience,”

I had nothing to say to him and I knew I would be wasting my time saying any, so I took my leave, inside my car, windows winded up, I screamed and cursed at myself, I needed Annette by my side but that would be a dream if she was waiting for me back home.


Sadly I dropped myself off to a bar and ordered the strongest of their drinks and smoke, maybe this time I would drink so much I would pass out and forget the day.

I woke up at about 2 pm in my bed, Annette was there by my side, was this a dream, was this some vivid hallucination, how did I get here, questions I would get answers for, the next day so I slipped back into my unconsciousness.

“what were you thinking?” the worry in her voice was pleasant to my ears.

“I did something really-“

“don’t say anything else, rest now,” she beckoned on me to sleep a bit more, to which I reluctantly agreed.

By noon I was feeling a bit stronger and found my way to the living room where she was alone, deep in her thoughts.

“what are you doing here, you shouldn’t be here,” she said.

“if I sleep more, I would hate myself,” I corrected her as I found a seat.

“Daniel called,” she paused and let me see a little frown on her face.


“what did he say?”

“he says all proposals are off, what does he mean by that?”

I guessed Annette’s presence with me tipped the case over in his favour now, he had more reasons to watch Joseph go in for a crime he didn’t commit.

“I have to speak with him,” I said, watching how startled she had become, but she was quick to let it fade away.
She dialled his number and let me have the phone.

“can you excuse me for a moment, please, I would like to speak with him in private,” I said.

“okay, I will be in the room, if you need me just call out,” she kissed me and disappeared just as Daniel’s voice filled my ear.
“Daniel its Williams,”

“are you happy now, are you happy-“

“please don’t do it,” I begged.

“what? Are you begging me?” he must have been stunned by the desperation in my voice.

“please don’t do it, withdraw from the case, it will buy me some time to figure out something, you can do it if you want to,”

“and why would I do that?”


“because I am willing to break up with Annette, you can have her back and this time for real, I will do whatever you say, I know this case means nothing to you, you are a smart man you know that boy is innocent, please don’t do this,” I pleaded.

“hahaha, I can’t believe this, oh how the mighty have fallen, William the so called-“

“we were friends, good friends-“

“and then the only thing I wanted, the only girl that meant the world to me, you took her away from me, you betrayed me,”

“and I am sorry but you can’t let Joseph hang for this, that boy doesn’t deserve-“

“I want to see it,”

“see what?”

“I want to see you suffer,Williams, I want to see you lose to me, you think I love her any more? The only reason I have wanted her all this time is because you had her but that Friday you strung her again, imagine how terrible I felt when Akpin told me who came to visit you after we had left, you keep taking everything from me and now I will make sure.

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“I love you so much,”

This words she never failed to mention each time we made love, I never regarded them as much but that night I had said it.

“and I could never be happy without you in my life,” she said kissing me passionately.

“what now?” I asked.

“we make love and forget about all our worries about just tonight,”


She found her hand around my tom who seemed ready for world war III, fully stretched once more, and I dug my lips around her cups.
She was right, for just that night I was at peace, the type drinks and cigarettes couldn’t offer me, the type that Dorothy or any other woman couldn’t offer me.


I woke up with Annette and I still hand in hand, it hadn’t been a dream after all so I clutched her closer to myself and kissed her.
She smiled beautifully at me and returned the gesture.


“I have to go now,” she said softly to me, her eyes searching for something in mine.


Back then I would bark and get mad at her but I didn’t, we kissed deeply and I let her go, would she come back to me or was this just okafor’s law, I kept my thoughts to myself and watched her dress up.


“will I see you again?” I asked.


She turned to me once she was dressed up.

“would you want that?”

“yeah I would,” I nodded.


She smiled beautifully at me and nodded at the idea and then she was gone. Women!, the beautiful mystery of life itself.

My worries came rushing at me once more like creditors once they saw their debtors, I had to go see Joseph now.

I drove to the station and this time they led me straight to the interrogation room, this was surprisingly fast, had they been expecting me, I wondered as I got in.


“how could you?” Joseph’s voice went up the roof.

I was stunned not because I hadn’t seen Joseph this bitter before, but because I knew why he was like this.

“Joseph I can explain-“

“just shut up, I trusted you and you and Dorothy-“

“we didn’t do-“

I stopped half way realizing that night she stormed out of my room wasn’t our first meeting, he saw my guilt and it sickened him the more.
“get out of here, you hear me, get out, get lost!” he barked.


“listen Joseph, I am sorry, it wasn’t supposed to-“

“she was going to be my wife you hear that, she was going to be my wife and you knew that and still?”

His tears ran freely down his cheeks and I felt so horrible I couldn’t even look at him any more.


“why did you do this wickedness to me barrister, why did you hurt me so bad like this, why?”

“I am sorry, I didn’t-“

“get out, go away, I don’t ever want to see you again, you hear me, I don’t want you near the courthouse, you are just like everyone else, you lie, you cheat, you do them all, go away!”


An officer pushed the door open and stared at the both of us.

“Officer, I am done, he is not my lawyer any more, I don’t want to see him ever again!” Joseph stood to his feet as the officer came for him.
My guess was that Dorothy had paid him a visit before I did and spilled her conscience, and now I had just managed to mess an ever messier situation.

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have thrown me out long ago but Sophia would never let that happen, he thinks highly of Joseph but Sophia is his precious daughter so he does what I tell him to do,”


“the boy doesn’t have to go away, he had a big opportunity to spill what happened when Akpin knocked kehinde but he didn’t, he doesn’t want to hurt the family,” I pleaded.


Again there was that maniacal laughter.

“I hate him, I hate his very existence!”

“Because he refused you, didn’t he?”

She scoffed.

“eight times he refused, I mean who the hell does that?”

I smiled dully, Joseph was that man.

“and now you want him gone,”


“and if you don’t get him to agree to that proposal, he is going to get the death penalty, it will happen, barrister that I can assure,”
Some women make a threat and some women see it through, Florence meant every word she was saying; such a young pretty devil she was and I knew my job just became a lot harder and with Silvia unhelpful, I was done on my knees.



“what about me, your boytoy said you had two proposals, one for me and the other for Joseph,”

Her frown turned again to a nasty smile.


“I want you off the case, they say you are good, Silvia believes it as well, she told me you were going to get it done for her, I know she offered you some change because she took that change from my husband’s account, I will offer you four times the amount, you get it and you quit the case, on Monday, you don’t show up at the court house, can you do that?”


I could see how much of a scorned and heartless seductress she was, Joseph would be delivered on a platter come Monday; this was her idea.
“I am guessing the judge have already had their fair share of the loot as well?”


“I did say we are going for the death penalty, didn’t I? he won’t stand a chance neither will you if you stick around, Joseph will get the ropes and you will lose on national tv,” she announced.


‘what, you are bringing the media into it now but that would put-“

“put us into the spot light? No not us, just Sophia, she will do whatever I say and I will act as I have always done, caring and sympathetic, she will be the big meal for them, I am sure self-righteous Joseph would hate that,”


How evil could this little power drunken wrench be, I wondered.

“you have tomorrow and Sunday to make up your mind, call my lawyer when you and self-righteous Joseph have made a decision,”


She stood and stared down on me. “be sensible mister man, the only one worth dying for is yourself and the only thing worth killing for, is money, you are a wise guy unlike Joseph, I expect an answer soon,”


She was gone just as I realized how sweaty I had been all this while; I shook my head in despair.


I returned home and walked into my living room only to find Annette, she was in a pink gown sipping wine.

“you are here, what do you want?” my voice betrayed my words.

She walked in to my hands and kissed me deeply, so deeply I had forgotten for a moment my worries.

Our tongues fought romantically as we striped hungrily for each other, there was no going to the bedroom, we slid into a settee naked and ready to fulfil our widest fantasies once more.


I bit softly into her neck and I could feel her stream down on my lap, she guided my tom right inside her and let a beautiful moan out, urging me to go deeper and then I let the brake loose like a wild bull out of control.


This was worth the drama and trouble I sensed would come soon, we reached cloud nine after an hour or more and then we laid in our unclothedness breathing helplessly and savouring every moment we had been together.