A YEAR LATER
-Epilogue-

It had been made known to everyone that on the day Eos tower fell was the day when Jupiter's reign ended. As much as many tried to deny the fact that the supercomputer that gave them the luxurious life they had lived had an expiry date, many had also came to accept the fact that the 'god' they had always ignored is now not among them.

It was a new world, but not quite the one that Jupiter had wanted for the blondies. For during that interval when Iason connected himself to his creator, he had inherited most of the system's capabilities and unconsciously transmitted the burden to the other blondies via their brainwaves, giving birth to a brand new system.
Katze's crimson blood had reminded Jupiter and with that, awakened a side of the computer that even Jupiter knows nothing about, enabling the connection to happen and transferring its power to the android she had given birth to. The result of the shared burden meant that the blondies were now linked to each other, one in need of the other, a system united by their creator.

As the construction of the new Eos tower proceeded, changes had been brought across the land.
Riki, who had been once controlled by Jupiter now inherited part of the system within him. While it was hard for him to accept that he was no longer human, he cherished the fact that he now stood beside Iason Mink on equal grounds.
Thanks to him, furnitures were no longer plucked out from Guardian and force to give up their rights but are instead consisted of those who are offered the job or volunteered with promised salaries and freedom to roam the lands after they exceed the age limit. The pet system could not be demolished, but they were guaranteed better lives after they are released from their masters.

Ceres is now considered part of Midas again, although not much had changed in the slums despite their improved living conditions, seeing how most of them were used to their barbaric way of living, which of course Riki have no complains about.

Iason had handed over the underground to Riki. He had put Guy in charge, with the help of Vaine who was not so happy to serve Riki. He took it anyway, under the impression that he would occasionally be allowed to set eyes on Iason Mink. Guy however, wasn't quick to receive the place, seemingly at first unable to accept Katze's death, even after Riki's explanation. Riki of course wasn't happy with how Katze ended up too, but much like the deaths of many he had seen, he had decided to not suck on it and move on.

"Not much had change," Iason muttered when he approached his 'mongrel' from the back in their temporary room set in the heart of Midas.
"Actually, quite a lot," Riki muttered, tilting slightly towards the blondy "Of course, the ugliness cannot be erase…and surely, more will emerge as this…'new generation' unfold itself, those are hardly avoidable, it is none other the nature of humankind,"

"The other blondies are not too happy with you standing by their side or even my side," Iason was still that cold unfaltering being he had always been, the blondy who would mercilessly glare at anyone who crossed his line.

"I can hardly care what they think of me," Came Riki's snappy remark. He had already gotten use to Raoul's unfaltering glare every time that blondy lay his eyes on him, as if Riki would commit a terrible crime at any time.

"Mhmm." Iason murmured as he wrapped his arms around Riki, resting his face on his skin. "Are you going to come back to bed with me?"
"Pervert," Riki murmured, involuntarily relaxing into his embrace, his ring finger resting on Iason's.

Ohkay guys, so yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. This marks the end of Rebirth. I am sorry that I took a long time again. This chapter was particularly hard to work with and I have rewritten it again and again that I actually lost count. This sat on my desktop for more than a week already |D

I am also sorry for not giving a heads up about it since I actually had everything planned out at first but when I opened this word document, I decided that the story could not continue if I don't finish it. This is the storyline that I had originally planned. The rest of this section will be my small space as requested by a dear friend of mine, (You know who you are) who had helped me a lot throughout this whole process of giving birth to this story.

I have been a crazy fan of AnK since…was it 2 years ago? In this short time period I have dug out as much information I could get from the net, the books, fansites and all kinds of shit. It was up till the point where someone could ask me a question about AnK and I would happily answer like some encyclopedia, and if I can't I would turn obsess in searching for the answer.

This story idea was a little hard to work with as I only had a beginning to work with and I was rather afraid at first to start anything. But thanks to some persuasion and help from a lot of my friends, I decided I wanted to share this story and this is how Rebirth was born. I never wanted a long story to work with and what I had in mind was probably 20+ chapters, which as you can see, succeeded. I didn't want a story that would drag on for long…so yeah. Though I do swear that this story has a life of its own.

I am rather happy with this story and do hope to work on another piece of fanfiction for Ai No Kusabi. I already have an idea in mind but please do give me some time. Thank you so much for sticking up with me, all of the reviews that you all gave me were very encouraging and I appreciate each and every one of it. If it weren't for them I will not be writing this today. This is why, once again, Thank you.

Meanwhile, some shameless advertisement, if you haven't check out my one shot Ai no Kusabi fanfic, please do check it out. I'm actually quite proud of that particular piece too. Meanwhile, I have also started a role play account for Katze in tumblr, just find katzescarface and that would be me~~

See you again in the next story!