Chapter 266: Funeral (2)

"Thank you all for coming here… Today is a day that I never thought I would see so soon… No, it was not a scene I had ever dreamt to see in my entire life… I was fully expecting to be the one dead first and to never have to see such a day but it seems like fate had chosen a different outcome…"

He took a small pause, his body slightly shaking before he continued what he had to say. 

"Time is a weird thing, is it not? It only felt like a few days ago when my dear friend and I used to take our children to the park every day and watch them play together as we sat down and talked about them while having a drink… It only felt like a few days ago when he came back home angry, suspended from school for defending a dear classmate being abused... It only felt like a few days where he and I would train vigorously together, day and night to hone our skills…"