Chương 12: Fated Encounter-I
There was a vast place where there was nothing but darkness. Not even a trace of light could be seen far and wide. That place looked as if someone had got into a void.
There were no objects, no people; there was just silence, where even the sound of anything could not be heard. If a person is in this place, he may find himself alone.
Within that thick silence could be heard the voice of a boy whose voice sounded like that of a fifteen-year-old boy.
"...Where am..I..?"
Roy stood alone in that dark place. Where his voice was such that it would echo back to him. He could not understand where he was and why the whole place was dark.
He was trying to understand but could not understand what was happening.
'Didn't I fall into that ditch?'
I remember that as soon as I touched my feet on the flying stone, it was shattered, due to which I had fallen down, that too due to my mistake.
I forgot that there is a time limit to cross that place, which is how many times my friends told me while playing, but still, I could not remember it, due to which I kept crossing that place.
If for a few moments I could hurry a little, I would probably be able to clear that place-
Roy clenched his fist in anger. He was angry at himself that he had forgotten such an important thing. Had he not forgotten, perhaps he would have reached the other platform.
He was closing his fist very tightly in anger. While he was closing his fist, he noticed a strange thing.
'…Why am I not feeling any pain?'
I have a wound in my hand, so why do I not feel the slightest pain closing my fist? Instead, I should be in a lot of pain. So why can't I feel this way?
Roy raised his hand in front of his face and looked at it. When Roy looked at his hand, there was no trace of any wound in it.
Seeing this, Roy started looking at his other hand as well. When he looked at his other hand, there was also no sign of a wound. Not only this, there were no wounds all over his body.
Looking at Roy's body, it seemed as if there was no wound on Roy's body. There was not even a single scratch mark on his body. Seeing this, Roy could not believe how his injury had healed.
'How is it possible? I had many bruises on my body and wounds I had suffered while reaching here. I fell into such a deep gorge, and there was not a single wound on my body. Far from being a wound, the injury that was on my body was also missing. What a miracle is this?'
Roy could not understand what was happening to him. He had fallen into a deep gorge, but he reached here.
Where there is no light and nothing else. All his wounds healed on their own. Where he should have sustained more injuries, all his wounds were healed, like a miracle.
Not a single thing was in the hands of Roy; what all this happened, and how did it happen? He doesn't know it slightest.
While Roy was trying to understand his situation, he heard a familiar voice. Roy's ears yearned to listen to that voice that Roy had lost hope of hearing.
"Kazuo, don't want to come now? The food is ready soon; your father has to go to the office, so make sure you are ready."
Roy heard that voice as if he could not believe his ears; on hearing the sound, he turned his face towards that voice to his right.
As soon as Roy turned his face towards that voice, his senses were blown away. He was unable to believe whether his eyes were even able to see correctly or not.
'….Mother..?'
Roy's eyes could not move away from the person who gave that voice. He was looking at them as if he had removed them from his sight; they would disappear somewhere.
Roy just wanted to keep them in his eyes so that Roy would not forget them. Roy felt as if he had got all the happiness in the world.
"How long will you stand now? You have to go to college with your father for admission. Kenta went to his school too. Your father is waiting for you outside the car; come early; what are you looking at standing?"
In front of Roy, his mother, Kazuo's mother was placing food on the table and asking him to sit on the chair next to the table, but Roy was only looking at her.
There was a question in his mind
"Do you know who I am?"
Kazuo was in Roy's body at this time. His voice and movement were all different, so it was almost impossible to know that he was Kazuo. But her mother was calling him as if she already knew that Roy was Kazuo.
"Kazuo, have you lost your mind? Why are you talking nonsense? If you do not start eating food in a minute, then I will bring my stick."
Roy could not understand at all what was happening. How does Kazuo's mother know him but hearing this, Roy's face brought a slight smile.
"Hey, scold me more. I have remembered your scolding the most, you just keep scolding me today, and I just keep listening to that scolding. That's all I want."
Such words did not come out of Roy's tongue, and Roy was saying this with a lot of love as if he could now talk freely without any pride.
It was strange how Kazuo was able to talk in Roy's body without any pride, but at this point, Kazuo's attention was only on his mother standing in front of him.
He didn't have time to understand anything else at this time.
"You have started speaking too often; think that if you grow up, you will not be scolded? Stop, today I tell you that whether you are big or small, if you make a mistake, then your mother will definitely hit you."
Kazuo's mother was rushing toward him to slap him. And Kazuo was smiling in Roy's body, watching her come where he was standing.
"Look, I'll tell you now, will you come here soon or else-"
Kazuo's mother came up to him and started slapping him. Just like what a mother scolds her child while explaining to him.
She was coming toward Roy to slap him, and Roy was happily trying to avoid her mother's scolding by hiding his face with his hands.
He looked happy. He was not trying to avoid himself too much from his mother's slap. Instead, he knew his mother was furious, and he was delighted to see her after so many days.
"Kazuo, you have become too much-"
His mother was about to slap him, and Roy kept a hand on his face. He was so happy that he was ready to take some of his mother's beating.
He kept his hand on his face, but no hand came to his face; Roy moved his hand from his face to see why his mother's slap and her voice stopped.
"…Mother…are you okay?"
His mother, Kazuo's mother, stopped in front of Roy with one hand raised. Seeing her in this condition, Roy tried to ask her if she was right. But she stood in her place like an effigy.
"Say something….I want to hear your voice."
Seeing his mother, Kazuo's mother, in fear, Roy touched her in a panic and tried to bring her back again in the same way.
As soon as one of Roy's fingers touched Kazuo's mother, the body of Kazuo's mother got cracked, and she got lost in the darkness.
"…..Mother..?"
Roy was looking in front as if he could not believe what had just happened. He was consciously looking at his hand. As if he still couldn't believe what had just happened.
When Roy was consciously looking at the front, a new scene appeared in front of him, from when Roy came to Turner Territory.
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Roy was going inside the mansion just moments after Amelia slapped Roy. He was about to settle inside the mansion without speaking to anyone, without seeing anyone.
The boy on whose head Roy had set foot was standing on the spot where Roy had burnt his grandmother's body.
He was looking at the ashes in his hand.
"Grand….ma…."
Amelia also started going back to the mansion without looking at anyone. There were still tears in her eyes. She was going to the mansion, wiping her tears.
Hugh, Daniels and Lawrence could not do anything about the matter, so all three of them were silently following them.
And that boy Garrett was looking at the ashes in his hands. Those who were with him wanted to try to console him, but they didn't want to say anything to Garrett for a while.
They couldn't say anything in this condition. The boy Garrett was watching with tears in his eyes with the ashes in his hand.
"You have taken away one of my close family members from me, haven't you? Then my only prayer will be from God that..."
As soon as Garrett spoke, everyone just stood there where they were going. Amelia also started looking at Garrett. And without turning back, Roy stopped right there at the entrance of the mansion.
Garrett turned his gaze to Roy. At that sight also, the fire of anger was visible against Roy that he hated Roy very much. He started saying, raising his voice.
"I will pray to God that even your own, whom you love very much, should go away from you in front of your eyes. So far, you can't bring him near you even if you want. And it hurts you to lose him all the time."
Garrett was about to turn angrily towards Roy. When Garrett was about to leave, the men accompanying him caught hold of him.
"Garrett, it's all done now; control yourself."
"Garrett, He is right; if you go on more than this, you will be in trouble in the future."
They didn't want to let Garrett go, but Garrett was still trying to get himself out of them.
Roy was listening to all this while standing outside without going inside the mansion. Even after catching Garrett, the boy did not stop speaking.
"My only hope will always be that someone of yours will say goodbye to this world in front of your eyes, and you will not be able to do anything."
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This same scene was seen again and again in front of Roy. In the silence of the dark darkness, only the boy's words reverberated over and over again; it seemed as if that boy had cursed Roy.
Seeing this, Roy fell down on his feet. He was not conscious.
"…No…"
Roy looked at his hand as if he wanted to believe it was all a lie.
Roy looking at his hand was the same thing that came to mind again and again when he touched his mother, and she disappeared.
"…This is not possible….."
Roy stood from his place and started searching for his mother inside that darkness. He was looking desperately, hitting his hand and looking at his mother, but he could not see her anywhere.
He could not even hear his voice; if he was listening to it, only one voice was being heard.
{I will always hope that someone of yours will say goodbye to this world in front of your eyes, and you will not be able to do anything.}
'Just calm down now; I don't want to listen anymore..'
Roy closed his ears, but that voice was still echoing in his ears as if that voice did not want to come out of Roy's ears.
Roy's eyes were blurred, he wanted to keep his eyes closed, but when Roy closed his eyes, the picture of his mother and the boy's words came in front of him.
"Kazuo, won't you come to me?"
Roy could only see this picture, and as soon as he tried to listen to her, the boy's voice would start coming.
{I will have this hope all the time now that someone of yours will say goodbye to this world in front of your eyes, and you will not do anything-}
'No….just..shut up….'
This voice and his mother's picture seemed like both were piercing Roy's chest like an arrow; his pain could not be calculated.
Roy sat down on the ground and did not dare to stand from him. Tears welled up on Roy's face.
When the picture of his mother came in front of him one last time, he could not keep it; his painful scream came out.
"Mother!!!!!"
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"…Mother…?"
Roy's eyes opened. He was lying down on the ground. There were iron thorns on the top of the ceiling, the wall was in front, and the light was visible going out from behind.
Roy had come here to this place after falling into that deep ditch. Due to the fall on his body, blood was coming from many places from his body. Blood was coming from his face.
And looking at his hand, he was trying to figure out what had just happened.
'…was it….a dream..?'
Roy brought his hand to his face, started wiping it from where the blood was coming out and started looking at his hand. Water was coming from his eyes.
Seeing the water coming from his eyes, Roy started laughing at his own stupidity.
'Obviously, it must be a dream. You don't understand this, till now you are in another world. So from where will you be able to see your mother's face? Kazuo, you are crazy.'
Roy's hand was on his face; he had a smile but water in his eyes. He was trying to hide his pain in his laughter.
Perhaps the pain was very deep, and there were many wounds in the body too, so it was difficult to know whether this pain was due to the injury in the body or whether it was the pain of the mental wounds that that image has created.
No one else could know.
'Kazuo..you are not a child; you are a university student, so sitting on such a thing is not appropriate. She will not come back because of your sitting, but someone else will surely go to death. So have courage.'
Kazuo was trying to stand up, wiping the blood from his face, but his wounds were so severe that he could not stand.
Roy would repeatedly try to stand himself from the ground with the help of his hand but could not succeed.
After trying for a while, Roy got tired and lay down where he was.
'I'm having a hard time standing up. My body has probably overworked now, and now it is not allowing me to move forward, but the biggest question is that…. Where am I?'
There are sharp iron thorns on the top and the wall in front, the source of light at the back, but if I look at my situation, I have fallen into a deep black gorge.
So shouldn't this place also be dark? How is the light here, and did I see this place playing my friends in the game?
I can't figure out where this place is.
‡Go back from where you came; nothing is kept here for you. Run away from here‡
When Roy was trying to understand the situation around him, he could hear a woman's voice. And just after that woman's voice, the sound of stones started coming.
When Roy turned his gaze around him to see the sound of those stones, he only then found that the sharp iron thorns fixed on the roof started coming down towards the ground.
‡ Run away from here; there is nothing here for you. If you don't want to die, then go away from here. It will be good for you ‡
Those sharp thorns were slowly moving towards the ground. And Roy was unable to even stand from his place.
He could not understand all this; where was this woman's voice coming from, who must have put these iron thorns on the roof, and how it was coming down?
Roy had nothing to know, but if Roy did not move from his place, he would indeed be killed; this time, there was no hope of survival.
Roy was looking at those thorns coming toward him. He did not dare to face any other problem.
'Creator, didn't you feel relieved by causing me so much pain? Why did you desperately want to kill me?'
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//creator=god
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