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He remembers.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXzVw20BsG
How his day started with his mother's kisses. The feast, the songs, the celebrations, the laughter of their people, and the gifts from his friends; he remembers.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TRObVNzt8
And there's the signet ring hanging on his neck.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BrfK04XHa
It was the most beautiful thing he had received on that eventful day. The white gold ring, too large at that time on his small seven years old finger, feels cold and makes this tingly feeling on where his ring and skin touches. It's blue in the middle with the kingdom's gold "stag and guns" emblem, and dangling daintly on a silver Figaro chain. He remembered his mother's proud smile as she tucks the ring on his chest, and whisper words of knowledge behind his ears.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjln2KJRZId
"It is fine to rule with passion," She cupped with her hand the ring on his chest then placed a loving kiss on the crown of his head, "But remember that mind is above heart."840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMcjzwK1Mx
He took her words in his heart, not completely understanding the weight the words hold at the time, and though he convinced himself that he do now, he knows that her words we're still a puzzle for him.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyczvzRq82
Then things went down to hell, the image of his mother's downfall that's as fresh as yesterday in his mind haunting him everytime he closed his eyes.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBjBNOeU3o
She fought like the warrior she is, protected him like any mother would do for their child, and fell on the cold floor that no queen as great as her deserves. He can still sometimes see how her red blood blooms in her feast clothes, on how she grew pale, lungs heaving with lack of air, and the light in her eyes dying along with her heartbeat.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkQsmKzrCG
"Run" Was the last word that left her lips.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaTCJdc5SZ
It was her last order as the kingdom's queen and he disobeyed her. Instead the young naïve him took the dagger he received that day and attacked the heavy clothed men in his room. He stood no chance at all with those men, and he lost consciousness with a hit on the head as they took him away from home.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2O5hkghrpz
Away from his people, away from his friends, and above all, they took his mother's life; He then swears on his mother's memories, promised to pay them back ten folds of what they have done to him.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvxhySLgpa
Then there was the man amongst monsters. A bit broken and frayed on the edges, but he owns a soul that shines brightly contrast to his dark defences.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLTJJR3jVs
He didn't free him, no. But when things went down in hell and disaster came, he cut the rope, gave him the same dagger he tried to save his mother with, and ordered him the same thing his mother told him.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ15ILPmObx
"Run."840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXwmYA1xHI
So run he did, but for the second time at that night, he dismissed the plea as he stopped from his tracks and looked back. He saw the man - no, beast - fight for his life, not aware how his comrades and enemies alike fell one by one. That or he just does not care.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1iWlOqfhn
He remembers the picture of that beast, covered in blood, his shadowed face, and black eyes glinting in the dark, as the puddle of blood grows every second as they found their way out of fatal wounds. It made him shiver to the core.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TrFCtBEC7
And he don't know how long he stood there, a few minute or hours - maybe even the whole night - he don't know, but he felt his knees go weak when that blood soaked beast turned to him, eyes locked unto him, and strode towards him.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmL2b8IfSZo
He took two steps backwards on the man's every step and "too late" he thought, "I should have ran"-840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0UNA33GUs
And with those thoughts, he took off.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPlg5cacaF
As fast as his small limbs can, even though his lungs burns with lack of air, his tears blurs his vision, and his mind numb, he ran and ran and ran. He hears nothing but static, the breeze colder than he remembers, and he just feels too lost.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaeTkETF6q
A rough, sticky, warm, slippery, bloody large hands caught his arms and he flailed uncoordinated, with fear choking him. He's aware that he screamed, but he didn't know what nor how loud it was, but he screamed.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhX2Zf5S4V7
And in between of everything that's happening, the clasps on his arms loosened and everything just stopped.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfv7epvFxV
He took a breath and looked around and saw the beast lying on the ground vulnerably. Same red grows on his stomach that he clutches for dear life - and maybe he really is clutching it dearly so - and red blood flows on the ground from his head, hair matted with his blood.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIC6U1FsXP
He doesn't know why, but he spared the man.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDbiTcZhfJ
He remembers taking his dagger and unsheathing it, holding above the man's heart with trembling hands. He remembered seeing the beast as the same broken man earlier. He remembered seeing the tired soul behind those brown eyes.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4qQhkyuiD
On how the breeze caressed him gently with cold hands, how the sun's rays peeks behind dark clouds as if promising tomorrow, remembers how the owls hoots above them, and how battered and resigned those eyes were.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4fw7DLjlJ
But he saw a spark. It was something alive and stubborn, as they search through each other's soul. And that probably is the reason why he spared him, his body giving away and slumping above him; resigned and hopeful.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPJmf0HrTN
But he forgets it all whenever he wakes up.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPaDrxtz8L
Or rather, he makes himself to, and he's completely fine with that. He used to wake up gasping like a fish out of the water, tears streaming down his cheeks, air lacking and too much at the same time as his thoughts run wild.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7Sz5HgJci
He was pathetic.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrDOacU9zc
He stopped minding it nowadays. It's easier that way.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEROc0aGPKz
As easy as how he turns a blind eye with how a friend run as hard as he can as if hell's hounds are on him like dogs with their bones. Which would be a rightful reaction with how his own people - those very same people he pledged to protect and serve - are running after him like the mindless monsters they are. Like the selfish persons they are.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mSD3FYUpo
And it hurts to see that the man stood no chance.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKxJiAJ1fc
With a sigh, he tangled his fingers together and stretched them, getting the familiar satisfying pop and crack, and he started working.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VNe25Peb0
He typed codes and decryption, unlocking traps here and there, thanking heavens above that this man knows how to dodge. This friend of his may think that he's forsaking him, or the elders may think lower of him than they already have with his incompetence, but he have to help this man out of here.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmBvwBDGY8
Satisfied with chasing his friend out towards safety and out of the kingdoms' borders, even succeeding with entrapping some of those poor excuse of knights on some traps, he sagged contently back in his chair.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBC6vsG2wG
He'll be berated about this later, even to be hold off with his duties, but he realized that he doesn't care. He's fine with that. After all, he can blame them back for neglecting his founding and suggestions for improvement. Their hate for science would always bite them back hard, with revenge.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWkNvKoOLo
He reviewed some of the recordings and deleted anything that would prove that he "helped" with the traps, as well as the videos that would tell where the man would be heading. Maybe leaving some few that would make a greatly handy false assumption on where would the man go.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkhl4tzFPb
A knock rang from his door, followed by a steady voice.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyh1dn9uc53
"Col. Hauger, the commanders ask for your presence in the meeting in an hour, sir."840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrefQGmCDnm
"Thanks Joe." He replied, not even bothering to dismiss the man properly.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJM7VgoLWFv
Anyways, he does have a meeting to prepare. Either a boringly long reprimand regarding his lack of mental capability if he's lucky, or finally getting sacked if not. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0thws66Djx
Even if they sack him though, he still is the most qualified person when it comes to electronics here in this kingdom and he could easily just crack through the network. Though knowing himself, he'd probably celebrated instead of sulk if he really got sacked.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMahetxuXgs
Oh well.
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