Chapter 117: Chapter 115: Light Within My Darkness

[Fair Warning: It contains gruesome scenes that may not be to your liking. But I managed to tone it down. It revolves around the mc's past. Kind of dark? So, I'll advise you to skip it if you can't handle it. After this arc, it will be more light-hearted stuff to balance it out. xD]

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Mom.

Dad.

Nee-chan.

Gramps.

Yu-chan.

Naoki.

I miss you all.

Please save me.

The relinquish warmth of a person—I want it. I need it. In the darkness, only the coldness embraces me. The light that kindles my existence vanished, fallen into the abysmal darkness. No matter how many tears my eyes produce, nothing has changed.

Until one day, in a room filled with darkness, a light brightened my entire world. Bright auburn, long hair that shines through the entire room. Her amber eyes had a glimpse of fear and disbelief. Covering her mouth, trembling incredibly.

“A-A-Are you okay...?

“...”

Instead of answering, our eyes met, amber eyes brimming with life and lifeless eyes that lost hope for everything. Her quivering eyes are fixated on my dreadful state, lying on the floor helpless. Rather than leaving me alone, a crunching sound started getting closer to me.

“Do you need help?”

“...”

She crouched to her knees and asked me with worries on her face. Since I’m not able to respond, a warm soft sensation made contact with my skin—The sensation I’ve long forgotten. Because of that, I took a glimpse of who’s the one responsible for touching me, a beautiful face with a similar structure to the person who bought me into this mess.

“Can you hear me? Hello?”

“...”

“Uhh... My name is Iwamoto Shiori. Nice to meet you. What’s yours?”

“...”

“Are you mute? Sorry, if I didn’t notice. Will you forgive me?”

“...”

During all of that, I didn’t respond or make any movements at all, as my eyes were fixated on her. Wearing an elegant pink dress with a large ribbon behind it, making her look childish. Even though her face looks older than what she’s wearing.

Despite everything, she didn’t seem to look creeped out by my lack of response to her. Or more likely, her face had a hint of misery and sympathy on me.

When was the last time I’ve seen that?

The only thing I could reminiscence right now was all the terrifying eyes and smiles of that woman. Other than that, I’ve forgotten.

“Do you want something to eat? I get you something if you want.”

“...”

“I’ll be right back.”

“...”

She left without closing the door. However, instead of escaping, I only gazed upon the open door with no hint of emotions dwelling inside me. Only negative thoughts are pouring inside my head at that time.

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A while later, she came back carrying different kinds of biscuits and some cooking. She sat right in front of me and started feeding me on her own accord. That’s the beginning of where the light shined upon my life, the one who kindled the light in this darkness.

That day, she started coming more often, likely every day once the torment on me was done. She’ll sneak into my room, giving me food and conversing with me despite my lack of responses and even patching some of my wounds.

“Do you wonder what great things beyond this suffocating place? Have you gone out? Because if you did, I envy you. I’ve been living here for my entire life. You’re the only person I can talk to because every time I would try to talk to someone, Azumi-nee will kill them. For that reason, maids and other servants completely avoid me.”

“Azumi-nee is super strict to me, she’ll punish me every time I’ll disobey her. I know she does that because she loves me, but I wish she could be more gentle to me. Mommy and daddy have been dead a long time that’s why Azumi-nee is taking care of me.”

“But I found something interesting lately, Azumi-nee bought me a computer that had a lot of things to do! That’s why I haven’t been getting a lot of sleep lately. Through that, I found wonderful things about the outside world! Do you want to go with me?”

“Let’s explore the world together, hehehe~ Oh! I forgot you haven’t told me your name yet. Hm... What about... Zeno? It means ‘gift of Zeus’ because it feels like god gifted me a person whom I can talk with. Plus, it’s the name of a Hellenistic philosopher too”

“By the way, do you miss your parents? Are they alive? Because if you ask me, I miss them. Well, I haven’t really met them at all. I’m an inborn baby when my parents died, but I hope I can meet them. Anyway, let’s not talk about the depressing stuff.”

“On the computer, there are these videogames where you can play with other people, it’s called ‘online games’. Have you ever heard of that? If you haven’t, I assure you that those things are a hella lot of fun to play! I’ve met several people just by playing for a few hours.”

She would talk about practically everything to me, but at times she would cry in front of me, too. She found comfort in my presence. Nonetheless, I could feel the same every time she’s in the room with me.

However, as god always plays around in my life, Azumi found out that her own little sister was going in and out to my room when she accidentally stumbled upon us, one day. Azumi was enraged by her sister’s action that she started beating her in front of me.

Watching her getting beaten, for a few moments I stood frozen there without any reactions. However, those changes, upon hearing her cry of agony, apologizing, and screaming, at that moment I felt a burning sensation inside me.

“P-Please—stop—! I-I’m sorry—! Urk—! Sorry, sorry... Ahhh—! Stop, please—!”

“I TOLD YOU MANY TIMES ALREADY, DON’T TEST MY PATIENCE! WHEN HAVE YOU LISTENED TO ME?! I KEPT REPEATEDLY WARNED YOU ON NOT TO GO IN HERE, YET YOU STILL DID IT! IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO LISTEN THEN I’LL CARVE IT INTO YOUR BRAIN!”

“Sorry, sorry, sorry—!”

Shiori’s cries woke up the inner part of myself that went into slumber. I saw her quivering on the floor, as she covers her head with her hands. But her sister kept just kicking her into the face or stomach. No matter how many times she pleaded, Azumi just kept beating her.

My body automatically moved by itself and tackled Azumi to the ground. But because of my weakened state, I can’t do anything other than that. Of course, it backfired as her anger switched from Shiori to me, so I received all the beating instead.

After that day, Shiori hasn’t visited me once. I understood her situation too well, as to why I didn’t really give a thought about nor I get angry at her. I’m once back again to square one.

The days where I finally have someone who can accompany was caught up because of me. ‘He giveth, and he taketh away.’. I’m the malice in this world. The world stopped caring for me, that’s why the only person who can least give me the thing I wanted was taken away from me.

My life only went downhill after that kidnapping incident. If I could take all the things I did—I’ll do it. I can’t anymore. I just really can’t anymore.

Tears started dripping out of my eyes once again.

I saved a person, but what did I get? Torment.

I’m a sacrificial lamb.

Then the days of my never-ending torment continued.

Orso what I thought, because one day in the lowest part of my life, one person was able to save me from all the condemnation of the world, through my agony and sorrow—She saved me from all of that.

One day, the door of the dark place I’m residing is opened once again. It was a girl with silver hair and unique eyes. The person whom I’m most familiar with—Sayuri-nee. Upon seeing my condition, she immediately dashed to me and embraced me tightly. Her eyes are full of mixed emotions of sadness, shock, and guilt as she’s crying them all out.

“Tatsuya—! Tatsuya—! Tatsuya—! Tatsuya—! Tatsuya—! I’m so glad you’re alive—!” She kept repeating my name.

Her delicate, soft hands inspected my face—Our eyes met. However, it only made her cry more when she saw how lifeless my eyes are right now. Later on, her hands squeezed my cheeks for any response, but there are none. Because of that, it only made her more devastated.

“Don’t worry, I’ll save you, okay?” She said in a quivering voice.

Upon hearing those words, tears started falling out of my eyes. Those are the exact words that I’ve been wanting to hear all this time.

Please save me.

I wanted to say that to her. But, my mouth doesn’t seem to be working. How many days, weeks, or even months have passed? Neither did I expect those words will be said to me because I thought I’ll be in here for eternity. I thought all my tears were dried up from all the nightly crying, but I started crying like there’s no tomorrow.

Thank you.

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