Chapter 96: The Lecture Of Truth (1/2)
What he realized was something true.
The weeping boy and this struggling boy...
from the beginning itself...
Was him... was his younger self.
Was Marcus G Orno.
.....
The boy before him cried and cringed back, holding his aching hand on the other.
Marcus looked at him in shock. It was, after all, his younger self.
”So this is my hidden memory?...”
He inquired himself.
”But what's so traumatic about this... I mean I still remember this.”
Just as Marcus finished his words, blood splashed on his face, drenching it in warm, red blood.
HIS BLOOD!.
Marcus's eyes were wide as he witnessed the Ogretto pulling back its ax from the decapitated boy's body.
Even though he had seen blood before, even though he had killed literal Gods before, the scene before Marcus almost made him trip over himself.
Because the one who got killed before him was himself, his younger self. Witnessing that gruesome scene where one gets killed before himself... it's unimaginable and for him, intolerable.
Even though he had tried to kill himself two whole years ago... getting himself killed before his eyes made him reevaluate his past choices.
Now he realized, Maybe it wasn't worth it at all. He really shouldn't have tried to kill himself for a petty reason that he didn't awaken a seed.
Or was it just a petty reason?.
In a world where power mattered, where a seed a person held mattered the most, what could he ever do without a seed?. Do farming?. Hell no, he wasn't even fit for that job because of his frail body.
But now as he stood before his decapitated body, he reconsidered if he hadn't tried to kill himself years ago, then he wouldn't have been here in the first place, chosen as the guardian who is supposed to protect the entirety of the planet by himself.
”Oi, Oi brat... You aren't supposed to have this much of a realization yet!!. I wanted to hear more cries than mere thoughts of reckoning”
The same familiar deep voice of an entity emerged behind him.
”Guess you catch things a lot faster than I thought you usually do”
The demon said as he finally materialized behind him.
”It's a great thing that you thought all about that in just one scene... Good!. But what you have to realize is, you are not going to go through the trauma you are about to see. Instead....”
The demon paused as he crept closer, patting Marcus's shoulder with its obsidian wrapped hand.
”Kekekek... You are going to go through the trauma he went through”
The demon, while whispering to his ears, pointed towards the boy, who was weeping.
He was weeping and sobbing inside a circle that was lit with the color yellow. The boy was, according to Marcus's memory, inside the respawn circle.
Marcus's eyes yet again opened to shock. They shivered to alarm because what he saw before him... it wasn't existing in his memory.
Yes. It did not exist in his memories.
Even when he urged himself to recollect the event where he was weeping inside the respawn circle... he just couldn't recall it.
The only thing he remembered was weeping inside the 3rd dungeon, where he gave up after losing all hope. But the boy before him was still inside the first dungeon.
That was when Marcus realized why...
This justified why it was a hidden memory.
....
”I hope that you remember what your system said, Marcus. All of this has happened already.”
The Demon uttered as he pushed Marcus towards the boy.
”It simply means... The trauma has transpired years ago...”
The Demon floated in the air, circling Marcus from above.
”But the stupid system hid it from you... why? Because it thought you'll lose it?... Kekekek, makes me laugh!!.”
”...”
”Listen to me, Marcus!. Reality is not at all what you think. It's cruel!! It's tormenting, especially for a weak ass boy like you!”
”Realize this Marcus!!. The world does not revolve around you, accepting reality as it is and overcoming your difficulties should've what you have done!!”
”...”