Chapter 1097: Responsibility (1/2)

Azief remembers something.

One night, when he was in his room, he heard crying. It spooks him. It was late at night and he knows his neighbors are not home

The sound of crying eerily sounds like a baby crying for help.

And that is even more terrifying.

Why would a baby cries so hard? And why could he hear it?

The sound of the baby crying is so close to his window that it felt like someone left a baby outside the house, and put it near the wall of his room

But then he heard meowing.

Only then he remembers that cats sometimes do cry at night and this cry sounded a lot like a baby crying.

Caterwauling, that's the term

He checks on his phone the reason why cats cry at night.

One of the reason is that it is hungry.

Of course, it is not recommended to give food to this cats because this would only encourage such behavior in the future

But the thing is these cats are not his cats.

These are stray cats that usually come to his house area. Sometimes, Azief would throw some of the food to them if he saw them

Azief could be cold to people.

But to animals, they are just something about them that tugged his heartstring. Maybe, because he felt guilty of something he did to a bird in the past

Or maybe it is because animals are very honest in their wants and needs. He wanted to take care of the cat.

But, then he halted. Because the house he is living in, is not his house. It is his parent house. And they made it very clear, that even his existence is burdensome to them

Every grain of rice he east, every breath he takes, he is constantly being reminded by them, that he owes all of it to them

And they would not let him forget it

The only area that he could feel at ease with is his small room that is given to him.

Other than his room, the toilet, the bathroom and the kitchen, he spends most of his time only in his room

Because he is not welcomed in the house. He might be born as their son, but he sure as hell not treated like one.

And so, he knows that he could not take those cats. And then he thinks of himself. At that time, he suffers from a few health complications.

He had depression (resolved by his own will, because God knows that there is no infrastructure for mental health in Malaysia), he had gastritis and a few skin problems

Most of his stomach problem is caused by the few time that he had to starve.

Of course, his parents allowed him to eat but each time he eat rice in that house of his, looking at their eyes that makes him feel like he owed them for each grain of rice, how could he eat with ease?

Thinking about all of this, and all of the expenses that he needs just to make sure that he could live good enough, how could he thinks of trying to adopt the cat and take care of it to?

He thought about all of this and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he could not be responsible for it

He fears of taking something that is alive and instead of helping it, he fears that he would only add on to their suffering and pain

That is the same reason why he did not interfere in the world matters before.

But Pandikar made him understand that when he is sitting at such heights, not doing anything is doing a lot of things

The only one who could establish order at that times, was only him. And if he did not want to establish such order, people would keep challenging him

Because that is the will of the people.

Death, desolation destruction.

Before the Fall, there were so many people in the world chanting for wanting the world to be destroyed.

That they have no faith in humanity anymore. Let the world be done. Bring the flood. Let the day of reckoning comes

Erase the population so we could have more resources. Let us wage war and destroy the world. Who cares about kids dying and being killed in some war-torn countries?

What do we care about people being systemically being neutered so that no new generation could be born?