Chapter 22:

Short chapter

Lost tales: The Day I Saw a God


A Wandering traveler 1




"What am I doing here?."



I was lying down in the middle of a muddy road. It was very disgusting and uncomfortable in there. My uniform was tattered and muddy. It was also foggy. I tried to move but I couldn't. 

"I can't move. Why?"

I looked at myself and saw myself in water reflection.

"What happened to me? Is that my right leg totally smashed into pieces. I don't feel any pain though. Why? Am I not feeling pain because my leg is destroyed? How could I forgot? I didn't come here alone. I had my friends and comrades with me. We were in a battlefield trying to runaway but they bombed us while we were trying to run away. It seems like I only lost my legs, but what about everyone?!"

I couldn't move. But I muster up all my energy and moved a bit forward. I saw someone Standing in front of a horse carriage. I again muster up all my strength and moves forward. Then I saw it. I saw him standing in front of my dead friend's corpse. He looked like as of he was dead. Half of his face was destroyed. But I didn't believe in it. I won't give up hope that easily. He was almost unrecognizable but I recognizes him with just a glance. I wasn't supposed to have any strength left but I was able to move up to him earlier than I was supposed to be. He was surprised. He looked at me. But I couldn't clearly see his face in this fog

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"Move away!! I have to help him!! He is my friend!!"

I tied him with a rope around me and moves forward in search of help

"He is already dead."

I didn't want to believe in what he said. I just keep moving Forward.

"It doesn't matter even if you try. He is already dead. And all your other friends."

I was shocked at that moment. Suddenly I wasn't able to move anymore.

"If you see in front of you, you will be able to see your dead friend's corpse."

I looked in front of me. He didn't lied. They really were I front of me scattered around the muddy street. Gibby, John, Deere, Suzie, Melissa, Hum, Corbet, Kibby, Kernel. All of them. But they were all just a corpse now.

"There are more corpse as long you go in that road. I looked at all of the corpses to check if anyhow someone survived. But none did."

A sudden chill went throughout my body. I was too shocked by the news that I didn't know what to do? What to expect? Or what should I have done?

"Everyone is dead. Why? Why did this happen to me?"

I started to cry.

"I don't know. But I guess this is how the war is."

"I shouldn't have joined the war. If I didn't none of this would've not happened. They all just joined the war because of me and I lead them all to there death. I am sorry, Gibby. I am sorry, Suzie."

"Not only them you're also going to die. You already lost too much blood."


"So that's how it gonna play out? I should've known better. Because of me they had to die like this. Now I shall suffer my part of pain. Just like them. That's what I deserve fir leading them in here."

"I maybe a stranger but I don't think your friends would've happy seeing you talk like this."

"You're right. They would have laughed at me if I were saying this in front of them. Btw what are you doing here?"

"I am just an Traveller."

"Why did you pick this street then? Isn't it dangerous here?"

"It is but the war ended a couple of days ago. People will start to cross this road as usual in a short time."

"I see. Can you tell me which side won the war?"

"Regissila Kingdom won the war."

"Thanks. It seems like our sacrifices were not for vain. I am starting to feel dizzy. Everything started to look hazy and more foggy."

"The time has come, I guess."

"You don't have one hand?"

"Yes, I don't have it. Something like an accident happened."

"I can't open.... My eyes.... Anymore... I... Wasn't even.... Able to see.... Your face... Just... Tell.... What.... Your name.... Is?"

"It is....... He died. Another war. Another tragedy. When will it ever stop?"

I look at his bag and saw a mail coming out of it. I took it on my hand.

FromPaulo to Alice.
Regaila, Regissila Kingdom.
I looked at the back side of it. 
If you found this mail and you're not Alice it means I am dead. I guess I am unable to keep my promise, Alice. If you're Reading this then I would be really happy if you could give this to her. Nothing would make me more happy than this.

"I guess, I can deliver it. Since I don't have a destination of my own."

I take the mail with me and went to Regalia, Regissila Kingdom. I searched house after house and I finally founds her. I leaves the message outside of her house. I moves away and sit down beneath a tree. She opens the door after sometime and takes the mail. She opens and reads it. After reading that she starts to cry. She was bawling her eyes. Tears after tears were coming out. While I was watching it from afar. I didn't know how to calm her after she reads that. How can I? I didn't even have someone important who gave me a message. They all died. All of my beloved people died. And also my feelings and emotion started to fade away back then. I maybe didn't have any emotion to begin with. If I would have it I might have cried and mourned in their deaths