Chapter 10

Rainer clenched his teeth tightly. “I can… I can choose anything?” he quietly asked, and the Phantom nodded his head.

“Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be free. Free from that man and that life. I knew nothing about life, I only knew how to bring destruction. I could never save anyone because my freedom was taken from me. If this is where I can be different, where I can change?” His mind began to clear “I can change! Everyone on Earth voted for me to be here and that was a mistake. They set me free from my prison.”

Rainer stood back up on his feet, wiped away any tears from his eyes, and confidently looked towards the peak. “Every day of my life, I was chasing after a promise that I wasn’t able to fulfill. Now I have a chance to, it’s my turn to chase after a future that I can be proud of! Live or die, I’ll at least go on knowing I made my own choices in the end.”