Chapter-2

Uncle Bob sighed seeing the state Reo was left to. He went forward and picked Reo from the ground and went towards his bedroom and reaching there, he placed Reo on the bed and sat on the chair in the room near the window, and gazed out of the window with a sorrowful expression.

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3 hours later,

I opened my eyes and looked around, realizing that I was in my room.

'Haa...so everything was just a dream. '

'Right, how could it be real...'

That was what I wanted to think but the pain that I was feeling told me otherwise.

Tears started to leave my eyes as I sat while leaning on the bed and hung my head down.

'Why did this happen again?'

When I finally got the happiness, it was taken from me...

"Reo, calm down a little for now. I know it is hard, but you need to stay firm. You don't want your parents to look at your current condition, do you?"

I heard Uncle Bob's voice coming from the front, but I kept my head lowered.

'Did my parents hate me as they left me like that?'

Even in my last life, I lost my parents when I was only 5 years old, and the same thing conspired again.

'My life is a joke right?'

Hahaha...

Suddenly my body started to shake madly, I lifted my head and saw Uncle Bob looking at me with a worried expression, but when I looked at his face, he become shocked.

"Reo!! Get a hold of yourself!!"

Uncle Bob screamed and continued to shake me.

Is he going to kill me with the shaking?

Then he should do it more intensely and let me rest from this wretched life.

"REO!"

*Slap!*

Ahh!!

Uncle Bob slapped me on the face and a loud slap. But he looked worried instead of furious.

More tears poured from my eyes.

Am I the reason that my parents died right?

If I wasn't there, then they both would have made enough money for themselves and lived happily and don't have to work hard for me and lost their lives.

"Reo! I am begging you! Return to your sense!"

Uncle Bob screamed again, but why is he screaming as something happened to him?

Did he lose his loving and caring Father, or his strict but loving mother?

And what senses?

I am completely sane.

Except I am just a child who lost his parents now.

Wait! I can't be sure that they died if I hadn't seen their dead bodies!!

'Right! They are all pranking me!'

'And Father and Mother should have joined or they just wanted to see how much I love them!'

Right, how could I not think of that?

"Uncle Bob, could you take me to my parents' bodies?"

A painful expression formed on Uncle Bob's face. Tch...he would become quite popular in my past life world with his acting skills.

"Reo..they were eaten...by the demonic beast..."

His painful and grief-filled voice sounded way too real but I knew that it was all but just a joke.

Did they really think that I would be like other kids?

"Uncle Bob, it is enough for the joke. Just call my parents, I want to see them."

I spoke but tears started to fall from Uncle Bob's eyes.

Did he use some kind of powder to make himself shed tears?

Uncle Bob suddenly hugged me tightly with his tears landing on my shoulders.

"I am sorry! Reo!"

Did this mean that he was not joking?

....no

...No

NO!!

It was a lie!

'My Parents are alive!!'

My whole body started to tremble...from the fear of reality.

My brain already accepted the news to be true but my heart denied it.

I struggled to break free from Uncle Bob's arms with tears falling from my eyes.

"Release m-me!"

My voice started to become hoarse. But I ignored it.

My whole body was screaming in pain, I guess from the previous magic used. But I ignored it.

"Take me to my parents!!"

I screamed loudly!

I want to see my parents!

Uncle Bob released me and nodded with tears still falling from his eyes.

'See, all of that was a lie...'

That was what I thought as Uncle Bob carried me as I wasn't able to walk at all.

He took me out of the house and going from there, we walked to the center of the village where many people were gathered while looking at me with pity-filled gaze while some sad.

...What good actors they all are...

They are acting, right?

Please answer me...

But all I got was silence making the ominous feeling in me rise more and more.

Uncle Bob took me to the village center, where many people had made a circle while some were crying, some had sad expressions, and some had a hidden look of happiness in their eyes.

When their eyes landed on Uncle Bob and me who was being carried by him, they separated and made a way to center for me.

'I see, so Father and Mother are there...'

"Poor child...he lost his parents this early."

"He didn't deserve to face a future like that..."

"What could we do, it was all Lord's wish.."

I heard murmurs and whispers which were in complete synchronization with the current situation.

'I guess, mother arranged all that...she is the only one who had enough brain to conspire all of this.'

I thought as we reached the center where a white cloth was laid on the ground. On that was a sword, a simple steel sword but that sword was the coolest sword in the world for me. And besides, that sword was a wooden wand, a simple wooden wand, something I always liked holding.

But why was there blood on them?

I always cleaned them so there shouldn't be blood on them.

I quickly jumped from Uncle Bob's back. I don't give a fck about my body feeling pain at all.

I ran towards both of the things on the ground, they needed to be cleaned. I don't want to see them dirty, Father and Mother would be happy seeing their things cleaned.

My breathing started to become heavy, tears falling from my eyes. Despair was covering my eyes as I touched the sword and used my shirt to clean off the blood from it.

"Father, I cleaned your sword..."

I then picked the want and cleaned the blood but some blood become dry so I used my nails to remove it but my nail broke due to the hardened wood but I ignored it as the blood from the wand was already removed.

"Mother, your wand is all cleaned!"

Tears fell from my eyes as I held both the sword and wand in my hands and loudly screamed.

"PLEASE COME BACK!"

But no response...

I kneeled on the ground with tears falling from my ears.

Suddenly, I felt someone hug me from behind, I looked back with my face covered in tears and snot.

It was Aunt Martha, Uncle Bob's wife. She was crying too.

"Uncle Martha, where are my father and mother?"

I asked lightly.

"See, I cleaned it for them but they haven't shown yet..."

I lifted both the sword and want with my arms feeling like breaking apart from the pain and the weight, but I ignored it.

"I am sorry my child!!"

Aunt Martha screamed loudly and hugged me even higher.

"I am sorry...!!"

She continued to say that but why?

I looked at Uncle Bob who was crying too while standing behind Aunt Martha.

"Uncle Bob, where are my parents?"

A look of sadness and deep grief formed on his face.

I hate that look.

"Their...their bodies were....eaten by the...demonic beast..."

I see...so my parents were killed, and then eaten by a demonic beast...

What the fck he meant by that?!

They were my parents, not some fcking dish!!

'No...Reo, everyone is lying to you. They are still alive. Maybe you did something wrong and they wanted you to repent for that.'

I thought and separated myself from Aunt Martha and wrapped both the weapon and sword in the white cloth and lifted it and turned toward the whole village and bowed my head.

"It was a good show, but I hope you don't do it with someone else in the future."

Saying that I started to walk back toward the house.

I had no need to live in the village that joked about the death of my parents.

'My parents are alive and healthy. They will come back when I have repented enough.'

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"Reo!!"

Martha called out to the Reo who was moving toward his house while the villagers made their way for him.

Seeing him not stopping, she quickly stood up and was about to run after Reo but Bob stopped her and hugged her tightly.

"Let him have some time alone."

Bob spoke lightly while patting Martha's back.

"How could we do that!! Did you not see his eyes!"

Martha screamed and tried to move from Bob but the latter didn't even budge.

"I saw it too, but we need to wait and see. He needs some time now to arrange his thoughts for now. He is in no condition to be with someone right now."

Bob replied and forcibly took Martha back to his house. He knew better than anyone that Reo's condition needed him to stay alone for now, not with someone.

And Reo's eyes were not something that a kid should have, the eyes that showed no life. His eyes were completely dull of any light in them. They were lifeless eyes.

Other villagers also looked at each other and then walked back to their homes feeling a deep sense of loss in their hearts.