Past

1

" You weakling." The guy punched a kid who was around 13 years old in his stomach. The kid holds his stomach and asks,

" Why are you doing this? Why did you kill mom?" The guy says,

" I have no answer but when you are ready, remember to find!" The kid runs and punches the man's face but it is in no vain. The guy holds him and pears a knife inside his stomach. The kid shouts in pain. The man throws the kid down disrespectfully." When your mark starts to glow, your life begins to change. That's the time when you will find me! Until then farewell" The boy had a lot of questions, he shouted again but the man disappeared.

"Every time, it's the same dream!" Indhra thought about his dream while walking to a place. He was walking to the castle because he was working there as a scientist in the labs. 

He sees a shop on the right selling human meat, which is already gross, and then looks at this. The human meat here is considered the best because it is cheap. Indhra is also disgusted by this view. He decides to ignore all this and go for his job.

2

Indhra was at his location. In front of him, he could see a huge door. Beside it, there was a small door. Indhra went to the castle by the small door. On top of the small door, it was employee-only. Two guards were checking IDs.

Indhra walks inside the door. There was a huge place, completely different from the outside world. There was greenery here. There was fresh air to breathe. There was fresh water. There were good people, who could afford normal food. Indhra looks at a sign on the right. It showed the hierarchy of this city.

At the top, there was only one person. On top of the person was written," Akuma!" Indhra reads. Indhra looks more down. The next hierarchy was royal people. Next were castle workers. Workers had their class, weird. Next, there were common people at the last—the people eating human meat. 

Indhra continues to walk to his work. His work was in the labs, where research was done on people about blood. Does Akuma want blood? He does, in a way. He has many plans to do, one of them being this: 

3

Indhra reached the labs. This place was a bit different, the vibe here was different. The aura here was different. Indhra calls," Surya! You here?" Surya turns back. He was working on the project. Indhra says," How is the project going on?" Surya replies,

" Bad! 47 wants the blood sample today! The best person is a woman, Lullaby. But her vitals are not stable. If we cannot do this properly today, she will die!" Indhra sits on the table,

" I've seen a lot of death already, it doesn't affect me anymore. But, I want to resolve this madness, I want to stop Akuma, but how?" Surya says,

" power?" Indhra looks at him and says,

" Akuma is way more powerful, in one way he is immortal." A lot of people start to enter the lab room," I think it's time" Two soldiers bring a woman, she is silent, like she has never seen the outside world. She was in aww. But her expressions were going to disappear soon! She is mercilessly thrown into a tube. There was enough place for her to breathe but she didn't know what was about to happen to her.

Indhra presses a button down. It began. A hand-like structure emerged out of a pit inside the tube. The hand was holding a syringe. Indhra was determined. 

The syringe is inserted inside the woman's arm collecting her blood. The woman starts to scream in pain. And the syringe was out but there was no breath. The woman died. A pit below her opened which dropped her in a place. The place ended with lava burning her completely. 

Indhra and Surya both were disappointed. 47 comes to them and says," She couldn't complete the century. 47 takes the syringe containing her blood to give it to Akuma. 

Indhra and Surya were deeply saddened. All of the people who came to see the experiment went back to their work. Indhra says," One day" Both of them give a bump to each other and smile. Surely, by this, we can confirm they both were best friends.

4

Indhra was in a party place? Why is he there? The questions are going to be answered in moments. He was waiting for someone. He was looking at the front door, the entrance.

He waited for a lot of time, but he had enough. He decides to leave the place. He opens the entrance door. He gets bashed by a girl. She was around his age. Indhra looks at her and gets surprised," Shinsetsu! I was waiting for hours." She looks at him and stans up giving Indhra support to stand up.

She took him out of the party hall, near a river place, only thing there was no river here. She says," Indhra, I went inside the castle!" Indhra gets angry and says,

" What do you mean? I told you to not go there!" Shinsetsu says,

" I know, but, It was important! I saw a lot of things, some even disturbing." Indhra says,

" That place is itself disturbing, no need to explain." She starts to say what she saw in the castle.

5 

" I went with Surya, I think you know that. He gave me the way inside the castle." 

*****

Shinsetsu and Surya were in a lift, she didn't know that there was an elevator there. She was very eager to see what's inside the castle that she anticipated for so long. She hugs Surya and thanks him many times.

Suddenly the lift stops and a bright shining light falls on them. They both never had experienced a light so bright. Both of them tried to open their eyes but couldn't. They couldn't see but could hear the noise.

They hear the noise of doors opening. Immediately they hear birds chirping, crickets making their noise. They could smell the fresh air here. Finally after many tries they open their eyes to see a forest with immense sunlight that they never saw. 

THE END