CHAPTER 51 : WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

The neighbors living near Nasuha's house began to come out to see what was happening. Nasuha remained sitting next to Ehsan, her fingers quickly typing in the HOPE group chat, asking for their help.A few tears fell onto the phone screen as Nasuha glanced at Ehsan, who was still unconscious. Several people arrived and began inspecting Nasuha's collapsed house, while a male neighbor approached Nasuha and her father."What happened?" the man asked. Nasuha just bowed her head, and then she stood up after a moment. She took a few steps away, and the neighbor looked at her curiously."The ambulance is coming... Take care of him," Nasuha instructed.Her eyes began to shine, light extending her hair, and with a fierce expression, Nasuha flew into the air. A few people noticed but couldn't react, confused by what was happening."If you can't bring my brother back... Then just die!" Nur screamed, ready to attack Khairul again with her powers. Sharp earth and stones shot towards Khairul."Kill me! Quickly!" Khairul sheathed both of his blades back into his arms, extending his hands, his face set with determination."Huh?!""If you wanted to kill me all this time... just say it! Why do you need to involve Nasuha in this? She just wants to help you. I don't want to live; my life is just suffering! If you want to kill me so badly, then kill me!" Khairul yelled repeatedly, stepping forward. Nur froze, looking furious but didn't move her hands or powers."What's the problem? Hurry up..." Khairul sighed."He's stupid, naughty, but he's like the little brother I wish I had, loyal, kind-hearted... Not like you."Nur gritted her teeth and sent the sharp stones towards Khairul, but before they could hit, several light shields appeared in front of Khairul.Before either of them could process what was happening, Nasuha rushed towards Nur, grabbing her and throwing her against the burger stall, causing it to collapse. Nasuha didn't stop her assault; she threw Nur into the air and unleashed a beam of light that shattered the stones surrounding Nur."You tried to kill my father!" Nasuha caught Nur before she hit the ground and threw her aside, causing her to skid."N-Nasuha?" Khairul was shocked to see how fiercely Nasuha was attacking Nur."Urgh! Ur!" Nur coughed."I don't care about your problems anymore... After what you did, you're my enemy!" Nasuha positioned both hands forward, and Khairul rushed towards them."Don't, Nasuha!""You care about him more than your own sister""Hey, that's not true... You just always make me angry; it doesn't mean I don't care about you. If I didn't care, I wouldn't let you stay with me and cook for you. If you weren't lazy and didn't deliberately cause trouble, you wouldn't get scolded.""I-I'm not wrong! My brother did nothing! We didn't do anything wrong... Why did my brother have to die because of your fight? This is all your fault!" Nur quickly gathered earth and stones around her."You think we wanted all of this to happen? The real villain is Zaki! But he's dead! Don't take your revenge out on the wrong person!" Light gathered in Nasuha's palms as Khairul immediately lowered his hands."Don't... Nasuha... Please." Khairul pleaded, and Nasuha looked at him with disappointment, her expression changing to sorrow."It's not fair at all... You haven't lost anyone... No one you care about has died... Why do I have to suffer?!" Nur grew more furious seeing Khairul holding Nasuha's hands, releasing a large boulder formed from the earth and stones she had gathered.Nasuha and Khairul quickly dodged the attack as she formed two large earth hands that clenched into fists, aiming to punch Nasuha and Khairul. Nasuha blocked with her light shield while Khairul used both of his hands."You don't know anything about what we've faced!" Nasuha slashed through the attacking earth hands with Star Slash, then flew back into the air."Accept reality, your brother is gone, and now you're a Mutant! You can't turn back time, hoping everything will change like before. This is your fate now... What happened, it's not fair, but you can't blame us. You can't blame Khai," Nasuha explained. Nur merely glared at Nasuha, clearly not taking in what she said.Before Nur could gather more earth for her next attack, a loud clap of thunder rang out. Kyoko swiftly struck the back of Nur's head, knocking her unconscious. The earth hands Khairul was holding shattered and turned to dust, and Khairul gasped, falling to the ground."Sorry for being late to read the messages..." Kyoko said as Nasuha landed back on the road. Khairul approached her, but Nasuha didn't look back."N-Nasuha..." Khairul called."Don't say anything right now, Khai... You promised you wouldn't say you wanted to die again, but you let her try to kill you earlier. You broke your promise," Nasuha replied, and Khairul fell silent."How is your father?" Kyoko asked."I think the ambulance has taken him... The problem now is that my neighbor saw me use my powers earlier. I can't see him now," Nasuha said regretfully, turning away from Kyoko, Khairul, and Nur."Let's go to Mei's house... We need to discuss what happened." Nasuha flew up again, Kyoko carrying the unconscious Nur, and Khairul followed them.Nasuha... hates me now...Nasuha hates me...I broke my promise...I made Nasuha hate me...She hates me...I hate myself...Mikael and Khairul were in the yard of Mei's house. Khairul sat on a bench, his head down, hiding his face from Mikael, who was smoking beside him. Mikael tossed the cigarette butt he had just smoked away.Suddenly, Khairul grabbed it and tried to smoke, startling Mikael with his action."Ahem! Cough! Ahem!" Khairul coughed and immediately threw the cigarette butt back down."Okay... What's wrong with you?" Mikael looked at him, puzzled. Khairul gritted his teeth and clenched his fists but didn't say anything, causing Mikael's expression to change to one of concern."Give me a cigarette...""Not a chance...""If not, just chop off my head so I don't have to think anymore!" Khairul stood up, tugging at Mikael's shirt."Kid! Calm down..." Mikael replied, slowly lowering Khairul's hand that had tugged at his shirt."Your words saved me before, kid. You can't change the past; what matters is the present, the actions you choose now...""But... everything I do... It all fails, nothing works out. How many times do I have to fail? I... keep making the same mistakes over and over... Bad things happen because I'm still alive." Khairul trembled, his head hung low again while his hands were on Mikael's arms.From Mei's window, Nasuha watched what was happening; other HOPE members appeared to be discussing something. She shifted her gaze back to their conversation.Mikael sat Khairul back down on the bench.In the end, Khairul was just a kid. He knew the solution; he knew what he thought was wrong; he knew he wasn't to blame, but the painful and hurtful words stuck in his mind over the good ones.He wasn't strong enough on his own. How much suffering can a person endure before their heart breaks?When I lost everything, I hurt others too...If I can't accept my past, how can Khairul?"Your father is stable now; he just has a broken leg and several fractured bones, so it will take him a while to recover... Don't worry, I'll take care of him. Right now, he's resting and asleep." Rose explained over the phone, sitting beside Ehsan's bed. He looked like he was asleep, his head bandaged and his leg in a cast."Did Dad wake up at all?" Nasuha asked."He did. He asked about you too... I told him you're safe." Rose replied."Thank you so much, Sister Rose. I really appreciate you looking after my dad.""Don't worry about it. This is just my way of repaying your kindness... Thank goodness everyone is safe." Rose smiled slightly, and Nasuha on the other end of the line forced a bitter smile.Everything happened so quickly. I didn't get a moment to breathe and rest... I'm so tired.Tired of trying to be strong..."Get me out! Get me out of this place!" Nur attacked Khalid with spiky stone walls. Khalid dodged her attack and shattered one wall with his Claw Sword, then approached Nur and delivered a punch that pushed her back."As long as... you don't resolve your issues, you won't get out of the Mind Dimension. You're dangerous; after what you've done, we can't trust you." Khalid said, while Nur sat on the ground, holding the side of her body where Khalid had punched her.In the real world, Mei was using her powers on Khalid and Nur, who were lying down and bound. She struggled several times, gritting her teeth. Back in the Mind Dimension, Nur stood up again with a sharp glare."We understand that you're in pain, but what you did is wrong. Nasuha just wants to help you, and what happened isn't Khairul's fault. His father was supposed to have died earlier; we didn't know he had been watching us and planning something evil," Khalid explained as Nur gathered dirt all over her body."Excuses, excuses, excuses... None of those excuses will bring my brother back!""Whatever you do won't solve anything... You won't be able to find the mutant who made you and your brother mutants. Khairul's father is dead. Your brother is gone. I feel sad for you, but what happened has happened... Please don't burden Khairul and Nasuha anymore." Khalid pleaded. Nur attacked him again, several hands made of dirt turning into large, sharp thorns. Khalid sliced through the hands, and Nur closed in, swinging her hand towards Khalid.Khalid easily caught her hand and then slammed Nur down, stepping on her shoulder, making it difficult for her to get back up."L-Let me go...""Khairul... You know his state, right? He feels guilty, responsible for what happened... He still hasn't forgiven himself. I'm not asking you to try to understand or forgive him; we just want you to stop burdening him with your feelings," Khalid said. Nur bowed her head as the entire Mind Dimension trembled and shattered.Suddenly, she and Khalid found themselves in Hazim's house. Khalid was confused about why they were there while Nur sat alone at the dining table. Hazim was in the kitchen, cooking something with a smile."Here, eat..." Hazim placed a plate with a burger in front of Nur, and Khalid watched them from a distance."You know? That kid who always comes to my stall? I hired him. On his first day, he burned nearly five burgers... Hahaha, he's really funny," Hazim recounted stories about Khairul, and Nur fell silent.Now they were inside a van, with Khalid at the side, watching from outside. Nur still had her head bowed while Hazim appeared irritated, typing quickly on his phone."He's stupid, naughty, but he's like the little brother I wish I had—loyal, kind-hearted... Not like you."Hazim's loud voice suddenly echoed, and now Nur and Khalid were in the building where they fought Zaki and his group previously. Nur sat down, holding her head."Enough already... Khairul, Khairul, Khairul, Khairul! What about me?! He hasn't lost anything! He hasn't lost anything! My brother is dead. None of you lost anyone like I did! What do you know? You don't have the right to be that sad! I'm the one who... lost someone..." Nur screamed until she was sobbing, but in the end, her voice turned hoarse, and the tears she had been holding finally fell. Stones and dirt flew into the air while Khalid watched from a distance."You're right... I have no right to feel sad..." Khairul scolded, and Khalid and Nur turned to look at him. In his Mantis costume, Khairul moved forward with both blades out from his arms."I won't forgive you so easily after what you did. You nearly killed my father; luckily, he wasn't seriously injured. All I wanted was to help, but you betrayed my good intentions... No matter the reasons you did what you did, you are still wrong!" Nasuha flew above them all with her eyes and long hair glowing brightly.Nur focused her gaze solely on Khairul.They were all at the bridge where Khairul had his accident, with Khairul's wrecked car and the truck he had collided with."Not a single day goes by without me thinking... I don't deserve to live," Khairul said, standing beside his bloodied self lying on the road, glass shards embedded in his body.Nasuha looked at Khairul with a fearful expression, while Nur observed what was happening with a troubled face. Khairul gazed at both of them.Suddenly, Khairul, bandaged and in a wheelchair, appeared before Nur, Nasuha, and Khalid. Zaki was raging, destroying various items in his living room."You... you were supposed to be dead!" Zaki screamed from behind him."I..."They found themselves at Khairul and Nasuha's school, where Khairul had just knocked down a boy with a bruised face, while Khairul's nose bled and his lip was split. He looked straight into Nur's eyes."I've done a lot of terrible things... My heart is filled with anger, especially towards myself, for surviving after everything that happened... I hate everything." Khairul admitted.Rain fell heavily as they returned to the bridge, at the side of the bridge's railing. Nasuha was crying while Khairul held her hand, time seemed to stand still for them as the rain fell."But, Nasuha changed my perspective... She gave me hope."They were now on the rooftop of a building, Khairul, Nasuha, and Kyoko sitting and sharing snacks, looking happy."All the HOPE members, my friends gave me hope...""What are you try—" Before Nur could speak, they changed locations again, this time to Hazim's house, which was destroyed, Zaki pulling a blade from Khairul's arm."I... can't do it... Protect Hazim, protect you. I'm not strong enough; Nasuha got injured and was captured because of me." Khairul's eyes welled up with tears, and Nur fell silent, while Nasuha's expression softened."Even though everyone gave me hope and everything I did gave me confidence... that I deserve to live! But in the end, everything I thought about myself was wrong! I'm not strong enough! I don't deserve to live at all! I failed!" Khairul lamented, tears streaming down his face. The entire Mind Dimension cracked repeatedly until they were engulfed in darkness."Khai— Calm down!" Khalid called out."Nur... Forgive me... Forgive me... I failed to protect Hazim. Because of me, he's gone; I couldn't repay any of the kindness he showed me... I'm the one who should be dead..." Khairul knelt before Nur, pleading repeatedly, and Nur was taken aback, seeing Khairul like this.