The Memories

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[Luna's POV]

June 2, 1899

One soldier came and still out of breathe, salutes and shouted. "Sir, General Luna! Two telegrams came!"

General Luna reached out to received the telegrams and read it silently.

'Sir! This is from San Fernando, Pampanga and requesting help in launching a counterattack to the Americans!'

'General Luna, you need to go to the new capital at Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija to form a new cabinet. This is an order.'

He crunched the letters and ordered the soldier who came and who was assigned at receiving and sending the telegrams. "Write some telegrams for brothers in San Fernando that some of our brothers will set out to help them and for Military Commander Arcadio Maxilom in Cebu to stand firm in the war." And called another soldier to fetch Colonel Francisco Roman and Captain Eduardo Rusca while on the way to another Captain to get ready to sortie out to the San Fernando.

He didn't wait long enough for the two to come. "We need to go to Cabanatuan. President's order. Move out!"

"Sir! Yes! Sir!" Everyone salutes.

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[Luna's POV]

June 5, 1899

In Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.

General Luna, Colonel Roman and Captain Rusca went down from their horses after he sent a telegram yesterday to confirmed his arrival today.

"Stay here, wait for me." He instructed them to stay outside while he, alone, proceeded to the headquarters to communicate with the President. As he went up the stairs, he ran into an officer whom he had previously disarmed for insubordination, Captain Pedro Janolino, Commander of the Kawit Battalion; and an old enemy whom he had once threatened with arrest for favoring American autonomy, Felipe Buencamino, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Cabinet.

"You...! Why are you still here, bastard!?" he cursed out.

Captain Janolino laughed and smirked at him. "Didn't expect this, huh, Sir!? Too bad~ Mr. Fiery General, but you're accusing me without evidences to prove your claims at me. Tsk tsk tsk."

He got some ticks on his forehead and ready to battle Captain Janolino with words but Minister Felipe interrupts and he was told that President Aguinaldo had left for San Isidro in Nueva Ecija (He actually went to Bamban, Tarlac).

Enraged, he asked why he had not been told the meeting was cancelled. Both exchanged heated words as he was about to depart. In the plaza, rifle shot rang out. Still outraged and furious, he rushed down the stairs while Captain Janolino at his back.

Accompanied by some elements of the Kawit Battalion. Captain Janolino swung his bolo at him, wounding him in the head. Captain Janolino's men fired at Luna, while others started stabbing him, even as he tried to fire his revolver at one of his attackers.

He staggered out into the plaza where Colonel Roman and Captain Rusca were rushing to his aid, but they too were set upon and shot, with Colonel Roman being killed and Captain Rusca severely wounded.

As he lay dying, he uttered "Cowards! Assassins!"

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[Stranger's POV]

June 27, 2019

A man, attendant of the printing shop is reading some life about General Antonio Luna and muttered. "Too bad that he doesn't know that his trusted President was such a bitch in his back to schemed and killed him. Tsk tsk tsk. But I guess before he lost his consciousness and with his 'genius' mind, he can deduced that Aguinaldo did that to him. And another 'But' since he didn't confronted nor see Aguinaldo personally, he won't jump to that conclusion as his trust are too much strong to be shattered like that."

Silence creeps just for a couple of seconds.

"Well, what can I say... I'm not there to know if this is really the 'Real' events at that time." he muttered while closing the tab and went to Webnovel.com to read some novels to kill time.

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[Luna's POV]

May 1899

Colonel Joaquín Luna, one of his brothers, warned him that a plot had been concocted by "old elements" or the autonomists of the Republic (who were bent on accepting American sovereignty over the country) and a clique of army officers whom he had disarmed, arrested, and/or insulted.

"Brother, I'm telling you to be careful around things that related at President Aguinaldo." Colonel Luna whispered at him.

He raised his eyebrows at this but he shrugged off all these threats, reiterating his trust for President Aguinaldo, and continued building defenses at Pangasinan where the Americans were planning a landing.

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[Stranger's POV]

Void

"Fuck! How come that is normal!? I've been killed by space debris! Alone! In a crowded place!? Fuuuuuck youuu!" He cursed out... And took a long time before he facepalmed. "I want to look like Heneral (General) Antonio Luna when he was still under Maestro Intong before he studied in Ateneo Municipal de Manila minus the impurities of his physical body." he said.

In a couple of centuries of milliseconds.

"Ok, I'm done transfiguring." he said and raised his eyes to the front and saw an old man that looks like... "What the hell!? President Aguinaldo, You're fucking still alive?" He was shocked first changed to angry. "You! Motherfuckin Coward!, even tho I'm not the real Heneral Luna, I idolized him. Because of you, you being paranoid as if Luna will take your seat as a president you made an assassination for him. And what happ-" his intent to kill can now be see in his eyes but he was stopped by Liang Sheng.

For how long of time in the void their talks took.

Until Sherwin was kicked out into Dimensional Portal with his System.

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[Stranger's POV]

"Goddammit!" He cursed while blood is dripping from his mouth and while still suspended in the air with a fist and right arm punched through his chest.

"Ptui!" He spit out some blood to this man's face that he trusted more than himself, that staring back at him with deadpan expression.

He laughed. "Fuck this shitty life. Fuck your self. Fuck your fate and destiny. Don't talk to me like you know the very inch of this fucking universe. *Cough. Ptui!" then he smirked. "Revenge? With this kind of Universal Power Levels. It will take me quadrillions if not trillions of reincarnation and transmigration shits to kill you! So, my answer is still 'No' for what you want, bastard!~ Hahaha. Come! I welcome you to do to take me to Aka-kun and reduce my soul and conscious to nothingness! I! Really! Permit! You! To! Do! THAT!!!" he shouted with helplessness, regrets, madness, self-mockery, and other emotions that completely shattered his Soul Bead and the shards floated in his Soulscape randomly, and his eyes that lost their life slowly until he breathe his last breath.

"... Too bad... For all Time Bodies, you're the one that far from your other selves progress... But wasted again... *Sigh... Need to wait for another 'You' to come again, I guess..." the killer sighed and was more disappointed this time.

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Eyes that had been closed for unknown time, opened and stared blankly at the white ceiling.

For a couple of minutes with nothing but silence.

The man found himself lying on the fluffy bed inside of the white room and a beeping sound is accompanying him that came from the unknown machine on his right side. Checking out the clean white room while he is confused at the moment because there's nothing coming into his head.

'What happened? When did I came here? Why I am here in the first place in this unknown room with this big unknown machine?' He thought.

Suddenly, he was hit by a headache and started to clutch his head, but found it was hard to do that. And the random memories started to run, pass-by, and overlap with many more random memories at his mind.

He was breathing hardly, his mouth gaping widely and trying to intake more air to breath in as if it was only the way to make his headache decreased.

Eyes are widely open as he got his answer after the random memories connected from another to another memories.

'What is this!? This! This can't be! I'm... I'm alive!?'

Teardrops started to drop, droplets by droplets. He was happy that he was alive, but sad at the same time as he looks around at the room, that so big just for a single entity like him.

'So, I'm in the future... Firstly, I can't say 'thank you' and can't say 'I'm sorry' anymore for those soldier brothers that choose to accompany me even they said that they got a bad feeling about the meeting that day, and to be with me and fight to their last breath until I'm the one left standing and died lastly too from those cowards personally... And lastly... What's with this another person's memories mixing with mine!? Even with scolding me that I trusted a wrong person!?'

For unknown minutes, he got the gist of this stranger's life memories inside of his head.

'So, he was called Sherwin Montaniel. He was a admirer of my life but not to the point of being a 'die hard fan'... And... What the heck is this!? His life in another worlds are like dreams to me. Is this one of the scenes of what they called 'movie' here or this is really real? Seems possible for both as I'm seeing them through his eyes. Like I was the one experiencing them in his position... but there's no 'camera' that indicates that this is some like 'shooting scenes'... So, it leaves me that this memories of his are real then.'

He sighed, bitterly smiled and stared at the ceiling again with tears slowly running at his cheeks.

'Being alive and reincarnated into the future is a one thing for me to be thankful, but with this 'things'... That can be considered a powers of God/s... Unbelievable...'

He sighed again as he is trying to accept this thing but can't do it like in a snap of the fingers.

'As once a General in my past life and before I died, I can adapt to a sudden changes of events. But...' He pinched the bridge of his nose. 'I can't do it like that with this things thrown at me so suddenly, at the same time too! I had my believes and concept of life... Maybe... Just maybe, I can accept this memories soon.'

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[AN: For checking.]

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11/09/2019