Chapter 2: Weakness

"No, i'm not like you!" Mo Fan retracted the knife from the man's stomach, only to stab him again and again, the blood covering his hands only increasing.

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Only after a couple of minutes did the blonde haired kid stop and, upon realizing what he had done, he started crying.

Tears were descending from his eyes and falling to the floor, mixing with the blood that was covering it. With them, Mo Fan vented out all of the anger and the sadness that he was feeling in that moment.

Every second of his life started replaying in his mind, from his bad memories to his good ones, until the man's last words started echoing all over his head "You are just like me son! You are a killer!"

Mo Fan then looked at his hands, only to see them all red because of the blood covering them "H-he was right, i'm just a k-killer"

"I'm a monster!" And he escaped from his own house "I'm a monster, I'm a monster, I am a monster!"

And, since he didn't know what to do, he started running and running, even he didn't know where. He just wanted to exit his house.

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He ran and ran, not stopping in front on anything: the village's houses, the common markets and shops, the farm of animals, he didn't stop even in front of his own weariness.

Soon, he passed the Black Plum Village's gate and entered the wilderness. He didn't even know where he was, after all how could someone think clearly in a moment like that and, so, he was running mindlessly into a random direction.

Step after step, the distance beetwen him and the village widened, his sorrounding changing. Now, around him a thick nature full of trees, bushes and plants was present: he entered the Black Wind Forest.

The kids of the village were told to never enter the forest because a lot of monsters were present there and even the ones from the High Heaven Pavilion didn't always return from it alive, but Mo Fan's mind in that moment was totally off, so he didn't even know that he stepped in it.

He continued to run, passing through the countless green bushes and trees of the uknown forest, but when a twig presented in front of his feet, he couldn't dodge it as his brain still wasn't working and so he fell to the green grass, scraping his knees and his head hitting a tree log, causing Mo Fan to wake out of his mental paralysis "What am I doing?"

"Why did I run? And where am I?!" Mo Fan asked himself, but he couldn't find the replies to these questions anywhere inside his mind as he did those things without a proper reason. He just started running to escape from that bloody house, he didn't want to see the man's corpse nor his mother's head rolling around anymore.

Then he looked at his hands, the green of the forest interrupted by the red colour of his hands, making his brain regather those previous horrible memories again and, as a result, Mo Fan started crying once again "Mommy! Why did you die? You said that you would have been with me forever!"

"When did things start going wrong?" Mo Fan wondered, his eyes getting more and more wet as time passed "Maybe when sister died or when grandpa did or maybe he had been always drinking and only hid it from us for some time"

"Either way, father was a beast! A monster! H-he was evil! He beated mommy and h-he killed her!" Mo Fan said as he got up "H-he deserved to die, so i-i'm not a m-monster, right? I j-just took revenge for m-mommy"

He tried to comfort himself and as if fate wanted, what his mom always used to say to him came to his mind "It's not about what you do, it's about who you do it for"

She used to say this to imply that she would have done anything to protect his little star and this, coming to Mo Fan's mind, eased a lot his heart "I just wanted to protect my mom! So, I'm n-not a monster!"

But the sadness in his heart certainly didn't disappear completely "M-maybe If I just picked that knife up a little earlier and if i just was a little bit stronger, mommy would be with me now"

"But I was too weak!" Mo Fan clenched his fist, angry at himself "That monster was beating my mother up and all I did was shaking"

"I'm such a useless son!!" His rage overwhelmed all of his sad feelings, making him throw a punch to a tree, his hand breaking upon the impact with it.

"Ahhhhhhhh!!!" That scream vented out all of his rage alongside the pain that came from his hand breaking.

Yes, it helped him to calm down a little bit, but was screaming so loudly a good idea in a forest full of monsters? Obviously not.

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"Why did I have to scream?!" Mo Fan was running, a huge spider with glowing red eyes chasing him "Shit shit shit, he's faster than me"

The distance beetwen them only shortened with time, the sound made by the spider legs walking on the ground being more and more near his ears.

But soon, a lot of low tree branches appeared in front of the prey and predator's path, and the former, being much shorter, managed to pass under them while the latter couldn't, due to his gigantic size, so he had to stop while its prey got away.

Once Mo Fan had gotten far enough from the giant spider, he put his hand on his knees as he was tired and said, his breath missing a little bit "pant...pant... i escaped f-finally..."

But, then the sound of something breaking down, "What's this sound?" He wondered, only for his question to be answered when the giant spider reappeared, making his way through the tree branches by breaking them. After all, how could those thin things stop that fricking boulder size spider.

And just like that, his feet started moving by themselves again.

...to be continued

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