17 And So It Begins (1)

" Before I pass my verdict, would the defendant like to speak ?", the judge asks while looking down at the man.

Today was the man's trial, the day the man's fate would be sealed.

The trial was just a formality and everybody in the world knew that, the man included.

The man thought for a minute and said,

[ I love you.], instead of speaking the man signs to his daughter before nodding at the judge to show that he was done.

" The jury finds the defendant... guilty."

This was it.

The man felt bitter at the fact that he would have to leave this world before he could watch his daughter grow up... but this was for the best.

At least his daughter is alive.

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" Your daughter is dead.", the gruff guard said with a smile on his face.

The man seemed confused and angry.

' Is this some kind of joke ?', thought the man incredulously.

Just as the man was going to ask the guard what he was on about, the guard interrupts him and tells him that he had a visitor.

' A visitor ?',

The man's father in law had promised to visit with Daisy once every month. Their visit for the month had already finished... so why is there another visit.

Feeling that something was amiss, the man went to the the visiting center, as expected his father in law was the one who had visited him...but something was odd.

Daisy wasn't...with him.

I closely observe father in law, he was dishevelled and looked as if he hadn't slept for awhile.

" What is it ?...", I ask him.

" Daisy's d-dead.", the old man said with tears falling down his face.

The man seems shocked and devastated. All that he ever did was to keep his daughter happy. The man [choose] her life causing the deaths of hundreds.... was all that for nothing ?

" How ?...", the man asks.

" She fell down the stairs in school, the school won't admit it... but It's obvious that it's bullying....", the old man said in a grave voice.

" There were some scratches on h-", the old man stops speaking as the man abruptly stands up and walks back to his cell.

" Leave..", the man said before going back.

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Guard Gus was doing his usual morning call at his prison block today as well.

But he stops while checking the famous prisoner. The "Train Murderer" was the name he's being called these days.

The guard sighed as he saw the sight inside the man's cell.

" Yet another one bites the dust.", saying this the guard continues his rounds.

The man had killed himself.

He had slit his wrists using a shiv that he made.

The last thing he saw before dying was the damp ceiling of his prison cell.

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" That's it ?..", Lather asked in condescending tone of voice.

" Tha... well I'm not impressed, my life is far more depressing than that... do you see me moping around like a baby ?", Lather was starting to get sick of this mortal, but he still had a goal to achieve here.

The mortal doesn't retort to Lather's remarks, he just continued to stare at nothing in particular.

Seeing the mortal not reacting to anything he said only added fuel to the fire. Lather was appalled by the disrespect he, a god albeit a forgotten one was recieving from a mere mortal !

" You will reincarnate... and you will help me regain my lost glory. This is not a request.", Lather's voice was literally shaking due to the anger he felt.

" I don't want to.", the man's answer didn't change.

" WHY THE HELL NOT ?.... YOU HAVE NOTHING LEFT ON EARTH AND IF I SENT YOU BACK TO HELL YOU WOULD JUST SUFFER... SO TELL ME JUST WHY YOU'RE SO HELL BENT ON REFUSING THIS CHANCE!!"

A gentle smile spreads across the man's face before he said,

" I have things to do on earth... those children that killed my Daisy... they have to suffer.", the man's voice was dangerously low. The smile on his face didn't match with his voice.

Lather could see the madness in his eyes... hell, Lather felt a little afraid of the mortal... it wasn't because he was surprised by his viciousness rather it was something else.. something that Lather couldn't explain. The man had a sort of prescense around him.

Lather felt as if there was something more to the mortal than that met the eyes.

But alas they were out of time !

As time went on, they ran into the risk of getting caught by the elder's agents, the reapers.

" I'm sorry but I don't care what you want. I hope you'll do a good job down there.", saying this Lather snaps his finger and the mortal vanishes before he could even react.

Lather's minion, who had been hiding all this while came out and bowed before him.

" What if he doesn't help us, sire ?"

Lather thinks for a moment and said,

" Well if he ignores my command... then I suppose the backup will have to do.", his minion nods his head at his master's words.

" If I may master, why didn't you just sent the 'backups' and left that ungrateful bastard to rot in hell.", the minion said in a curious voice.

Lather thinks for a minute and said,

" I don't know.... there was something about him that just felt... different. "

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That fucking bastard of a god.

He made me reincarnate forcefully, as to what kind of being I am..

I have no fucking clue.

I can't see anything, it's way too dark.

But it was a comfortable darkness, one which I didn't feel any fear off..

Going by the usual norms, I guess I'm in a womb.

....

Disgusting.

'You'll regret this.', I curse Lather and drift off into sleep

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