Chapter 2 - WORLD CRUELNESS

"Life of lower class." 

Maphaetus appearance is no different from a beggar. He slouched on the destroyed box under the looming wall and  stood up as arrived before a broken mirror which seems reflected his expression and figure.

"My appearance who had long curly black hair, ungraceful arrogant face, was now much worse, like a crazy person living in a slum for more than a year. With my filth garments and body in every limb, calling me a vagrant is quite feasible. Hehe."

"'But in the end, the face was still a face. As time goes on it will be buried underneath my foot on the soil." He mumbled to himself and eventually, he sighted something.

"Is that food?" He, the little kid, found something and when he walked at it, he was relieved because the first thought as victualed was actually as he expected.  

 He was relieved and a smile couldn't hide his face. "My night problem is finally solved."

The food was half slice of cindered chicken with only a few meats left with sauce still leaked out. He stretched out his hand and was only halfway to getting it but in the midst of it other hand snatched it away and fist he received on his face. 

BANG!

URGH!

The kid's face had bruises on the face for he didn't notice a fist aimed at his nose. He looked around and found two youngsters similar to looking

 at him. 

"A homeless kid, after the famine struck? I finally encountered one." Winds whizzed as the kid jerked and shielded his body through his arm at the incoming ruined box. He was able to fend off but the initial fist made his nose leak out blood. 

URGH!

"Hey stop" He couldn't back away, the youngster didn't let him, for it struck his belly and when he fell down, the youth fettered his limbs from moving. 

"We don't have a grievance. Let me go!" The kid remarked and he didn't expect an consecutive attacks. Eventually, the assaulter's face beheld as he looked at it, a face mottled with stains and tattered clothes. 

Time went by, fist rained him down. Hit on his face as if with no humanity left as if going to kill him through it. 

The face of the kid was pale and began to leak out blood and gradually almost made the blood mask his face for it was immense. But unexpectedly, a voice sounded out from the back which halted the youngster from pummeling him any longer. 

"Santhy, stop it now. We're going move now. " The voice was none other than the youngster companion of him.  He is seemingly kind and gentle and as if the turmoil situation made this to him as one doesn't have a choice. 

Santhy was his name and the one who spoke was his friend. He stopped what he was doing and looked at his partner. "What do you mean? Matteo, I still want to play."

. 

"We were fellow townspeople. Why need to kill him? He is already dying, are you going to kill him as you did six  days ago?!" Matteo friend replied with a menacingly tone of voice. 

Santhy bit his lips and looked at the sky that brilliance was waning. He heeded up as he breathed while raising his body back.

"But there's no next time. I still want to beat some shit." Said of Santhy thirstily. "I see you as a friend but next time if you still meddle in my things. I will kill you myself!" Santhy shook his hands stained with blood. 

The unlucky fellow was on the ground and lay with a face as if no different from a clown. A face that mottled of bruised that blood trickled out. The kid thought despite his consciousness is fading.  "I felt like consciousness is waning."

Matteo guzzled food was the victual  sighted earlier, which Santhy made unable to pick it up, a chicken. 

"So you are this scared. Let's go now or we might face NetherNight." Santhy walked as he passed his friends who still stood.

"NetherNight? Are you scared of it? Even the wall had no torch, the NetherNight had no guts to come here." Matteo took a step and followed his friends while still nibbling on the way with the piece of food they got. 

The night was coming as a darkish hue began to loom in the sky. Out of the two expectations, the verge of death kid, made its way at them. Matteo from behind, felt sharp objects thrust at his abdomen. 

He, the named Matteo who got struck, turned around his head to only find a bloodied young one behind him, which seems the one who thrust his hind.  He jolted as he moved to hold the stabber, but unexpectedly, the moment he moved the young one also stepped away. 

URGH!

"I let you yet.. y... atrocious!"  Matteo the one got stabbed said as he breathed heavily with a hand held on the wounds as could only barely stand. 

In the front was Santhy, the friend of the one who got stabbed. Turning around his body to notice a commotion,  but yet, he didn't expect his friend to be almost killed. Anger quickly arose within his body. 

"Son of a bitch!" He didn't rush but only stopped midway to help his wounded friends for he found it in a dire state. 

"Matteo, are you okay?" Said of him worriedly with no aloofness but only care as a friend. 

Santhy helped his friends to stabilize, by covering the wounds.  But sure life was full of an unexpected occurrence, cause before he could clothe it, the stabber threw heavy objects at them that hit and broke onto their body to pieces And run away as they could only gazed at the kid disappearing shadow. 

"Damn!" Indignation spread all over the alley as that what they could only do. 

....….

The sun was dimming above and countless birds started to mobilize in their nest. 

"Wounds splashed by a water were bitter a pain." In a particular place near where the former body died, where Maphaetus is right now with a barrel at his side. With wet clothes, he swipes the blood on his face as he twitches for the pain was excruciating.  

ARCK!

ARCK

As time went by, the blood still didn't completely clean on his face as there was still left and bruised every spot.  "It's really hard to survive in this world. If I can't grasp power in this place, I will certainly die either of hunger or to be slain. "

The kid Maphaetus let out a soft sigh. Looking at his surroundings, he couldn't help but wonder. 

"'If this trash was edible, I would surely eat it all."

Rummaging the surroundings of trash for such a long time to only find bones like the legs of the person beneath the countless junk. Holding it. "Based on the memories, these bones must be from an Erdy Cow. An ordinary level beast."

Maphaetus looked at it and thought. Eventually, he found a good means. "I will break it and eat the inside of bones."

Just like that, the little kid got an adequate stone and decided to break the bones as a crack sounded from the alley. For who knows, who heard? 

...…

The victual kid gnawed were digested in a short span for it was not a food that could let someone survive for a day. His stomach was still rumbling and the desire to eat made his mind muddled. Walking mindlessly around the town to seek a portion of food that can be consumed, he unexpectedly found three people talking to each in afar in front of a two-story house. One was young and two were elderly. With the figure of three people, one could conclude, they were family or either prostitutes enticing one that they could pluck. 

"I am hungry.. really hungry." He hid behind a wall and gazed upon them with only his head out.

"After the memory integration, I naturally knew their language. Should I get near and hear their topics?"  The kid thought and found it a ridiculous idea. "I did this numerous times, begging to ask for food but left to no avail. And every time they take me down, there is always a man beside them. It is some sort of something?" Hungriness consumed his sanity slowly for he was starving and he could only think any sort of something. 

"Hmmm… I should just wait until the old one walks away. " He decided and waited for the time, two will only leave. 

The world revolves and eventually, after a period of time, the oldman finally leaves with a goodbye gesture as it means bidding farewell to the two women. 

"If it's unsuccessful, I will just leave." The kid touched his face and still found blood for that was he need. He breathed and took a step forward. 

HUHU!

HUHU!

HUHU!

HUHU!

"Please. Help me... I don't want to die….. Please help me. …..Please help me. Help me…." Maphaetus trudged at them with an expression that one can feel pity. With a face filled with bruised that earthling undoubtedly would find it pitiful and certainly shuddered of horror. But this is an unknown world. A world ruled by noble and with a system that one could enslave someone if one is not part of the kingdom.