Inside a small room on the church basement, where there is not a single light and window, Conny jolted awake, he felt a sudden rush of emotion, an emotion called amusement.
"Hahaha…what? hahaha I'm laughing all of the sudden, hahaha..." Conny's burst of laughter soon filled the room.
Conny noticed a sudden change on his body, his left arm grew back with a dark hue enveloped it, the bandages on his body got shred and his body became more refined and muscular, then Conny stopped laughing, he can't believe what just happened, is it because of that strange dream? where he sees Don Rogue get eaten by a male sheep? Conny didn't know, he got up from his bed to stretch his stiff body.
"The old man said I was bedridden for a whole two weeks, I've missed many things it seems."
Suddenly, Conny remembered something. He remembered that the old man said he would make Conny his assistant, his free assistant. Conny got chills all over his body when he tried to imagine what kind of assistant he would become under that insane old man.
I don't want to do it, that old man and his slyness. I swear, one day, he will get karma for choking me on that weird thing.
When Conny thought about that old man, a wooden door to his room opened up, there he saw it. The old man, wearing an expensive black suit, was carrying a lantern because it's dark in the church basement. The old man stops at the door, his eyes widened when he sees Conny, standing in the middle of the room, but it seems he didn't give a friendly vibe as he looks at Conny with a glaring eye.
"So, you're not dead yet and came all the way here? huh? you elf heretic, I was sure I blew a hole in your skull, so how come you didn't die? Did you receive an immortality thing from your Mother of Earth?"
The old man soon became wary and conjured his silver cane with four little hands, on his right hand. While Conny got confused why did the old man behave like that all of the sudden.
"What the hell are you talking about, old man?, it's me Conny, I'm not that elf."
"Oh, so this is how you want to play huh? You can't fool me, your appearance, your aura, your whole existence is telling me you're that elf though. You're that Don Rogue or something, I'm in a bad mood now, because some twat messed with the church and gives me more work to do, so you better drop dead right now."
The old man began his prayer and the four little hands flew towards Conny to strangle him. Conny panicked and immediately picked whatever thing that was laying on the top of the small cabinet near him to thwart those four little hands. He picked a pencil and then that pencil quickly turned into a small scythe with a dark hue enveloped it, then Conny slash the incoming four little hands with that small scythe, the four little hands disappeared in a flash. Both the old man and Conny became silent, looking at each other.
Then Conny opened his mouth to explain, this will clear all the misunderstanding right now. "It's me!!, Conny!!, old man, the one you've saved from that horrible night at Jerrim's farm, you're the watcher, Herlan Rewead, is that enough proof that I'm not your enemy?"
That old man or to be precise, Herlan Rewead widen his eyes, then he saw the person image in front of him overlapped and slowly turned into Conny, an 18-year-old tan-skinned young man with messy black hair, black pupil eyes and thin body, Herlan swore that he saw Don Rogue figure turning into Conny, his mind must've been messing him up somehow.
"Oh, so it's you kid, *sigh*, I'm sorry I've been on edge recently, excuse me." Herlan enters Conny's room, he places the lantern on the small cabinet, then he sits on one of the chairs near him, Conny sits on the edge of his bed with deadpan expression.
Sorry my ass!!, you attack me twice now, old man. That's what is in Conny's mind as he watches Herlan in silence, then Herlan pulls out a small leather pocket from his suit and searches for something inside that pocket, Herlan picks a gold coin from that pocket, then he throws the leather pocket to the small cabinet.
"This…let me congratulate you, today it officially became your first case job as my assistant, so my dear assistant, I'll teach you the basic things first."
A wide grin appears on Herlan's face, while Conny's face darkens when he hears that word, without wasting more time Herlan begins his explanation.
"As you already know I'm the watcher, one who oversee the cursed. Let me tell you kid, in this world, like this coin, there are two side of it, the Virtuous side, those who embrace and believe in the goddess light, and the Wicked side, those who refuse and reject the goddess light."
Herlan tossed the gold coin a few times when he explained to Conny that information, Conny gulped his saliva when he heard that especially the tossing sound that Herlan purposely made, then he catches the gold coin with his pointy finger, it made Conny somewhat look impressed, as Herlan smirk and continue his explanation.
"The watcher is a unique position in many churches, it's equal to a bishop, they walk on the periphery of the Virtuous and the Wicked side to make a firm balance of two sides, sometimes they failed, they delve deeper into the Wicked side and ended up became heretic, those who lost their sanity and their humanity. The position of the watcher assistant is similar to that, you and I will investigate and delve into the unknown, death looming around us every second."
Conny got up from his edge bed and grab Herlan's shirt, his eyes bulging, he can't help but became enraged after hearing that ridiculous statement, it's like telling him to kill himself.
"No!!, I'm not risking my life for that, old man. I just want a normal life with my family, and now that my family is dead, I really just want a normal life, settle down in some place, get married and life a happy life then died of an old age where I don't regret anything. I don't wanna fight some heretic or some abomination being."
Herlan looks at Conny and his body trembles when he sees Conny's face.
"But you can't live a normal life now, you've… gotten cursed, a very dangerous one at that, you picked the mask of existence, an item to awaken the evil god, you've become a literal living sacrifice kid."
Conny released his grips from Herlan suit, he stumbled back to his bed and touched his face, with his trembling hands.
"W-what...what are you saying old man, I don't-I don't remember picking or wearing a mask in my whole life."
Herlan picked a small mirror on the edge of the small cabinet, with a lantern light, Conny saw a reflection of his face, he got shocked, and panicked, it was a weird reflection.
Conny's face splits into three images, three parts, the left side is his usual face, the middle face is a male sheep face, on the right side is the face of Don Rogue with pointy ears.
"AAAHH!!…o-old man… what should I do… Baaa…i. I'm not a heretic, I believe in the Mother of Earth… help me…old man."
Herlan gasped and took a step back from Conny, all the 3 faces opened their mouths and talked at the same time, it was a strange and horrifying sight.
"Calm down kid, don't get agitated by your emotion!"
Herlan shouts at Conny who holds his head, his face keeps contorting, Conny's hand then begins searching something on that small cabinet, he grabs the leather pocket and picks the tiny rainbow round rock candy inside that pocket, and eats all of it.
"What are you doing kid?! That's a drug, a cursed drug!"
Conny's face turned into normal again after he ate the candies, he looked around with a relaxed and peaceful mind, he didn't know what kind of thing he ate earlier, but it definitely clears his mind, then he sits at the edge of the bed once again.
"What are you saying again, old man? I'm sorry my mind seems cloudy there, but now I feel clearer."
Herlan becomes dumbfounded, he sits at his chair again, looking at the relaxed Conny, he can't help recalling that weird scene where his face split into three images, and now he seems calm. A thought crossed Herlan's mind. Is that the effect of the mask of existence? Reacting to his emotion and making him immune to curse?
"*Sigh*… listen I think I know a bit about this item, you pick that mask, the mask of existence, when I saw you earlier it seems, it will make other soul merge into your soul, imagine an empty album picture, that's what a soul of living being look like in the beginning, but, as you keep living in this world, that empty album picture will get filled to the brim with memories, with your actions and knowledge or what you did now, possessing forbidden item, it will mix your soul and forcefully filled your soul with other living being soul, that's what the church call soul tampering, you will either gain an ability or get cursed and died horribly."
Conny tries to listen attentively to Herlan's explanation, but the murmurs keep filling his head.
"Old man… I keep hearing some murmurs in my head, what is that?"
"So, you're able to hear that? What do you think that murmur is kid?"
"I don't know…a ghost… spirit?"
Herlan smiled, he took off his half mask on his left face, Conny shuddered a little when he saw Herlan's left face, it was filled with tiny tentacles and an endless tiny maggot that kept dropping one by one.
"It's the soul of living being, they either gave you some abilities or you could end up becoming like this, I didn't know much about the mask of existence but I think that mask has a lot of soul trapped into that item, it was an item from the age of myth, afterall."
Conny's face darkens, all the murmurs on his head become louder when Herlan says that word.
"Since this is your first time trying to cross the line of mortal it will bound to happens, said shut up inwards, the murmurs on your head will vanish, trust me, you're the soul that has a living body in the end, while they are just a soul, no they are memories trying to fit into your album picture, your soul."
Conny nods his head, and closes his eyes, then he looks relaxed again, Herlan smiled when he saw Conny's face.
"So, you want to do your first job as my assistant?"
"*Sigh*… I guess, I can't turn back on it now, at least you know something that I don't, so yeah old man, I'm gonna help you step into hell."
A grin appears on Herlan's face when he hears Conny's response, he sits on the edge of the bed and places his right hand on Conny's shoulder.
"Bahahaha… Atta boy, you made me feel like you are my long-lost grandchild, somehow, even though I didn't get married."
"Screw off, old man, so what's my first case job?"
"Huh? It was the thing you ate earlier, that candy, it's a cursed drug, you need to investigate it."
Conny became silent for a second there, while blankly looking at Herlan's face, did he just eat a cursed item? and it makes him relaxed for some weird reason.
"Okay…where do I begin, from where?"
Conny decided that it was best to ignore whatever happened, it is what it is, because he had enough shit for one day.
Herlan pulls out the newspaper from his black suit, then he hands it over to Conny, Conny looks at the first page of the newspaper, The Morning Chronicle large title.
"Start from that place, the burned orphanage, I think you may able to get some lead in this case, and ah, I have a favor can you turn into that elf face again without pointy ears and scar, I have a feeling you're able to pull it off, it might crucial for our investigation, who knows."
"Alright, I'll try."
Conny closed his eyes and focused on his mind to create an image of Don Rogue's face. Conny succeeded then he tried to make some adjustment in his mind, red long hair, refined face without scar, normal ears. When he completes that, he feels a weird sensation on his face, like a jelly that's being jiggled.
"Bloody hell… I knew I was right, you look like a new person, like some sort of aristocrat if I may say."
Herlan's comment makes Conny open his eyes, he grabs the small mirror and he looks at his reflection to that handsome gentleman with long red hair, refined face without scar, normal human ears, even his body feels different. This is not a disguise at all, this feels like he switches body from one to another, well Conny didn't hate this feeling.
"Here, an inspector uniform, wear that and tell the officer there, you're from unit H334 a new inspector, they will understand it and here is your name card, from now on you are Morgan Jester."
Conny looks dumbfounded when Herlan suddenly gives him a lot of items from out of nowhere, it seems like he intentionally made Conny do all the work. "Wait-wait… did you prepare all of this when you said I will be your assistant?."
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
Herlan got up and moved into the door handle, before he left he wore his mask again to cover his left face and said this with a serious deep voice. "I look forward to your result, Mr. Morgan Jester."
*Creak*. The door closed, leaving Conny alone with an angry face looking at the uniform and the name card, the name card with a name Morgan Jester, engraved on it.
AHHH!!…he really made me do all the work!!!
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Conny-who is now in undercover mode using different persona, a handsome gentleman with red long hair, refined face like a porcelain, he is wearing inspector uniform, it's black tunic and black trousers along with black cape and a top hat, last but not the least a fake alias on his name card. Morgan Jester. Strolling through the bustling streets, some people were hurriedly running so that they were not late for work, others were walking leisurely through the side of the streets. There are a couple of steam-powered cars, a horse carriage on the main road. The right side and the left side of the streets were full of two-story victorian style buildings and a shop stall. The bustling and hustling of the city made Morgan stand in awe, it's like he steps into a new world.
So, this is the inner city of Welsterven, it's so different then the scenery I saw in Jerrim's farm. That's what Morgan thought, he is now standing in front of a grey direction area pole. Unfortunately, He can't read the letters on that pole, so he just pretended to read it.
I forgot… I can't read… how the hell I'd know where the orphanage is…I'm doomed. But Morgan can't show his stupidity to the public because right now, he is surrounded by people, his good-looking figure and his formal clothes attracts more attention to him, he can feel all the people gaze and hear the ladies complimenting him, like these.
"*gulp*…goodness gracious, s-sir can I take your picture?"
"He is so handsome…oh my goddess… isn't it illegal to have such a face?"
"He is so dreamy, I think he is some kind of officer, I didn't know they had such a good-looking officer among them… I've decided, next year I'll join police enforcement."
Morgan can't help but smiled at the people around him, suddenly all the people starts swarming at him like he is some sort of limited item, cameras were flashing at him, Morgan needs to bail out, he proceeds to run away in order to escape from the crowd, all the ladies nearly passed out witnessing that smile, that damn smile.
*Huff*…*huff*…what-what just happened, people start swarming at me like I am some kind of attraction… The old man didn't tell me this kind of thing when he saw my face.
Morgan is now in a place with a big water fountain in the centre, catching his breath by sitting and resting his head on one of the benches near the water fountain. He didn't realize the white young lady with black suit, a camera hanging around her neck, sitting beside him.
"Hello."
"Ah, Hello."
Morgan widens his eyes, and looks swiftly at his left side, his heart skips a beat, he jumps from his seat, it was quite comical. "AAAHHH!!…That surprised me… please make your presence known, Silvie, people might think you're a ghost or something."
The white young lady with black suit widens her eyes now, she sees her brother's image overlapping with this person beside him. She didn't introduce herself to this person yet he seems like he knew her for a year. Is he someone that Silvie knew? but it's impossible, the only people that knew her presence is weak is one person, the only person that's always told her to make her presence known, it's her deceased brother, Conny.
??! It's impossible right?! My brother died that night on Jerrim's farm saving both me and sir Herlan…now what he just said…coincidence? Silvie lost in her thought, she didn't realize that the person beside him patted her head and smiled at her, she felt a similar feeling, it's like… like her brother is here. Tears started pouring from her eyes. W-what is this…why i'm getting emotional…it's strange…all of this feels strange, *sniff*.
"E-eh? I'm sorry young lady, I didn't expect you to cried like that, here, take my handkerchief, Old m-*ahem*. Sir Herlan told me a lot about you, so I knew you the moment I saw your appearance… my name is Morgan Jester, a new inspector officer."
Silvie took the white and blue handkerchief and thank the inspector's kindness, she forcefully laughed to hide her tears. "Oh, hahaha, it's okay sir, it's just you… remind- never mind… Can I help you sir? I noticed you were panting earlier."
"Don't remind me again, people swarm at me like a fanatic, ah now that you mention it, do you know the direction of the burned orphanage, I was supposed to be there for my job, but I got lost as you can see." Silvie smiled a bit when she heard the reason that he is here is because he got lost, he is really similar to his brother.
"Sure, the orphanage is in the south, keep moving to the south direction from here until you can see the building, well there is a police line to keep crowds away from the crime scene, but you are an officer, so they will let you get in"
"Ah!, so it's in the south! got it, you're really a kind young lady, here, treat yourself with a sweet dessert."
Morgan proceeds to give Silvie a gold coin then pat Silvie's head, and he gets up from his seat. After that, he goes into the east direction, he waves a goodbye to Silvie, Silvie focuses her camera to take a picture of Morgan, smiling and waving at her before he leaves.
*Click*. The picture slowly comes out at the bottom of the camera, Silvie looks at it with smile, then she stopped smiling, she realizes that Morgan went into east direction not to the south direction, Silvie didn't tell him because she was busy with her camera, but she thought that the inspector had a business there, then he will come into the burned orphanage.
"Strange… where is Timothy?... he should be here to perform… did he stop because of yesterday…I guess I should go back home and study, tomorrow is the start of my academy life."
Silvie gets up from her seat, she is about to leave the place, when a young lady with velvet red hair wearing red and black academy uniform runs past her, Silvie turns her head and she catches a glimpse of that young lady's face, a sad and desperate face of losing someone important. That velvet red hair reminds Silvie of one picture, a picture Timothy gave yesterday, her name was... "it's that Velvet?"
Silvie was too late to notice, the red velvet-haired young lady already ran far away. Silvie decided to give that picture to her at the academy. Timothy said to give it to Velvet after they both became acquaintances. Too many coincidental things were happening today that made Silvie daze off while walking to her home.
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Conny-no, it's Morgan now, walks while remembering how he just met his sister, Silvie, she who used to followed him around and cried when she was left alone now exclude an aura of strong person, it really made his heart at ease but also hurt especially the fact that he can't tell her, he is her brother, now or on the future, because her brother, her beloved brother is dead. That's what Herlan told him, if her sister can live a life better than him then that's enough, he is fine even if her sister forgot him one day.
"Maybe she will become a hero, she always dreams of becoming one after dad told us many heroic tales…hmm." Morgan stops and looks at the area in front of him, many abandoned buildings with vandalism on it, the building's condition looks like it will collapse in any second, people dressed in ragged clothes, their appearance looks dirty and unhealthy, even some of them were sleeping bare naked on the side of the dirty streets.
"Is this the right area? Where is the burned orphanage building… maybe just a little bit further from here?" Morgan continued searching for the burned orphanage building, his good-looking appearance once again attracted a lot of attention, the people were staring at him with strange gaze, then an ugly man with one tooth approached him, his dirty hands grabbing Morgan inspector cape.
"SSSSIRE, do you-your money have please given me money, hahahaha." that ugly man with one tooth speaks nonsense with unfocused eyes.
It seems he's under some kind of substance influence looking at his mouth that is foaming white, his legs trembling by just standing. Suddenly, a flying rock hits the ugly man with one tooth on his side head so fast he passes out while bleeding. Morgan got shocked and he looked at his surroundings.
A lot of people were eyeing him after the ugly man with one tooth begged for money. It looks like they're grabbing each other's neck to get Morgan's belongings, they each hold a rock, brick, bottle, ready to throw at each other.
What kind of place is this!! These people… they are not in their right minds!! Morgan shudders when he sees this, all the people keep coming closer to him, Morgan puts up a guard. They aren't heretics aren't they? That's what Morgan thought, if they indeed were heretics at least killing them didn't make Morgan feel guilty, but if they are just normal- innocent people, that'll be a difficult dilemma.
*BANG. The crowds scattered away with panicked expressions when they heard that loud noise, it sounded like a gunshot. Morgan thought his fellow officer were here to escort him, but he was wrong, the one who approach him is a little boy, long black hair, brown pupil eyes, wearing tattered clothes with a makeshift pistol on his right hand, that little boy made a deadly glare at Morgan who is dumbfounded ever since that little boy arrived.
"Yer nearly got killed there, wasson, bobby?" the little boy grin at Morgan who looks confused, his right hand is playing with the makeshift pistol trigger.
"*Umm*. Thank you, kid, it seems I got lost, did you know where the burned orphanage building is?"
The little boy tilts his head, looking at Morgan with disbelief, the little boy starts scratching his hair, then he points his finger at Morgan and laughs out loud.
"Hahahaha… Yer an oddball, a lost bobby? That sounds suspicious, innit?"
The little boy's face suddenly became serious and he even pointed his makeshift pistol to Morgan's forehead, startled, Morgan took out his name card from his pocket, and showed it to the little boy, the little boy glanced at it then he lowered his makeshift pistol.
"Huh? so Yer a legit one, but that's it, Yer gonna need to come with me to meet Doctor, to get verification of identity checker or summat."
"But... I need to be at the burned orp-"
*BANG*. A bullet grazed Morgan's right cheek, a thin streak of dripping bloods and Morgan feels odds. The little boy just fired a bullet at Morgan, as the little boy's face looked irritated.
"No buts---c'mere we're going down now!"
Morgan followed the little boy to meet that said Doctor, Morgan can't help but feel nervous, the people around them cowering in fear when the little boy keeps glaring at them, he seems to be the person who is in control of this place, it looks like it sounds unbelievable because he is just a frail little boy with tattered clothes and a makeshift pistol on his hand.
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Morgan and the little boy with tattered clothes arrived at the rundown mansion, it looks like a haunted mansion for some reason, the little boy knocks the door loudly that made Morgan a little bit worried, if the mansion would suddenly collapsed, what greets them is a bald man with scar on his face.
"Huh? Why did an officer come here? didn't you all not care about us in the first place? Hey, what's the meaning of this, little boy?"
"Hey, wassup, bald shag, this bobby got lost in here, where is the Doctor, I need to report this matter, mind?"
The bald man clicked his tongue when he heard that, clearly, he dislikes the little boy, but it seems there is a hierarchy here. He escorted Morgan and the little boy to the living room of the mansion. Morgan looks at the interior of the building with disbelief because it looks pristine and clean, in contrast to the outer appearance of the mansion, where he sees the one they referred to as 'the Doctor'.
"Ah, is that you little boy? And baldie? oh it seems we have an unexpected guest."
"Greetings, Doctor."
"Greetings, Doctor."
The little boy and the bald man greet him with salute and respect, while Morgan stands there staring face to face with the Doctor, the Doctor is a strange person. He wore a peculiar long black coat, black trouser, a black cane and a long beak bird mask covering his entire face.
"Greetings."
"My, you don't need to copy them, here take a seat, and tell me why you come here?, officer."
Morgan took a seat near him, and the Doctor sat at the opposite chair of Morgan, both the little boy and the bald man still standing in guard position on the Doctor's left and right side.
"I got lost and ended up here, I was looking for the burned orphanage building." said Morgan while rubbing his hands together, he was nervous because of the Doctor staring at him.
The bald man widens his eyes, sweats start dropping from his face, when he notices Morgan eyeing him, he avoids Morgan's gaze. It was strange behavior to Morgan, why is he behaving like that? something smells fishy about him, that's what in Morgan's mind, he had a hunch, whatever it is Morgan will remember the bald man face, it might lead him to a new clue in this investigation.
"I see…, that was fortunate, I thought you were here to enforce justice or whatsoever. Hmm… it seems you are new, I never saw your face before, let me tell you officer. This is a lawless area, if you try something foolish you may end up regretting that choice, the king and his so-called law tried to govern this area but it failed miserably, the people you saw on the streets are the results of the wise king rule, they are the poor, the victim, yet the kingdom didn't care at all. They, the nobles keep hoarding wealth to themselves and trample innocent people's lives, all these people here. The orphanage got burned down as an unnecessary public service, the king, our king Edward IV didn't like to spend any money other than to support the prince or treat his illness, maybe some criminal burned it to express their anger of his selfishness, that's my assumption regarding the whole incident."
Morgan unknowingly listened to the Doctor's speech, it sounds plausible that there exists some kind of hidden scheme behind the incident, did he say the truth? or a personal hatred of the kingdom? Morgan looks at both the little boy and the bald man, the little boy points his makeshift pistol at him while the bald man avoids his gaze, he shifts his focus back to the Doctor again and says.
"So… you're saying the king is putting on a charade on his back while appearing wise and benevolence in front of his subject."
"Who knows?, humans sure have many faces after all, tell me, officer what do you think of this place, this area? Apparently, this area is called the slums, the dirtiest and the sickest place. The people from the royal area keeps coming here to do some slave hunting and putting the captured slaves in slave auction to get more money to themselves as I said earlier, then the king established that ridiculous rule, oh humanity, yet they dare give a speech about goddess this and that…"
The Doctor clasped his hand and sit menacingly at his chair, Morgan don't know what sort of expression hiding behind that beak mask, after an awkward silence, the Doctor continue his speech.
"Tell me inspector, does this world have a god?, if so where is god, when humans receive injustice and indiscrimination, giving them a label heretic when they have different perceptions about life like killing those sick people who buy slaves to have pleasure for themselves."
The Doctor purposely move his body so Morgan could see what's happening on the outside through a window, there he sees how a person wearing luxurious outfit beating up 2 chained man and chained women.
The scene that he saw and the doctor speech made Morgan sitting on edge while clenching his fist, did this man just criticize both the church and the kingdom? Morgan was lost at words, he just stared at that man figure who is sitting with his hand supporting his chin, then he sighed.
"*Sigh*, I'm sorry officer, it seems I just took your precious time while here I am rambling about my ideals, my ideology. If you want to get to the burned orphanage building, from here just keep walking forward, until you meet the intersection and you will arrive."
"I understand…thank you…*umm*."
"You can call me… Jeremiah… officer, it's a pleasure to meet you."
There is a slight pause when the Doctor wants to say his name but Morgan doesn't get bothered by it, he extends his hand to reach the Doctor's hand.
"Likewise, I'm Morgan Jester."
Both of them got up from their seats, Jeremiah said to the little boy and the bald man to escort Morgan but Morgan politely refused the offer, he didn't want to be a burden on Jeremiah.
The slums… I need to report this to the old man… this place… I have a hunch that we will get the truth if we investigate this area further. Morgan walks away from the rundown mansion, throughout his way he sees people beating each other with their skinny body for a rotten apple, or a group of kid bullying one kid for fun, a family eating something from the trash can, Morgan felt his heart tightening when he sees that family, the image of his former family, Silvie, overlapped with them.
Fate is really cruel to everyone, it doesn't matter whether you're innocent or evil. If that night the incident didn't happen, what would happen in the future? Silvie and the others probably would have ended up like that, Jeremiah's word stuck in Morgan's head. Does this world have a god? If so, where is he, when humans receive injustice and indiscrimination, giving them a label heretic when they have different perceptions about life.
"I don't know… knowing God's existence is useless when the world, the society itself is in such a messy state, if the believer only focuses on their own circle, does that mean they are also a heretic or a fanatic?."
Morgan stops his walk and looks at his surroundings once more. It was an unpleasant and heart-wrenching sight, then he sees a person, a brown-haired middle-aged man with a luxurious outfit leading a row of chained people to the opposite direction of Morgan.
There, a young lady with shaggy mullet black hair, with malnourished body, her eyes looking detached and lost, all the chained person have similar expressions like that young lady, she passed by Morgan along with the other chained person, and that person wearing a luxurious outfit leading them.
Is that what Jeremiah mentioned? A slave hunting…Morgan felt a sudden rage boiling in his heart, this whole situation is so wrong!! Why?, just why did a human can't be Virtuous and must be this Wicked?, wait, maybe in this world, it didn't have any concept of right or wrong. Humans established that, a moral, for their own convenience, and judge all things as if they are god, even if they know god exists. They didn't fear it.
Fuck, it's…Disgusting! All of them. Morgan clicked his tongue and clench his fist as he walks away from the slums area, what is the use of moral when humanity didn't even care about others and just prioritizing themselves, the virtuous and the wicked is just one identity to distinguish between a person and the devil, they find faults at one's morality, while their own morals are biased, well, it makes sense, because in a world of monsters, only the one with big teeth are praised. That day Morgan developed his ideal, his principle, his faith.