Author's note : So this is my second work. Some of you may already know me as author of
Invincible in other world.
I hope you like my work on this.
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As morning sun envelops the world with light, Neil, a 17 year old human male wakes up in his room. He gets up from his bed and rubs his eyes slightly. He walked towards bathroom while scratching his back. He washes his face with cold water and combes his bed hair. After changing into somewhat better clothes, Neil get out of his house while making sure to lock the door properly.
“I hope today will be a better day.”
He breathes fresh air and looks around at the scenery which was the same as always. An old ruined house which was supposed to be a two floor house but upper floor with the roof is broken. It is located near the edge of a cliff. The house is surrounded by trees and there is no sign of civilization around it. There is a pathway between the trees leading to somewhere.
It is Neil’s home. He has been living there since he was born. It is slightly far away from the human town known as Ketio. Neil looked at the glass of the broken window.
“huh..this is the same as always.”
His eyes which gave him a lot trouble throughout his life. His right eye has black color same as his parents but his left eye has golden color. It is because of this, he has been a point of discrimination. Sometimes, people will think of him as devil or monster. Him getting bullied by his classmates or getting robbed by people, when they don’t give him enough payment for his works. These are the common occurrences to him.
He sighed a little at his never changing painful life. He walked at the path leading outside the forest. It just take 20 minutes on foot till he reaches the Ketio town. This town is located in human territory and owned by the Kingdom of Resonia. Even at the morning the town was bustling with people. There are people who do their usual work, children are energetic from the morning as they play around. There are also adventurers preparing for their quests today. There are also people like Neil who are going to the school.
“huh...I wonder if swordsmanship lessons gets cancelled today.”
There are schools which allows courses for various lessons like swordsmanship, magic, scholar, nobility etc. It is not mandatory for anyone to go to the school and many people never attend one. But because it teaches many lessons, there are parents who send their children to the school from a young age. Students can take these courses as long as they see fit.
One class that Neil never liked is swordsmanship. It’s not like he don’t have interest in it but this class gives his classmate a chance to bully him. Neil has great dreams and aspirations. It’s because of that he is going through the constant bullying of his classmates and attends the school. Neil truly believed that this hell would end one day and there will be time when he sees the light.
He stops at a blacksmith’s shop. He goes inside the shop.
“Hello, Sir, I am here to take the payments from yesterday’s job.”
Neil asked to a man in his 40’s with huge body. He looked at the Neil. He shuffles his hand inside his pocket and takes out 2 copper coins. He throws them at Neil. Neil did a delivery job for him yesterday. Neil has no family. He earned money by doing various chores around the town.
“Sir, this is too low, I thought we agreed on 1 silver.”
The shopkeeper gives an annoyed look at Neil’s response.
“haaaaaaa..Don’t joke around here. It wasn’t such a long distance and I also got complain that you were late.”
“No way. I think there is some kind of misunderstanding here. I remember being on time.”
“So you are saying that I am lying.”
The shop owner closes the distances between them and looks down on Neil as he folds his hands. This isn’t something rare. It happened all the time to Neil. If you actually look at the task, it would cost 2 silvers but Neil lowers down the price. Even after that people will mug him at the time of payment. You can complain it to the guards but even they will take the side of townspeople. This has become a thing for amusement for all of them. They all are taking advantage of Neil’s circumstances.
“No. Sir, I will take my leave.”
“hmph..ungrateful bastard.”
Neil gets out of the shop and punches at the wall. Things were better when his parents were alive. His parents and his sister loved him even when all the world called him monster. Neil still remembered that day when his family was burned in front of public by the church’s orders. The church declared them as heretic for giving birth to Neil. They considered Neil as devil that needs to be killed. But his father was able to get Neil out of it. The price for that was even higher as his father, mother and sister sacrificed their life for him. It was his father’s last wish for Neil to become a great man one day that he continued his school. Neil wanted to fulfil his father’s wish.
Ever since then, the situation has been like this. Neil struggled everyday to continue his schooling and life. He gets angry every time. There were times when he thought of giving up but his father's wish always reminds him of his goals.
“A bad morning as always eh…”
A girl around same age as Neil calls from behind. Neil looks at her direction.
“Hey Rena..How is it going today?”
The girl with black hair is Rena, Neil’s childhood friend and his crush. Rena’s family has been close with Neil’s family. Their parents were friends with each other from even before he was born. Her parents supported Neil whenever they could. But because her family is poor and doesn’t hold much position, they can’t take care of Neil. Neil also realizes it.
He has been in love with Rena ever since his parents died. She was the only one there to console him. Rena has always been an important part of his life. His father’s wish was one thing that kept him going. His feelings for Rena was something that made him smile at his possible bright future with her. Of course, Rena doesn’t know about Neil’s feelings yet.
“hmmm..Sells aren’t good recently. But I’ll manage. Oh yes! Do you know that the crown prince is coming to visit the town today?”
“Crown prince? Why is he coming this far from royal capital?”
“I heard it is something about meeting the people as their future king. I wonder if can sell him some of these flowers.”
“haha..good luck with that. It’s time for me to go.”
Neil leaves as he waves his hand towards her. She helps her family by earning money from selling flowers. She is the only good thing in Neil’s life.
*Rena..just wait..I will take us out of this place..*
Neil arrived at the school as he thought such thing. His goal is to become a scholar and work at some higher place. He also wishes to take Rena with him. At that time, he will confess to Rena about his feelings. Such things kept him going through the rough path in his life.
Neil opens the door of the classroom and slowly walks up to his seat. When he sits down on the chair, it breaks and Neil falls down. Whole class starts to laugh at him. Neil gets up and looks at one group of students. There he met eyes with one boy in that group. His name is Rox. There was no one that took more pleasure in bullying Neil than him. The one who sat next to him is a girl named Lisha. She seconds Rox in bullying Neil. From outside she was complete beauty but from inside she was a bitch. Rox, Lisha and their group has always been a pain in the ass for Neil. They left no chance in making Neil’s life hell.
As the teacher comes into the class, he tells Neil to get another chair from the next classroom. The first lecture is about general education.
“So..Resonia is a part of human continent’s 10th army unit. Our population includes majority of humans, followed by beastmen and elves who are minorities……So Neil What is the rank of Detonia?”
“I am sorry, Sir. I don’t know.” Neil replied.
Teachers would often ask question in between lessons. Neil always answers the questions asked at him. So teachers always thought of him as arrogant and ask him questions that he possibly could not answer. Which in turn, gives whole class another chance to laugh at him.
The day goes on as swordsmanship classes comes up. All the students got outside in the grounds for lessons. This is the time where Rox invites Neil to practice together with him. It is more like forcing it upon Neil who clearly lakes physical abilities compared to other classmates. This was a fatal flaw for Neil.He is too weak for swordsmanship and incompetent for magic. He is useless as a fighting force.
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“Hey, weakling, let’s practice together.” Rox asks Neil while his group following behind him.
Neil is already used to this schedule as he takes up his sword. Rox dashes at him and punches in his stomach.
“gah…” Neil falls down while holding his stomach.
“Come on..It wasn’t that bad...Let’s try it one more time.” Rox said while smirking.
Before Neil could even get up, Rox kicks him in the leg. Neil falls down on his back as he loses his sword.
“Alright I will be slow this time..” Rox said as he pointed his sword at Neil
Neil tries to get back on his feet just to get punched by Rox. Neil splits out blood from his mouth.
“Hahahahah...this guy is such a loser. You should have died with your parents, you monster.”
Rox taunts Neil and the group behind him starts laughing. Neil who couldn’t control his anger rushes at Rox. Neil gets knocked out by the Rox.
Neil wakes up in a bed. Neil knew this place because he came here several times. This is the infirmary of school. He was probably taken here by the teacher after he was knocked out. He reports to the nurse and goes out of the infirmary. On his way out, he sees a girl holding his bag.
That girl is Lisha. The teacher probably have told her to hold Neil’s bag until he wakes up. She sees Neil and throws his bag at him. Neil looks at her curiously.
“Teacher, told me to give this to you..”
Neil opens his bag to confirm everything was fine and finds out that the bag is filled with strange liquid. His notes and books are totally ruined. Neil looks at Lisha with a frustrated expression.
“What are you giving me that look for? You deserve that. After all you made me wait this long, loser.”
She leaves while saying those words. For Neil, Rox is a douche and Lisha is a bitch. Neil leaves school while cursing Rox and Lisha. On his way back he was thinking about his notes and how he has to buy new books.
Then suddenly he noticed a large crowd forming at one place. When Neil asked one of the person, he was told that crown prince is here. Neil moved between the crowd to see what was going on. As he was moving in the crowd, his instinct told him to stop. His heart starts beating faster and faster. Maybe it’s because of his years of experience that he can sense something bad is going to happen. Even then he came out of the crowd. His eyes become wide open as he sees his love Rena holding the hand of a man. She was dressed in formal attire. They were surrounded by guards. Neil could hear the whispers around him.
“Hey..is that the girl crown prince chosen as his mistress?”
“Yeah...It seems she got the prince’s eye…”
Neil couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
*Mistress?..Rena..no way..what about my plans?..i didn’t even tell her my feelings yet..no way..*
Neil’s thoughts became complete mess. His gaze matches with Rena. Rena averts her gaze as she looks down. This was enough for Neil to go out of control.
“NO..FUCKING..WAY….”
Neil shouted out as he ran towards the prince and Rena. The guards immediately took action and pushed him down on the ground. Neil lifted up his face a little which was buried down on the mud as the guards still held him down. He looks at Rena and shouts loud enough for everyone to hear.
“RENAAAAAAAAA..THIS IS NOT HAPPENING...I WON’T LET YOU GO..I..I LOVE YOU..I HAVE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG TIME...SO DON’T GO AWAY..DON’T LEAVE ME…”
Everybody in the crowd was stunned by Neil’s sudden words. It could be called as treason. He can lose his life right now. Just as Crown Prince was about to order guards to cut his head off, Rena tells something to Crown Prince. Crown Prince frowned a little before turning back. Rena came closer to Neil.
“Rena…”
“Neil...I am happy for your feelings but I have to go.”
“Nooooo..please don’t…”
“Neil..You know my family is poor. If I refused him, there will be severe consequences. We can’t do anything about it. Sometimes, you just have to accept things as they are….”
“But I am trying my hardest to become someone good enough to take care of you and myself..”
“I know you are and I know that one day you will become someone amazing. That’s why I can leave you…”
She smiled at Neil before moving towards Crown Prince. The Crown Prince took her hand as they moved towards a carriage.
“NOOOOOOOOO……”
Neil who was still shouting but couldn’t get up as the guards are still holding him down. Suddenly, crown burst into laughter at the commotion that took place.
“haha..that was some show…..”
“This kid is an idiot..”
“hahahah..I was hoping to see his head flying off.”
Among them there were his classmates including Rox, Lisha and their group.
“haha..This loser doesn’t fail to make me laugh.” Rox made his comment as he and the group of students laughed at Neil.
They are laughing. They are all laughing like this is some kind of circus. Neil remembers this laughs. These laughs were same as the ones when his family was burned alive. The laugh of real monsters. But just like that time all Neil could do is cry as his everything gets taken away from him again.
Soon enough guards leave him as he seemed to not showing any force. Crowed disappears as the show is done. Rain starts to pour as to show pity on Neil.
Neil slowly gets up while his clothes covered in mud and wet from the rain water. Neil slowly walked down to the path leading to his home. He comes close to his home. But instead of going inside the house, he reaches to the edge of the cliff.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA………….”
He screams to let all the pain out of him that he suffered in his life.
“why….why I was born with such cruel destiny?...Is this my fate? Am I supposed to suffer my entire life?...”
Neil wanted answers. He wants someone to answer his questions Somebody to tell him the meaning of his existence. Neil picked up a nearby stone.
“This eye...Everything happened because of this eye...I don’t need such thing..if it only means pain..”
Neil enraged by such thoughts bursts his left eye with the stone. Blood starts to pour down from his eye and pain rushes through him. But Neil just laughs like some madman.
“AHAHAHAHA..this is over...I am free...free…..ahahahhahhhah.”
From one eye comes down blood and from another eys comes down tears. Neil sits there and lets rain wet him more for a while as he stares into the sky with hollow eye. After some ten or fifteen minutes he gets up and goes inside his house. He throws himself on the bed without caring about his wet clothes or blood that was coming out from his eye. His consciousness fades away.
Night takes on and leaves out, sun shines the world again, birds starts chirping, water droplets drops down from the trees. Everything indicated the start on a new day.
“guh….”
Neil slowly wakes up and feels slight headache. He looks at the bed sheets wet from water and blood. Neil grown as he remembers about yesterday’s events. He gets up from his bed and makes his way to the bathroom. He washes his face with water. He looks at the mirror. Maybe because he was too confused that he didn’t noticed it before. But now he can clearly see it. His left eye which was supposed to be injured is completely healed and is good as new. Moreover, what shocked him the most that now it was black colored same as his right eye.
Neil looks at his body since he already took his clothes off. His body has grown muscles. He touched around the abs that were never there. His height seems to increased a little. Neil starts touch himself as to see whether it was truly him. He touches around his abs and his newly created eye. Neil starts to breath heavily as he can’t understand the situation.
Neil gets frustrated and punches at the wall. Normally, His hand should be heavily injured by now but instead a hole is created into the wall. Suddenly, golden aura starts to form at his other hand. Neil gets startled by this situation and moves his hand around the air and gets out the bathroom. The golden light shoots out of his hand like a projectile and hits a table. The table blows away with a sudden blast. Neil looks at his hands in sudden disbelief.
“What..What’s going on here?