The moon shines brightly in the streets of the Kingdom of Barran. In a dark alleyway comes a man dressed in a priest's robe running in a panic, as if something dreadful is chasing him.

The priest turned around to find nothing behind him, but deep inside, he knew someone was watching him.

The priest continued running until he saw a light at the end of the alleyway, he continued running and the light kept getting closer, he knows once he reached the exit he will be safe. he ran and ran, but it was a dead end. It was simply the moon shining its beautiful light at the end of the alleyway  

He looked behind him and all he can see is pitch black.

"No, no, no... this can't be happening, I did everything you asked! why are you doing this?" he screamed in the pitch darkness that faces him. But suddenly a voice replied to him, it was coming from the darkness in front of him. 

"Did you think that I will allow you to live, after everything you have done?" the voice said. The priest replied "Do you think they will leave you alone after you kill me? Once the church knows of my death they will send hundreds of inquisitors to find you" 

"Fufufu"

A dreadful laugh echoed in the darkness. Knowing that he will die the priest prayed to his god.

"O Lord who has mercy, forgive thy sins, bless those who pray and those who bravely fight for you"

"Oh. you're praying... to who? Fufufu"

A dreadful laugh continued to echo the alleyway while the priest continued his prayer. The mysterious person walked towards the priest carefully not revealing his figure and said " By order of Cerberus Hydra, you will be executed by hanging" As soon he finished saying those words, he stepped out from the darkness of the alleyway, revealing his figure, as a man dressed in all black wearing a white mask, he took off his masks and looked at the priest. The priest stared back at him but despite how close the person is in front of him, he cannot see the person clearly as if something is messing with his vision, despite being there in front of the priest, the priest cannot sense the presence of the person in front of him.

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"It is a shame for a priest to die like this but given your offense, this is simply the right thing to do" The person suddenly grabbed the priest in the neck tightly choking him, and the priest beg for mercy but he receive none.

"Now, let us end this," the person said to the priest. The priest couldn't speak as he is frozen in fear.

"I will not use my blades nor my magic against you, for it will only dirty my blade with that pathetic disgusting blood of yours. I will use something different to kill a lowlife like you" 

The priest struggled to be freed from the person's grasp, he tried hitting him in the face to no avail.

"Humans are the simplest creatures in this world for all you humans share the same hatred for one particular thing... and that is the hatred against truth. So now look at me, priest." the person said, but the priest didn't dare look at the person's face, the person tightened his grip on the priest's neck and said " I said... LOOK. AT. ME, PRIEST"  The priest looked at the person's face, the priest's face was filled with dread. The priest suddenly became fearful of the person in front of him. The person threw the priest on the wall, and there the priest cower in fear in the corner, The priest's face was filled with dread. Whatever he saw was something so horrifying to the point that his mentality hit rock bottom in an instant.  

"Now priest do you see the truth? fufu... I am black but I am darker than black, I am despair and I am death"

The priest's insanity was decreasing fast, he cannot fathom to understand what he just saw. He either saw death itself or something far more dreadful. But then the priest gathered all his strength to ask the person one question and that is.

"Who have I been praying to all this time?"

There was a moment of silence between the two, the person stared at the priest and smiled, and then he said.

" rBknoe doG"

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The night has passed, and the noise of vendors and kids playing filled the streets of the kingdom.  

But suddenly people are gathered in front of the Church of the God of Evernight, and there hangs a body of a priest. People wonder why a great priest like him choose such fate to be his end but I wonder as well.

This is the beauty of wonder, to wonder is to seek for an answer, and to wonder is never to seek for an answer. For the common folks such meanings don't make sense but if you think about it. Do you want to know what happened to the priest?