".....Help... me....." says, by a hopeless girl.
Meanwhile a teenager finds himself standing in a catastrophe. He can't move nor close his eyes, and he feels his skin burning constantly. Everything around him looks all real. Still, the nightmare won't stop and it keeps happening again and again.
"...Don't leave me... dad!..."
"...SHOW NO MERCY!!..."
...Not even how much he begged to stop, it will always show itself.
But one of the knight can oddly see him and not others, yet the knight begin to approach him and has murderous intent in his actions.
The blade stabbed and slid its way through his throat with so much blood dripping, only for him to wake up soaked from sweat and his fear was visible in his eyes.
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"Fuck... that dream again.
Tsk...
Make it stop..!"
In reality, he was just laid down on a cheap bed inside a run-down abode that was nestled somewhere within a kingdom.
His name is Tetsuya, he's only seventeen but someone like him showed the hard lines of someone who'd already survived far too much.
[[Tetsuya, black & gray hair, messy and almost covered his eyes]].
"Tetsuya! Are you still there?...
...I'm sure you know the date right? Pay your rent!"
There goes the owner of the big shelter. In every kingdom, you can sleep on a room for a month but it always is insanely expensive, because you can't live outside at any time, a Corrupt can possibly appear.
Hence live outside the kingdom itself, it's basically a suicide.
'Damn, I have nothing left in me... this old geezer is annoying as ever.'
"I'll pay tomorrow, just shut the hell up!"
And for Tetsuya, he might always be in trouble when it comes to earning money for "rent" which he hates the most.
Because usually, he fails to do a single job, be it handling paperwork or working for a blacksmith, not even feeding a horse.
"Damn you! Make sure you do before I'll kick your ass out!"
'Yeah yeah. Wish I can just lie on the bed all day without having to pay every single time.'
After taking a little nap, he decided to earn a little today just to pay the rent and a little snack as well.
As soon as he exits, the noise coming from the outside starts getting louder since its not just a single abode, but a shared quarters room by room, there's a lot of people and some stinks since there's only one bathroom.
And it's always pain in the ass when trying to leave from the apartment, the terrace are filled with people and his room is located on the second floor. Some parts of the wooden floor are mostly broken, so one wrong step will result an easy injury and money loss.
"Come on, step out of the way goddamn it!"
"Mornin' Tetsuya."
"Yeah, yeah you too."
It may look like an apartment filled with too many people, but they are kind-hearted at most of the time.
'Oh no, I haven't paid her yet. Don't look at me, don't look at me...'
"Tetsuya! You said you will pay for the food you took!"
Maybe not most of the time.
"Just give me some time, woman!"
After finally squeezing himself from these people, he managed to step outside once again.
Outside while walking with a ripped cloak, he saw slaves in a public auction again. It's normal in this world, selling slaves and other foolish stuff to "support" the King's authority
'Another one?... give me a break.'
There are many vendors just across the streets of the kingdom, and once again, the streets were filled with people, but it doesn't bug him anymore since he's used to it already.
This place is always loud but full of life.
*
"Hey, remember when we used to work together as a guard?"
"Yeah.. when was that? I always forget things ya'know."
Some are normal conversation...
"Mom, Mom! Toy, Toy!"
"Okay sweetheart, pick one."
...Some are sweet moments...
"Hey how much did you throw at him?"
"About 7 to 8 rocks I think."
"Are you sure Ren will die from just that? What if he report us to teacher?"
...And maybe some cruelty.
*
"Hey old man, what's the job are you giving me now?"
"Cleaning houses this time."
"Huh, I'm not experi-"
"Experienced or not, as long as you do well on your job, you earn money."
' "Clean house" my ass, don't blame me if I did it wrong.'
Tetsuya's job is to simply clean the corner of the walls and mop the floor from people's houses. Generally, he would clean a disgusting house that has a stinky smell inside. But hey, at least he's got a decent payment.
Cleaning houses looks easy for him but he's a failure at some times. That one time he broke someone else's pot and almost burned the whole hut after his leather got caught on fire from the chimney.
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"What the fuck did you do to my house brat!"
"At least I cleaned your house! Stop yelling at me and give me my money!"
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He'll also ran an errand on a bakery but would mess the bread instead.
After some time, he didn't mean to enter inside the training area on an academy because he was supposed to deliver items used for fighting against the Corrupts, and he will only place it down to their doorway. But there was a lot of pathways and doors, they didn't even have a gate.
[[Corrupts are a being born from death, in short they are corrupted souls but it's not always guarantee a soul may be corrupted. What they learned is when a soul had committed sins repeatedly, they will be corrupted]].
There are knights that guards the place, but whenever he see anyone as a knight, he gets the feeling of hatred towards them and he don't know why, his instincts only told him to despise them.
Now that he's inside the training area and still holding the wooden box, the masters rudely snatched the box from him as Tetsuya was seen simply as a peasant.
"Your job is done, get out of here kid.
...You're getting in my nerves for no reason."
"I know, I know."
Tetsuya only gets embarrassed by the rookies that watch him leave, and he can already hear brief laughter, but he's not sure if it's about him or not.
'What full of idiots... fighting against "corrupts" or whatever, they'll die anyway.'
Day by day his life goes on like this. He's poor and devoid of attention from anyone's eyes.
'When's the time I get to eat at least a meat or sleep in a luxurious bed..?
...Just how much my life's been a joke?'
(Work in Progress....)