Regrets Of The Past
"Die!" "Die!" "Die!"
"You monster!"
"Burn him to death!"
"You're a disgrace to your family, a disgrace to humanity!"
"You Devil! Betrayer of humanity!"
Hundreds of people uttered similar words as they waited for my death. Yes. I was dying. Flames all around me. My hands tied like a criminal.
'I am a sinner.'
'I'm the reason why hundreds of thousands of people died. Miserably.'
'It wasn't supposed to end like this.'
'This isn't what I wanted.'
'Is this how it's all going to end?'
'Can I really do nothing to change the outcome?'
'My lovely mother, my father whose care I never understood, my brave brother, I'm so sorry.'
'I'm sorry you had to lose your life because of me.'
'I miss you.'
'If only I could see you guys one more time.'
Despair soon turned into regret, and regret into sadness and grief. A sense of resignation washed over his whole body as he prayed, for the first time in his life.
He didn't even know to whom he was praying, but he still prayed, pleaded, and begged. And just like that, his life came to an end inside that burning, merciless fire.
"Poor child. You're bearing the karma of someone else."
"Sister, what do you mean by that?"
"Nothing. I was just talking to myself."
She stared at the broken soul in front of her with gaze full of sadness and regret. It was a soul that was no longer salvageable.
The only thing she, a demi-god could do was send back the broken pieces to the past and hope for a miracle. A blind light covered the area as she held those broken pieces close to her heart.
"Huh?" Ale woke up with a startle. His back was covered with sweat as he tried to catch his breath.
"A nightmare?" He wondered as he remembered pieces of the long and painful dream that he was having moments ago.
P_Mitra · Fantasy
