A Life I Regretted
I was a thief…
A coward…
A fool…
A greedy man…
A man who lived in to his thirties and died in the sewers, where the last sin I did was simply stealing a piece of rare artifact that was known to be quite "Magical" in some sense.
The news couldn't stop telling the public that this piece of artifact was one that could "Change" one's life.
Found in the ruins of a castle in some discredited location…the book was brought upon by a famous man who I deemed to not care for in the least…
The only thing I cared at that moment was but the piece of treasure he held by his hands as he showed it through the television.
And that treasure was but a book that seems as old as time…
"..." but my greed at that moment was insatiable…unending…
Through many plans that went inside my head…I finally came upon the chance to grab this piece of artifact for my own…
But in the end…karma was able to reach me before I could even savor the very efforts of my greed and desire…
*BANG*
A gun was shot…
My back was hit…
And before I knew it, my fear towards death came to overwhelm me…
But my desperation for my efforts to savor my greed won my body over…it was enough for me to escape the eyes of the people who wanted me dead…who wanted me to leave this world because I was scum…
I escaped from their eyes…and hid under the sewers…
"...Haaa….haaa…..haaaa."
My heavy breathing was unending…
My eyes were slowly drifting into the dark world of an endless void…
And with my faith that was so little towards God, I could only believe that I would not go to heaven.
"..." the book was on my chest as I laid against the wall of the sewers…
I could feel the rats crawl against my skin…waiting for my death, in preparation to devour my body as it was…
In the last seconds that came upon my beating heart…I wanted to read the book…to see if what I did today was worth my life…
So when I opened the book, all I could see in front of me was the sight of a blank page…a very reflective page that showed the very face of my expression.
The expression of fear.
The look in my eyes were as clear as the sunny day…
"...I'm dying."
As I said these words, my life flashed before me…reminding me of what I did…what I could do throughout my past.
The scene of a farm…
The image of the crops…
My father…who died at his early age.
My mother who tried her best to live by the farm's standards…but died out of overworking herself.
And me…who was left with nothing, so I ran…I ran from the fear and reminders of the causes of my parent's death.
I became a thief…and a coward.
"...I wish I didn't ran away back then."
"I wish I could have taken over the farm like how father always wanted me to…"
" I wish I could have a second chance…"
[YOUR WISH IS HEARD…]
"..." I could see it…
[GIVE ME YOUR LIFE AND I WILL GRANT YOU A CHANCE TO REDEMPTION.]
"..." blue letters were found at the pages of the book…
[NO RESPONSE MADE…ANALYZING CLIENT'S DESIRE]
It was like a magic trick. Writing and disappearing like a digital wipe.
[...ANALYSIS COMPLETED…CLIENT IS LOSING HIS LIFE…IN RESPONSE TO THE SITUATION…]
[COMPLETE HIS DESIRE WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION…BEGINNING SOUL BINDING.]
[TRANSFERRING SOUL TO THE BOOK OF THE ALL-KNOWN.]
[TRANSFER COMPLETED…BOOK OF THE ALL KNOWN WILL BEGIN THE TRAVEL SEQUENCE TO ANOTHER WORLD…]
[WORLD CHOSEN…ASTRA]
[TRAVEL OF SOULS INITIALIZING]
[BRACE THY SOUL]
As it finished writing it's blue letters on its page, I could see the book slowly closing off…and when it finally closed, my whole consciousness came to a close in sync with the book.
The book has taken my life…
And in that moment, I was nothing…a life no more.