10 Chapter 10

'Where am I? this is not the world I live in. Where am I? '

Axel turned around after the war which resulted in his warlord being killed. However, when he turned around, the world he saw was no longer the world he was currently living in. He was so confused and didn't know which direction to take.

The place was filled with bright lights, people were everywhere passing by. He also saw people riding on iron wheels with two and four wheels. Axel was completely confused about where he was and decided to find out.

As he continued walking and trying to find something he was familiar with, from a distance another light appeared and someone appeared from that light. Someone he knew very well and made him always feel guilty because that person left because of him.

"Remanu? Is that you?"

Axel runs after the person who looks very much like the warlord. "Wait for me."

Axel pursued and continued to chase, but the more he chased, Remanu continued to stay away. Axel became tired and desperate, he decided to stop and fell.

"Remanu, I'm sorry, everything is my fault. if I can bring you back to life, then I will, "said Axel, crying.

Axel continued to apologize to his friend and warlord. After Remanu death, so many things changed, even his heart and love story .He began to cry over Remanu's beauty, who was drowning in the light. However, Remanu looked so happy with a smile on his lips, even though that smile was not for Axel.

"Remanu, come back."

The voice of despair and sadness sounded so soft when Remanu disappeared from the presence of the prince. Remanu - the warlord and also his true friend - returned away from Axel with the same smile he had seen at the end of his life.

A crowd of people drowns Axel and he returns to his world, with people dressed the same as him, vehicles he always sees around the kingdom, and also his parents, and his wife.

Axel saw them all staring at her with angry faces, especially his wife, Charlotte. He also apologized to Charlotte for rejecting hers a lot and ignored hers when his wife spoke. All that guilt, despair, and sadness deepened Axel when he faced the whole family. He didn't know what else to say to his father, mother, and wife.

Not only that, an unexpected incident was experienced by Axel again, Charlotte walked over to him with the same expression on her face. She gave a blood clot to Axel. At that very moment, the mother began to burst into tears, and the father cried silently at his son.

When he saw the lump given by Charlotte, it looked alive, and Axel started to get scared. The lump seemed to want to swallow his body, at that moment Axel opened his eyes and woke up. Sweat had soaked his body, and his heart was beating very fast.

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"Are you awake?" said Charlotte, who was styling her hair.

Axel, who woke up with a shock, tried to revive himself first. His memory returned to the dream he had just seen, the dream of Charlotte with the lump that had nearly engulfed him. Axel was curious about what that dream meant.

"Yes, it looks like it, doesn't it?" replied Axel.

"You were delirious last night, did you have a bad dream?" Charlotte asked to show her concern for her husband, as well as find out what her husband dreamed of last night.

Axel looked at Charlotte, it turned out that his dream last night had an impact on his real world. He became worried if the name Remanu had spoken in his mind last night. Axel immediately found out and asked his wife.

"Did I say something?"

"No, you just look really tired, like you're chasing something," Charlotte replied.

Axel breathed a sigh of relief because he didn't mention Remanu's name when he was delirious. Remanu departure made Axel feel guilty. He could not forgive himself until he was carried away by a dream. He also wondered whether someone who had become ashes could be brought back to life? Axel thought of looking for a great psychic in this Nirvana Kingdom.

Seeing Axel daydreaming after waking up, Charlotte knew if something was wrong. She was sure that last night her husband dreamed of the woman in his past. Charlotte was again annoyed with Axel and chose to leave without speaking another word.

However, Axel is increasingly sensitive to what Charlotte is doing. Some habits have been built up when they are in the room together. This habit could no longer be ignored by Axel, and when there was something wrong with that habit, he immediately asked Charlotte.

"Is there something wrong with me?"

Charlotte, who had reached the door and was holding the handle, stopped, without seeing her husband she answered in a flat tone, "No."

Axel asks Charlotte to wait for him so they can have breakfast together. Axel's mom and dad would have asked if they were acting out of the ordinary. Axel doesn't want any more troubles between his family like yesterday.

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Axel went to the warrior room to see his troops who had fought with him in the past. Even though Axel is no longer fighting, and it just so happens that so far there has been no war going on, he still wants to dedicate himself to forming a strong army. By providing strategies that he believed could defeat the enemy, Axel felt that he was quite useful.

"It's been a long time since the prince has been here," said Anthony - the new warlord.

"It just takes a little time to rest. What about the new strategy, has anyone built it? "

"We tried our best, but the strategy we made was not as great as the prince's," replied Anthony.

Axel looked at the table they used to design their attack strategy. He saw two stones that were used to mark troops, and there were still the initials of the name Remanu, which indicated that the stone was Remanu's army.

Axel remembered the fallen warlord again. His thoughts brought Axel back to the dream he had seen last night. The remanu he saw was no longer the same as the Remanu he had known during his lifetime. Everything changed, and he lived in a different world from himself.

Remanu changed so much, that smile was the same as the one when Axel last saw the warlord and his best friend, making Axel feel even more guilty because Remanu didn't recognize him. Axel, who thought of Remanu, finally drifted back into his daydream, and he didn't listen to what Anthony was discussing.

Interrupting Anthony's conversation, Axel finally asked about the Remanu family at this time. He never again went to see the state of the cities in the kingdom because his guilt made Axel choose to shut himself up from the outside world.

"His younger sister married one of the big traders in town because he didn't want to be a servant in the palace. Remanu only has one brother, so his father and mother have to be cared for by their siblings who are married, "said Anthony.

Axel gave a disappointed face and lowered his head, he again felt a deep sadness. His bad thoughts returned about Remanu's younger brother who did not want to become a servant in the palace, could it be that he had a grudge and hatred with the royal family, which resulted in his brother dying in the war? however, the family should already know what the risks are to become a royal soldier, especially a warlord.

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