Chapter 1 . Banished

He is looking at me with those eyes , begging me to agree with him . Just a nod and I am sure his death will be peaceful. Human beings are so deciteful. We live everyday in a lie that we created and even die in lies. The man looking at me surrounded by death aura and probably going to draw his last breath in the next few seconds is my father. We had complicated relationships or should I say no relationships at all even though we are the only ones live in that cozy little house. My mother died during my birth . That man barely took care of me , leaving me to the care of a maid . With a decent amount of money it was not that discomfortable for me to grow up in a normal way. But there was just that . The maid who take care of me never thought of me more than a thing , which just grow up by providing what needed, like giving me food , help my clothing etc. We barely made eye contact or made any conversation . it's been four years since she left our house when I turned 8 years of age . I may not even remember her voice. And my father who just occasionally gave me pointers for magic probably because he was teacher at the village magic school.

But I had no idea he was doing something like trying to expose the corruption of the village mayor to the local Noble. Yesterday night he suddenly rushed into the house and woke me up from my deep slumber and told me what he was doing .And Apparently the local noble who is in authority of the surrounding villages was the main culprit .

The kingdom of Arsia has a system of giving funds to every magic school whether it is small or big . The noble along with the others mayors was taking all the funds for themselves for the past 4 years , and only giving out some of the lower class magic items . My father and the village school headmaster got a hint of it and started investigating. They thought the mayor was behind it and tried to report it to the noble. And now they have nowhere to run . He told me all this expecting I will pretend I don't know anything about this and will try to report this event to the higher-ups or maybe get revenge later on .

I listened to his story for some time. And before I could fully process the informations provided to me soldiers stormed in and took him away.

And now he is looking at me from the execution stage . Well I would have been happy if it was a drama that was played on the stage and the main character is looking at me . But it's not . And sadly the one on the execution stage is my father .

Honestly though I never thought he really is expecting to risk my frail life of mine for him when he is barely my father . I am sure he also know this that how our relationship is like . I will never try to do anything like fulfilling his dying wish . Well maybe our relation was like this because he blame me for mother's death . But he did took care of me though so at least I will nod now .

But whether I do something or not time will tell . But for now let him die in peace. So I nodded gently.

And after he saw me nod he smiled and peacefully drew his last breath. I feel a little sad after all I am just 12 . It is really natural I will feel sad. But I barely feel it though. Like the thing that is responsible for feeling emotion is kind of got empty .

The village mayor was looking at me so he must have noticed the father son interaction. His eyes clearly reflecting his thoughts that he must eliminate the little threat he has. After all no body should find out about this corruption .

And he can made up a solid excuse after all I just became the son of the man who stole the village magic school's money and got executed . The headmaster sided with the noble obviously because he love his life . That's why my nod mattered that much to my father . Even though he died for a noble cause he had been labeled as a thief . I am wondering if I am going survive this or not . The only ones that can save me in this predicament is the villagers. With the slightest of excuse the noble or the mayor will also execute me . Well the villagers are also looking at me . Probably waiting to see what awaits me. Some are looking at me with pity. I see that lady that took care of me all those years. Surprisingly see also have pity and sympathy in her eyes .Well is it life flashing in front of my eyes . I haven't lived any life yet though. Judging by the amount of people looking at me with pity I guess it won't be hard to get some more . That is only way I could be saved. I wasn't crying so the people must have thought I was in shock . So, I started to burst in tears, and instead of going with he didn't do anything wrong I started to shout....

"what did he do that he has to die "??

"he was just a teacher why did you execute him?"

"father don't die !"

and etc. It better work or I am done for .

Honestly how much a weak person like me has to beg and to which extent I have to go that I survive . I guess it's pretty obvious . The more weak you are the more you lower your head . And even you are in the right strong people rich people own law . They don't get judged by it .

I could hear the murmur in the crowd ..

"I think the noble should let the boy go "

" yeah! after all he is still a child . He did not do anything "

" of course the noble will let him go . you don't know sir is very kind ."

The noble should let me go anyway, kiliing a boy for his father's mistake will definately kill some of his reputation if it get known . And I am not that of a threat to him anyway . After all even my dad must have looked like a insigficant bug to him.

After some time noble's voice rang out ...

"the boy will be banished from the village . I will spare his life but still can't overlook his father treachery so, he is to leave the village by tomorrow morning."

And with that he left with the mayor and his knight without giving me a single glace .

After the noble left, the villagers also starts to disperge, some of them came to offer sympathy and then also left one by one. I was the only one left there below the execution stage looking at my father's smiling face . I started to feel the discomfort that I should have feeling. The surging of emotion. I was feeling loneliness and sadness and may be a bit of anger. Now I was crying for real. And I can't even point out for what reason I am feeling what , May be it was the thought that I don't have any family left or losing my father at this age. In the the humans cant fight over the sadness of losing a close blood relative. My father rarely showed me his loving side so may be I thought I didn't love him or I was just angry at him. Well this is the last time I am seeing his face and I am glad he is smiling . I should remember this feeling and his face , I have a feeling it will help someday .

After I calming down for a bit I left the place and come to the place which I can't call home from tomorrow morning. I don't have anything to take with me, so fiddle around the house and found some money and the wodden sword my dad gave me on my fifth birthday .I think I will take it with me .

I want to leave the village before the morning comes . I don't want the villagers to look at me with those eyes, anymore . It makes me feel pretty uncomfortable . They just feel kind of fake . I am sure somebody among the crowd must have some idea but kept queite . But what can they do anyway otger tgan keeping quiet.

" fuu..!! I shouldn't keep any grudges against them . "

I can't leave at night ebecause of the monsters. I heard their are monsters in the forest outside the village. And also in the vicinity of surrounding villages . So I think I will leave when I see the first light of morning.

So I sat in that empty home with the wooden sword in my arms and started to wait for the first light of morning.