Before we were fetuses... what were we?
Nothing.
We were nothing. But to anyone who says that nothing is something. And if that is true, then we are something, and that something is nothing. Simple and easy like that. The nature of things doesn't give many options for what it is. Fate doesn't give you options either.
Or does it? Or was it always in front of us, shining like a star and calling us like a baby looking for its parents in the middle of the night?
After all, what is death?
Who is behind it?
And finally, how do we die?
How do we reach nothingness?
And, again, what is nothing?
There's so much I want to know, but... do I deserve it?
Do I deserve the divine answer to something that no one knows about?
Why my brother, fate, death, whatever you are, answer me! Come down from the heavens and give me an answer, a sign that I won't lose any more things.
I feel bad, I just killed one of the few men I've ever loved and respected. Tell me, why? Why do I suffer? Why make my brothers, my only family at this moment, suffer if I am the one who deserves death?
I'm devastated, I'm broken and tired, and this is what you do to me? In fact, who am I even talking to? There are so many powerful entities in this world and none of them can answer me, none can tell me: YOU DESERVE THIS, MONSTER.
Why?
I have so many pleasant memories with that son of a cheater. What would he say to me now? Seeing me and my brother and sister crying so pathetically. Pathetic, that's right. Your death was insignificant, my brother; you died because we failed this shitty plan. I failed you as an older brother, I couldn't save you. What am I going to say to my father or grandfather when I see them at the end of it all? Or to you?
I'm very sorry, brother, but we were losers in this game called life.
And I get up from next to my brother's corpse, but first, I touch his black hair, take off the necklace that our father gave him when he turned fourteen and take my siblings to the peculiar forest in front of us. I wanted to take you with us, but I can't. As I said, we are all in a great and retrograde state of tiredness and hatred. Hatred directed at our pathetic face. Who would have thought that the strongest bloodline in this world would end up dirty and in decay.
First the father, and now the sword maniac. Who comes next? My brother, Ziring? Or my sweet sister, Zerane?
Anyway, I have to keep my head high, and by that I mean I need to hide my sadness, I need to demonstrate coolness and intelligence, I shouldn't be emotional; At least that's what I was always taught. I wonder why a king shouldn't cry for the death of his brother or father. I understand that there are, yes, problems with showing weakness, but... we are human, aren't we? Why act like a piece of metal? That's it, because my father told me!
We walked through this vast forest for hours without seeing a single animal, or a lake, or the sea, or a cannibal civilization.
Please, oh my great god, give us help! Express your love to us, tell us where to go, point us to a reliable path, away from the evils of this great world!
"Are you... okay, Zirinos?" my sister asks with the gentleness she uses when she's sad. My sister, like me, despite being delicate and weak, believed that a good person in the royal family should not cry.
"Yes," I reply dryly. As much as I like my sister, this was not the ideal time to speak to me; I was angry, I was at the end of the road that was patience, and I was looking at the precipice that was at the very end of the rope. If I jumped off this cliff, would I be able to climb back up?
"Ok... I-I apologize", and she cries again. Let the precipice be, I shouldn't treat my sister like that.
"Don't apologize! I am the one that owes you an apology, my sister. I'm just a little irritated by this situation, you know? With that masked man on the loose and with the death of his father and Zequi'. So many bad things have happened to us and I don't even know what we do now."
"I understand" she says as the tears stop falling. "Can you tell us a story, Ziring?"
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Ziring is the studious geek of the family. As he was weak, despite being a Natur-Zery, and couldn't do many physical things, he spent the whole day locked in his room studying. Although I think he did everything except study, since he still hasn't managed to beat me in a simple game of chess.
"Very well, then. So listen very carefully" he begins "In R, on a small planet of very little importance, there lived Rintaro Rerro, a weak man from another world. Rintaro lived a monotonous life as a shepherd, taking care of sheep and his companion, a dog. Oh, I forgot to mention, but Rintaro was extremely attractive!
"And how is this important to the story?"
"You'll see, my brother" and he looks at the red sky thinking. Seconds later he continues "And how attractive he was, he was so attractive, so charming, handsome, handsome and gentlemanly that women were crazy about him and his battle marks. He was from another world! But that doesn't matter so much, since he rejected all advances from the women who loved him.
» On a normal, monotonous day like any other, he and his dog find a beautiful lady, about to be attacked by a bunch of drunks, and help her. They take her to their house and let her stay there for a few days. In that short time, she ends up falling in love with him, just like all the women who have come across him, but he didn't like her.
» Days after she left his house to return to her home, she appears again and asks him to marry her, but he rejects her. Upset and angry, she cuts off the dog's legs and throws him into the lake where they found her almost being attacked. She returns home to her father, the king, and asks him to lock Rintaro in the dungeons until he tells her he loves her, but before the king can do anything, Rintaro appears and destroys the entire planet, he destroys children, women and men who had nothing to do with it. Remember that Rintarro is from another planet, right? Now tell me, why did he appear in this world?
"Rintaro Rerro? Is this not the story of Rhinorius Sturk, the father of deities? Why this specific story?" I ask, confused. Where does Ziring intend to go with this story.
"Zirinos, brother, all great heroes need a goal, you know? A few months ago dad told me that he was once a great friend of Rhinorius, if we can reach him, we can at least try to ask him for help!"
"Oh my Cyclop, even if we manage to ask for help, how do we reach him? In case you haven't noticed, we're stuck on a dwarf planet at the beginning of Y, with no living beings."
"Wait..." my sister interrupts me and screams."Hold on to something! We are in the domain of someone powerful! This is why there are no signs of life or wind circulating."
And before we could do anything, we all fell to the ground, as if we were an eagle falling after being shot.