The Journey of Eternity

Trace 32 - Guidance.

In their solemn conversation in the dining room, two men were heard walking from behind the entrance and slowly the door was opened by someone. It was the King with his daughter who was full of laughter, walking over with a puzzled look as if trying to ask what really happened here.

“Yeah..this is the meeting you talked about yesterday, right? Did you forget” chirps the Queen down.

“Jeez, you know”

“Sister, who are the two of them? What cousin?” plainly asked the girl who stood beside the King and walked over to the two people who were sitting side by side in the direction of Arlo and Eri.

“Hell? I don't know, just ask them yourself”

“Emm sorry, I am Ferdian and this is my friend Shina. We are both special bodyguards of prince Arlo before” Obviously Ferdi is a little clumsy.

“Ohh.” Razil walked up to Arlo who was sitting mediating between Eri and Ferdi at the dinner table and looked at the girl sitting next to Arlo. His smile was sinister with a strange plan clearly hidden behind it.

The King walked up to the Queen and sat next to her waving at her daughter who could not be silent to sit next to her. The girl did not come immediately and instead pinched her face in Eri's ears and whispered something to make Eri's cheeks flushed. But in the end he went and sat down next to his father.

Then the food was served to all who had come including the two people sitting next to Arlo and Eri who looked very clumsy and frightened, it felt like the two of them were facing off against a beast that would attack at any moment with its sharp mouth. Arlo chuckled at the mannerisms of the two people and patted hard on the shoulders of the man sitting beside him.

“Hei.. I'm in charge, so calm down.”

“Ba-good Sir, thank you”

A completely silent dinner withers with the chirps of the Queen who says she will explain Arlo's new duties with the person she chooses and question them. The smile on Arlo's lips signifies a high confidence to complete this task even though he does not know what he is facing.

First, this small army will be sent directly to the portal and move to the human world located near the coast of Phalasick which is an island famous for a Phalasick Island. Then the journey will be continued to the south and cross the vast sea either with what. Until the next point, they will be led by parents who guard on a remote island in the middle of a vast ocean.

Next they had to find a portal point that moved the two of them according to the old man's instructions to move directly to the destination and destroy the energy that had propagated before it was too late. There was a special message given by the old man before they met him, a large and round red object must be brought as a reward or a token of gratitude.

“What objects? Is there no clue?”

“She said a strange thing, she said was ‘ Circling Red dot in a needle that was in the middle of an infinite puddle, smiling with a mouth full of blood and hair that was headed, he said, giving up and bowing with sincere love a valiant knight becomes a victim, returned to a person who is desperate to return to the place of home’ that strange sentence after he said to give a red object and disappear behind the fog” explained Queen rubbed her face.

Arlo nodded as if he understood what had been explained even though it seemed unconvincing. Then Eri with a serious look said that it was likely a message to those related to the red object said. Like a very deep puzzle to explain their journey.

Then the Queen said that in this condition, the farther the distance between him and Arlo then the level of communication will be very low and maybe even they can not communicate after being able to arrive at the Dangerous Crack and help in battle.

Arlo nodded in understanding and got up from his seat, about to ask something. He raised his hand and appeared the red scythe he used to use in fighting with the dark aura that enveloped him. All the young people there were shocked and amazed by what he saw.

“How about this? I heard grandfather had banned the use of this weapon, but I knew there was something good after saving a lot of the rest of life in it” Arlo looked seriously at the woman sitting in front of him.

“Yak, you always have been. How many souls do you collect, at least you need about a thousand human souls know?” The queen laughed lightly, dismissively.

“Because that's why I asked him, it's probably been over a thousand since 120 years ago, right? No one knows that I've reached the Dangerous Crack and got a lot of lost human souls there”

“Arlo!” snapping the King got up from his seat.

“What?”

“You kill humans?!” The king looked extremely annoyed by it, his eyebrows twitching with both of his eyes staring intently at the man before him.

“Hah? Of course not.” replied casually Arlo a little condescending.

Then Arlo gazes at the surroundings and recounts his journey in the Dangerous Crack. The fact is that many commoners who fled there rather than have to pay the forced taxes of weak kings who could do nothing for their own people. About 5 years ago, Arlo heard the news of a kingdom that collapsed because its own people were not accepted by its ruler, the entire castle was burned down and the rebellious people tried to get their rights to upload someone irresponsible.

But unfortunately their new leader is the same and even worse than before to force them to move and live in a place that cannot be said to be a place of living things. The slums where the soil is filled with dried blood are black and the tree does not produce leaves but still bear fruit from the sap.

More than 500 residents moved because they could not pay taxes and fled the kingdom. Until they were in an area adjacent to the rift area and lived there for several months. Arlo gets there when they're already starting to live there. An undeserved life is possible for them, but it looks like this time it will be different.

Arlo stopped by there to ask me a lot about this. Although he himself had said such that not far from here was a danger that could have taken all the remaining life here, but they reasoned that it was their way of concealing themselves from being chased by unreasonable taxes. Arlo sighed and left the village after two days of staying there.

Coincidentally or whatever, half a day after Arlo left the village. It was heard that the entire village was slaughtered by the demons who came in sufficient numbers to swallow all the fresh meat there. Arlo returns soon to make sure and hopes that at least 5 or more people can survive or the like.

But the reality, when we got there only felt a gripping feeling full of sadness that enveloped the rest of the destruction. The cries of the little boy and the women who were killed there hung over Arlo's head and left him full of guilt. In the presumption of being forced, he sucked all the remaining souls into his scythe to erase his guilt even though it actually made him feel the suffering of all of them.

“So you assume they will survive after being freed from that scythe?!” king's Triak on the man in front of him.

“Don't you know for yourself, after death should they be released and reborn after being weighed?

Arlo! Lift and scratch the tip into your body and we'll see if you're right or not” the Queen looks seriously at the man in front of her.

“Cih”

Arlo scratched the tip of his scythe into his right arm and blood flowed along his sickle eye. Shining brightly erased all the dark aura that enveloped him, the scythe slowly changed its color which was previously blood red and now turned green which was carried by the black color with a broken chain with the tip like burning. The thin smile on Arlo's lips along with the cynical look on his father further infuriated the King.

“Good.The two of you can come back, if you don't want to participate in this heavy duty, you can say it because I won't force you. Already, me and Miss are going to go for dinner somewhere else, let Nona” Arlo extend his hand to the girl who is still sitting in front of him.

“Arlo! Isn't it the same as you've killed a life there by not saving them? Added to that irresponsible plain feeling that makes them suffer, I right?” The king stopped Arlo's steps at the door.

“Yes, all of that is true. I could not prevent or save the 500 lives that lived there. But I've asked them all the obvious things and the answer is ‘we go and stay here to avoid the leader and the irresponsible kings at his mouth. Even though we are dead and unsettled, it is better than having to be that corrupt pawn.”

“Arlo!”

Without a care Arlo opened the door and left the room by continuing to hold Eri's hand behind him. They walked out of the castle to something close to the forest at night. They both sat there and ate something in each other's hands.

“I think Mom was right, was the King always so Arlo?”

“Fixed! It never changes. It has become common for me and the Queen. Everyone does not know this reality, but he is a person who is filled with lust and envy in others without exception”

“Honey once... tonight are we going to sleep here?”

“No, we can install? There is a rare accommodation in jamah”

“I think it's better to stay here, aren't you used to this?”

“Yah it's up to Miss.”

The two of them sat leaning under a large, shady tree gazing at the clear night sky and the stars strewn across the night sky. Late together until the morning before and the sun woke up because of its glare. Eri wiggled the sound body of the man beside her hoping that she would wake up.

“Emhh.. It's morning Miss. sorry I slept faster” Arlo stretch.

“You have breakfast where is this?”

“Are Hungry? Take it easy, I know old people who live near here and always cook food for me first” Arlo's smile looks like trying to hold something sad in the past.