Ash-boss
A Thousand Stories: The Past

He walked slowly on a floating street towards a gasebo in the style of an ancient Italian building. With 4 white pillars as a buffer, the pillar looks striking in the middle of the valley that is showing darkness. Where the cold blows with a thick fog that seeps from the blemishes of the trees around it.

From under the floating ground that he poked, a dark greenish-black misty air gave off a scream sound that seemed to be swallowed by the bottom of the bottom of the abyss.

He looked down at his feet. Crouch down and pluck out a grass with bright red flower buds. From inside the bud something flickered like light on a firefly.

"You've started to grow to this part?!"

He looked up again. Looking at the array of towering trees up to his sky. Cover the gaps of light that usually enter the valley side, which usually gives a warm feel and color on this side of the valley. But now, black, white, and gray had dominated all the parts of the valley he looked at.

His figure covered part of his face with one hand. Then he showed blue-golden eyes. Staring in an unusual way then found the figure smiling behind the face of the girl he had always seen in the same way.

"You brought him here.."

He cleared out some of the soil attached to the root of the fibers from the red budding grass. Starting to stand from her initial position, the girl smiled as she continued her steps towards the gasebo across her.

"Obviously I brought it! After all, he didn't mind that either."

He who walked while holding his hands behind his back with the grass in red buds, grinned at the knot.

"Yeah! How else...."

He flipped his body a little. Showing a smile that really illustrates how empty that feeling is right now.

"You just want to visit or still want something?!" the voice still sounded relaxed and flat. It was as if what had happened before between them was not such a meaningful thing to him.

"You know very well what I want by coming here!" said windy. "Why do you have to get it! Everything you have should be mine! Mine!!!" the screams echoed across the valley. Creates a vibration that shakes the part of the floating road that is still stepped on by the other figure.

He who was still slowly stepping his feet on the floating road, began to sigh. With his leisure he had already stopped his steps on the gasebo before him. Crouching down and scavenging the ground under his feet. Replanting the red budding grass he pulled out.

"You're ignoring me again!!" the screams of the figure reverberated throughout the valley. Disconnecting some parts of the fog that burst from the part of the forest behind the gasebo.

"What do I get by caring about you?!"

He patted the ground next to the grass he had just planted. Clean his hands, stand up and walk on the side of the tree next to the gasebo.

"You should be a beautiful pink..."

He plucked a flower that, although it looked gray, had fallen and withered. Putting the flower petals on her hands, and then blowing them into the air.

While another figure across the floating road can only see without being able to step his foot on the road. There is an obstacle for the figure who carries the body of a human to step through the floating road.

"You've always made the same mistake!"

Now the figure standing next to the gasebo, staring in the opposite direction. Staring at the figure he has known for the past 3 years. He is Rein, his best friend in the human world. Rein smiled with an unusual face. Marking that dark-eyed shadow still ruled his soul.

"Because you opened the doors of the valley to those who should not be allowed to enter the valley, all this must happen..."

He who chooses to sit in front of the gasebo, then look up at the sky covered with trees that rise up to the sky. Appearing a face with a blank expression that implies a failure and helplessness.

"You should already know the rules of the valley of death." his voice was still relaxed and flat.

"Humans must not pass through this side of the valley because they still carry all their destinies intact."

Their eyes met again. He who had been looking up at the sky above him, turned his definite gaze to the figure opposite the gasebo.

"The human body carried to the side of this valley will be the eternal occupant of the stone door of darkness. Is that what you want?"

The figure across was unmoved. Realized that it was indeed the action he had done. Both he and his figure sitting on the stairs of the gasebo remembered what had happened. While the soul of Rein's body that was now standing across the floating street began to be slightly shaken. One foot stepped back with a small movement.

"What do you know about what it was that I brought this human here for?!" rein's figure stared in a wind, but also saw another expression behind it. It was the fear revealed by the original owner of that body.

"You still have an impure desire!" he sat on the stairs of the Gasebo. "Just because you want something you can never have, you open the doors of the valley to those in disaster and fear."

He stands. He then set his foot on the floating road in front of him. Stopping the step directly across the pumice stone and making the pumice stone as a distance between the two.

"I didn't realize that before, but what happened to the valley behind the stone door already made things clear. Those who are inside still evaporate so many desires. There is still a destiny they should live. How can you account for all that?!"

"Why are you asking me? It's your duty as the guardian of the valley!" his eyes stared at the pushy. Unaware of everything he had done had been realized by the guards who had returned to the side of the valley becoming gloomy.

"Now that you have come to bring the human body and other souls into the valley, do you want to repeat the mistake you made?!"

"I didn't do anything! You as a guard should be aware of the existence of the humans who entered the valley! Why blame me?!"

"Is that really your intention?! Not intending for anything else?!"

"I never had any other intentions!" he answered with high regret.

The figure felt attacked by the results of actions he had once done. Actions that should not be known by anyone.

The actions he had not realized had made the side of the valley split into two sides. The outermost valley side which is the grey valley side. And the side of the deepest valley hidden behind the dense forest is the only golden-leaved tree on the side of the gray valley. It was the valley they were now in.

"REally?!" He who was standing on the plains with Gasebo, crossed his hands back. "You have ignored the valley rules! Bringing humans with legends of golden feathers who were terrified in disaster to enter the side of the valley.made them take that path to be able to return to the world they were supposed to be in!"

He who was across did not answer anything after that. That was his thought at the time. Invite people who are in disaster into the valley only to disrupt the condition of the valley. So that his figure can replace the position of the guard who is negligent on the soul that passes through the side of the valley. Provides a way for humans to discover the golden furry wings that become legends in their world. With the negligence created, the guard will be thrown into the valley of misery and serve the punishment. That way his figure would be a substitute as the guardian of the valley.

"Whoever intends impurely will accept the results of his own actions. And whoever makes a mistake will accept the punishment. That's the journey we've been through to this day."

"What do you mean by talking like that?!" he who was crossed with his hard face, returned grinning in an unusual manner. "Only you should serve your punishment! I'm not part of your negligence!"

"Don't repeat the same mistake!" he stood on the side of the Gasebo. "You won't be able to endure it again if you repeat this action of yours!"

He who was standing across the gasebo just stared in annoyance then disappeared from the side of the valley. Leave a pseudo shadow resembling a slightly dark human form.

He sighed.

"There's still a lot of it.." he murmured. "For the sake of fulfilling his wish, willingly divide himself into darkness."

The figure also disappeared from the side of the valley he was treading.

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