My bodyguard is a Handsome Bum
Life is a choice

On a steep hill surrounded by a ravine, Vander came to meet Gauren who had been waiting for him there.

"You finally came, it turns out you are still nimble and fast walking these steep hills," said Gauren recalling memories of the time when he often took Vander up mountains and hills.

"Don't say much, just tell me what you want and where Lara is!" Vander really could not calm down before knowing how his wife was doing at this time.

Gauren chuckled, the man instead of immediately telling about Lara or her destination, even taking Gauren for a drink.

"Don't test my patience where Lara is now!"

"You're still fiery, take it easy your wife is where I am right now. He's in intensive care of a doctor."

What's?! Vander got emotional and approached Gauren and pulled the collar of his clothes. "What are you doing with my wife, what's wrong with her?!"

Again Gauren just smiled, and suddenly there were some men who appeared and pointed a gun at Vander.

Vander grinned. "I thought you must have brought your men here. All right, let's make things simple, what do you want and tell me where my wife is?"

Gauren told his men to lower their weapons. He then invited Vander to speak four eyes while looking at nature from the side of the cliff so deep. Gauren tells the story of his and Vander's past. Vander doesn't care about all those memories.

"Maybe I used to think of you as a father figure, but after what you've done so far for me. To me you're nothing more than a cunning human who loves to sit."

Gauren laughed, "You're right, but you know my purpose, right?"

"Your goal, who wants to have their own country, wants to be able to control everything. You're too greedy old man!"

"You can say that, but do you know what my reason is?"

"What?"

"It!" Gauren threw a heart-shaped pendant towards Vander and caught him.

"What's this?"

"Open it!"

Vander opened the heart-shaped pendant, and it contained a photo of Gauren with his sister Anika, Vander's mother who had died a long time ago.

"What do you mean this, and this photo of them...?"

"That's me and your mom."

What's?! No way! Vander seemed to be in disbelief with Gauren's words, but even so he could not be easily evaded, because after all the photos of the two children were indeed very similar to Gauren and his mother.

"When my only family was left at that time, it was a pity that we had to separate because of the greed of the people who used us both. The brothers who live face the sky and the ground. Those of us who have nothing in this world will eventually become tools only for those at the top of the social hierarchy."

"Whatchu mean? Why are you talking like you're the most unfortunate person in the world, and why don't you tell me that my mom is your sister!" Vander really doesn't think about all this.

Gauren eventually tells Vander the story of his childhood and his sister's misfortune. About where she was so poor, and always tortured and forced to live apart from her sister because at that time Anika wanted to be sold to a wealthy old merchant.

"Then why are you doing crazy things to me? It's not my fault that you live poor and suffer! And my mother, I don't know anything about her!" Vander seemed emotional.

"I hated you when I found out that Lara died in the procession while saving you! Plus I saw your face look like your useless father and died in that prison! I really want to kill you! But as soon as I realized, you were Anika's only legacy."

Vander half laughed, "Hey did you ask me here for a confession. Even if you wish what of me? Wish I'd stayed on your side to destroy the city, huh? I wish I'd soften the way you'd sniff my wife! What do you want now!" Vander is really emotional right now. He no longer knew what to do with this old man, all he wanted at this time was one to see his wife.

"To be honest I've lost in the first place, I know you must have thwarted all my madness. And frankly my goal is to want you to have the same obsession with me, to create a country with us as its owners so that no one will dare to trample on us again. But unfortunately you're stronger than me... In the end you find the light of your own life to survive, and do not sink into a sense of vengeance that ultimately erodes your humanity."

"You'd rather just die Gauren!"

"Yes, that's my final goal. And all the problems I've made against you you can finally handle, right? Even the city that is currently in turmoil, you can handle it for the sake of many people, even though the reality is that your own heart is actually in a state of disarray considering your wife who is currently missing."

"So what do you want? I've heard enough of everything. About you, the reality of our relationship that turns out there is still a blood relationship. But unfortunately your mistake is too much Gauren, I already don't care about the past. All I know is that I have a family to protect. So don't expect me to forgive you!" Vander put his gun in front of Gauren's face. The Guuren guards immediately put their bodies behind their pistols at Vander.

"I don't think it's that easy for you to kill me, because when my men pull the trigger, five bullets will go through your body. I know you're strong, you're smart, you're very reliable, but with five bullets that go through your body simultaneously can you survive?" Gauren challenges Vander.

Vander is silent and suddenly drops his gun while giving up.

"You're giving up?"

"I want to see my wife." Vander realizes that if he dies what about Lara?

"You talk too much."

Gauren finally told his men to stop pointing their guns at Vander.

And at the same time Vander suddenly pulled out his other gun, shot quickly the Gauren men right then and there, and finally he pointed the gun at Gauren.

The old man smiled proudly. "It turns out you still remember the way I taught you how to trick your opponent."

"Everything you taught me, I never forgot. I ate up everything you gave me, even your cruel and cunning attitude was eaten away."

"I should be proud or what?"

"There's no need for anything, which is clear from your cruel nature you must already know I won't hesitate on you."

"So you're gonna finish me off so soon?"

"depends. Do you have a final request, Mr. Gauren? Or you want me to call... Uncle Gauren?"

"Fight with your bare hands with me" challenged Gauren.

"You sure? You're old. You think you're still the same as you were twenty years ago?"

"Never underestimate my parents... I'm much older than you."

"Whatever!"

Vander finally took off his blazer, and Gauren took off his coat. The two finally fought empty-handed, beating each other and fending off. And as expected the speed and stamina of Vander far superior to Gauren, but from fighting skills arguably they draw. Yes accept it or not, Vander's 80% way and fighting style was what the old man taught him.

"You're still pretty good for a fifty-seven-year-old man."

"Thank you for the compliment but, you're off guard!"

Gauren took the opportunity to attack Vander's vital body parts, thankfully the man swiftly avoided him and directly counterattacked Gauren until the man finally lost his balance and fell into the cliff. But he did not fall because his hand was still held by Vander.

"You want to help me? You said there's no mercy anymore?" Tandas Gauren whose face looked completely carefree.

"Say where's my wife!?"

"If I don't want to say how?"

"I'll keep looking for him."

"Vander, I'm sorry... "

Vander quivered, as he got to know Gauren, only this time did he hear an apology come out of his mouth. "God! Unfortunately I don't care about you old man. Despite the fact that you're my uncle."

"I understand, and I understand. But at least I'm relieved to have apologized and told you all the truth about this. And as for the problems I've done to you, the torture, and all the threats I've given you, nothing really works."

I lost to Vander a long time ago, I didn't manage to bring him back to the black world. I'm not as good and lucky as he was when lost and even met with Lara, the woman who pulled you from the darkness that I had left behind. The girl gave you a bright and warm path of light. As for me, as far as I could go, my place still ended up in a cold dark abyss.

"In this world, it seems like I will never find happiness. But honestly I envy you, I envy you because you can get out of the dark abyss of life while I don't" Gauren said with a smile

"I don't need a complaint of your fate, everything that humans have experienced up to this very second. It was the answer to what they had chosen themselves. That's why I chose to—"

Vander removed his hand from Gauren's hand. The man now only survives with his arms twitching on the edge of the abyss.

"Vander. once again I'm sorry son..."

"Thank you for everything, uncle, but it's time you said goodbye!" Vander finally shot Gauren, and the old man fell into a deep abyss along with his sins.

"I'm sorry mom, I shot your sister dead. But I think it's better, because he has no place in the world. I hope you, father, and uncle can meet each other in another realm."

Vander picks up his blazer and leaves the place to find Lara.

Everyone has their own sins. But in life you make your own choices, good, bad, sad, happy, hurt, sick, disappointed - in fact all humans feel it all. But in every story of our lives there must be a choice. Does the fall sink and hurt, or get up and heal slowly?

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