Roped Fate
Ch.50: Meeting of Destiny

On a journey in a rather dark place, there was only a dim candlelight. It looks like Riko is walking down the place without a definite direction.

He only saw a shadow on the pillar that glowed, there was a small child who was about 7 years old had a face that was very similar to his face. The boy seemed to be running and laughing loosely while carrying a small tube in a park.

“Dad! daddy's! I managed to catch a blue butterfly, look at this!” exclaim the child while pointing and lifting a small glass tube containing butterflies.

“Wah, that's great! coincidentally also dad yesterday managed to get a big game you know!” timpal.

“Really? what's dad's hunt like?” ask the boy innocently.

“It was something very strong, he was at a high level,” replied his father.

“Is it some kind of tiger or what?” ask the boy again while tilting his head.

“Have son .. For now you are a child, so you do not understand anything, but someday you will understand,” replied his father with a warm smile.

“Alright! then I also want to be like a father, come .. teach me how to use the arrow,” pinta the boy with a radiant face and full of spirit.

“Let's go when you're older, huh?”

“Huhh ... get bored!”

“Hahaha ... You learn first to be active and be a good child, later your mother will also definitely help,” added his father.

“Ah .. true as well, mom is now where?”

“Your mother is having business with aunt Diana, just wait ya.”

“Yes dad!”

Shortly after, someone approached them both. The boy looked very happy, then he ran and came to him.

“Mother!” exclaim the boy.

The middle-aged woman walked over to him, smiling as she carried something in her hand.

“Look! mom brought you something ...”

“Wahh, cool! a gift from mom,” he said as he jumped up and down in joy.

“Hahaha .. Then let's go home now,” take his mother.

“Good ma'am .. oiya, I also have something!”

“What is it? mom wants to see,” said her mom.

“Look! I caught the blue butterfly .. beautiful isn't it?” ask the boy while thrusting the glass tube at his mother.

“Wah, it's beautiful .. You're great! is this for mom?”

“Iya, it's special for mom,” her answer is excited.

“Then thank you son, it is very beautiful.”

After talking there for a long time, the three of them began to move on and immediately returned to their homes.

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Riko still continued to follow the journey to where the pillar led her. Until one day, the little family was camping in the forest for some business.

Not just the three of them, there seemed quite crowded. The mother was also seen talking to her co-worker Diana.

The mother tried to introduce her family to her partner, in fact they had known each other before, just not too familiar. So, in the camp meeting that day, the mother wanted to further strengthen their friendship.

The child still looks shy and somewhat careless, his mother continues to try to persuade him to want to mingle with his friend's family, especially with his son.

Diana's son also looked quite quiet and mysterious.  Coincidentally the age of the two of them was also not far adrift, only a difference of two years. They both did not want to say hello first, making the two mothers a bit of a hassle.

“Sorry Diana, my son is a bit shy, but if you are used to .. later will also be familiar kok,” said his mother rather awkward.

“Ah no problem, my son is also a bit quiet, but he is a good boy,” Diana timpal.

“Ah then let's prepare food for them,” invite the Mother.

“Good.”

After the two mothers went to the back, the father invited the two children to wait together around the tent near the campfire.

The father tried to approach her and hoped to be more familiar with the child. He invited her to talk and introduced her to his son so that they could be good friends.

“Hai son, what's your name?” ask the father.

“I Rion, nice to meet you,” replied the boy coldly.

“Oh, nice to meet Rion too, you are very polite and calm yes, uncle sure you must be a diligent and clever child,” said the father excitedly.

“Thank you, but not that great .. I'm just to help mom,” replied Rion still with a cold expression.

“Ah, isn't it good, it means you are filial with your parents,” replied the gentle father.

“Maybe ...”

As the father chatted with Rion, the little boy grew bored and upset that his father seemed to pay more attention to Rion.

The father began to feel bad, because his son was whining and became upset. He also tried to cool the atmosphere and asked that the two could make friends.

“Hei .. You can't do that, Rion is our guest, besides you can also be good friends with him,” persuaded the father.

“Dad is boring, later I will stir to mother ... huhh,” reply the child while throwing his face away.

“Hmm .. You are not recalcitrant, respect our guests,” reply to the father.

“Already uncle, no problem .. it's only natural, he's just a kid,” said Rion.

“Hah .. You're the same kids, tcihh! oops ...”

The boy felt a little lethargic, he should not have snapped at strangers, so he became even more embarrassed and ended up crying.

Her father was really troubled over handling the child, while Rion simply smiled assuming that it was something cute and adorable.

“Ah, ignore yes son Rion, he is just not used to strangers, oiya almost forgot .. introduce first, you can call me uncle Sen, and this is my son ..”.

Not having time to finish his words, the father was suddenly called by other colleagues, he immediately got up and prepared to leave. The father left him temporarily and entrusted his son to Rion to take care of him until he or his mother returned.

The boy had refused and whined at his father, but the father still convinced him to stay there with Rion because he had a sudden business that seemed important.

“Dad go again?” ask the boy while crying.

“Just a moment, son, later your mother will also be back soon .. Now play first with Rion's sister yes,” pinta his father.

“Do not want, I want to be with father only,” whine the child again.

“Daddy there is a sudden interest, you understand a little, now stay with him first, father will not be long kok.”

“Huaaaaaa ..”

The boy even cried more and more so and made his father more confused how to.

“Just calm uncle, I will take care of him until the mothers return,” interrupted Rion.

“Alright, then please yes son Rion,” pinta the father.

“Sure, don't worry.”

The father immediately went and joined his colleagues there. After a long time of silence there the boy finally calmed down and stopped crying.

Rion only smiled at him, but the boy still replied to him indifferently. He was actually rather astonished, how could the child in front of him be so innocent and adorable.

“Hi sweet sister, are you still upset with me?” asked Rion gently.

“Huhh.”

“Alright, it doesn't matter .. You just stay here until your parents come back and don't be reckless, I try to take care of you, yes,” sahut Rion with flat intonation.

“Emm ... You, why yourself? did your father not come?” ask the boy plainly.

“Oh dad? of course he will never come,” replied Rion calmly.

“Why?”

“He died a year ago in a fight,” he replied still with a flat expression.

“But why don't you cry or look sad?” ask the boy again.

“Will it change reality? after all it has been a year, there is no time to be sad anymore,” said Rion.

“So yes, oiya I ... emm .. introduce my name ...”

“Riko right?” rion sela.

“You already know?”

“Your mother once told me.”

“Oh, so yes ... argghhh, boring! what stories did you tell me?” ask little Riko.

“Nothing, just to tell that your mother has a very adorable boy, hahaha.”

“Arghh .. Not that mom said weird, hmm.”

Rion simply smiled as he watched the chatty child in front of him.

“You're innocent once huh, it seems you're having so much fun here, you don't even know how miserable our fates are being in a place like this and with people like them, either,” said Rion suddenly.

“Ah, you mean?”

The night wind blew, briefly silent for a moment before Rion finally replied with a fake smile.

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TB