The Antagonist: The World Ends Theory
Chapter 49 - World Play

BUGH

A human was thrown against the wall so loudly that his voice was very audible. And from his voice alone, people know that it hurts.

A woman older than the human who was thrown approached him. Accompanied by sobs she tried to help her sister. He also checked whether the injuries his sister had suffered were severe or not, but they were usually severe injuries.

"Zeno, hold on Brother will take away the pain!"

In front of them stood their parents. They just stared at the children lowly as if Zeno and her brother were despicable, even though it was their own child.

"Can't you guys do the right job? Especially you!" Their father pointed at Zeno who was already severely injured from being beaten.

"Dad stop that!" Brother Zeno said.

"Dad? How dare you call me Dad! I'm not your father! You fucker!"

The father picked up a large log behind him and took a position ready to hit. Zeno's unprepared brother could only resignedly take the incoming blow.

BUGH

"uh? ZENO?!"

Zeno's brother was shocked when it turned out that the punch landed on his sister's back. Though his sister was too limp to just sit, but now he protects her brother.

BUGH BUGH'S!

"Stop..."

BUGH BUGH BUGH

"STOP!!!"

...❀...

"Dhh! That hurts Brother..."

Zeno grimaced softly as his brother treated all the bruised scars from his father. At least Zeno got over ten bruises on his body.

"You shouldn't have protected Brother..."

Zeno was silent for a moment.

"Sister is the only person I have right now. I just don't want the precious people in my life to just disappear."

Brother Zeno who heard that felt moved, "Zeno. In the future there will be someone who accepts your shortcomings. When you find him, then don't let him go okay?"

Zeno actually did not really understand what his brother said. But he nodded as if he understood.

Zeno's brother gently rubbed Zeno's head and smiled gently. A little lamenting over their bad luck. Either it was always insulted or became his father's boxing samsak when they made trivial mistakes.

"Sister, what kind of person accepts my shortcomings?"

"That's yes.When you meet him then you'll know."

"Of course, it's night. All his wounds are medicated, it's time to go to sleep. Or tomorrow we won't have the energy to work."

"Yes." Yeah."

Zeno went to bed first. His sister got up from the thin bed after making sure that Zeno was asleep. He took a sharp knife from the kitchen and took it to his parents' second room.

It was a very nice room, inversely proportional to their rooms which were even somewhat unfit to wear. But because Zeno and her brother needed the room so they continued to use it.

Zeno's brother was silent - quietly approaching his parents who were already asleep. He lifted the knife and said coldly.

"You started it, and I'm gonna end it all."

"For Zeno."

STAB

The knife stuck right in his father's heart. But Zeno's brother kept repeating the stabbing in the same part so that his father really died. The same thing he did to his mother.

Blood was drenched in the room, even the thick red liquid was also splashed against his two hands.

After he checked his parents whether he was dead or not. Then Zeno's brother went into the room to wash himself. There is even a large pool of water to soak in.

The knife he had brought to kill his parents was still in his grasp.

He raised his left hand, slashing his wrist with the knife earlier. He slashed right in his veins.

"I'm sorry Brother, Zeno."

BRACKET

...❀...

"Huh...? Brother?"

Zeno who had woken up was looking for her brother. Because usually his brother will always be next to him. It's too early for them to work.

"Where is Brother really?"

Zeno finally looked for his brother where - where. Until he was standing right in front of his parents' door. Although he was afraid to be presumptuous by opening without permission. But the pungent smell that pierced his nose really made Zeno could not stand it anymore.

Zeno opened the door.

CRICK

"Huh...!"

Zeno's eyes were perfectly rounded, seeing that there were two human corpses in the room. The blood that was splattered had dried up, Zeno thought that the murder of his parents was carried out at night.

"Well! Brother! Where is Brother now?!"

I hope Brother is okay!

In her little heart, Zeno prayed that her brother would not be a victim as well. To hell with the corpses of her father and mother, the two of them never even considered Zeno and her brother to be human. Then Zeno would treat the two of them the same way, it would not be much different.

"There's one room I haven't entered!"

CRICK

DEG

Zeno approached her brother's lifeless body again. Seeing that there was a knife in his hand made Zeno sure that his brother died by suicide.

In addition, near her brother's hand was written a sentence written in her own blood.

'I'm sorry Brother'

TEST

A drop of tears streamed down Zeno's cheeks. "That means killing them both is... Brother...?"

"It's a lie. This didn't happen. It's a lie. This didn't happen."

Zeno continuously recited the same sentence with his soft voice coupled with an irresistible sobbing. All this time she felt miserable, but at least with her brother beside her. It was more than enough to make his life meaningful.

But now? Does he have any meaning in his life...? Should he end it too? Life without its purpose.

Then Zeno read other smaller writings, it was also random - random and barely legible anymore. But luckily Zeno could still read it.

'Stay alive for Brother'

Zeno thus abandoned his intention to commit suicide as well. He clenched his hands tightly - tightly until there was blood flow coming out of the cracks - his finger slit.

"If I have to live, then Brother has to."

Zeno touched her brother's slashed wrist. A whitish light emanated after Zeno said something. The incision wound he touched gradually healed until it was no longer broken.

But oddly enough, her brother instead looked aged after being healed. With a wrinkled face as well as other signs of aging.

"After this, you can live again..."

...❀...

STACKS

An arrow stuck to the deer's neck. Zeno was the one who shot him, he immediately approached the dead deer.

"Sister! Look what I got."

"Good, with this we can eat good again."

"Yes!"

Zeno realized something, after he resurrected his older brother. What actually happened was not that his brother came back alive but that he just moved his brother through his mind. And all her brother did was direct orders from Zeno's mind.

Basically, Zeno's brother is gone.

But this was more than enough for Zeno, he assumed that his brother was still alive. From the bottom of his mind, Zeno had not fully accepted that his brother was dead.

And as for the bodies of his parents, Zeno chose to bury them near the hill. Well, although it was not the intention that their bodies were buried in the ground by Zeno.

SREK

"Guh? Who's there?!"

The thicket bushes around them arrived - suddenly moving and destroying the silence in this forest. Zeno took a standby stance, as well as his brother, according to Zeno's way of thinking.

After Zeno's question, someone came out of the bush, showing his identity. With a pitch-black mane and ruby-colored irises, he let out a gripping aura around him.

Eh? Ruby eye?! I thought it was gone but this creature in front of me was definitely human.

"Can I know what your name is?" Zeno asked still with a cautious attitude.

"Meiger Westhley."

Westhleys?! I didn't hear wrong, did I? So he is the imperial family?!

BUCK

Zeno was caught in front of a boy named Meiger. "I'm sorry for His Highness the Prince's servant! Servant has absolutely no idea that it's you."

"Wakeup! I forgave you. I saw you hunting, you're very capable for a kid your age. What's yourname?"

"Na..name servant..."

Lothawat! I really don't want to mention my name anymore because it was a gift from that old bastard.

"The name of John's Servant, Your Majesty."

"so. Then, who's the one I mean the woman next to you?"

Zeno looked at her brother who was so flat-faced. It was not strange because indeed her older sister was a corpse that had been resurrected.

If I call him my brother physically too old, right?

"He is my servant's aunt, Your Majesty."

"Actually I need a personal bodyguard in the imperial palace. Do you want to?"

Eh?

"Of course you want Your Majesty!"

This is also for the sake of my survival and brother!

"alright. So come with me there."

"Yes!"

"Ah, by the way I don't know your aunt's name yet."

Zeno smiled knot.

"His name is Avrim, Your Majesty."

TB

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