The Darkness Metal Manipulation
Chapter 44 - Dreams, Memories and Messages

In the modern century housing park. A lot of kids are playing with the pleasure of enjoying the day.

The laughter and excitement of the children were clearly heard while they were playing the romp. But! There was one boy who was being chased by many children behind him.

The boy continued to run happily without thinking about the surrounding area. As for the children who were chasing him, they looked very anxious and worried about the child they were chasing.

There were about seven children chasing and all were women and older than the boy.

"Zim! Zyden! Stop running like that! You'll fall." One of the girls who was chasing him shouted a warning.

"Ahaha... Come on, brother, arrest me! Ahahaha.." - uh..." The chased boy exclaimed joyfully without regard for the worries of the children behind him.

As the boy was still in his joys of running, he suddenly stumbled and fell quite hard.

'bukh...'

"ZYDEN!!"

"Aw.., Hiks, hicks.., Aaa....."

The boy began to cry which made the children who were chasing him restless and immediately approached him.

"Zyden, are you okay?" Say one of the girls.

"Oh, no! You bleeding?" Excited the others.

"Aahs... It's okay². We'll clean it up for you."

They began to clean the blood in the wound. As they cleaned his wounds, the boy was still dissolved in his cries.

Coincidence or misfortune? The injuries the child had sustained amounted to exactly seven wounds that each of the girls had cleaned.

The wounds on his elbows, his palms, his knees, as well as his chin. All of it was cleaned by each one of the girls in different ways.

"Look! It's clean. We've cleaned the wound, so stop crying!" Excited one of the children.

"Hiks, hiks. But it still hurts..." Answer the boy whining.

"In that case, we'll take the pain for us to feel it too."

"Yep! We won't let our dear Zyden bear it alone."

"So stop crying and don't cry anymore..."

"Because we'll always be there for you."

The boy began to be embraced by all the children around him simultaneously.

• • •

Over time, they all grew up.

The girls were hesitating in front of the door of a room. They doubt they will enter now or not at all.

"All right! Zyden's... We're in..."

'ckreek'

The door opened showing a room as simple as a 14-year-old boy's room.

"Zyden? ..., Ah?"

They were surprised to find a child sitting on his bed with a face and body full of wounds and eyes that looked like they were going to die.

They looked at each other like they were exchanging information just from the eyes. After they started to pustulate something, one of the children started talking.

"Mh... The zyden? Uncle didn't do this because you did something wrong."

"Right, our dear Zyden won't do anything wrong."

"They deserve it for saying no-no to our Zyden."

"So, don't hate uncle too much for this, okay?"

"He did this for your good and an experience for you."

"Wouldn't our Zyden be strong, you'd be able to deal with this easily."

"Right, Zyden we certainly can, because you're strong and we'll always be there to support you."

Soothing words and support were uttered by them. As for the boy, he looked at them blankly.

Seen like that, they began to hesitate again. Then, one of the girls got a crazy idea for other normal people.

"Hey, new experience? What's what?" Whisper the other child.

"really it! And what's that good thing too? Do we have sweets here?"

"Did you forget? Don't we want to do it? And we've also been discussing this for a long time. Have you forgotten our wishes all along?"

They look at each other again. Then, they smile together like they understand each other or have the same thoughts about one thing.

They saw the boy as if he were looking at a rabbit ready to be pounced on. And...

"True Zyden! Let's go to brother's room, brother will give you something extraordinary." Refer to one of them with passion.

"Yes yes! C'mon c'mon! You'll be so happy."

"Come on everyone, we'll have fun today."

"Yes! Come have fun. Haha."

The girls pulled and pushed the boy's body happily towards their room and did something beyond reason for their usual family.

It continued for 2 years, for a reason they stopped.

Then, a year has passed. The boy is an adult with the age of being ready to enter High School.

"Zyden, do you want to go to school now?" A woman asked the boy who was sitting wearing his shoes at the door of the house.

"Yes. Since it's my first day of school, I have to come early." Answer the child subtly.

"Well..., our Zyden can finally go to school too huh! Hehe." Said the other woman who came with her entourage.

"Yes dong, who also persuaded uncle that Zyden could go to school for the first time. The cave is a lot." The others happily.

"Yes brother! Thank you for making me persuade Dad that I could go to school." Said the boy with a smile that made the person who saw him blush.

"aa... My dear Zyden, how come you're this blanket?" Shouted one of the women and immediately hugged the head of the child who was sitting.

"Hey! Who's your Zyden, he's my Zyden." Another woman grabbed the child.

"Well...! You two can talk, right? He's my Zyden, isn't he Zyden?"

"Keep away from my Zyden, keep your dirty hands on him!"

"What's? You're the only one out, you're bothering my Zyden."

"You're the one who's out!"

"YOU!"

"YOU!"

They fought over the boy with great effort. As for the boy, he only smiled resignedly contested by his older brothers.

"Hey guys, STOP! You're making Zyden's shirt crumpled." Shouted the woman who greeted the child for the first time.

All the women fighting over the child instantly fell silent to the voice they heard. They looked at the boy who was just smiling stiffly as they ruffled his clothes.

"FORGIVE US, ZYDEN." Excite them all at the same time.

"Haha... It's okay brother! It's not normal, so it doesn't matter. I'm used to it. Ahaha!" A stiff laugh was let out by the boy.

"Heah... You guys, it always makes it a hassle." Said the woman who was reprimanding earlier. "Zyden, go now! You don't want to be late on your first day, do you?" Further.

"All right, I'm leaving now." The boy stood up and opened the door.

'click.'

"I'm off, see you!"

"Yes be careful on the road, and also remember always. Lf..."

"WE WILL ALWAYS BE BY YOUR SIDE AND WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU! HAHAA..."

Everyone shouted together and was extremely excited as they said so.

The boy just smiled hearing that. "I know that, then I'm leaving! See you later, brother!"

'creek. click'

"Aah! Huh huh? Huft.... It was just a dream!"