The Weakest Undefeated
Arc 4, 3 Of Us: Theodor the Ruler of Time
Like drowning in a bottomless ocean, staring at a self I no longer recognize, no matter how hard I reach for the surface it just ends up being a dream, one by one my senses disappeared as I looked towards me drowning only a pitch-black color awaited, I am still alive yet my soul has died.
The more I rebelled the deeper I sank, the bubbles created by my refusal flew upwards until they were no longer visible,
will my voice come to the surface? or does it just dissolve in the void?
All I can do is keep hoping,
Both the mouth and the heart are relentless to keep shouting...
My soul continued to sink without having any more control over my original body,
As if missing something important in me, it all started when I saw his smile and just disappeared without being able to do anything and know anything. My mind was empty, I didn't feel it at all
sad or anxious to cry or angry, that night, under the red light I found myself laughing.
Dion :”HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Calm down, relax,
For the first time my mind, soul and heart were so calm as a pool of water without the slightest wave of puddles. Be happy? Saddened? Getting angry? Afraid? I no longer even recognize every feeling.
*sret*
My body almost fell due to weakness but I managed to hold it with my horses,
Dion :”HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
As if moving on my own, half of my face was held tightly, tightly enough that the nails on each finger could pierce my skin and bleed and smash the right side of my glasses.
While my feet were walking following the red carpet of blush that was rolling me towards the truck but my left hand was holding onto a nearby object and holding it with all my might trying to stop my footsteps,
My whole body is moving in contradiction with my empty brain.
Part of my body tried to walk up to the blood red carpet, part of it tried to stop it, my mouth laughed out loud, but my heart was very calm, tears were constantly flowing, but my brain didn't catch why I was crying. The look on my right eye turned blood red from the wound on my face, while my left eye was blocked by tears. My brain can't work, it can't think, remember or control my body,
Who me?
Why am I here?
Why am I covered in blood?
Why does everyone look only red?
I stopped thinking about all the questions I could no longer answer.
The sound of laughter filled the emptiness and silence of the city. Holding firmly to the street pole my mouth bit and pulled my hand forcefully until it let go of its grasp, at the same time my half-broken glasses fell down and I stepped on them without any care.
The view looks blurred for both different reasons the right eye because it is covered in blood and the left eye is covered in tears, both of which cannot be used to recognize what I see anymore. Eyes that have no light anymore like the eyes of a dead fish, do not blink or look alive but also do not die, being able to see but not being able to recognize anything I saw just displayed a meaningless moving image.
And in the picture of my two blurry eyes there is an object that is waving in the rearview mirror of the truck as if it will go flying with the night wind if I do not immediately reach.
When I managed to reach the object my body immediately responded and recognized it, the laughter I could not control stopped instantly, the foot that walked without command also stopped, he said, the hand that I could no longer control suddenly moved with the same will, which was to pick up the thing that was waving at me which turned out to be a scarf that was red.
Red scarf?
Why did this scarf get out of the gift box?
Slowly my brain began to go with the current and tried to recognize every corner in front of my eyes.
Red scarf? Didn't I buy a white scarf? Well let it be, maybe I remembered it wrong.
After giving up on my deeper thoughts, I turned my body back and returned to where I was, right at the moment when I turned around I saw a white hand with a ring on its ring finger on the front of the truck was flooded with pools of blood.
Whatisit? Ask my brain, please,
I don't give a shit....Answer my heart,
5 Minutes away at 8, it seems that I will be late to my appointment with Tia to the square.
I wrapped the slightly warm and heavier red scarf around my neck, staggering me towards the Town Square. Naked feet, blood-stained clothes, a scarred face, blank stares, without glasses, but strangely even without glasses my feet could point me right at
Alun-Alun, Although barefoot I do not feel the slightest coldness in my legs or body or maybe I who no longer recognize what it means cold may be pain also included.
My mind was only focused on one thing, reaching the place of agreement between the two of us and giving this Scarf to Tia
who was waiting for me there.
I walk towards the place of the agreement between the two of us, today will be the day that you will be mine from now on and forever and vice versa. Binding promises and love on Christmas let the sky be a witness, let the footprints be proof, let this scarf be a connector of hearts, let the decorative lights on every
the city side becomes the light of our two paths to start everything together, the two rings that I prepared will be the change from you and me to ‘kita’ .
Step by step my brain recalls a tiny shard of my memory,
Against the flow of the crowd and through it, the cotton candy vendor next to me, when I saw him made me smile.
Right too, he wouldn't care about anything if it wasn't cotton candy…..
I continued my journey after bringing one for her,
“……..Like a little kid he was.” My little murmur while smiling
Passing through the fireworks booth, the,
He always surprises me and bothers me with fireworks and firecrackers, there are no peaceful days without a heart attack from him….
I continued my footsteps after buying some fireworks for her,
“……..Like a child.”
Again my steps stopped but this time I saw a cake shop, my attention was full of birthday cake on display in the storefront.
Come to think of it I haven't thanked her for the cake yet huh, as I recall she made it herself and gave it to me one day before my birthday, huh? (My face is smiling again) I wonder how he made chocolate bread so salty.
I turned my face to continue my journey barefoot,
Really, you are the most childish girl but I am endlessly surprised to never get bored
when I am with you, I am grateful to have met you.
Everyone was heading to the place where the fireworks and the Christmas tree lit up with their partners, whereas I was walking in the opposite direction when people saw me they immediately made a distance, although I can't see it clearly but I know, created a variety of reactions from their faces,
Scared,
Shocked, though,
Disgusted and not even a few of them pretended not to see me.
Without caring about it all I walked towards the place I was headed to, away from the crowd, away from the light, away from the warmth, sitting on a cold garden bench single-handedly staring at the ground blankly.
“I cannot do anything at all...” limp sound in regret wrap,
I put the cotton candy that had started to shrink beside me along with the fireworks.
In the midst of the crowd, I did not hear a single sound.
In the midst of the festive lights everywhere, I saw no color or light in my eyes.
In this world of noisiness and color, accompanied by the red scarf hanging around my neck made me remember it even more.
Why would…….
Why the………….
I clasped the red scarf on my neck trying to gather back the remains of warmth left behind to remember it. In the darkness a snow began to fall, and,
The clock shows at 9 pm, the middle of the city is becoming increasingly crowded filled by couples who are
make out,
At 10 p.m., fireworks began to be launched and decorate Christmas Eve with the stars.
At 12pm, the crowd had already begun to dwindle and the place was starting to quiet down. Everyone went back to their homes and also enjoyed their little party.
No matter how long I waited no one would come here.
I hugged tightly the red scarf that no longer left your warmth there with tears.
I'm sorry, Tia……..
*tik*
*tik*
*tik*
Every tear of my eyes was instantly absorbed by that red scarf. All the feelings I felt I put on a piece of scarf, but it wasn't about the scarf but the warmth of the person who had worn it.
Only with her sweet smile, her cute, my happiness is matchless, making me seem to have strong strength and desire and be able to do anything for her. I thought I could do it, but,
Dion :”Sorry, I'm sorry Tia..... I can't even grant your request.”
How weak I am, how fragile I am, how incompetent I am, I cannot even grant one request from him.
Without you, I'm empty.
Without you, I'm lost.
Without you, I'm confused.
I'm just a big loser, all I can do is run, run and run.
Run from danger, though,
Run from fear, though,
Even running away from reality,
As I sank into regret, I suddenly remembered the girl's words,
“Will set up a school without a Ranking System and you will be the teacher, let's fight
together for that dream to be achieved, as long as we are together we can definitely go through anything, right, Dion?”
A small smile was on my face,
Right, as long as we're with us we can......
As long as we're together...
I pointed the wooden stick of the melted cotton candy towards my neck,
Wait for me, Tia. I'm gonna come....
I lifted my face and closed both my eyes. When I imagined with this I could embrace her again my fear instantly disappeared, my body, mind, and heart instantly calmed down like a lake without waves.
When there was no doubt left without wasting my time, I pulled the wooden stick firmly to my neck,
*wuuusshh*
Dark, dark,
Silence,
My body can no longer be used or felt,
This feeling.....
I slowly opened my eyes, though,
The stars fused together with the darkness of the night without rest, with the dim rays of the moon along with the huge clouds around it made me even more aware of how weak and small I was. Their presence erased all colors, erasing all colors, the light and hope that exist, slumped in despair, drowned in nothingness and shattered in the hope that created.
Seen far away in the sky a bird was silent in the sky motionless, when I glanced around not only birds, but ants, air, and sound, all stopped as if time had stopped.
I saw that the wooden stick I was holding stopped before piercing my neck and far in front of me was a single figure, inside this gray world only that figure was giving off color, and, a young man of my age walked straight right up to me with his glowing body.
At first I could not see it because my eyes were still difficult to see but when he
standing in front of me I finally knew, he was the noble boy who was looking for Tia and messed up my class that day.
He took a wooden stick in my hand and broke it with one hand.
Boy of nobility :”I don't really care about you, but all this will of the princess.”
Suddenly his calm face changed, his two eyebrows furrowed and looked at me with vengeance and fury.
Noble boy :”In fact, far away I really hate you. The Princess trusts you, but look at you, you let her go..”.
*BRAK!*
He kicked the park chair very upset, he said,
“SIALAN!!” Shouts, heckles,
At the same time as the world returned to normal, the wind began to move, the bird returned to move, as well as my body that I could re-breed including my mouth,
Princess master? What exactly did he say? But ignore that, though,
Was that his power? No Seed should dare to fight the Exceeds.
Time stop......wait a minute? A time?
Instantly I remembered the person who claimed to be me who came from the future (In Chapter 1 Prologue)
Dion :”Hey, you.... I have an offer, I will give you everything I have, hands, feet, eyes, or even my life, but take me back to the past, if you can't a few days ago a few hours ago it's enough.”
He glanced at me with an increasingly irritated face,
Suddenly an answer came from behind me,
??? :”Unfortunately it's impossible.”
HUH UH?!
To my surprise I turned my body around and saw a man in a servant's shirt standing there, as I remembered he was the one who was with that noble boy in class.
How can he be behind me?! I haven't heard footsteps since..
Dion :”What does it mean impossible? You guys are Exceed, right? Doing things outside of logic is an advantage
you guys?”
Boy Nobles :”ARRGGGG!! (He scratched his head) This is why I hate Seed so much, DAMN it!!!”
Servant :”We are not gods, our strength has its limits, let alone to return to a few hours, to return 5 minutes it has drained all the energy of the user. Traveling that time is not possible, even with Exceed Class S it is still impossible.”
Impossible? Even for the Exceed class S? then how could he.....
As I wrestled with my mind the servant walked past me towards the noble boy behind me but I stopped him before he got away from me,
Dion :”Wait, who are you guys?”
At once the noble boy and the servant looked at each other in silence as if remembering the same thing and then looked back at me and answered simultaneously,
Maid & Boy of nobility:”We both are Artia's sister.”
Artia's sister? These two? How come? isn't Tia a Seed?
Server :”Because there is business, we both excuse us first.”
Dion :”Wait, can I ask you one more thing?”
The waiter turned around and faced me,
Server :”What is it?”
*lex*
I swallowed my saliva and when my decision was made I said what stuck in my mind in one question.
Dion :”Ka-You already know about your brother right. Then how can you be calm like that?”
Server :”Because, I trust him. Excuse me.” He lowered his head and walked towards the noble,
Boy Nobles :”Hey, loser! Catch!” An object bounced towards me and with a reflex I caught.
Boy Nobles :”There's a message from your friend.”
Before answering his words, the two people had already disappeared like before in the classroom, disappearing without a trace or sound.
I opened both my hands and it turned out that it was an HP with incoming calls from just an anonymous number, no name,
Without any hint or speculation I received the call and when I attached the HP screen to my ears sounded the sound of people who were out of breath, he said,
“Hey.” So short, meaningless but very clear sounding.
Dion :“V-Vista?” I answered with a trembling voice,
Vista :“Ngapa? You're so crybaby again?”
Dion :“E-Enggk!” I rubbed my two teary eyes, and,
Vista :“Giman Tia? Did you meet?”
Dion :“......”.
I could only keep quiet, my voice would not come out when I wanted to tell him the truth, the question from Vista directly stabbed me and made me sick. As I began to sink back into despair I remembered the words of the servant “Because I believed him.”
The night wind blew past me with a small whisper without knowing where it came from.
“One day I'll take it back.”
I turned my head around looking at no one, and suddenly I saw a small glint of light next to me right in the same chair I was sitting in next to my hand. I grabbed it and I picked it up and suddenly made me smile with relief and answer Vista's questions.
Dion :”He's not with me, but he's fine now.” I answered confidently and looked towards the sky, precisely towards the snow – snow that began to fall,
Although I don't know where you are, when I find out we're under the same sky someday I'll find you, Tia....
I clasped the ring I found beside me with my hand wearing the same ring.
At the same time, where the imperfect body of Artia is located 2 shadows appear and
investigating him were none other than the noble boy and also the servant, the,
Theodor :”What do you think?” Ask from the truck to Astrea,
Astrea :”From her DNA, Traits, and also her blood type, unmistakably she is Artia.”
Theodor :”But what actually happened, she was Artia but not Artia.”
Astrea :”I also can't believe that I didn't do some of the tests, but she's really Artia, even though this is like Artia's form when she was an adult.”
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