"Can you bring me to your grandfather's grave, young man?" the old man asks William with a requested voice.
"I can fulfill your wish grandpa, but may I ask, are you happen to know my grandfather?" William asks the old with concern voice as he doesn't want to disturb his grandfather resting place.
"Hmm! I grew up together with him since we were young those years are really a fondly remember years for me." he replied to William with a fondly remembering face to his old days with his junior brother as they grew up together and even adventured together to many places in their world.
"Grandpa, let me help you to get up first as we might need to catch a taxi to go there as I don't know where we are, too, at the moment." William said to the old man with a respected voice. After William walking with the old man to the main road, William has many questions to the old man as he really wants to know more about his grandfather when he was at his age and where he is from. From the old man answering to his question, he knows nothing. As the old man always answered with the same answer, that when the time comes, he will know everything.
After a while a car really comes by, William makes a hand sign to request for riding service from the car.
As the driver of the car stop by William and ask where did he want to go.
"Hello little brother, where do you want to go? Why are you in such a desert place?" the car owner said to William with a question face as he's afraid of thieves. If he doesn't see anyone else besides the old man that seems needed to go to the hospital, he will not stop his car.
"Hello big brother, I was kidnapped but luckily I escaped by chance and met the old grandpa here." William replied with an honest voice to the car owner.
"Oh! Come in faster then. As we don't know, those kidnappers won't pursuit you or not." the car owner replied with an emergency voice to William.
After William helps the old man to get a comfortable rest at the back seat first, William also sit next to the old man. After they finished entering the car, the car owner left the place as fast as possible.
"Big brother where are you going? And where is this place?" William asked the car owner with a question expression.
"My name Jack Nav, you can call me, brother Jack. What is your name?" the car owner introduce his name to William.
"Ah! How rude of me? I am William Max, you call me, William." William replied to him with his own name to Jack.
"What! I have a super-rich man, riding in my car with me." Jack delight his find out of William's identity.
"That was already in the past brother Jack." William said to Jack delighted face with a bitter face.
"What! Sorry about what you just experience, William. Don't lose yourself to fate, we have to fight with it. We are our own destiny controller, never let it control you, whether you live a happy life or depression it all dependents on our choice that we make. Anyway, don't take it to the heart William, as wealth will come to those who work hard." Jack said to William with an elderly voice as if afraid he gets into depression just because he has lost everything.
"By the way, William where do you want to go? I can help you to reach your destination" Jack asks William with concern voice as if he afraid he might commit something horrible.
"I want to visit Everlasting forest" William just replied in a half of a sentence.
"No, no, William doesn't do anything stupid. You are young, you still have yet to enjoy the happiness of your life yet." Jack interrupted William with a concerned voice and an elderly voice.
"Big brother Jack, I have yet to finish my sentence and you are already interrupting me. The old grandpa here is one of the friends of my old grandfather in his younger day, so he wanted to visit my grandfather's grave where he rested in Everlasting forest." William replied to Jack with a respected voice although they just know each other.
"Ah! Sorry! William, I am really sorry for misunderstanding you, but William please remember to look in this world a positive way. As there are many beautiful things and kind heart people all around, not everyone is bad a guy, like your big brother here." Jack said with a relief voice to William this time.
Big brother, why did you do that to me? William's absent mind after listening to Jack called himself your big brother here.
"That will take around an hour from here to arrive at Everlasting forest." Jack causal said to William.
"William! William! William, what are you thinking?" Jack tried to call William two or three times after William stay silent, even he already told him how long they are going to take just to arrive at Everlasting forest.
"Ah! Sorry brother Jack, my head is quite a mess right now after experienced those events." William replied to Jack with an exhausted voice as he really has not had any meal since the kidnap started till this morning. It is already nearly the afternoon.
"Ah! You are really exhausted and hungry. How miscalculated I am. Let's find somewhere to fill our stomach first before continuing to Everlasting forest." Jack said to William with a caring voice.
"You don't have to do that big brother Jack. You already help us a lot by giving us a ride to Everlasting forest." William replied to Jack with a smiling face.
"Grumble! Grumble! Grumble!" a grumbling sound happened just after William replied to Jack that he doesn't need to care about him.
"Just listen to your big brother this time, right. Your stomach is more honest than you, William." Jack smile as he heard the grumbling sound from William's stomach.
"You have helped my parents when they got an injury in a traffic accident, don't you know." Jack said toward William with a respected voice this time.
"If you don't open and operate the hospital to help and support the health care for the elderly and the poor. At that time, I really don't have enough money to operate surgery for them, and they won't live till today, too." Jack really wishes that one day he can tell this word to William as he was really thankful to him for what he has done in Harraco City. It has really brought many happy families.
Eh! Don't I just meet William Max, the VIVE corporation chairman, and he is riding with me. Jack's sudden enlightenment with his happy smile really makes William creepy out.
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"Here is a fast-food restaurant, I used to stop by every time I passed by here. I wish the menu won't make you disappointed." a while later Jack parked his car. And the trio goes into the restaurant. A while later a waitress comes by with a menu in her hand and place it on to Jack's hand. After looking around for what he wants to eat he pass the menu to William. William browsed through the menu for a while, and he also passes it to the old man who sits next to him.
"Hello, the old customer! What would you like to order?" the waitress asked with a smiling face to Jack.
"The same as always." Jack replied to the waitress with a smiling face.
"What about your order, sir?" the waitress wait for William answer with a smiling face.
"Just normal fry rice with pork." William said with a smile to her.
"And what about yours, old sir?"
"Ah! Anything that edible is okay." the old man causal replied making her quite awkward.
"You can just get the same one like me for him." William with an awkward smile said to the waitress.
"Please wait for a moment before your order is served." the waitress said to them before placing the order to the chief in the kitchen. Awhile later the trio has their stomach satisfied with food, Jack paid the bill and keep going to Everlasting forest.
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After an hour or, so they have arrived at the outer layer of the forest. Even though the winter has arrived in the middle of the season yet there are still many tourists visit the Everlasting forest. They're passed by a security guard check point and inform the goal for their visit to the forest. After confirming Jack's identity, the guard permits them to enter the forest.
"Thank you, big brother, Jack. I will repay you in the future if by that time I can claim back what one was mine." After said that words to Jack, William brings the old man to his grandfather's grave location.
"Be careful on the way William if I don't have any appointment at the moment, I will accompany you to go to pay respect your grandfather, too." Jack said to William with a worried voice as if he afraid William might do something stupid if he is not there with him.
"It is okay big brother Jack, I am really alright." William replied with a smile and a calm expression to Jack.
"It is good if you know what you are going to do. Everything will be alright." Jack still gives his advice to William as if afraid he doesn't remember his worry and concern.
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After walking for a while William and the old man come to a big graveyard where is Nicola Max's picture, and his son resting place stayed next to each other.
"Junior brother! Junior brother! Junior brother! Why did you leave this world without telling your senior brother?" the old man cried while hugged to the tombstone. He cried for almost an hour and talking about his past with Nicola Max before calming himself again, at least you have left a good grandson for your senior brother. No! It is two, you have left me with two great-grandsons. I will help you take care of them, you can rest in peace junior brother.
"Come child! Pay respect to your grandfather, too. He is very kind, and while he is still alive, our brother is always doing many matters together. But now he left this world before I did." the old man said to William and also as if talking to himself, too. After William pays respect to his grandfather, the old man who stands next to him said to him.
"Can you show me your necklace again, child?" the old man asks toward William with a kind voice as an elderly who meet his own kin.
"Yes, grandfather. After that William prepared to take the necklace off so that the old man can carefully look into it clearly."
"No, no, absolute no. You cannot take it off from your neck no matter what's happened." the old man stops William from his action.
"Just let me touch it from here." after get a hold to the necklace, the old man seems to be in deep of thought. A while later his face becomes so ugly that he almost cried out.
"So, it is like that. Child, your destiny really linked with that world." said the old man with a heavy voice than before.
"What! What are you talking about grandpa?" William asked toward the old man with a question face.
"It is a long story. Let's talk about it later." the old man has yet to replied William as a white light suddenly appears from the necklace.
"Oh s***!" the old man exclaimed in surprise voice after that he knocks William out in a hurry.
"Sorry child, we cannot stay here any longer now or else the real s*** going to happen at any time soon." after the old man knocked William out, he started to arrange an array formation that even if William is conscious, he won't know what he is doing at all.
"I wish that everything will go smoothly after I borrow its power to activate the array." the old man whispered to himself.