As the hand show out from the dark room, it press the button of the recording and play the cassette.
[Chunk]
{It was cold... so... cold... mama isn't waking up... Why bad people hurting us? Is it because of me? I'm scare... I'm... so afraid... help me...}
[Cling]
As the hand pull away the dark echoing voice would be heard in the room.
"As the madness keep growing, a small light of hope start to emerged from the darkness. That light is the future we all want to have. What will be your decision on this? I am curious on what path you will choose."
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After returning to my hideout, I was exhausted from using my magic in brought daylight. As I walk inside my hideout, I heard giggling, little Yui was giggling of Jam horrible jokes. Well, it was better then letting her in fear.
"What you guys up to?" I said kindly.
My brother, Jam, turn around and look at me with the same happy expression on his face "Nothing much. Just having fun with her!"
She nodded on the respond that he told me. She's a fast learner, I can admit that. I wonder how beastman intelligent are as a child of her ages.
I sighed in relief that they get along really quickly. I was unsure about how the little one would act when near people like us, people that kill her parent.
Anyhow, I put the bag down and sit down next to them. They were drawing on some papers that were in the cabinet near the broken tv. Jam drawing are plain obvious, it's mostly about happy places and people smiling. When I look at Yui drawing, it does caught me by surprise. Yui drawing was people with her in the middle, I suppose that it was her family, but at the edge of the drawing, there was a small dark figure. As I ask her about the small black spot, I was concern, but I didn't ask question about it. Jam started to yell with pure happiness.
"WHO WANT TO GO OUTSIDE HAVING FUN!?!?" He said, yelled out loud.
"Go! Go!" Said Yui with a smile on her face.
Jam pick Yui up and carry her out to start the little adventure in the abandon city.
I join them of course. I mean, it's tiresome to take care of your little brother that have brain damage, but letting him taking care of a little child is more scarier then you think. And also, Yui is extremely adorable, why would I miss this kind of event? We ended up at the abandon park near the corner of the base. Jam and Yui were having fun playing on the playground with the sands and the slide. I was looking around, beware the surrounding we are in. We don't know if there's some killers around, or even a clan scouts. I saw a flower field near the park we are at, it caught my attention, so I walked over there. Within the fences of the flower field, there was a corpse on it, seem pretty rotten. The flowers are still fine. They are colorful and bright, there's nothing better on relaxing in a beautiful view. Jam and Yui arrive by my side wondering what I am doing looking at the flowers. I said that it was nothing and we go back home.
At home, the sun started to fall, me and my brother are start to cleaning up the place a little. Yui make some noise to get our attention, as we turn around and look a her, we saw some flowers on the tables, beautiful colors and form. We put them in a small cup with water inside, then start to wrap everything up for the night.
As they are sleeping, I look into the moon by the window, wondering if there's gonna be peace someday, a time we could live our lives with no fears of death, until I heard a voice in the room.
"Adopting a child in this chaos? You must be out of your mind, old friend." Said the person in the room, leaning on the wall.
I sighed, then turn around looking at him. "Don't you have anything else to do then complaining on everything? Why don't you go and live you life that you wanted, Star?"
He groan and glare at me with a furious look. "You left us Revion. You left all of us! For what!? Just to save your Retarded brother!? He's not the same person you knew and you know that! After you left us, you decided now to adopt that child!? That beastman??? You must be sick for thinking about taking care of her."
"You don't know anything about him. He's the only one in my family that survive this hell. And the girl, she's just lost her family, and you know I can't leave her alone like that. And you know what Star? You are blinded by the lies and deceptions. So why don't you wake up and see the truth?" I said to him with a peaceful voice.
He start to talk to me with a sinister voice. "There's no lies on the path I'm going, it is you who is blinded from this illusions. I'm gonna wake you up by killing you *fake* brother and the little gi-"
A white line of light came and appear at his neck.
[CHLANG! CHANK!]
His neck was open by my machete, then started to bleed out. He hold his neck, desperate on stopping the bleeding, but with no use, the wound was deep. The blood has splatter all over my mask, clothes and the room. He fall on the ground and look at me in the eyes. He was dying, but he manage to say his last word.
"I... Hate.... You...." he said.
"See you in hell, old friend." I said, looking at him while he took his last breath.
When I look around, I saw the flowers, still intact, but there's blood on it. I ignore it and look back at the moon in the night sky of this hell some city.
"I wonder... if the world will ever change?" I said with some concerns in my mind.
I walk away, cleaning up my dead friend corpse. I toss his body inside my shadow for the time being. I lift my head and look at the music box. I walk toward it, pick it up, and flip it over to open a small hatch on it. Inside was an old record tape with a note from my parents saying 'be safe' to me. I put the record tape to the recorder and play the tape. The recorder play a calm and peaceful music. It made me remember the old times, on how the city was before and on how everyone was happy.
I lift my mask and smile as I sit on the couch, leaning on it. "Nothing stay forever. Whenever there's light, there's always hope. Even if there's blood on your soul. There's always a way to fix it. So smile" I said remembering the phrase I said to my brother.
"Smile for Tomorrow." I said one last time before falling asleep on the couch from exhaustion.