"Something Greater… End of The Rope… Beyond the Boundary… it carries countless names, yet there are no words to describe its means. You told me Warriors wailed for it, you wailed for it, more than a hundred times, thousand or maybe even millions. Yet, for some reason, one just couldn't find it, let alone achieve it… and here I thought I was crazy to run after… well something in itself, impossible… I remember that first roar, it still gives me chills, I remember those wails howling for help, it still haunts me. Yet, I was helpless, I was weak. In the ocean of weakness, the Twentieth of January every year, I made as many burials as I could. For next year, note down as many names I remember, in the hope that they might have a place to take shelter in. I wish you too could find a place to rest." In his grasp, he held the golden dagger tight, yet even that couldn't shine in the depth of a thick night, with no moon but a sky full of ghostly clouds and silence of demise. "How many days have passed, how many memories have faded, I don't remember what our home looked like. I don't recall the name of our servants. I didn't even remember Adrian up until now…, Brother, help me, I'm forgetting how you looked, how mother looked, how father looked. I'm forgetting." He didn't dare to cry this time, and so, his eyes simply fixed upon the golden dagger. "All I have is this." That night flashed before his eyes as if it was yesterday. "I believed you were undefeated…" That broken sword of his brother struck deep in the rubble of a castle he may once call home. "…but I guess there is no such thing as a winner…"
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"Cleo, uhh, how are you doing? I know it has just been a few days… maybe two weeks or more… But hey, how are you doing? How's your mama doing? I hope all of you are doing great, like, you know, since I left the streets… Everything must be pretty normal… but I must tell one thing, the outside world isn't so bad after all. It's not completely full of light yet it's not a box full of darkness… you know, just like Pandora's Box. But, there are a lot of bad guys here, and I'm glad I chose to set out with people like Hatim and Athena. Especially Hatim, surely, he can be hot-headed sometimes, but I know he cares, more than any stranger I've ever met. I'm glad I waited and thanks for being there … and because of you, I…" Her words suddenly found a break, she couldn't speak let alone write a letter. The pen ink became dry in her grasp after being outside for hours. And yet, her words couldn't find a way to be written down. A smile of a boy with golden hair and sea blue eyes standing before her with no hesitation appeared in her imagination. "That idiot!" She said, annoyed and laid her head on a piece of paper on the table. Though seeing an empty paper laying underneath her head, though, the shelter wasn't hot as only a lantern was lit, yet her face adapts a rosy texture. "It's just been a few days… I'm an idiot!"
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There are no words that are enough to describe her. There are no pictures to show her. Athena stood before a lake, not too far from Hatim and yet, not too close either. When was the last time it happened? For the first time, she didn't know her choice of words, her speech withered. In the history of Olympia, it never happened. She was the invincible lady that could not be argued in a conversation and every commandment bow before at the end of the parliament annuals. So then why? Where does this sanity come from? And why? She didn't know any answers nor did her heart ache for more.
"I will change this world~"
Those words still ring in her head, and she never asked why. She never shed a single tear for the sake of Something Greater, she never wailed for it and yet, she drove her step for it… or does she?
"Godslayer~"
Is it real? Is it truly the answer to the chaos that has arisen and to that which awaits? For the first time, she didn't know the answers… no, it wasn't the first time anymore, so then when did it begin?
"Warrior!!!" Yes, it was then when it all started…
The tale of a man chasing after the impossible… Indeed, she surely will see it again, and maybe hopes, this one doesn't have a bad ending… let's hope Something Greater