All I could think of was... 'I'm a coward', as soon as those soldiers barged in I knew what would happen, my mom's gentle voice kept running in my head nonstop...
"It's alright Armin mom will be alright go and get us some bread for dinner."
I knew what would happen, I'm not stupid I could see those disgusting faces of the soldiers.
Right now I was screaming, looking for someone, anyone to help me but I knew no one would. In this world no one cares about righteousness or helping the weak, especially if they get nothing out of it, and I had nothing to give.
Ever since my father abandoned us our finances diminished to the point where Mother would be malnourished just to make sure I was full, another pang of guilt filled my heart and I screamed louder, of course, this resulted in people moving further away to avoid the crazy child screaming.
I stopped screaming and started sobbing as thoughts repeated themselves in my
mind: 'why, coward, kill, hate,...'
As I was thinking this I heard a whisper in my ear ..." show them pain"... It was soft but I know I heard it the voice was cruel...so cruel I got shivers down my spine, I opened my eyes to find the floor underneath me had a layer of ice, it spread around me for about a meter and came to abrupt stop it looked almost as if the ice was fighting the world's temperature as a small amount of mist formed around the edges.
I stood up, but soon fell right back down as all that could explain it was hell, pain... excruciating pain surrounded me inside and out I was freezing, my skin was burning, but not from heat, from the cold... it was so painful I couldn't keep my consciousness as I fell into a sleep trying to escape the pain...
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Nulla Reviah was visiting a small village to resupply their carriages and to let the phiols (an extremely strong breed of maju horses) rest. As he approached one of the stalls he was thinking about how greedy the stall owner looked, when he heard a child screaming, he didn't think much of it at first and the screaming stopped. He was just about to walk away when he felt an abnormally cold maju presence, alerted he sprinted to where he felt the presence
'spies... No, they wouldn't let a slip up like that, that was at least a class 3 maju presence...'
As he reached the presence he saw a boy with dark hai- the boy's hair started changing colour it started from the roots, and slowly the entirety of his hair changed to a beautiful white.
'what the...' Nulla had seen plenty of things in his years as part of the nobility and an A-class maju, but not quite bizarre as this... The boy fell with a thud, Nulla grabbed an onlooker and asked as if he was interrogating the poor man:"Was this the child that was screaming?"
his eyes shone, petrifying the man even more but he at least managed to answer: "y...ye..yes h...e was..."
'So it's a trauma awakening... a rare case but often produces extremely strong talented maju'
"Alright, do you know why he was screaming?..." Nulla asked.
The man had calmed down as Nullas eyes weren't glowing anymore he replied quickly: "He was screaming something about his mother and guards, I don't know more sir..."
The commoner man had noticed Null's clothing was nobility, this also contributed to his fear of Null. Null looked at the child and hoisted him over his shoulder, he spread out his 'nae'(term for magic) to sense presences and found an extremely weak one surrounded by four stronger ones...
'I see.' he thought. and muttered a phrase lazily "shazae".
Instantly he arrived at Lucranes 'house' it was more of a shack built of leftover wood from other houses and crude stones supported by mud.
He entered the door quietly and saw four men taking advantage of a pretty woman. He didn't bother with saying cliché lines, he instantly killed all four of them by directing his nae into their bloodstream and reversing it. A C-rank technique.
Blood poured out of their eyes as they fell lifelessly onto the floor, Null looked at the woman and stated firmly: "As payment for saving your dignity and possibly your life I'll be taking your son..." and with that, he dropped a bag of gold and once again muttered 'shazae' disappearing immediately
The woman in other words; Nulla's mother was shocked she didn't understand what happened, but as it hit her she started weeping, she knew she'd never see her precious child again, or so she thought...