I turned completely silent.
I don't have a dad?
No.
No.
NoNo.
NONONONONONONO!!!
I SPENT MY LIFE WAITING FOR MY PARENTS TO COME BACK.
YET YOU TELL ME THEY DON'T EXIST???
"It's shocking right?"
"It's a waste of time."
"We were born from nothingness."
"If we ever had a dad, we would have a few memories of him."
"But nope."
"Absolutely none."
"Turns out."
"We only had mothers."
"Yet even those were never there for us."
"Every time."
"They died from some accident."
"You must remember it too right?"
"Your mother."
No...
I don't remember...
How could I?
HOW COULD I KNOW???
WHY'D I SPEND MY TIME SEARCHING FOR THINGS THAT I DID'NT EVEN KNOW I HAD!?
"My mother was the princess of Argia."
"She gave birth to me after she left the castle."
"When she returned."
"Her mother and father were furious."
"They had arranged a marriage for her with a prince from another country and were planning to wed her right when she came back."
"Now that she had a child."
"Negotiations would break down."
"The prince threw a tantrum."
"He demanded that she be executed."
"If not."
"They would wage war on the country."
"I could only watch as my mother died."
"Her head rolling on the floor."
"Yeah..."
"Afterwards."
"They tried to get rid of me too."
"They threw me off the highest point in the castle."
"Yet miraculously."
"I landed in the moat."
"There was a small opening there."
"Getting sucked through it."
"I managed to escape somewhere."
"From then."
"I was taken care of by a pig."
"Almost died when I turned three though."
"Got slaughtered by a hunter in a nearby village."
"Tried to attack him."
"Failed."
"Lost my right leg."
Lifting up his pant leg, I could see where the leg was meant to be.
Instead there was some kind of metal mixed with wood that was directly fused into his body.
"Used the branch skill of Split to fuse my body with some Ironwood."
"Managed to crawl away."
"Hid in the village."
"Lived for a few years there."
"Then moved to the town."
"You know the rest."
Ohh...
So it's not like exactly the same.
The places we're born in and the mother's we're born from aren't the same.
Thus making our upbringing slightly different.
But it seems like we all go to Well Town.
From there.
We all gain the time gods inheritance.
We all fall into the cliff.
We all enter the past.
Suddenly the projection spit blood out his mouth.
He shot it straight at me.
It passed through me though.
Landed on the floor behind me.
"*cough*"
"Seems like I don't have much time left."
"So I better tell you what I need to say."
"That status screen."
"It's got a secret to it."
"I haven't been able to figure it out."
"Seems like we're born with different functions in it."
"I was born with [Shop]."
"Maybe the future Hawthorne's will figure it out."
"*cough*cough*"
"Damn..."
"FU*K IT!!!"
"I'LL PASS IT ONTO YOU!!!"
"NOT LIKE IT'S GONNA HELP ME WHERE I'M GOING!!!"
What???
The status screen holds a secret?
And they haven't figured it out yet?
If they couldn't figure it out.
How could I possibly?
"*falls to the floor*"
"AARGHHH!!!"
"*convulses*"
"SH*T!!!"
Hey...
Are you okay?
At that moment.
Something happened.
A sword came out of nowhere.
And directly penetrated his heart.
With his last breath.
He spoke these words.
"F-find the truth."
"Why we e-exist..."
"*BOOOOOMMMM*"
An explosion racked the projection.
Someone random came in to the projection.
He walked into the room.
Looked down at the body.
And spit on it.
"HA."
"SO THIS IS WHERE YOU WERE HIDING!!!"
"YOU DAMN FILTHY PEASANT!!!"
Wait...
I know that speech.
Isn't that?
The teacher I kicked in the balls?
IT IS!!!
Well now I have a lead.
Bending down.
The ( Former ) teacher picked up the crystal.
"Hmm what's this?"
"It's pretty shiny."
"Probably could sell it for lot's of money."
"Should be enough to buy me a night at the brothel."
Picking up the crystal, he stored it in his pocket.
That was the moment when I blacked out.
Unbeknownst to me.
The status screen upgraded itself.
[Acquired Shop]
[Host can now purchase items]