Youko was now a farmer in the Kingdom, although not registered, not even legal in anyway. Just a labourer, otherwise he would be in jail
'Why did I not panic? I slept one night and woke up here, i don't know how much time has passed or where are my siblings and parents... How can I go back, I still donot understand why I did not loose my mind when I opened my eyes here'
He worked in the farms, nearby farms, as he was new he had a tendency to be bullied, His job was that of a transporter of sort. he to transported items from one farmer to another, He had no prior experience in this field of work. He used to think while doing the work.
'I did not loose my mind probably because i knew deep inside that my half worked wish has been granted, but by whom?' While he was thinking that someone called him.
"oy mate, new guy..."
"coming" - Said Youko
He went there.
"How can I help?" - Youko
"care to answer few questions.." - the old man
The man who called him was very very old. probably in his 80s. he was wearing torn apart farmer suit, brown in color. he was bald. At first Youko hesitated. but then agreed to it.
"Why are you here?, never seen you before" - the man.
"I .. don't know actually... I slept and I..."
Someone interrupted their conversation and screamed in between, "YOO NEWBIE, GET BACK HERE... and start working." - the man , who was a little far from him and called him back to work.He did the work, did it as he did all other works, lazily...
it was his first day at the Kingdom, probably an hour had passed since he woke up and he started manual labour. Grabbing buckets of water from one farmer and dropping it to the other farmer. other items like rice from the rice fields to the Farmer head or manager, bucket of mud, corn and many other crops. he worked like a donkey. the hard labour tore his back, he felt immense pain.
Three hours had been passed since he woke up.
The hard labour demanded a break. so he sat down, actually he was so tired that the guards helped him sit down and relax his muscles. He was given some water in a steel cup by a guard.
"you okay? young man" - Said the guard to Youko.
youko nodded in agreement. He drank the water like wild animal since he was very tired and thirsty. immediately after drinking, his body returned to normal, he touched himself and felt no pain, no tiredness, it was all gone like a pain killer but very effective. Youko could not describe the feeling he had
"What just happened? I don't feel any pain or tiredness" - Youko said that while looking at the guard. He smiled and left.
The same old 80 year old guy that he was talking to came and sit beside him. They were basically sitting on the dry dirt of the farm without any chairs, it was very uncomfortable for both of them, but the old man was accustomed to it. they continued again.
"So I was asking you young man, where are you from?"
"Pretty sure your were asking something else, but I am from Japan"
"Never heard of it"
"is this not earth?"
"it is earth"
"Then why don't you know about japan"
"because in earth there is only one last kingdom remaining, that is this one"
"Earth is pretty big, who told you that?"
"it's the reality. Our King has told us"
"I don't believe him"
"Do you wanna become a traitor in the eyes of the kingdom, newbie?"
"so that's the price of not trusting the King..."
"Yes, Youko...I .... (He pauses for a minute). My grandfather used to tell me about a place like that but I don't remember the name anymore. He used to be the King of these Lands until he was driven out"
"why was he driven out...?"
"A story for later...." while they were speaking it started raining. it looked beautiful. The world was washed, the children immediately came out of the houses to play. The view was breathtaking!. They both discussed a bit longer, and then planned for the next day's work because the rain was very heavy and it was expected that it would not stop in a few hours and then they stood up, it rained so heavily in such a short time that all the fields filled up with water.
"We cannot work today" - Youko
"True, young man" - The old man
When Youko stood up, he was all wet, but no one gave shelter, He saw his reflection in water.
He could not believe it. He touched his face, earns, hairs... He could not understand what was going on!!
He saw white long straight hairs, silver medieval armour and a completely different face. He screamed very loudly.
"THIS CANNOT BE ME, WHO IS THIS ?? WHAT IS THIS REFLECTION! I WANNA GO HOME!!!" - He screamed those words again and again, started to cry and then slowly lost control. His body started shivering and then vibrating heavily. everyone near him tried to control him but that didn't work. so two guards held him tightly
"LET'S TAKE HIM INSIDE" - Guard
"HE'S NOT A RESIDENT" - other Guard
"OH WE HAVE TO, HE'LL DIE. DONOT SAY A WORD!" - Guard.
so they took him inside the walls, placed him in a cart and quickly ran inside. the gates were specially opened due to this emergency. everyone looked at youko and wondered what had happend, the guards took him to a building. it looked like an 18th century european two storey bulding ,and placed his shivering and vibrating being into a chair in a room. a male fully covered even his face was not shown, was sitting there, the chair was in front of her.
"You can go" - she said to the guards.
Youko was shivering and vibrating and speaking to himself repeatedly these words
"This cannot be me, This is not real!"
The male looked at him for a minute. And then came near him and placed his hand on his hairs and spoke:
"DHARIA!"