Author's point of view.
"Lena, I'm curious..." Arsenio wanted to ask something, lying on Helena's body which was used as his horse.
"Curious about what, Lord Arsenio?"
"Out there, is everyone acting the same? I mean, do they fight, chaos, and hate each other? Is there a conflict out there that causes a little girl to cry, a woman who miscarries… a father who can't come home to see his family?" Arsenio asked casually, using his arms to support his head and looking up at the castle sky.
"That's what this world is like. Apart from that, they are also in conflict with several Supreme Beings, demons, monsters… So, they are fighting not only for their own sake."
"So. Then do you think this is a good world for those who are just surviving?"
"For me, living beings who only want to live in this world will not be comfortable with the conditions of this world. After all, a conflict will result in casualties everywhere… even if it's for an understandable country."
Arsenio thought, knowing that what Helena said was the answer he wanted. After that, he jumped from there, got off his horse, and just walked away.
Helena was confused by that. She immediately asked when she saw Arsenio just leave her without a word.
"Where do you want to go, Lord Arsenio?"
"Ah… I need to go to the toilet. Sorry for getting your clothes wet. I forgot to put my diaper on."
Helena ignored her wet clothes. She only thought of one thing, which had left her in a daze until now.
"But..."
With such a pitiful look on her face, Helena wanted to confess that if Arsenio left her, she would be lost.
"Stay cool. Believe in yourself! You will find a way out if you believe in yourself!"
Arsenio also left her. Helena could only be silent and say "thank you" in her mind because Arsenio had encouraged her. But in the end, she gets lost and is found by her friend, Cheryl who laughs at her.
***
"Mother, are you all right?" Arsenio asked, seeing his mother looking agitated; sitting on a chair with hands holding each other.
"Oh, there you are, my son. I'm fine."
After saying that, she told Arsenio to come closer. Arsenio complied, sitting on her lap.
"My son has grown up."
She stroked her son's hair lovingly.
Without turning to look at his mother, Arsenio replied:
"Ah, of course. I am your greatest son than Ernesto."
It was just a joke from Arsenio, so Cecelia knew how to deal with it.
"Both of my sons are great. You know, not having that magic is fine. You know, as long as your hands, your feet, your mouth, your mind... your whole body is still at your disposal, you'll still be a great human being. You can still support your brother. You can go ahead and achieve your goals. What you want, you can still get it."
"I know it."
"Even if you want this world, you can still do that. Trust me, my sons are great people."
"I know that too, Mother."
"One day, be a good man and be useful to those around you. Sometimes, what the other person wants, you have to help it. You and they are tied together, so you should be able to help them even if you end up betrayed by them."
Arsenio was surprised to hear what his mother said. He didn't expect his mother to say that.
He tried to be calm for a while, but in the end, he asked that without turning to his mother:
"What are you saying, Mother? I have to be of use to the person who would betray me?"
Arsenio didn't look at his mother, but he could feel that his mother was smiling at him. Then after that, his mother answered his confusion:
"Shall I tell you about a homeless who became rich, Arsenio?"
"Sure."
"Listen..."
In a bustling city, full of people, a homeless man who can only survive by begging from others tries to right his wrong life. Whatever he was doing then, when he knew that his current life was the worst in the city, he thought about it.
One thought he got. One scenario he got. One way he got. And now, what he needed was someone who would see him.
A beautiful woman came to the outskirts of the city to run her business there. She came with some of her bodyguards, the merchants she happened to recruit, and her husband. And after the business was over, she and the others decided to go home.
One item is transported on a ship that has several crews. The beautiful woman was not from that city, so she needed a ship to transport some goods to her city.
With the information he got, which every time he heard from several walking trips talking to each other, the homeless knew that on the outskirts of the city there were currently several strangers. Also, he knows that in that ocean there are still many pirates. Without thinking about the risk if he left his city, he went to the outskirts of town and killed a merchant there.
He had successfully disguised himself as a merchant that the beautiful woman had recruited. What he was after was the scenario he had come up with, which he knew about pirates.
"Pirates will attack if the ship is big and looks like it has a lot of stuff."
Knowing that, he entered the ship with the beautiful woman and informed her.
The information was very important for the safety of the beautiful woman, that's why the beautiful woman agreed to it and put all her belongings into a small boat that was able to cover all her belongings.
However, that was just false information that the homeless had given her. The beautiful woman had been deceived and instead put all her belongings into another ship.
When the ship was about to leave for the city the beautiful woman came from, that's when the homeless took action. He quietly exited the ship and headed straight for the small ship.
In the end, he managed to get all the luxury items that the beautiful woman had bought from the city. He managed to loot all the beautiful woman's belongings because on the small ship there were only 2 people guarding them. What he got was from the scenario he had thought about and planned. And the beautiful woman, trusting the homeless' information, lost all her belongings and the people she hired.
"From that story, that beautiful woman has obtained information that she doesn't know," Cecelia said after telling the story to Arsenio. "The homeless had given it as information for her. He was very useful to her, even though in the end he betrayed the beautiful woman. You know what, Arsenio? If I were in her position, I would also trust the homeless. It was very useful for me for the safety of myself, my husband, and others. If I don't know that information, what will happen later in that sea? Pirates will rob me and kill me, my husband, my guards, and my employees. So, at least I have been useful for the safety of myself, my husband, and the others, even though I was betrayed by him."
"But, didn't he give fake information?"
"No, Arsenio. What he said is true. He was simply too stupid to judge it to be false information. You want to know how the story goes?"
"Yes."
"According to the information she got from the homeless, the beautiful woman managed to safely return to her city. Not a single pirate stalked her ship. They only assumed that the ship she was on was just an ordinary ship, which did not carry any luxury goods. They will not go to the ship because they know that on the ship there will be nothing. Therefore, they prefer to look for ships that have just left the port rather than those ships."
"Then what happened to the homeless? Is he..."
"Yeah, he brought all that beautiful woman's belongings back to that city. He got them, then became rich. But in the end…"
"Umph?"
"The homeless man was arrested for the murder of a woman. He killed his girlfriend because he was too selfish with his possessions."
It was so detailed, what Cecelia told was so detailed. Arsenio was suspicious of that, how the story could be so detailed when there wasn't a single book in the library of this castle that told that story.
As a little boy, Arsenio had to be careful about asking how his mother could tell the story in detail. He had to ask that because he felt that his mother was somehow connected to the story. There was something strange about the story.
"Mother, how can-"
But before he could carefully ask that, Ernesto's voice rang in his ears.
"Oy, Arsenio! Where are you!? Hey!"
With a panicked face, Arsenio got off Cecelia's lap.
"Oh shit, I'm wearing his panties. He realized that. Also… I ignored his warnings about staying away from Lena."
Arsenio panicked. He knew that Ernesto was looking for him.
What Ernesto said just before breakfast arrived, Arsenio didn't hear that at all. Arsenio had ignored Ernesto's warnings not to approach Helena who had just killed a man last night. Also, it seems Ernesto knew that Arsenio had put on his underwear. He was afraid that Arsenio would wet his underwear.
"Arsenio, you can't bully your brother."
Cecelia smiled. Arsenio saw his mother's smile, but he panicked. Therefore, he just smiled a little and said, "No, Mother. I will be a good person. But at least, I won't betray anyone, including those closest to me! Don't worry, I will become the most useful person in this world!" before leaving his mother.
After leaving his mother, he said, "First of all, I will be of use to you, Mother. I promise I will release your sufferer for what the nobles did to you. I will delete the bad judgment against you. If there's a noble who judges you badly and hurts your heart, I'll kill him."
The story of The Homeless Who Becomes Rich is written and told by Camelia White, Cecelia's grandmother. The book from that story doesn't exist in this country because a noble doesn't want it to exist. It was a disgrace that came from his family.
Cover their ears and eyes, shut their mouths, then they will not know it.