Chapter-4
" Haaaha haha" Yoo Hakim laughed hysterically. He is done. Done with everything.
" That's it! I'm Jumping." He said as he stepped on the edge of the balcony. He was really losing it.
"Young master! Please I'm aware that you're extremely upset with the current circumstances but—Life is a long journey, all about discovering one's true self along the way. You are still very young. Please don't do this to yourself."
The person who was giving this extremely emotional and heart touching speech was a butler.
He had been working in this house from the last ten years. A fine old man in his sixties.
" Relax, I'm not going to really do it." Hakim reassured him as he stepped down the balcony and entered back inside. He sat himself on the bed and asked the butler to let him be by himself for a while.
Yoo Hakim was back in the same room where he opened his eyes for the second time after coming back. It had been a week. A week since " Yoo Hakim" had died on earth.
Initially, He was very confused. His memories which he had full trust on did not fall in line with his current reality.
He didn't know why it had happened but His current life was completely different from his past first life. Almost as if he had been transported in a completely different ' timeline'. In some sort of ' Alternate reality'.
In his 'real' first life, He was born as a half blood. A child between a Human and an unknown race. Elves, mermaids, dwarves, Humans and fairies. There were a total of 5 species that existed in his original world. But He belonged to none of them. Or rather, He couldn't figure out to species did he belong to. A mystery he couldn't figure out in his first life.
His biological father aka a man he never met, hated him.
A cursed child. That was what he was called. A child who ate his mother. A child who was the cause of death of his own mother. The mother he never got to meet. An anomaly.
Currently he was miles away from his so called "home".
The continent he was on the currently on situated on land. Land, Skies and Waters. All the three places were occupied by living beings.
The place where he currently resided in was the "Apiaceae Kingdom". A little country situated on the lands famous for it's beautiful mountains. The place his "Father" was from was The Asteraceae Empire . A glories empire known to be the birthplace of all living creatures.
But Why Why was he here ?
The people he met the other day were his caretakers. They were hired by his father to take care of him. But from what he had heard from the butler. They both had been neglecting him for years. But Hakim had never dared to go against them. But from that slap he received that day, It was clear to him that there was a high probability that they also might've been abusing him.
Currently, Yoo Hakim wasn't in a favourable condition. He wasn't independent and had no money. He didn't have any power and no one on his side. The butler was nice to him. But Yoo Hakim couldn't just trust someone blindly.
Right now his current target was to somehow get some money and most importantly investigate his situation.
Why was he back ?
And what was that 'dagger 'there ?
The money could wait for a while since according to the butler Hakim was just 15 years old currently. Which is a good thing for him. He was still 4 to 5 years away from his second gender awakening.
There was a lot to do and Yoo Hakim had no time to waste. He just wanted to finish everything quickly so he can rest peacefully. He was going to avoid dying miserably like he did in the first life.
There was a huge town, not very far from the mansion he was in. The forest he was found in was also not too far. They were just at the backside of the mansion. But it was very for someone to get lost in those woods. They covered a very vast land area after all.
" Then It's decided!" Yoo Hakim had made up his mind. He was surely going to enter the forest at night.
Hence he decided to sleep a little earlier so he could stay awake at midnight to sneak out.
Truly, What was he doing? Sneaking out again. That brought back so many memories. He remembered how back in the modern earth, the one before destruction, he would often sneak out at night. Making sure his parents were asleep and would go out and hang out with his friends. Playing games, blasting music and eating midnight snacks.
" Dad, Please just forgive me one last time. It won't happen again. I swear." When he would get caught he would plead his father not to tell his mother.
" No means no."
" But----"
"no Buts"
When making a puppy face and other tactics failed on his dad. Yoo Hakim would try to bribe his dad with promising him good grades. His dad would refuse at first but would eventually give up.
Those were some really nice moments. Hakim smiled fondly as he remembered those sweet little moments.
Before eventually falling asleep, Yoo Hakim wondered if his companions and choi hyung had managed to survive or not. Were they sad after he died ? If time was to flow in the same way in both the worlds, were they missing him.
Why did he have to die ? If he could come back to life, Was there a way that he could see his parents again. His real parents. The ones that truly loved him. The one that melted his cold behaviour. They one's thanks to whom he is a better person now. His mom and dad. Not a 'duke' or a women who was killed due to Hakim being born. Not a father who neglected his son. But his dad, the one that taught him to be strong in life, to never give up. A mother who was there to help him take his first steps, the one who taught him to step up for himself, the one who taught him to fight for himself be it a vocal or physical fight.
" ahhh…." Hakim didn't realise when tears had started spilling down his face. "Hic….."
Well, I guess he can cry a little. He had supressed his emotions for a long time. Maybe it was alright to let them out just a little sometimes,right?
' I miss them.'