In the Upper Dimension.
The place returned to its natural state, and Roy was still in the same position—sitting on the chair and thinking about what the master had told him:
"Who are you?... Hina… I don't think I'm capable of waiting 100 years… why did he want me to wait?"
Roy was confused, not knowing what to do, only thinking and thinking.
After a long time, another meeting was held; they all attended.
Angel of Peace said in annoyance:
"What do you want now? I don't think you still want to destroy the universe!"
Roy answered her calmly and confidently:
"No, the master rejected the decision to destroy the universe, but he allowed me to do anything I find suitable and he approves of—except destroying the universe."
Amarail answered with boredom while she was reading a book:
"So what is your new decision? I hope this meeting ends quickly, I'm starting to feel bored."
Roy:
"I have decided that Ryo must be considered a dangerous threat to the balance of the world."
Korai:
"So you are calling for his death?"
Roy:
"Yes."
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In the Lower Dimension.
Ryo was training peacefully, knowing nothing about the tragedy that had fallen upon him or the greatness of the curse that was placed on him.
After that meeting, it was decided that Ryo was an enemy of the world!
Sorrow and destruction would follow him in every step he took!
What would he do, I wonder?
While Ryo was training, he suddenly stopped. He felt danger and a strong shiver and said cautiously:
"Someone is watching me… who could it be?"
Ryo knew he was being watched, but he didn't know from where exactly— as if every particle in existence was looking at him with anger and deep hatred, the world having countless eyes watching him intensely…
The gaze of the rulers was directed at him—not a gentle gaze but one full of anger and severe hatred.
A bell rang that hadn't rung in 300 years.
The Black Bell!
The bell that announces the existence of a new enemy.
And the descent of the curse upon a person.
Destruction, sorrow, tragedy, pain, endless tears, evil, and rage…
When that bell rings, it announces that a specter has entered the system.
What was strange was that when Ryo went outside, everyone who saw him instantly considered him an enemy and tried to kill him in any way—many, many people.
In a single night, around 200 people tried to kill him.
Everyone rejected him and saw him as a great enemy despite him doing nothing.
He was kind and helped many people, his soul truly gentle, but everyone hated him deeply…
They looked at him as a flaw in the system that should not exist.
Ryo walked among them in confusion, not understanding anything. He stared in shock, his heart on the verge of breaking from the amount of hidden sorrow inside him because of how everyone treated him…
A tear fell as he walked…
He began screaming inside with deep sadness:
"Why are you avoiding me? What did I do? Please be with me! I don't want to be alone, please…"
He went to a restaurant to get some food, but the owner closed the restaurant the moment he saw him.
Ryo looked at him in shock:
"Huh? Why did you do that? What did I do?"
As he walked through the city, he found him—
His friend who had helped him when he was suffering from Ren's loss. Ryo became happy and smiled, but what he expected didn't happen; when the friend saw him, he walked away and looked at him with disgust and hatred.
In that moment, Ryo burst from within with sorrow; sadness flooded his heart like water flooding a cup.
Ryo remembered Infernos and went to him. He was happy and said:
"Someone is with me! A friend, finally."
But when he arrived, the shock came…!
Infernos threw him out of the palace with intense anger and even attacked him trying to kill him. Ryo thought he was joking and was laughing, saying, "Stop it now, please, Infernos, stop."
Ryo knew he was fighting him, but he didn't want to believe it.
Infernos spoke with hatred and intense anger:
"Get out of here and never return! I didn't expect you to do that. Why? Why did you do such a horrible thing!"
Ryo answered while crying harshly and stuttering from sorrow:
"What? Will you leave me too? What did I do? Why is all this happening to me? What is happening? Please tell me you're joking, Infernos… aren't we brothers?"
Infernos responded with disgust:
"You are not my brother anymore. I didn't expect you to do that. You disappointed me…!"
Ryo left Infernos' palace shocked, sad, and confused.
He collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily and repeating:
"What is happening? Please stop doing this… Infernos, you were my only friend… don't go, please… I don't want to be alone…
Please, someone tell me I'm dreaming!"
Ryo screamed from the pain, collapsing and crying intensely.
One of the guards approached him—not kindly—but ordered him to cry outside because he didn't want to see him.
Ryo looked at him and smiled a broken smile full of sadness and fake happiness.
Ryo left the capital, and there he stood, looking at it one last time.
Then he collapsed on the ground again.
Suddenly, a white light descended.
And from behind that light, Serafiena descended with wings like an angel.
She looked at Ryo and extended her hand:
"Stand. Don't give up now…!"
Ryo looked at her—
A pure, innocent look—and said:
"I wish I hadn't become blind… I wish I could look at you!"
Serafiena laughed:
"I'm nothing worth looking at, no need for all that."
Ryo stood.
Serafiena looked at him with deep sorrow:
"What injustice… a simple noble wish of yours led to your collapse! You only wanted to bring your friends back, yet the whole world united against you!"
Then she said, while looking at the sky:
"That world isn't fair… a noble soul is treated like a specter that must be eliminated. And they ask why villains are born? Every evil I've encountered was once a gentle and noble soul, but the world turned it into a demon!… Will you become like them?"
Ryo answered with a trembling voice:
"I don't know why all this is happening… is it because I want to bring my friends back again? Why does fate treat me so badly?"
Serafiena answered while hugging him and wrapping him with her wings, speaking softly:
"Don't worry… I'll be with you. No one is born evil by nature; the world makes them that way. I hope your soul stays gentle and doesn't change like so many before you…"
Ryo just cried and listened to her, and after he finally calmed down, he answered:
"I don't know… previously, I became a demon, and when I was born here, I wanted to be an angel… but will the world allow me to be an angel?"
To be continued…