The True enemy
860 Words
The king sits in his throne. His hand holding his cheek, as he sits comfortably and giving an air of confidence. He has this amused smile while Louis awkwardly stands firm in front of him.
The King: How ironic. The abolisher of monarchies standing against its creator.
Louis: The creator of monarchies? So you are the one that created these unfair systems, the one who has made his people suffer.
The King: I am not your enemy. I want to be your friend. An ally that will become the only one that could help you fight.
Louis: What do you mean?
The King: The reason I forced you to train with that sword, is so that you have the strength to use me.
Louis: Use you?
The King: Yes, I want you to exceed where I have failed. It was too late, I was already past my prime, but I was determined to take them down. You lack power. Even if you were to wield a sword against Hunters, at some point they will be strong enough to destroy it.
They grow stronger just by killing. You have to train for years just to be able to catch up to them. If you want to reach Epsilon, as a human, you will need strength. I can be that strength.
Louis: I do not need anyone.
The King: It is not about need, its about preference. Will you continue to depend on others or will you gain strength yourself.
Louis: What are the conditions? Why should I trust you? I have never met you before, yet I am supposed to trust the man that created such an unjust system.
The King: You do not know what I did do you?
Louis: And I don’t care.
The King: Are you not interested in power?
Louis: If I was, I would have become a Hunter long ago.
The King: I would control that thing inside you.
Louis: That thing inside me?
The King: When you released the sacred incantation, you became part angel. That part angel of yours will slowly grow, changing who you are. It will continue until you become an angel. I could slow it down, giving you more time to find a solution.
Louis: The boys did mention I acted weird sometimes.
The King: Most likely, you will grow wings. Of course, if not for the change in personality, it would not be that bad. Maybe your hair turns yellow, and you get a halo above your head.
Louis: Instead of becoming a cockroach, an angel. How romantic. But still, I won’t accept a contract without knowing its conditions.
The King: I want humanity to be free.
Louis: That is the stupidest wish I have ever heard.
The King: That, my friend, is an impossibility. Why do you humans and Hunters discriminate against each other? The reason is simple. It is because of differences. Humans, before Hunters, used to fight all the time, using anything as an excuse. War, g******e, m*********r, death, pain, all these are miseries known to all humans. Humans and Hunters do not live, they survive. You would know this yourself; you are a hero to the people. Yet, even if you have liberated them, discrimination and death will continue to follow us. Misery is the natural state of our world and reality.
Louis: I refuse to live such a pitiful existence.
The King: But you do live that life. You work hard for people that will most likely hate you for what you have done. You know misery is all we have left after we take away our cores.
Louis: Then, am I supposed to leave all everyone behind?
The King: Only when your entire being is an act of rebellion, are you truly free. The only way for you to avoid that reality is by leaving everyone behind.
Louis: We are free. We can decide what we do every day. We can decide what to eat, when to go to sleep, if and where we should work.
The King: You are free to do what you wish? Then why did you become a liberator?
Louis: I’m not going to lie, I did it because nobody else wanted to do. Everybody was too scared to act, and so I did what I thought was right. What else was I supposed to do? Let my fellow man die?
The King: You have to win.
Louis: Win? Against whom? Every country I fight for and conquer, more bloodshed follows. There is a never-ending spiral of death and pain.
The King: You must win not against Humanity, but against our true enemy.
Louis: Our true enemy?
The King: The true enemy is the same one that has separated us from each other. The one that laughs while we discriminate each other. The one smiling at the background, who thinks that it control the world. The one that thinks that humans are puny creatures to be used for entertainment. If you win against this enemy, we will finally break the chain of never-ending suffering.
Louis: But, who is it?
The King: The one we must kill, is God himself.
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