Project Schemer: Higeki's chapter: Requiem

"Doctor, you have a mail and it is a handwritten one." "A handwritten mail, that is really rare, you can leave them at the place for mail and i will read them later, there are some patients i need take care of first." "We are fine doctor, you can check the mail, maybe it is important." "There is nothing can be as important as the life of my patients." So the letter is just an invitation much more like a request, one of those rich families again and why they need me in the first place. The inner part of the city is annoying, people acting like noble and full of etiquette, to them perfection is much more important than life and anything else. But when they almost crawl on the ground, the start begging for life and that is the moment when the hospital can't do anything else. And that is the moment they come for me, they beg for the cure, for the miracle elixir that they think they deserve, in the past, my teacher just reject them and even reject any gift they try to give us. Of course, teacher is cunning and that miracle elixir wasn't real. "So, do you want to go to the city, we can escort you to the gate." "Don't worry, i will leave for a few days, please follow these instruction. This trip should took three days but after three days, please use this card to enter the city and save me." The first impression is the etiquette, people in the inner part are so complicated and prideful to say at least, praising themselves days and nights. Those stand above look those who stay below them and only throw away their pride when they are so close to the gate of hell, it is a little bit sad but they got what they deserve and i won't show sympathy. This invitation, this is a work to pay off master's old debt. "Troublesome, at least before you disappear, pay all your debt. Sometime i wonder if you are my teacher or a weight." "Hello there." "And here i thought wanted criminal should stay hidden and cause chaos every once in a while." "I prefer life on the edge. Speak to you later." A really wierd person never reveal his name, a famous artisan who live in the outskirt and he is also famous for making firework and bombs and also a wanted criminal in the inner part of the city. So the police just focus on him but before escape the wall of the inner part, the mysterious man even challenge the them and held a firework performance before escape through the wall. So the police in the inner city is a little bit useless but can't blame them for that since most people live in the outskirt are talented. "It is starting to get dangerous to live in the city." "Nothing compare to the daily life of people living in the outer part of the city. Well, you are the son of my client right ?" "Yes, father tell me to come and give you the direction to our family's mansion." Maybe a reason why this man can't go local clinic or the hospital, maybe there is something that he can't reveal or something he doesn't want this society to know about. The mansion is gloomy to say the least, but to be polite, it have an ancient touch to its exterior, inside the mansion is not that dusty or filthy, every furniture is just really old, the master have no intention in changing the furniture. The house is cleaned and there are more than just this child and the master of the house, a lot of people are living in this house. "Doctor, thank you for coming." "Please don't mention about this, it is because of my master's debt anyway, after this i won't accept any favor. I have people i need to take care and things i have plan for." "Of course, you only need to help these people." "These people..." Flower on their eyes, a type of parasite ? The flower drain their strength and vitality so there must be a way to remove it... alright, so that is the way it work and cling on the host. Remove it will cause more harm than good but to cease its funtion won't be a difficult thing, at least the teacher isn't that useless drunkard then disappear without a trace. At least the notebook provide some knowledge on this parasite, the parasite is much safer when it is not removed but the function must be cease in order not to harm the host. Some medicines is required but not all of them are necessary, and none of them is rare so they are easy to make. "Thank you, Doctor." "Don't mention it, the drunkard at least left something that usable and at least have responsible for the first time in many years." "Your teacher lived in the inner part before he chose to leave this place, he saw people in this part of the city nothing more than shadows." "If there is nothing else, i will take my leave. There are still people out there need my aid and i won't abandon them, this should settle the debt between my master and you. Next time, i may make an exception but you still need to pay me, i don't care what do you want to do with those people and i won't ask any other questions." The winter of this world will never end, the sea of people in the inner part, no matter how much light and decoration they put in this place, nothing will change and nothing can change. Even people in the outer part is poor, they show their emotion, this place is filled with nothing more than lies and pride. Now standing in this city, i started to questioning my identity and my existance, master always tell me that i am an orphan, abandoned near the wall of the city. He took me in and raise in the outer part of the city, sometime he did mention i came from inside but among these people, i feel like i am not belong to this place. So i will call the outer part, the slum my home, the only place where people accept me and consider i am one of them. "One day this wall will fall. Do you think so ?" "And you are ? Are you the person like that bomb maker ?" "So you met him, well our leader send me as your escort, i think you can see them looking at you right, come on, this way." "Are you some kind of outlaw ?" "Take a guess, this way." We walk through the most deserted street, with his guidance we soon reach a hole that covered so no one notice it. We disappeared before anyone even notice us, different from the artisan, this person is much taller and bigger, his appearance is much more of a mercenary. But his course of action prove he can be much more than that, and after we leave he also says goodbye. So he did mention a leader... so a mysterious organization trying to fix this world and overthrown WORLD... but it will take more than just a small light and a small miracle to let that happen. But for now, i will return to the place i call home,. "Doctor, you're back. We're even try to rescue you, any injuries ?" "Since when you are the doctor ? I know how to take care of myself, nothing wrong. So everyone still take the medicine like i wrote in the notebook ?" "Thank you so much, doctor for being very specific this time." "Like taking care of children, give them a bad hand-writing and everything goes downhill... enough about that, anything or anyone that follow me ?" "There is no one follow you so there is no need to be worried about being track and again, stop treating us like children, even the youngest member of our gang is twice of your age." "Like i said, i didn't consider anyone children, i just say giving children. The rest you can judge yourself." "But doctor, are we going to live like this forever ?" "I don't know Korvos. Something in the future may change but i will make you to help everyone and you need to keep everyone fed." "Sometime, we are really useless without you." Useless without me, but i don't even who am I, were I born in the inner part of the city like my teacher said ? But that can't be the truth, every child know the enviroment without them and people have a sense of nostalgia but that place isn't familiar. Standing among the sea of people i can't feel anything but loneliness. But the outer part or the slum is the place i can call home, i found people care for me but what is this feeling inside me, i found myself belong to somewhere else. A lot of people are waiting for me, i saw in my memories, i saw people care for me, i saw someone always stay by my side, people praise me. Who am I ? and does this have any connection to Tomoe ? The stuffed kirin hybrid with a komainu, why the moment i picked up when i was young, the name come so natural. I don't think a name for him, the name just come out natural like i know that before, so the star of Altoris, please answer to me... Who am I ? "Doctor, it's time for dinner." "You guys go ahead and enjoy yourself, there is an important matter i need to attend to." "You need to have something Doctor, we care about and beside, Korvos don't let anyone start without your presence." "Let me take a bath first." I never fear water or have any issue with it, i enjoy water and snow a lot, they always bring a sense of familiarity. Even in this world, they are still pure white and clear. Even this world is corrupted, water is pure and it will remain like that even until the end of world, water is admirable. And water always make me feel like i belong to it, like i am a part of it.  The dinner begin and everyone cheering for a hardworking days, not exactly we are working but just half of us. The other half are not that useless since they are protecting everyone else, we are not fighter but with my medicine they are not harmed and they can recover really fast from their wound so they are used to live like this. This really make me feel like i am a part of this big family, i am appreciated here. They consider i am a part of their family. "Thank you so much Doctor." "... From now on, just call me by my real name." "..." "...." "What with all the silence ?" "No, we are just surprise." "Everyone here deserve my respect so just call me by my real name." So they all cheer and the dinner come to an end, i return to my desk and work on the next project and then someone came in. Korvos decided he need some medicine so he will stay for the rest of the night. My room is not huge but it won't be uncomfortable for both of us so i agree, and beside, carefully watch for any unwanted reaction is necessary.  "So doctor, is everything alright ? You are not speaking like you always speak." "Just something i am keeping inside my heart." "I may look like a ruffian but i am a person who good at listen, you can speak to me." "You are a ruffian but i guess have a friend to talk to is better than none. I am questioning myself, who am I, what is the reason for my existance. My teacher said i am a child born in the inner part but in that place i have no memories or recollection or at least a flash of memories when i was carried out from the city. I only remember lying on the ground and crying until he found me." "So who are you ? A wanderer search for your memories ? A shell living without its soul ? No, you are Doctor Higeki, a man with the name mean tragedy and a heart filled with passion for people in pain. What you are right now is important. You are one of us, you belong to this great family." "Higeki... wake... up..." A strange sound like a wake up call but who and why now ? In the end, who am I ? But no matter what, these people are my family so i will move forward with my current status. We will live, we will survive no matter the circumstances.