[CHE5TER]-...nothingness.

[General]-Nothingness?

[CHE5TER]-Yes. I simply found myself all of a sudden in a completely different room and I was safe again. End of story.

Yet even if He says that, the boy can sense that something isn't right about this story that He says. With such a serious face, it begins to analyse the expression of the ruler, which shows different emotions at the same time, but still empty as ever.

[General]-...You are not telling me something.

[CHE5TER]-Hm?

[General]-That's not the end of the story at all. You avoid to tell me something. It's clear from your expression.

[CHE5TER]-What is there to tell? I've been told that I was in a coma before I woke up in a room in my building. And why do you care anyway? I told you how I got my wounds, so I answered your question.

[General]-Because there is a secret that you are hiding from me. What does all of this have to do with "insanity"? None of the events you've explained say anything about a weird behaviour at all.

[CHE5TER]-Listen... I just like to keep it as it is, alright? Whatever I'm hiding has nothing to do with you anyway.

[General]-CHE5TER, you can't expect me to help you in any way if you keep secrets like that from me, you know? Even if you don't like it, you have to battle your fears and say it. Maybe it's related to your Inhumanity, but how am I suppose to know it if you don't tell me?

[CHE5TER]-...Why are you so sure that you can help me anyway? You come from a different land, you know nothing of me.

[General]-But I am at the same time the only being you know to be the same as you, am I not?

[CHE5TER]-...

[General]-I am only trying to help you. No need to take it the bad way.

He does take a small pause, observing the boy that stands next to Him once again. Something about this face it has, or simply its appearance is feeling different to the ruler. He does not know anything about this boy, yet it feels a strange connection that He has with it. No. No emotional connection. It is something else, which is simply weird to explain. But it does affect the way of behaving as well. And He knows it too that this connection is very weird. Maybe it is because the boy is a "voothrav child" just like Him?

[CHE5TER]-*sigh* But I am telling the truth anyway. Even if you sense that.

[General]-What do you mean?

[CHE5TER]-I mean that "nothingness" is exactly what I would describe the whole thing that has happened after, alright?

[General]-So you say that you were trapped in a void until you woke up?

[CHE5TER]-Not... exactly like that. What I mean by "nothingness" is that I found myself in a complete new world.

[General]-...?

[CHE5TER]-I don't even know how to explain... After that sound I heard, I simply closed my eyes for just a second. And then...

[General]-...And then?

"...I simply... opened my eyes and found out that I was now present in a completely different location, somewhere I've never been before. It was so bright everywhere I looked. Beneath my feet, there was a strange liquid that was traveling around me, something similar to Histvorh, but lacking in that light it is suppose to have. Above me was a blue sky in which some white flying things with all kinds of shapes were coming and going slowly, and I could swear that something was also falling from them. Weird objects that were as bright as the suns, as if they were belonging to the flying ones, slowly falling one by one."

And He sure didn't lie. The moment He told of Him opening His eyes, this strange world He described was indeed in front of Him. The floor was rather a simple water which was dancing around its feet, above were the clouds from which some bright feathers were falling, but even the atmosphere was different. It was silence, but that silence could be accompanied by a sound of bells, yet such a low sound that you can barely hear.

So, of course He was confused, analysing this strange world in which He now is, but nothing is really present there besides Himself. What was even stranger though is that the moment He looked at the floor which was reflecting everything above like a mirror, He couldn't see His own C colour, remaining only in that dark brown hair and dark brown eyes of His. Truth to be told now, we see Him this way too. But He doesn't pay much attention to that detail, as He simply looks away.

He begins not long after to walk around, still looking at the area and getting rather a weird vibe, but also a calming one. Yet as He spins around a few times, trying maybe to find even the smallest sign of a simple object, He hears a strange sound, a calming one, coming from behind. And when He looked behind...

"...I wasn't alone. Though at first it seemed to me that I've been abandoned there, a few seconds later I noticed a strange figure, all dressed in white, with its clothes dancing in the wind, staring at me."

He took a bit of courage in the end and started getting closer to the figure. But the more He was managing to see it clearer, the more confused He was. It was a woman with a long and white hair, so gorgeous as if it was the moon itself. Though this figure was wearing a hood as if it tried to hide its face, CHE5TER seemed as if He already saw this person before, but surprisingly He doesn't remember it at all.

"I had a feeling that this figure was familiar to me for a reason I couldn't understand. I never saw that woman which was staring at me in my whole life, and I could swear it was no former colleague of mine either. Yet she gave me that sense as if I've already met her."

"And what happened after?"

"Well... she just stood there, as I was getting closer, and it sure was confusing me more. But what I didn't expect from her to do was..."

[??]-...Give me your hand, CHE5TER.

"...to say my name. Believe me when I say that I didn't know who she was at all, and I still don't. So how come she knew my name all along?"

[??]-No need of wasting time now. Do as I say and it will end soon.

[CHE5TER]-...I-I'm afraid I don't quite follow. Can you at least give me some explanation first? Where am I am? Who are you? And how do you even know my name? Have we met before?

[??]-There is always time to answer your questions after. But right now, it isn't the right moment. You are putting time on waiting.

[CHE5TER]-What do you mean?

[??]-Give me your hand and everything will begin to make sense. I promise.

He couldn't understand the situation no matter how much He was trying to know who this person is. But what could He do? In the end, He listened to what the woman said, raising a bit His right arm in order to put it on the woman's hand. Of course, He had some hesitation since this is a complete stranger and He doesn't even know where He was. But He slowly started to get His arm closer while looking at the woman. And the closer His arm was towards the woman's, the clearer were becoming the sounds of bells in this world.

"...I had no idea what she wanted from me at all, yet her expression didn't seem to mean harm either. She told me to give her my arm as if I was suppose to recognise her, yet no matter how much I've stared at that face of hers, I couldn't recognise her at all. But before I could put my hand on hers..."

[Voice]-CHE5TER...

"...a familiar sound started calling for my name from behind. This time, I recognised that voice in an instant, even if it took so many years to hear it again. It was either a mirage or I've gone insane that day, and believe me when I say that I bet I was insane. Because when I looked behind..."

[M4TTH3W?]-CHE5TER...

"...I saw my own father, calling for me."

And it's true. Behind Him was standing the former ruler of the Underground City, dressed in the same clothes He last saw Him in. But He wasn't really doing anything, He was just staring from far away at His own son that was close to the strange woman. And, of course, He forgot completely about this stranger and started going towards Him.

Though He was pretty sure that this is a dream, He simply went forward without a second thought. Or, at least that was the intention, as He looked behind at the woman and noticed such a shocked face which confused Him even more. But even so, He continued to get closer to the former ruler, getting right in front of Him, before finally starting to analyse this figure as well.

[CHE5TER]-...Father? Is that really you?

But the figure doesn't respond. Instead, it gives the young ruler His hand, as a sign for Him to put His arm on His, the same thing that the woman wished to do.

[M4TTH3W?]-Give me your hand, CHE5TER...

And He still was confused on what was happening, but He trusted this man more than the woman. So, He did as He said, slowly putting His arm on His hand. But something sure was strange.

[M4TTH3W?]-CHE5TER...

The more He was analysing His own father, the more confused He seemed. And the true confusion started...

[M4TTH3W]-...CHE5TER!

...when He heard the same voice again, but this time from behind. So, He looked quickly to see the face that belongs to the voice, only to get shocked as well. It was another M4TTH3W LENKOV present in that world, standing close to the woman. His clothes were also different, being in white clothes similar to the stranger's. And His face... it expressed fear rather than happiness.

Not long after, that M4TTH3W started going towards His position, while CHE5TER was looking back at the man that just tricked Him into putting His hand on its arm. It now smiled creepily with its eyes closed at the young ruler, but He couldn't do anything anymore, as the figure was holding His arm so tight that it was impossible to escape.

Still, the closer His father was getting, He too tried to reach for Him from that trap, while the whole world around Him was changing completely. What was a calming atmosphere, now was transforming into a void with nothing but darkness all around slowly. And when He tried to catch the former ruler's arm, it was already too late, as the void took full control of His world, remaining simply that smile, bright into darkness, before it also disappeared.

In that darkness, standing alone, He could feel His lungs burning from the strange smell that this void was giving, making Him cough so brutally, before even the world started playing around with Him. After coughing a few times, He found Himself falling randomly and landing on a different floor, where He stands on the ground while His whole body feels like its being trapped in chains.

"...Only the gods know what happened after that, as I simply found myself trapped in a void, with nothing but myself in it. It wasn't that strange world anymore, it was a complete new one, which could terrify you the moment you see it."

Yet what scares Him the most is a bright area in shape of a door in front of Him that appears out of nowhere, and He cannot even get up and see what's inside. But He doesn't even need to, since from that brightness He can hear other voices, talking to each other. But these are no unknown voices to Him this time. These are...

"...So we've lost in the end, huh?"

"From what it seems, we did indeed. And all because of Him."

...His former soldiers' voices. Those that have either met their end or got injured badly in the past and retired. Maybe even from those that still work with Him too.

"I mean, what were you expecting anyway? Master AL7AN left a child to rule over the whole city. You tell me you wished to win with HIM being the successor?"

And no matter how much He tries to get up and go towards that bright door, He is indeed hold back by some chains that make sure He stays on the ground. But even so, He doesn't give up, as He tries to get rid of the chains as much as possible, forcing Himself to move.

"Let's be honest now. Even if He didn't leave us behind, we would've still lost the war. He isn't as powerful as He says, nor He is capable of ruling anybody."

[CHE5TER]-No, no, no...

And even with the struggles, He manages to escape some of the chains, finally being able to move faster now. But what He didn't expect at all was a black mist to come and hold Him back. So, He now had to also battle this thing in order to do what He wanted, pushing it away from Him and trying to reach with His left hand the bright door.

"Yeah... Maybe it was better this way anyway."

[CHE5TER]-...No! I'm right here! I didn't leave!

"It was all His fault in the end. And now we are the ones who suffer from His mistakes."

[CHE5TER]-I'm here! Look at me! I'm he--

"--All His fault."

...And no matter how much He has struggled, the bright door has closed completely, disappearing in the next moment, not to be seen ever again. It left the young ruler lay on the ground, watching with such sorrow in His eyes the place in which the door was suppose to be, losing His last spark of life that He had in His eyes slowly.

...All your fault! All your fault!

[CHE5TER]-...It wasn't my fault! I didn't choose to be the ruler! I didn't chose this fate! It wasn--

--All your fault! All your fault! All your fault!

[CHE5TER]-It was--

--ALL YOUR FAULT!

[CHE5TER]-...all my fault.