My Love, Darkness

Chapter 72

LARID blows a loud breath as he felt his heart thump so fast he could imagine it jumping out of his body. He never felt so nervous for a hundred thousand years that have passed. Not until now that he's waiting inside a cozy restaurant where he patiently wait and stay still to see the woman he had been wanting to see again after a hundred thousand of years and the death of her wife.

Ilang linggo na rin ang nakalipas simula nang mapag-alaman niya na muli na ngang nagkatawang-tao ang kaniyang asawa. He feels so ecstatic after knowing the truth to the point that he went a little bit overboard just by hiring a private investigator to find his reincarnated wife.

Hindi na siya makapaghintay pa na makitang muli ang asawa niya lalo na nang mabigyan na siya ng mga impormasiyon tungkol sa kasalukuyang pamumuhay na mayro'n ang kaniyang asawa.

His wife, Leila is a professional baker who owns a famous pastry shop near his place. Must be a few blocks to pass by before seeing the property. She's also in her twenty-four age who happens to be one of the bachelorettes known in the college university.

Kaya naman hindi mapigilan maging Masaya para sa babaeng matagal na niyang hinahantay. He kept waiting for his wife to be reborn and now that she has been reincarnated, he will not let his chance go to waste. Hindi na siya mag-aaksaya ng oras.

Matagal siyang naghintay para muling makita ang kaniyang asawa at makasama ito. Matagal rin niyang sinisisi ang sarili at pinabayaan ang kaniyang buhay na makontrol ng poot sa pagkamatay ng kaniyang asawa. He became a deadly monster for centuries. Joined every war just to get his self killed. He killed already killed thousands of man and no one has even laid their finger on him.

Walang kahit sino sa mga sundalo at kawal na napatay niya ang nakahawak o nagawa man lang siyang iwan ng sugat. He was so untouchable to the point men fears him in every war or invasion he is in. Kahit na matagal na niyang inabandona ang kahariang pinaghirapan niyang palakihin, lahat pa rin ay natatakot kahit sa pagbanggit lang ng kaniyang pangalan.

But fear has done nothing good to him. He was still living like a ghost. Namuhay siyang mag-isa at nagpakasasa sa mga bagay na hindi pa rin nakakapagpasaya sa kaniya.

There's even a time where he wanted to die so he jumped off a mountain but jumping off a mountain can't even make him dead. He tried many times to kill himself.

He walked a path being eaten by the fire. Let himself get bitten by a saw-scaled viper. Drinking a poison. Even making his self hanged by a rope. All of the things that he tried are nothing but the stupidest act he doesn't even want to reminisce.

Although he felt a little bit kind of stupid because of what he was doing to his self back then, he's relieved that he did not end up killing his self. Because if he died back then, he will not have his chance to meet the reborn version of his dead wife.

Kung pinilit niyang patayin ang sarili niya, pagsisihan niyang ginusto niyang mamatay habang pinapanood ang asawa niya na naglalakad mag-isa sa mundo ng mga mortal.

Now that he has a chance, he will promise.

He will make her happy. He will give his everything just to make Leila live a peaceful life. He will make sure that everything she will have are anything that she deserve. Babawi siya sa mga panahong hindi niya ito pinahalagahan. Mga panahong hindi niya piniling makasama ito dahil sa mas naka-focus siya na paunlarin ang kaniyang kaharian.

To him, it's the power that matters to him back then. Noon, walang araw na hindi niya siya lumalabas ng kaharian para manakop ng maliliit na kabahayan hanggang sa malalaking kaharian. It is easy for him back then because he was born a Nephilim in which his kingdom doesn't, only his wife knows.

Bata pa lang siya ay alam niyang hindi siyang ordinaryong tao. When he was five years old, he remembered breaking a thick tree branch with only one hand. He felt so strong he was unable to hide it, making the villager got curious about his ability.

Hindi nagtagal ay nilukob ang mga mamamayan ng takot dahil na rin sa walang habas niyang pagpapakita ng kaniyang lakas. Everyone is looking at him that he hurt someone already. They are calling him names that are making him scared. He was clueless about the fear he was inflicting on the villagers back then.

Not until everyone became insane of killing him just because they thought that he is a child of a devil himself when in fact, it was the opposite. He's a child of an angel and man.

Kaya naman nang malaman ng tatay niya ang balak na pagpapatay sa kaniya, mabilis siyang iniluwas ng kaniyang Ama palabas ng kaharian para mamuhay na magsasaka sa isang parte ng Ireland. Kahit pa na para sa kaligtasan niya ang ginawa ng kaniyang Ama.

Malungkot siya na kailangan niya pa umalis para takasan ang mga taong nakalakihan niyang batiin tuwing madadaanan niya ang mga ito. Lumaki siyang tahimik na nabubuhay bilang magsasaka hanggang sa isang araw ay may napadaang mga kabalyero sa kanilang sakahan.

Puros malalaki ang mga katawan nito habang natatakpan ang buong katawan ng mabibigat na baluti. He was supposed to welcome them to their home but after seeing the scars and smelling the stinking odor the knights have, he knew that they are knights who overused a King's power. The knights who are corrupted.

Noong una ay hindi pa naniniwala sa kaniya ang Ama niya ng sinabihan niya ito tungkol sa mga nararamdaman niya ngunit agad din niyang napatunayan na tama ang hinala niya. The knights are planning to take their harvested crops that he and his father both stored for the winter.

His father was not fighting back as they watch the knights stealing their stored food but he has no plan of doing the same thing. Pinaghirapan nila ng ilang buwan ang pagsasaka para sa magiging pagkain nila ng buong tag-lamig.

So when his father was about to get stabbed by a sword, he used his body to block the sword and let the knight pierced the sword more on his body. He can feel the pain and his insides being torn but he remembers everything being tolerable.

Natatandaan niya ang pagkagulat sa mga kabalyero at ang takot na gumuhit sa mga mukha nito nang hilain niya palabas sa kaniyang katawan ang espada na para bang nasasaktan. The other knights tried to kill him but his powers that night was on full show.

He became stronger and untouchable as he kills the knights with his own hands. Their home became a slaughterhouse that night where he turned the bodies of the knights into many pieces. Nadadala siya ng kaniyang galit at kapangyarihan na umabot sa puntong kailangan pa siyang pigilan ng kaniyang Ama para hindi niya mapatay ang natitirang kabalyero.

Putol na ang paa ng kabalyerong natitirang buhay kaya kumalma siya. He and his father are both shocks by the bloody m******e that turned out in their home but his father proposed of leaving the place again.

Ang gusto ng kaniyang Ama ay muli nilang lisanin ang lugar lalo na't kilala rin sila bilang magsasaka. Maraming tao ang nakakakilala sa kanila na dahilan para mas ikatakot ng Ama niya ang mga mangyayari sa oras na malaman ng mga tao ang mga kabalyerong pinatay niya.

That night, it wasn't fear that made him decide. It was anger. The anger of not being accepted. Nagalit siya sa kaniyang Ama dahil mas gusto nitong tumakas sila kaysa harapin ang mga tao.

It's not like he killed the knights of the King because he wanted to. He killed the knights because they are trying to take the foods they have ready for the winter, to also survive.

But he doesn't want to be a refugee again. As he looks at the bloody mess he has done to their farmhouse, he realized he can just do whatever he wants. And so, he did not come with his father.

He left him with a letter saying all the things that he wanted to say when he was a child. And as he travels to different places and kingdoms, he always uses his power to do bad deeds.

Nasanay siyang makipagbuno sa mga tao kapalit ang mga kailangan niya. Mula sa pagkain hanggang sa mga mamahaling bagay na gusto niyang makuha, lahat iyon ay natamasa niya dahil sa pagiging bayolente niya.

He doesn't care even if people have been calling him ruthless. Wala siyang pakialam lalo na't iisa bagay lang ang natutunan niya.

Even if he tries to be a better person, people will still look at him terrified because of the power he has. He realizes that it is far better to be feared by everyone than stay as a man who just only wants to be accepted. If he wants everyone to accept him while showing what he has, the villagers in every kingdom he visits must live in fear.