When Light Fades At 23:11 (EPISTOLARY NOVEL) ✔️

ANONYMOUS(1)

Do bad guys actually kill people because they find comfort in it? Or maybe they find it amusing. My father once tried to kill me. But soon as I knew it clearly, he didn't mean to do it. He wanted to kill me and end his life afterwards to stop our sufferings. We're so poor to the point that we've been running away from our debts. My father was a kind man. He was a humble person. If you're asking me about my mom, well... I don't know my mom... I don't even know if I had one. Maybe she's dead. Who knows?

You know, my father once told me about a bad guy. That bad guy saved his life. First, I didn't believe him. Because why would a bad guy save a good one? Why would a bad guy lend their arms to someone who's living in a place they hated? EARTH. There's a lot of bad guys living in Earth. Some are seen by eyes and some are only sense by ears because they hide expertly. Because of curiosity, I had to asked my father.

"Was that bad guy a criminal?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Was he killing people?"

"No."

I was puzzled but then I continued to ask him again.

"Was he only killing adults?"

"Maybe..."

Confusion was written on my face.

"Did you witness him killing someone?"

And that was when I knew his story... His life... His sufferings... His reasons...

"He was not killing people because he find solace in it. He doesn't kill a life, he kills death. That's what he said. Sometimes he's violent, sometimes he's evil, yet everytime I had to look at his eyes, I only see a shade of dusk lost by his own world. He was a man who killed lots of people but deep down, he was as vulnerable as a child with no home, no parents, no dreams, no friends to ask for help. His hands we're covered in blood, stained with violence and sufferings from the body of his victims. But you know... his victims? He never called them victims. He never considered them as victims. Because those people he killed were also the same kind as those people who caused him too much damage to the point that he became a person who's gone on berserk."

"Listen, son. My point here is... Don't ever judge a bad person. For before they were swallowed up by darkness, they were also part of the light. But that doesn't mean that his actions was justifiable. In the end... you will just suffer and suffer and suffer... No other way around. You have to face the consequences of your actions."