Fiction Series 4:Survive

Episode 43: The King of The Underworld

"Underworld?"

"Yeah...I've explained it to you many times."

"This is underworld? But doesn't a place that has many of demons called underworld?"

"No. That's demon world. THIS is underworld."

Ouh....now I get it.

So sebelum ni....aku memang salah sangka lah?

Damn....

"So....how the hell did you get stuck in this world?"

"Not stuck but dead. Everyone that died before will come to this place and will be judged by the hell's king."

Wait what? That means....Am I dead?

"But it's weird, why the hell did you still have a mortal body when you literally in underworld?"

Lama aku cuba memproses kata-kata lelaki ni.

"And how are you supposed to know that I have a mortal body?"

"Your hand."

Jari telunjuknya dihalakan ke arah pergelangan tangan kanan aku.

Aku terus menyelak lengan baju and dengan jelas aku boleh nampak that there's.....a six pointed star on my wrist.

The same star yang ada di dahi aku ni.

Does it has some kind of connection or something?

Okay, first of all let me get this straight. After I woke up, I just suddenly in this world and this man here was the one that was with me this entire time in this cell.

Yap, aku di dalam penjara sekarang ni.

But anyway, that means I will soon meet the underworld's king according to this man here 'cause as he said before; "All souls that come to this place will be judged."

"Who's the kin-"

"Shush! The guards are coming."

And as soon as he said that line, two guards are really coming and aku lansung tak dengar tapak kaki diorang datang ke arah cell ni.

Maybe disebabkan aku masih mempunyai mortal body but that is just my speculation.

Salah seorang guard tu mula membuka pintu cell ni manakala seorang lagi pula mula mengeluarkan rantai yang panjang lalu mengikatnya kepada leher dan kedua-dua belah tangan aku yang dah disatukan.

"H-hey! Bukan ke aku yang kene judge hari ni? Kenapa pendatang baru ni pulak yang dapat peluang tu?"

Yeah....why me though?

Oh, you guys want to know why that guy wants to be judged that much? It's because sesiapa je yang dah kene judge, their soul will be freed and not chain to this damn underworld.

I guess our life will still be suffered even after death.

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Kedua-dua orang guard yang tengah mengiringi aku berjalan di hadapan aku  sambil kami semua sedang menuju ke.....

What was it call again?

Ah! The King Chamber.

And sebaik sahaja kami bertiga dah sampai di hadapan sebuah pintu yang.....agak besar bagi pendapat aku, salah sorang pengawal yang mengiringi aku mula mengetuk pintu besar yang berada di hadapan kami untuk beberapa kali sebelum suara gurau dari sebalik pintu ni mula memberi arahan kepada kami untuk masuk.

But it's weird right? Why there are no guards to guard the entrance of this chamber?

Walauapapun, aku dipaksa juga untuk berjalan semula dan hanya bunyi rantai besi berlaga ni je yang mengisi suasana yang sunyi diantara kami semua.

And there he is.

The king of hell.

Sitting on his throne.

While hiding his face.

"Hade-"

Tak sempat aku ingin menghabiskan kata-kata, salah seorang pengawal yang berada di belakang aku menendang kasar belakang kaki aku yang mana membuatkan badan aku ni tersungkur lalu berlutut di hadapan Hades.

Yap. Hades. The famous king of the underworld according to the Greek mythology.

And that famouse Hades now.....mula mengangkat kepalanya sambil perlahan-lahan tangannya pula mula menyelak kain yang menutupi sebahagian dari wajahnya tu.

Dan bila seluruh kain tu habis diselak, aku terus terkedu.

"Suprise! Look, look. My voice is getting better right?"

Soalan tu ditujukan ke arah dua orang pengawal yang berada di belakang aku ni dan mereka terus memuji dan menyanjung tinggi perempuan yang berada di throne tu.

Yeah.....she's not Hades.

And looks like suara garau tadi just a disguise that was made by this woman.

And that woman is.....

"Persephone."

Fokusnya kini dialihkan kepada aku bila aku memanggil namanya.

"Well....I'm sorry to dissapoint you but....."

Suaranya dah kembali asal semula sambil kakinya mula disilangkan while her body is leaning more closer to me.

"......There's no Hades today. It's true that he always be the judger to all the mortal's souls but for today,.....I will be the judger 'cause your situation interest me."

Persephone memberikan isyarat kepada dua orang pengawal tu untuk meninggalkan chamber ni dan sebaik sahaja bunyi dentuman pintu kedengaran di segenap ruang bilik ni, perempuan tu serta-merta berada di hadapan aku.

Dia berlutut lalu menanggalkan rantai besi yang meliliti leher dan kedua-dua belah pergelangan tangan aku.

Perlahan tangan aku menggosok my wrist.

"Why?"

"I've said before. Your situation interest me."

"And in what way exactly?"

Persephone mula mengambil tempat di thronenya semula sebelum dia membuka mulut.

"There's no mortal body manage to enter this world before but you're the first one that manage to do that and just out of nowhere appeared in one of my cells. Oh! Besides that, I've seen your stories."

"My...stories?"

"A-ha. After all I'm one of the Legions too."

Oh yeah....I forgot about that. She's god too, right? Mestilah dia one of the Legions jugak yang berperanan untuk menjadi sponsor kepada mana-mana mortals yang diorang ada interest.

"And because of your stories, I think it's better to let you live longer than this. I mean you get into this world just because you want to save everyone, right? In this Scenario before."

Ayat terakhirnya ti dikatakan sambil sebuah skrin transparent tiba-tiba muncul di hadapannya lalu video di mana aku membunuh Hirasu mula dimainkan dan perempuan ni menunjukkan video tu kepada aku.

But aku tak mengangguk mahupun menggeleng untuk menjawab persoalannya.

Walaupun perkara yang Persephone tu kata betul about me, kill that thing in order to save everyone, I still feel guilty about the whole thing in 'killing' my brother once again.

"Hey, Mirai?"

Aku mengangkat muka lalu mata kami berdua mula bertentangan.

"It's not your fault that your brother died."

Yeah, I know. But I mean-

"Wait what?!! How did you know? Benda tu bukan ke orang dari timeline asal aku je tau-"

Aku segera menekup mulut sendiri bila dah terlepas lebih banyak information.

Ah, shit.

And Persephone pula....She's smiling at me as if she got a checkmate.

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Sorry for the late update. I tried to tell my brother that he was adopted