Shadows Of The Twilight (Book-I)

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Atsushi's pov :

"One bowl of Tea on rice. Pickled plums, silvered nori, and leftover chicken from the dinner. All doused in piping hot water, then shoveled in with salted kelp-----"

"That was so good. All those bowls of tea on rice that I would sneak into the kitchen to make at the orphanage, those bowls were delicious."

I thought to myself.
I am Atsushi Nakajima and I used to stay in an orphanage since I was a little because, I never knew about my parents.
But recently the orphanage kicked me out, and now I am in a city, lying on the bank of a random river.
The sun was setting down and it was starting to get dark.
I have been lying here helpless and hungry for more than two weeks now.

~stomach growls~

"Damn it! ..I am gonna die of hunger" I mumbled in my mind as I just fell down on my face.

"B-but.. if I wish to live, I have no choice but to steal and take from others!" I said to myself and I tried hard to stand up on my feet.

"Get out, you failure!!!"

"No orphanage would ever welcome the likes of you!!!"

"The World would be a better place if you would just die in a ditch somewhere!!"

All those voices of our headmaster in the orphanage, all those scoldings, beatings and those tortures that they did to me kept running through my head as flashbacks.
Those thoughts keep haunting me as hell. I am afraid, I have nowhere to go. Nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat.
I was a helpless kid lying on the ground. Sometimes I think, if all orphanges were like this or only our orphange punnished me in that way? They locked me up in a jail and they even tried to kill me and now they have thrown me away.

"Shut up! ..Shut up! ..SHUT UP!!!!" I yelled out loudly trying to calm myself from those deadly haunting thoughts.
But my voice echoed and came back to me.

I was panting slightly after that loud yell and then I looked up towards the direction where the highway was.

"Die in a ditch? I won't let that happen. I am not gonna die!! ..I'm gonna live no matter what happens!!"

"Alright! ..I will attack the first person who passes by here and I will rob them of everything they have!"

I said those words to myself and I waited for some rich or middle class person to atleast pass by that area so I could steal their money.

I waited and waited there for a few more minutes, and then a group of military police were running on the streets. They were probably training.

"I... I doubt that the military police would be carrying their wallets during their training?! ..Seriously!?" I sighed dropping my head and the group of police passed.

"Okay.. I will try the next person who comes along!!" I sighed.

Suddenly, I sensed someone behind me and then------

"You are mine!!!" I shouted as I turned around but I got caught off guard as I stare at the river to see a pair of legs in the water. The man was drowning and he was floating away making me sweat dropped at the spot.

"He wasn't the one, I quite have in mind-----" I muttered as I continued to stare at those pair of legs floating down the river.

The man let out gurgling noises in underwater and birds came from nowhere and started to peck the pair of legs.

I wasn't thinking to save him. The only thing that I needed was some money so that I can go and eat something.

"H-he will be okay......" I trailed off but I knew he won't have any money after drowning in the river and without wasting anymore time my body moved on it's own.