Otherside (English Version)

3. Other Side

Ace... He is...

Completely drunk.

He tells me crazy things, looking indignant, bottle in hand.

"Do you realize? I mean... water, we have it everywhere, so why do we pay for it? It's still crazy, isn't it!"

And then suddenly, he collapses to the ground.

"You fell asleep ?"

I sigh, a slight smile stretching across my lips.

As I place a blanket over his body, I notice his wide-eyed eyes.

His skin is smooth, pale and surprisingly cold, like snow.

He turns around, to lie on his back and stares at the ceiling.

"Why..."

I sit cross-legged on the ground, next to him.

"Why am I so weak, with you?"

I sigh.

He pursues :

"I'm going to tell you a story, Marco."

He looks up at me.

"It was before I arrived in the new world. I had my crew, but that day, things weren't going well. I wanted to drink, alone..."

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I walked into a slightly hidden bar, in a small alley.

I took a high chair, twelve glasses of dry whiskey.

Everything was clear in my head.

And then this man approached me.

He started talking to me, but I wasn't really listening to him.

"You have a hell of a descent"

I think that's what he told me.

I didn't care.

Of course, I had seen him slip that thing into my glass.

But, as I said, I didn't care.

No matter what was going to happen, that day, I no longer wanted to fight for my life.

It didn't matter.

It still doesn't really...

I wanted to die.

The guy, after I collapsed, took me upstairs to the bar, and he started touching me.

Lying on this bed, I couldn't move.

Alcohol and this drug had a funny effect on me.

No, I didn't want that to happen.

I was weak that day.

I didn't have the strength to fight for myself.

I told him :

"Stop, I'm not in the mood"

He laughed.

"I'm not asking your opinion, Snow White..."

And then it happened.

I had terrible pain.

Nothing can ever erase this moment.

The incense vapors rose to my head.

I couldn't say anything else.

I couldn't move, or speak