The Weakest Anchor

Boy Of Promise

Year is 1703 a young boy was living in a village. He was the promised child, heir to be king over the village of Feumetsu. The village was constructed with wide flood trenches over 100 feet in diameter, near 3000 feet in length and 70 feet in depth every 2 square miles these trenches covered the village. The village itself was rather large in comparison to most in this world spanning over 50 square miles entirely.

A family of 3 is seen eating at a fairly large spread table, each person is distanced from eachother, making eating there seem awkward with any less than 10 people.
Nozomi is seen silently playing with a singular piece of broccoli with a fork.

Kaijo Feumetsu the father of nozomi is a man with long black hair, and dark eyes, his clean shaven face and fancy attire oozes confidence. He speaks up in a calm manner, yet has a hint of sternity in his voice.
"Nozomi. Have you finished your training?. "

He is silent.
Nozomi is a small frail boy he has short unkept hair, but he makes up for it in the way he is dressed, with a dark suit to match his hair and eyes he is the spitting image of his father.

Nozomi hesitates. Then quietly speaks up in a nervous tone still starring at his plate of food.

"I.. I have not yet father.. B-but I was going to-"

Kaijo cuts Nozomi off before he can finish his sentence.
"I will not..."

he stands up quickly slamming his hands into the table shaking all that was on it, splling drinks and food all over.

"HAVE A WEAK SON! HOW THE HELL CAN A WEAKLING LIKE YOU EVER BE KING OF THIS VILLAGE?! YOU ARE 11 YEARS OF AGE! YOU SHOULD BE TAKING ON FULL GROWN MEN! YET YOU CAN'T EVEN BEAT SOMEONE OF YOUR AGEE!! IF YOU ARE TO LOSE THE ONLY ONES YOU SHOULD EVER LOSE TO ARE THOSE OF ROYALTY!"

Nozomi looks down fighting back the tears causing his eyes to blur.

Kaijo sighs while pinching the bridge of his nose while calming his voice

"Go to the training field now."

Nozomi quickly gets up and walks out of the dining room, exiting the large doors that tower over him. He begings to sob quietly while blindingly walking his way down the halls of his large house and out to the back yard.

We see kozu, nozumis mother a calm delicate women who is confident even during times when women we're viewed as lesser. She is a bright blond with blue eyes that glisten in the sun rays entering the dining room as she is still eating at the table, silently, accross from kaijo before she speaks up.

"Are you going too hard on him? "
She asks

Kaijo Gruntaly sits back down into his chair.
"No. He needs to know his weakness. It's not right for him to lose as much as he does. Just the other day he lost to a village boy. A village boy!."

Kozu speaks again
"That is true. "

Kaijo begins rambling out.
"I mean he was bullied, ROYALTY BULLIED! And it was some runt. A runt who doesn't have an ounce of gold.. It's unbelievable. "

Kozu replies again.
"Indeed. Nozomi is.." She pauses "he is different from the others.."

Kaijo grunts to himself
"If by different you mean absolutely useless you'd be right. "

Kozu speaks out again
"What I mean to say is what Nozomi lacks in strength, he excels in intelligence.. He is a smart boy."

Nozomi is shown running away from his house and towards the village. His crying is starting to slow, before he can leave the edge of his house a village boy stops him.

A village boy who lives in rags dirty hair and body, his hair which what was supposed to be a dirty blond, was covered in dirt making it seem almost black. His nails on his hands and feet were long and uncleaned.

The boy speaks in a mocking tone
"Woah, woah, woah" he grins "where are you going.. "

Before Nozomi can speak he is clobbered in the face by the boy.

"You're royalty right?! Arnt you supposed to be strong?"
The boy continues to beat down on the defenseless Nozomi.

The boy grows angry. as his fist ceaselessly pounds away at Nozomi. "WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL! YOU HAVE NOTHING! THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME! "

The boy struggley rips off nozomis shirt and tie from off his body and leaves Nozomi at the edge of the village half naked, and in a bloody mess .. Why were people like this to Nozomi?

When the Feumetsu's took over the village the people in it would be forced by kaijo Feumetsu, who used his strength and ego to take the money of the families there. He would send soldiers to collect taxes from the people taxes of over 90% of the money they have. If they do not pay soldiers will beat the family including children and even babies until the family gives them all they have at that moment. If it continues the youngest child of the family will be killed. If the family has yet to bare any children.. Then the entire family itself would be killed. It was a brutle world where living was impossible and leaving was just the same. Having flood trenches covered in the village people would have trouble navigateing through the constant water that floods the village.

The children hated seeing their mother and father being beaten by soldiers for no longer having money, they hated the feumetsu's. And they would take their anger out the only way they were aloud, by beating Nozomi just as hard as them. Kaijo should put an end to his sons constant beatings you would think. But he does not care. If his son can't win for himself, even unmatched. It's Nozomis falt for being weak. The crooked ways of Nozomis father backlashes onto himself. And Nozomi being a boy the village people do not want to kill him. Just torture him as they have.

Yet Nozomi has no idea why people do things to him, nor why his father wants him to be so strong he wants to be free. Free from royalty. Free from judgement and free from the weakness he constantly possesses
As Nozomis is fainted on the damp cold grass he begins to imagine his free world. To do whatever he likes with no restrictions. He can go where he pleases. Live how he wants. And live his own life, where he is not judged for his ranking in society. But for who he is as a person. Thoes were his only thoughts in the long amount of time he was passed out.