SCARLET BLACK: The Red Eyed Spider (ON-HOLD)

Chapter X Twenty X Two

Chapter 22 : Her x Dark x Side

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-Chizumi-

Finding myself again in dark chilling place feels rather nostalgic. I can't believe myself how I just get dragged here out of nowhere, with the worst timing of all. I know I'm not that weak, yet overwhelming emotions keep on sucking me out like a helpless root.

Wicked roots. I know each person has a wicked roots. Their dark side no one else knows aside from thyself. Keeping secrets like it's something dearest than their lives, and unveiling it out in the light will destroy their ideal life. So they bury it into the deepest part of their minds, forgetting as if it has never happened.

For someone like me, who has lived my life in lies, strangely found myself digging desperately down to my depths, never been this thirsty for the truth. It is all... for the sake of love.

My dearest friends... my love...

The love that I found in this cruel world. The love that I desire so much. The love that gave me life.

Someone to protect. Someone to cherish. Someone to put my life at stake.

If these are the rules of love, I would gladly swallow down all the ugly and painful truth like I thirst for more.

No matter how venomous the truth might be... if this is all I could do.

The sound of unlocking followed by a creaking door.

The sound of my heart beating like a loud drum.

The sound of my heavy breathing like I'm being drowned.

It all takes a second before I was being pulled in by a dark smoke into the hollow of darkness, where my lost pieces are scattered like a broken mirrors.

I started to pick the pieces one by one, and it glows every time my hands came on touch.

Yet picking up every piece stings.

Like death.

And when my hands began to bleed, the surroundings changed abruptly like an old film.

Then I saw myself standing on the same trick tower back then, beside them, my friends... who, in my surprise, already learned my dark side before me.

I suddenly felt scared. Yet this is no turning back.

My friends' eyes scream shock and horrid as I looked towards the unrecognizable platform on the middle where their eyes are stuck.

There, in the clearing darkness, I saw someone who resembles like me a lot...

Stumbling upon my realization, my lips parted agape as if I'm out of breath. With all too sudden, every single detail of my memory came rushing through me like a quick playback.

I fell on my knees weakly as I screamed with my bloodshot eyes, yet no voice are coming out from me.

That's me. This is... me from the time in the trick tower.

The moment where I was challenged in a death match by a certain man with scars on his face.

The exact memory I lost... this is what really happened.

I see. The missing piece of myself.

I finally saw it. I now remembered.

From how my opponent killed me back in our death match, yet I didn't die. From the moment I rose up like a vengeful spirit, then everything around were destroyed and blood is painted all over the entire space. From the moment I tortured him with all my hatred until my hands were tainted with sin.