I guess I am evil. That's what they think of me. Well, they seriously do because if they didn't my best friend Levi wouldn't be dead. I am Erwin Smith, the third member of the Guard. My colleagues and I are the rulers of the kingdom of O'kasis. We are wonderful rulers, I would like to say. So you are probably wondering why my best friend is dead and why they thought we were evil.
It all started about a week ago when we began getting death threats from the Outlanders saying that if we don't give them more food, they would make us pay. We are at the top of the social pyramid, then there's the Royals, then there's the Useless and then there's the Outlanders. We all thought it was absolute trash. There was no way the Outlanders could hurt us. We had money and power. We were the five kings that replaced the king after his death. Levi was only one of these people. There is also Timothy, Ace, and our leader Margaret. She didn't like us all that much and said that all of our ideas were the "dumbest thing [she] have ever heard." This, of course, does not help with my lowering self-esteem. That's besides the point. We didn't even know the Outlanders had to eat, so we never fed them. Was it our fault that they never ate in front of us? Absolutely not.
We thought they had no excuse to threaten us and we wanted to teach them a lesson. So we got our militia ready to fight them off if they were to attack.
I remember Levi advising us "The Outlanders would not get an army to fight us since they had no power and valued people of their own kind."
Margaret always thought he was the dumbest of us all.
A few hours later, six twenty-seven to be exact, we were all in our living room doing our own thing. I was reading on the couch being more and more sucked into my book by the minute. Timothy was playing cards with Ace and seemed to be winning. Margaret was sipping her tea in the largest chair in the room. And Levi, like the perfect person he was, was looking out the window commenting about all the different colors the birds were.
I recall exactly what he said next--"Oh no! This bird is a person! Who can shapeshift again? Oh no an Outlander! --wait it's picking something up. OH, NO IT'S A BOMB! Everyone leave this building," he looks down to the carpet facing all of us, "my friend, Erwin please make sure everyone leaves this building. Even if it means I die."
I was shocked. Not only that he had a horrible vocabulary and he was risking his life for me but, that he called me his friend. I mean, I always wanted to be his friend, like his best friend, I just didn't know he wanted to be my friend. I made sure everyone left the building. Everyone was so scared that they didn't say anything. They'd lived in constant protection for their whole life. We defeated the king by poisoning his drink, everyone thinks it was a vicious battle but it really wasn't. I made sure everyone ran away from the castle and we were as far away as we could be before we went into the Useless territory.
Then I heard it. Glass shattering, wood breaking and the scream from one man. I tried to fight back the feeling of relief, everyone else was okay, I was okay. The person I cared about most was not okay, dead probably. Without thought I ran into the castle, pieces of the in caving building falling on me. I heard multiple screams of "Erwin..." and also the other members of the guard's names but whatever it's my story. I found him in the living room right where we left him. Lying on the floor with blood coming out of his forehead. The bomb made his right arm and his beautiful raven hair fall off. He still had his glorious smile glued to his face but, in all honesty, he looked disgusting. Since I knew it was his last moments to live I wanted to run to him and tell him how I really felt about him.
I saw his hazel eyes light up from my appearance.
"Levi," I yelled, "Oh, Levi I want to tell you something, important."
