Stick War: Inamorta and beyond

Chapter 45: Colonel Winfield

3rd April, 8.23am

Mark's POV

"You're a pest!" 

No.

"Why are you still here?!" 

No.

"Get out of here!?"

No.

"You're a curse!"

NO!

I opened my eyes and realized that their full of tears. I sat up from my bed and wiped my tears away. Why do I still have that dream? It has been 10 years since then. I grabbed my head and cried silently. I let my tears fall from my eyes. 

As a kid, I didn't get much love. My parents died when I was 7 years old from a strange incident. After that, disaster struck whenever I was around. Be it fires, robbery or anything bad. The villagers decided to blame it all on me, a small child that barely knew anything. 

I had no one. I was alone, all alone. I was homeless and hungry. 

Then one day, I was lying in an alleyway with bruises and cuts on my body. I collapsed from hunger and had given up. I waited to peacefully die until someone saved me. 

Then, I heard a knock from my room door. I quickly wiped my tears and stopped myself from crying. I headed to my door and opened it. 

"Yes?" I asked. 

It was Ace. Oh god. Why must it be him? Why can't be the beauty, Elizabeth to come?

"What is it?" I grumbled in annoyance.

"Come on, today is the day remember?" He asked in his annoying tone.

"Today is Tuesday." I mumbled.

Ace rolled his eyes and smacked me in the head.

"OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" I screamed in pain.

"Today's the day when Kim fights the Colonel remember?!" He shouted.

It then struck my head. Oh yeah, today is the day where it decides whether he dies or not. 

"Oh yeah, I was just testing you." I joked.

"You forgot didn't you?" He asked.

I then closed my room door and sprinted off.

"HEY! YOU LAZY FORGETFUL SCUMBAG! COME BACK YOU COWARD!" The stupid prince shouted at me. 

"No can do rich boy!" I joked and turned a corner.

But when I turned a corner, I bumped into someone and fell onto the floor. 

"Ow... Sorry about that." I apologized. 

Ace caught up to me.

"What are you doing?" He sighed.

"I see that the Order Empire soldiers are very immature." The person remarked. 

"What did you say?!" Ace shouted.

I rubbed my head and looked up at the person. It was a women around my age. She had blazing red hair and eyes. Her hair is tied in a braid and she had pale white skin. She wore a military uniform and holds a spear and shield. 

"Hey missy, could you please don't be so rude? It spoils your cute looks." I said with a smirk.

"Shut your trap! You're just diplomats from a weak nation that declared war on us that came here for a  peace treaty because you are losing the war." She remarked with a smirk.