The room was pitch black, and the boy lay sideways on the bed, curled up into a ball.
That is the most insecure position.
The room was very quiet, except for the boy's light and shallow breathing.
In the darkness, he opened his eyes, and his pupils reflected the dark room in front of him, as if he was looking at something, but he didn't seem to see anything at all.
After a long time, Mutt closed his eyes, clasped the pillow tightly with his hands, and grabbed the deep wrinkles on the pillow.
Countless people lost their lives forever with that young major general's understatement.
The countless sparks in the starry sky turned countless lives into the dust of the universe...
And the scene where the flesh and blood burst from the whole body of the man who twisted his face and pleaded frantically...
The boy took a deep breath, trying to clear his mind and calm down.
He wasn't sympathizing with the pirates.
For those murderers who killed his 'grandfather', for those bastards who disregarded human life, he believed that they should be severely punished, that is what they deserved.
…
He's just scared.
He is just terrified.
When Lieutenant Colonel Via looked at him with the eyes of a coward and ordered him to return to the room, he could not refute the eyes that regarded him as a weak person.
He couldn't deny that he was a weakling.
On Earth, among the peaceful Confederacy, war has been dead for hundreds of years, and blood and fire exist only in their histories and books.
The world around him is so peaceful and beautiful.
Even if he was attacked by pirates last time, he was awakened by the explosion while sleeping in the room. As soon as he woke up, he was kicked unconscious by the pirate who broke in. When he woke up, he found that he was locked up. Nothing was seen.
And now, after personally experiencing the battlefield, he finally saw clearly the chaos and cruelty of the world he was in right now.
…
Suddenly coming to this unfamiliar era, Mutt has never had a great sense of reality.
He always felt that this might just be an absurd and interesting dream, more like their virtual game at that time—until the blood and war really appeared in front of his eyes, pouring chills all over his head.
He once thought enthusiastically that he would learn to drive a spaceship.
He once thought self-righteously that he would return to Earth in a ship that belonged to him.
Only now did he finally understand how naive his thoughts were.
In the seemingly magnificent starry sky, there are countless dangers and traps hidden, such as undercurrents, black holes, particle storms, meteorite flows, etc., as long as he encounters any of them, he will die without a place to bury him.
Even if you are lucky enough to avoid all of the above, there are still countless greedy interstellar pirates hiding in the darkness, and there may be other dangerous forces.
Just look at the calm and calm performance of those people on the battleship.
In the starry sky of melee, wars can be seen everywhere, so this level of war is nothing to those people.
Mute couldn't imagine how many battles he had to go through before these people's attitude towards war was as flat as eating and drinking.
This is an era of the jungle.
This is an age of iron and blood.
This is an era of brutal wars.
In the endless starry sky, life is so fragile.
And here he is so small...
Continue to take a deep breath, exhale it, trying to block the bloody eyeballs of the man in his mind that protruded before he died, Mute closed his eyes vigorously.
After struggling for a long time, he fell asleep in the dark.
…
……………
His body was very heavy, as if he was tightly pressed down by an invisible thing, and the added weight made him start to be out of breath little by little.
He opened his mouth, but couldn't get any oxygen.
It was as if a fire was burning in his chest, which made his internal organs ache.
Very hard.
he thinks.
so painful...
In the darkness, there seemed to be bright spots of light faintly in the distance, attracting him to walk in that direction.
Every time I walk in that direction, the weight on my body is lifted a little bit.
Every time it passed, the burning pain eased a bit.
go there…
he thinks.
Go over there...it won't be so painful.
Thinking of this, he walked slowly towards the bright place, his body gradually became lighter, and a sense of comfort like soaking in hot spring surrounded him little by little.
over there...
[Don't go there!]
who
[return! I beg you! do not go!]
Whose voice is this
[Please, don't go—]
… Mother…
[No, don't go, please, don't leave me!]
Don't cry, Mom, I'm not leaving.
I'm right by your side, I'm not going anywhere...
…
When he was struggling to open his eyes in a pale ward, he saw his mother crying uncontrollably being hugged by his father, her haggard face was covered with tears.
The man who was taller than anything else in his mind was hugging his crying wife, watching him through the lens with tears in his eyes.
He looked at them, struggling to pull a smile on his face covered by the oxygen mask.
Don't cry, mother.
Don't be sad, Dad.
I do not go.
I will not leave you.
I will Survive.
He smiled and promised his most important relatives, and then, again and again, he woke up from the darkness.
Even though his body was on the verge of exhaustion, he still struggled to open his eyes again and again.
Even the doctors were amazed at his willpower to live and praised his strength.
He is not actually strong.
He is afraid of pain, he is very hard, and he often secretly sheds tears in pain.
But he promised his parents and his two most beloved people.
He will survive.
That's why he struggled desperately from the darkness to reality again and again, in order to show his parents their favorite smile again.
But after all, the willpower could not withstand the exhaustion of the body, and the doctor announced that his body had reached its limit.
On the second day after the doctor announced the matter, his parents gritted their teeth and made the final decision.
The living body was frozen, sealing his body in a low temperature of absolute zero.
Until one day, medicine has advanced enough to treat his terminal illness and resuscitate him.
Don't get your hopes up.
The researcher responsible for freezing him told his parents.
Depending on the individual's willpower and many other factors, the success rate of waking up after freezing is only one tenth. The vast majority of people will fall into eternal sleep after freezing, and they will never be able to open their eyes again.
That day, he was naked and was slowly pushed into the apparatus that was going to freeze him.
He opened his eyes, reluctantly wanting to take one last look at the world he lived in, and at the faces of his two most beloved people.
In the last second of unconsciousness, he heard their voices.
live!
It was a woman's crying voice.
It was a man's heart-piercing roar.
Mutt, live!
Even if his consciousness had plunged into darkness in the next second, the voices of those two people kept echoing in the depths of his mind.
Even in the end, what they asked of him was only that one sentence.
[Live].
...
……………
After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, in the darkness, Mute, who woke up from the dream, slowly opened his eyes, with a little brown soft black hair scattered on the snow-white pillow.
The boy's dark pupils glowed slightly in the darkness.
He quietly looked at the darkness in front of him, his eyes seemed to be looking at some distant place through the darkness, with a bit of trance.
The room was still very quiet, and the slight sound of breathing sounded softly in the quiet and small room.
After a long time, the boy lying sideways on the bed moved.
His body was bent into a semicircle, and his hands were lightly clenched into fists and placed by his lips.
He closed his eyes and curled up in the darkness as if praying.
I will Survive.
His lips kissed his hand clenched into a fist, and he closed his eyes as if he was kissing a relative he would never see again.
Mom, Dad, please don't worry about me.
I'm alive.
… I will live.
I will keep my promise with you.
No matter where I am, no matter what happens, no matter what means.
I will also let myself live.
...
In the dark room, the black-haired boy curled up as if nestled in the arms of a non-existent relative fell into a deep sleep again.
After an unknown amount of time, the door of the room suddenly opened automatically, and a tall figure stood at the door.
The light coming in from the outside would cast a long shadow of the person on the ground, and also fall on the person on the bed.
The visitor approached the bed, lowered his head slightly, and looked at the teenager curled up on the bed.
Then, leaning down, he lifted the child across his arms, just like he did last night.
He looked down at the person in his arms.
The boy's childish face was slightly wrinkled, it was not as calm and relaxed as last night, it didn't look very good, and the frown seemed a little aggrieved.
Like a small animal that has lost its way and can't find its home, it makes people feel a little soft-hearted for no reason.
The young major general held the person in his arms like this, and walked straight back to his bedroom with a calm expression.
It was very late and there were few people on the road, but the soldiers who were on duty on each floor were still standing firm.
therefore…
"Oh my god, I seem to have dozed off just now!"
"... Coincidentally, me too."
"I also had a terrible dream!"
"... I seem to be too."
"..."
"... what did you dream about?"
"You speak first."
"You first."
"I met the major general passing by with a boy in his arms... This dream is so terrifying, it scares my heart so hard that it's still beating hard, oh my god it scared me to death!"
"... What a coincidence! Me too! I also had this terrible dream!"
"..."
"..."
Looking at each other.
The above is the conversation that occurred after the two soldiers on duty who were stunned to see His Excellency the Major General passing by with a boy in his arms were overly frightened and their minds went blank for a short time.