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All Chapters of Road to Valhalla: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120
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Chapter 110: She Cried
I've always found people who can admit they are wrong, admirable. It isn't about a single apology, or admitting your defeat in an argument. This is about the knowledge that you hold to yourself, the knowing of being on the wrong side of things. They don't try to justify themselves because they cannot change themselves. They don't intend to, because they've tried and they've failed. Their failure is sad, I'd say. I believe they find it sad too. They have an ingrained inability to conform, to change, to exist in the right. And any efforts to escape that part of themselves is futile.Although I never believed in seeing things in two dull shades of black and white, it seemed to me that I always lingered on the horizon of just these two shades. Perhaps because this is what I was always taught. Morals and ethics, laws and conforming to society, they were drilled into me right from the start. My father was a man like that, a strict, upright, unbending man. I always believed that my own stric
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Chapter 111: Mission Completed
Before I realized it, the group of villagers had escorted us to a tiny hut, which evidently led underground. I say hut, but it was just a door that opened up to stairs leading down into the darkness. The townspeople seemingly didn't intend to enter with us. "Go ahead", one of the frowning men nudged me to move. Lubbock had finally fallen silent, though he was still aloof, not caring about our current predicament. I looked from one villager to him to the stairs that led to the basement. Just then, I felt someone grab my hand in the crowd. I looked over my shoulder to find Mills, forcing his way toward me. He squeezed my hand, reassuring me that they'd be here when we came back up. Whoever this Doctor was, I thought, must be one frightening woman. Lubbock and I made our way downstairs to a dimly lit, damp corridor. It smelled of something that I couldn't quite put my finger on, something pungent, embittering. We walked on, as there didn't seem to be more than one path before us. At
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Chapter 112: Stuck in Shamballa
"So what business brought you two here again?", Doctor Ema asked in her gentle voice.We hadn't said anything about our business. At this point, I didn't intend to."Well, it's a rather long story but...let's just say it doesn't have anything to do with Shamballa. You do understand that we have nothing to do with any disturbances in town, don't you? We only came here yesterday...to Agartha, I mean.""Of course, I understand. Don't get so worked up about it.""Yes, well, if we're okay here, we'd like to leave. We don't want to cause anyone any more trouble", I replied.Her face shifted a bit under the dim light of the single flickering bulb."That's...well...", she looked away to her side.I waited for her to give a response, a proper one. Her calm and composure were suddenly making me anxious."I did tell you that people here don't trust outsiders, didn't I?", she paused for a short while, shifting her gaze toward us."You can't leave just like that, I'm afraid.""And why not?!", I wa
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Chapter 113: Mooncakes
When we left the stairs that lead downstairs to Doctor's domain, the brightness of the rising day caught us by surprise. I hadn't realized how bright Shamballa really was, even as a slight dull engulfed that beautiful town. Indeed, I hadn't felt that way earlier but now as we reappeared from beyond the dark basement, I found the place just a little ashen. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, perhaps it wasn't Shamballa that seemed dull. It was something that stood there to greet us.The villagers that escorted us there were all gone. I assumed Doctor had a way of communicating with them from her bunker. Mills sat on the side of the vacant stone road, while Neil kicked around a pebble, his hands stuffed in his pockets. Mills looked weary, but Neil still had his spirit about him when he saw us."They're back!", he let the entire town know."Quiet down!", Mills rose from his place upon seeing us and rushed to meet us."Are you guys alright? Was it...okay?"Somehow the villagers had gott
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Chapter 114: Kindness of the Aloof
I'm not a fan of kindness. It sounds like a sad thing when I say this but people who go out of their way to be kind to me, always seem so far off. I think its better to be kind with a certain degree of aloofness. Perhaps you think, people like Chopper and Lady are just about the thing I'm talking about. But those people have a world of their own. They have no need for kindness, not for themselves and not for others. It seems to me that those of us that really live on the outside, the ones that aren't living at the edge, we are the ones that need something so paltry as kindness. My father was a kind man. Even though I was born without any magic, when the other kids made fun of me or left me behind in their games, he'd always come along to grab my hand. Even though I wasn't the youngest of my siblings, I was still the one that got piggy back rides from him. I'm sure he loved us all the same but I distinctly remember his adoration for me. My mother had little presence in our childhood.
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Chapter 115: The Two Faces of Lubbock
"Hey, what were you two talking about?" When I looked up, Lubbock's head was popping in from the door. "Nothing", I was caught by surprise and didn't know how to answer. "Really?", he glared at me, wide-eyed. "What else could it be? But why are you asking Lubbock?" For a moment, silence persisted as he scrutinized me, without coming inside or opening the door any further. It was just his head, staring at me in dead silence. "Why are you putting up an offensive?", he asked bluntly. "Huh?" "Seraph, you idiot", his face lightened up all too suddenly and he swung the door open, walking in, "I was just messing with you. What are you getting so worked up about?" "What a stupid idea of joking around you have!" "Just can it and get up. We're heading out again", it seemed to me we barely stayed at home anymore. Serena just wanted us to loaf around all day and Lubbock, in particular, was all for it. "Again?!", I sighed, "Alright, I'll be right there." "Hurry up now, what a waste you
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Chapter 116: A Heavenly Cage
"Oh, it's just you this time", her gentle smile was as refreshingly dull as ever, "Sorry, I didn't think I'll see you so soon.""It's nothing to be sorry about", I felt calm just being there. It was impossible to rest easy when every time we went out, we constantly needed to look over our shoulders. The hostility was growing everyday. It seems the villagers were being threatened by a hostile party. They were told not to sympathize or mingle with us. As a result, people had no choice but to turn their backs on us. No one wanted to be painted as a target and certainly, everyone must have been thinking it was our fault. If only we hadn't come to their land, their peace wouldn't have been destroyed.At home, I couldn't relax around Lubbock. Serena was nice enough to keep us company, though. Only in her company, did Miss Traveler ever say anything. Mills was feeling burdened too, even though he didn't show it. Neil, on the other hand, once came up to me and said brazenly that he was on o
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Chapter 117: No Blood To Shed
My mother was a fragile woman, both in body and in mind. She was once a pianist, but her fame didn't last much long. Everything I know about her, I know through my father. So I can't tell if she really felt as he said she did. But he told me that she absolutely hated music. Her father was a strict man, who prohibited her from participating in any games that other children of her time played. After all, as a pianist, she had to protect her hands at all cost. I always imagined her as a princess locked up in a tower. As a result of her upbringing, she grew up to be very weak. Even though she was a great pianist, a world that was so rife with war didn't seem to have much need for her. And though she came from a family of healers, since she didn't learn much of it in her youth, she wasn't able to carry on with her family's profession either. I always wondered why my grandfather, her father, had forced her to play music instead. My father had no better answer for it than I did. It still r
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Chapter 118: Daughter and Mother
Because my mother was such a wretched being, devoid of all joy, embittered through to the end, I cannot say I understand how Doctor Ema was feeling when I laid down Serena's now motionless body on the rickety bed in her little dark room. At least, that's what I would like to say, but that would be a lie. In truth, I believe that you need not experience everything to be able to understand it. I may never have tasted motherly affection but I wasn't completely ambiguous about Doctor's situation right now. Lubbock had followed close behind me. He stayed silent, and observed everything keenly."Not there, could you move her in here?", Doctor said as she opened the little door in her room which, I had assumed, led to a toilet.I promptly heeded her instruction and moved Serena where she wanted her. To my surprise, beyond that tiny wooden door that was about to come unhinged, rested a lab of some sort. In the center was a long stone table, where I lay Serena. This was her lab, and not a med
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Chapter 119: The Body Back Home
"Lubbock, where are we going?", he was silently dragging me through the town. I hadn't asked him anything, nor had he said anything about the Doctor or Serena or anything that happened back there. For now, it seemed fine if we were just silently heading somewhere, perhaps thinking the same sort of things, a camaraderie finally formed between us. How short-lived it would be, if such a thing did exist that is, I knew very well. "Home, where else?""Hold on, we should get Mills and-""Just shut up and keep following."I wasn't really following him though. He grabbed my arm and walked on without saying anything. "Wait a bit, something's weird", I fruitlessly tried to stop him."What is?""Where's everyone? The town's empty.""Haven't you had enough of these townspeople for one day? I want to just get home already. Without any interruption! So hurry up a bit!"I was certainly perplexed but I remained quite and hurried along. Soon, we were back to the brothers' place. Still, Lubbock hadn
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