The Lecture Of Truth

What he realized was something true. 

The weeping boy and this struggling boy... 

from the beginning itself... 

Was him... was his younger self. 

Was Marcus G Orno.

.....

The boy before him cried and cringed back, holding his aching hand on the other. 

Marcus looked at him in shock. It was, after all, his younger self. 

"So this is my hidden memory?..."

He inquired himself. 

"But what's so traumatic about this... I mean I still remember this."

Just as Marcus finished his words, blood splashed on his face, drenching it in warm, red blood. 

HIS BLOOD!. 

Marcus's eyes were wide as he witnessed the Ogretto pulling back its ax from the decapitated boy's body. 

Even though he had seen blood before, even though he had killed literal Gods before, the scene before Marcus almost made him trip over himself. 

Because the one who got killed