Alomitsu

Chapter 32: Studio City (18)

The moment I opened my eyes, me, Rui, and the white man laid on top of the watchtower. The three of us were panting.

Escape! We escaped!

Tears filled my eyes. This joy was comparable to the joy of birth, and was better than all joy.

“Mr. Dante.” Rui moved his arm and leaned on the stone wall of the watchtower to look at me. “We really came out alive from the terrible sea,” Rui said, smiling at me happily.

“The sea? We were just in the temple? Rui, don’t you remember?”

“The temple? We haven’t been to the temple. We were fighting against the vicious undead pirates.” Rui’s words made my face a little pale. Does Rui really not remember the despair and pain that we’ve just experienced? Then why do I still remember!

Cough cough~

The white man on the side also woke up. He kept coughing as he said, “damn it. I almost died at that sea.”

What the white man said made me speechless. His words made me fall into deep thought. This white man just woke up and experienced the terrible things in the studio. He and Rui could not be lying about not remembering anything.

It seemed that they really didn’t remember what happened before. Was it all just my dream? I looked at the barbs of the linen cloth on my palm. I was sure that this was not a dream. What I experienced was real.

“Mr. Dante, your injury is so serious,” Rui looked at the injury on my body and exclaimed, which made me recover from my thinking.

“Rui, it’s okay. I’m okay,” I comforted Rui, but I knew that my body couldn’t support itself while walking.

“So hungry.” The voice of other people came up the stairs. He walked up. It was the white man who ran away. He ran alone without looking at us. I did not resent him. The fear of death was with everyone. It was the instinct of animals.

“Are you going to find something to eat?” the timid white man asked us, while the white man who escaped with us was silently looking at the wound on the sole of his foot. He might be thinking why he had an injury there.

“No, I need to rest,” I replied gently. I didn’t have any good feelings for him, and of course, I didn’t have any resentment.

“Then I will look for food by myself. I will not share the food with you.” After the white man said that, he looked at us. He wondered if one of us would follow him to find food, but us three were too tired. No one wanted to go.

“Then, I will go by myself,” he asked a second time, and I was silent, not wanting to respond to him at all. I just wanted to get a good night’s sleep.

Colorful rays of light fell from the top of the sky, which made us look towards the sky.

“This is a miracle, a miracle.” This relatively safe white man exclaimed excitedly. This brought up my fear instead. Had those guys in the studio still not given up?

“With the help of this miracle, I can definitely find food. This is God’s reward for me. If you don’t look for food now, it is an insult to this miracle!” He also wanted to use the gods to confuse us.

You ran away alone, I don’t resent you. You want to look for food, I don’t stop you. I don’t blame you for losing your memory, but because you are timid, you keep urging us to accompany you to find food, and even threaten us with God.

“Shut up! If you want to go, go by yourself!” I yelled at this timid white man. He was taken aback by my anger. His face showed anger, and he now saw that I was hurt. He thought he could bully me at will. But at this moment, the white man and Rui stood up, their fists clenched tightly.

“I don’t know why I stood up, but my instinct tells me that this person is not wrong. If you want to go, go by yourself.” The white people who escaped with us forgot my name.

“I choose to believe what Mr. Dante said.” The two of them stood in front of me, and the timid white man glared at me and walked down.

“By the way, we used to fight the pirates together. It’s fate to survive. I kindly remind you not to go in when you see the blue door.”

“Go to hell. Who would believe you, damn devil.” He ignored my kind advice and ran off. He didn’t want to be with us for a moment.

“Help me up,” I told Rui, and Rui supported me. I endured the pain, stood up, and looked at the starry sky. It was not the sun but a crescent moon. It was the size of the moon when we fought the pirates. Two days passed, and the night sky now fell with colorful silks and satin floating in the sky.

“Mr. Dante, look at the beach,” Rui shouted out in shock. I was not surprised that the Blue Studios on the beach was far less gorgeous inside.

After this timid white man ran and saw the Blue Studios, he ran into the gate of the Studios excitedly shouting in the name of God. As expected, he didn’t take what I said to heart. He chose to take the initiative. Entering hell, the blue shadow gate slowly closed. At that moment, I seemed to see the red-robed old man holding a blue oil lamp staring at me, and the moon in the sky turned into a new moon.

“The people you have helped will never escape death.

“The people who have rescued you will turn into a living corpse one day.

“To save the sad world I am in.

“We are about to face the ridiculous end of the cycle.

“Dear, Alomitsu.”

The words that followed the sea breeze made my head hurt, and this blue studio city disappeared, including the white man. I didn’t know the terrible situation he was going to face. I just hoped the god he was spouting could bless him.

“Rui and the respectable white man.”

“I am not a white person, I have my own name. Bruyer, a Gaul.”

“Respected Bruyer and Rui, never go down at dawn no matter what happens,” I said very solemnly. Rui and Bruyer looked suspicious at my seriousness, but they believed it. They believed me because I experienced life and death with them. This intuition would make them believe me from the bottom of their hearts.

The two of them just looked at me suspiciously and nodded. The three of us leaned on the stone wall tiredly. Soon, the surging sleepiness made me close my eyes. This was the first time I fell asleep in peace.

When I wrote this, I stroked the Indian feathers on my chest. This was also the first gift given by the Indian across the continent before Columbus went on an expedition. Even if the squally rain outside was mixed with strange sounds, I still stroked the feathers on my chest gently.

For a long time, I firmly believe that there would be another way out ahead, and I had also been trapped in a cage of fear. I could not escape this fear by relying on myself.

I didn’t want to fight alone anymore, and I never thought about taking on the battle alone. Being wea, I couldn’t escape any predicament, but now, it was the companions I met that could survive with the hope of life with me.

And my story was just beginning in this unfamiliar century, in this century full of brilliance and stupidity.

(In April 1492, Columbus started his great eastern route. Only in the great route did he discover the Indians. Things about the Indian Rui would be explained. After all, there were many things in history that we didn’t know. Huh, laugh.)