The taste of despair

Once a peaceful morning with a pleasant and clear sky, the sun is still coming into sight slowly. Still hearing cheerful smiles, and the daily routine start's even before the sunrise and Klein moving out for his work.

       Klein and his mother live in the mountain woods with their little sister, he works hards in the town barely to meet their daily needs and goes home and the sight of the sunset, while his little sister waits for her brother's arrival at the door, and everyone sits for the dinner, and the family's daily routine ends. Even they struggle hard to survive in the woods, and they live a happy and normal life.

    Ever since a child, Klein loved the hand-to-hand combat style or simply known, taijutsu. Due to his family circumstances, he wasn't able to learn taijutsu. Since they lived a happy life it doesn't matter

much to him.

   But one day, while he was away from his house, a group of bandits

attacked their, house stole everything, and even killed his mother. As

usual, Klein was on his way back home. While returning, he smelled burnt wood and rushed towards his home and noticed something, it was at the corner of the house, and he saw blood and saw something unfortunate, and wasn't able to move. He collapsed and broke down in despair, unable to do anything. It was his mother lying dead in front of his eyes, with cuts and burns everywhere.

    Even then, he noticed something and forced himself to move, "Rin,

Rin ..................Rin " he did not find his sister anywhere near to the burnt house. He looked around there was nothing around and finally, he found footsteps and followed, and soon he found a person lying, and it seemed like a girl. He rushed there and found that Rin was lying. But she was alive. some time passed and finally, "Big............

Brother" rin called, and for her surprise, she was resting in her brother's lap. He carried her down the mountain to the mountain guard's cabin. Since he moved out and in every day, Amou's officer was nice towards him. He even offered a meal and a place to rest since it was dark in the night accepting his hospitality, both the brother and sister thanked him and were sleeping.

           Klein was unable to sleep and started, thinking "...why would someone do such a horrible thing to our family and what did they gain by doing such a thing?" somehow, he got some sleep after seeing his sister resting with a smile on her face, and he wanted to save that smile forever. So he decided to work hard so that his sister doesn't have to suffer, and like his big brother, it was his responsibility to protect his own little sister and give her a happy life till the end without any regrets.

     By the incident, their happiness was shattered, engulfed by despair, and moved forward with a dim light of hope.....

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