Courting Death System-Chapter 49: I’m Sorry

🎵I am not the only traveller...

🎵Who has not repaid his debt...

🎵I’ve been searching, cough, cough... for a trail to follow... again...

🎵Take me back to the night we met...

🎵I had all of you, most of you, some and now none of you

🎵Take me back to the night we met

...cough, cough....

This was one of Lucius’s favourite song from Lord Huron and he was currently singing it. Lucius’s face was full of wrinkles that his eyes were barely open, white hair and beard and his body was very thin and wrinkled. As he continued to sing "The Night We Met", his voice grew softer by the second until it wasn’t audible anymore.

Lucius had just passed away, died from natural causes or his heart just stopped beating because it was too old. He was five thousand five hundred and sixty two years old when he died.

Lucius then woke up a minute later, still frail, old and on his deathbed.

’Am I in hell?’ he thought but a few seconds later, he forgot what he was thinking about and just lay in his old bed. Five minutes later, he died again, woke up a minute later and thought that he was in hell, forgot that thought, died again five minutes later, revived a minute later and thought that he was in hell. This process repeated itself again and again without end and Lucius was too old to realise what was going on.

...

[Lord Andromeda, I think we have finally found it.]

<You’ve found it? Wait, you’ve found it! Good, go get the target and bring him straight to me!>

[Yes My Lord!]

A massive spaceship was floating above a dead planet, in fact, the whole place was filled with dead planets. The spaceship then flew into the dead planet at a quick speed.

...

The spaceship slowly landed on the red ground without making a sound or causing dust to rise. The spaceship door opened and slightly more than a thousand people came out and as soon as they came out, they all ran in the same direction with their greatest speed. They all had the same skin colour and moved in a similar manner.

After the thousand people came out and ran away, three more came out of the spaceship, it was a fifteen meters tall metallic human and two cat girls wearing maid uniforms. It was Sugitrox and his maidservants.

[So we really did find him, look at how excited they are.] said Sugitrox.

"Master, my strength..." said one of the maidservants.

[Don’t worry, it will return after we leave this place. These are the effects of entering the Debris Domain. You didn’t feel them earlier because you were in my spaceship but now that you’re outside, you know how scary this place is.]

"Master, let’s quickly chase after them before they go too far. Those guys don’t know what fatigue is afterall." said the other maidservant and the trio chased after the group that was running away.

...

Ten hours later, they reached their destination and the thousand people stood around the castle that was riddled with holes and cracks. The castle looked old and dilapidated, proof of its test against time which it was on the verge of failing.

[What happened to the castle walls?] said Sugitrox as he entered it with his maids. He waved his hand and another person appeared in front of them.

[Find him.]

The fourth person then slowly walked deeper into the castle, took many twists and turns and along the way, Sugitrox and his maids were shocked that there were holes even inside the castle and a lot more than outside.

About thirty minutes later, the fourth person opened the broken doors of a room and entered it. Sugitrox also entered the room which was very big. There was a huge bed in the room where an old man slept peacefully. Sugitrox disregarded the old man and asked,

[Where is he?] And the fourth person pointed at the old man on the bed. He then slowly approached him and gently grabbed his hand.

[Father.] said the fourth person in a deep voice.

[That’s Lucius? That old man is actually Lucius?! What in the world happened to him?!] exclaimed Sugitrox.

"Master, he aged. A perfectly normal phenomenon among humans. Why are you acting so surprised?" answered one of the maids.

The old man then woke up from the noise, his eyelids could barely open and his vision was clouded, making him partially blind.

"Who’s there?" he asked.

"Lucius, it’s me, your old friend Sugitrox. Do you remember me? We used to hang out in the past." said Sugitrox enthusiastically.

"Sugitrox... Sugitrox... Sugitrox?! Is it really you, cough, cough?" asked Lucius.

"Yes, it’s me, old friend. How have you been?"

"Good. What did you say your name was again?"

"Sugitrox." he answered.

"Who is Sugitrox?"

"Me."

"Who are you?"

"Lucius, don’t fucking play with me! I just told you who I am and you remembered me, why are you now acting like you don’t know me?"

"Who are you?"

"Fuck! Just take him away and let’s leave this depressing place. Wait, Lucius eat this first, you have the stench of death all over you." said Sugitrox as he put something into Lucius’s mouth and Lucius swallowed it. After it was swallowed, his skinny body gained some muscles but he was still skinny and his eyes were less clouded.

[This is Sugitrox, I have found the target. I repeat, I have found the target and on my way to the Empire.]

...

Throughout the trip, Lucius spent all that time sleeping and only woke up when it was time to eat.

"Lucius, why was your house riddled with holes?"

"Holes in my house? I don’t remember." answered Lucius while slowly enjoying a bowl of soup.

"How can you not know, it was your house and you lived there for so many years."

"I’m old now, I don’t remember a lot of things like I used to."

...

{How does it feel like to finally leave your room after more than ten thousand years of house arrest?} asked Emperor Andromeda to his kneeling daughter.

Even after ten thousand years had passed, Lolitron’s appearance hadn’t changed a bit but her eyes revealed her maturity after ten thousand years had passed. For someone under house arrest for so long and at such a young age, they would show some emotion, happiness, joy, anger, something but Lolitron was as calm as a clear pond.

"It feels good, Lord Father. My time in house arrest wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. The books you provided me were very good and my teacher taught me many things that would have taken me even longer to just come across. I’ve also grown up as a person and learned to respect myself and others and no longer bully them because of my status." answered Lolitron.

{I’m proud of you. What about your flaw? Did you learn to control it or what?}

"Not fully but I have learnt to not be controlled by my urges to disregard everything just for knowledge."

{Good. Now, how do you feel about your husband coming back?}

"I feel bad for what I did to him. I shouldn’t have left him in the Debris Domain. He probably hates me to the core but I’ll work hard to obtain his forgiveness, without force of cohesion of course."

{You truly have grown up and I’m proud of you. Oh, they are here. Come in.}

...

A group of about fifty people entered the throne room, Lucius included and were about to kneel and greet the Emperor but a powerful force stopped them from doing so.

{There’s no need to kneel today. I’m just glad that you managed to find my son in-law and bring him home safely. You all will be rewarded for your hard work.} said the Emperor.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

{Lucius, come forward. There’s someone who wants to see you.}

"Yes." answered Lucius as he walked forward while supporting himself with a cane. He was frail and skinny, completely different from ten thousand years ago. His first death on the dead planet was when he was five thousand five hundred and sixty two years old. He spent another five thousand years just dying and he didn’t know he was currently dying and reviving, for him, it was like sleeping and waking up.

Lucius walked until he stood beside a kneeling figure whom he didn’t notice the whole time.

{The person who wants to see you is right next to you.}

Lolitron then stood up and made eye contact with Lucius. She could see that Lucius’s vision was half clouded. Seeing Lolitron’s immaculate face, Lucius’s body shook uncontrollably.

"It’s you... it’s you..." he said with a shaky voice.

"Yes, it’s me. I just want to say I’m so..."

Before Lolitron could finish speaking, Lucius fell on his knees, grabbed her leg with both hands and wept.

"I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry. Please come and fetch me. I promise I won’t do it again, just come and fetch me please. I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Please come and fetch me. I promise I won’t do it again, just come and fetch me please..." Lucius kept repeating the same words over and over again.

Out of all the possibilities, Lolitron didn’t account for this one. She’d expected Lucius to scream at her, shout at her for treating him badly. She never expected the guy to actually grovel at her feet and beg to be fetched from where she left him.

"I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry. Please come and fetch me. I promise I won’t do it again, just come and fetch me please. I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Please come and fetch me. I promise I won’t do it again, just come and fetch me please..."