Chapter 128 - 127: A Hero?

"Miles there is someone alive here," said Grey as he stood near the prison cell.

Through the prison cell, Grey was able to see a person.

A man was tied down to the chair, he was half alive. The degree of torture done to him was less than others maybe that was the reason why he was still alive. 

But the torture done to him was not small on any level.

There were bruises on various parts of his body, all those bruises were from blunt trauma. He was beaten several times by a metal pipe. Some of the bruises were so swollen up to the point that the skin of that area of torn apart.

Some of the fingers were while the fingers that were present on his hands had their nails either missing or broken apart. 

There was a needle still buried in the tip of the man's finger, there were several more cruel details of the torture that was done to the man.

Ranulf broke open the cell and with it, Miles rushed to the half-conscious man. "Kelab are you alive?! Kelab respond to me! we can get you help."

Miles was desperate at this point, he at least wanted one of them alive. Miles untied the rope he was tied onto and upon being untied the man fell down on the ground.

After shaking him for a bit the man regained a bit of his consciousness. 

Kelab opened his eyes as he looked at Miles, "oh, young master, you finally came here for me."

A weak smile spread across Miles face as he said, "Good good, you are conscious, just wait here----"

"Young master, I have something to tell you----"

Miles interrupted him saying, "We can talk later, we have all the time in the world to talk, first, we will get you help."

Using the rest of the strength Kelab sat up, "Young master listen to me, the----"

"Please don't move and speak, your condition is very bad, let me first get you help, Grey please teleport him!! please----"

Kelab grabbed him as he said "Young master listen to me, I don't have much time. I am a dead man, but I need to get this information to you."

"no no no no, don't say things like that, I am getting you help, you will survive, you have family right? you will survive, I promise!! so please don't give up."

Kelab laughed as he said, "You are very kind young master, but please listen to what I have to say."

"But--"

Miles didn't say any more words since Ronald place his hand over him and shook his head, which meant not to speak a word and let Kelab say things he wants to say.

"The reason why ended up like it's my own fault. But I don't regret about what I did."

The confusion on Miles's face was apparent. Kelab continued, "You have always known that my daughter is a cursed child? but I always thought that it was otherwise, she wasn't cursed, she was just ill, it was a disease that can be treated. I showed her to various healers and doctors but it was of no fruit, they couldn't help my kid."

Grey crouched down as he grabbed Kelab's hand, Grey mildly froze the severed part of his injury and also the parts where he was swollen up pretty badly. 

It was Grey's attempt to ease his pain and it was helping Kelab a bit as most of his pain was getting eased up. 

Kalen continued "I looked for her cure but there was nothing I couldn't find, in the end, I couldn't help my kid. It was heartbreaking as I watched her lose her ability to walk. That little kid tried to not show it on her face, but it was apparent that she was sad about not being able to walk and play outside like a normal kid.

That little kid is mature for her age, she was smiled for me even after how much in pain she was and so did my wife. They did their best to hide their pain to avoid putting the burden on me. 

I was getting desperate, no matter what, I needed to save my kid, and one day I met this kind woman, she was a red-haired and extremely beautiful woman. She was with Helm, the son of Esser, it was his idea that the woman will put a curse on me and I will take on my daughter's disease instead of her.

It was too good to believe, but I still wanted to believe in it, I agreed to it. I already knew that Helm just wanted to trick me, but that red-headed woman was hesitant in doing so, it was obvious from her face that she couldn't bring herself to do this but somehow Helm's words were enough to make her do it. It was as if Helm was controlling that woman as if his words were controlling that woman.

And as just as he said, I got the disease from my daughter, but there was a catch in it there is always a catch. Apparently, the condition of the curse was to kill me along with the disease to get rid of the disease and my daughter still had the disease.

I have to kill myself to free my daughter from my disease, the disease is spreading rapidly through my body and I have heard that it was spread rapidly through my daughter's body. So----"

Kaleb kneeled down and he touched his head to the ground, "So, please, I want you to kill me, the condition of the curse is that I must be killed by someone else, I can't kill myself, I begged Helm to kill me but in turn, he just tortured me. So please---"

Kaleb's voice broke as he spoke, "Please--- please kill me, I know I am asking you to do a cruel thing but please accept my request, I beg of you!"

Miles stepped back, as he asked "What are you talking about? we can still save you, don't lose hope. We can surely save you!!! just believe in us!! just give me some time!!"

"That's what I don't have!!! I can't wait for a second more, my little daughter might be dying there!!! please understand and kill me!!!"

"There must be, there must be some ----"

Ranulf and Ronald were still uncertain about what they should do going further since it's the person's life they are talking about. They were still questioning what they should really do. 

Among all this, Grey stepped crouched down as he asked "Tell me more about your daughter."

"My daughter?"

"Yes," replied Grey with a bright smile.

A smile spread across the man's face as he said "My daughter is the cutest little thing, she is super smart and very very brilliant at whatever she does, she makes me really really proud. But sometimes I wonder that how did she got born to a useless person like me? like I am not smart, nor I am particularly good at anything. 

I am sure that she has taken her such attributes from her mother since my wife is very smart."

Grey laughed as he said, "Seems like you have a great family."

"Yes, I do!!"

Grey looked at him as he asked, "Do you want to live?"

"I do."

"I am sure that you want to live since you have such a great family."

"Yes, I want to live and grow old with them." 

At this point, tears started pouring out of Kelab's eye as he spoke.

Grey placed his hand over Kelab's head as he told him with a gentle smile, "You are a great man, I hope the next life and life after that, every life you get blessed with the same loving family. Thank you for existing!"

Kelab felt a slight stinging pain in his chest and as he looked down he saw a knife pierced into his chest, he felt nor the pain, nor did he realize or notice that he was stabbed, not until he saw the knife inside his chest.

It was the gentle way, gentle enough that he didn't feel any pain.

A smile formed on Kelab's face as he said, "Thank you and I am sorry that I had to make you do this."

"That's the least I could do for you! I want you to know that you are a great dad,"

Kelab coughed blood, the blood poured out from the edge of his lips but the smile on his face still didn't disappear, "Thank you kid, no---- thank you, my hero..."

Those were his last words as he passed away, leaving everyone in silence. Grey was in absolute silence until he whispered "Hero?"

{Author: Happy new year everyone!! I am glad that you are reading this and I am so happy that I got to present this story to you all!! I am actually an isolated person, not on Instagram or any social media but this, writing makes me connected to people. So thank you for existing all of you!!!}