OTHERSIDE EP. 1
HUMANITY DIVIDED BY A WALL I
Original by MUFFIN aka MUFFY
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"i was born in absolute hell !"
"A place, where they divided the humanity by a wall"
"It was not just inequality of rich and poor, it was the faith that they divided ! A faith to live a happiest life and a faith to die in the most painful way possible"
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At the centre of the town near the sakura lake ...
This year's spring came so late unlike every year, the festival was about to start and everyone in the town is preparing for it, the crowd on shops and happiness of new year can be seen clearly everywhere.
"Take a look at this, it's a new model of the old lantern"
"Here, take a look at these fresh vegetables, it just came out of the farm, it's fresh and cheap"
"Mom ! I want that pink one"
"But you already have one at home"
"It's been awhile since this many customers came to our shop, isn't it ?"
"You're right boss"
"Next year is definitely going to be a best year of all time"
The street is full, everyone was so happy for the new year festival celebration, people are working, shopping and preparing for the festival ... The ground is covered as the cherry blossom started blooming, a truly scene from a dream.
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At the western side of the town, A gate In the middle of the wall it suddenly open, the wind from the otherside of the gate was cold, harsh and dusty.
As a small group of people In dirty clothes, several injuries and don't look happy at all for the new year festival enters.
"Mom look at those people, who are they?" A little girl pulls her mom clothes to get her attention and asked to her mom while pointing at them.
"Don't look at them, let's go somewhere else" As that women takes her child and got away from there.
And not just only that women everybody in the surrounding area left instantly like they're avoiding those people at any cost, all of the people who have their shops there they shut them down and went inside too ...
"Who told you to stop ? Keep moving !" A man wearing a red colour coat, black pants and a whip In his hand yells while swinging his whip at those people, A royal guard ...
Those people are not even allowed to raise their head and look at other people, houses or the town. They all kept walking like dead bodies, while their eyes on the ground.
"Okay stop now !" The guard said, he swings his whip on the ground creating a loud whip noise and yells at everyone.
Another royal guard came out of the factory which says, working site on the board ... And started checking everyone is there or not !
Everyone was lined up and going one by one to another royal guard, who is sitting on the chair with a diary, writing everybody's name and getting their finger print as their attendance.
The man who was checking is everybody is here or not suddenly saw a very young boy in the line, he stops next to him ... The boy was looking at the ground just like everyone, the man checks the number stamped on that boy's neck and said ...
"Hey, there's a young boy here, should we keep him or not ?" The guard asked in loud voice to the guard who is sitting on the chair.
The whole atmosphere of the place was dense, nobody is talking, nobody is moving ... The only thing is echoing there is silence.
"Yeah, we can take him ... He has no parents so we'll use him instead !" The man sitting on the chair said.
The man with the whip takes the order and puts a small red mark on that boy's neck and moved on ...
After everybody's name and finger was taken, guards start moving them through the town, everyone in the town is staring at them through their windows and roof but with very strange gaze, like they're disgust just by looking at those people.
As they made their way to the centre of the town near the lake, there was a bridge which was broken and those people are supposed to rebuild that bridge, the guards stands in different positions as those people started working on the bridge to fix it.
No one is taking there gaze up and looking at those beautiful view of cherry blossom and the beautiful decorated town for the festival ... They're working with a pale face, no expression like they're dead from inside ...
About more than 2 hours passed, the work almost done ... It's afternoon time but those people are still working in the sunlight and naked feet on the ground which hot like fire !
The guards are sitting in the shades of houses roof drinking cold water ... Suddenly a scream of a girl came, everyone on the bridge who were working stop, the guards instantly gets alert and run towards the source of the scream.
As they go around the lake and saw a girl in school dress and one of those people who are working standing there ...
"what happened !" The guards rushed over to the place and asked to the girl ...
"He bumped into me, this worthless man's clothe touched my hand" that girl said while wiping hee dress, like it got dirty, another guy also got there probably her father.
"What ! what are you doing uh ?" The guards yelled at the worker, the worker was a old man about 60 to 65 yo.
"But ... But i didn't do anything, she walked in the way and I just bumped in her" The old man tries to explain and his voice is filled with fear and tremble !
"what ! You're daring to talk back to us !" The father of that girl said and pulls the girl his side, closer to him.
"You cursed people, what if she gets a bad luck by bumping into you !" Before the guard do anything, someone threw a stone from above which hits that old man directly on his head !
"Go away you cursed human" someone yelled as
everyone there started throwing stones, dirt and even hot water on all of the workers and yelling at them ...
"Go away you cursed monsters !"
"Don't spread your curse here !"
"Go away"
"Yeah, get away from our beautiful town"
"You insects don't even deserve to live"
All of the people who are working, had to run away from there, the work was already done. The bridge was repaired completely but just at the moment when the worker are about ask for food in return of the work they did, this huge mess happened, guards takes all of the worker out from there back to the gate.
At the gate ...
"Uhh, what a huge mess these worthless people just made !"
A guard said while yelling at them.
The old man which got hit by a stone on his forehead also fainted, workers kept asking for doctor or some sort of medical help but ...
"shut up, don't you dare to tell us what to do, go away from here, Addison kick every single one of them out of here !" The chief guard orders ...
As some guards step forward and start beating the working and pushing them back OTHERSIDE of the wall, that 17 yo boy stays there watching everything but can't do anything ...
"You, what are you standing here for ?" As a guard pushed that boy too otherside of the wall
"But ... What about the food ? We completed the work ..." The boy asked but before he even finished the guard kicked him on his face causing him to fell over to the otherside of the wall as they closed the door once every single one of them was kicked out of there.
"None of you gonna get any good today ! You guys are really not worth to live" The guard said through a small hold In the gate and after saying that he closed that hole ... Everyone started banging on the door asking for food or something to drink ... But nobody listen ...
That how it's like there, a cruel hell ... They divided the town in two parts one where only rich people are allowed to go and live in and one for poor people who don't have anything to live with, work for them all day and gets barely amount of food or drinks.
It was not just a inequality of rich and poor, it's the humanity they divided by a wall !
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Second side of the wall
The houses are broken, there's no sunshine, people are starving for food and water ... They didn't give anyone anything to eat or drink for the next 3 days after that incident ...
People are dying from thirst, starving to their death ...
The wall was made this high because they don't want to let those people see the sunlight who lives otherside of the wall ...
They do not consider them as any human, they treat them like animals, like insects, a place where death is beautiful than living, a town situated in southern side of Japan ... 'Tourinza' !
'Everyday we are taken by those guards to the otherside of the wall to do works and for that they give us their leftover foods, we are not allowed to raise our head and look at other people or anything in there, we have to keep out gaze at the ground and work like animals for them !'
'But why ? what we done wrong that we deserve this ? ... Even a new born child, even old women, they show no mercy to anyone, just because they thought people who are poor who doesn't born in rich family are cursed, they consider bumping into any of us a bad luck, they consider giving us freedom a bad future for them !'
'Sometimes i wonder why would I even born ?' A thinkers voice, trying to describe what is in his heart.
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Far from the street on a grassy hill, A young boy standing, looking at the otherside of the wall and thinking, his clothes are ripped from multiple places his skin is tanned with mud and dirt, his foot is covered in blood ... the wind blowing softly.
"I always wanted to go OTHERSIDE of the wall, to live a better life, to see the sunlight, to live like a actual human, once this is all i dreamed about but then suddenly everything changed when i met her ...
To be Continued ...
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Next episode :- OTHERSIDE - HUMANITY DIVIDED BY A WALL II
