Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 214

Chapter 214: The Strongest Weakest Man
As Kenta continued to speak, the memories around them did not stop playing, and the boy soon stopped, just like his father.

He halted in front of a wooden door, that opened up just a few seconds later.

The door slid open, allowing both of them to see what lay behind it.

The kid’s face lost all emotions… along with his worries, his curiosities, and his fears, everything was wiped off the boy’s face, as he could not even gather enough energy to twitch his facial muscles.

Contrary to him… his father walked away, not even gazing back.

The young boy fell to his knees as he wet the wooden floor with his tears…

“Why… why?!”

He asked desperate.

“What did she do?!! What did my mother do?!

I hope you die!! I hope you all die!!!”

In front of him, his mother’s body lay in a coffin.

the screams of the kid spread throughout the entire house and even the most solemn of the servants, who were usually composed and emotionless, couldn’t stop a tear from running down their cheeks.

“From that night on… I realized that my dad was the weakest out of all of them, out of all the people on this planet.

I missed my mother, and he, as much as me, seemed to mourn her.

However… he did nothing, he didn’t act, didn’t plan, and didn’t even curse them.

It was as if… he didn’t care at all.

And the replies that came back to me…

Where always the same:”

“Why?!”

A young boy shouted.

He seemed to be about twelve years old or so…

“We can’t fight back, people will die, and we will gain nothing but destruction”

The man in front of him replied firmly.

“Father… you disgust me”

The man remained silent at his son’s comment.

“We would gain nothing right? Then what about mother?!

What of her death?! Are you just going to let them do what they please because you don’t want some people to die?

You chose to become a gangster for fuck’s sake, at least take care of things how you should.”

“I… will not attack the White Bear”

The man repeated once again.

And with that, the kid walked out of the room, clicking his tongue at the mam’s embarrassing behavior.

“You can’t be such a hypocrite, I hope you realize… that if you decide to do something, you should at least do it till the end”

The boy then left, saying no more to his disappointing father.

“Here I was thirteen, I used to think my dad was weak, but I didn’t know how weak and revolting he would turn out to be”

Kenta said, floating beside Hans and watching the happening with a saddened look on his face.

“A few months later, my father awakened…

That’s a good thing, you might think… but no,

That weak piece of shit decided to use the powers he gained to achieve useless victories.

And so, I had to move around the strings a little…

Over the two following years,

I provoked the White Bear, and they requested help from the Brown Bear, who, afraid of my father’s abilities, decided to create an alliance to take him down.

I had seen my father’s abilities firsthand, and I knew no one would’ve been able to threaten our lives, so I acted quite recklessly…

When the time came for them to execute their plans, our place had been surrounded by groups of hundreds of people, mainly composed of the other groups’ gangsters, I re-evaluated my father…

Even though it was brief, it was enough to make me change my opinion of him, but that didn’t last long, as what happened a few minutes later confirmed his identity as a ridiculous loser…

One after the other, the intruders into our place got taken down.

My father did it on his own, without any help from his subordinates or from me…

When from a peephole in my room I managed to see him fighting, I thought my father had become the strongest person in the world…”

“Didn’t he?”

Hans asked, curious about the fate that met found the old man.

But it took a few seconds before he got his answer since Kenta was focused on the battle.

‘I see it again!! The way that monster fought!!! I haven’t forgotten about it!’

He exclaimed inwardly.

When talking about a monster, he wasn’t referring to the leader of the White Bears, who soon lost in battle, nor to the leader of the Brown Bears, whose head was also lowered in the few following minutes… he was referring to the only person he could define a monster inside that house:

His father.

Even at that moment, Kenta wondered…

‘If it was me standing in front of him… if it was me having to take those hits… if it was me having to parry those strikes… would I be able to do it?…

Sure, my stats are incomparable to his, but if we’re solely talking about fighting prowess…

I am afraid even the current me… would not be able to hold a candle against him.’

Kenta, watching the scene from the sky, tightened his fist in annoyance and rage… he couldn’t accept being weaker than that piece of shit, even after such a long time…

However, as the battle approached its end, it was the little Ryuji who got emotional…

And he had a valid reason for it…

“When my father managed to subdue all two of the Gangs… he did something he shouldn’t have ever done…

He forgave them…

He forgave them, forgetting that they killed Mother, forgetting that they assaulted our men multiple times… it was as if he didn’t care about anything that had happened prior to that moment… as if he were a devil trying to act like a merciful Buddha…

Really… a piece of shit like him… was nothing but a tumor in this world.

Luckily… the planet seemed to have found its defense system, because… that night, I awakened my powers.

And at that moment, I understood… the reason why those powers were given to me… was so that I could take revenge… so that I could gift peace to my mother’s spirit, and put an end to that monster’s life.”

Even if he was doubtful about the last phrase said by Kenta, he could fully understand the man’s resentment.

However…

“… the Black Bear… they didn’t have any fault, and the same goes for the people you killed… When you were talking about someone slaughtering innocent civilians… you were referring to yourself, isn’t that right?”

“I… never killed a person I thought was innocent”

“What do you think innocence means?

“A child is innocent, a loving mother is innocent… while weak people without anything to fight for… Weak people who would bow their heads when threatened, and especially, weak people who cannot finish what they start… all deserve to die.”

Hans thought about what he had just heard for a few seconds but decided not to insist anymore.

Instead, he wanted to ask Kenra one last thing…

“Why… did you try to kill me”

The space around them shifted once again, and the darkness surrounding them returned, leaving no empty space for any other memory.

It was just a talk between two… friends.

“Initially…”

Kenta said hearing Hans’s question.

“… I liked your style.

You were young but powerful and had no fear of whatever came your way, you also did not hesitate to send Logan to the pits of hell just for mistreating one of your friends, which honors your name.”

“So then why? Why did you agree to kill me?”

…

“…You know Hans, I’m sure I don’t even have to tell you about how much information you can get your hands on while working as a branch leader… basically everything that happens in Chicago, even if hidden, is like a little hideout in plain sight for me, did you think I wouldn’t notice…

if fifteen awakened were to disappear without any traces suddenly?!

The report said they died on duty, but during those days, none of the fifteen people entered any gates, and you coincidentally disappeared, all while Emily decided to invest in a useless piece of wasteland that she sold a few months later…

You took them to their graves, didn’t you? I forgot to add… there is another type of people who are not innocent in my eyes…

Those who kill others because of their stupidity.”

Hans stood there devastated by the man’s words, those were some things he did not want to remember, but forgetting about them was also not the right thing to do…

“I hope that answers your questions… now, I would like to rest if you would allow me to, whatever kind of test this was supposed to be, I don’t care if I have to go to hell or heaven.

If god does not want me in heaven, then I will just stay in hell, maybe I’ll meet Father there…

and when I do, I’ll make sure to give him a good time.