Days had passed before Sir started moving his head, then his foot toes, then his wrists and fingers, and before any had even realized, Sir was walking.

It was truly exhilarating, to finally see him cured, although it means his deal with Mr Perses was now done, well, not that he wasted any time of it.

What was left now was the arrival of the two men, which was now attained, but much different from expected.

“Banto, here you are! Where is your father? At the stable? But his horse is still with you. Where is he?”

“...”

“Say, is he still at the village looking for a cure?”

“He’s dead.”

Once those words were heard, it was as if the storm slammed our faces, Bantobazanes’s face, his black eyebags, red eyes, his sweat, and messed hair, indicated clearly that this was no type of joke whatsoever, Olly cried and wept along with her daughter, Mr Perses was himself bawling his eyes out, Sir wasn’t in the room, I wasn’t myself in, but peeking from the door.

“He’s dead, he killed himself with a knife to the throat, all because we couldn’t find the cure, we couldn’t even find the village, said village was a bunch of nonmedian tribes, never stable, we travelled and travelled, they were nowhere!! And as for the cure, the doctors got sick of us always asking them where was it or whether can they make it or not!!”

“Dear god *sobs* WHY!! HE COULD HAVE CAME TO HOME!! FOR HE, HE WAS CURED!!”

“...Wait, what did you just say?”

“He... *sobs* He is no longer sickened!”

“WHAT!!”

Bantobazanes angrily headed outside, where he met Sir.

“You’re... you’re standing?! But... but our efforts!”

“Isn’t it a madness?! I am standing! But where’s your father? I would want to thank you both-”

“YOU DEVIL!!”

Bantobazanes violently grabbed Sir by his cleavage, and just as he was about to hit him, an incoming fist from Mr Perses to the cheek knocked Bantobazanes out of his mind, it was so hard I started seeing stars!

A few hours later, Bantobazanes woke up, he had a big bruise in his face, in which I barely managed to contain my laughter, Sir however, burst with no remorse. It was I, Sir, and Mr Perses in the room along with him, his mother and sister were preparing dinner.

“You- you demons! After all what my family did to you, you ungrateful bastards! You were dying just some days ago, if it wasn’t for my father and mother! And you Prince! Such a disappointment!”

“Hehe- what did we do wrong for you to rage? Tell us?”

“You could have sent after us? But you didn’t-”

“It is you the disappointment, Banto! It was your father’s wish to go look for the cure! It was his bidding to end his life when he couldn’t find it! And did he take the responsibility! You’re a man! Have some respect over your father’s commitment! And halt this meaningless behaviour!!”

“...”

“We would leave now, reflect on yourself.”

We went outside of his room, he came out later on as we were dining, he sat down, nodded smilingly to us, and started eating, he perhaps is now calmer, I theorized.

We finished, and everyone of us went to their respective rooms.

The next morning, another atrocity hits this household, just after we woke up, I prepared breakfast, as an apology on Sir’s behalf of what had happened, and the start of a new air between us. As I called to the bunch to come, everyone answered but Bantobazanes, we, soon enough, discover why...

Bantobazanes was found dead, far from house, with a knife to the throat with his hands still on it, it reeked from alcohol, and blood was all over the place. He committed suicide just in the way of his father.

I think they both did it for the same reason: Their ‘Pride’ got hurt.

...