We opened our eyes, unsure of when did we boarded the train, I remember that Yun dissipated the storm, then the sound of the whistling train, and then a blinding light surrounded us, I´m unsure how far the light went, “Guys… wake up!” I shook Anre awake, then Parker, and lastly Yun, “Wow, what is this?” Anre looked at the woodwork of the train, the frame of the window was made of gold depicting birds and rain, Parker opened the window and looked outside “Guys… you might want to see this” he moved and let us look outside, we no longer were at the valley we were looking at the stars and constellations on a light made railway, the train stopped resembling one, and instead of wagons it looked like if the train was transporting a big manor, “we are no longer in Kansas Dorothy…” Parker said “No… we are in a nightmare, everyone be careful, we don't know what´s ahead” Yun opened the door and, we walked through the velvet-carpeted hallway.
HISSSSSSSSS the second we all stepped outside of the room the intercoms turned on by themself “Ah ah mic test, mic test, is this thing on?” Yun immediately looked at the intercom “Zailas?” he said between heavy breathing “We will begin the trail of the priestess and her guards” The hallway started to shake, we all held the riels of the hallway to stop ourselves from hurting ourselves “Understand your past, Tame your fears, and tell us Mister Yun…” the voices of all of Yun´s kids came in like a hurricane of emotions hurting Yun with each word “Would you still be you at the end of the road? or would the mud and bone come blooming to the outside?”
“hugh… you guys know I would rather have a therapy session like normal people instead of a death trial to… what am I even supposed to understand about my past it sucked!” “Okay let's think this through, our first move should be to look for the conductor wagon, there we will find the person that just talked to us” Anre walked to a random door and said “Let's see what's behind the door number one!” he opened it with no hesitation “... this is a pantry… oh sweet beef jerky!” Yun slapped his own face “Anre can you please be serious during my death trial?”
“Bring… food…” Parker looked at Yun “Where are you bringing food?” “That wasn't me” From the pantry a life-size doll made from wood resembling Yun was moving slowly with a try acting as if he was just a butler, another door opened “Shine… the… Silver” another one appeared holding a cleaning cloth, and silverware “No one… said” “that you should think” our Yun completed “am… Yun? what's going on?” he held my hand and urged me to move “we are not staying to find out we have to move before she-” “Useless child!!!” Yun stopped dead in his tracks, Anre and Parker prepared their weapons to fight, “Yun… this is your past?” all the lights turned off, and like an old movie, a movie roll started to be visible, with Yun as the narrator of this tale.
“Did you know? the Order of Hunters and Huntresses has many different suborders, the knights of Twilight focus on protection contracts, not on traditional hunting, the named hunters hunt dangerous beastes that would destroy a town if left unattended, and the order of Majordome… the one I hate the most offer butlers and maids that will take care of bodyguard and care for their masters…” as Yun descried we all saw in the move like event in front of us depictions of all the different things he mentioned when we got to the order of Majordome we saw an old looking picture of Yun surrounded by a large number of people dressed in butler and maid clothing, he looked unhappy and thinner, he was also shorter he looked like he had my age “Did you know? if your parents are Majordome and have a debt big enough that they won't be able to pay… their kids would have to keep working for that debt, being a hunter is a choice, ha…hahaha, for me was a curse that I avoided for a time… my parents sent me to Mirai House, the orphanage you all have seen, there I lived happily until I reach fifteen years where I was collected and train”
the lights came back on and when they did all doors were opened and from them the Yun dolls were moving in towards us, guided by threads tied to the hands of an abomination, if I had to put it in words she looked like a hag form an urban legend, wrinkles, broken glasses, hair neatly tied in a big silver and gray bun behind her head, she was looking at our Yun “You stupid useless child!” he voice boomed inside of the train it was as loud as lighting “who is the old hag Yunni?!?” “And what's up with the “really you” dolls? Anre and Parker asked Yun lift his guard and said, “That's Josefin, or an incarnation of that horrible woman, she used to treat me like a doll that should be seen never heard” “She sounds lovely, I´ll look for the door to the next wagon while you three keep her busy!” I told them and started to search.
“Take this, you cheap copy!” Anre lit his hammer and ram it into the chest of one of the dolls in a second the doll burned into an explosion, and some of the dolls were chasing Parker “Get away from me you damn playthings!” he made a hand gesture and a shower of paper confetti cut the dolls into timber “You dear bring these barbarians into our most treasured household? Unacceptable!!!” Josefin struck at Yun with one of her claws he barely managed to dodge out of the way “Sloppy technique, sloppy Majordome!” Yun caught the claw with his hands and turned around “Oh I wanted so long to do this to you!” he lifted her with his shoulder and slammed her against the floor, only to get a kick to the face in return.
“Kitchen… no, garden? no… bed chamber… cute but no, oh come on where the hell is the wagon?!?” I keep opening doors looking for the right one that will take us out of here, “Clean… linense!” A doll ran from the door I had just opened “Definitely not!!!” I slammed the door breaking the arms of the doll it dropped to the ground and I wondered if it was still alive when it started to twitch I slammed its head with the door until it broke, “this has no end!!! ,,, wait! Yun if this is about understanding your past, then what do you like from this era?” Yun landed after crushing the heads of two dolls and thought for a moment “... was there anything good about this place…” the dolls jumped over Anre and pinned him to the ground “I had a dream like this once… but it ended differently, hurry Yun!” Yun got closer to a door and pointed, “All of these doors have the first crest of the manor i had to look over, Karolin look for my crest!” I nodded and quickly found the door.
“hurkkkkkk, it's jammed, I can't open it!” Parker, rescued Anre from the avalanche of Yun dolls we all moved to the door but it was really jammed “... running again? you never knew your palace…” Josefin said and sent her dolls after us “Why are you obsessed with me?!?” “WHY WERE YOU THE ONE THAT GOT TO LEAVE THIS HELL!!!” the dolls stopped, and so did Yun, we all looked at Josefin, as she returned to her more human shape “You were reckless, you were inefficient… you were trash… and yet… and yet… you got to live the dream of any Majordome!” she garbed him by the collar of his suit, now she resembled what a maid should be, hair fixed to perfection, her long dress spotless, Yun returned the gesture, no longer intimidated or moved by untamed rage, “BECAUSE!” he said and barked each word back to the old head maid “I dared to disobey! I try to turn off my heart like you taught me but I was never a Majordome!” Yun let her go, “when that old man was injured during a wild hunt, I was not going to let him die!” Josefin took a step back.
Yun took a step forward pressing her finger on her collarbone “If you had it your way, he would have died right then and there, i was not going to let an innocent man die just because it was convenient for you or for our master at the moment, I am NOT your Puppet!” his words slapped her like if he had taken his iron-clad glove and did it himself “I am NOT a Majordome!” Josefin's shape started to shatter as Yun kept his verbal rampage "I don't sleep in a bed made of bones! I am NOT a monster like you were!!!" he said so firmly that it sent a shiver down my spine “I am Yun Fucking Mirai and you Will NOT keep me bound to my past!” the dolls burst as well as Josefin shattered to pieces Click the looks like Yun passed the first trial.
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