The Dream Saga - Chapter 59

He woke up from his terrible nightmare and the first thing he saw was his son playing happily in his cradle. Unaware of his mother’s death, the king was in deep sorrow after knowing the reason for his wife’s death.

“It was my fault for her death. I never would have brought this in exchange for your life!!”

“So, why? Why?” He was screaming in his bed. No one was there to console him. And the only person who ever did was now gone.

His son laughed after watching him scream. For a kid, everything that was happening was nothing more than entertainment. But for his father, it was not the same. His giggles were stabbing his heart like pieces of glass. Daniel didn’t take it well. The laugh of his own child enraged him with hatred and rage.

“You’re laughing at me, huh!”

“DID YOU JUST LAUGHED AT ME?”

He was flooding with anger; his eyes were red due to pain and suffering his breaths were getting heavy he was blinded by rage and turmoil now.

“SHE’S DEAD SO THAT SOMEONE LIKE YOU COULD BE BORN INTO THIS WORLD! I WILL KILL YOU. YOUR FACE REMINDS ME OF EVERY MOMENT I SPENT WITH HER!!!” He had lost all his senses because of constant pain from love and hate.

He grabbed him by his neck and was not holding back from strangling his own son. The same son who he revived after being through so much of suffering. But when he almost killed his son, someone barged into his room.

It was ‘Belphegor’ who was at the palace at the moment.

“Beelzebub! What are you doing?” As he saw him strangling his child, he rushed and pulled his arm so he does not end up covering his hands with the blood of his own son.

“No! Leave him! He’s your own blood, your only heir, and only last thing left by her!!” Belphegor was right on time he was quick so he was able to pull up the child from its death on time, he yelled at him to knock some sense back into the king.

“No! Belphegor, leave me. I’ll kill him! I can’t bear to see his face anymore.”

“I won’t let you kill him, it’s not even his fault. And think about him, he just lost his mother. Can you even imagine how it feels like to grow without a mother”

“HE WAS THE REASON, SHE DIED! IF HE DISAPPEARES SHE WILL COME BACK HERE! TO ME” Daniel had lost his mind, darkness devoured him and he was left alone with a broken heart.

“Doesn’t matter what you do, you can’t bring her back. Only one you have now is this child her only memory and killing him will erase that last memory of her. Look at this innocent child you have other wives you can love them, but what about him his only mother is dead. Do you think Mirella would have liked it?”

“No, she wouldn’t” Belphegor’s words worked on Daniel as a charm. He gained control over emotions soon. But his broken heart was not healed.

“B-Bel-Alastair! I can’t do it, I can’t raise this child I might end up killing him! I know myself there would be a moment when I will again try to kill him. I don’t know what is my future now !” He was calm and was saying everything in his sane mind, but still he was filled with various emotions of hate, sorrow, and confusion.

“I don’t know if I will ever forget her, if I can ever be what I was before. I want this child to be safe but at the same time I want to kill him because only if it wasn’t for him she’d be still alive.”

“No! Daniel, that’s not his fault for Mirella’s death. Try to understand it.” Alastair was trying his best to console him, but he could only help him with things he knew and not with the thing only Daniel knew about.

“It is all his fault, I can never forgive him but I can’t do anything too he’s my only heir” did not matter how much he loved his son or how he was the last thing of his late wife, he was still the murderer of his wife for Daniel.

It’s the natural instinct of a person to blame someone to get out of their pain and to consult themself that it happened because of someone else. And Daniel was doing this to his son by distancing him.

“I know it’s hard for you to accept it but you have to.”

“I don’t want to see him anymore. Please raise him for me. I don’t know what kind of person I will become after the war, and I have no idea what could happen to him in my absence.” Daniel, on the other hand, cared for his boy too he wanted him to be safe.

“He’s not safe here. Someone can kill him when I will not be here, and I’m not sure about myself too. I might kill him, too. Y-you’re the only person who can keep him safe, you’re my best friend since childhood. I make you the godfather of this child. Please, I beg you.”

“W-what I should raise your son? That’s absurd, he’s a Beelzebub it’d be better if he grows around his own people.” Belphegor was shocked he never expected things to turn this way.

“Please I beg you,”

“Hmm, I understand. Your worry and I know about you too. I’ll raise this boy under my supervision, but he’ll still be a Beelzebub, and I will tell him everything about this. What happened here because he should know why his dad left him, so he never has the urge to go back home.”

“Anything is okay until he’s safe,”

“Does he have a name?”

“Yes, I and Mirella decided to name him ‘Tom’ when he was in her womb.”

“Hmm.”

“So from today, he is Tom.”

“Tom Beelzebub”

-TO BE CONTINUED…