Back to my office for a final look, I double-checked the time on my desk. After that, I said to Dismar, “This is it. It is the end, and we shall never return.”
In the car, the radio was continually reporting the breaking news. “Hundreds of people died in Consoft facilities in terrorists' attacks.” Dismar made one last phone call to his wife, asked forgiveness, and then he spoke with his daughter. He told her that he loved her more than anything in the world. He told her to believe in herself and to try to be happy as in the end, that’s life, and that’s all that matters. He tossed the phone out of the window afterward.
We left the car at home. Dismar gave me some space for my last visit, as I spent most of my adulthood here. I loved this place with its lovely architecture featured in all the rooms. The kitchen opened to the garden. My bedroom had a nice, big window that opened onto an immense field. Every night through that very window, I admired the grass moving with the breeze. This mother-like home did shield me from madness. I love you, but now I must say goodbye. I hope your new guest will take care of you.
We went out to the bus stop. There, I asked him if he is still okay with the exit plan. He seemed a little bit confused. I don’t blame him as it’s a big decision to leave everything behind and start over somewhere else. But, we had one last job to do before vanishing. I kept that for me as he wasn’t aware of the last, hard push we were about to do.
“Do you want to go on a short trip with me?” I asked
“I know your short trips, Konu. They are campaigns, and by the way, you are not the chief of the armies anymore. I don’t have to do anything for you,” he replied,
“You are my friend now, or at least I hope so.”
He smiled finally and said, “Yeah, I will consider that.”
“We still have something important to do.”
“Really? I thought we were done!”
“No, not yet. One thing is left. Someone in unimaginable pain is out there, someone that shouldn’t exist in nature as he almost destroyed it.”
Dismar looked at me, put his hands into his leather jacket, and asked, “Who is this guy?”
“You will see when we get there,” I replied.
We took the bus after that. I like to be with normal people, everyday people. They are my distress bath, as I was extremely stressed about the last task. I have never done anything like this before.
After a couple of hours, we arrived at his castle. It looked empty and had no guards. We entered and went to his office and found him drinking naked, looking almost dead. Wonfuse looked at us slowly and said, “Konu, please sit. You can talk freely here. Kadar came himself…”
“Yes, he came by himself and secured the area. He is such a great and a humble guy,” I replied sarcastically.
“You are here to finish me, I know. I saw that in the machine,” Wonfuse said.
“I bet the scene wasn’t completed as there wasn’t enough data,” I replied.
“Yes, there was no data to see beyond now, just our meeting…” Then he started laughing like crazy, “Who are you? Please tell me before you kill me.”
“I'm not here for you. You are already dead, Wonfuse.”
“Not for me?”
“No, I’m here for your son.”
Suddenly, a small silhouette appeared next to the door. He was there watching us with his sad and tired eyes. He was breathing heavily as his brain needed double the oxygen to function and sweating as his two hearts needed to pump twice the blood for his body.
He was there just watching us – mindful of his misery but not of his existence, dragging his shameful body that can’t be classified as human, begging for forgiveness as his existence itself was a crime. All that I had done was nothing compare to this abomination.
Dismar started screaming at me, “No! Are you fucking with me? Konu, no! This is crazy! The boy has nothing to do with all of this.”
“Wonfuse, tell him who wrote the core algorithm of the machine,” I asked quietly. Then I turned to him and put the gun at his head and shouted. “Tell him, Wonfuse!”
“It was my son…”
Dismar sat down on a chair, choking and with shaking hands trying to reach for his cigarettes. He couldn’t find them. I took one of the rolls I had out of my shirt pocket and handed it to him. I asked him to leave when he finished it.
He finished it fast, sucked the whole thing down in a couple of breaths. Then he stopped, looked at me, and then while staring at Wonfuse, left the room. I screamed at Wonfuse many times to leave the room too. Finally, he left like a ghost without looking at his son. He had lost his mind.
I was standing there, shaking, but after a moment, the kid moved slowly towards me. And for the first time, he looked up at me and smiled like an angel
I closed my eyes and shot him multiple times in the head. I delivered his soul from his miserable body; from this nightmare that he had to go through all his life; from his own tragic existence; from all the agony that he had to endure just to be alive; from his bizarre reality that is such an obscene mismatch to ours.
I delivered him the peace he had been looking for, finally. Holding him in my arms, I gave him a hug, like the ones my father had given me.
Dismar and I left the castle and
