The Forsakens

Quest of Kepyun

In the morning, he woke up early and went back to the old lady's house to check if the cat returned. The old lady insisted on him to eat breakfast with her. He could not reject her. when he entered, Kepyun felt that the smell of death in the house got intensified.

The old lady: "Ethan, you should come more often."

Kepyun slapped his forehead and lowered his head in disappointment.

Kepyun: "Old lady, I am not Ethan, my name is Kepyun."

The old lady: "Whaaat? I can't hear you. Speak loudly."

Kepyun: "MY NAME IS NOT ETHAN!"

The old lady: "Stop trying to fool me. You were like that when you were smaller too. Always doing stupid jokes. You have grown a lot. Do you have a girlfriend?"

Kepyun: "I AM NOT TRYING TO FOOL YOU, I REALLY AM NOT ETHAN!"

The old lady: "Why are you shouting? Is there a deaf here?"

Kepyun foresaw the cycle he is going to go through again. He got mad at himself for accepting to eat breakfast with her. The very same thirty minutes was about to happen again.

The old lady: "Youth are nowadays so disrespectful. It is all your useless father's fault."

Kepyun: "I have never met my father."

The old lady: "Stop fooling around Ethan!"

Kepyun: "I am not..."

He stopped when he was about to say, Ethan. He didn't want to argue anymore. He silently listened to the rant of the old lady that has nothing to do with him. He was thinking about the sin he committed that caused those to happen to him.

The old lady stopped ranting only after she got tired of speaking. Kepyun wasn't even listening to her anymore. He was just repeating the same word 'sorry'. At some point even he believed he was Ethan. He was even cursing his so-called father's nefarious deeds.

When he turned back to reality, he realized he never asked the question he came for.

Kepyun: "Did the cat returned?"

The old lady: "I told you many times to speak louder."

Kepyun whispered to himself 'For f*ck's sake!' with a low volume. So low even he himself could not hear it.

Old lady shouted: "NO F-WORD IN THIS HOUSEHOLD!"

Kepyun's eyes popped out by the shock.

Kepyun: "You heard that?"

The old lady: "Of course I heard, do you take me for a deaf?"

Kepyun was thinking about how unreasonable the old lady was. He was cursing in his mind.

Kepyun decided to use his whispering volume again: "So you can hear everything?"

The old lady: "Whaaat? Speak louder. You are like that because of your father. She pressured you so much, you became a human without a backbone."

Kepyun realized how she is doing those on purpose. He decided to get to the main topic.

Kepyun: "DID THE CAT RETURN?"

The old lady: "Why are you sh.."

Kepyun interrupted her: "DID THE CAT RETURN?"

The old lady: "Stop sh..."

Kepyun interrupted her again: "DID THE CAT RETURN?"

The old lady: "Stooo..."

Kepyun: "DID THE CAT RETURN?"

The old lady sighed and gave up.

The old lady: "NO! DISRES.."

Kepyun: "BYE!"

Kepyun left hurriedly.

He decided to search for the cat on the streets again after school. He went to school just like that.

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After a few practices in the school, he went back on the mission again. He followed any cat he found. He was trying to feed them, play with them from time to time. He always considered cats to be useless creatures but now he looked at them with a different light. He was becoming fallen for them slowly. Their cuteness was captivating him.

He already began to do 'the prayer rituals' of 'Cat Cult'. Holding a cat and c.a.r.e.s.sing them until they get bored, looking at a cat who is trying to catch its own tail and smiling like he found the peace, serving them at every opportunity like they are some divine being...