In The Village of Kuru Eruna

by MewJounouchi

"Dear Pharaoh, you know not what you have unleashed within me." Thoughts of the Thief King concerning the night that his village was annihilated in order to create the Millennium Items.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of its characters. That all belongs to Mr. Kazuki Takahashi

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In The Village of Kuru Eruna

In the village of Kuru Eruna

I heard the screams and cries of my people,

I saw the blood and tears that were spilt,

And I saw the soldiers who raided the weak and helpless, the defenseless, the unsuspecting…

I could smell the smoke that rose from the fires,

I could taste death on my very lips,

And I could feel the conspiring dread and loneliness wash over me

As I was blinded by the chaos, the tumult, and the release of Hell on earth.

I saw my family struck down right before my eyes:

My father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters.

With boiling water and burning fires, the human sacrifices for the creation of the Millennium Items began.

And in my young and horrified mind I counted: 99 in all.

In the village of Kuru Eruna

My mind and my body was changed

I learned to hate.

I learned to kill.

I became void of any sense of remorse as

Darkness and evil consumed my soul…

I became one with Darkness

My sanity left me with every step I took

To escape my eradicated village and the continuing sounds of torture and pain.

In the village of Kuru Eruna

I discovered who ordered the massacre.

I discovered the reason for the bloodshed…

The reason that did not justify any of the actions or events that happened.

Dear Pharaoh,

You know not what you have unleashed within me.

But thank you still.

For in my village of Kuru Eruna

You have given me reason,

You have given me a motivation

To get revenge

And kill you without a single thought of hesitance.