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Chapter Ten
Nabooru is your mom.
It's like I have no memories, really.
No memories, no thoughts, no feelings. Just a tool that exists only for the sake of solving everybody's problems. They take away my home, my family, my best and only friend and even seven years of my life. And in the end, they just send me on my way. And I cannot complain.
Do they think that now, when I've traveled far enough that I'm in an alternate universe nowhere near where I belong (or thought I belonged before people whom don't know me told me otherwise)... now, when I've aged seven years in seven minutes, had to see everybody changed and some people gone...now, when I've had to leave everybody behind and start out once again in a place I've never been and a world I've never known... do they think I don't remember any of it? Do they think my mind is simple enough to reset itself every time they send me somewhere new, every time I play the Song of Time and restart three days once more, and lose all the problems I've had to experience and solve... only to have my efforts erased at the end of it all?
Do they think I can't feel pain, either? Maybe I'm just a body that takes orders and follows through without questioning and doesn't take any hurt, metered only by Life Energy? Do they think it doesn't mean anything to me that I have to pretend to be someone else and lie to some of the most honorable people I've ever met, and live with the secret that someone they love has died and I had to watch it? Do you think it doesn't hurt to see Kafei and Anju cry when I couldn't do anything to help? Maybe that doesn't mean anything to me. No, I'm just a boy who wandered in of his own accord... doesn't need praise, doesn't need encouragement, doesn't need anyone to help him out... he can do anything on his own. What he has to go through isn't their problem, eh?
But then, if I resisted this, if I lived my own life, things would be in chaos. I'm the only one who can do all these things, who can go anywhere and take down anyone and work my way up to the top (before restarting again). I'm needed, and if I decided not to do the things people asked of me, worse things would happen that nobody could even dream of. Without me, I know everything would eventually lead to a state that would make living my own life completely pointless. What luck, that I turned out to be the destined Hero.
And what help has the Triforce of Wisdom done me? Paralyzed Ganon for a few seconds of the Final Battle? Kept Hyrule in not-so-perfect condition while I missed a good portion of my life? Not a whole lot. In general I suppose Princesses aren't used to doing a lot of work, but even so, bearing part of the Triforce is hard and shouldn't be given to someone who can't handle it. I know I kept it without wanting to or even being asked to, but that's the work of the Goddesses who decide who gets what. Maybe it should have been given to Zelda's nanny rather than Zelda herself.
So in short, up till now and probably in future, there is nothing I can do to stop this. I guess I'll just have to bite my lip and undertake whatever tasks they throw at me, no matter what the danger, no matter what the risk. Seal myself up from emotions for my own sake. Work mindlessly for the good of the people and the world. If not, my life has no meaning.
Really, I'm used to it.