Not really an actual chapter, but a vital clue in Arthur's story. This not-so-happy information contains one of the four cores that holds the mystery in its place. Without solving this, you might not understand why things are often different in each installation. Thus, this serves as a major foreshadowing for a particular character. Oh, don't forget to vote on the poll later, okay?

Disclaimer: As much as I want to make this canon, I don't own Hetalia

Warning (s): Self-harm, suicide, character deaths, endless, unorthodox theories, depressed!characters

LOsT iN TiMe

It was such a wishful thought to believe that things could still change. The gruesome details from the canvases' endings were different, some were not that luminous but held an aura of great splendor, yet the finest part that made it similar to the rest are the strokes and smudges of unforgiving red on the subject.

There were lots of red on every object (the roses, the roofs, the blood and their bonds) that one would mistake the painter as a red fanatic person, and to say the truth, per se, is not that away from what is believed. Fate actually dictated him to choose the color as a closure for his never ending suffering.

It told him to play his best music while waltzing in a slow paced dance of a lively festival as his mind wanders to the very depth of details that he could think off, and have the tip of his brush paints everything he thought off. Granted, he has been living the nightmare for approximately ten years now.

How could it possibly be hard to paint it?

The answer is: very.

Despite of him memorized the scenes, he could not bring forth himself to recreate the tragedy that has been haunting him ever since. The shadow of his past over shadows the one he had saw in the future, thus, making it more difficult to find an escape path from the miserable situation. Don't get him wrong, he loves painting (his brother, even though he barely know him, was a good artist) but he didn't have the strength to go further.

So, what was the best thing he could do? Clutch his pocket watch and hope that the nightmare will change? That it will be resolved through trivial efforts and bitter tears? To say that it will work through the power of friendship?

Nonsense! It was all but nonsense. None of which were able to help him with reverie (but hey, it quite contributed in his mental instability) or helped him ease the problem a bit. It only served him troublesome. The power of friendship wouldn't save you. Only your powers will.

Sadly, he still ought to hope.

To hope that the situation will change. To hope that old relationships will rekindle. To hope that they could be normal again. To hope that they can be a family again.

But sometimes, he felt himself asking, "Is this truly worth the effort? Am I not just wasting my time over this mess?" because there are times where he was already tired from hoping. Nonetheless, he perseveres.

For the sake of the future, for the sake of the past!

Because if he surrenders now, he will fail and when he fails, he will be lying as he once promised to his sister, he will save them all. Even if time goes over and over again.

Short isn't it? My main idea here is to make you readers guess and digest the just read passage to wonder how, when and what on earth was happening in the man's perspective. Was the narrator in the verge of insanity? Or was he slowly giving up? What made him think that the world is full of nightmares? Will this be solved? These are just few of the questions I've been expecting ever since I wrote this, but somehow, I bet no one will question it as let the mystery unravel itself, perhaps. Anyway, I'm half way done with the next chapter and will be posting it sooner or later.

And do tell, who do you think was the speaker in the passage? His he related to Arthur, Lukas, Feliciano or Yong Soo? What do you think is this man's powers and why did it triggered him to have a chapter? Comment below and share your thoughts!