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nTime kept on passing as time is the only thing that will keep on flowing no matter what happens.

nIt was already the 6th Year of the New Era.

nSomewhere in the Dread Forest of Sara Desert in the North-East Zone.

nA giant tree with a crack was chilling under the sunlight even though the sunlight paled in comparison to the light and shine coming from a thing that was stuck in the crack of its bole.

nRight under this shining tree was the basement where Zhao Luo was resting.

nHe was still trapped in the Capsule.

nEven though nobody could see it a type of military drill was being held in the mind of Zhao Luo by the one only Zhao Luo himself.

nZhao Luo had his thoughts standing in a row with each of them being next to the other one.

nNine of them were standing there with Zhao Luo facing them with his back. They waited for Zhao Luo to speak.

nA year had already passed and in this one year time Zhao Luo had improved immensely in controlling his thoughts. He could freely choose as to when these thoughts can appear in front of him as apparition form in his mind.

nThe limit to these apparitions was still nine. So Zhao Luo had chosen carefully on the thoughts he had manifested as his training.

nIn the dark space in his mind Zhao Luo slowly turned towards his nine apparitions.

nGentlemen

nZhao Luo said while looking right at the nine thought apparitions after turning.

nZhao Luo had a creepy smile on his face. The reason behind this untimely smile was simple calling himself a gentleman made him smile from ear to ear. What a stupid reason to be happy. But one thing was sure nobody would know this or could see these actions as this was all happening inside the mind of Zhao Luo.

n‘ Tap Tap Tap ‘

nZhao Luo walked towards his thoughts apparitions and walked past them while looking up and down at each of them. As if the thoughts were some kind of food and Zhao Luo was the food inspector.

nThe thoughts looked at Zhao Luo as if waiting for him to continue as he had said nothing after calling them out.

nZhao Luo knew that they were waiting for him to continue but he couldn’t help it. He was still silently walking in this dark space in his mind with his footsteps being heard in this space even though there was no floor present.

nZhao Luo stopped and again turned his back towards them.

nZhao Luo couldn’t help but think of all the time which had passed since the first fight of his nine thoughts. All this time getting better at controlling them was like hell for him.

nWhenever his thoughts would manifest in apparitions form they would wreak havoc in his mind.

nThey would start with arguing with each other without giving any face to their Master

/Dad which was Zhao Luo.

nThis arguing would ‘most of the times’ lead to them fighting like babies. And then it would go to some weird emotional point of cursing. When the apparitions reached that point Zhao Luo had to disperse them.

nThen he tried to stop them without making them disappear from his mind space.

nIt was hard so hard that at one point Zhao Luo had to face the beating of his thought apparitions. But it was all worth it.

nNow they were standing next to each other quietly waiting for Zhao Luo to say something like the soldiers in a military drill waiting for their leading officer to say something.

nHahaha

nZhao Luo laughed loudly in his mind. This laugh was mixed with a hint of sadness. As Zhao Luo was still unable to move his body or open his eyes. So his laugh was comparable to laughs in texting just like the ‘lol’ in texting applications where people would only laugh in words but not in reality.

nSigh. It’s been a long time.

nZhao Luo said to himself. Then he turned towards his thoughts which were still waiting for him to say something.

nI am ZHAO LUO

nZhao Luo said to them. His voice was shaking. He opened his mouth again.

nYou all are also Zhao Luo

nHe spoke to them again. The one-sided conversation couldn’t get any weirder till Zhao Luo spoke again.

nI can finally control you all. But what use do you guys even have? It’s not like you guys can do something relevant.

nZhao Luo berated them. He was taking out his frustration on them. The reason for frustration was his time and

n‘hard work’

nthat he had to put into controlling his thoughts.

nSo tell me What use do you all have?

nZhao Luo said to them while giving them an unpleasant look.

nJust thinking that all the hard work one had put into doing something over a year time could be wasted would make anyone angry and sad.

nIt was nothing different for our sleeping prince Zhao Luo.

nSo Zhao Luo waited for his thought to reply while giving them that ‘Up’ look.

nAs they weren’t replying Zhao Luo got red because of the building anger which was boiling inside him.

n‘~FWOOSH~’

nZhao Luo pointed at one of the thoughts. His eyebrows almost touched each other that one could make a ‘V’ shape out of his eyebrow tails right away.

nThe thought apparition that Zhao Luo had pointed at was quiet for a few seconds.

n‘He must be thinking and this shows that there could be a use for these thoughts of mine.’

nZhao Luo thought.

nBut as the quietness continued the others next to that apparition who was questioned by Zhao Luo looked at it and soon they realized something which turned their ‘just looking’ into a stare.

nThe thought was a fallen warrior. The other apparitions nodded as they shared a similar feeling with that sleeping warrior.

n‘PHATT’

nA short-lived snoring bubble burst and its sound were heard in this dark quiet place.

nThe thought looked around and after realizing that all the nine pairs of eyes were on him. Eight of them had a sincere look as if bidding farewell to him while one pair had a flame burning in them.

nYes

nThe thought said.

nWhat Yes?

nZhao Luo asked with a dumbfounded look.

nBoss you said gentlemen. That’s why I said yes.

nThe thought answered with a righteous tone. As if he had done nothing wrong. But it was an announcement to everyone of the time he went to his sleeping endeavor.

nHAHAHAHAHA

nZhao Luo burst out laughing after hearing the answer of this thought.

nWhat could he do except laugh at the answer of this thought apparition?

nWhat a mess

nZhao Luo said.

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