Special chapter 2 - Appreciation to a Good Anime I Just Watched
Before we continue with the main chapter, let's have a story that happened before Sky meet Chris.
It was a story when Sky was still a bounty hunter that will accept whatever quest that brings a good reward, however there is one certain quest that changed his principle for the rest of his life.
That day was a dry and sunny day, he walks alone on a desert with a mild sandstorm. Maria wasn't with him, he stayed with Ben's father who was a legendary healer, helping him with some processing of herbs. Sky dragged himself through a few miles in the desert and finally reached a small village. He found an old Inn and decided to stay at there for a night. In the Inn there was a notice board, on the notice board there were some bounties and one of it caught Sky's attention, it's a bounty to catch an ordinary looking boy alive, and the reward is consider as high. Sky look at that bounty and thought for a while, he is interested at the reward and he remembered he saw that boy earlier before he get into the Inn...
The next morning, the boy from the bounty poster snuck into a farm and skillfully caught two chickens bare handed. As he is about to escape, a man blocked his way, yes, it's Sky. "Although it's just two chickens but I don't think it's alright for you to just casually catch it without the owner's permission." said Sky. "It's just chicken!" said the boy while trying to walk away but get grabbed by Sky on his collar. "Chicken or not, it's still consider as stealing." said Sky. "Let go of me! You old geezer!" "Ugh... Old geezer..." Getting irritated by the boy, Sky tied him up with a rope and stuck a piece of cloth in his mouth and tie it up. "Actually I don't really care about things you stole, I only care about the bounty that placed on you, I'm interested to know why a snot kid like you costed that much." said so, Sky carried the boy on his shoulder and heading to the location shown in the poster to claim the prize, the boy who knows where are they heading, struggled hard trying to escape.
Three days later, the boy is tied on a flat and big rock on the mountain, surrounded him are people from the village, amount them are some priests who are chanting some mantra. From their conversation, we can know that they are sacrificing this boy to a demon that live in the mountain in order to make sure the village will continuously to have rich resources even in such a deserted area. The chief of the village who is actually the boy's father handed over a dagger to a young man who is actually the boy's elder brother, the chief wanted him to dig out the boy's eyes and cut off his tongue for the demon. However, the boy is extremely calm in this situation. "Although I know it's useless for me to say anything right now but why do I have to sacrifice my own body for the villager? And who are you to make that decision?"said the boy. Then the elder brother look at him with despising eyes. "Hmph! You are really a selfish and despicable person like father said, are you saying that your life is more important than the future of the whole village? Don't be so selfish, are you going to let the whole village suffer just that you can stay alive?" said the brother. "Hmm... I see, so this is the truth behind that high reward of bounty." suddenly, Sky walk out from behind a stone wall, he was watching the process since the beginning. "But since you are so kind, great and mighty, wouldn't you be a better sacrifice compare with such a despicable and selfish snot kid? I'm sure the results will be better." said so Sky give a weird giggle and upon hearing this from Sky, the villagers included the chief shifted their attention to the brother...
Present, Sky's house, living room. "Ah, I see, so you are actually quite evil before I know you." said Chris. "No, I'm not!" said so, Sky switched on the television which is currently showing the evening news...
**I actually wrote this before the final episode be release, so that is actually what I feel before the final episode, which is a bit different after watching the final episode this morning.