Chapter 522 - 522: I am sorry

"It's great to see everyone here," Silva started, his smile still bright on his face to ensure that he kept the air clear.

"I've been away, even if it had not been that long, and I've missed everyone.

I'm sorry that what brought me back had to be the sheer destruction of Argon. I wished it did not have to be that way at all.

To be honest, part of what happened was my fault, or should I say most of it."

When he said that, their eyes were pinned on him. Quin, Roxy, his parents, everyone was staring at him to hear the explanation as to why he said that.

"I should have known that Ragna would not simply leave here even after I left. He would surely know how dear this place was to me and would try to do something." He paused when he got to this point. He looked up and around the table.

"Sigh, I believe the best way to do this would be telling you all of it, basically.

Our world, Argon, is one amongst many that live inside the universe. And this entire universe is held together by Order." He looked around again.

"I know the name Order sounds like something everyone knows, but Order is a being and not a state of things. He is a being that induces the state of things all around the universe.

He is the creator of the universe and everything that's inside it. He makes everything work the way it does."

"Order?" Quin spoke. "So you are saying there is a being that created all laws and logic, and his name is Order?"

"Exactly, spot on, that's what I meant, and I have known of Order for quite a bit now, even before I left. He wanted to kill me on many accounts."

Everyone was shocked when Silva said that. Their eyes widened, and their attention was fixed on him.

"I'll not go into details as to why Order wanted me dead, but there is a long list of history, many dating back to the fact that I was not considered normal." He said and then paused. He looked at them right in their eyes. Everyone here was his family and people who had gone through the worst with him. They deserved to know the truth, at least now.

He ran it over and over in his mind many times, and then finally, he decided to yield. He heaved a sigh and rose to his feet.

"It's time I told you all the truth."

Every eye was on him. Every person here wanted to know what this truth was that was so heavy for him to speak. Silva stared at them for a full minute, and then he finally found the words.

"My name is not Silva Terron. Well, it is, but before that, I was someone else." He straightened his back. He felt their gazes on him and their eagerness to hear what he was saying.

"My name was Rio."

"Silva, what are you saying?" Quin asked. Both his mothers were already tense while looking at him and were wondering where he was going with this.

"I am not originally from this world. Sure, I was born here and I have grown here, but before I came here, I was in another world.

My name there was Rio, and I had been a normal kid. In my world, magic did not exist, powers did not exist, and the kingdoms and empires all did not exist as well. It was simply humans being humans.

There were no other races, and there were no monsters. Humans dominated the world and lived as they wanted. A world that you would say was far more modern when compared to ours, but also very bland.

I lived in this bland-tasting world all my life and grew up there until I was a teen, pretty much of a similar age as I am now. But all that changed one day when suddenly I was walking out of my home at night, and I was shot right in the chest.

Someone killed me. I lay there and bled to death, and before anyone could do anything to help, I died. It was meant to be the end."

Silva placed his hands on the table and leaned forward when he got to this point. He drew a deep breath to calm himself and process the information that he was giving out.

"Then my eyes opened, and I was not dead, but rather, I was standing before the goddess Ophelia, who gave me the chance to be reborn into Argon.

She gave me the chance to walk the world again, the chance to become someone else, a new version of me, born of a new mother. The door to the former world I lived in was closed off forever, and there was no returning there, so I had to take my mind off it for good and focus on my rebirth into a new world.

That's how it happened. I was born into the family that then gave me away. I had the memories of my past life. I was mentally a grown teenager in the body of a kid.

I never knew if I could tell anyone this or if I deserved to tell anyone this, but now I have to. You all are the family that has kept me growing, and I think it's time that you know the truth about me."

He bowed his head and placed his hands on the table.

"I am sure that I have deceived many of you with this, and I am not really the person that you all thought you knew at all.

I carried a lie for so many years, and I looked in all your faces and demanded loyalty and truth when I could not even bring myself to tell the truth to you all.

It was cowardly and weak, undeserving for someone that you have all placed your trust and lives in, and for all of that, I am deeply sorry."