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Chapter 21 - Closer to Ziya

 "It's cold that's why my body feels that way, am not dead." Chester suddenly 

said, Lucian let out a sigh of relief, "Memories?" He asked, Chester nodded and 

swallowed the improperly chewed fruit with a "Gudon" sound. Lucian smiled 

bitterly, "I thought you already healed all this time." He said, looking at 

Chester with a pitiful look. Chester and Lucian both were sitting under a tree 

and looking over the horizon, the huge statue of Ziya covered in white mist was 

visible more than the palace's imperial tower. Chester looked at his hands and 

sighed, "I already healed Lucian, but memories! Memories don't heal." 

 Lucian looked down at the ground trying to ponder the information, Chester 

continued and said, "You might be 16 years old, but the memories when you 

were 7 years old still burn the same. Once you make a flaw in life, that memory 

will escort you to death." Lucian smiled bitterly after realizing that healing is 

different from memory emotions. "Why do you think men beg women when 

they are about to separate?" Chester asked, Lucian was deep in thoughts and 

said, "Maybe because they can't move on or maybe because they can't live 

without that woman." He said while spreading his hands. 

 Chester smiled, cleared his throat and said, "When a man says he can't live 

without a girl, women see that as his weakness, they think that the guy is so 

madly in love with them. But here is the actual reality about it! A guy that begs 

you to stay actually does love you yes, but he can live without you and he can 

heal sooner or later. In fact, the moment you say you want to separate and leave 

him, his mind will be ready to let go. Okay its time to separate, he is going to 

sit down and think about it, he doesn't really care about moving on or healing I 

mean those things are very easy to do." 

 "What he is going to think about is that do I really love this girl? If yes then 

will I be able to survive the memories without getting broken? This is the 

biggest question a man asks himself. Now let me make this clear, Jack separates 

from his lover Chizu and he heals off quickly, he then goes and seats down 

under a tree, a blue butterfly passes by in front of him; this type of butterfly 

was Chizu's favorite, he didn't even know why but he found himself in deep 

memories, his facial expression kept changing from being sad, sorrowful, 

happy, confused and shocked. A pang of pain struck his heart such that he 

almost cried out aloud." 

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 "He doesn't want to get Chizu back, but the memories are too intense he just 

simply can't erase them from his mind. Do you know why? It is because he 

loved her so much, he thought dating another girl would make him heal which 

off course healed him but his love was still embedded in memories of Chizu. 

Do you know what Jack does? He goes to drink alcohol saying it makes him 

happy; he goes to parties and gambling houses; he goes to brothels and sleeps 

with a lot of women there. He even smoked weed and went gang mode in the 

neighborhood; at night, he comes back home feeling happy and smiling all over, 

he falls asleep and he dreams of Chizu again." 

 "He wakes up in the morning, a pang of heart pain struck his heart again. 

Whatever he did yesterday was forgotten but Chizu was still intact in the 

mind. He meets his girl and tells her that he loves her, but the words are just as 

dry as the word dry itself. He comes across and sees Chizu bouncing with 

another guy looking happy. Women are quite good at moving on and healing, 

that is because when you are dating them, there are guys that talk to them and 

subconsciously develop feelings for each other." 

 "Jack was so furious, he went on and drunk, went to the brothels and slept 

with a lot of women and got six other women as his girlfriends. He did 

everything possible to make himself happy, but he was not complete! There was 

always a part of him missing, that single neuron which had Chizu in his mind 

was hard to kill. He treated all the seven women badly, the love he gave out was 

not complete. The word love lost meaning to him, he started jumping from one 

woman to another, kissed this girl and kissed that one. Jack's friends were 

happy, bro was finally becoming the person they wanted him to be, they saw 

women as swimming pools. They only cared about them swimming and didn't 

care about sharing the swimming pool, as long as they quenched their 

thirstiness then all is well." 

 "The ladies that these guys were playing also got fed up with fake love, they 

moved from place to place to look for suitable men. But as usual, most of the 

men were even worse than Jack. So, some women went to the mountains to 

pray to God for marriage, others used charms, others even said they will never 

be married and that led to many of these women to start what is called a onenight stand, and this was the beginning of what we now call HIV. Yes, there 

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