**Earth
Scene 70: "The Rural Village" — After Seven Years**
Seven years have passed, and Labib has grown into a young man. Everything remained exactly as it was, unchanged. Labib was still chasing after attention, still wishing to hear even a single word of appreciation.
Despite his continuous work and effort, the only words that ever reached his ears were those that shattered confidence, will, and hope.
But today, something will happen… let us continue.
Labib is speaking to a group of boys from that same village—boys who were just like their fathers, no different from them at all. Labib expressed to them his desire to become an important leader in the future.
He said:
"I want to become a brave leader…
Turning night into day…
The sun shining with no clouds and no dust."
*After hearing his words, they burst out laughing mockingly, as usual.*
They said:
"No one from our people ever had importance in the past…
And it doesn't seem like we'll become anything either…
What about the failure?"
Labib felt deeply saddened, for they had always crushed his hopes, belittled his dreams, and never cared about him. He had never heard from them a single word of gratitude or appreciation.
They turned his heart and soul into a very gloomy world… Labib walked past the grandfather's gathering without them noticing or sensing his presence. There, he heard words and discovered a truth that would change everything.
The grandfather said:
"You fool… They are not my grandsons at all, and their father is not my son.
He is a poor man who couldn't pay his debts to me…
So I made him give me these two brats to work instead.
But his brother disappears, and I never see him…
So Labib has to work double to make up for him."
After hearing this, Labib was shocked—stunned and enraged beyond anything imaginable or describable.
What will happen next?
Labib left the village extremely angry, carrying his necklace, which was glowing intensely, as if it were sending a call to someone… summoning him.
Some time after Labib's departure, a fully armored warrior appeared at the outskirts of the village. He seemed to possess not an ounce of mercy. His armor was entirely black, hiding even the features of his face, and around his neck hung a pitch-black necklace. What he was about to do was terrifying… truly terrifying. Let us continue…
He stretched out his hand toward the village, and a darkness like night spread across it.
All its inhabitants—the wicked and the good, the women and children, the righteous and the corrupt—panicked.
The darkness spread through every corner of the village, leaving no crack or gap untouched. Then… it exploded entirely, as if it had been sitting atop the mouth of a volcano, turning into ash—
as though no village had ever existed there.
Night fell. And there was the warrior—whom we shall call *the Black Warrior*—walking with his glowing red eyes blazing with fury and flame. The rest of his facial features remained hidden behind the armor.
As he walked…
*We hear the voice of the Musician Fighter in the background of the scene:*
He says:
"The calm these people grew used to…
Made them trust storms…
The calm these people grew used to…
Made them too foolish to take caution…
An eternal silence shall befall them…
Where they can never speak again…
They asked: What are you doing?
And what did those before you do?
I said: The past by which you judge me…
If the future contradicts it, you deny it…
Speak today and mock…
For tomorrow may come, and you fall silent…
And you remain silent forever…
The manners of the woooound."
*Then the Black Warrior spoke, saying:*
"If one of them errs…
All pay the price."
So this is the principle of the Black Warrior.
The scene shifts upward toward the sky, letting us glimpse the beauty of the shining stars. As we gaze at them, we hear a voice saying:
"Open the gate."
So… is he a warrior who came from the Gate of the Unknown and returned to it after completing his mission?
And was Labib's necklace the one that summoned him?