By EMANUEL THOMAS MARCONDES*
The king proclaimed the monster's punishment for all the evil he had done in his long life on earth: the creature should be imprisoned forever for his sins.
In past centuries, the incarnation of evil lived among men, a monster who, although he had a human appearance, committed every evil and worst act imaginable that could be inflicted on others. Robbery, murder, rape of women and children, sadistic torture against the weakest, genocide... it would be countless to transcribe each of the examples that identify the extent of the evil caused by this unscrupulous creature.
As the years passed, a king of men arose on earth whose goodness and wisdom were on a par with the evil and cruelty of the humanoid monster. A trap was then orchestrated against the monster that, if it were not for the fallibility of the king's subordinates, would have had a perfect result. However, the imperfection of the trap's result was enough for the ambush to be sprung, accidentally hitting the monster in the head, which fell unconscious to the ground.
Faced with this situation, the king – with all his wisdom – proclaimed the monster's punishment for all the evil he had done in his long life on earth: the creature should be imprisoned forever for his sins. They would also have 100 men in charge of always protecting the prison, faithfully carrying out the punishment imposed on the monster, providing him only with what was necessary to keep him alive until his sentence was extinguished.
The monster, upon waking up on the first day, found himself frightened. He looked at his feet and hands and found them both chained. The brain damage caused by the trap accident made him forget his name, his past, what he had done and how he had ended up there, in the worst of the worst prisons this world has ever seen. The monster then waited until the first guard appeared, who brought him enough food and water to keep his heart beating.
When the first guard arrived, the monster asked: “Excuse me, but I can’t remember anything. Who am I and what did I do to receive such punishment?” The guard, who had lost his wife and children due to the atrocities that the monster had committed in the past, soon became enraged and insisted on telling everything that he had caused to those poor victims. The monster listened to everything in silence, without showing any reaction.
Only when the guard no longer had the breath to continue uttering insults did the creature respond: “I ask forgiveness for my sins, although I do not remember them, if this punishment imposed is the fair measure given the harm I have caused you, I will accept my fate without hesitation.”
On the second day, the monster woke up again, unaware of his past, frightened by the situation he found himself in, unable to say who he was or what he had done to deserve all that. When the second guard arrived, the countless acts of violence were explained to him again. In the end, the monster – who did not even remember the conversation that had taken place the day before – repeated the same words: “I ask forgiveness for my sins, even though I do not remember them. If this punishment imposed is a fair measure for the harm I have caused you, I will accept my fate without hesitation.”
100 days passed, and each day the story repeated itself over and over again. At the end of the 100 days the guards were changed, and only that, along with the stories told, were changed, because the monster could never remember what had happened the day before. He repeated the same questions, and in the end, he gave the same answer to his guardians.
Days turned into months, which turned into years, and these into centuries, until the memory of men was also erased by time, but the punishment imposed on the monster was never forgotten.
As the days went by, the monster remained weak, forgetting who he was and what he had done to end up in that prison. However, the guards could no longer satisfy his doubts, as none of them had any knowledge of who the monster was or what he had done to be locked up there, fulfilling his fate. Faced with his doubts, the guards simply responded:
I just know it's always been this way,
and so it will always be.
You live to be a prisoner,
while I was born to imprison you.
Orders are orders, that's the law.
The world works like this.
Neither me nor you
we can say,
What will happen in the end.
And when the end of time came, the prisoner cursed what he called the monster of Justice.
*Emanuel Thomas Marcondes He holds a bachelor's degree in law from the State University of Londrina (UEL).
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