"WHEN GOD has a plan, it must come to pass. The last finger of your left hand was moving slightly along with your right ear, and that’s when I realized that you were still alive, even though you weren’t breathing at all. I had to give you air by blowing into your mouth, and hope was very minimal. What remained was for me to get you out of there quickly before the police arrived, because I knew the director would have informed them to come to your place."
"What I did was look for trash bags and put you inside them. In your back storage room, I took work clothes and put the trash in a trolley. Before leaving, I found the power switch and damaged the electrical systems, knowing that within a few minutes, it would cause a fire, and then I left quickly. After covering about two hundred meters, I saw enough police vehicles entering, and it wasn’t long before a huge explosion occurred inside. My goal was to destroy all evidence about you so that if anything led them to suspect your disappearance, anyone who found you easily would believe you were dead, which was the director."
"That very night, I took you here to this place in the valley, deep in the forest. I didn’t bring you here by mistake; it’s a place I saw as very safe for your life, and it’s also a place where I come to rest whenever I have personal or spiritual troubles regarding something."
"I know you’re wondering why I brought you to that old woman and how it was right for you. That woman is my grandmother, my mother’s mother, and she is the only one left with me in my life. She returned to the village after her family rejected her for marrying a man they did not approve of. They moved to the city, and that man, who is my grandfather, left her after getting her pregnant and went to another woman. This situation distressed her greatly until she decided to move here, where she raised my mother."
"Long ago, she did not live in the forest; she lived in town but came here after her child, who is my mother, was impregnated and then abandoned by the man who I was supposed to call father. My grandmother was very angry, feeling that the cities were cursed and her family, so she decided to move here to the forest with her pregnant daughter, who was my mother at the time."
"She raised my mother here until the day she gave birth, which was also the day my mother died, probably due to a lack of medical care during childbirth. My grandmother buried her daughter alone, and I remained as her only child whom she raised and began to teach the knowledge she had. I studied very hard until I grew up a bit, and that was when she sent me to the military. She directed me to my family (my grandmother's family). They were well-known and took me in. That was the beginning of my journey until I became a national spy."
"So, I have been coming here secretly for many years because this is where my grandmother is. I have insisted on moving her from here, but she has refused and has suffered greatly. This is where she buried her daughter, my mother, and she says she cannot leave her behind. That’s why I told you I come here to rest because this is where my biological mother was buried and my grandmother is here, and she is the old woman you see; she is the one who raised me."
"Tomorrow we will begin training so you can regain your strength. After a few months, once you have recovered, I will need you to leave this place entirely because I feel I might be followed, and I might endanger my grandmother’s life by helping you. I still need to see that old woman; she is my only hope that keeps me living with the knowledge that I have a family."
He took more than four hours to tell me the entire story of how I was revived from the dead and came back to life. Now I understood that I had not died but had managed to live again.
"Brother, why have you gone so far as to risk your life to help me, someone who has never done anything good for you?" I asked, which was a genuine question.
We only knew each other through work but were not close enough for someone to make such a sacrifice.
"Brother, life is just that; we will all die eventually, though at different times. But sometimes people die before their appointed time due to various life challenges. So, if you get a chance to help someone in your life, don’t hesitate—just help them, and they will help others in turn, regardless of whether they repay your kindness or not. This is how I live, as I was raised by my grandmother."
"I don’t even know how to thank you, my brother. I have gone through very difficult things in a short time, but they have left a significant scar on my life. I believe you have helped me greatly to regain my strength, and I ask that you push me to undergo intense training like never before," I spoke with anguish, knowing that strength was the only thing that would enable me to repay all that had happened to me.
"When I first saw you after digging you out, I thought you would never be able to speak or open your eyes again, as you had been beaten very badly. Many of your bones were shattered, but now that you have awakened, your bone strength should make you a formidable person in a short time. Tomorrow, we will officially start the training, so you can return to your life, and my help will end there," he gave me powerful words of encouragement.
I did not want to disclose the intense revenge I had planned in my heart against my country and its leaders. The next day, we began rigorous training. I worked very hard, and after six months, I was able to walk and do everything by myself.
"My brother, I am leaving here. You will complete the rest on your own," he told me one evening after confirming that I had regained my ability to walk and do everything by myself.
"I know you have great revenge in your heart, but the person or people you want to take revenge on cannot be touched right now; you are still too weak. You have two choices;
"First, to get your spine to be fully functional, it will take no less than twenty years, and only then will you be able to withstand any blow. But if you meet someone with greater strength and they hit you, you might never be able to walk again in your lifetime. Second, if you can, find someone whom you can train to become even more dangerous than you, so they can avenge you on your behalf. It would be ideal if you could find a very young child to raise as your own; you would instil in them a strong desire for revenge against those who did this to you. Remember that revenge requires a long time to plan and it endures,” those were the words of my friend, Dismas Teddy.ll
"His words touched me deeply in one way or another, but I felt that the second option would suit me better. That’s when I decided to pursue it and leave the area as we had agreed. However, before leaving, he helped me with one major thing and gave me additional advice."