So everything was more like hell to me. Still, soon, after getting fed up with everything, I thought of leaving the house, and the moment night started to rise, I left the house. I just started to run randomly away from my house, but soon, when I crossed my village, I saw that there was a burning ground and some corpses were being burnt there. So seeing it and finding no other place to spend the night, I thought of spending the night there only. But the moment I got close to it, I saw some strange creatures were dancing around the burning corpse while an old man was enjoying their dance. Seeing it surely shook me to my core, but I was already tense about ghosts due to my life events. So instead of backing down now, I entered the burning ground. The moment I entered it, the spirits stopped dancing, and the old man started to stare at me with a pretty cold gaze, so seeing him, I started to shake, but I took a deep breath and came to the old man's side and started greeting him. Seeing me, he looked at me for some time, and then suddenly his expression changed, and he spoke: "Are you that farmer's son who lived in that small house with his wife?" Hearing his words, I felt a pretty shock because surely I had never seen this man ever in my life, and now he was asking about my father, so surely I was feeling way too surprised, but I still nodded and gestured to him that yes! Hearing it, he smiled apologetically and spoke. "Kid, surely you are that bastard's son. That creep was more like a brother to me, but due to a personal dispute between us, he broke every relation with me, but hearing that he was living nicely in that village surely gave me comfort, but kid, why are you here at such a time? Your village has a pretty strange issue with spirits, so neither of them leaves at night, so how are you out cold on such a night and even entered this burning ground? Did your father send you? Is he okay?" Hearing his words, I felt a pretty heavy blow at my heavy heart, the heart that stood all the traumas of parents' death to that creepy house. Everything started to melt from my eyes, and seeing tears falling from my eyes, his face became a bit serious, and he spoke with a pretty deep voice, "So he also died by the hands of spirits." Well, we can't blame him; after a certain age, surely it corroded his body, and he was unable to control the spirits, but to think he didn't even call for help from me—surely he was stubborn till he. Well, the person I called my brother didn't even call me at the moment of death, so why are you here?" Hearing his words, I remembered that while escaping the house, I grabbed that knife that Father had while he hung himself up, so I took out that knife, and I spoke, "Uncle, I am not here to ask for sympathy; I want something that could help me deal with the spirits. I lost my entire family in such trials of these spirits, and I couldn't even help them in their final moments, and even now these bastards are just screwing with me, so I don't want it to continue ever in any member of my generation. So I want you to help me, and in exchange, I will do anything you say!" Hearing my words, he looked at me, and he spoke, "Boy, are you sure? You want to choose this path only? If you ever turn to this path, then you won't ever be able to return to your normal world; your whole world will start to revolve around ghosts and spirits. So are you sure that you don't need help to remove the spirits from your life and instead you want the power to resist them and make your own way in the middle of every crisis?" Hearing his words, I nodded and looked at him with a pretty serious expression. Seeing my expression, he sighed and spoke, "Kid, if you are this stubborn to learn this, then as my brother's son, I will help you, but always remember the most important rule on our side: never betray your own heart, and never hesitate in your actions. If you break this law, then you will fall into a grave state, where even death won't accept you, and you will just corrode in these rituals only. The people will summon you even after you die, and you won't even be able to resist their call. So I want final confirmation because you are my brother's son, and I don't want to pull you to our side because our every action is just for either filling the graves or destroying the graves!" Hearing his words, I felt the chill of the situation, and I started to get thoughts about how that dancing spirit was just standing there while the screams from the burning corpse were covering the entire burning land. So seeing it, I took a deep breath and agreed. Seeing me agreeing to his words, he sighfully looked at me and spoke: "Kid, if you are ready, then I will just give you something that will help you survive for the long term, and think of it more like a gift, so strip your clothes and go sit in front of that burning corpse." Hearing his words, my entire soul started to shake, and I started to feel a sudden kind of chill, as that spirit was laughing, hearing that I didn't back down. So hearing his laugh and seeing the screams of a burning corpse surely were shaking me to my core, and now I could feel the pressure behind the words of the old man. The words he spoke might look like boring rules or cautions to others, but for me they were the only means of survival because by the tone and facial expression of the old man, it was sure that he wasn't joking or exaggerating either way. So seeing it, the moment I sat in front of the corpse, the hands started to rise from the corpse and started to hold my leg and started screaming, "Release me from here, kid; I am burning here. Despite being dead, my entire soul is burning. Help me. I promise I will do whatever the old man says; just bring me out. If you can't do it, then take my place and give me that youthful flesh of your mortal body!" Hearing his words and pleas, my entire body felt as if it was paralyzed, and I started to sink in that corpse only, but the moment I was about to sink in it, a strange stick came out from my side and went right in his mouth, and a strange kind of liquid started to rush out from her mouth with screams, and a laughter came from the spirit, and he spoke, "Hey, don't tell me you are planning on feasting on a newbie on his very first day. Guess you surely need the flames higher, hahhahaa!" Saying it, I stopped sinking into that furnace-like thing, and the flames started to intensify, as did his screams: "No flames, anything but flames! I will do everything you say; I won't do anything without your orders. Just take me out of this hell!"
