The wall is being demolished.

Sledgehammers resound on both sides.

The wall marked the national border for decades.. until yesterday. ''Border'' might not be the right word, however, Originally, both sides were part of a single nation. The country became divided owing to different ideology and the two sides reminded so mutually antagonistic that a high, thick wall had to be built.

Those days are gone now.

A year ago, the leaders of the two sides shock hands in a historic reconciliation.

Today, after much preparation and coordination, the wall that symbolized the two sides antagonism is being demolished. The sound of hammering signals the end of opposition and extols the beginning of peace.

''C'mon, give me a break!'' says Yugono, spiting on the ground and glaring at the backs of the people swarming at the wall.

''Look at them smiling like idiots, I can't believe it!''

He glance at Arganor by his sides as if to say ''Right?''

His still boyish face wears a scowl of disgust.

''Tell me,Argonar, you've been to a lot of different countries and seen all kinds of people. Can people just take years of hatred like that and throw it out the window?''

Argonar gives him a sour smile instead of replying. Yuguno is a young man, the first person that Argonar became friends with shortly after he arrived in this border town. he is pleasant enough except for his stubborn hatred of people from the other side.''

''One lousy handshake and im out of a job. I mea really, give me a break''

Yuguno used to be a border guard~ in other word, one of the man assigned to keep watch on the wall. He had volunteered, eager to kill anyone who dared to come over the wall from the other side. If his superiors had permitted it, he would have gladly
crossed over and attacked the other side rather than waiting to fend off an invasion.

As a mandatory part of the reconciliation, however, the border guards were disbanded. Unlike his brothers in arms, who quickly started new lives for themselves. Yuguno was left behind by the changing times.

''Tell me Argonar, can people be allowed to just slough off their resentments so easily? Do they give a damn?''

Arganor does not respond to this.

He knows that Yuguno is a victim of the age of confrontation.

Still just a young man, a boy, even. Yuguno has been throughly conditioned since childhood to view the other side as enemy..

END OF PART 1

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