About twenty minutes before Haven had walked in, Rexus was sitting on his couch in the dark living room, his legs were crossed while he just looked at the emptiness in his room with a straight face. He smirked "Hm, since when did I ever like the dark?", he asked himself. Rexus looked up at the ceiling "For a long time now, I've been awfully depressed, so depressed to the point that I just smirked and chuckle now.", the guy said to himself with a smirk on his face as he looked up the ceiling. He muttered to himself "Ever since I was a kid, violence hasn't always been my thing, I didn't even like it much at all. Both my parents were high ranking knights of the country, but they eventually died in war against Kagahara. I was left all alone, until Lord Fragmell who happened to respect my parents, took me in as a soldier.". He took a sigh and faced his head down "Unlike most kids in other countries that start out their journey as soliders for their country at the age of 12 or 13, we knights start put at the age of
10", a sad smirk curled on his lips "How cruel.". He layed back on his couch with the back of his hands on his head "We kids at the time were kept in science facilities and had the most grousome training...", he started to remember how grousome the training was and how kids his age usually got injured as they practically had to dodge entire electrical bullets from railguns "Due to the training, myself and some other kids were forced to move at speeds we weren't even ready for at the time, we forcefully used our powers to survive whatever bullshit the science facility had for us. At times we were even dropped in at forests to fight mechanical beasts all day. In other words, they pushed us far.". Rexus started to chuckle "Eventually, some kids got broken, some lost their will to live. Some even tried to kill themselves, and you know what's funny? It's the fact that I was one of the weakest kids, but yet, even tho I felt all those emotions, I didn't even consider backing down. I don't know if I was stupid or something, but I just didn't consider it.". He crossed his legs and started to think again "Eventually, we were able to accomplish what kids at the age of 13 could do at the age of 10 years old. But that wasn't the part that got me fucked up.", Rexus started thinking of the sparing matches he had with other kids his age, it was always so violent "Those guys would trap us in a room and tell us that if we wanted to survive, we'd have to kill each other. Some kids didn't agree until they were left in the room for almost two days before they started fighting each other. And when it was my turn....", Rexus remembered when his hands were covered with blood while in the white room. He had a traumatised look on his face as a boy who was just as young as him was layed dead on the floor with blood all over his body "I had no other choice but to fight, and plus, that kid was willing to kill me too. I guess I really had no other choice.". Rexus looked at his palm that shape shifted into a sword enhanced with technology, a small but violent blue flicker of energy brimming around it, he smirked "This ability of mine....", he muttered. Rexus continued to talk to himself "Eventually, time passed. At the age of 12, we started going to war. I didn't like killing at all, so I'd usually hide and wait for everything to be over. And when I actually got found out by enemy soldiers, my body usually moved on its own. Before I knew it, I'd have killed hundreds of enemies at once. I didn't know how I did it, I didn't know how my body moved, all I knew was that my head went blank... and I woke up to corpses infront of me.". Rexus looked at his arms again with a smirk "I never liked killing, it's just that....this world never gave me a choice to make my own decisions, or you could say the world around me didn't give me a choice.". Rexus tilted his head "I had a team of friends at the time tho, they all died. I think I was 16 at the time..", Rexus started to remember the corpses of his teammates, four boys and a girl dead on the floor "I too was supposed to die.". Rexus flashbacked to a 16 year old version of him laying on the floors of the battlefield, he looked around and saw all his friends had died. Rexus's left eye was bleeding, his left arm was slowly regenerating, his legs were bleeding, and he had lost a lot of blood "At the time, our troops were sent to fight about the nine powerful tanks that was trying to destroy our bases. We took down all eight tanks, it was the ninth one that killed us all, although we did put up a fight....". The young Rexus at the time thought to himself "I just wanted to live and survive, that was all. Not just me, but all my friends and teammates as well, if only I had better strength than this....". Rexus's eyes colour started to fade away, he died then and there. But then, he woke up in a hospital room "Where am I?", he asked himself. A nurse came in "Oh, you're alive, that's good. Looks like you brought him back to life well, Haven....". Haven 16 years old was standing at the other side of the hospital room, her mission was to look for people who had survived. The nurse explained "When Haven saw you, she realised you were already dead, it wasn't until she sensed a faint pulse in your body that she was convinced that you were still alive. With the help of her ability, she brought you back to life....". Rexus was confused "Brought me back to life.....? With the help of her ability... ?", Rexus wondered to himself with confusion. The nurse then explained "Yes, Haven's ability is the ability to create shadow puppets, she can also control people too, that's if the person has life in them.". Rexus's eyes widened "Don't tell me... ", the nurse explained "Yes. It means, from now henceforth, she's in control over you. Not just that, but she's going to be your new teammate!". Rexus's world was about to get shattered "Wait... what about my friends. Zero, Fenrill, Nero and Fredricka.". Haven explained "Are you talking about your teammates?", Rexus turned to Haven "They're all dead.", she said coldly. Rexus was shattered "Aaaah....!", he exhaled. In the present, after thinking of all his traumatic experiences, Rexus was sitted on his couch, arms spread apart as Haven sucked on his penis while his head was cucked back "Damn, she's really about to suck my soul away.", Rexus muttered to himself with a straight face.
END OF CHAPTER.