"It Is better not to be born than to survive in this world with the desire to never exist."
She slightly opened her eyes and stopped moving, she didn't expect his reply near her ear as he whispered before pecking her earlobe. Although, his pecking her sent a sudden current through her body, but her entire attention was stuck on his words. What did he mean by this? What did he want to say? Didn't she deserve to be born in this world? Well, this was more her own thinking than trying to figure out the meaning of his words. First, she was born, then she wished that she would never exist, and now she was surviving with this wish.
Was this what his words meant? If yes, then it wasn't wrong. She really wished that she would never exist in this world, this was really her wish but that doesn't mean that any criminal will come and kill her to fulfill her wish. She didn't want to die because she didn't want to face the afterlife, she just wanted to disappear from this universe as if she had never existed but she didn't want a brutal death and certainly not at the hands of a psycho criminal like him. And even if she wanted to die, he had no right to kill her.
She had some hope and feelings for him after seeing him because he looked exactly like the fictional man she had once imagined about. But realising, his character was totally opposite, now she was feeling disgusting and extreme fear at the same time.
How did he know that she wanted to never exist? Did he stalk her? How didn't she even suspect it before? Now she had to escape from him, she didn't want to die by his hands. Suddenly in a moment with all her strength, she hit his middle stamp hard with her knees, making him let out a groan.
Due to unbearable pain, he released her from his grip and his balance weakened in a second, he quickly held his middle property to decrease the pain. His body automatically stooped more like almost fell on his knees. He could feel the pain all over his body through the veins attached with his little property. He was trying to hold his whimper by joining his lips together in a thin line. It felt like a big bulldozer had run over him. Now she has crossed her limit. He wasn't able to control the rage of killing her at the moment.
Seeing the good chance, she kicked him hard on his stomach, making him completely fall on the ground. Wasting no time, she started to run away from him after catching her higher speed.
This woman had already made him chase her so much, now just thinking about running after her again started to unsettle him. He was literally tired and in pain too, but knowing now she knew how XO look like, he couldn't let her go. Even sensing the chances had less to catch her at this time, he still stood on his feet before running after her to quickly grab her.
While running away from him, she took out her stun gun from her handbag in case he caught her again. She didn't want to look back and she did what she wanted. And soon, in some moments, she was so close to the huge gate where she had to enter, after that she would be safe. There were no security guards on the gate yet she knew, no unknown person could enter inside the gate but she wasn't any unknown person, so she could enter. She could sense, he had reached too close to her. He could catch her again in some moments if she wouldn't increase her speed.
He almost touched her, but she finally escaped from him and entered the door in just two more steps. She was in extreme fear that she didn't even look back at him for the last time nor she released a sigh of relief. She just continued her running to enter the huge luxury mansion in front of her.
With his uneven breath and clenching his jaw and fist, he stood there, watching her disappearing figure. The only emotion visible in his eyes was extreme rage. If he wanted, he could cross the gate, but he could sense the gate wouldn't let any unknown person enter. If he enters, then the alarm will start ringing.
After scanning the place, he clearly understood that no human was here for security but advanced artificial intelligence covered this entire area. He couldn't imagine what kind of new unseen devices were there to trap any threat. He didn't want to get himself into a trap by his own hands, it was risky for him to stay there any longer, but leaving her open like this was no less than a risk for him. He had to catch her, but how? How could he enter? He had to find a way to enter asap.
He roamed his eyes to the whole area to find a high spot from where he could see inside the mansion, so that he could find a way to get inside. And his eyes halted on a tall tree, that tree was tall enough to see inside the mansion. Wasting no second, with long steps, he reached that tree before immediately starting to climb on it. Seeing him climb a tree with such ease without any help, it seemed as if he had climbed a mountain in his life before or if there was such a thing as past life, then one could even say that he had been a monkey in his previous life.
After climbing the tree to a height from where he could see inside the mansion, he balanced himself. He peeked inside to find a way for himself to enter.
Was he dumb or what? Was he thinking of kidnapping her after entering the mansion? No wonder, he was literally a complete stubborn psychopath.
Checking for some moments, his eyes stopped at someone and in the next moment, his expression changed into a complete surprise after recognising. He couldn't believe his eyes, who he was looking at. A woman, who was related to him by blood.
She was Soyi, who was in an extremely beautiful white bridal dress, standing near the railing attached with the huge balcony, which was beautifully decorated with a great leisure and looking like a small garden with aesthetic lights in the darkness of night. Using her phone, standing in the centre of the balcony near the railing, she was looking like a real fairy. Her beauty was mesmerizing. He couldn't take away his eyes from her but was finding a little bit of the same facial features like him in hers because she was none other than his own sister named Hazel Evans.
He couldn't believe, he was seeing her in real after whole f*cking fifteen years and on seeing her, his entire childhood and teenage life was flashing in front of his eyes. His body weakened and he was about to fall but in the right moment, he balanced himself. Closing his eyes, inhaling the air as much as he could, he was fighting with himself to stand there properly. He wasn't able to open his eyes and a couple of tears ran down his cheeks.
Within seconds, he was reliving his horrifying past.
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His flashback.
I was just ten, only one minute older than my younger sister as we were twins. Holding each other's hand tightly we were walking along with so many kids around our age and some were teenagers. I was confused and scared thinking where those unknown people were taking us, why were we all there?
On the other side, Hazel was crying, remembering our parents. I didn't know what to do to stop her crying and to relieve her pain when I too was in the same pain. I also wanted to cry but my tears weren't coming out since the military killed our parents in front of our eyes. I also wanted to go to my parents but that was not possible as they were no more in this world.
Almost a day ago, the Korean military killed our parents when they found out that our parents were t€rr0r!sts. And when the military were taking us with them in their vehicle, at that time, there was a huge b00m blast in the other military vehicle in front of us. Due to which, the vehicle in which we were sitting also rolled over badly on the road in the middle of the forest. And at that very moment, the whole place was filled with smoke, which was preventing us from seeing clearly around us. I was bewildered by the situation around me. But still, I was trying my best to protect my sister. I could feel some fresh wounds on my body, I was in pain, I really didn't know what was happening. And in some moments, everything blacked out, I fainted.
When I woke up, I was in another vehicle with my Hazel, who was crying miserably, saying only one thing, "I want to go to my dad!" even though she also knew that our parents were no more in this world but the hope of our parents coming back was still there in her eyes.
Those people sitting inside the vehicle weren't military. I had no idea who those people were. One of them was trying to stop Hazel from crying by scolding her. I could not see this and I punched that man in the face but my punch hadn't that much effect on him and he started laughing mockingly. Ignoring him, I tried to comfort Hazel. We didn't know where they were taking us, I was afraid.
And in a few hours, we reached here where so many children like us were entering a huge tunnel, they all were scared and some were also crying. I couldn't understand why these people brought us here and now where were they taking us from here. And in the end, we were taken to a strange and scary place, and it took a long time for all of us to understand that we were brought to such a scary place for an unethical human experiment.
I couldn't help but think of running away from this dreadful place with my sister as soon as I get a chance. And I got that chance soon. Without wasting any time, I managed to get out of that dreadful place with Hazel.
As we both were running away from that place, I realised that we were going to be caught again. But I absolutely didn't want Hazel to be taken to that scary place again. I tried my best to find a place to hide Hazel so that those bad people can't find her for now. And soon, I managed to hide her in a good place out of their sight.
Even If I wanted, I could hide with Hazel but because of that, they would catch us immediately and along with me, Hazel would also be taken back to that scary place which I didn't want at all. I wanted Hazel to get time to run away from here when those bad people would catch me.
"Run away from here, as soon as you get the right chance, without waiting for me." Saying this to her, I started running in the opposite direction from where those bad people could easily notice me.
I was feeling achy in my heart and throat remembering all the scenarios, remembering Hazel's crying face. I didn't know whether my idea of handing myself over to them was right or not, I didn't know whether I too would be safe if I hid with Hazel or not. Even though I myself was scared, all I wanted at that time was for Hazel to survive. And In the end, I got caught, but I was relieved that I managed to save Hazel.
A promise that Hazel had made to me last time was that she would bring help for me. With the hope of this promise, I spent my entire five years in that hell where I was neither allowed to die nor live like a human being. During those five years, I was subjected to many heart - wrenching physical experiments and unbearable tortures. I myself was surprised as to how I was alive even after heinous and terrible experiments were done on me while others were dying one by one. I had no idea why they were doing such experiments nor did I want to know, but as far as I understood, they wanted to create a superhuman.
One day I helped two kids to escape from that dreadful place, they were too young, literally too young when they were brought there. If I wanted I could've escaped with them, but the promise Hazel had made to me forced me to stay there and wait for her. I don't know where those kids are now. But exactly after their escape, a miracle happened, and this secret unethical human experiment place was destroyed by the korean military forces, and all the other remaining children and teenagers along with me were saved. It was like a new life for us, as if we were dead and came back to life. Coming out of that dark place where there were not even rays of sunlight, I now felt like I am really alive, I am really a human being.
Not knowing she was alive or dead at that time, my first 'Aspiration' was to meet my sister, to see Hazel.
It took me a whole year to find out about Hazel, but knowing where she was, how she was, I didn't get the happiness that I should have got at all. Because I came to know that 6 years ago, she had a terrible accident In the deep forest due to which she lost her memories at the age of ten and now her name changed into Soyi. And I understood that this was the same deep forest where I was secretly experimenting on. And the day she had an accident was the same day when I managed to let her escape from that place.
I was devastated, I didn't want to believe that she forgot me. What did she look like at the age of sixteen? I managed to ask for her photo from the orphanage where she lived and I saw it. She had grown up and was very beautiful too. Even though I wanted to see her with my own eyes in real life, but I also didn't want her to be reminded of her terrible past when she would see me. And for her welfare, I decided that I would never meet her in my entire life. By intruding into her life, I would never make her remember her terrible past.
She was living her life happily and I will let her live like that.
As time passed, I was adopted by a well known business woman. For a whole year, that woman treated me like her own child and I was very happy to have a good life and a good mother.
But then, an unbelievably terrible day came where I saw myself turning into a real monster.
That old b!tch, my so-called mother, sent six old gangsters to my room to r@pe me just in exchange for getting her illegal work done. Till that night, I used to think that I was very weak and that was the only reason why they literally managed to r@pe me.
That night was an unforgettable nightmare for me. Whatever experiments were done on me seemed less painful than that night. Because perhaps, I was used to enduring physical tortures but I was a novice when it came to an emotional torture. I truly felt emotionally attached to her like my own mother, but I never imagined that she would betray me in such a dirty way. I was a boy, right? So why was I r@ped? Why did it happen to me?
And that night I completely understood that the world Is such a paradise where angels don't live.
Two days passed, and those gangsters came again to meet my so-called mother but she wasn't at home. And as soon as I saw the opportunity, I sprayed those six gangsters with gun bullets, with those two guns that I had stolen from that sc0undrel woman and kept hidden with me and within a few seconds, all of them were lying dead on the floor. Blood was all over my face and clothes.
I couldn't help but find killing them satisfying.
At the moment, I was feeling extremely powerful, as if the power of the entire universe had engulfed me. And at that very moment, my so-called mother also came only to see me with blood and dead bodies. But without even giving her a chance to be shocked, in the blink of an eye, I picked up a sharp knife from the coffee table and pointed it directly at her throat by throwing it in the air, and she died at the spot.
Standing there, surrounded by dead bodies and blood, I smirked, I chucked, and In the end, I laughed freely.
The woman, who didn't give birth to me but I considered her my mother by heart, was the only reason for my hatred of even the name of the women.
I had underestimated my physical strength. Before that day, I hadn't thought that after living in such a place for 5 years where there was even no sunlight, and when I came out of that hell, why did the new environment not have any side effects on me? Although I knew that no superhuman had been created because of the experiments that had been done on me. That experiment failed.
But I could clearly see a difference inside me, it had been two years since I came out of that hell, but I had not fallen ill even for a single day. Because of which I realised that I could live longer than a normal human being, as long as I didn't have any accident that would bring me to my death or someone would kill me. Seeing those dead bodies created by me, I was feeling satisfaction.
And that was the moment when for the first time, I saw a demon inside me that was created by humans.
That was the first day when I killed human beings for the first time and in my mind, a feeling of hatred arose only for women and not for any men because I used to endure physical torture but not emotional, and it was only a woman who had betrayed me, gave me a emotional scar. That was the same day and the same moment when I could clearly see that not a superhuman but a real super monster was being born inside me. And I realised that inside a human, monsters are not born but are created. That was the first day in seven years that I laughed, loudly, freely in satisfaction.
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Eventually, snapping him out of his horrifying flashback, Zane's eyes fluttered open. He was breathing long and rapidly more like a long gasp, as if someone just blocked his airway. Even in the cold season, the droplets of perspiration on his skin were visible clearly. His body was trembling with the beat of his own rapid heartbeat. He blinked many times to confirm it, that he was out of his terrifying memories. It took him a few minutes to relax himself, and finally, he lifted up his eyes again on Soyi.
He was wondering, what was she doing here? And why was she in a bridal dress? Did she get married? If yes, then with whom? He was thinking all this that at that very moment, he saw that woman came inside the frame of his sight, the woman he was after.
His eyes darkened, examining that she was coming closer to Soyi in a fit of rage, as if she was going to kill Soyi soon. He was a little surprised to see the woman who had looked innocent to him some time ago, now suddenly looked quite scary. What was she going to do? And ... .and what was the relation between these two?
After seeing his sister at that moment, he had also forgotten what he needed to think about at that time, rather than just thinking about what relationship they had with each other. At that time, he was supposed to think about how he could enter inside and how to catch that woman before she told anyone about him. However, he realised very well that it was too late now, and it was better to get out of here immediately than to be caught so soon. But he couldn't do this because that woman now knew what he looked like, which could become a problem for him. He must have had to kill her, but she was definitely going to tell Soyi about him, so will he have to kill Soyi too?
No! Never….He may die himself but will never think of killing his Hazel.
And after getting restless, he finally decided that he would leave from here without catching that woman for now. He knew he was risking himself taking this decision, but he didn't want to drag Soyi into these things. What's more, everyone will know what XO looks like, right? He'll handle it himself. But for now, he didn't even want to put his shadow in Soyi's life.
But he had firmly made up his mind that sooner or later, he would kill that woman with his own hands because of whom he was so irritated today. But at that moment, he was a little worried about his sister that this woman who was too angry might harm Hazel. Although, he didn't know what kind of relationship these two had with each other, but at that moment, he wasn't getting a good vibe about that woman for his sister.
It was amazing to see a person who was completely a psycho, ruthless and cruel but there was a different side of him which seemed very special only for his sister, otherwise his hatred for women can't be unnoticed.
Ignoring all the unwanted thoughts, he was about to come down from the tree but a sound stopped him at his place. He turned his head to the direction of the sound before narrowing his eyes to see clearly in the darkness of night and he saw a car coming from the other side of the mansion, making him frown in confusion. Was there any other way to enter? Was that the back side of the mansion?
No! A sudden clear realisation hit him that the car wasn't on the way to the back side of the mansion, but he himself was on the way to the back side. And he realised the mansion was so much bigger than he imagined. And the question of what his sister was doing in this huge mansion arose again. She was in the bridal dress, which meant that she got married today itself and this mansion would also belong to her husband who was just entering, sitting inside the car from the main entrance of the mansion. And that woman was the sister of his sister's husband.
Now he was able to understand his sister's relationship with them. But one thing was nagging in his mind: who was that woman's brother and his sister's husband by profession. That same thought came to his mind again that he hadn't committed any mistake without knowing about that woman's brother? Who was he?
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Elvis halted his car Inside the mansion with a quick break. He was in a groom's outfit, completely looking dashing. Seeing him, it could be assumed that he was in a hurry. And why not in a hurry when he got married on this very day, about which his own sister didn't know, who didn't like his wife at all. And when his sister got to know about his wedding with Soyi, she got furious and directly went into Elvis's office. He was also a billionaire businessman, forwarding his father's business along with Detective by profession, and at that time, he was having an important meeting with his business partner.
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Scene from Elvis's side a quarter of an hour ago.
It was late at night and he should have been with his wife instead of his business partner, but that meeting was very important to him, that was why he went to that meeting in his office straight from his wedding. However, his business partner had told him that as his wedding was today, they would schedule the meeting the next day but Elvis didn't agree to it, and that was the reason he was in the meeting after his wedding instead of with his wife. And when his sister suddenly came to his office in anger, he was fully aware of why she came so angry.
She was there to complain about his wedding with Soyi. And most importantly, if he wanted to marry Soyi then why did he hide this from her? The answer was simple, if he had told her that he was going to marry Soyi then his marriage with Soyi probably wouldn't have happened. Because he knew his sister very well that she had a one-sided enmity with Soyi without any reason, and in the high school time, she was Soyi's biggest bully, she didn't like Soyi at all and she would go to any extent to stop his marriage with Soyi, if he wouldn't hid his wedding from her.
He was fully aware that she was very furious. She didn't live with Elvis, she used to live in Busan, a city of South Korea and she used to come to meet Elvis only once or twice in two-three months. But Elvis personally took full care that his sister remained safe in busan. But without telling him, she was in seoul for the entire last month, but what she didn't know was that he was aware of her being in seoul. And he knew she probably felt that Elvis took advantage of her being away from him and married Soyi. Elvis tried to explain to her but she was so enraged that she just stormed out from there for Soyi, telling him that she would kill Soyi for snatching her brother.
It was very late at night and Elvis couldn't let his sister go anywhere alone in such an angry mood. He was about to leave the meeting and go to stop his sister but at that very moment, he got the news that a female employee of his company had committed su!cide by jumping off the company building. And that's why instead of going after his sister, he had to go to that su!cide place.
But after half an hour, he took his car and quickly left from there to go to his sister. He guessed where his sister would go and he made his way in that direction. But seeing an unknown empty car on his way to go home and his sister's faulty empty car far away from that unknown car, he became very worried for his sister. And at the same time, seeing such things lying on the road, his suspicion about something and his concern for his sister increased even more. He saw a small bottle of chl0r0f0rm and a handkerchief lying on the road. He could assume that someone definitely tried to make his sister unconscious and wanted to kidnap her and kill her.
God, that was impressive, just seeing some little things on the road he could see the incident live happening there which literally happened some minutes ago.
His worry for his sister was increasing with each passing second and without wasting any time, he increased the speed of his car to reach his mansion as quickly as possible. He had guessed that as his sister was a marathon racer, so due to her running speed she would have definitely run towards the mansion to escape. He also speculated that his sister must have chosen to go from the back side of the mansion because that part of the mansion had the most hidden cameras security, and his sister must have thought that, if in case she gets into any danger and goes missing, she should be found immediately by the help of those hidden cameras.
But to reach his mansion as quickly as possible, he chose a shortcut path instead of the back side route and the main entrance of his mansion, which perhaps only he knew. Although, this shortcut path also reached the main entrance but in less time, and this was what he wanted, he wanted to reach as soon as possible. And within a minute, he entered his mansion.
Elvis was the king of a kingdom, where he mostly used artificial intelligence instead of humans to keep his kingdom safe. He knew that the needs of humans are much greater than those of artificial intelligence, but he still chose artificial intelligence. Don't know whether this would be considered carelessness for him or his confidence in his choosing ability. But don't forget, he was still the same 170 IQ guy, whose thoughts are always beyond imagination.
He immediately stepped out of his car in a hurry after opening his car door.
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On the other side.
"After making my day dreadful, how can you stand here so comfortably in bridal attire?"
As soon as her shaky with the hint of rage voice fell into Soyi's ear, Soyi frowned in bewilderment for a second but on the same second, she instantly realised that that voice was Elvis's sister aka her sister-in-law, and she quickly turned to face her.
"Alice…" That's what Soyi could have uttered in a whisper voice at that moment in surprise, her sister-in-law's name.
She was wondering what Alice meant by those words. Yeah, Soyi completely knew that Alice was probably angry about what her brother and Soyi did, they both married each other without even telling Alice, but still how could Soyi be the reason for her dreadful day. It was making Soyi even more confused and concerned about Alice. At the same time when she saw Alice's blue eyes, there were tears in her eyes. Frozenness was clearly visible behind her tears, she was totally engulfed in rage and sheer terror, she was trembling.
What happened with her?.....That was what Soyi thought.
"It was only because of you that I fell into the hands of that infamous psycho criminal, today I escaped from dying a terrible death." Her voice was shaky as she said with gritted teeth.
At the same time, that horrible flashback which happened with her some time ago flashed in front of her teary bloodshot eyes, she was afraid, she was still in her sheer terror, her heart was still pounding rapidly in fear, her mind wasn't able to accept that she was inside the mansion, far from that criminal. But her rage only for Soyi was completely visible.
Soyi couldn't help but be concerned about Alice even more after hearing her words. After all, which criminal was she talking about? Infamous psycho criminal? At that time there was only one criminal who was very infamous and that was XO, so was it XO? As soon as she realised it, her eyes slightly widened in tension.
Soyi was about to open her mouth to utter some words for trying to calm Alice's anger and decrease Alice's fear caused by the situation she would have faced, after imagining in every possible way what might have happened to her that she was blaming Soyi in such anger. But at that very moment, before Soyi could say anything, Alice harshly pushed Soyi, making her fall on her back with a jolt because of which Soyi groaned in pain, at the same time, Soyi's phone also fell on the floor after travelling in the air. Courageously in aghast, Soyi quickly sat on the balcony floor with the help of her own hands, which was now placed on either side of her body. She lifted up her head in disbelief and aghast to see Alice.
"Today you have successfully achieved your goal of taking away my brother from me, as well."
The pain and disgust in her voice were clearly audible as Alice shouted angrily at Soyi and threw a standing single seater swing chair down in anger, which landed directly on top of Soyi's legs. A sudden groan of agony escaped from Soyi's mouth. That metal chair was too heavy on her legs to endure the pain.
As soon as she tried to remove that heavy chair from above her legs, she uttered a sudden gasp from her mouth when suddenly in a blink of an eye, Alice jumped on Soyi before wrapping her fingers around Soyi's throat, Started to strangle her.
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