"About ? Hmm..." Jennifer thought for a mont.
"Mine wasn't as bad as yours, 5 years after my family moved to a new apartnt, they died, and I was left alone, I thought "what will an 18 years old girl gain in life"? Especially the one we are living in... But everything changed when I t my Master, he took in.
Trained for a year, then I opened my VRG account and started playing gas, everything I'm now is all because of him, He made who I am. I think that's all."
Everyone blinked a couple of tines, all speechless.
"That isn't your history, Jennifer. You just told us how you open your account and how great your master is." Tyson said with an eye roll.
"So?" She turned to him. "What about you?"
"? Honestly, I never faced any hardship in life. All thanks to my Dad, but it's ti to move on, and live on my own." Tyson said, and turned to Michael. "What about you Michael? What are your life experiences?"
Michael looked up at him. "I don't have any, all I know now is; grow stronger and protect those I care about." He stood up, and left the room.
"Uh? What was that all about?" Tyson turned to Mira, then Jennifer.
"Michael and Mira has a sad history, it's not sothing that can easily be said." Jennifer said in a sad tone, while Mira lowered her head with a solemn expression.
"It's ok Mira." Jennifer slowly caressed Mira's hair.
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Michael calmly stood on the veranda staring at the night sky, lost in thought.
[Fifteen years Ago.]
[City Hospital.]
"How is she doing?" A middle-age man with black hair and eyes, anxiously asked the nurse, he was holding the hand of a young boy looking around 7 years old.
"Sorry I can't say for now." The Nurse rushed inside the ICU without answering the anxious man.
"Dad, What Is it? What happened to Mom?" The young boy asked.
"It's nothing to worry about son, Your Mom will be out soon." The man said with a smile, hiding his worries.
[One Hour Later.]
The door finally opened, and set of doctors and Nurses walked out.
"Doctor, how is my wife."
The Doctor stared at the man with a sad expression. "I'm sorry, we saved the child. But... We lost the mother."
The man staggered backward in shock. "No Doctor! That can't be!"
"I'm sorry. You can go in and see her and the baby."
The man rushed inside the ICU, leaving the young boy outside.
"What do you an, Doctor?" The boy asked, looking up at the man.
"Your Mom's soul have gone to heaven child, go in and stay with your baby sister." The Doctor ruffled the boy's black hair, then walked away.
The boy listened to his father's sorrowful cries, he looked at the doctor's departing figure, then at the door. He took a deep breath and walked inside.
[Back to the Present.]
"What is it?" Michael asked, turning his head to Maria. Drakon who sat on one of the single-seater couches raised his head to her.
"Why did you walk out of the room?" Maria asked, moving her wheelchair towards him.
"That's none of your concern."
"Well..." Maria stopped beside him, she raised her head staring at his side profile.
"As my father always say, every powerful figure has a backstory. I'll say yours is so bad that it turned your heart to stone, pretending everything ans nothing to you, especially for the ones you love. But deep down, you care for every single one of them."
Michael turned his gaze to her. "You are wrong, I don't pretend. If I love soone I show it and prove it to them in any way I can, believing that; if you show people love, they'll love you back. But..." He looked at the moonless sky.
"...This world have changed everyone, countless people both males and females have deceived, used and threw like I'm nothing. Even those I considered close friends, The last one even kill... Even tried to kill , that was when I decided enough-is-enough. Being too kindhearted will only lead to your doom and nothing else."
Maria stared at him for a mont, then turned her gaze to the gate. "I understand your point, but it isn't bad to have feelings. I know you have faced a lot from countless people, but that shouldn't change--"
"--What is your aim for coming here, and saying all this?" Michael cut her off, turning his head to her.
"I have no aim, I just want to know you better."
"Why?" He asked.
"For 2 years, we sisters haven't seen or t anyone who helped us without any interior motive--"
"--You and your sister are very cautious, but if I have any interior motive, How do you plan on stopping ?"
"With what I have heard from those guys inside, you aren't that type of guy."
"Wait... If you already know that? Then why are you lecturing ?" He asked with a slight frown.
"I'm not lecturing you, I just want to know you better."
"..."
Michael was dumbfounded. 'What is wrong with this girl?'
"I have one last question, Why are you after the Vipers Guild? I know with your strength you can easily crush them, then why the guild war?"
"This is not about the Guild war... There is a blood feud between and them. I wasn't able to have my revenge because I was weak, but now--"
"--Wait, how long have you been thinking of revenge?"
"Eight years."
"What?"
"What did you say?"
Drakon and Maria were stunned.
"Eight years?" Maria was still dumbfounded. 'Can soone do that? Hold back your revenge for a whole eight years?!!'
"Your heart is truly strange and vengeful, so what are you planning on doing? Because I don't see how you'll gain your revenge with the Guild War. I hope you know they can't kill in the tournant."
"We'll see about that." Michael smirked.
Maria stared at him for a while then heaved a sigh: "Can you bear the blood of so many people on your hands?"
"I already have so much blood on my hands, adding more ans nothing to ... It's late, you should have so rest."
Maria nodded, she reversed her wheelchair and moved towards the door.
"Don't let your goal for revenge consu you, and change who you are." With that said, she opened the door and drove inside.
"She has a point."
He turned to Drakon, and said: "let's go, I have sothing to show you." He ascends into the hair, Drakon quickly followed behind him.
On the second Floor, Erika stood in her room staring at the two as they flew away from the villa.
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[One Hour Later.]
[Arisa's Northeast border.]
The two slowly landed In front of a rusted iron in the shape of a cross.
"What are we doing here, Partner?" Drakon asked, looking around the place, the landscape in front of them was flat from miles away, and there wasn't a single sign of life.
Michael walked towards the iron cross and squat down. "After our mother's passing, My Dad took care of us for a year, then he heard of a place where you can gain months of life tis by just doing hard labour per day... With low life tis, he decided to check this place out. The first ti; he returned with 3 months of lifeti, the second; 2 Months. And so... he started going every single day.
One day I decided to secretly follow him to this job, to see if I could help with sothing... You know, to gain more lifeti." He took a handful of sand.
"The only thing I saw was that Bastard plunging his sword into my father's chest, I stood frozen like a fool and watched as my father dropped dead before my eyes; just for fucking life tis." He gripped his hand so tightly that blood flow down between his fingers.
"I stood there for hours, The other workers were just crossing his body like he wasn't a human, carrying on with whatever they were doing. I stood there till they were gone before rushing to him, with nothing to do or think of... I buried him right here." He opened his palm, sand mixed with blood fell on the ground.
"No matter what happens, I'll have my revenge."
Drakon looked at the naless grave in shock, then at him. "I'm with you, Partner. We'll kill that Bastard together." _em _pyr.
Michael smiled slightly. "You know, till this day. Mira doesn't know where he was buried, I only told her he's gone and watching over us." He dropped to his knees, and kowtowed thrice to the grave.
"I promise you, Dad. Nothing will stop from avenging you. Not even the gods themselves." Michael stood up, and ascends into the air. "That is a promise from a son to his father." With that said, both of them left the place.
A figure walked out from the shadows, and stopped in front of the grave.
"We aren't so different." Erika said and bowed her head twice, before heading back to the city. "Your Son have helped be one of the strongest, I'll try my best to help him." She said as blue Mana emanates from her body.
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