"Can you elaborate on what you're saying right now?" Officer Zed asked.

"You don't get to ask questions, Officer. You failed to do your task, stop taking the easy way out." Jade coldly said.

"Is he manipulating me? Why is he saying things that I don't know about?" Zed innerly wondered.

Jade slowly approached the student who's unconscious.

"Stop you bastard! That kid still have a long life ahead of him." Zed shouted with all his might.

However, Jade didn't pay any attention to Zed's pleas. As he's now close to the tied student, Jade said "Wake up now, our college bully."

Slap!

Jade's slap echoed in the entire factory where no one's around. The eerie vibes it gives just got taken over by a loud sound.

"Ugh!" The student screamed in pain.

"Now, this is the main event of this case." Jade said while looking towards Zed.

The student or Andrei scanned the things around him as he woke up, his gaze suddenly fell to the man in front of him.

!!!

"Help me! Help! Someone is gonna kill me!" Andrei instinctively shouted.

"Hey, aren't you the police officer earlier? Why aren't you doing a damn thing?" Andrei desperately shouted.

"Fuck, it must've been traumatizing for that kid, he was so innocent when I was asking the questions earlier." Zed innerly muttered.

"Hey, no one can help you here, that's why I picked this place in the first place. You're asking for help? What do you think Mark felt when you gave him a lot of trouble?" Jade said while coldly straight at Andrei's eyes.

"Huh? Why is Mark suddenly being mentioned here?" Officer Zed asked.

Hearing those words, Jade suddenly released a straight punch towards Andrei's shoulder.

"Gahhhhh!" Andrei screamed with agony.

"Hey, the officer wants answer, why don't you tell him the truth?" Jade coldly said then threw another slap on Andrei's cheek.

Tears began to fall from Andrei's eyes, his cheeks are swollen and his shoulder is in a bad state because of Jade.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Andrei desperately apologized.

Officer Zed's frustration and anger grew exponentially. He watched helplessly as the student suffered, his own inability to act fueling his self-hatred. Still, he remained silent, driven by his curiosity about Jade's revelations.

"Tell the story about Mark's death, and I might let you live," Jade declared, his voice chilling to the bone.

"But we're in front of a police officer! He'll arrest me if I confess here. Please! Anything but that," Andrei pleaded, his voice laced with fear.

Officer Zed's expression changed abruptly. Could it be true? Was this student responsible for Mark's death?

Jade began to count, his threat hanging heavily in the air.

"One... Two... Three... Four..."

Andrei knew he had to act before Jade reached five, aware that his life depended on it.

"I bullied him! I made him kill himself!" Andrei blurted out desperately.

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Flashback...

Mark is an academic achiever student. He always scored the highest in tests, he was always favored by the teachers because of his good personality.

Andrei is also an academic achiever, however, not a single time he scored higher than Mark. He felt inferiority towards Mark so that feeling led into a terrifying experience to Mark.

"Hey guys, let's bully Mark, it looks like being the top of our class got in his head." Andrei said to his friends.

"Sure, that bastard is annoying me these days."

"He dares to beat you in the scores? That bastard is done for."

"As long as your grandmother backs us up, we're in for it."

"Of course, don't worry about anything." Andrei said with such confidence on his face.

Bang!

Mark's back getting slammed to the wall made a sound.

"Hey! Why are you doing this?" Mark shouted.

"It's because you piss us of."

"You're nothing yet, you dare to steal the no.1 spot in our class?"

"It's because my parents want to! I literally worked hard for it. Why are you trying to discredit my work?" Mark responded.

Whack!

Andrei suddenly kicked Mark's faced.

"You're a lowlife, don't get cocky. Let's beat him up more boys!" Andrei said.

This is the start of Mark's hellish school year.

Every single day, he would get dragged by Andrei's group then get beaten up repeatedly. Everyone knew what was happening, the students, and the teachers but they couldn't do anything. They know that Andrei's grandmother is the dean.

"Hey, lick the floor."

"Go wash my clothes."

"Buy me a food."

All types of errands were given to Mark.

One day, his parents came onto school because they noticed Mark's injuries everytime he goes home. What greeted them are the dean's threats.

"One word from me then your son is out here, as his parents, you know that he'll have time to finish his course if hr got expelled here right?"

"Don't even bother telling the police, I know someone high up there, I will make it seem like your son cheated on his exam so he was bullied so this incident will not be considered serious.

Mark's parents couldn't do anything, they didn't have the power to face of someone like Andrei's family who is rich.

"This bastard's parents came into school, let's beat him up for his sins!"

Mark faced a hellish beating to the point he got hospitalized. Even after the treatment, they made him go run an errands for them.

Officer Zed felt a mix of sorrow and rage as the full extent of Mark's suffering unfolded. The helpless victimization inflicted upon him by Andrei and his friends, even as they manipulated the system and shielded themselves from consequences.

But it was one particular incident that pushed Mark over the edge. Andrei had gone too far, threatening to involve Mark's family if he didn't take his own life.

"Hey, if you don't kill yourself by tomorrow, the bullying will intensify. Don't even think of chickening out; we'll go to your house, and your family will be dragged into this," Andrei had cruelly taunted.

Mark, mentally shattered, had made the devastating choice to follow Andrei's orders. In tears, he whispered a final apology to his parents before inflicting wounds upon himself, meticulously tying himself up in a makeshift noose. He believed that if the police discovered his body, they would investigate it as a murder. But Mark didn't realize that he had left no evidence behind, no fingerprints to prove his story.

"You guys, did you heard that Mark actually killed himself?

"Fuck! I'm out of this ridiculous situation."

"Hey, it wasn't me!"

"Calm down everyone, l already have solution, grandmother is backing us up." Andrei said with no remorse about the dead.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, don't worry about it."

Back to the present...

Officer Zed is wearing an entire shocked expression. Not only he heard that someone else is actually responsible for Mark's death, he learned that Mark's life is too painful yet, he tried to save the person responsible for it.

Officer Zed's shock was palpable. The truth had been laid bare before him. Mark's death, Andrei's torment—he had fought to save the person responsible for such unspeakable cruelty.

"How can you call yourself human?" Officer Zed shouted, his voice filled with a mix of anger, disgust, and disbelief.

Andrei, barely conscious due to the injuries inflicted upon him, couldn't muster a response. His strength waned as he desperately needed medical attention.

"Don't die on me now," Jade calmly said to Andrei.

"I still need you to witness something."

Officer Zed's mind whirled with questions. He had to understand how Jade knew the details, how he orchestrated this meeting. The realization sent shivers down his spine—Jade had orchestrated everything.

"Hey, how did you know what happened?" Zed threw an question to Jade.

Jade smirks and said "Torture, I broke this guy's legs remember? I think I actually twisted each leg four times? Surely, he will tell me the full story if I do that."

Once again, Zed had goosebumps all over his body because of Jade's remarks. "He's insane, twisting bone four times? Even I, is gonna succumb to that pain." Zed anxiously said in his mind.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

A sudden knock on the factory gate startled everyone, except Jade. He wore a terrifying grin as he held up Andrei's cellphone, which he had taken during his earlier torture.

"Don't bother shouting, I know those people. They're my guests," Jade said, looking directly at Officer Zed, as if he could read Zed's intentions.

"Gerald, Haze, Cress, and Kevin, right? Those are the names you mentioned earlier, if I'm not mistaken?" Jade asked, a wicked gleam in his eyes.

Andrei, confused by the sudden mention of his friends' names, instinctively nodded.

Jade's grin widened as he tauntingly whispered, "It seems we have some unfinished business, gentlemen."