Chapter 1 – Part 2

His body had changed to the one he had nine years ago, plump, sluggish and weak. He had to get his older sister to help him dress, which is only humiliating Artemis’s previous pride at being lean and fast. Although, the lean side of him might have been ‘too lean’ since he had ended up as a homeless person after being kicked out at 18 years of age.

By the same person who had stormed his room. Raul Kinza, a man his mother found on the streets, thinking that he would benefit the family greatly with his smartness. Only, the smartness he had was only to manipulate others into taking his side.

However, now that Artemis had came back from a future filled with darkness, he would do anything to change it.

His older sister, Deana Silika, kept ushering him to silently dress and follow Raul’s order, every time he opened his mouth, a forceful hand would clamp shut on it, silencing the voice inside in a violent way. However, something seemed to snap as a memory flooded Artemis’ mind of the future.

‘I regret not speaking out from the very first day he arrived…stay safe brother, may you find happiness in the world.’ His sisters had broken down, and the pillar of support, the older sister, lost the sight in her eyes as she became a slave to the creature named ‘Raul Kinza’.

Like a snake, his hand moved in a weird way to clamp on Deana’s mouth too, her face was tinged in slight surprise, as the movement of his flabby arms were too slow to keep up with what his mind envisioned.

‘Too slow…’

Still keeping a firm grasp on Deana’s soft face, he pulled her hands off his mouth and whispered after breathing in through his mouth.

“Leave Raul to me, just endure one month and I’ll get rid of him.”

Her eyes were filled with pity and sorrow, just as expected from the sight of an overweight boy hoping to shoulder a burden such as ‘Raul Kinza’.