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December, 12/31/2058

Another New Year has come,

tomorrow will also became another new different year.

Times flew really fast, many people saying that next year will became another beautiful year for another changing times on person's life, and they were also saying that if you starting a new wish on the night before new year came, your wish will be fulfilled and becaming true.

Not many people believe it but still want to try it.

Everyone seems to be enjoying their last time of this year with their friends and family.

But this time, it was different for someone.

On the winter rainy night, before etering the new year, new life.

Many kind of people and car starts running and can be seen on the center of Tower Bridge on London City.

You can see many police car with the sound and flash from its siren light start coming again and again, there were many people with police and military clothes could been seen, they seems to has been searching for something or someone on this late of night, besides the cold from winter season.

*Splash!*

"Hah ... Huff ... Hahh .... Hufth ... Ugh!---"

*Cough*

‘Urf, thats really hurts.’

"Search more! He must be near this place!!"

"Huff ... Huffh."

‘Ugh, damn it! How they can still find me? It has been 5 hours and yet, they still coming after me ... It seems like they have sent a spy to the organization, some internal data has been leaked and sent to their base, but... Who is it? .... Don't tell me---’

*Cough Cough*

"Ughh...."

‘No, it could't be, how can the spy be 'him', i must be wrong. Ugh--- My wound has starting becoming more bigger, i must do something about it---’

"Ren."

?!!

‘Who?! Who was that?! Where is the sound come from?’

I heard someone calling after my name, when i'm searching from my left and my right side ... I caught somenone figure's shadow can be seen slowly coming to me from the bridge wall on my left side, not far from the spots i leaning my back for, because of the bright light from the moon that peeping from the gaps of the clouds on the night, the figures can slowly finally be seen, that person was actually a male figure who are standing straight with black clothes and black mask covered half of his face, he have a tall slander figure with brown hair and green eyes, with also a tiny black earings on the left side of his ears.

After he called my name, he started to giving me his gaze with his sharp eyes on his face ... You could see a small shadow piercing deep inside his eyes as he started giving me such a sharp gaze like that.

"What...? Teren, so it's you ... What are you doing at this place, are the organization have sent you to come and help me?..."

"No, you must be know why i'm here, don't you dare act stupid, you has always been smarter even than i am, isn't that right?"

After saying that, he then smirked.

When he smirked like that, you can see shadow have been created on the tall slander figure's face.

"..."

‘No... Why? ... So the spy was really him? Its true that i have been thinking about the chance he becoming a spy, but no matter what i'm thinking, i always can't find a reason about behind his act, so why?’

"...Why.."

"What?"

"...Why are you doing this? You have said before that you come to the organization because you were poor and don't have any family related to you ... Is everything you have been told to us were fake? Is our promise with Jake and Sarah were also fake too?"

He stunned for a while after hearing my sudden question, but not late after that, he let out a big laugh.

"Hahahaha, yes, yes ... All of what you guys knowing about me this whole time are fake, and even the promise that i make. You know what? I can't really imagen how an expresionless and genius person like you can fall to my trap so easly,

So i always thinking that you were already know about this the entire time but just keeping the thing hiden to so you can deal with me with yourself later, but i still not have been thinking that you would realy fall to my trap so easly like this!

And for the reason why i'm doing this, its a secret, why would i giving a person that will be dead about the reason behind my action?"

"You... !"

"Ahhh okay, times up, i have to deal with you sooner or i will be late for coming back and they will start noticing that i was gone and start thinking that i was the spy that has been sent sectretly from the enemy base. Well, good bye, Ren, have a good sleep."

!!!

"Sto---"

*Bam!!*

*Cough!*

'Uhuk, urff---'

My vision start become blurry, i can feel a taste of iron coming from my mouth, my clothes has started becoming more and more reddish from the blood that coming from my left chest, i can't almost feel my body and my feet because the pain that slowly growing, i can't even stand straight anymore ... After that, i can feel like my body was being pushed and started falling down from a really high places.

*Splashh!!*

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

My body starting to sank on the icy water, all i could felt is only the hurts that coming from my wound and cold.

I was freezing from the cold.

‘...So this is my end, huh. I really can't stop thinking that I will ending up my life just because a kind of betrayal like that ... I hope when I meet master after this he won't get angry at me because of the reason of my death, I should be more careful and not let my guards down after all...

Well, what has done is already done, its not like i can do something about the thing that have been happend to me. But still, this is really the last thing a want when i'm dying ... Hahh....’

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My name is Ren Withsone, when i was young, 5 years old, i have lost both of my parents because of a car accident.

At that time, my family was on vacation and on a trip to the mountains to camping, but suddenly, a high-speed truck appeared from the opposite direction without stopping, and in the end, it crashed into my family's car and was pushed into a ravine not far from where our car was originally before it was been hit.

Fortunately, i was not getting any fatal injuries such as fractures, only a little scrach from the window car glasses and my consciousness passed out, but besides that, the only serious thing beside not getting any fatal injuries, is few of my memories was lost, and my parents has gone, many people have been searching for them for a months but they still can't find them, in the end, people started to think that my parents had already died on the incident since they still couldn't find them even after a long time of searching.

Because of that incident, i have trauma with narrow places, and a few of my memories have been lost.

And because my family not have any relatifes, i ended up in an orphanage.

I have a problem about how to show my expressions, and because of that, i ended up having a hard time to find friends on the orphanage ... Besides having a hard time with finding a friend, because of the expressionless looks on my face, many parents finding out that i'm not cute and didn't want to adopt me, even though I was smart enough even from the kids around my age at that time, i also don't have any trouble with remembering things, besides i have some memory loss...

It makes me ended up in the orphanage for such a long time, until that day came.

When i was already 10 years old, some male adult was come to the orphanage and the suster said that he wanted to adopt me, because i was already bored for staying long enough in the orphanage, i agreed and nodded to her to said that i was ready and want to get adopted.

First interaction, i got myself finding out that this old man is a funny person and very talk active but besides that, i also find out that he have some wise part of himslef when he was talking with some suster from the orphanage.

But after come along with him, i was ended up knowing that he was not just like that kind of ordinary person, to make it easier to understand, he was an Assassin, the funny expressions he gave in an instant has already gone ... At that time, i was started to thinking that i will gonna have that kind of hard life, but as times goes by, I find myself having a good impression of my new way of life because I feel that places like this was suits me.

After spending my life as an Assassin with this person for such a long time, i come to finding myself started calling him as old man, but the most frequently term i used to him was Master, because even tought he was my foster father, i have a feeling like he was more like a kind of teacher than a father to me, and even though he was an Assassin, he was not that kind of a bad person, instead, he was a kind person, even though he was scary when he was angry.

I also make myself a fake identity as a student, even though i was already smart, Master always said that a fake identity is also an important thing for an Assassin like me.

At school, i was called as a genius because of my outstanding grades.

I was famous for my handsome looks and my charisma aura, although i firmly believe that it is because of my expressionless face that attracts many people's attentiom.

And thanks to that, I also couldn't managed to find myself a friend!

Again...

*Sigh...*

My Master had once said that school is a fun place because you can find a lots of friends for yourself to gather.

Sure enough i was fail to have a friend even after my graduation.

Fortunately, i was managed to find some friends after my school life as a student, though it was within the assassin organization, i managed to find 3 friends, one of my friends is a female, and the other two is male.

....Even though i was now finding myself to know that one of them is a spy from a far away country and now he was killed me...

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If i recall it corectly, my master had once said-

[ "Ren, in this world, we can't tell what's good or bad the person is from only its appearance. There are many who will hide their true feelings and giving that kind of annoying figure as if they don't know what good or bad is, but deep inside, they actually knows, and they only act tough by hiding their true feelings and acting indifferently.

They act like that only so that no one can see their true feelings and no one will call them weak. Everyone wants to be 'perfect' , but we know that no human can be called 'perfect' , if its true that there are human who can be called as 'perfect' then that person is no longer human, but some kind of God, even though we don't know whether they really exist or not.

But as long as you know, that humans, who are rotten, from the inside as well as on the outside, are very different from those who pretend to be tough and act indefferently, for those with a rotten heart will do whatever it takes to fulfill their only desires, whether it be betraying their people or faking out their kindness just only because their own wish to be fulfilled.

Well, the point is, even though many humans are act as an ass out there, know that deep, very deep inside their hearts that there is some tiny kind of pices of hope, a pure white light shining brightly, which might one day can help you, and even stand along sides beside you, because those who behave like that are people who, despite knowing how cruel and unfair this world is, are still trying to survive for their survival even though they have to maintain that of annoying attitude that they have.

However ... You must also know, beside your biggest enemy is yourself, are those who always smile in front of others, but behind that smile, you can feel a bit of darkness and an endless emptiness that can even make the hairs of your back shudder, those who like that also know the truth that this world has, however, besides knowing the fact, they can still even maintain their body and mind to keep smiling with their faces.

Whether or not there is a people with that emptiness behind their smile but with also a little warmth, but can became a very piercing needle if you treat them badly, or those who have smiles with endless darkness and emptiness with no end and any hint of warmth, no matter how or from your eye even your heart you try to look and understand them, you always find a dead end no matter how many times you try.

So keep this important advice good and deep in your mind, Ren." ]

It was really, really a long advice that he have gave to me, because of that it makes me dizzy and want to sleep really badly, because back then, when he gave me that long advice, i was still young and a naïve kid.

But now i was really regreting it for not listening carefully to what my master had said at that time, ahhhh....

"Akhh--- Urff--"

‘...It hurts, it really is hurts, i can barely breath. So this is how death feels like ... I still really want to see master, he was gone before i start to notice and i don't know if he have died somewhere else, or even still alive...’

"....."

The pain that i felt before felt like a dream, but now was replaced by my body which has began to freezing because of its cold water.

I couldn't move my body and in the end, i gave up trying to swim back to the surface and just let my body slowly sank to the bottom of the river.

‘...I have never believed in imaginary stories and uncertainties ... But, for now, just for now, I want to try to believe ... I still not want to die so soon ... I still want to, to meet my master who has disappeared somewhere, i want to meet him, i want to meet that old man because of he, have gaved me a reason to still continue living even untill now and have also raised me since i'm still a kid...’

And just like that, my consciousness start fading away, and because of my eyes which are becaming more and more blurry, i start to cloosed my eyes.

All i could see before closing my eyes were only my hands, which has started to look like frozen because of the cold.

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— Author's Note.

Fiuhh, finally, it was just a prologue but i want to make it as long as possible, but i don't know if this was long enough, ahahahha.

If you find some typos or error grammar mistakes, please tell me in the comment section bellow so that i can fix it later.

Because English is not my first language (as you guys already know), if you finding many error grammar mistakes while reading my story, then i'm really, really sorry and please understand it. – T.T

I will try my best to learn more about english so that you guys can enjoy my story without much any error grammar mistakes.

And also, please give/left a review if you can because this is my really first original story and i really wanted to know on where is good and also bad sides from my story, and if there was really something which is not that good from what you're thinking on my story, then i will try to change and figure it out how to fix it!

Even though I just love creating stories and just making it as a hobby, I also want to share them with others and also want to know what other people thinking about the stories which I make and if i can i will also try to improve them, so feel free to leave a comment and give some critic if you want.

Anyway, thank you for you people who enjoy reading this!

Even though it was not a really good stories--- T.T

But still, i want to say thank you and also that i really appreciate it !! ^^

~ NasuMizu