As morning sunlight filtered through the cracks in the wall, Kraven stirred in his bed. His stomach growled with hunger as he sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed. His tattered shirt hung off his bony frame, revealing the outline of his ribcage beneath. The air was stale and musty, heavy with the scent of rot and decay.
The clothes with many holes in them and were even more badly repaired as the maids couldn't care less what he wore, a tattered shirt that hung off his bony frame, revealing the outline of his ribcage beneath.
It had been a few years since he last asked to leave he had even tried to escape once but little did the boy know that his jail was under constant supervision from 3 Body Tempering 9th stage soldiers he didn't even make it over the wall before he was captured and returned to his 'Home' as the maids and soldiers like to call it while laughing.
One of the maids had even told him why he had been locked in this place his whole life, apparently, he had killed his mother during childbirth, and that had enraged his father to the point of not considering him his son he merely allowed him to live in this 'Home' out of consideration for the fact that to use her words "I have her blood in my veins" he thought.
"GET DOWN HERE NOW YOU LITTLE MOTHER KILLER" the maid shouted clearly annoyed that she had to do this job today.
"Maria that lucky bitch she got to go and clean the fucking stables and I have to come here and cook for the mother killer" she spoke disdainfully for the job she had to do.
Kraven's eyes snapped open at the screech of the maid "Maia again today 'great' hope I don't get hit too hard today" he said listlessly.
Kraven made his way down the stairs minding his step as the stairs were old and full of holes and bits of wood sticking out ready to poke a hole in his bare feet.
Once Kraven got to the bottom of the stairs before he could even look the maid in the eyes he fell to his knees clutching his stomach "THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR MAKING ME WAIT YOU LITTLE BASTARD NOW GET UP" the maid Maia said cleaning the hand she used to punch Kraven cleaning it as if she had just punched shit.
Maia stood 5ft 5 inches tall she wore a black dress and had shoulder-length black hair hands a face that was about average when she wasn't scowling at Kraven.
Kraven would've vomited if he had anything on his stomach to vomit. "YOU FUCKING BITCH I WISH I COULD KICK THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, " Kraven thought with a rage he keeps hidden as he knows that whenever he let it out and nearly attacked the maid a guard comes in and beats him half to death.
He stared at the maid walking to the kitchen with eyes filled with rage and malice but all he could do was stand up and obey her orders or face another punch, he walked into what could barely be called a kitchen only a worn old table and a single chair were in the room on the table sat a bowl of what to anybody would look like vomit but it was just the food that the maids would bring for Kraven.
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But to Kraven, this was his lone source of food, and after many years of eating it he barely even registered the taste but he gulped it down as if it was the best-tasting thing a person could pay for he slurped it down with such fervor that Maia watching from the side could barely contain her disgust.
"That's the cheapest thing you can buy at a market it only costs a copper coin for a bowl of the stuff it was barely warm and tasted so bad that even beggars dying of hunger would spit it out yet this freak was eating it like it was a feast from the best restaurant in the city," Maia thought in almost silent disgust.
Just as Kraven finished the bowl of what could be called gruel, the door to the house was kicked open.
"Looks like I might not get to keep this food down," Kraven thought knowing who had kicked the door down.
"Where are you bastard" Said a young dark green-haired boy hardly older than Kraven
"Yeah, where you bastard" Echoed the two to his sides.
"He's in here young masters" Maia shouted to them in a sweet voice like she was being kind.
"Oh there you are freak," said the one standing in front.
"Hey Coltan," Kraven said knowing how he would react to him saying that.
Before he knew it he was on the floor punched in the head by Coltan, "Who said you could speak informally to me you goddamn abomination your lucky father told us not to kill you otherwise I'd of killed you with that punch" Colton said with disdain for Kraven very existence.
Yes, Father Coltan and Kraven shared the same parents as did the two standing by Colton they were Colton, Carmen, and Curtis the Evergreen triplets 2 years older than Kraven making them 12.
Colton Evergreen stood 5 feet tall and had a lean build with shoulder-length dark green hair and brown eyes the symbol of the Evergreen family he always had an arrogant look on his face as nobody in Verdant Forest City would touch him as his father was the city lord and an Elder of the Regal Lotus Sect.
Carmen was a head shorter than Colton she had hair that reached her lower back tied into a high ponytail much like Coltan she had an arrogant aura around her because nobody would touch her because of her father's status
Curtis was just slightly shorter than Colton he had a bit more defined build than Coltan clearly he spent more time practicing martial arts than Colton he was a milder person he was the one out of three who had barely beaten Kraven at all he didn't give off an arrogant aura like the other two but that didn't mean he was a saint he merely didn't think Kraven was worth the time or effort.
"I bet you're wondering why we've come here well we've come to tell you that you're days are numbered here soon we triplets will finally be able to start cultivation which is something you wouldn't even get to dream we will be able to cultivate the Evergreen family Body Tempering technique the
"Oh enough about that as to why your days are numbered I heard Father talk about getting rid of our Family shame, I don't think I have to tell you who that is do I". He said kicking Kraven in the ribs nearly breaking them.
"Soon all of you poor people who have to keep this waste alive will finally be able to leave and live your lives free from this fool" He gestured to the house and then a round of applause came from the guards and Maia.
Then with Kraven still on the ground the triplets and Maia left the house chatting happily without even looking.
Kraven after laying there for an hour got up and walked back upstairs to his bed to wait for his prophesied end.
He lay there and went to sleep knowing that he would not even have to wait an hour before his 'End' was here.