Somewhere in an unknown place, A little boy was playing with a teenage girl. Both were playing happily and were running after each other. In the distance, a couple was watching them and whispering something. The teenage girl shouted at the boy and said, “Orph, Come back here.” The boy replied, “he-he,you can't catch me,you can't catch me.” Looking at this, the couple laughed. After sometimes the woman shouted,  “Qing'er, Orph it's time to go home.” The children replied, “yes, mother, I am coming.” And after sometime the couple and children went towards the village.

After sometime, two shadows came out from the distant tree. Both of them were wrapped in darkness,one long and thin, while the other one was more masculine featured. Both of them were giving evil vibes. The thin shadow said to the other , “are you sure that they are the one?looking at them, I don't think they are the target.”

The masculine shadow replied, " have I ever made any mistakes in identifying the prey? And even if they are not the target, what does it matter,an ant cannot shake the roots of a tree.

Have you gotten soft-hearted while being away from the job? “

“No,I'm just.....”

“Are you defying the orders?” said the masculine shadow with the bloodlust.

The thin shadow replied , “n…no,I was just thinking….”

“We don't have that much time,get your thoughts and prepare for it. The moment you show the hesitation, they will eliminate you from your very existence. You know that, right?”

“.....” “Let's go, it's time.” after saying that, both the shadows vanished from there like they were never there to begin with.

The moon was shining in the sky and the wind was cold. In this moonlight in a house, two figures were sitting together. The lady said , “Dear,when are we going to have our own house?”

The figure replied, “you know that too honey, we cannot stay at one place for a long time, with them staring at us,they will find out where we stay no matter where we go.”   “But dear, how long are we going to hide from them and keep running. I fill scared just from going to the market and buying anything, fearing that they would come here.” “... I am sorry honey ,it's because I am not competent enough that you are going through all of this.”

“I wish that we could have a peaceful life then children wouldn't have to stay at home,they could play like other children and enjoy themselves.” “It's okay honey, soon we will be living a peaceful and happy lives with our children, far from everything here.” “I hope too, dear.”

It was midnight, the moon was hiding behind the clouds , the wind was eerie and cold. In that ruthless wind, several dark figures were running on the rooftop of the houses. Those figures wore black robes and hoods, wearing the mask on their face and giving off the dark aura with bloodshot eyes. They stopped on a certain rooftop and started to spread out in the surroundings. One of them signalled to others to clear the way. They started approaching.

Suddenly, the man sleeping in the room with his wife opened his eyes and started looking right and left, then suddenly woke his wife up and whispered, “we are surrounded by them.”

“What?” she didn't understand what her husband meant.

“We are surrounded by them, they are here.” whispered to her.

“What! What should we do?” she instantly woke up from her half asleep state and asked.

“Hide the children, it is impossible to outrun them and escape.” The man exclaimed. The woman ran towards the children and told them to hide . The children didn't understand what was going on, but they quickly got into the hole they dug in the tiles in the house.

“Do not come out even if anything happens, remember no matter what happens you cannot come out from there.” she said while tears in her eyes.

“Mother ….but…” the teenage girl was about to ask something, but the woman stopped her and said, “no buts, promise mother” “.....but… I understand, mother.” the teenage girl said.

The woman ran back, and then the noise of swords and screams started coming from the front room. The children were so scared that their voice couldn't leave their throats.

Then the door suddenly burst open and several dark figures entered the room. One of them was bulky and like a mountain,looking like the leader. “Search for the children,the client doesn't want to leave the troublesome seed of the revenge.” said the bulky man. And the underlings started to search the room. When they were approaching the tiles where the children were hidden, a rock hit the bulky man. “Hum??” exclaimed the man and saw that a girl was standing at the door of the house and staring at him. The girl was scared, but she could not let them take her brother, so she ran out of the house. The man said , “catch her! If she is captured, the brat will be found easily after.” The figures in dark chased after the girl and easily caught up with her. One of the figures grabbed her by her hair and dragged her to the front room of the house and asked, “where is the boy?”

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“I don't know” she said while enduring the pain.

“Haha,it looks like you are quite stubborn, but you know I like the stubborn ones most.” the man licked his lips disgustingly while looking at her.

“Oi, don't do it, yet after that brat is found you can do anything with her.” the other one said.

The boy in the closet was shivering with fright and tears were leaking nonstop from his eyes, but he kept his hands on his mouth ,not making a single noise. He remembered the face of the girl just a few minutes ago. “Stay here and don't make any noise. No matter what happens, do not come out or make noise. Promise me.”

The girl who was his sister was being dragged and tortured in front of him, but he didn't make a single noise.

Suddenly the noise came from the front room , “b*tch,just tell me where the boy is, and we will give you a painless death. Otherwise, you will die a death that even your parents won't recognize you in the heavens.”

“Kill me, but I won't tell you.” the girl shouted.

“Looks like you don't understand the situation you are in, then die…” shouted a dark figure and slashed the throat of the girl.

“Oi, I told you that I was going to have fun with her.” the man suddenly shouted while having bloodshot eyes.

“Hum! Keep your voice down, it looks like you forgot your lesson from the last time.” the figure said.

“Huh! I just wanted to see how strong you were” said the man.

“Enough, find the boy” suddenly a voice that seemed extremely hoarse came from behind.

“Yes, elder.” all the figures saluted the man and started looking for the boy again. Just when they were about to reach the closet, suddenly a flying knife came from the side and stabbed one of the dark figures in the head. The man that was shot collapsed like a broken stone.

“Who is it? Who dares to attack us?” the elder shouted while the dark figures got alert.

A man in a white rob came out from a corner of the street across the window that was open. “Who am I, you don't need to know because dead people are not going to tell anyone's name to their backers.”

“Do you know who we are? With just a single signal, you will die without even knowing what happened to you! Kneel down and cut your arms and I will forget what happened here today.” said the elder in black.

“Haha, if you had the ability to kill me, then you wouldn't have waited until now and killed me already. Just get lost till I am being nice.” the old man in white, Rob, started to approach the dark figures.

“You… I remember you, wait for the death!” the elder said while reluctantly leaving.

“Anytime” said the old man in the white rob while smiling. The figures in the dark robes left. The blood of the family was flowing on the street.

“Come out boy, they left.” said the old man in the white rob. The boy came out from the closet, crying and panicking.

“Don't worry, boy, I am not here to harm you.” called the old man in the white rob.

The boy approached the dead bodies of his family. Suddenly he started to cry even louder trying to wake them up, having their smiles in his mind vividly. His eyes were bloodshot and red from crying.

The old man in the white rob came to the boy and stood beside him silently. For a long time the boy kept crying then he got up and banged his head on the floor, “Thank you, sir, for saving me”.

The old man in the white rob was surprised, then smiled warmly. “What are you going to do now?” asked the man.

“I don't know” replied the boy.

“[Looking at the boy's dead but bloodshot eyes]” “(These are not the eyes of someone who gave up!)” he sighed.

“You want revenge, don't you?” asked the old man.

“.....” the boy didn't reply.

“If you want revenge, then you will need power, an absolute power that can destroy your enemy single-handedly.” the old man explained.

“Sir , please accept me as your disciple.” the boy begged the old man.

“Are you sure you want to be my disciple? It's not easy.” said the old man.

“Disciple greets the master” said the boy.

“Haha, good. Get up.” the old man replied.

“Finish your business here in two days, after two days I will pick you up from the mountain.” the old man said.

“Yes, master.” replied the boy.

---After two days---

“Mother, Father, Sister, I will avenge you. Even if I die, I will make sure the ones who killed you will go to hell as well.” the boy said. The boy knelt down there for 2 days without eating or sleeping. The old man came from behind, and stood there silently.

“I am leaving Mother, Father, Sister ,I will return after my revenge and will accompany you to death.” the boy was teary.

The old man whistled, and a crane came flying there.

“Get on and sit tight.” said the old man.

At the end, the boy, and the old man left the village and disappeared like they were never a part of the village.