I heard dad was conversing with someone. When I looked at the horrible scene downstairs from between the staircases, I couldn't move, and I didn't want anyone or anything attacking my family to know that I was there. I didn't hear anything clearly from here, I was too horrified to even pay attention. I peeked again and I saw a dark entity in the dining room, it was confronting dad.

The mysterious figure was frozen continued to grab dad by his collar. I was hopeless, I wasn't brave enough to go downstairs and save my parents' lives. He seemed to asked him something. Then I trembled, I felt like every creaking sound my staircases made would be the death of me.

"Kyuuto, secret compartment, now," I heard dad telepathically warned me again, I took one last glance over him, and walked slowly back into my room, at that point I remembered that he had built a secret compartment in one of my room walls, for me to hide in 'emergency situations', but I have never imagined the emergency would be like this.

I crawled into the secret compartment in my room, defended by a small solid steel door behind a perfectly fit tile on the wall. The entrance was seamless, it was perfectly hidden. I squatted there, still trembling, believing my parents were already dead. I heard footsteps getting nearer.

...

I held my breath...

I closed my eyes as I hoped for whatever this dreadful entity was to not find me.

Surprising and luckily, the footsteps faded away, it went back downstairs.

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"Where is he?!" he asked my father once again with a thundering voice. And dad replied in whimpers that was unintelligible.

Then I heard dad groaned, I thought he kicked or punched him. I closed my eyes and ears with my hands, imagining what happened downstairs, where's mom? Is she alright? Or is she---

More blurred conversation I heard from the secret compartment, at one point I tried to open the hatch door slowly to hear more clearly, but no matter how hard I tried to concentrate, I couldn't understand anything.

...

Then I heard a loud thud, but it sounded like a punch to the gut.

The mysterious man left the house, his footsteps blurred into the sound of the breeze of the wind.

I rushed out of my hiding spot, and ran downstairs to check on mom and dad.

I saw dad laid face-down, holding his stomach from what I think was the most painful punch I've ever heard from a different level of a building. Then I was petrified, seeing mom near him, also laid down with her head bleeding, from the initial blast that I heard prior. As it turned out, the kitchen front wall was completely obliterated from the outside.

I cried. It was unbelievable seeing my own parents laid dead in front of me. Hatred filled my soul, the feeling of vengeance. That time, I didn't even know what I actually felt, but at that point, I felt like I wanted to kill. Then magically, dad moved ever so slowly and grabbed my left leg. Breathing heavily from the horrible punch he just received. He then whispered his last words, while sobbing, "Great job kid. I'm proud of you... now hear me out, my time is running out. Take this,"

Father slipped a silver ring to me, it was his wedding ring, or at least I thought it was.

"This ring, is not an ordinary ring. Wear it, the Ookami clan... depends on you..." I took that ring, and was about to wear it on my left ring finger, but my father grabbed my hand for the last time, "I am proud of you..." he smiled, then breathed out his last breath.