The silver claw gleamed in the midnight sky as the gentle breeze swayed the forest trees. A man stood there staring out of his open window. He had smooth, brown skin. His spiky hair was wrapped in a hairband and stood upwards on his head. He had a goatee on his chin and a stubble of hair across his top lip. He had a dark look in his eyes. He had been through a lot. The cold breeze swept the smoke away from his cigarette squeezed between his fingers.

"Ahhh, what a peaceful night" he muttered with his husky voice.

He puffed the smoke into his cheeks and blew it back out of his mouth again. He scrunched up his cigarette in his hand and threw it out of the window. It disappeared into the darkness of the forest.

Knock knock

The knocking at his door startled him. He hurried out of his room to the front door. He bent down and peeked through the spy hole with one eye. There was no one there. He grabbed the door handle and swung the door open. On the porch was a cardboard box. He wasn't used to getting deliveries anymore. He lived far away from anyone he knew. He bent down and picked it up before opening it hastily ripping off the tape. The box was heavy so he put it back down and pulled out the item in the box. He gasped in shock as he held it in his hands. It was a skull.

"Shit!"

He dropped it and slammed his door shut before locking it. He began to pant as sweat rolled off his face. His teeth clenched together as his head was plagued with worrying thoughts.

"The window" he muttered.

He hurried through the corridor back to his bedroom.

There stood a hooded man dressed in black. He had silver hair under his hood. The front bangs hung down over his forehead. His thin lips curled into a wide, jagged grin. The top half of his face was covered in darkness.

"Well well, Soma-Zilla. How's life going?"

He knew that voice. His eyebrow twitched.

"You're Ginji. What're you doing here?" Soma asked, panic quaking his voice?

"Wasn't that skull evident of my reason for being here? Now, what do the Sawamura Clan do to threaten enemies? We send them human bones. But this is more than a threat Soma-Zilla. You know what happens to traitors"Ginji inserted hostility in his voice. His grin widened.

"Listen I can explain Ginji--"

"Explain what?! You were a captain of our clan. You let us down the moment you came to this damn country"

"What was I supposed to do?! Stay in prison rotting?! They had me in the jail cell doing a life sentence. They offered to drop all of my charges if I snitched but I refused. I accepted a damn life sentence for you!" Soma yelled.

"Yeah, you did. But the moment you escaped you fled the country and abandoned us and your own family"

"I had to flee the country. I just escaped prison! Do you know how genius you have to be to do that?! I got really lucky. It was thanks to the stealth skills I had. I couldn't just laze around. My wife I had been with for twenty years since we were teenagers wanted to divorce me too. She didn't want me in the house. Not after finding out about my crimes. I was charged with two counts of murder, racketeering and running away from the police. I was facing a death sentence originally until I pleaded guilty. But my wife nearly had a heart attack when she found out. Same with my children. My eldest son was sick to his stomach when he found out. I couldn't go back there after escaping"

"You're quite talkative today Soma"

Ginji unsheathed a sword he had pulled out of his trousers, which was strapped to his leg causing Soma to flinch.

Soma stepped back and grabbed the sword he had laid on the wooden table behind him.The swords glittered in the darkness. The moonlight shone on Ginji as they glared at each other.

"Ginji, don't do this. I have a family at home"

"The family you abandoned?"

"I was able to get into contact with my five children. My eldest son forgave me"

"Awww how sweet. You will have plenty to talk about in hell right?"Ginji grinned at Soma's suffering.

"Ginji, you bastard"

Soma baring his teeth was uncharacteristic because of his calm persona.

"It's rare to see you losing your cool Soma Zilla. You were always the silent type. A quiet, humble guy when you were with us Soma Zilla. Actually, Soma Saito. Your real name. You lost your honourable nickname a year ago when you abandoned us. But you know what my nickname is right? The silent slasher"

"A pretty wack name"

Ginji scoffed at Soma's remark.

"I met you three years ago on an assassination mission. Boss told me you were one of the best. You were best known for carjacking. You've stolen over six hundred cars in your lifetime, right? I heard of your kill count too.You--"

"Shut up! I left that life behind me!" Soma's yell interrupted Ginji.

"Ohh, a true traitor. Being in this country has turned you soft. You illegal immigrant. I wonder how you've managed to avoid the authorities for so long. I heard a murderer like you was able to go to university and study psychology. How can one study such a complex subject but cannot understand themselves? Makes no sense Soma. And then you dropped out a couple of months later and got a job because you're too lazy to study a four-year course. To think a guy like you was able to forget his past and blend in with these normal people who haven't even seen a gun in their life. This damn tropical island. I heard you were a basketball champion back in the day at high school and you were offered a full athletic scholarship at university at age eighteen. But you dropped out because you were a natural criminal. You felt that you'd rather spend your life doing something you were good at. Crime. I know you've been crazy from young. I heard stories about you ripping off the heads of your teddy bears as a toddler. Of course, it was in your blood you couldn't be normal after that. That's why I laugh when I see you nowadays tryna be normal. A guy who has murdered more than fifty people in cold blood during his career. Not as much as Ichiro's but taking a human life is immoral altogether. Even killing a single human is too much for any sane person to handle. Your first kill was accidental too. A few months after you joined us you killed some dumb thug in an alleyway because she robbed an old lady. What a pathetic start to your life as a criminal. Saving an old lady that later called the cops on you because you killed in front of her and you escaped them. Hehe. That's comparable to a hero ain't it. Unintentional murder you know. I guess when I kill you my kills will be equal"

"You won't kill me" Soma said smiling.

"We will see about that" Ginji grinned at his overconfident attitude.

Ginji charged at Soma with his sword.Soma gripped the handle of his sword and aimed the blade towards Ginji who was running at him.

As Ginji got closer he slashed down at him with all his strength grazing Ginji's cheek. Ginji backed away and rubbed the blood off his cheek with his sleeve.

"Still got the moves eh. It's only been a year since you left, what did I expect?"

In the blink of an eye, Soma approached Ginji and slashed, missing again.

Soma slashed the light above Ginji causing it to fall but Ginji managed to dodge it.

Soma stepped back as it smashed on the floor. He could feel his heart beating out of his chest. He couldn't lose his life now.Not when he was about to turn his life around. He knew if he died he would break his son's heart again.

Ginji jumped into the air and slashed down at Soma but Soma managed to block it with his sword and counterattack him by performing a spinning back kick to his stomach pushing him back.

Soma turned around and slashed Ginji across his chest as he stumbled back.

Ginji fell hard onto the shards of glass stabbing into his back. Ginji shrieked in extreme pain. Blood spilt out of his back as he attempted to sit up. Soma stood over him and gazed at him mercilessly.

He raised his arm holding the sword ignoring the suffering of Ginji.He slashed down at Ginji across his stomach tearing it open whilst he laid down. Blood leaked out causing a pool to form under him.

As Ginji began to lose blood and his consciousness Soma stabbed the sword into his leg as he rolled over in intense pain. Ginji's eyes widened as he gasped for air.

He began to gag on his blood, the blood that drowned his collapsed lungs. Soma pulled out the sword from his leg and thrust it down into his neck piercing his flesh, silencing his gagging.

"That's fifty-six kills" Soma muttered to himself.

He pulled the blade out of his neck and held it in his hand as he walked to his bed which was against the wall. He knelt and reached under his pillow.

He pulled a handgun from under it and tucked it into his trousers. Then he slid on his running shoes next to his bed. The atmosphere was silent. Not even a whistle of the wind. Soma sensed something bad would happen.

SHRACK

THUD

That was the sound of his front door ripping off its hinges and slamming into the ground.A wardrobe was over his bed.He opened the wardrobe door and climbed into it as the footsteps got louder. He closed the door and stabbed his sword into the roof of the wardrobe before covering himself with his white-collar shirts.

"Ginji's dead. Motoko come here!" A man yelled.

"Soma must've killed him" Motoko speculated.

"Motoko, are you sure this is the right address?"

"Yes, Loroi. Like me, Ichiro was close friends with him. Even after he betrayed us he still kept in contact with Ichiro. He told him too much. Little did he know Ichiro wouldn't stand for it. Ichiro is the clan soldier"

Ichiro emerged from the dark corridor with a maniacal grin plastered on his face.

He had a hood covering his spiky, raven black hair that hung over his face covering his forehead which had a white headband over it.

"Yeah, the good times" he said baring his sharp teeth.

"I don't think he's in this room. Look in the kitchen"

Motoko led them out.Their footsteps faded into the corridor but it sounded like two others entered his room.

"We gotta pick up his body Ruku. Come on!" A woman urged.

Ruku was a tall muscular man with dark skin. He had his hood over his bald head. He squinted his narrow eyes as he inspected the room.He was wearing dark, baggy cargo pants and a black vest under his hooded cloak exposing his arms. His muscles were bulging under his rough skin.

"Ruku, what are you doing?"

"Hold on Iseki. I gotta see something"

Ruku's deep voice sent vibrations to the ground.

Iseki was a woman of average height and had a tanned complexion. She had blond hair pulled back into a ponytail. She was wearing sunglasses over her eyes and a bulletproof vest over her black long-sleeved shirt. Ruku chuckled inwardly.

"This man. To think he was hailed a genius back in the days is a damn joke. The same man who learnt all the martial arts in a whole year and escaped from police after being arrested more than ten times took down all seventy-five enemies single-handedly and killed more than fifty people in a city with thousands of CCTV cameras only to be charged with two counts of murder as the others lacked evidence this is so unimpressive. He left a blood trail from his sword leading to the wardrobe. Look at this. Drips coming out of the bottom of the door"

Soma managed to remain calm and quieten his breathing.

As Ruku held his hand on the door to slide it open a sword pierced through the door and into his stomach.

The man-made a low pitched groaning noise and stiffened. He became breathless and his eyes widened at the sight of the blade stabbed

into him.

PAP

The bullet busted through the wooden door and forced its way into Ruku's chest piercing his lung.

Ruku tumbled back onto the ground as Soma pulled out the sword. Two holes in his wardrobe door, two fatal wounds in his former comrade.

Iseki gripped her gun tightly and readied her sword with her other hand. Soma kicked down the wardrobe door crushing Ruku under it.Soma reached into the pouch attached to the back of his trousers and held a smoke bomb in his hand before jumping out of the wardrobe and throwing it in the direction of the door where Iseki stood.

PAP

Soma shot behind him after the smoke bomb landed blinding Iseki.

PAP PAP

Soma managed to shoot Iseki three times using the smoke as a distraction.

As the others rushed to the commotion in the room Soma jumped out of his window and sprinted into the darkness surrounding the trees ahead. He did not look back. His house didn't contain anything valuable anyway. Only his phone was left behind.

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"He was in here all this time. Where was he hiding?!" Ichiro shouted?

"He was in the wardrobe," Iseki told him weakly as she struggled to move.

"Will you be alright Iseki?"

"Three bullet wounds in my leg? I will die. My time has come. Just go and kill Soma. Send him to hell"

Ichiro nodded at her and gestured his hand signalling them to follow him.Motoko, Loroi and six other members wearing dark clothes followed him out of the window.

Soma was out of breath....panting. He slumped back against the tree and looked ahead at the path of uncertainty. The path that led to his only home. He couldn't go back there ever again. He couldn't even call up his family and tell them that he will die. Soma looked down at the ground, dejected.

PAP

A deafening gunshot defeated the silence of the forest.It was him. The moment he heard a leaf rustle he had shot towards the sound in the bush. The sound had stopped and blood oozed out of the bush.

Soma stepped closer and swept the leaves aside. There laid a squirrel. Blood leaked out of its small body.

"Damn"

Ever since Soma had left the Samawura Clan he suffered from paranoia. Even a balloon popping could give him a panic attack. He had severe PTSD. Knowing he was in the middle of the forest being hunted down he had to stay alert. Any sound was a threat to him.

There stood Ichiro and his comrades in the middle of the forest.

"The gunshot came from east. So he's holding a Glock17. Cheap, small ass gun. That ain't a threat to us. What I want you guys to do is split up into teams of three. Altogether there is nine of us. Me, Motoko and Loroi will be a separate team as we are the upper ranks meaning there is now six of you"

He pointed at the three others and pointed in the direction they needed to go.The three mysterious members ran in that direction.

He pointed to the last three members who were grouped. He pointed in the same direction leading them to the same place. They all nodded and followed behind the other groups.

"Time to catch him" Loroi said with confidence in his voice.

"Don't underestimate him. He's strong"

Motoko tied back her long jet black hair in a hairband.

Soma was surrounded by three of the members. One was a giant compared to him holding a machete. One of them wielded two swords and one was an expert in martial arts holding a single sword. He took note of this.

"We're bringing master Chen your head!" The big guy shouted.

"Not sure my head will come off so easily" Soma smirked.

The big guy swung his machete in his direction.

Soma swung his sword and parried the attack before dodging another sword swung from behind him.

Soma turned and swung his sword around him slashing the man behind him across his chest from his shoulder downwards.

Soma managed to get himself away from them as the dual wielder stumbled onto the ground holding his wound. He had dropped both his swords. The warrior standing next to him picked up his dual swords.

"Continue without me!" He yelled.

The martial artist who was now the new dual wielder charged towards Soma.The big guy reached into the pouch around his waist and took out a small transparent ball filled with green liquid.

"A poison bomb?!" Soma shouted.

The man threw it in his direction and as Soma dodged the dual wielder stabbed his right sword into the ground as he ran, pulled himself forward and spun his body around giving him a swift fly kick to the stomach all whilst holding his sword.

Soma slammed against the tree gasping for breath. He had no choice. He reached in between his trousers and pulled out his gun aiming it at the dual wielder who pulled out his sword from the ground.

The big guy approached him.

"You can't shoot us both"

Soma tried to calm himself down. He heard a rustle behind the tree he was leaning on.

A sword pierced through the tree slicing his shoulder.

"Did I get his head?" The man on the other side yelled.

"No" the big guy confirmed to him disappointedly.

Soma felt a burning sensation in his heart. His eyes went bloodshot as the six warriors surrounded him. The dual wielder was the main threat to him.

PAP

The moment he pulled the trigger shooting the dual wielder before stabbing him the team converged on him swinging their blades in his direction.

At the last moment, he pulled the body of the dual wielder towards him with his sword stuck in him as if he was fruit on a skewer and used him as a shield making them hack their comrade to death with their swords.

Blood splattered across his face. He dropped the bloodied body and backed away from them.

"Soma. We will kill you!"

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Soma pulled the trigger non-stop before using his other hand to throw smoke bombs. One of the members he shot in the back had sprinted away.

Meanwhile, Ichiro and Motoko strolled through the forest. Loroi was speed walking ahead of them.

"Why don't you hurry? They stand no chance against him. He has a gun" Loroi told them raising his voice.

"No. Running will just expend our energy. We must save our energy to kill him" Ichiro explained to Loroi.

He dragged his sword on the ground scrapping the dirt aside. The gunshots got louder and louder as they approached. There he was. His sword plunged into the big guy's head. All six men were dead now. His arm was covered in blood from the wound he received near his wrist. He couldn't hold his gun anymore because his left arm had lost too much blood.

The big guy dropped to the ground and Ichiro approached Soma grinning. Soma met his eyes. They stared at each other, displaying their high amounts of malice.

"Soma. You killed all my warriors with that damn gun. You cheated"

"Ichiro why!? I trusted you!"

"Yes. You did trust me. That's what makes you even more pathetic. You expect me to just let it slide. You are--"

Loroi charged at him interrupting Ichiro.

Soma gripped the sword handle with his right hand. Ichiro and Motoko watched as they clashed. Their swords clanged loudly echoing in the forest.

"You got his phone Motoko?"

She nodded at his question.

"When we beat him half to death we video call his family and make him beg for mercy before decapitating him"

Motoko nodded her head hesitantly as if she disagreed with him.

Loroi's head was left hanging off after Soma had sliced his neck open. His lungs were hanging out of his torn open chest. Loroi fell to the ground.Soma dashed into the bushes.

"Get him!" Ichiro shouted.

Both Ichiro and Motoko chased after him as Loroi rolled over and bled out. After a few minutes, Ichiro and Motoko were lost.

"He knows this island well. He used this to his advantage"

"Let's split up and find him"

"Motoko, are you sure?"

"Yes. It's easier. Also...I have a gun too. He can't kill me with ease"

"Ok. Regroup back here if the search is unsuccessful"

Soma stood near a lake, shirtless. His blood dyed shirt was tied around his left arm to stop the bleeding. He flinched as the bushes rustled and then looked over his shoulder.

"Who's there?"

"It's Motoko"

He turned around to look at her. She took her hood off and walked towards him.

"Don't worry. I'm alone. Ichiro is at the other side of the island right now"

"Aren't you on their side?"

"No. I could've killed you. I knew you were in the wardrobe so I led them out of the room. Anyways here"

Motoko held out his phone. Soma grabbed it from her. He tried to hide the shock on his face.

"Call your family" she told him.

"I...can't," he said shaking his head.

"Why not? Wouldn't Daichi be upset?"

"I don't want to see the looks on their faces. I want Daichi to grow up innocent. I mean......I already messed with his mind a little. Acting like a father, a civilised human being. Little did he know I was murdering people, hurting and stealing from them just to get money. Pictures of me smiling only to hide my pain. He's only seen my good side"

"That's good isn't it?"

"No, It's not good. I can't imagine how he felt when he found out the news about me. How much he suffered after that. He was only eleven. That same year my newborn baby was born. He will never know me. My younger children were told not to speak to me"

"Listen. I will protect them"

"You? Are you joking? You're gonna kill me"

"Master Chen will not let this go. He ordered us to bring your head back to him. Hear that? Your whole skull. We have to record your execution and send it to him. After that, he will target your family and everyone you ever knew"

Soma sighed to release the deep pain in his heart and shrugged his shoulders.

"I could've lived a normal life. I could've been a famous basketball player right now. But instead, I threw my life away. I lied to everyone who cared about me. No wonder Rinko hates me"

Motoko smiled.

"Rinko was lucky to have a handsome man like you you know. Just looking at those chest muscles make my week" she said blushing.

Her flirty compliment brought a smile to his face.

"Is that the best pickup line you could come up with?"

Her smile faded.

"I'm sorry you have to go through this I--"

"Don't apologise. It's my time to go it seems. Things just don't go the way you want them to in this world. Maybe Ichiro was right, I can't live a normal life on this tropical island. I can't even slice my bread in half without remembering the times I've stabbed people"

"Both of us can't go back to having normal lives. We're assassins. We've been doing this from young. Now we're in our thirties. How much has life changed for us?"

Soma sighed as she pulled out her sword from the single sword pack on her back.

"This shall be our first-ever fight and last fight. Honourable Soma-Zilla" she announced with a grin on her face.

Soma bent down and picked up his sword.

"If I win I'm escaping back to my country. But remember I'm not giving you mercy"

The moment he stopped his words he stabbed at her with all his force slicing her in the arm as she backed away. They charged at each other clashing their blades together.

After a few minutes, they were both on the ground panting. Blood dripped from Soma's ear which was sliced open.

"You're willing to sacrifice your ear? Just give up already" Motoko told him sitting up.

"Motoko, I will kill you" he announced whilst panting heavily.

As she got up he ran towards her and kicked her in her stomach before spin kicking her again sending her falling back into the tree.

When she gained her senses back his sword was already impaled through her arm she held her sword with. She dropped her sword as her arm lost function.

"I'm sorry Motoko. Unlike you, I have a lot to lose here"

"Damn you" she murmured weakly.

When he pulled his sword out blood splattered all over him.

"You can't hold anything anymore. I broke your arm and stabbed your other one"

"Soma...if you're going to kill me please survive. Ichiro is after you. If you die who will protect your....family?"

Her body went stiff and she fell forward on the ground. She was losing a lot of blood and a vital vein in her arm had been severed. That same moment she convulsed violently.

"I will survive. I'm sorry. This is the decision I made. You might die here. Thanks for everything you've done for me. I'm glad I met you Motoko"

He felt a burning sensation in his eyes when he turned his back to her. He felt something wet and warm rolling down his cheeks. Tears? The last time he cried was when he got divorced from his childhood sweetheart and locked in prison.

He thought he could crush all his feelings but he couldn't. He was human too. He didn't know what he would do if he had to kill Ichiro, his closest friend. He followed a path leading to the beach of the island.

The waves splashed onto the sandy shores. As he stood there on the beach his blood-stained sword sunk into the sand. He was planning his next move. Steal a boat or wait.

"Sooomaa!"

Soma flinched at the familiar voice.He turned around and looked at the man behind him. He had a sadistic grin on his face.

"Ichiro!" he called out, aggression in his voice.

"We meet again traitor"

"I'm not gonna let you mess up the rest of my life. I will kill you here!" Soma's declaration echoed in the silence of the forest.

Ichiro closed his eyes and guffawed.

"Ok. I won't mess up your life. Instead, I will mess up your families li--"

Before he could finish his sentence Soma had already snuck up behind him and slashed him in his back.Ichiro stumbled back and clashed with Soma.

"I'm wearing armour under dumbass"

"I'm gonna kill you!" Soma roared.

Soma swung his sword at him violently before jumping and slashing down at him. As Ichiro ducked the sword Soma gave him a swift kick to the face.

Ichiro flew to the ground and laid on his back. Soma jumped into the air to dropkick him but Ichiro rolled himself away. Soma's foot sunk into the sand due to the impact of the kick.

Ichiro managed to stand himself up again and wiped the blood leaking out of his nose and mouth corner.

They charged at each other and clashed blades once again. Soma dodged Ichiro's blade by jumping in midair and twisting his body before giving him a spin kick to the jaw.

Ichiro was sent back down into the sand. His jaw was dislocated now. As he attempted to get up Soma kicked him through the sand and stomped his ankle. Ichiro gripped his sword and swung it at Soma barely missing him. Soma was too fast for him.

Soma ran at him again as he got on his knees and stabbed at him. Ichiro parried the attack and hopped back on his feet. In the blink of an eye, Soma was already behind him. As he looked back Soma raised his foot and attempted to kick him in the head.

Ichiro dodged at the last second and backed away. Soma ran at him and fly kicked him causing him to fall back near the water. Ichiro stumbled around trying not to fall.

Soma dashed behind Ichiro so fast Ichiro couldn't react and chopped the side of his head from behind tearing his left ear off splattering an explosion of blood through the air. The flesh on the side of his face was hanging off.

The side of his head bled as he wobbled back holding his wound.

Soma kicked Ichiro in the back of his legs as he struggled and whacked the side of his head with the sword handle digging inside the wound where his ear would be.

He felt the sword handle go into his ear canal that drowned his eardrum with blood. Ichiro cried out in extreme pain but gripped his sword tightly forcing himself to stay conscious

Soma then leg swept him causing him to fall sideways and struck him in the armpit with his knee.

As Ichiro fumbled down on his back helplessly crying out in pain Soma stamped his hand into the sand in an attempt to get the sword out of his hand.

After realising Ichiro would not give up his sword he began to batter his head to knock him unconscious. Soma kicked Ichiro's wound in the side of his head splattering blood all over his leg and shoes.

As Soma stomped on Ichiro's severely battered face tearing off the flap of flesh that hung on uncovering his bloodied teeth inside his mouth the unbeatable Ichiro mustered up the strength in his dead arm and raised the sword out of the sand slashing behind Soma's thigh as he raised his foot to stomp his head.

As Soma staggered Ichiro got on his knees quickly and swung his sword to the right slashing below the handle of Soma's sword chopping his fingers off leaving only his thumb remaining and gashing his hand open causing an explosion of blood.

Soma's harrowing screams echoed through the woodland.

When Soma dropped his sword and backed away eyeing his fingerless hand in absolute horror Ichiro slashed him again once across his face slashing down from his forehead across his eyeball to his cheek diagonally and then knelt and swung his sword downwards ripping off one kneecap and splitting his other one.

Soma fell back into the sand with his kneecap hanging off his bloody flesh.

His blood dyed the sand. Ichiro prevailed over him, gazing at him mercilessly with his severely wounded face and lifted his blade above Soma's bare chest.

"I will reunite your family in hell with you in a bit!" He screeched.

PAP

SQUELCH

Ichiro's blade pierced Soma's abdomen.Soma had his pistol directed at Ichiro. Blood trickled from above Ichiro's eye where the bullet hit blinding him and dripping into the sand.

THUD

Ichiro plunged back into the sand when his body froze up. His body jerked violently and he began coughing out pools of blood as if his mouth was a fountain.

The sword was stuck in Soma's stomach. Soma felt the sharp pain and he became breathless. The night sky blurred out in his left eye(his only eye left) at the same time his body became paralysed. The grey clouds in the sky gathered.

Blood filled inside his mouth choking him. There was no hope for him. He was going to die. There was no coming back from this. His kneecap was gone and his other hanging off and several veins in his thighs had been severed.

His right eye was destroyed by the sharp blade of the sword and half his face was cut open. One nostril was cut open. His lips were sliced in half. His right hand didn't even have fingers. Only a thumb. His whole right hand was split open so badly he could see his bones. His ear was split open.

A whole scar ran down his face too. His once handsome face. His family wouldn't want to see him again. Even being looked at for the rest of his life he will be looked at in disgust. He couldn't see his family and friends in his country ever again. His whole life was ending due to a decision he made years ago. When he vowed never to betray the Sawamura Clan.

He remembered the time he was little and his stepfather told him...

"Actions have consequences"

Those words had truth in them. As a kid, he didn't understand. But now as he was dying he came to understand the meaning. His memories faded one by one. The end of a prodigy, Soma Saito. Of course, his name wouldn't go down in history. He was a lowlife for most of his life.

Now he was going to live the high life.In the heavens. No. It was hell he was going. If hell even existed. Now he would find out what happens after death.

He was lower than ever. If hell did exist he knew that was the place he would go. All the lives he had taken. Karma caught up to him. He smiled gently and gulped the blood back into his throat. He gagged on it as it drowned his collapsed lung.

His heartbeat had stopped.

The rain crashed down from the dark sky splashing down on the ground washing the blood off the two wounded men that lay there. Thunder roared behind the clouds following a flash of lightning.

"Ah, shit! The fights finished! Come here. Call the ambulance. I think the other guy is alive!" A man said running towards them.

"Gangs fighting on the island again? Oh damn.....it's Soma Saito! He's dead! He's been totally sliced up man. This is disgusting. His blackened lung is literally hanging outta his chest"

The man that yelled was still in his pyjamas. They were both neighbours.

"Soma?! I had a chat with him yesterday at the café. Damn it. Why would he be involved in some dumb shit like this?! He was a great man"

"Just call the ambulance. I'm gonna do CPR on the guy with the raven hair. Looks like a gunshot wound"

The end of Soma Saito's troublesome life.

A few days later...

"Daichi"

A woman called out softly.

She was wearing a pink dressing gown and a black bonnet over her hair.

The young boy threw his covers off him and sat up in his bed. He looked around the age of twelve.

"Since you're the eldest child and you had a close relationship with your father you should know this"

"What is it, mother?!" He swept back his spiky black hair and rubbed his tired eyes.

His mother turned on his bedroom light and walked closer to him.

"Daichi. I'm sorry I have to wake you up from your sleep to tell you this but...."

The woman gulped down her cold words for a moment and gazed at him. He could see the sadness in her brown eyes through her curly eyelashes.

"Mother....what is it?"

"Your father is dead"

His eyes widened as he tried to process the shocking information. His heart aches in his chest as if someone was squeezing it. He could feel his stomach-turning. It was a familiar feeling he had. The same feeling he had felt a year ago when his father was arrested. The awful truth had hurt him.

Now he was even more hurt by it. He couldn't force back the tears in his eyes. He began to sob as his mother knelt and held his shoulder. His mother regretted telling him. His sobs got louder waking up his younger siblings in the other rooms.

"We are going to move out of this house in a few weeks. Our lives are in danger" she explained to him.

"Father why?! Why the fuck!? Ahhh, Fuck it! Fuck this shit man. Why?!" He yelled, his voice cracking.

Daichi slammed his head into his pillow. His mother ignored his curse words. She could feel his sadness pouring into her soul.

She understood.

The news tore a bigger hole into his heart.