A doctor entered the interrogation room and directly moved to Jess. He used his medical flash light to check if Jess was still conscious. While checking, Jess suddenly started to speak a foreign language that all of them couldn't understand.

Cain was experiencing the same situation. In the boy's right eye, he saw a ball of light, and once it reached a stable speed, it looked like it was stopping spinning. But in reality, the ball of light spewed upward rapidly.

A light flashed between their eyes; the light swayed left and right. A man appeared after the flash and asked with a gentle, hoarse sound, "Are you okay?" Both of them tried their best to focus on the voice, and once their vision was restored, they saw an ugly, groggy-looking man in the dark room from the left and a gentle-looking man with eyeglasses to his right. Both of them are holding a ball of light in their right hand.

Both of them hold his chin at the same time and continue to sway the light from left to right, checking his eyes. "You're Cain/Jess right?" He nodded, then smiled at the man in front of him. "It seems you're conscious now, but we better check you more clearly to be safe." Both of them held his wrist at the same time and tried to check his pulse. "Good."

Officer Mark asked the doctor if he was okay, and the doctor answered that he'd need to move to the hospital for a checkup. Both officers agreed, and before the doctor could leave the room, Jess suddenly sprang and kicked the doctor back. Both officers reacted quickly and moved to stop Jess from beating the doctor. They held his arms together, but Jess struggled and tried to break free, and when he did, he tried to attack the doctor again, but the doctor was quicker and had already run away.

He screamed at the top of his lungs and eyed the two officers who tried to stop him. "Boy/Jess, you need to calm down." He tried to talk to him, but it seems he didn't hear anything, and Jess attacked Officer Mark. Officer Mark put his guard up and blocked Jess's amateur punches. And suddenly he couldn't move; Jess felt his body was stiffening. When he looked back, he saw Officer Jenny bring out her teaser gun. "Magician," he said before he got knockout cold.

"What the hell are you guys doin'?" asked the man wearing a blue robe. The other man inside the dark cell scratched his head and said, "We didn't know this boy had masculine strength." "His just a mere five-year-old boy!" The man in the blue robe raised his voice angrily while looking at the man's face in utter disbelief. He also didn't understand why the other guy ran away after he got kicked a little. "Stupid! Why did the other man run away?"

"I don't know, sire," he answered while scratching his head, even though he already knew that the guy who ran away was a real coward in the first place. "Ugh, I wasted my lighting magic just to knock up this insolent boy." Irritated, he kicked Cain several times until he was satisfied, but before he left the cell, he spit at the boy and then said, "Disgusting beggar."

"Tch tch, boy oh boy," the man said while shaking his head, "we're here just to check the goods, but who knows that you got the strength of an adult?" The man thinks for a while, then the other guy who ran away first return and enters the cell. "Azzo! You, mother Garan! Why do you leave me behind? Erh?" He hit his head hard out of anger and disappointment.

He holds his head and says, "I'm sorry, dude; you know that I don't have balls." "Where bandits! Moron!" The guy glared at him regretfully once more. He shook his head once again and said, "I'm sorry, okay? It's not that I want this job." He hit his head this time much harder and said, "We need to go; we have to report what happened here."

There's no light inside, and it was totally pitch black when Cain woke up. "Urgh, my nape hurts and even my side hurts; what did they do while I'm knockout cold?" He caressed the back of his neck while trying to navigate the cell bars. "What happened to my sister?" He looked down as his eyes went teary. "Please, I wish she's okay."

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*****

Several days before, the twins were captured by bandits.

"Hippity, hoppy hop!" Cain and Morana were playing stop and hop while they were traveling inside the dense forest to escape. "Sis, sis! When will we arrive in the next town?" He asked while he hopped to avoid a small stick on the ground. Morana takes her dominant hand, bends her fingers a little, and brings her hand beside her head, then turns it away. "Hmm, you don't know, even though you always go outside the village?" She smiled with an apologetic look, then raised and closed her hand and gave it a little shake. Cain walks towards her, then holds her hand. "I know you don't need to say sorry."

With an apologetic expression, she signed by touching her dominant finger beside her nose, then twisting it a little before pointing it at him. "Nope, I'm not bored because you're with me, so every minute is fun!" He giggled while he waived his hand to catch the falling leaves. She's mute, so Morana unintentionally shook her shoulder as she laughed.

When the night comes, the Suddenly twins luckily find a tree cave, and they use it as their temporary shelter for tonight. Morana tapped Cain's shoulder. She raised her eyebrow, then made a C sign through her hand, then put it into her neck, down to her chest, and then pointed her finger toward him. "I'm not that hungry. Wait, are you hungry?" She raises her first two fingers and taps them with her thumb several times while shaking her head to say "no."

"Hahaha, then we should go to sleep." Cain stretched his body while yawning before going to sleep, and Morana also did the same.

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At midnight, the twins were soundly asleep, and even the hooting of owls couldn't wake them up. The bushes outside were rustling, and a group of men wearing face masks emerged from those bushes. A man with a face scar lit his torch, then sauntered towards the tree cave while outside he checked on the twins. When he confirmed that the twins were still sleeping, he signaled his other companions and started to work. One of them removed a smoking pot besides the entrance; he then dug a hole and threw the contents inside. This is the drug they use to make the twins fall asleep.

A man with red hair entered the tree cave. He then asked for a light so he could check the quality of the twins. He touched Cain first. "He looks five. His skin, even though he is a pleb, is smooth." The man holding a torch commented, "Maybe he's an aristocrat?"

"If it's true, then we really hit a jackpot," he said, then touched Morana next. He grabbed her hair and lifted her head to see her more clearly. "They're twins." The man holding the torch couldn't stop his chuckle. "The eye of fortune is looking at us."

"She's beautiful, no. Both of them are beautiful; we can sell this boy to an aristocrat who likes young boys."

"Like Duke Olga?"

The man with red hair looked at him with disdain and said, "That shitty bastard, urgh, disgusting."

"Well, he loves children, especially boys, hihihi. And after he used them—" The man with red hair raised his hand for him to shut up. After that, he continued to check on Morana, and when he looked towards her neck, he saw a wound stitch. He then counts and balances the gold he will get by selling her in his head.

"Shrimp thigh them up; make sure not so tight that could leave a mark."

"Ay, ay, boss!"

*****

Cain doesn't know what to do. If he can only bust outside, then he'll rescue his twin sister, but right now the thing he can only do is stay and wait. "A light?"

A torchlight suddenly approached his cell, and a man with a bandana appeared. The man suddenly crouchs down to look at Cain directly. "You're a lucky bastard," he says, then steps backward. A girl with the same face as him peeks into his cell. "Morana!" Cain shouts with excitement. "You're okay, right? They didn't do anything to you, right?"

Morana looked at him, then smiled, and a man's arm suddenly grabbed her shoulder. "Is this your twin brother?" He snorted. Morana nodded to his question, and the man looked at him. He thoroughly checked his face and skin, saying, "Not bad, it's decided then."

Cain looks at the man angrily; he wants to say something but gets stopped by Morana by putting her finger to her lips. The man laughed loudly and reverberated to the entire cell hall, "Well, young boy, I'm going to sell you to a very nice person. I promise you... You and your new owner will enjoy each other every night."

"Thank your sister for this generous deal," he says, closing his lips towards her cheek and gently kissing her.