Matthew's eyes turned bloodshot, he struggled to stand up with his broken bones there was blooding coming out from his eyes, his chest and his mouth yet he tried to limp closer to Remy.
But before he could take the first step Martin started laughing and jumped to sit on the crawling Matthew like a jokey on a horse making him fall to the ground again.
Even Dallum rolled his eyes, Martin was too …disgusting he thought, he was far away from his title of Prince.
Alex on the other hand started shivering his eyes rolled back there were tears constantly falling from his eyes as he looked at his mother's body. He was in a state of Hysteria.
Matthew looked at his son and felt pain in his heart. If not for him being a stupid General, if not for him being so powerless this would have never happened, he felt like committing suicide on the spot but there was only one last thread connecting him to this world it was his son. He never believed in anything like the almighty or creator but right now he desperately prayed in his heart,
"please save my son if you are watching, I beg you"
After which he spoke in a weak and hoarse voice,
"Alex look at me, look at Alex, take a hold of yourself, ALEX I SAID LOOK AT ME"
Alex's eyes started shivering that loud voice brought him back to reality from his dazed state, he looked at his father and started crying, muffled cries could be heard coming from his mouth.
Matthew continued, "Alex you have to be strong no matter what never lose hope, it's only in the abyss one finds the meaning of light Alex"
"haha, its almost an orgasmic feeling how a great maverick is acting so pathetic in front of me kneeling, begging and saying his last words almost makes me pity you. But well you know what Matthew I will give you a last chance lest people start calling me cruel hihihi" Martin spoke in delight.
Matthew's eyes glimmered, he saw hope ever so slight but he decided to cling to it...
"what do you want Martin?"Matthew asked
Martin then as if in contemplation shook his head and started speaking, "Matthew the only person who can save your son is he himself"
After a long pause, he spoke in a whispered manner, "I will give a gun to your son, if and only if .....he shoots you will I spare him, what do you say?"
Dallum just exhaled heavily before leaving the area he couldn't spare to see any more of this cruelty as he murmured looking at Martin, "sigh...The fruit didn't fall far from the tree I guess"
Matthew immediately turned towards his son, "Alex listen to me, you have to think logically I am going to die anyway if killing me means saving you, then you have to do it. There's no other option"
Martin then used his telekinesis power to remove Alex's bindings and made him hold a gun and point towards his father forcefully, he only left Alex's trigger finger free. Afterall "what's a story if there's no climax in it", he thought.
Matthew kept convincing but Alex won't budge he just kept crying, his head was completely empty if at all he just wanted to shoot himself and end this tragic life. But his hands were bound by a certain force he couldn't move them as he wished. He wanted to tear everyone apart for making his parents suffer but didn't have the power to even control his limbs he felt pathetic, he was in his own dark Abyss right now and he couldn't see any light nonetheless.
Time passed by and Martin was getting impatient due to the lack of anticipated action so he whispered in Matthew's ears, "only one more minute"
Matthew gritted his teeth took a heavy breath before gathering the last bit of his strength and shouted at Alex
"ALEX YOU PATHETIC CHILD, always crying, always running away from things just because you are afraid of them just because you want an easy life. Always indecisive. Remember Alex we never run away from our horrors, we just learn to live further from them until they come back haunting us. Someday you will have to act brave, you have to show courage and fight those horrors and it is today. The real test isn't getting angry in hard times, it is stopping the anger from exploding and make the best choice possible with a calm head that's what real determination is, but you are a bastard you will never be my son much less the man I wanted you to becom….."
Shot!
Alex's finger was still pressing the trigger after the bullet was fired.
Matthew's heart had a finger-sized hole in it. He looked at it and a smile came from his mouth along with blood seeping out of his lips as he fell before murmuring, "Stay alive son..."
Thud!
Matthew fell down from his knees, he was dead!
Matthew's earlier speech was all meant to provocate Alex because he knew his gentle son would never do what Martin wanted. Even the thought of killing his own father must be killing him from inside so he had to agitate Alex making him take the right decision. In the end, he could only hope Martin would stay true to his words, there was nothing more he could have done.
But what Matthew didn't know that it was actually Martin who made Alex press the trigger with his telekinesis powers. Alex on the other hand was still processing as to what he had done as far as he was concerned he had killed his own father.
Martin started laughing hysterically he wanted to see Alex's expression so he removed his mask.
Alex immediately went towards his father staggeringly and lifted his head to look at him.
"FATHER...why? why? WHYYYY DID THIS HAPPEN?"
Alex then went to his mother's body her eyes were still open, lifeless though. He brought both their bodies closer and hugged them tightly sobbing loudly.
His cries echoed through the park which was already empty as all the visitors were more or less massacred to prevent them from creating any sort of trouble and to silence any potential witnesses.
Martin looked at the time on his watch and his face twitched, he was supposed to make the assassination as quick as possible so that the Baljaris's forces won't get suspicious and enter the portal. With a dejected face, he announced looking at the mess in front of him
"Looks like the fun ends here"
He then picked up the gun that Alex had thrown before rushing towards his father's body and pointed it towards Alex. The soldiers around gave weird looks but didn't dare say anything. But everyone was a witness to the deal between Matthew and Martin.
Martin noticed this and said in a righteous fashion clearing his throat,
"what do you think huh, this brat pulled the trigger.....dead wrong! it was me who did, this brat was taking to long so technically speaking the deal is off the table as his son failed to kill him"
as soon he finished his sentence he murmured to himself
"not that I was going to spare him anyways, hihi"
SHOT!
Thud!
Alex who was still crying with his eyes closed fell backward from the impact of the bullet to his head.
There was only one thought in his unsettled mind, "power if only I had power if only I could go back and change everything if only I could take the martial path."
He was unwilling to leave the world like this, yet no amount of willpower was capable of saving him from the embrace of death which was already at his doorstep.