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Chapter 4 - Should the past define your current actions?

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"Why don't you just fucking give up and die you freak!" A young boy said as he punched a younger boy with yellow eyes.

The boy was trying and failing to fight back against his older brother but did at least manage to get him off him for a few seconds.

Seeing his younger brother on the floor, hunched over in pain, groaning in frustration the older sibling went into their parent's study and opened up a briefcase that was on their mum's desk.

Taking out two syringes, he walked back to his brother who was now having trouble breathing as his condition was worsening. Rolling his eyes the older brother turns his younger sibling over and injects a syringe containing an orange liquid, yet his brother's condition did not improve. Waiting for a minute exactly, he injected his brother with the other syringe, this one containing a purple liquid.

After a few moments, he was able to breathe again. As he looked up the brother's eyes met, both containing anger and hate but for completely different reasons.

Suddenly Enrico woke up, sweat dripping from his face. Did his subconscious hate him so much that it would show him his own past? Nevertheless, Enrico went towards the bathroom to get ready.

Looking into the bathroom mirror he noticed that his eyes had once again changed into his oh so hated yellow eyes. He hated whenever this happened, he continuously wondered why this had happened, why his condition had carried over into this life, something like that just couldn't have been a coincidence. Well at least he didn't need to go under those experiments anymore nor did he have to take any medicine for his condition anymore.

As he looked at himself, more and more memories of his past started to bubble to the surface of his mind. His anger. His pain. His resentment. All of it started to come back all at once. He was lucky that unless he actively wished for a memory it would never show itself, of course, this was not one of those times.

Feeling more and more of his pain surfacing Enrico started to lose himself more and more in his anger until he punched the wall. The pain brought from punching the wall was enough for him to start to rein control of his mind.

Looking up he noticed a noticeable dent in the wall where he punched, looking at his arm he saw that it was covered by a dark reddish-brown arm with GΔCT covering it, its forearm covered by some kind of scarlet wool.

A second later the arm faded away revealing his own arm beneath it. He was confused, he didn't know what to do with this information, that arm, well the hand, had the same appearance as the being from last night. Perhaps in his fit of rage, he summoned it, well a portion of it.

Waiting a bit for his eye colour to return to normal, Enrico had a shower, got dressed before starting to head out, taking the gun with him. He walked around the area for a while before starting to head towards St. Jacob's Seminary, the place he'll be learning at for the next few years. Classes hadn't started since it was the weekend but Enrico wanted to get a layout of the campus since it he rather not have difficulties figuring out where to go, even with photographic memory, he rather not be getting lost.

Seeing that the gates were opened Enrico proceeded inside. As he walked around he noticed that there weren't any teachers walking around, he doubted that someone broke in as there were guards posted around the place. It was only when he got to the teacher's lounge when he found someone other than a guard, knocking before entering Enrico saw a lady rush to hide something.

Looking around he noticed there wasn't much of notice in this room, well things that he would consider important. looking around the woman he noticed a peculiar picture. suddenly he heard a loud `ahem`, bringing his attention away from the small picture and to the woman in front of it.

"You should have waited until I said to enter before you came in." Said the woman.

"My apologies, I wanted to get a map of the grounds before I officially started so walked around and found myself here, I hope I didn't interrupt anything important. If you wish I'll leave" Enrico said as he started to turn around, he didn't care what the woman was doing nor did he care about her scolding him, his mother had already done plenty of that.

"No it's fine, but from the future could you knock AND wait before entering this room?" She said as she moved to one of a few metal cabinets and took a rectangular folded paper.

Now that she had moved Enrico saw what was inside the picture frame and he was shocked. Even if he looked slightly younger that was still the man that he met at the Charnel.

The woman was about to hand him the piece of paper before she noticed that he was staring at her picture, she was about to scold him before she noticed the familiarity in his eyes.

"By any chance do you know that man?" The woman asked him, causing him to snap out of his stupor.

"Yes I do, I met him at the nearby Charnel a while back but I never got his name." Enrico said this mainly in hope that, if she knew his name, she would tell him.

The woman paused for a bit before telling Enrico of the man's name.

"Dio ay? I thank you for telling me his name, I'll be leaving now."

As Enrico took the map he heard a sign come from the woman.

"Follow me, I'll show you around."

Enrico was going to object but decided to follow her, worse comes to worst she'll attack him and if she did, he was sure that that weird entity would protect him, from what he's seen so far, it seems to have been birthed from him somehow and if that's the case then if he dies it dies.

As they walked Enrico could really get a feel for how big the place was. Enrico wondered about something, did she have one of these strange entities in her as well? Did Dio also give her an arrow? That, he could not tell but he was interested to find out.

As the awkward tour came to an end Enrico thanked her and left for a nearby store. Entering and heading towards the back, he started to browse what they had on offer. He was busy in thought when he heard screaming coming from the front.