{A/N before you start reading you should know this is my first webnovel I'm publishing but don't let that stop you from enjoying this novel and a warning to the readers this novel would contain a lot of cursing and gore so read on your own discretion. Thank you..}
Afo wakes up in a room with fading lightbulbs hung up on the wall, a group of four men are gathered all wearing black gas masks to cover their faces and what seems to be lab coats.
It is a room that anyone would find ominous and definitely call it a torture room, in the middle of the room there Afo is seen lying down strapped to a stretch bed.
"I'm digging in get the serum ready to apply immediately"
the head alchemist orders as he picks up a drill and begins to drill a hole into Afo's back.
"Mhmmm" Afo groans in pain but Afo has spent enough time there to realize his screams and groans are only music to their ears.
"y-yes sir!!" the alchemist that was given the order picks up a syringe connected to a hose that leads to a huge tank containing red fluid, the head alchemist then turns around and once again continues to drill his way into Afo's back.
Afo this time around really had no choice but to scream but couldn't as he's mouth is gagged shut.
The sound of the drill against Afo's back and the groaning continues to echo around the room down the empty halls for a while until the drill is broken the man.
he then turns around to another man signaling him to help with another drill and the man responds by nodding and grabbing another drill.
"seems the experiments are working, we can barely even cut through him with these materials, what a wonderful specimen this is"
He scoffs and continues the drilling and after he stops the man immediately inserts the syringe into his spines in multiple areas along his spines then signals that it has successfully been inserted before they all began to take off their masks.
"this is really amazing, I mean the rate at which he is healing" he speaks with a grin on his face.
"I know right even SS class weapons are barely even grazing the first layer of its skin."
another alchemist added.
"well that's a summoned hero for you..." he says with a huge smile of achievement all over his face.
"if only we could at least give him some sedatives."one of the young men adds in a little pity.
"what are you talking about, he killed a fellow hero by the way he should be grateful, I mean who cares for a missing hero like him who over a year ago had only two limbs on him."
The head alchemist spoke in a little bit of anger and after a while of silence they all begin to exit the room after placing both the bed and the patient in an upright position.
they clear up the room, take off the gag on Afo's mouth and they all exit switching off the lights in the room leaving Afo in complete darkness once again.
After that the gates are locked with the guards standing in front of the gate in watch. One of the guard standing in watch looks into the room in which Afo is kept in disgust.
The floor stained with blood with the color red glistening in the darkness, he spits on the floor and then heads to sit down on a chair by the side of the room Afo is kept in.
("how long has it been??") breathing heavily, with tears all over his eyes and sweat all over his body.
("this pain won't go away, why am I even still trying to survive, I think I should just die and end my pain")
Afo had been in this room of incessant darkness for over 3 earth years undergoing this unbearable experiment, in this four years Afo has had his eyes gouged out more than he can remember.
his limbs severed off over and over and his guts cut open more over than he could count, this experiment all for the sake of creating the perfect super soldier to win the war.
after two and a half earth years of conducting this experiment the project was considered a failure and be abandoned and now the alchemists carrying on with the project have turned it to a form of amusement.
("you're saying you will be my big brother??") Afo hears a voice that seems to be a memory.
("of cause!!")
he struggles hard to remember whose voice it was.
("whose voice was that again").
("hey big bro look at me, c'mon tell me I look lovely")
Another memory flashes through his head.
("why can't I remember who it was, h-how did it all end up like this??)
('When did everything go so wrong??")
After a while of thinking Afo finally remembered, he was there when it happened it all started on that day before his life boat sank, it was on that day.
Afo is standing opposite the mirror in his room with a towel hanging around his neck looking at an extremely handsome face staring back at him.
he gently pulls up the side of his mouth to check his teeth, he smiles to confirm that he's good to go he takes of the towel on his shoulder hanging it on his bathroom door and heads to his table and takes a sit, he then picks up a blue book just by the side of his table.
"Well here we go again. Hi log book" he speaks out loud as he writes down.
"As usual it me Afo iruo and I'm the protagonist of my life, not as if no one is in their life.
Today is June 14th... My basketball is going great and I'm really hyped for my upcoming game of the season since it's my last game in high school so what can I say.
The only problem being I'm yet to confess to my crush , God she's beautiful, Oreva Ofano.
I know Mrs. Hana says I sound crazy to be aiming for a girl whose wealthier than I am but my best friend Jete says it's ok since I'm the best basketballer among the high schoolers here in Isoko City not to brag"
Afo was indeed a great basketballer although he never had the drive for anything in life until he met Jete in his second year in junior secondary school and was introduced into the basketball game and at the same time he fell in love with his first crush ever Oreva.
Of course Afo was a guy that could get any girl he wanted despite his background, his physique and looks was the only thing he was thankful to his parents for in passing it to him, his father was a muscular man who stood at a hundred and eighty-two centimeters tall.
"Nothing fun really happened yesterday so what do I write" he paused writing to listen to the door opening in the living room.
"Afo, Afo get over here" Afo exasperates and heads for the living room.
"Hi mom, good evening I" he pauses on seeing that she had come home with another man who seems to have a child standing besides him looking downwards as if shy.
although to be expected so he wasn't really surprised over the mother brining another man since it has been happening all his life.
"Afo meet Mr Isaac my sweetheart and his daughter ome she's ten"
"Hi I'm Isaac" stretched his hand for a hand shake, Afo reluctantly returns it giving him a handshake.
"Hi I'm Afo"
"C'mon Ome introduce yourself"
"Hi I'm Ome nice to meet you"
she responds as if whispering to herself in a shy tone.
"Speak up young lady, is that how I thought you to respond to your elders" Isaac yells at her.
"No you don't have to worry I heard her"
Afo quickly says to end what might come up next.
("What did mom see in this one now") he thought to himself.
"Afo can you look after her tonight Isaac and I plan on having a fun night"
"You didn't have to tell me that last part and I can't take care if her I have to get to work it's almost seven"
"Don't worry your boss wouldn't mind she's a nice person mostly to kids"
Isaac and her both head to their room with Isaac's hand wrapped around her waist , he turns to examine the child left behind.
("I really don't want to do this but she's a child and aaaah damn it!!") Signals for her to follow him to his room, she shyly takes the offer and follows him.
That's right that's the kind of woman Afo's mom was she wasn't always like this, she used to be really hardworking and all even before divorcing his dad who was a gambler and a complete drug addict.
it began when Afo was eight, his parents started having troubles because his father had lost his job and was now a stay at home husband.
The mother tried her best in keeping the family together in finance and all but the father only got worse he would borrow money from her and use it on drugs and gambling but still she still put up with it saying it was just him.
drowning in his sadness and the phase would pass but it didn't, she finally got fed up with it and stopped lending him money.
the moment when she didn't he started borrowing money from others and eventually ran out of persons to borrow from since he barely won a gamble and if he ever did he would spend it on drugs or alcohol.
After he realized he had no one to get money from he decided to take a loan from the bank using the account belonging to himself and his wife, Afo's mom couldn't put up with this since he had no means of paying back the loan he had taken.
A few months later Afo's mom decided to complain to her mother in law but that didn't help the situation in a bit rather like in most Nigerian African homes.
insults were hurled at her saying she was the downfall of her husband and now that the husband had lost everything due to her she was complaining on the man who she brought misfortune to.
Afo's mom was filled with rage and hate and still had to swallow it all.
On Afo's ninth birthday his parents divorced and the father disappeared leaving the loan in the bank for her to pay as the husband was nowhere to be found.
she worked all she could and eventually paid the debt but not long after she couldn't keep up with the rent and being the only daughter of her house, she moved into her deceased parents house.
A month later she fell seriously I'll from stress and depression and couldn't go to work for months and lost her job, Afo who had been a spectator of the passed events.
he began to wonder how he would live on and one day decides to get a job to at least feed himself and his mom but what kind of job would a kid like him do.
after a while of searching Afo finally received a job from a man where he delivered goods to places and Afo took the job with a smile. When Afo had finally clocked ten he met Mrs.
Hana for the first time while delivering goods to her restaurant and Mrs. Hana offered him a job at her restaurant not because he had a sad backstory but rather because he liked the boy and definitely had a weird fetish for younger hardworking boys and indeed Afo was one.
The first time Afo's mom brought in a man was three months after Afo got a job at Mrs.
Hana's place and she introduced him as her new sweetheart and Afo was indeed irritated and pisses off at her mother's actions but after a while he decided that this was his world and there was no other world out there he could live in so he had no choice but to make peace with his new life.
from then on she would bring in different men from time to time and he would hear his mother shout all through out the night.
One day Afo was curious and decided to go find out what the noises he heard times and over was and on getting there he slightly opened the door to peek into and found her having sex.
this was the first ever porn Afo had seen in his life and it was his mother and another man.
he indeed had no idea what was going on but he still stood there and watched until they were done and he went back to his room and laid on his bed thinking on what he had just seen and why he had a bulge in his pants.
he really didn't understand but Afo was not the kind to dwell on these things and from then onwards he never went to his mother's room.
whenever he heard noises and told himself he would find out the meaning of what he saw as he grew up and focused on the idea of surviving rather than things he had no idea what they were.
("I'm basically the parent in the house") turns to look at the girl one more time.
"Take off your clothes!!" She looks at him in confusion to his request.