Darkness, a tragic dark novel which tells the stories of five psychopath villains who were born to destroy the world in different ways.
No one can survive here, because the world is already too corrupted that it just wants to perish by the hands of them in any means. Maybe because of that, the five had to face violence, abuse and betrayal throughout their life to be complete devils who don't value human life.
The five villains - Aamon, Hecate, Ardat Lily, Cain Lore, and Abaddon Mir. Each have their own story to tell in their perspective except for the ultimate villain, Abaddon Mir. Anyway, their hatred ends by destruction of themselves, protagonists and the world.
The thought of living inside such novel shakes Keith's ground. Who doesn't cherish their life, even if it's a weirdo like him?
Anyway, to confirm his rough assumption, he went outside the room to gather some useful information.
As Keith explores the vast mansion, he notices the peculiar behavior of the maids towards Eric, the true inhabitant of the body he now possesses. They were ignoring his presence even though he is standing next to them.
Looks like Aiden is the only one here who slightly respects and cares about Eric Jonas. Others don't even have a little amount of respect nor fear towards him, they are even ignoring and mocking him openly.
"Here you are!"
"Aiden, why are you here?"
"I have been looking for you. Didn't I tell you to wait inside the room, why are you wandering around like a chicken? Anyway, your food is getting cold, let's go..." Forcedly taking Eric with him, Aiden moves towards the room.
'What kind of situation did I end up in? Not even a single person has any respect towards this body's owner... What kind of life do you live until now, you damn jerk.' Cursing the real Eric in his mind, Keith finishes his breakfast.
"Aiden, I want some sincere answers from you. Can you cooperate with me?" Creating a serious environment around, Eric asked Aiden.
"What do you want to know?" In a confused way, Aiden agreed to cooperate.
"Why am I treated like an invisible person in my own house?"
Even though Keith read the novel from beginning to end, he didn't have any idea about the story of a side character who commits suicide at the very beginning of the novel. The reasons were unclear however, the incident leads to the official story of one of the villains named Aamon.
So, it is necessary to know the basic reason for this kind of ill-treatment that Eric had to face, because now it's also a matter of Keith's life.
"Why are you asking such a question when you know the answer?" Observing Eric's dissatisfaction with the answer, makes Aiden speak in detail. "Because they are all your stepmother's people.
If you ever act like what you had done yesterday, maybe everything would have changed. But all you ever did was just silently endure everything that she and her son did to you like a coward." Leaving a sigh behind, Aiden completes his words.
"Oh! Then I just need to change everything from the scratch."
"What?!!!"
"Eric... Where are you, my baby?" A woman's loud voice interrupts their speech in the middle.
"It means, 'To create a new beginning, the first thing I need to change is myself.'" Before leaving the room to find the source of the female voice, Eric whispers in Aiden's ear.
At first, Aiden couldn't understand what Eric exactly meant, but he soon realized it himself.
Emile Jonas (Eric's stepmother) and Alan Jonas (half-brother) came to meet Eric at his mansion unnoticed.
Coming down the stairs, Eric saw a proud female figure that sat on the sofa and an ugly looking teenager next to her.
"My baby, I'm eagerly waiting for you. I heard some news about you, are they true?" Raising from the sofa, Emile came closer to Eric, concernedly touched his forehead wound and slowly applied pressure on it.
"How can I tell without knowing what the news are?" Grabbing her hand, making it back off with force Eric curiously asks.
"Did you pick a fight with your high schoolmates?" As a poison-spitting serpent, she asked the question while changing her fake caring tone into a bit more furious one.
"They started, and I end it. These kinds of things are common with teenage boys, you don't need to worry." In a calm voice, Eric replied.
"You… When did you learn to talk back to my mom like this." Furiously holding the collar of Eric's shirt, Alan came to pick a fight.
"Why can't I speak like this, is she, my mom?" Without having any idea of what kind of relation he had with the lady, Eric spoke while forcefully taking the hands off which were making wrinkles on his shirt. Meanwhile, the grip is quite tight enough to break Alan's wrist.
"My hand... you b*****d leave my hand, it hurts." In a pain, Alan shouts. Hearing the voice, all the other servants came to the living hall to watch the live show.
"Leave him." Rescuing Alan's hand from Eric's grip, Emile continued. "I only let you live until now, because you are not worth wasting my time. But now look, how you are ignoring my kindness of all those years...
As I ended your mother and brother's life, yours isn't that hard for me. Even your father would not come to question me, why I did it..."
"That means letting you leave is harmful to my life..." In a low voice, Eric crazily talks to himself.
"What?"
"Aunt, it's not about some personal grudge but when you are a risk factor in my life. I can't let you go just like this, right? So just die for me." With an angelic smile on his face, Eric cuts her throat in a second with the knife he secretly carried from his room.
No one predicted such a thing would happen in a short amount of time, the maids screamed and run away while Aiden stands still in shock.
"M-mom..." Seeing his mother's death, Alan's voice was stuck in his throat. With fear-filled eyes, he looked at Eric who is still smiling while wiping the blood that fell on him.
"Now, it's your turn. Mama's boy..." Hearing the words, Alan wanted to run away but his body didn't react to his brain's orders. The fear that he never felt before in his life, had now completely eaten his confidence.
"P-please.... let me leave, big brother... Please..." Eric didn't listen to any of his words nor show mercy, the knife pierces through the Alan's heart again and again until his breathe completely stops.
"Aiden...Aiden."
"Y-young master." In a trembling voice, he answered quickly after awakening from the shock.
"Aiden...Are you still willing to stay by my side?" Before going on the hunt to clear all the living evidence against him, Eric curiously asks the one who witnessed everything without blinking an eye.