"Am I a joke to you?" The man said, his piercing cold gaze locked onto Arthur's eyes as he struggled to make eye contact.
"N-no..." He said, fear, pain, and anger written all over his face.
"Since you failed to repay me, I have no choice but to show you the consequences of it." He said, looking at Irina as she kept her head down.
"N-noo!!" He said, but his words were met by the metal bat once again, breaking his remaining teeth as the man walked toward Irina.
"N-no, don't come near me..." Irina said, backing off a little, but the man continued to approach her.
*Snap*
As he snapped his fingers, one bodyguard hurriedly came behind her, grabbing her hands and restricting her movement as the man finally reached her.
"N-no!"
He then extended the hand holding the metal bat, a grin spreading across his face as he smashed her head, making her fall to the ground in one hit. Her face changed to one of fear, pain, and despair.
"Y-you!! Don't you dare do anything to my mom!" Ivan shouted, his eyes red and bloodshot as if they could pop out at any moment.
Just as he was about to run toward her in an attempt to save her, the other bodyguard ran and grabbed him, forcing Ivan to eat the ground with the guard sitting on top of his body.
As he saw the man take out a gun, his expression darkened, veins popping out of his forehead, his eyes turning bloodshot red, anger covering his face.
"No! MOM!!" He shouted.
But the man didn't stop as he aimed the Glock pistol at her arms and pulled the trigger.
*Bam*
The gunshot echoed in the Rocemel garage, followed by Irina's screams.
"Ackk!"
"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!" She screamed her lungs out as blood dripped like water from her arms.
"Ah~ this is the sound that I love." The man said, looking upwards with a grin from ear to ear.
"NOOO MOOOOM!!!!" Ivan shouted with all his might, tears streaming down his face, but to no avail.
While this was happening, Arthur, the cause of it all, was already coming out of unconsciousness as he tried to run away.
But as he slowly made his escape, he stepped on an old tree branch, creating a ticking sound.
*Tick*
As the sound reached them, everyone except the screaming Irina looked at Arthur with mixed emotions.
Ivan stared at him like a predator, his eyes bloodshot red, veins popping out on his forehead, sweat dripping down, and the area under his eyes red from crying.
Ivan now knew the cause of everything that had been happening to him, and he blamed it all on Arthur in his thoughts.
'Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!!
HOW DARE HE!! HE'S THE CAUSE OF ALL OF THIS, AND HE'S TRYING TO RUN AWAY, THAT FUCKING BASTARD!!'
He thought, remembering all the curse words Arthur had taught him while beating him and his mother every day.
"Ahahaha~ Arthur... where are you going?~"
"And~ aren't you too cold? Leaving behind your family who's suffering in your stead?" The man said, his tone cold but teasing.
"I-I... N-no?" Arthur muttered, not knowing what to say as he looked at the situation before him.
"Hah, I'm already tired of this shit. I should have killed you two years ago when you couldn't pay back the first time... you know how much work and shit I have to deal with every day?" The man said as he walked over to him.
Arthur remained frozen, unable to utter a word, knowing that it was all his fault and that he could blame no one else.
"I should just kill you!!" The man said, his eyes wide open as he spoke those words coldly, then brought up his gun and aimed it at Arthur's head before pulling the trigger.
*Bam*
The gunshot echoed inside the garage, but there were no extreme reactions this time because Irina was still screaming, holding her hands while lying on the ground, and Ivan had a crazed smile on his face, enjoying the fact that the bastard who had harmed him and his mother so badly for the past four years was now finally dead.
"Now, let's finish this up quickly. I don't have time to spend on peasants like them," the man said, which froze the smile on Ivan's face as he quickly turned his head to look at the man and Irina. But what he saw made him cry blood, his eyes bloodshot red.
*Bam*
The man aimed the gun at Irina's head before pulling the trigger, killing her as she lay dead on the cold floor.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!" Ivan shouted, tears of blood flowing down his cheeks.
"Phew~ now this debt has been fully paid... even though I didn't get my money back, who cares? I got to kill the bastard's family who didn't repay what he owed." The man said, his smile turning into a grin.
"Now, only one is left... I should finish this up quickly... I wouldn't want to make my women at home wait any longer," he said, licking his lips as he turned toward Ivan.
"Y-YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!" Ivan shouted, his eyes deeply red, blood still dripping from his eyes.
"Yeah yeah... curse me all you want... it won't do shit anyway since you're going to die now." He said, shrugging off Ivan's words without a care as he walked toward the boy, who growled like a hungry beast.
"Ha, ha, ha," Ivan growled as he looked at them with his deep red eyes and blood-leaking eyes. His gaze grew more intense with the vertically lined scar the man had given him a year ago.
"Don't stare at me, kid." The man said as he threw a punch at Ivan's face, hitting his nose and making it bleed.
"Just die now, I'm tired of this shit." The man said as he aimed his Glock gun with 9mm ammo at Ivan's stomach before pulling the trigger.
*Bam*
The shot connected, and Ivan coughed out blood before he dropped to the ground with a thud.
To make sure that he stayed dead, the man shot more bullets into Ivan's stomach to be sure.
*Bam Bam Bam*
After he did that, the man and his two bodyguards left the garage, leaving Ivan lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood, like a dead body, not even moving.
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[6 hours later]
[3:12 PM]
[Rocemel Garage]
In the garage, three people could be seen lying on the cold ground without moving an inch.
In the center of the garage was a kid lying in his own pool of blood, his back facing the ceiling.
But suddenly, his fingers moved a little before he got up with great struggle, lying on the floor, his breathing heavy as he looked at his dead parents with cold, lifeless eyes.
"Hahahahahahaha," suddenly, Ivan laughed like a maniac, his laughter mixed with the happiness of still being alive and the sadness of losing the only person who loved him, his mother, Irina.
"Ahhhhhh," then the laughter suddenly turned into a deep scream as he cried his heart out.
He continued to scream while crying at the same time, letting out everything that had been pent up within him.
After a minute or so, he stopped screaming and crying as he stood up, his legs weak and blood still leaking from his body. He was really lucky to be alive, but with great struggle, he made his way to his mother's body.
When he finally reached his mother's dead body, he sat on the ground, still heavily breathing, but he took Irina's body in his small arms, turning her face over to him as he looked at her with his lifeless eyes, his facial expression emotionless.
"Hahaha," he let out a small laugh.
"If only..." He muttered.
"If only I were strong... I would have been able to save you..."
"And protect you..." He muttered, tears dripping down from his eyes, but his facial expression didn't change a bit.
But then, suddenly, he remembered the cause of it all and looked at Arthur's dead body with an intense gaze. His one eye was also useless because of that man.
But then, he stopped that gaze as his hatred intensified, remembering his mother's killer.
"I swear..."
"I SWEAR THAT I'M GONNA KILL YOU, I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOUR WHOLE FAMILY, EVERYONE YOU KNOW, I FUCKING SWEAR!!" Ivan shouted, his eyes deep red, vowing to kill his mother's killer.