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Chapter 14 - Asia, what a wonderful place to die

The police hadn't said a word to him since arresting him in front of that bar.

' come to think of it how... Aah my new friend really did believe me. How interesting that being believed is what put me in this mess.'

The car stopped and he was ushered out and into their main office. The office was small and old styled. It seemed that they had really been economic about the furnishing of the building.

Whoever their decorator was had really put in effort though because they made it work.

" Hey whose the kid " another police man who was passing by asked.

" He's the murderer of that cunt from west sides kid"

Without trying to be discreet at all he said.

" Alleged murderer"

" Mmhm if that's what your going to say in court tomorrow with over fifteen witnesses"

"Fifteen?"

" Yh the cunt probably hired them to testify "

" He seriously wants to make a scene huh"

" Of course he those and this poor kids going to be the star"

The boy understanding perfectly what they're saying, says again

" I've never been a star before"

The other cop chuckles

" This kid's got guts"

Not long after being left in a tiny cell a lawyer comes by and asks for his statement.he recounts exactly what happens to the lawyer.

" Look kid with 15 witnesses that claim to have seen you kill the guy, there's barely anything I can do. My best advice is for you is to plea guilty. I mean although you don't look it your still a kid so they could let you go "

" But how would that help me?"

" Your lucky that You're in the yin Yang territory"

" Yin Yang? "

" You'll soon understand. Tomorrow don't forget to plea guilty"

The lawyer leaves me to my thoughts in the dark and gloomy cell.

' for the first and maybe last time since I left I'm sleeping on a bed. I doubt I'll actually enjoy it considering the way I got it. Nah.

I don't still get how that idiot died I mean could he have shot himself. It's a bloody semi automatic how can you shot yourself with that thing.

So it seems like I'll be dying because of some fools clumsy mess. At least I have this wonderful bed. I might not even have that dream again this night '

He fell asleep quite easily

And, he had that dream, again.

The dream wasn't a nightmare as nothing really ever scared the boy but it was still something he detested remembering. It always played out the same, from him watching the women that took care of him get raped one by one to their mutilation then their deaths until one of them eventually gives in and points where he's hiding. He's dragged out and they thank the woman by killing her. They don't want to kill him. No they want to sell him. All the while he kicks and screams unable to escape the grip of the large man who holds him. When he's about to be traded of he escapes and runs for his life. The dream flashes to when his friend sells his location to the men all of which now intend on killing him. He struggles and fights with them.

The dream ends with him killing his friend, after killing every single one of his attackers.

In Furyō everything is allowed except murder. The police there won't do any work so there's a bounty on his head.

Of course he didn't really do all that but he sees himself as doing that or at least wishing to have done that. He hadn't killed his friend, and that same friend was the one that Told the thugs boss it was him. The bounty on his head isn't from the police. It's From the gang that he'd killed their guys and that's why he left, he knew that they wouldn't kill him, that they'd rather sold him to the stranger from before.

...

The court is fairly empty and the few seats that are occupied are by people he suspected where from the small news agencies and the several witnesses. The boy suspects that even the reporter's are being paid to be here.

He isn't present through out the trial. His mind is somewhere else and he answers most questions with half his mind. At a point he's dragged back to reality as a strange woman enters the court. She takes the closest chair to the front that she finds.

The woman doesn't look like she should be here. Infact she seems like the kind of person who moved with bodyguards that her husband had assigned to protect her from the millions of men in the world.

She was soo beautiful that even the bored judge sat upright when she came in.

' yin Yang ' he wondered what it meant and if the woman was the one going to help him.

The court session is ending and he realises he's going to get his verdict soon.

Prying his eyes away from the woman, he tries to focus on the judge.

In the end he's sentenced to death. Two officers at the door come to take him away. His head is covered in a sack and he's led away. He can hear the people murmuring all around him. He doesn't care at all about any of these people all through the process he's focused on the name and the woman from the court.

He doesn't notice when he's seated brought back to his cell or when the sack is removed from his head.

He's asked for his final request and that's what finally brings him back to reality.

' what to ask for? Hmmm '

" What is yin Yang?"

The officer who had asked for his request, nods his head and leaves.

" What was that for. Wait those it mean I won't get a large portion of food before I die ?"

' dammit. I really wanted to die fat or at least not so thin'

At night he's already sleeping when his cell is opened and a chair is placed inside by the time he's woken up there are three more people in his cell.

' what's going on '

" Wait what's happening here? I don't remember asking for anything yet." He looks at the woman, not yet recognising her.

" You made mention of yin Yang, did you not?"

" Yes, no wait. Yh I made mention of yin Yang. Is there a problem?"

" You have pleaded to be allowed to join yin Yang and therefore I've been sent to explain to you what you have requested"

" Those joining yin Yang mean I don't have to die ?"

" Yes..."

" Then I'm joining, there's nothing else you want to say to change my mind. "

After some thought he asked

" Are there any other options except joining?"

" Unless you intend to die there are non"

" Then sign me in Cause they're isn't anything you're going to say that will make me give up this chance to live "

About to intergect again she's stopped by a lady behind her.

It's then that the boy realises who's in his room.

' shit '