Akuito has almost blacked out after Shin's second attack.

Shin calmly looked down at the pitiful figure struggling on the ground.

"Really disappointing, brother.", he said, "I thought you were strong. At least enough to lead a f_cking gang."

The figure on the ground gasped.

"How... how? Impossible... How could you--". He coughed and spat some blood onto the concreate ground.

"Well, I just proved it to you that it is possible, didn't I?". Shin said as she stepped on his torso.

Akuito gasped between his short breaths. His eyes filled with terror as he looked up at the thin figure looming over him.

"I'm sorry... Shinae... For whatever it is... I'm sorry! I know... it is not any... any of this! This is... just an excuse for our fight. You.. you must be upset about something else! I'll do... whatever you want... so, please...Let's... just... stop here... please..."

"Shinae...". Ran rasped, too dumbstruck by the unexpected strength his little boy showed to realize anything unlikely about the name.

Shin carelessly stooped down next to Akuito.

"You don't need to apologize to me, brother." His voice seemed to soften as his hand ruffled the blond blood-stained hair. "I've forgiven you long ago. There is nothing I have against you personally."

"...What?"

"True as you live, brother."

Akuito's body unconsciously relaxed, but it tensed up immediately afterwards.

Because Shinae's hand has instantly grabbed tight onto the blond curls of Akuito the moment he finished talking.

His voice has become deadly cold once again.

"Instead, why won't you go and say sorry to your brother?"

Akuito's eyes widened as he stared into the terrifyingly calm pupils of Shin, too shock to think straight.

"M... my brother?... Kat... Katsuro-kun?"

"Of course~! Who else?"

"B– but, Shinae... Katsuro-kun, he's... he's gone!"

Shin's head nodded slightly and his lips curled into a smile.

"Well, does that make any difference? An apology is still an apology, isn't it? I think you'd better do it as soon as possible~! Especially since the day you killed him is getting near."

She chuckled, heartlessly and maniacally.

"And that's why I'm here, brother. I'm here to give you a free one-way trip straight to Aniki~!"

At that moment, amid Shin's silvery yet murderous laugh, it finally dawned on Akuito. Shin wasn't joking at all when he said he'd kill him. He surely wasn't going to get out alive tonight.

"Now, shouldn't we get right into it, before the new day comes?". The smile vanished from Shinae's face.

She said as she dropped herself onto Akuito and loomed over him.

"Well, I really wanted to torture you and torment you until I distort your fvcking disgusting body out of recognition, but we don't really have that much time, so I figured this is the best way."

Shinae shrugged and pretended to be disappointed.

He stretched her hands and looked down at the terrified face under him.

"We should get started now, should we?". Shinae said as one of her arms held tight to his kneck and the other lifted, aiming as his face.

Shinae heard the whispering around her became even more horrified, excited, disgusted, or a mixture of all.

Honestly, why can't they leave us alone? This is obviously private family business. I guess they wanted their drama time. Oh well, it would only rub it in for this motherfvcker, so it's fine to me.

*THUD*

*THUD*

*THUD*

*THUD*

*THUD*

The whole abandoned place have gone completely silence apart from the continuous punching.

"Why, you shouldn't have butted in between us in the beginning, right? You shouldn't have stolen Mother from me... In fact, you shouldn't have come to us at all... Hey, what about you not existing all along?"

Akuito's eyes have turned white, and his body have stopped struggling under Shinae's weight.

"Shinae, enough.". A firm hand held onto his arm and stopped it in mid-air.

[Ran Haitani's POV:]

I could not stop and watch anymore. Usually, I enjoy seeing people fight and even takes sides between them. In fact, the more serious, the more dangerous the fights, the more lucrative they are to me. Yet... this time... for whatever reason I could not see this newly met boy, my boy so serious and determined over ending another person's life. At first I have taken his words as a joke, but I could not anymore. How could I explain this? He seems so small and weak to me, and it seems to out of character for him to commit such a crime. From what he said, he must have been horribly abused by that Crybaby... Then why do I hate seeing him taking revenge?

Without a thought my body involuntarily moved and I have stopped Shinae's next attack. His hand seems unbelievably thin in my grip, and there are bruises and cuts clumsily treated covering his arm.

"Shinae, enough."

He turned and looks straight at me with that empty big eyes of his and a straight, blood-splattered face.

His eyes seems to be turquoise colored, but it has gone to such a cold dark hue that even I flinched at his stare. They somehow seems alienly beautiful.

"Who has the audacity--"

He squinted his vast eyes at me.

"Ran Haitani... You want to die first?"

Those eyes sent a cold shiver down my spine and chilled me to the fingertips.
What have I gotten myself into?

P/s: whoops guys I'm so sorry I updated so late. anyways, have you noticed??? I've decided to switch to digital illustrations from this chapter on~!!! It may seem worse than my traditional art, but it looks much better here, right? I will try and make an illustration for every chapter >:))

P/s 2: OMGGGGG our first 5 chapters and 70 reads YAAAAYYYY. Thank you guys so much for supporting me despite my horrible writing. I love yall so much💕💖❤. Let's try and make it to 100 reads in the next 5 chapters shall we?!