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~The next day morning, Friday~

Blood! Blood dripping! Two men are carrying a bloody man into a room. He is bleeding from head to toe. Big wounds all over his body. It looks like a very serious cut. The two men throw him on the floor. A man is sitting on a chair in front of the blooded man. Around him are some other people.

"tch.. tch.. tch.. hmmm.... look who is here. It's Soma Yoshida. Am I right?" A hoarse voice. The man sitting started talking. It's an annoying voice. "I told you to keep quiet and not to betray us. Look at you now." From his words, Soma the bleeding man lifted up his head and looked at the sitting man's face. But he couldn't see him. His face was covered by the dark. Only his body could be seen by the light falling down from the window above them.

"I'm glad I prosecuted you!" Soma speaks while spitting blood out of his mouth. "Oh yeah? So you are glad that you are like this?" One of the men who carried Soma questioned. "WHO GAVE YOU THE PERMISSION TO QUESTION???" Sitting man's voice got higher and higher and it made an echo in the room. "Leave it to me!" He said in a low voice. "So you are happy to be in this position?" "Yes. It's better to die rather live such a filthy life." Soma said. The sitting man got up and kicked Soma's face real hard. Soma rolled away. Now, even more blood is coming out of his mouth. The kicked man got a steel pipe in his hand. "Who told you that you'll die? Did you think I will kill you?" "Yes you will." "You piece of sh**!" The man lifted up the pipe and bang!!!! Thudding sounds. He continues hitting the bleeding man. Everyone else in the room doesn't do anything but keep looking at him beating up the poor man.

"Boss.. you should stop." Finally someone spoke. "Boss, Stop it! Boss! Stop it or you will end up killing him!" He shouted. *Cough Cough* Soma is half dead. Blood is around him. "He won't last long.... he lost too much blood." The man who stopped the boss said. "Yes true. He will pay the price for betraying us." The boss takes his knife out of his pocket. On the end of the knife handle is a logo. A skull. On top of it is a crown with stars at its edges. And a blade going right through the skull. The logo is coloured in black and red. Symbolizes the Skull King. He goes towards Soma and takes out his right hand. He makes a cut on the wrist in the shape of SK, which stands for Skull King.

"AHHHHH!" Soma screams out of pain. "Take him and drown him in the nearby river." The boss said. He gets down on his knees and move his mouth to closer to Soma's ear. "From now on... I will get rid of everyone who stands in my way with just a simple stab from my precious knife. I'll make a cage which has a hole in it which will lead outside of the cage. After, all those pathetic people like you will bring inside that cage with fire all over it and rats inside the cage. When they think of being burned by the fire or being eaten by the rats... they will dig in the hole filled with dead bodies. When they get hungry their food will be the bodies. Good right?" He said and looked at Soma's face. There are no words to explain the pain and the fear Soma was feeling at that moment. He was totally disgusted by what the man said and laid him on the floor while a tear came out from. "Now take him!" The boss yelled. Some of his men and took him up. They got in to a truck and drove to nearby river.

*Breathing heavily* Everyone inside the truck knows that Soma will die even before they reach the river. They arrived at the river. A scary looking place covered just by the forest woods. "You should have done what he said. So you would have lived longer." A man said. "I didn't wanna be part of your bad deeds. You will pay for your sins!" Soma barely talked. He fell down. He can't keep up. He is weak. "Right. We will pay. Before that you can go to heaven." Another man said. The bad people take him into the water and drag him deep into the water. Water level is up to their chin. Slowly their feet didn't touch the floor. They started swimming while dragging Soma. "Stop! Let's drop him here or we will drown too." Right, well then it's goodbye time. I wish you could wait and see what we do to hell but what can we do? Fate decided that you should go before us. So... Good bye!" They let go of Soma's hands. With tears coming out of eyes, Soma closed his eyes and drowned deep in the water. The bad guys quickly swam back to the surface. The others who were on the surface could see the blood in the water. They all watched it while washing their hands with alcohol until the blood spreads and disappears. "Let's head back to Inaho Valley."

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"Everything is done boss." The man who stopped him from hitting Soma said. "Ok. come here." The boss said. The man went closer to him. Bang! The boss hit his face, and the man was thrown on the floor from that punch. "Like I said... nobody stands in my way. You get it?" He said it loud enough for everybody to hear it.

"This Naoko Mitsumi here is unstoppable. No one can stop me. I am the Skull King who the police are even scared of. Inaho valley is mine. I am the leader. No one will dare to stand in my position or even think about it! No one! NO ONE!" He yelled out really loud.

The leader of the deadliest gangster group that was ever created in Japan. Named Naoko Mitsumi, who is also called the Skull King because of his logo that he paints in every crime scene that is done by him or his people. For years they killed many innocent people. Did all kinds of illegal things. But the police were never able to do anything. The government also kept quiet about it for some political reasons. The peaceful Inaho valley turned into a crime valley after Skull King and his men called The Skulls took over the place.

"Now.... what about the boy?" "There is no sign of him sir. It's barely impossible to find him since it's been 11 years. He must have changed a lot." "True! It's been a long time since I ever talked about him. You know... that day..." The Skull King sits down on the chair. "That day.. He saw it. With my own two eyes. The moment the knife went inside his body... the little boy was crying. I saw him. But I couldn't go to him. I was enjoying my moment. Now I realize it... It would've been more fun to kill both the father and the son. But I thought the little kid wouldn't speak a word. Not until he went to his mother. It's a good thing that I threatened his mother. May be that's why he is keeping his mouth shut for eleven years." "No sir. I don't think it's because you threatened his mother. It's because he was too small back then up until now. Maybe he was about 6 to 7 years back then. It's been 11 years. So he will probably do something since he old enough." A man said. "Oh yes that's true. The father was a smartass. I'm afraid the son is the same. That would be the biggest problem for us. His brain!" The Skull King said.

"So why? Why didn't you kill the mother boss?" "Because... That woman was sick." "HUH???, What is he saying..., Is he ok?" Chattering spread around the room. "What does that suppose to mean? You pitied someone? How? Is that even possible?" A man standing at the room door spoke. Everyone turned towards him. "Takumi Yukihira?!" Everyone gasped. "Takumi?!!" Skull King looked surprised by the name he heard. "So why did you? Brother!" Takumi Yukihira stepped into the room. He came through the skulls and stood in front of Naoko. "Tell us. We would love to hear the reason why the most scariest person of all Japan let go of an old lady. Can you even believe it? After all... I guess you also have a heart." The man who walked in Takumi said while smirking. "Because I recalled my childhood memory. My dad was killed when I was 8 years old. I saw it with my own eyes. I ran to my mom to tell what happened. But I don't know how when I reached my home those people who killed my mother were already there. So I hid behind a trash can and watched. They threatened my poor mother who was sick for almost a week. She was very weak. They asked my mother something but my mom couldn't answer. So they killed her right before my eyes. Both my parents died and I had no one to take care of me. That's the reason I became a thug. To find them and get revenge to parents death. I killed them all. And I felt joy! That's why I continued killing cuz that made me happy! And also that was the first time I pitied someone. But now... I regret. I should've killed all three of them. They are a threat to us. Not the mother but the boy. He is a witness. We must finish him!"