A long Rough Prologue

"Ahh, that hurts." as I held my head and felt some pain.

I got beat up again in the end. After Rex said something to me, they started beating me up.

"I still can't believe that Evelyn betrayed me. Why did she do that? Is there a connection of why she changed her appearance?" While saying that, my heart aches so much, and I feel like I can't breathe.

I'm at the riverside right now, the place where Evelyn and I hang out. But now I'm alone. While I'm here, I'm remembering the times we spent out here. As the memories flashes in my mind, it slowly-slowly shattered.

"I don't care anymore." I said it bluntly.

I stared at the distance, as my mind went blank. Not only that, but I can't hear any noise. I can feel the wind flow through me as the time goes. Without realizing, the sun was already gone.

I snapped. "Ah, it's already night. I really did space out this long."

I sighed. "Then it's time to go home." and start walking.

While I'm walking, it seems someone's been following me. I can hear its footsteps getting closer, so I turn around then look.

"AAAA!" I scream in pain.

When I turned around, a man in a coat tried to smash my head. I dodge it, but my left shoulder got hit instead, then I fell on the ground.

"M-my sh-shoulder, it hurts." I hold my shoulder.

The man raises his sledgehammer that aims at my head. I immediately roll to dodge it and hardly stand up then start running.

"H-help!" While I'm running, I'm trying to seek help.

But the sound of footsteps getting close to me is extremely fast. It was the man in a coat.

"Ha?"

How? How? How is he able to catch up to me? How fast, even if he's holding the sledgehammer?

The man runs so fast that our gap is getting slower.

"HELP!!!"

I shout for help again. But it's weird that there's no one here. While running, I realize that the houses here have no lights in them, as if it's a ghost town.

The man already caught up to me. Then he swung his hammer and hit my right side.

"ka--" and those I flew out of impact.

Now I'm on the ground, suffering in pain. My mind is in a breaking point that makes me--

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The man was about to hit him, but James dodge it, and he grabs his cutter on the pocket then stabs the man on the knee pit and carves it.

James immediately stands up and stabs the man in the stomach. Then kicks the man back on the knee and the man falls into his knees.

James went to the man's back and attempted to stab the nape, but the man prevented it by turning around, then swung the hammer one-handed. But James successfully dodges it by backing off.

After dodging, James immediately dash towards the man. The man is going to swing back his hammer, but James repels it by kicking it.

After the man's attack has been repelled, he launches a punch and successfully hit James. But James uses this chance by stabbing the man's arm and using it to launch itself towards the man's head to stab its eye and hold grip to swing himself to the back, then follow by stabbing its nape and carving it.

James jumps off, then the man drops dead. The man's blood was leaking on the ground. James walked closely to the man, the area was silent except the sound of stepping a blood.

James stops and stares at the man, then James mumble something with a blank expression in his face.

After he mumbled, his expression changed.

"Ah..." James snapback.

"I'm still alive?" I asked myself out of confusion.

"Or I'm already in the afterlife? But I'm still breathing." As I asked myself again while my hand was on the chest. "What the hell happened?"

It looks like I've been unconscious… But why am I standing? The last thing I remember was I'm on the ground, then there's a man in a coat with a sledgehammer trying to smash me.

I thought I'm going to die.

"But if I'm standing here, then where's the man?"

While I'm looking around, I realize that my hand, clothes, and face were wet. So I look at my hands.

"What is this? Blood?"

My hands were covered in blood and in my right hand was holding a cutter.

"Huh?"

Then I just notice that I'm standing on some puddle of blood. And there I saw the blood was leading to the dead body of a man in a coat.

"AaH!"

I dropped the cutter and stepped back out of shock.

"D-did I do this?"

My heart starts to beat so fast, and I start running.

I ran and ran as fast I could without looking back. When I reached home, I'm already tired and my body was in pain, as I could hardly walk, and then I fainted.

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{AT SCHOOL}

"Ok, class, it's break time." Then the teacher left.

"Hey-hey, have you heard? Someone's been murdered, and It's close to this school." some classmate talking.

My classmates have been talking about the news earlier. That a man in a coat was murdered. And they don't know the fact that I'm the one who killed it.

At first, I thought it was just a dream. When I woke up I'm on the bed and my clothes changed, then my body was ok, no pain at all. But when I'm heading to school, the area where the man died that I thought was just supposed to be a dream was being blocked by the cops, so when I looked at the dead body, I quickly realized that it wasn't a dream at all.

I'm really weird that even knowing it was real, I still come to school.

"Hey you."

Really, not even a break.

"How's your break-up?"

It's the bullies again.

"You've should kill yourself."

Rex is really pissing me off.

They keep talking to me. I'm hearing about every toxicity there. It's getting on my nerves.

Evelyn is still not talking to me. As if she purposely betrayed me. She's not even looking at me.

Oh, shit. This is bad. I'm having a headache again.

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"Hey bastard! Are you even listening?"

James stabs Rex eye without hesitation, using a pen.

"Aaa! My eye!" Rex screamed.

"Hey bastard, what did you do!?"

One of the bullies is trying to punch James. But James successfully caught it with a hand and broke it by twisting it.

"A-AAH!" it screamed while holding his wrist that had been twisted.

"Why you!"

The second bully dash towards James. When the bully was ready to punch, James punched first and dash towards to stab the neck then follow-up kneeing its stomach.

"I'm fucking kill you!"

Rex goes to punch James, but James dodge it and immediately elbow Rex face.

The bullies are being beaten up by James until the teacher comes.

"Mr. Agnew!" The teacher called me.

I look at the teacher, then look back at the bullies. And they realize what I have done. My heart beat so fast again. My classmates were staring at me, even Evelyn. And that my heart feels like going to burst.

So I started running.

"Wait!"

I ignored the teacher as I ran.

I keep running and run just to get away.

Furthermore, I'm already on the first floor. I just have to pass the gate to escape.

"Stop him!!" behind me, a teacher screamed.

The gate was closed and there's a guard blocking it.

And those I side-step to pass the guard and supposedly going to jump to climb the gate, but when I jump, it was unexpectedly high and this is how I pass the gate.

"Hey, come back here!"

I ignored the teacher again and kept running away.

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When I escaped, I didn't return to the house because the school knew my address. So I decided to get far away from the house and school.

Because of the blood in my clothes, I travel by foot while avoiding people.

{SOME ALLEY AT NIGHT}

It's already night and I still keep walking. So I stop in this alley to rest.

"Hey, you!"

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"You are in our territory."

Some 8 dudes called to me, and they're claiming this their territory.

"Sorry, I didn't know. So I'm going now." I said.

"Hold on a second."

A guy blocks my way.

"Do you think that we're going to let you get away just like that?"

Then they surrounded me.

"Umm… can you guys give me mercy on this?"

"Mercy? I can give you THIS."

The guy punched my stomach.

"And THIS."

Then he follows up by kneeing my face.

"Haha, you got what you wa--"

Now, I have nothing to fear because I already killed someone, and I'm already a criminal. So I punched the guy in the face.

"Y-you bastard, that's freaking hur--"

I punched him again and he fell.

He held his nose so that it started to bleed. "What, you guys just standing there?! Beat him!"

They start attacking me. Even though I'm at a disadvantage, I can still manage to fight back.

While fighting, I heard some glass being shattered.

When I looked at it, it was a guy holding a broken bottle.

The guy dashing to me. I was supposed to dodge it, but someone held me from the back. So I got stabbed in the stomach.

"Kuk--"

I immediately kick the guy in my front and head bump the guy in my back. But I collapsed afterwards.

"Haha, that should do it. Let's go, or else someone might see us." some guy.

After they left, I pulled the bottle in my stomach.

"T-that hurt…"

Then I slowly stand up. But when I'm already standing and trying to walk, the pain in my stomach is gone and my fatigue also.

"Huh?"

I looked at my stomach and the wound was gone.

"?!"

I was shocked that the wound was gone, but the blood was still in my clothes.

"Yow."

"??"

"You're still alive, huh?"

Some guy appeared out of nowhere.

"Who are you? Are you one of those guys back then?" I asked.

"No-no, I'm not with them."

He has brownish hair.

"You seem suspicious."

"To be honest, I'm watching you from there while you're being beat up."

After hearing that, I dash towards him and attack.

"Whoa there."

He dodged it and stomped my feet. So I fell down.

"I'm not an enemy."

When I turned around, he was looking at me.

"You're from Creto High, right?"

He mentioned my school.

"Yea…"

"Then come with me."

He offered it to me.

"Why would I?"

"Why? To start a new life."

New life ha...?

"As if it is possible." I said.

"It's possible."

He lent me a hand to stand up.

"Losing hope is harder than creating one." he said.