"Lunatic fucker."Kanji continued digging up Lazarus' head on the floor. He then grabbed his collar as he landed a punch on his face agitatedly, blood already starting to ooze out of Lazarus' nose and sliced lips.Lazarus opened his eyes and seized Kanji's arms, throwing him to the ground and punching him in the face.Kanji spits blood, but he also kicks Lazarus in the stomach, prompting Lazarus to grip Kanji's shoulder. Kanji was losing momentum when he grabbed Lazarus' neck, and the two men gripped each other's shoulders in the hopes of taking each other down."You won't fucking stop, huh?" Kanji told, and he lifted Lazarus as he smashed his head on the wall.CrackLazarus groaned loudly in pain as he felt his neck and shoulder crack.Kanji backed away a bit to gather stamina, but his eyes widened as Lazarus tried to stand up on the floor, but his body felt paralyzed, barely moving as he inclined his neck to crack it."A head..." Lazarus menacingly glared. "A decapitated head is wha

"Out of the way!"In a hallway of a hospital, a woman is lying unconscious on an emergency stretcher, being rushed to the emergency room. The wheels of the stretcher can be heard whirring on the ground while nurses and doctors shoosh people out of the way in the hallway. And most of all, the black-haired man was also rushing along. Zacharias kept his gaze on Allura's breathing as tears brimmed in his eyes from the panic he was feeling.The people in the hallway were startled when they saw the stretcher rushing through, and the white cloth on the stretcher bed was covered with blood. Allura's body is covered with cuts, bruises, blood, fractures, and more fatal injuries.Finally, they reached the destination, the emergency room.The nurses continued to rush her inside, but Zacharias was held back."We're sorry, sir. Please stay here until the procedure is finished, visitors or guardians aren't allowed inside.""Is there any way to make this quicker?" Zacharias asked desperately with hi

Many people believe that the waiting room is the scariest room we can stay in.We'll feel unsettled, rushed, panicked, dreadful, terrified, frightened, trepidation, glum, and many more. Simply because we are waiting for a patient that is on the verge of death, not knowing how to feel, not knowing what to do except wait, wait, and wait while our hearts beat erratically.This is exactly how they feel, especially Zacharias Craig.These plain white empty walls can't signify the circumstances occurring at this moment, let alone his emotions that are now scattered on the ground. The ticking clock can't tell the time to the significant awaited moment."How long will it still take?" Zacharias asked, and it was the same question he had been asking repeatedly... but he was only asking it in his mind."No updates from the doctors yet," Toshiro informed him as if on cue when he walked inside the waiting room.Zacharias' chest tightened with each passing second, making it difficult to breathe, yet

*FLASHBACKS*"Do you hear us? Do you hear how we are capable of anything, how much power we have?"True, all they said was true, everything was, and Allura hates how they were all true."While you have nothing."A mere person who has nothing but a controlled fate, rather.Allura's lips quivered in terror, and she was already begging for someone's life."Now tell us, will you accept the offer? In return for your stepmother's life?""I-I'll accept the offer..."And there, tears ran down her cheeks, feeling a heavy boulder on her chest."Only for my stepmother and parents.""Give her the contract." Zacharias commanded their workers."Yes sir."While she was seated, feeling clammy and unable to move, she felt a pang of guilt, yet indignation rise in her chest.*END OF FLASHBACKS*"I can tell that the only thing in her mind was you while she was signing the contract, but you had to pretend to be poor and made Allura think that all her hard work in school after she graduated was all useless

The same beeping sound indicates Allura's life is still going off beside her hospital bed.In the same routine, the Regio executives will go back to their mansion, taking turns staying in the hospital room with Zacharias , who's not leaving the room under any circumstances.The situation was perilous, and he knew it very well.Anytime, anything can happen."You can go home anytime, you know? I called security. In fact, bodyguards are guarding by the door right now." Kanji muttered beside Zacharias. Some of the men are still inside, waiting for like an eternity.Zacharias didn't speak, just blankly staring at the walls beside Allura's hospital bed.Even so, some of the men also had these little arguments that occurred that until now they're unsure if they're fixed.Just like Zacharias and Dominic. Lorenzo and Leo. For the past few days, they've barely interacted with each other because of an argument.It was difficult to understand each of the men's façades at the moment, it's like imp