1 Prologue: Beginning in the End

The city was dark and devoid of light accompanied by the chilly pitter-patter of the rain that swept through the streets. There were many hidden alleys located in these streets, that one wouldn't even notice their existence unless brought by someone acquainted with the business which transpired there.

A lone man seemingly in his thirties wearing a tattered business suit leaned against a deformed light pole in one of these decrepit areas. Blood dripping from the corner of his grimaced smile fell to the streets washed away by the bone-chilling rain. This man was known as quite the renowned business boss throughout the whole city, and yet he was left in this haggard condition.

As he looked around at the men in all black suits surrounding him, a small gleam of shock could be noticed in his eyes, as they drifted to the face of a young man in the back of the encirclement.

'Armani you fucking piece of shit! This is how you repay the trust and friendship I gave you through all these years!'

As the business man's demeanor became more sullen upon locking eyes with the young man in the back, the young man suddenly stepped forward and solidified his previous assumptions. The young man displayed a devilish grin on his handsome face and pulled the delicate hand of a woman beside him to beckon her forward as well.

As soon as this woman stepped forward even the men donned in all black couldn't help but sneak a look at this beautiful enchantress. As all the stares fell on the couple moving through the crowd the business man who was once sullen became enraged and stricken by an unfathomable amount of grief.

'Not only have I suffered the betrayal of my closest brother but have lost the love of my life along with him as well... Where the fuck did I make this mistake?'

As these dreaded thoughts raced through his mind the young man began to speak while raising his chin to look down on his former idol.

"As you can see Leon, money cannot solve all problems, as you have always taught me. Well, at least not yours at the moment."

The young man known as Armani began to grin even more now that his biggest obstacle in taking over his brother's company had finally been subdued to such a state.

"It was only a matter of time until I surpassed you and inherited the company that you painstakingly created. Who knew this little entrepreneurship you created could reach such heights! Unfortunately, with you as the head it will only be a failure. But don't be so upset brother, because now that I have been entrusted with the task to oversee NXTech industries, it will only soar through the heavens to greater heights."

As he finished spouting his mocking speech that he had saved just for this long awaited moment, Armani then gestured to the beauty beside him, and slung his arm around her seductively while continuing his ridicule.

"Besides Leon, how could trash like you, raised from the dirt, capture such a gem and actually believe you could keep it! Isn't that right honey?"

Armani glanced over towards the seductive beauty in his embrace as they laughed together.

"How could I stay with a man that has such foolish ambitions he can never reach? Not to mention a man like you who has crumbled to this extent..."

The icy words exerted from the beauty and love of Leon's life struck him in the chest like frosted knives. The once fiery passion he had shown in his youth, when creating his network of the present, had finally been diminished. All that was left was bitter resentment and contempt for his past decisions.

'How could I have been so blind to the motives of the people surrounding me? These same people that I once knew as friends?'

Looking back on his previous misfortunes, Leon began reminiscing the time he had spent in his childhood with his family that was now deceased.

'If only I had realized these thoughts and feelings sooner in my life!'

As he let out a painful sigh, he winced as a short blade penetrated his abdomen. Looking up he once again witnessed the smug faces of the two bastards who brought him to this state. No amount of words nor aggression could heal the dark emotions flowing through his body, as he gazed upon, not only the poisonous couple in front of him, but the previous failures in his life as well.

'I swear that if I am blessed with reincarnation I will only seek for justice and the destruction of you and your entire lives!'

As his head began to slump to his side, Leon uttered one last sentence before departing to the utter frozen void of death.

"Pray none of you fall to hell because I will be waiting for your miserable bastard lives to join me there..."

The rain continued to descend but abruptly stopped for a moment, as if the world had given a slight pause out of pity for the once renowned Leon Jackson. But it eventually resumed and drowned out the previous momentary silence.