Chapter 3: The Past

Sean Myers, just a name that won't matter anymore, just a nickname, an ordinary shell. The death of this man claimed hundreds of lives. Even after dying, deaths because of him did not stop. All his followers continued to take revenge, staging a massacre, killing no fewer people than died in that tragedy, in that terrible explosion. But now, it didn't matter anymore ...

Although his death brought so much pain and death, his birth was the most common. A simple child born on a quiet winter night.

Shortly after his birth, Sean lost his mother. His father was in prison at that time, so the child ended up in an orphanage and was brought up there until he was ten. After the return of his father, the boy found a family for the first time.

Although Sean's father was a criminal, he never hurt his son. Moreover, he taught him a lot, including his main craft - theft. Five years at large, and after that he again thundered behind bars. Yet this thief lacked self-control and careful preparation, which he himself noticed more than once.

For his father's next term, Sean could only shake his head with a smile. His father, both free and behind bars, was always like a fish in water and had a positive attitude towards life. Although, his father definitely lacked responsibility, which made Sean grow up early. But he never blamed him for that.

Life in the orphanage was not sugar, so he had already learned to adapt and survive there. This helped him quickly wedge himself into the life of the slums and criminally-filled streets.

What was really the main thing among the robbers and bandits? Many things, but the main thing is confidence and strength. At least, people from his past thought so ... One does not work without the other. If you are weak, but too confident, then you are just an idiot who will probably die quickly or find out his true place in life. Just being strong isn't an option either. However strong you are, if you lack confidence, you will quickly be overwhelmed. That is why, strength without confidence is completely useless.

Your confidence will allow you to influence others and gain their strength, from which you will become strong yourself. But, of course, such people will never listen to a simple confident idiot, you cannot build authority that way. First, you need to show your own strength. Who wants to obey a weakling?

If you are confident and physically strong, then in principle you can find your place. There is simply a possibility that your life will be short-lived. After all, these two qualities are not the most important ... People who think so do not live long.

Reason is also one of the most important things in survival in such a place. But only the weak need survival. The strong need life!

Without intelligence and the ability to use it, it is very difficult to escape from this world. Wherever you are, if you are not particularly smart, then your life will not be easy. Although, it happens quite the opposite.

But, Sean had enough strength, and confidence, and intelligence. So he was able to gain credibility very quickly and form the first little gang. Everyone knows what gangs do ...

Gangs commit crimes, and Sean's gang has committed minor ones. He did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father and fall for various stupid things.

Pickpocketing was really a lucrative business, especially if you thought it over, chose the right places, and taught others the skill of pickpocketing. Yet this is not given to everyone from birth, and some are generally incapable of it. But time passed and there were more and more experienced pickpockets under his command. That ended up bringing profit, but also enemies.

It all turned into fighting and killing. Then Sean killed a man for the first time, and after that a large road of corpses was paved to his next place in life. The head of a large and strong group. Now pickpocketing was no longer enough. Most of the areas of the criminal business were covered by him, and money flowed like a river.

It was at that moment that Sean's father died. It wasn't some kind of vengeful murder, or anything like that. No, this was the most common suicide. After leaving prison, the guy's father was already too old to steal and simply decided to quietly leave the world.

The death of his father crippled Sean a little, but he respected his decision. After that, he thought about many things in life. About the uselessness of wealth and useless items that have no value. It was then that he began to look for his own path in life ...

This led to the fact that he stopped paying particular attention to the organization he built, about the enemies plotting against him. Fully devoting himself to one thing, he stopped noticing everything else and behaved too confidently. Of course he understood all this, but did not worry at all. He was no longer worried about all these mediocre matters.

He spent all his wealth in search of interesting things in the world, something really valuable, something that would make sense.

Studying the world and making searches, he found a lot. But these were not only artifacts and relics, they were also interesting activities and hobbies that helped to dispel boredom.

The main thing was, of course, the manga. It turned out to be quite addictive reading. Reading manga has become perhaps one of his few favorite things, along with alcohol and constant smoking. If not for that day, he would definitely have died from one of these habits ...

Over the years of searching, many interesting artifacts have been found. Most of them ended up with the same rubbish, which he threw away without hesitation. Those who picked up this "trash" were simply bewildered by Sean's actions. The most valuable artifacts of the past were of no value to him. Artifacts worth billions were no better for him than garbage.

But it didn't matter to him. A piece of stone, even if it's a million years old, is still a piece of stone.

One day, in another search, Sean finally found something really worthwhile. Something that completely changed his whole life. The find that led to his death ...