3 Giving up but Not at the Same Time

After Daren woke up with a splitting headache, he was dazed and confused. Unfortunately, when he looked around him, he saw the empty whisky bottle next to him. He remembered the events that happened last night and his eyes immediately became lifeless. He din't want to go back upstairs and see that scene again. Just remembering it made his heart feel like it was being shred into a million pieces. He wished he could just get his wife back and make things return to the way things were when they were younger.

He slowly got up and moved towards the door of his house and left. He just walked randomly He started remember one thing that he was thinking when he was in the assassin industry but threw it to the back of his head when he met Carey. 'Why are I here? With the only chain keeping me from suicide gone, why don't I just stop fighting to survive?

These dark thoughts started to consume his brain at a terrifying rate. In just a few minutes his only thoughts were to just find a way to go out but he wanted to go out with a bang. "Wait a minute, a bang..." Daren was stunned by his thoughts but soon, a crazed smile crept on to his face. " I don't know why the thought never occurred to me before, but, if I want to die, why not take down the whole damn organization with me!?

After these thoughts went through Daren's head, two years had passed. During these two years, Daren had been working tirelessly to buy enough explosives to blow this previous boss and his organization sky-high. Money was no problem since he started to complete mission contracts as a rogue assassin. He also had been busy burrowing a tunnel below the organization. He dug at least hundred feet below to make sure that no one above heard all the noise. Thankfully, security wasn't very tight so he could easily slip in without anyone noticing. Daren also made sure to cover up the top of the hole with leaves and sticks so no one would be suspicious. Of course, there were some of the smarter assassins that came to investigate but, he killed all of them silently.

'Finally, after two years, I finally have enough explosives to blow this entire place hell.' There were a grand total of 15 kilotons of TNT. That is the equivalent of the Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima, one of the biggest disasters the world had seen at that time. This huge amount of TNT was positioned right underneath Nicky's mansion because he was the one that ran everything. Without him, the entire organization would dismantle slowly. Of course, this wasn't a guarantee. There may be someone in the organization waiting to take Nicky's spot. Daren could only hope and pray for the best.

'Whatever, I should stop worrying. It's not like I'm going to be staying on this planet anyways.' Thinking about the time he will finally be released from this place, he couldn't help but smile. 'I'm coming for you, Carey. When I finally find you, you better give a better explanation as to why you left me!' After thinking these last few words, he activated the bomb and blew himself and the entire mansion to kingdom come. "Fuck you, Nicky!!! See you in hell, bitch!!!"

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In the void

Daren's soul was traveling at such speeds that not even immortals could see it if they wanted to. Thankfully, Daren wasn't conscious or he would shit his pants after seeing this. After a while, his soul stopped in front of an old man. He looked like an old man but, for some reason, he seemed to weirdly flicker in and out of existence. He opened his mouth and started to speak "The hell is this young soul doing here? Shouldn't you be receiving judgement right now? Hmph, hell is getting more and more lazy these days. I should really go down and destroy it one of these days. Well, no matter. I shall check this soul in their place."

"Haha, What a damn joke!" The old man started to laugh sadly "We both have the same past. Could it be fate? No, I destroyed my chains of fate long ago. Well, whatever. Consider it this kid's luck that I have been creating a nice little toy that he can mess around with. Hell, who knows. Maybe this kid can get to my position one day." The old man decided to wake up Daren.

Daren slowly opened his nonexistent eyes. The first thing he saw was an old man that kind of looked like glass. "Yo, kid. It seems your awake." The crystal clear old man smiled and greeted him. Daren was extremely confused and asked "Who the hell are you!?" Shouldn't I be dead? Where's my wife? Who is this old man? The old man looked annoyed and said "Slow down, slow down. I can answer your three questions. One at a time, will ya?" Daren was even more confused now. "Huh? Old man, you can hear what I'm thinking?" The old man snapped. "If I couldn't hear what a puny mortal soul like yourself was thinking, would my trillions of years of cultivation be a waste!? Also, my name isn't old man. You can just call me Void."

Daren was stunned for a bit and then suddenly looked at the old man strangely. 'Could this old man be a chuuni?' At this point, the old man was at his boiling point "Fuck you! Who the hell are you to call someone helping you a chuuni!? Bah, you know what? It doesn't even matter what you call me. Just know that you are dead."

Once Daren heard this, he immediately snapped out of his random train of thought. "What did you mean when you said that you could tell the three things I wanted to know?" Void looked at me like I was an idiot "I meant exactly what I said. I've already told you that you that you are dead. I will also tell you who I am. Lastly, I can tell you where your wife is right now and I can even tell you what happened to your wife. Just know that if I tell you this, your life will probably be filled with slaughter. Are you truly prepared to know what happened to your wife?"