30: Excerpt from another world II

Ryun was still holding on to the hope that his brother Kade would come and save him even though he lost track of how long he's been inside the villain's basement.

His mother told him that he's always been a very optimistic child, and she wasn't wrong. Ryun himself thought that he was on the realistic side of the spectrum, but hey, it's always good to be optimistic, right?

The once security guard paced around the basement, and he was touching everything he could, trying to find a way to get out of here.

Sure, he's hoping that the USC will send people to save him, but if he could find a way get out any sooner, then he will.

His green eyes scanned the room once more after he made his rounds around the basement, as far as he could with the chains around his ankles. There's a mattress in the middle of the room for him to sleep on, and as requested from... A few days ago... Kaon the villain had brought him some pillows to make it "more comfortable" for him.

There's a bathroom that Ryun has access to, but he couldn't really close the door because the chains cuffed to his ankles would be in the way. Talking about the bathroom, Ryun only used the shower whenever his captor is around because Kaon was kind enough to take off the chains so that the guard could take off his clothes properly.

It's dehumanizing, to say the least. However, Ryun thought back to when Kaon was still a prisoner underneath the USC's head quarters. Sure, the villain wasn't chained to the room that he's in, and he could take off his clothes without help, but Kaon basically had zero privacy.

Ryun remembered Kaon's cell too vividly. There were a toilet and an open shower on one end of the room, and nothing else in the ten feet by ten feet glass enclosure where two of the sides weren't concrete walls. Thus, the guard had to witness the villain showering and doing his basic human biology stuff throughout the day.

Thinking about the crapy condition that the USC kept their prisoners in won't make Ryun's current situation any better, but he could say his circumstances is a bit better than those prisoners to make himself feel better.

A few feet away from the bathroom laid a door that's locked at all times. Ryun could open it at wee hours of the night for some reason, but he could only take a step inside before his chains stopped him.

Oh, and Kaon sleeps in that room.

The first time Ryun took in a step in there, he was horrified to see the villain curled up on the queen sized bed. Looking at how comfy it was, the guard was a little bit jealous, but then his green eyes landed on a random broken baby crib in the corner.

His feet took him to that room again, and his hand handed on the door knob. Before he knew it, Ryun was looking at the broken crib with his own two eyes again.

Why would anyone have a fucking broken baby crib in their bedroom?

The white plastic was yellowed with age, and the drawers and railings where bent at weird angles. Above the crib, there's a faded framed picture of what seemed to be a big man and a heavily pregnant woman, both of their faces were doodled over, and they're standing behind an obviously young Kaon.

Bright purple eyes were staring at Ryun from that photograph, and the guard couldn't help but think about how cute Kaon on was when they first met.

As the thought ran through his head, Ryun let out a laugh. His feet slowly gave away, and he melted on to the floor, laughing and holding his head. His brunette hair was getting a bit longer, and he wondered if Kaon will cut his hair.

He used to know Kaon when they were children. Little boy KJ who used to play with Eden Ryun in the suburbs. Little boy KJ who took Eden Ryun to the local bakery to get some pastries, buying those rather expensive pastries with the generous pocket money that his parents gave him.

Eden Ryun had to move away from the rundown suburbs where his childhood friend met him every Monday, the only day that his parents would come into town. Ryun's mom, Emiko Ryun, finally got the attention of her son's father, and with Haris Wilson's generous child support money, Emiko moved her little family to a much better part of the city where Ryun could finally go to school where a shooting didn't happen every other month. Little Eden Ryun had to say goodbye to his friend KJ.

Only for KJ to say hello to him, eight years later, inside the USC's most well guarded prison.

"K stands for Kaon." The villain grinned at the guard from being his glass enclosure. "You should've remembered that, Ryun."

That memory was enough to send chills down Ryun's spine. It was a few weeks ago, and now he found himself trapped in the villain's basement.

A small voice at the back of his head whispered that he could find something sharp or make something sharp enough to cut off his legs, or just break his legs enough to wiggle out of the chains. It would only work if he started doing that as soon as Kaon left so that Ryun's body can heal and run away before the villain comes back.

The other part of him screamed that it's a painful process, and he doesn't know the layout of the house nor the terrain, so it's a bad idea.

Ryun didn't know he was crying until his hands ran down from his messy brunette hair on to his face. A trail of water lined his cheek, and the guard choked on his sobbed.

If his mom was here, she would know what to do. She had passed away a two years back, leaving her young son to fend for himself. His father isn't much help. Harris Wilson only cared if Ryun joined the USC, and when he joined the USC, shit like this happened.

"Ryun?"

The villain's familiar voice followed by the scent of tobacco caught the man's attention. He turned around to see the silhouette of the villain at the door leading upstairs.

Kaon pitched the lit end of his cigarette fo stop the burning, and he took it out of his mouth and chucked the half-burnt stick into his sweat pants' pocket.

For some reason, the villain refused to smoke inside the basement.

"Oh, Ryun..." Kaon's hand reached for the man's face, and his thumb gently ran over the trail of tears on Ryun's cheek. "You wanna go into my room? Let's go in there, yeah? Just like old times. You and me playing in your room, but now it's mine."

Ryun gritted his teeth and shook his head. It's not the first time that the villain had offered.