NEW STRUGGLE

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When Leansei slowly opened his eyes, all he saw was darkness; the suffocating quietness in his ears and the darkness in the dimension. 

He slowly sat up and looked everywhere, but all he could see was murky surroundings. He winced as he felt a soreness in his head, like someone had hit his head with a force.  

He started breathing heavily and felt the cold liquid in his hand. From the dimness, Leansei saw 1 feet of cold water where he was lying. He slowly got up on his feet. 

"What should we do? master?" A dull voice echoed that made Leansei look around, but all he could see was water and himself in the darkness. 

"Is he tied up?" 

The voices were simulataniously echoeing as Leansei felt the continuous pain in his head like it was kneading his head inside. Leansei stumbled on his knees to the ground when the voices came in randomly, and that made Leansei's head painful than before. 

"Kean!" 

"You piece of crap!" 

"Leansei! You never learn! " 

"Come here you little shit!" 

"I'm going to beat you up, you filial child!"

"We shouldn't have raised you!" 

"AHHHH!!!!! STOPPPPP!!!!!!!" Leansei screams to stop the pain in his head and the irritating voices around him. 

"Sean.." A soft voice called him, and that made the voices and the pain fade away in an instant. Leansei took deep breaths as he slowly looked up. 

"I-i'm not Sean.." Leansei said, with a confused and stuttering voice. 

Leansei came to a halt as he felt the warm energy from the woman who was wearing a floral long dress in a dark brown color with silky straight long hair. 

The woman kneels as she touches the face of Leansei, which makes the warm liquid from his eyes start pouring down to his cheeks. Leansei couldn't figure out the reason why he was crying nor who the woman in front of him was. 

"Sean.." A soft voice from the woman again as she wiped Leansei's tears away. "You're such a crying baby.." Leansei cried more like a lost child, crying to his parents. 

"Come and stand.." Leansei wiped his tears and stood up on his feet. 

"Who are--" Leansei couldn't finish it when the woman held Leansei's hand and pulled him to run. 

Leansei halted when the surroundings changed; darkness to a familiar scene. It was a dim night, like a storm was coming; the thunder in the sky. 

He turned beside him, but the woman was gone. He looked around, but all he could see was the small home in front of him. The rusty roof and walls. The black plastic bags were everywhere, just like the last memory he burried away years ago, and it was like every terrible and miserable memory came back at once.

Leansei could feel the beat in his heart and the trembling in his body as he slowly opened the door in front of him. Leansei looked at the doorknob, hesitating to open it, but he turned his hand and opened the door. 

At the same time, the lightning came, and he was dazed as he saw a father beating his own child with his own fist and foot. The scenery is much more like the memory he burried in the ground was here again. Seeing it again makes Leansei feel the pain and torture he felt in those horrendous scenes. 

"Father stop-- AHH! fa--" The boy, or Lean in his young days, was continuously pleading for his life, but the father disregard it and kicked him like an old grumpy drunk jerk. 

Leansei slowly closed his fist in anger. 

Lean covered his face and looked at the side of the table, where he saw his mother was unconscious, lying on the floor. 

Leansei's vision became slow motion as the intensity of the different emotions he felt from the yonder scenery increased. Leansei closed his eyes and yelled, 

"STOPPPP!!!!!!" 

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When Leansei opened his eyes, he felt a sting in his cheeks. He just came back to reality where he remembers that four guys attacked him and, unexpectedly, someone hit his neck to make him unconscious. 

He minced as he tasted the blood in his mouth, spit it out, and attempted to strangle himself from the rope that was wrapped around Leansei's wrist.

He looked around in his peripheral vision and noticed four armed people and six people with knives and no guns. Leansei tries to strangle his hand again, but it is useless since the more he moves it, the more it stings. 

"I guess that being knocked out doesn't make you remember anything." Lovo said as he was sitting in the big sack of bags. 

' You're damn right, you motherfuvker. '

Leansei tried to resist the temptation of saying anything since they seemed to know Kean better than he did. If he speaks now, just a small little bit of a mistake, he can get Kean killed twice--much more with his life. 

Leansei tried to examine the place, and it had rusty walls and ceilings. There's an unknown smell around the abandoned building.

"You always plead for your life. You always cry like it's the end of the day." Lovo said as he stood on his feet and smirked while looking directly towards Leansei. 

He realized he had slept for a few minutes, but the cold breeze from the broken ceiling and windows, the moonlight shining beneath, and the darkness of the surroundings make him wonder how many hours he had slept.

"This is new. You used to beg for your life." Lovo said, while looking at Leansei confusedly. "Are you--" Lovo couldn't finish it when a walk from the sound of the new branded shoes started echoing in the abandoned building. 

The sound was getting closer and closer as his minions put their heads down and made a way for their master. Leansei put his head down to lessen the risk. He knows that he can't act like Kean, live like Kean, and speak like Kean. 

' I'm not going to make any mistakes. I can't fail this second time around. ' 

"Master, everything is settled." Lovo spoke to his owner while sweating like a tamed puppy and wagging his tail.

The guy sat on the swivel chair and looked at Kean. 

' If I have to get out of here quickly, it's pretty risky. There are four armed shits, including their boss. If only there was a slight chance, I'd take the risk. ' 

"Kean, it's been a long time since we've seen each other." M said while puffing his cigar. 

"Do you know how much cigars increase your health risk?" Leansei said while trying to strangle his wrist with the rope. Master M halted and puffed the cigar before talking. 

"You tell me," 

"Most likely, it can shorten your life span or cause cancer." You'll even die without knowing it." Leansei said, but he came to a halt when Master M hysterically laughed along with his shits mens. 

' Fuvk shits' I have less than a 5% chance of escaping this place unscathed. The popsticle I brought is also useless. Damn it. ' 

"You've become a funny guy. I like that. " He said and smoked the cigar. "Do you know who is shadow?" He spoke as the smoke came out of his nose and mouth. 

' How the fuck do i know that shit? ' 

"It's not in my friends list. You tell me who is it." Leansei said in a firm, sarcastic voice. 

Lovo gritted his teeth, "Answer seriously or i'll beat your face." 

"So you can't remember anything? Even though your brother died or is about to die." A serious tone from M that made Leansei start to hear Felean, who is in danger. Leansei strangles more aggressively. 

"What did you do to my brother?" A calm yet deep voice tries to restrain himself from bursting out. 

"Don't worry, we didn't do anything to your two-faced rebellious brother." Master M said, puffing his cigar again. "Untie him please. This is not very appropriate to welcome our guest." 

The man on the left, with the gun, came forward and took his knife to cut the rope. Leansei closed his eyes and hesitatingly if he should do it, but staying is more than he can't afford to risk. 

Leansei felt the rope was cut. He immediately took his hand and twisted it, which made the man scream in pain. Lean immediately took the gun and kicked the knife away from its reach. 

He aggressively grabbed the man's collar from the back and aimed it at his head. Master M's men immediately drew out their knives and guns, but Master M only smirked as if he was amused. 

Leansei pulls the man towards the wide, unguarded exit. The man he was holding put his hands up as the gun was aimed into his head. 

"Drop it or you'll lose a dearest friend." Leansei said, with a threatening voice. He knows that if that doesn't work, he'll have to use the gun even though he hasn't tried it out yet. 

When he is near the exit, he says, "Kean, how amusing. We totally underestimated you." 

"I don't know what you want from me, but leave my brother—family and friends alone." 

"You little---" Leansei didn't let the man finish. He immediately kicked its legs, which made him kneel down and struck the gun into its neck, which made the man stumble to the ground. Leansei used that chance to run as fast as he could. 

Lovo and the other men were about to run after him, but Master M stopped them as he put his cigar down. 

"Let him go. After all, we were just visiting him." 

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Leansei stopped, and he ran through the road, putting the gun behind him. He couldn't carry the gun recklessly. Lean didn't intend to stop, even after feeling the sting in his face and soreness in his stomach without reaching into the crowd. 

When he finally reaches into the cross section, He hurriedly called a taxi and went to his condo but stopped in front of the other condo. Someone might be following him. 

It's a good thing that his bag is still at the place where he fought the 4 men and he didn't lose anything, not even his phone. 

He can't risk it. 

He paid it online before climbing out of the car. 

He walked while holding his stomach in soreness. Leansei licked the side of his lips, and he could still taste the blood from it. 

After tapping his floor number on the elevator, Leansei leaned. He just wanted to lie down and not move at all. 

' Should I skip class tomorrow? or go with this condition? What excuse should I use? I tripped down the stairs. No, that's a totally lame idea. ' 

The sound of the elevator signaled as it opened. Leansei slowly walked to his door and saw that it wasn't locked. Leansei halted and put the bag in front of him while grabbing the gun inside his bag and putting the other hand on the doorknob. 

Leansei could feel the heartbeat in his chest as he slowly turned the knob clockwise. The feeling of tightness in his chest was a familiar feeling. It is the feeling of fear that maybe Rell or Perial is here and he can't afford them to be in danger. 

He tightened his grip on the doorknob as he closed his eyes and grabbed the gun tightly as he was about to witness. He can't afford to lose someone again, or much rather that he lose someone while someone is stupidly came to transmigrate into his body and fuck up everything. 

Leansei could feel the fear and pain of losing someone, and it was the most unbearable event and the last thing you wanted to feel. Leansei does not want Kean to lose someone or rather to die because of him after leaving Kean's body. 

' Not again.. If something happened to each of them, I swear I will make you all pay. ' 

Leansei was slowly pulling the gun out of the bag as he slowly opened the door. The tension and the paranoia of what is happening right now made Leansei feel that everything was in slow motion as he slowly saw the way towards his living room. 

Leansei gasped and came to a halt from what he saw. 

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