It was all futile

"Where were you in my first life?"

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[FLASHBACK]

"Argh! Who are you?!?" Nathaniel growled, trying to break free from the chair to which he was bound. His eyes were blindfolded, giving him no idea who the people who raided his place and abducted him were. "Hey! You cowards! Why don't you show yourselves, huh?!"

"Cowards! Scared that once I see you, you'd be dead meat?! Hah!"

Nathaniel ran his mouth on and on, unafraid that something would hit him and hurt him. Little did he know, Zoren was standing several steps away. For the next ten minutes, Nathaniel's fierce remarks echoed in the small, old apartment, and nothing else.

"Sir." Mark approached Zoren's side, studying the latter's profile.