Seed of Hatred

The girl threw herself over to the boy, and sighed in relief when she checked his breathing, he was still alive.

She looked at Dorian with venomous eyes and said "You piece of shit, what do you want!" Dorian replied "I want to destroy your gang, and to do so I need to kill your father."

The girl was stunned and couldn't come up with words, she couldn't believe he really said that. Seeing she didn't say anything, Dorian moved his foot above the unconscious boy's head.

This woke the girl from her daze as she cried out "Wait!"

Dorian rolled his eyes from under his mask, and said "What?" The girl said "I can help you, but don't hurt him please!"

Dorian looked at her curiously and asked "You are willing to help me kill your own father?" The girl made an ugly face as she replied "What do you even know, if he wasn't so strong I would I done it myself!"

Dorian looked at her unimpressed and asked "Where is he?" The girl replied "In our headquarters, at the north of the city…"

Hearing her, Dorian suddenly stomped his foot, crushing the boy's head to a pulp, sending pieces of his skull and brain matter flying everywhere.

Before the girl could make a sound, he moved quickly and strangled her, again. But this time he couldn't see her previous fear. Now, there was only grief, hatred and despair. Lots of them.

The two stared at each other, one cold as ice and the other as fiery as fire. But the fire was being choked, and the flames were gradually disappearing.

Honestly, Dorian wanted to kill her, he just had to apply a bit more of strength and he would be able to crush her neck. Then he would just have to continue on his hunt. It would all be simple and straightforward.

But he did not, and released her, again. This time he wasn't as violent as earlier and lowered her down. Before taking his hand over from her neck, he said "Be quiet, I'll show you something."

He released her, and was surprised to see that she actually didn't speak. But then she began coughing. Dorian realized that even if she wanted to, she couldn't talk.

As she coughed her lungs out Dorian waited, not moving an inch. Only after ten whole seconds did the girl stop, and ask in a weak voice "I will kill you…"

Dorian asked "Because I killed the boy?" The girl's hatred flared up hearing him, and Dorian said "You were the one who did it. I asked you a question, and you lied. So he died."

Before the girl could retort anything he added "I already infiltrated your headquarters, your real headquarters under the windmill, and I killed the Tenth Stinger there. And your father is outside the city."

The girl suddenly lost her footing and fell to the ground, and began to cry. Dorian looked down at her. He didn't enjoy doing this. He had become accustomed to killing people, and even bloodier scenes such as decapitation or other stuff like that.

But making people feel despair wasn't something he took pleasure in. So he lowered himself and raised the girl's head, saying "Stop crying, do you think you will take your revenge by crying? Do you think crying will give you strength? Get up, strengthen yourself, and take revenge."

The girl, who had her head raised, cried even harder as she shouted "What do you want! Leave me alone!"

Dorian pointed at the dead boy's corpse and said "Go look at his body. Search his body. Grieve. And then understand the truth."

He did not leave her any choice and threw her on top of him. As she landed, the girl didn't move. She was feeling so much despair that she had lost her will to even live.

Dorian patiently waited behind her, but after a couple minutes of inactivity he moved next to her and began searching through the boy's jacket.

Then, he found a small dagger hidden, and brought it up to the girl, saying "Do you recognize this?" But she didn't talk. Dorian looked at her empty eyes and released his full killing aura, directing it directly at her.

But there was no response. Dorian felt a headache coming in, he had been a bit too heavy handed…

He said "Do you want to know how I found you? I have good senses, which allows me to sense danger. And I sensed you two. But do you want to know who exuded danger? It wasn't you, harmless fly. It was the boy. Now, how do you explain this."

Those words finally seemed to make a ripple appear in her empty eyes, and her soul seemed to come back to her as she said "You are lying."

Dorian asked "Why would I? Are you even worth it for me to lie?" She said "You are lying."

Dorian showed her the dagger and said "Doesn't this dagger make you suspicious? You are blind then, because it is the proof that will help you understand the truth."

She glanced at the dagger, and said "Everyone has a weapon on them." Dorian moved the dagger closer to her eyes and said "Just from looking at his clothes I can guess he is poor. Then tell me, how did he get such a refined weapon?"

What she didn't know, was that in Dorian's eyes, the dagger shone in a grey light. For it to be even a grey colored item meant it was really good. For example, the sub par daggers Dorian used weren't even of the grey quality and yet elites used them.

So for a young boy to have a grey weapon was suspicious.

And the girl seemed to catch on this point because her voice became hesitant as she explained "He must have found it somewhere and hid it…"

Dorian smiled seeing that what he was doing was working, so he added another strike "Then what a coincidence, your boyfriend found a refined dagger. Your boyfriend, out of all people. But don't you think there exists another, more probably possibility?"

She looked at him, and Dorian added in the finishing blow "Think about it, who has the motive, the means and the opportunity to plant a spy next to you?"

Dorian knew the answer, and looking at the rising hatred in her eyes, he knew that she did too. But what he didn't expect was for her to start beating the dead body.

Dorian looked at she released all her pent up emotions on the corpse, ruining it even more. She wasn't especially strong, from the danger she released she was only as strong as an average human, but her hatred seemed to fuel her strikes as she began ruining the corpse.

And Dorian watched on, content of what he did. Honestly, this was too much trouble for him, he would rather deal with the gang in the old good ways, but it would be too difficult, and time consuming.

Moreover, Dorian was still thinking how to get great rewards fro his mission, and the only way he thought of, other than perfectly clearing the mission, was to do it quickly.

So when he heard about the girl's identity, a plan came to his mind. If possible, then he would try to turn the girl against her family. He knew it would be difficult, but Dorian saw all the right tools.

A young girl in love, in her rebel phase, unhappy her father don't let her live as she wishes, a suspicious young man as the lover… Honestly, to manipulate such a young girl, those were all he needed.

And it seemed to be going in the right direction. First threaten her and make her understand that he could end her life any time, then kill her lover to create an emotion capable of overwhelming both her thoughts and reason, and then use this overwhelming emotion.

Now, all the hatred and grief she felt toward Dorian, or at least a major part of it, had been shifted to the one who spied on her, the one who 'betrayed' her, her father.

Of course it's not that easy to push someone to commit patricide, but let's not forget that we are talking about an impulsive teenager.

Dorian felt sick destroying a family like that, he knew that the girl's father was a normal father, he just sent a guard to protect his daughter, which showed his love for her, but the girl couldn't understand this kind of things on her own, she is too angry and young.

But even if he felt bad, Dorian still did it, because if there was one important thing for him now, that was to keep his life. And to keep it, he needs to become stronger. So yeah, basically this family became a sacrifice for his power.