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Prologue

Nineteen years ago

Every gang had its own hierarchy, and in this dark and griame Pests or pets, that was how they were called, and always, it could only be one or the other Pests got beaten up every minute, and they were the lucky ones They only needed to survive a thrashing until they toughened up enough to fight back

Pets, however…

It was the faintest sound, a door carefully and stealthily being opened, but it wason the floor ake in an instant, but even so his body remainedslow and deep

Go away Please go away Please

Even though the boy already kneas hopeless to pray, he did so anyway in a desperate bid to stave off the inevitable

Another sound penetrated the darkness, so e for the boy to face his fears His fingers tightened under the pillow, curling around the knife handle even as the sound made him sick with fear

The boy kneas too ht to the death if he found himself outnumbered, but he also kneas not in him to submit passively He could never be the type—

And then it happened

Too fast Too sudden Or perhaps it was just too terrifying that even though all the signs were there, the boy had made himself blind and deaf to all of them

The knife was torn frorasp as countless hands flipped hile He tried to screa feared, and there were just too damn many of them In mere moments, the room reeked of the most depraved desires It was all there – in the way they looked at hihed as they tore the clothes off his body

Tears burned against his eyelids, and he knew that the moment to choose had come

Subht

Live or die

He opened his eyes as he felt callous fingers part the cheeks of his ass