Chapter 1 - Atlas (1/2)
It's just a normal city. With normal people, living lives.
But beneath the normal, lies the abnormal. Crime goes on in the cut-throat streets. People get robed, raped or killed. If you were too weak, you were consumed.
It's an animal eat animal world out here, and if you weren't a big animal, you would be smart enough to avoid getting involved in its activities.
He used to be weak. After witnessing the death of his parents, he realized the weak, had no place in these streets. He was a tiger in these parts of the city.
Not just any tiger, he was one who was patrolling these grounds not only to hunt but track his prey for the sole purpose of revenge. There is a story about a tiger who was injured by a man.
The tiger tracked the hunter for 6 months and after finding him… killed him. Until he found his target, he was patient.
He was patient. Unlike the tiger who had only one target, he had many.
Even now he had found a new prey.
The prey's face was swollen due to the beatings he had received.
”Where are the others?” he asked coldly.
The prey looked into the hunter's cold gaze and lost all motivation to grasp his will.
”Please don't kill me,” what more could the prey do but to beg?
He didn't even know this man.
Just a few hours ago the prey was in a club partying with his friends. Everything was smooth and fine until someone spiked his drink.
He was kidnapped, brought here and beaten. Every ten minutes, the man who seemed to be the leader of this pack, would walk in ask him ”where are the others?”
If he didn't answer or pleaded for his life or promised money or even admit the fact that he didn't know who the hunter was or what he was talking about, his finger would be smashed with a hammer.
It's been 90 minutes… the prey was down to his last finger.
”Don't worry about your fingers,” the hunter says, ”you still have ten toes.”
”Why? Why?” the prey began to ask amidst tears, ”Why are you doing this?!”
The room was dark and the only source of light was focused directly on the prey's face, so he hadn't been able to figure out the face of the hunter.