Chapter 2 - #2 Underground complex (1/2)

When I finally returned home and it was already pretty late.

”I am home...” I muttered, however, my mother still heard me unlocking the door so she came to welcome me.

”Welcome home honey, where were you? I thought your school was supposed to end much earlier today.” My mother asked me with a suspicious look but she still had a loving smile on her face.

I wonder how is that possible.

”Ah, mom...regarding the school...I will be quitting by the end of this semester” I said with a poker face.

”What?!!” She shrieked out in surprised but I guess the surprise wasn't really a good one for her.

”Why? Don't tell me that someone is bullying you! You have to tell me in case someone tries to do something to you!” She calmed down a bit and asked for a reason but didn't even let me explain before drawing conclusions.

”*sigh* No...I will tell you before quitting so you can rest easy for now. There will be someone who will also contact you in a few weeks. Just please don't worry...No one is bullying your son and no one would even dare to do so.” I said with confidence so she would ease up a bit.

Should I tell her about today's accident?

...Definitely no, there is no benefit in doing so and she would only worry about me more and draw even more conclusions since I just told her that I want to quit the University and if she knew what had happened to me today...she would think that I got trauma and she would immediately insist on moving out of this city...

Still...I kinda exploded back there. *sigh* I just wanted to sleep for today so I guess it's inevitable that I lost my cool for being forced to spend my entire day at the police station.

My mom kept on observing me with a suspicious look.

”*sigh* Alright, it's your decision and your life, I can't direct your life but promise me not to do anything stupid. I don't want to lose you like your father.” She said with a worried expression while begging me.

”Don't worry mom...” I said with a light smile.

...*sigh* My mother...she has always been supporting me even though I don't have the best grades at school. As long as I didn't do anything bad, she always let me did whatever I wanted while having my back.

She is probably the only person that's still keeping me tied to this world...Not like I have any suicidal thoughts but I won't lie that sometimes I dreamed about falling asleep and never again wake up. Eternal sleep...that's my goal but since my mother is still here, I won't pursue it, heh.

”Alright, were you able to make some friends at school? What about girls?” She once again started to bombard me with the same questions as always.

”Mom...I have some friends but I don't really talk to girls since we have very little in common. They usually talk about going to parties and getting drunk and then going to the toilet to-” I was explaining with a helpless expression.

”Alright, alright! That's enough! You don't need to go to the details...What about Eve? You were getting along when she visited us the last time. She isn't like those girls you have described and you are also the man who would be serious about the relationship.” She quickly stopped me from saying anything more and suggested with a warm smile.

Eve...She is the daughter of my mom's friend and she is a bit similar to me but we differ in aspect that she is trying her best to communicate with others while I don't give a shit. Plus we weren't getting along it's you who was pushing us together. I get that you want to see grandchildren and I wouldn't mind fulfill your dream but I don't want to ɨmprėġnȧtė a woman I don't even like. It would be unfair for both of us.

”*yawn* Let's talk about that later, alright? I am pretty hungry since the last meal I had was during the lunch break.” I said while yawning and stretching my arms to the back.

”Do you want me to make you dinner?” She said with a smile that practically said: ”please say yes”.

”Please do” I gratefully nodded at her with a smile.

...

Should I really accept it? It could be a scam and they could try to do something to me...for example experiments. My mother is the only thing that's keeping me from accepting it right away. In case they truly just want to do something to me, at worst I can simply bite my tongue off and kill myself but I don't want to make my mother sad.

But if I will truly continue my life this way, without doing anything, I will sooner or later really get suicidal thoughts. The adrenaline sports are pretty fulfilling but sports themselves already stopped being interesting to me. Maybe this Assassin training might become something fulfilling in my life.

”Arno” already said that he wouldn't tell anything to my mother and neither can I, which is the best for me. Well, he said that I can go there to try it out for a week and still return, however, once I will truly JOIN them, there is no way back.

I guess he emphasized the ”join” word for a reason. There must be some special exam and once I will take it, I won't be able to leave them.

...Most likely killing someone, that's the most plausible condition of the exam.

Can I really kill someone? I thought while putting my arm in front of me, looking at my palm.

I am just 19 years old student yet when I speak about killing someone there is not really any disgust or something negative in my mind.

I closed my eyes to collect my thoughts and after a few minutes of thinking, I finally opened my eyes with a new resolve in them.

As long as they are endangering the life of my mother...I can kill anyone!

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The next day

”Where are we going?” I asked ”Arno” when we arrived at the same police station.

”I am going to lead you to where you can train with others but you will have to take this...” He said and handed me piece of cloth.