PROLOGUE

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I'VE BEEN FEELING like I work hard everyday without any concreate reason.  I just felt like an empty puppet who's forced to wake up and survive this sh*tty life.

I've always felt like my life has no purpose. After my parents died when I was younger, I lost all sense to continue living my life. Pakiramdam ko gumagalaw na lang ako para sabihing buhay ako, at hinihintay na lang ang kamatayan na sunduin ako anumang oras.

Kids my age strive hard to achieve high grades in school, plan their future and everything. But I couldn't even answer when the teacher asks me if what I wanted to become because... I really didn't know.

I've reached the point in my life where I just couldn't care about anything anymore and just want to disappear from this world forever.

“Summer class? Oh, you failed three core subjects and the teachers want to give you a second chance because they see a potential in you, they didn't want it to be wasted.”

That phrase. That phrase that came out from the teacher's mouth seemed harmless.

Little did I know... It was the turning point of my life.

My hands were trembling, tightly gripping the cold and heavy gun in my hand, struggling to keep it aimed at the person in front of me. Cold sweats were cascading down from my forehead to my neck. I gulped.

When I closed my eyes, the world suddenly fell into a deafening silence. I could hear the loud thump of my heart hitting my ribcage—it stings and hurts.

And when I opened my eyes, it instantly widened and my jaw dropped. I inhaled sharply and let go of the cold, lethal metal I was holding. It made a deafening clanking sound when it hit the tiled floor.

A life was taken at that moment in exchange for mine.

And that's when I realized... for the first time, I wanted to live. I didn't want to die. I want to leave this f*cking place and live!

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