"Do you know David?"
The mysterious person smiled. "Compared to all those who claim to know David well, I am the first to know him, in fact I was the first to see his face when he was just born besides a nurse in the hospital, while my hand was holding the hand of the person who gave birth to David. And what I'm holding is the hand of the same person who gave birth to me too."
Angeline tried to process the mysterious person's words in her brain, but somehow Angeline didn't feel a lie at all from every single word he said.
Was he really the first to see David's face?
And he's holding the hands of the same people who gave birth to both him and David.
It means …
Impossible! Is this true?
No, Angeline couldn't easily believe it just like that.
Angeline remembers that David once told her about his older brother being taken by a secret government organization to volunteer for war at a very young age. But it had been years, long before Angeline met David. She must not be fooled a second time. This time, Angeline just chose to remain silent and follow the man who claimed to be David's sibling.
If indeed she was taken to where David was, whoever that person was not a problem even though he was a con artist, because what Angeline wanted ... no, what Angeline needed was to see David's face, so all the worries and bad thoughts that had been haunting her mind would immediately disappear. Angeline was very sure of that, because David was the only man she loved in this world.
It seemed, the truth about this stranger who saved her could be put off for now. Most importantly now, she had to go where David was right now.
***
David knocked out the last man with his CheyTac sniper rifle, but there was still no sign of Angeline. He still didn't give up. Now he continued on and arrived at the last of the twenty-one points he had marked on the digital map. If his searches really don't work, then David doesn't know where else to go.
Without further ado, David stepped his feet toward a strange building that was somehow in the middle of snowy mountains like Mount Everest.
David entered the building that looked empty, but he could feel a killing spree coming from somewhere. His alert level increased because David realized that Cederic was no longer around him.
Where did Cederic go?
There was no way Cederic would be so stupid and lost in the middle of a mountain covered in snow like this.
But someone who shows up makes David take his mind off Cederic's disappearance. The person he sees now is one of the top three on his list of targets for revenge, Steve.
"Looking for something?" asked Steve. But David had already aimed his sniper rifle and immediately opened fire which Steve managed to avoid. "Is this how you greet me? You've grown up a violent kid, David."
"Just cut the crap out already. Quickly tell me where Angeline is before I make you can't talk for the rest of your life."
The sound of footsteps behind David made him turn his head. Another person appeared.
He is Benedict Rivaro, the last person Xiang faced before his death, he is also one of the top targets for David's revenge. "Hey kid, are you ready to meet your end?"
Steve stepped out of the wall he was using to protect from David's sniper rifle. And the appearance of someone after that really took David by surprise.
Isaac Dominic, the third person on the list of the top three people who became the target of David's revenge.
And it doesn't stop there. Someone else appeared. Maybe not someone, but two people at once who were familiar to David, they were Catty and Cederic.
"Hey David, miss me?" asked Cederic, who was hugging Catty's waist with one hand from behind. "You didn't notice, did you?"
David smiled. "I've been suspicious of you for a long time, especially when you didn't pick up my phone when Angeline disappeared. Let me guess, Amanda and Marshall didn't know that you were a fucking pig-ass-face rotten traitor."
Cederic just laughed crisply, confirming David's statement.
David fell silent. Everyone who had been his enemy, plus the traitor who had been fighting with him all this time, were now in one place. David's current condition is far from favorable.
"Last we were together in the middle of the wilderness, don't you miss me, honey?" now Catty spoke up, smiling lopsidedly at David.
David returned Catty's smile. "Maybe I should have killed you when I had the chance."
"Say whatever you want to say, my dear David. I know, behind your words that are very hurtful, but deep in your heart you still care about me."
"I was wrong." David admitted, leaving Catty speechless. "From the start, everything that happened to your life was my fault. It's just that, I don't know how to apologize to you, because after all, you've been living a life like hell for years because of me, and my apologies won't be enough to make up for everything you have been through."
Catty also let out a very loud laugh that can be heard in the senses of hearing anyone who hears it. Even so, the tears were clearly flowing from Catty's eyelids. "You? Fucking apologize to me? Haha ... I can't hold back my laughter until I cry!"
David knew, Catty's crying wasn't because of laughter, but Catty was truly touched.
Catty was deeply touched by David's sincere apology. But for her, it was too late. Nothing could replace her days of living a harsh life in the Underworld for so many years. And David is well aware of that.
David was fully aware of this, but he also could not underestimate the situation now. All his enemies were really strong, and he was alone here. How can he win?
Of course, he wouldn't know until he tried.
But before David starts this one-sided fight, he wants to ask Catty one more thing.
"Hey, before I fucking slaughter all of you motherfuckers, I wanna ask you one last thing." David said, making Catty smile. His eyes were still red from crying now that David could see clearly.
"What else do you wanna ask?"
"Has the door to your heart really closed to accept my apology?"
Catty didn't answer what David was asking, making David close his eyes with a smile. "I see. Well, I'll bear the brunt of my guilt towards you for the rest of my life if that's the case."
David still closed his eyes, he recalled all the bad things he had ever experienced in his life. From the very beginning his adoptive father died, until he imagined he would never be able to see the face of the girl he loved more than himself again.
And as David thought about it, his heart stopped beating for a split second. In his heart, David whispered, "I'm sorry, David."
Yes, David apologized to himself.
"Maybe this is the last time I hurt you. Now, you can rest easy in there. Because from this very second,"
David opened his eyes. After casting all the bad images of endless suffering about the life he had lived, suggesting himself that he had lost Angeline for good, David's pupils turned red. Catty could see it, it was the figure David showed when David nearly killed them both the last time they met.
It was a figure where David lost his human side. Catty had also seen this when David lost Ainsley, the girl David had considered his own little sister.
David also continued the last sentence in his heart, "I will let the devil who is in my body take over. Now we can rest in peace, David."
The intense and terrifying killing aura that emanates from David's presence can be felt by Catty, Cederic, Steve, Isaac and also Benedict. Everyone realized that what was in front of them was no longer the David they had known.
And for some reason, Steve could feel the presence of Hendrick Brasco from David.
Maybe it was just an illusion, but somehow the illusion seemed very real. David's murderous aura was completely similar to that of the former legendary mafia boss Hendrick Brasco.
David began to laugh softly, until his laughter really sounded terrible. His pupils turned red, and without the slightest warning David dashed towards Steve, the person who was standing closest to David.
Instead of David firing a bullet from the sniper rifle he was holding, David swung the gun and slammed it right in Steve's head, making Steve stagger to the side while dripping fresh blood from his injured head.
Steve stepped away holding the blood-leaking wound on his head with his own hands, leaving Benedict to face David.
David returned to swinging the gun, but Benedict's strong body managed to hold it, releasing and even bending the gun barrel and throwing it in any direction. Now David is no longer armed, but Benedict could not anticipate David's hand-to-hand attack which is so brutal and merciless. Benedict, who has the endurance and strength of the body above the average human, is overwhelmed to block every attack that David launches.
Steve, who has regained control of himself, steps forward to help Benedict face David, but things don't change much. David's attacks could hardly be anticipated by the two of them. David kept throwing attacks repeatedly at Benedict and Steve while laughing every time he landed a punch or kick for them both.
From a distance Catty, Cederic and Isaac could hardly believe what they were seeing right now.
David had completely lost his human side.
"You damn monster!" shouted Cederic, who released his hug on Catty's waist and stepped forward to face David. Steve manages to land one punch in David's jaw, but David instead glares at Cederic with a big grin without saying anything.
Baaam! ...
David kicks Cederic in the stomach, sending him back a few steps and cornering him so that Cederic hits the wall on his back. David made Cederic fall to his knees and grabbed Cederic's head with both hands. David also landed his knee repeatedly very hard on Cederic's face, as if trying to make Cederic's face become like a flat board, and David was still laughing when he did it.
Benedict smacked the back of David's head with all his might. Benedict's large fist manages to make blood drip from the part he hit, but David immediately attacks Benedict backing up, while Cederic is already lying unconscious because his skull is now crushed by the brutal blow of David's knee to his face.
Everyone who saw David was speechless.
David had literally killed his human side by himself.
The 'Demon Prince' had actually appeared before them.