If they were struggling before, the tides quickly turned in their favour when Jin join his son's side. Some prisoners looked at him as if he were a traitor, as if he owed them loyalty.
But they all knew there was no such thing in the underground ring, it was every man for himself. That didn't stop them from feeling the betrayal however, mostly because their numbers were dwindling by the second.
They never thought about it before, but now that it was staring right at them, death was indeed a scary thing. They'd given it so many times, something that lulled them into a false sense of having conquered death, what they were experiencing however yanked them right out of their delusions.
They were basically sitting ducks and Jin knew that they couldn't be let to live, as they'd already seen the face of his child, so he was an absolute merciless beast.
"I thought we were friends." One spat, on the ground almost begging for his life. "We trusted you, all of us."
"Don't make your problems mine." Jin said coldly before striking the life out of the man.
Lil kept looking over the shoulder, she didn't trust Jin one bit. They'd been through hell because of him, it was only natural that she was sceptical.
She was one of the people who watched and listened to the father and son reunion. She couldn't quite believe a son as handsome and as gentle as Hiro was the child of the brute called Jin.
'I guess apples do fall far from the tree sometimes.' She mused as she moved through thr few prisoners that were left.
"That should be the last one, man I'm beat." Ishaan commented, attempting to clean the blood that had stained him.
"What about him?" James pointed to Jin, he looked like he wasn't done yet. It was understandable since they were too busy fighting to witness his change of heart.
Jin gave him a curious look, as if daring him to make a move. Hiro saw this and quickly stood between them, his arms wide protecting his father.
"He's alright, he's my father. I suppose you wouldn't know, since you weren't here before..." He trailed off, not wanting his father to know that he'd been watching him ever since the ring, where he lost his humanity and ripped people apart.
But James didn't seem to understand, he hadn't stopped looking at the very large man. His body never quite relaxing.
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"Waynworth huh? Interesting." He was still very much in his thoughts when he said this.
"Why's that interesting?" Kiro asked his guard coming back up.
"Eldric Waynworth, I knew him. I did some work for him, more than 10 years ago I think. I was still fresh out of the academy, but I couldn't forget the man..." He trailed off.
He remembered how Eldric was also once a prisoner here. He remembered how he'd begged him to put him out of his misery, he remembered how he took his last breaths on his arms.
Assuring him to not worry, that his grandson would come one day. Of course Jin played that off as an old man's dream, on his last dying breath. But he couldn't have imagined he was right.
Jin felt a ping of guilt for the first time in forever. This boy, who was his son's best friend, he'd brought him misery by taking his grandfather away.
"Look, kid—" He couldn't keep it in, he wanted to say something about it, anything, he was stuttering a lot though, a nervous demeanor that didn't quite suit him.
Kiro looked him in the eye, he didn't know exactly what he was going to tell him but he could tell that his grandfather wasn't part of their world anymore. He felt relief that he wasn't in some prison somewhere, getting this kind of closure wasn't something many could have.
"It's alright, it's good to meet you sir." Kiro said, extending his hand.
As old as Eldric was, Jin could see him in Kiro. He looked so much like him, it was uncanny.
"No, you don't understand—"
His speech was interrupted by loud bangs. The underground they were in started shaking. Nobody needed to be told, they ran out of the exit, afraid it would collapse on them.
Jin was the last one to get out of the corridor, making sure everyone was safe including his son before bolting for the exit himself.