Surviving World's End

Shadow mountain - Village of Assassins

Three vehicles were going along a muddy stretch of land up the mountains suddenly came to a stop . " Stop , from here we go on horseback . Get the parcel out of the car ." A burly man , his face covered by a black cloth and his body covered in black tight body hugging clothes said .

 Six people stepped out of the car wearing similar clothes like the burly man . One of them opened the trunk of one of the cars and took out a person or rather a child from the trunk and put it on his shoulder. 

 " Hey , who are you guys . Why did you suddenly kidnap me . Did that old geezer borrow from you too . Are you trying to harvest my organs . I am telling you it is not use . I have regular stomach aches since I was young , i have asthma too , difficulty in breathing so my lungs are rotten . Grandpa took me to a doctor in the city when I was young , the doctor said that my heart was weak and have multiple defects , so I would not survive after the age of 18 , and my kidneys have problems too. I regularly suffer from jaundice so my liver is a gone case too. And my eyesight is weak too , even if I look at your face from this distance I couldn't make out your facial features. Hell I can't even differentiate if you are a man or woman . I am telling you my whole body and organs are rotten to the core ." 

The child sprouted whatever nonsense came to his mind .

 The burly guy looked at one of the guys asking " Didn't you use the knockout powder , why is he still conscious." 

 " I used as much as to knock out a healthy elephant, but it seems its not very effective against him . It seems he is immune to our methods ." Replied a guy 

 The burly guys seems to ponder ," Hmm , well we can't expect anything less from a guy raised by Mater Kenshin " 

 Then the burly man came forward and gave a hand chop towards the neck of the kid and as soon as the kid was hit he was knocked unconscious.

 " Let's hurry up , we shouldn't make the Grand Master wait for long " the burly man instructed and soon entered the forest with the rest of the man and soon all of them disappeared inside the forest. The strange thing was that as all of these men walked they neither made any sounds nor left any footprints on the ground . 

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Mark's POV 

 How many hours has it been since that dude made me inhale some powder and put me inside this stinky car trunk . Wait a minute , these guys made me inhale some kind of powder to knock me out and then they have kidnapped me . Isn't this the same kind of thing a group involved in organising traffickers would do to a 13 year old kid . Shit , what kind of guys did that old geezer associate with and took out a loan from . This time I am truly finished . I looked up towards the sky and yelled in my mind , you old geezer even in death you won't find peace .

 After a long time the vehicles came to a stop and my heartbeat raced inside my chest . Is that it , have we reached the destination where they are gonna cut me open and harvest my organs . Suddenly the car trunk opened and I pretended that i was unconscious so that i could hear what these guys were planning but shit , they haven't even talked a word . 

 This was the moment when I realised that pretending to be unconscious was not an option, so i started yelling and saying whatever gibberish came to my mind . I was yelling and I noticed that the burly guy said something and came towards me , he raised his hand and my vision suddenly went blank .

 You must be wondering how I got to be in this position when I had just went to the village chief to ask for help .

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 " Chief as you can see , my grandpa has incurred a lot of debt and the debtors are expecting me to pay them back . How can a child like me have that kind of money . Can you help me sell the land under my grandparents name so I could repay the debt ." 

 The chief had an amusing smile on his face ," Well , no can do little Mark , I think u have already realised that you were not related to your grandparents by blood nor have they left behind a will that says all their properties will belong to you after their death . So legally I can't allow you to sell those pieces of land unless you show me some proof saying that they left all their inheritance for you ."

 Seeing the village Chief's expression Mark realised that this snake of a bastard was not going to help him . At that moment Mark felt anger burning inside his heart so he yelled ," Bastard, what kind of logic is that , I can inherit their inheritance but I have to pay their debts . If I don't have the right to sell those land then I don't have to pay of their debts too." 

 The Village chief seeing his outburst just snorted " The matter of other I don't understand, I only just know that you can't sell off those properties. Now get lost , don't disturb my peace ,you little bastard ." 

 Mark having no choice left the village chief's house in anger and forcefully slammed the door shut . Seeing that Mark had truly left , the village chief stood up from his chair and went towards's the book stand , took out a book and kept flipping the pages of the book. After sometime he took out a piece of paper from inside the book and dialed a number on his phone .

 " Hello , yes . Master Kenshin is dead . .... Yes he left behind a boy .... Ok till the guys reach here I will have everything ready don't worry .... Thanks ..... Ok bye .... May the shadow clan live forever ." 

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