Ezreal stood outside the hospital, head turned towards the sky contemplating. Their father had been a drunkard, usually came home late in the night drunk, and abused them and his mother. The mother in response took it out on the kids, berating and beating them whenever she could. There were nights where they would be locked in the darkness unable to get out. Some days went by withot them eating once. She blamed them for her misfoturne calling them devils for their unnatural red eyes.
But eventually their mother had gotten fed up of their father, one night she ran away from home, leaving the two with their abusive dad. Thats when Williams sickness began, he was 5 at that time while, Ezreal was 10. They endured years under the brutality of their father, now that the mother had escaped he had no one to take out his anger on, so he took it on the kids. 10 years went by in such a fashion, William had only grown weaker during that time, losing rotary fuction in his left, but their father didn't care his abusive tendencies only grew.
It was the day Ezreal came from home after securing some medicine for his brother that broke the straw. He rembered that night kile it was yesterday, he had finally managed to get some new medicine that would help his brother, he remembered running home in the acidic rain but it didn't bother him. He opened the door and waht he saw still haunted his dream till this day.
Infront of him, his father stood, fists curled up drenched in blood, his chest heaving up and down. Below him, William lay a mess of blood and gore, tears streamed for his messed up face, multiple wounds littered his body, his arms bent in unnatural shape. He cried for help. His father raised another fist aiming to bring it down, but Ezreal didn't let him. He rushed drawing a pocket knife he always kept. Rage consumed him, he jumped on his father driving the knife deep into his neck. He remembered repeatedly stabbing him while crying, even after he was dead he kept on stabbing.
Ezreal sighed clearing his head of the memories, walking to a nearby bench, sitting down pulling out a pack of ciggarretes. He lit one up taking a large puff, before exhaling a large plume of white smoke. He turned his head up, staring at the sky illuminated with holographic advatisemtns. A gravitrain passed causing the ground to shake. In the backround sirens could be heard. He pulled out the pocket knife from his pocket, beginnnig to twirl it around his fingers.
Suddenly a notification rang on his wrist com. He opened it seeing a holographic screen appearing on it a message from Victor.
Ezreal sighed before taking one last puff of the cigarette and then throwing the stub away. He began making his way to Victor's place.
Ezreal stood infront of an apartment complex. The metal walls still stained with rust, common for all buildings in the slum sector of the city. He climed up, the stair case, trash covered the staircase. A man lay on the staircase, a bottle of alcohol in one hand, his pants full down displaying his dick to the world. On his head a VR headset. Ezreal sighed before stepping over him. He appeared on infront of a door marked 234.
He knocked on it, skittering sounds appeared from the other side, as aqueaky voice appeared from the other side.
"Yessss, who it it?" It said.
"Its me Ez, open up." Ezreal said.
A slit opened up, the person on the inside staring at Ezreal. The door, then opened up. The figure on the the otherside, rushing and embracing him in a hug. Ezreal tried to get out but he couldn't, after a while the person set him free, beckoning him inside his abode. Ezreal sighed once again, before entering. The figure quickly locked the door. Shutting it with a series of locks.
Ezreal looked around the house. Unlike the outside the place was the definition of cleanliness, the place was also larger than it appeared. An air purifier, sat on side of the room ensuring that the air was being filtered so clean air was always available. A mini cleaner robot whirred around the room scooping up any dirt.
"Were you followed Ez." Victor asked, adjusting his thick rimmed glasses.
Ezreal turned to stare at the figure, he was quite chubby. He wore an oversized white tee, with black short, on his feet panda sandals. For one of the best hackers in the city, even termed venom, he didn't look the part.
"No, i wasn't. Here this is yours." Ezreal said, removing the metal disk from his pocket before throwing it at Victor.
Victor caught it putting it aside.
"How's William?" Victor asked
"Could be better, just the medicine needed to treat him is expensive as fuck" Ezreal slumping down on the couch.
"Well you're in luck because i just discovered a gold mine" Victor said rushing sitting across a smile developing on his face.
Ethan sat up straight, his eyebrows raised, he had heard this sentence from him way too many times.
"If its about becoming a boy toy for that hag i told you i won't do it." Ezreal said.
"No, no, no, no. It's not that, ever heard of Eden Online." Victor said with a smile