Flashback to the cells
"So you're telling me...that our so-called parents aren't actually our parents, that they raised us all these years just to kill us in the end-damn." - Shimo
"Well unlike you who they took in as a baby, we remember them taking us from our parents, when I was 5." - Ryu
"I still knew that he wasn't my actual parent but I chose to forget it either way, maybe because even though he knew it'll come to me being a sacrifice for his cult, he wanted me to have the life every child should have. He took me to private schools, took me out to buy nice food and clothes and he even let me call him by his actual name" - Ryu
"Lucky you" - Jin
"Hmm?" - Ryu
"My "guardian" was a deadbeat. He always beat me when he was drunk, didn't care about my education, which was a local public school by the way, and he never even remembered my birthdays. Plus the neighborhood we lived in didn't do it any justice, that town was fuckin' hell; people were always fighting, robberies were an average Tuesday and turf wars never ended. The crime rate was so high we couldn't even have a mayor." - Jin
"Sounds like you had a rough childhood." - Kai
"You don't know the half of it." - Jin
"If it'll make you feel better, mines is way worse than yours." - Kai says with a smile
"You guys know the Shirai clan?" - Kai
"Yeah the one in Kyo-no shit you're a Shirai!" - Shimo in disbelief
"That's like one of the biggest clans in Japan!" - Shimo
"Dude you're like royalty and-" - Shimo
"I wish they'd all go to hell." - Kai says with a scowled face
"Wait...why would you say that?" - Shimo
" That clan...isn't what you think it is, they're monsters, just because I'm not of of them." - Kai
Everyone stares at Kai
"Sigh...I'm a bastard, a child born out of an affair. My mom was a servant to the royal family, and my dad...is the head of the Shirai clan." - Kai
"But he doesn't fucking care!" - Kai shouts in anger
"Wait..."was" - Ryu
"Stare...they killed my mom once the rumour spread that the head had secret child. So they took me in, but not as their child, as a charade." - Kai
"They beat me, tortured me, made me feel unwanted, made me do everything in the house even though I had four older royal siblings. They all treated me like filth, even my brothers and sisters. I would watch as they all got gifts and eat at the family table, and I didn't even go to school. I watched people train, learned from everything my siblings did and studied twice as hard. My life was a nightmare. There was only one person who was nice to me back there, the house maid. She never treated me like the others and always told me to just smile through the pain, and I thought I had someone who would comfort me. Turns out she drugged me yesterday and brought me here-hehe. But I'm grateful to her, she took me out of that shithole, I bet they won't even care that I'm gone." - Kai
"Wow...I am so sorry I said my childhood was shit." - Jin
"Compared to them, I like you guys. - Kai
They all smile
"I don't remember if I have a real family or parents, just the ones that raised me. But they did say that I cried a lot when I was a baby so I'm guessing they're my real parents. That's all I got." - Shimo
"Interesting but...has anyone here asked?" - Jin
"Has anyone here been raised by two parents?" - Shimo
Kai and Ryu burst out laughing
End of flashback
Ryu runs through the hallway turning his head at every door
"I'm gonna find you guys." - Ryu says assuring himself