ARC 1 – CHAPTER 2
THE BOY WHO DIDN'T DIE
CHAPTER 2 – PART 1
Officially Dead
Kai Vexley no longer existed.
That was what the records said.
His school profile had been wiped clean—no attendance, no grades, no photo. Hospital databases returned errors when his name was searched. Even the police report about his parents ended in a sealed stamp.
Dead people didn't need explanations.
Kai lay on a steel table beneath flickering lights, stitching a bullet graze on his shoulder. No anesthesia. No shaking hands.
The wound was already closing.
The bio-organism pulsed gently beneath his skin, knitting flesh together like it had always belonged there.
You worry too much, it whispered.
You survived.
Kai tied off the thread.
"Survival isn't living," he muttered.
Above him, the abandoned subway control room hummed quietly—his home, his bunker, his grave.
CHAPTER 2 – PART 2
Training the Monster
Kai trained every day like he was preparing for war.
Gun drills first—draw, fire, reload, repeat. Headshots only. Misses were punished with pushups until his arms failed.
Then hand-to-hand. Boxing. Judo. Krav Maga. Anything he could steal or learn.
The bio-organism watched.
I can make you faster.
"No shortcuts."
I can make you stronger.
"No loss of control."
Kai studied crime maps projected onto the wall. Patterns. Routes. Time windows.
Batman thinking. John Wick execution.
He ran simulations against himself—what if he lost control? What if the organism took over? What if he became the thing criminals thought he was?
Kai built countermeasures.
If he ever crossed the line…
He stopped thinking about that.
CHAPTER 2 – PART 3
Proof of Immortality
The next hunt went wrong.
A dealer spotted him early. Shot fired. Point-blank.
The bullet tore through Kai's chest.
He hit the ground hard.
For a moment, everything went quiet.
Then—
Stand up.
The wound sealed itself. Bone snapped back into place. Breath returned.
Kai stood.
The dealer dropped his gun, screaming.
Kai didn't chase him.
He stared at his own chest, rain mixing with blood that wasn't there anymore.
"I should be dead," Kai whispered.
You were, the bio-organism replied.
Now you're better.
Sirens echoed in the distance.
Kai vanished into the shadows, heart racing—not from fear, but realization.
The city didn't know it yet…
…but a boy who couldn't die had started hunting.
—END OF CHAPTER 2—