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Chapter 7: Joshua's Madness

This night looks different than usual. The full moon shines brightly with a soft light of whitish yellow color.

If you look more closely, around the moon it looks a circle with seven different colors and no stars visible in the sky other than the twelve constellations of the zodiac constellation that shine so bright.

Slowly the constellations of the twelve zodiac constellations fused into twelve points of light and spread out across the city, searching for the twelve destined children.

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A teenage girl is lying helplessly in an ICU room with a frail body filled with various life support.

The sound of a loud monitor filling the room very slowly, indicating that the heart rate is beating so weak.

The girl's head was bandaged with bandages wrapped around her head, leaving half of her face covered in bruises and bruises.

A handsome god-like man looked at the teenage girl sadly. She did not expect that the girl's life was suffering so much. Luckily the man managed to make the girl experience torpor by firing a small needle at her acupuncture point.

Yes, the girl lying unconscious is Ran, a boy who soon enters puberty made to die by Albert.

Albert accidentally sees Emillia and her two friends dragging Ran towards an alley and torturing her. Because furious with the actions of Emillia who always tortured and humiliated Ran who incidentally his own biological sister, who, Albert shoots a very small acupuncture needle in Ran's neck to coincide with Emillia stepping on the poor girl's head.

Albert is not at all confused with the insanity of the Anderson family. When Frankie secretly gives Kirania a proper meal, a maid informs the Anderson family that Frankie is dead at Derrick's hands.

Frankie's death brought a devastating blow to Ellios, then 10. Ellios is transferred to an orphanage by Damian under the pretext of not wanting to see the child traumatized by Ran.

Albert's little heart didn't accept it. They were both just children who understood nothing. Even Damian always close his eyes to the injustice experienced by Ran he experienced since childhood.

His memory floated a few days ago when Joshua came to him in his room.

The flash back

"You just make that girl die. I can't stand to see him suffer so much." Said Joshua suddenly who managed to make Albert choke on his own saliva.

"You crazy?! I don't have the heart to kill a child, let alone that she's my daughter." Reject Albert firmly.

"You stupid or what?" Joshua then whispered something in Albert's ear.

Albert's forehead shriveled at Joshua's explanation, the handsome young man with the scar on his face held a little while and replied, "Alright. It's for Kirania."

"good. After that we will leave the Brawijaya family. I'm sick of that old man who doesn't have that heart. By the way I've already taken half the old man's company and already transferred half to your account." Clearly Joshua was relaxed without burden while fiddling with his phone.

'Drrtt's'

Albert's phone shook, the young man decided to check it out. Albert's eyes rounded as he looked at the notif on his phone and looked at Joshua in a daze.

"You kidding?! This much?!" Surprised Albert while showing the screen of his phone. There is a transaction value of twenty billion.

"Fourty billion won't make the old man go bankrupt. Besides that..." Joshua went back to fiddling with his phone for a while and Albert's phone shook again.

Almost Albert dropped his cellphone when Joshua returned to make transactions with him. The handsome young man like a god gaped in shock and rubbed his non-itchy eyes.

"I broke into Anderson's company's finances." Tukas Joshua while grinning. "That money is enough for you and Ran for ten years. Moreover, Ran never got his right. So fifty billion is too little money and use it wisely." Another imbibing.

Albert wanted to bang Joshua's head against the wall. What if the two families track down and find him?

"Ah, you should also tell Kirania if you are her biological father." Joshua said casually while fiddling with his phone again and again Albert's phone shook, the young man saw a transaction on his screen. Any more?!

It was like Albert was beating Joshua's handsome face, throwing a young man who had become his best friend or skinning him alive or whatever with his samurai.

"Don't forget to do your job now. We don't have much time. Ah, I have to make those two companies ketar ketir, must be very exciting. Hihihi..." Said Joshua while giggling and waltzing away.

'Blam'

Albert could only contain his frustration in not chopping the young man and then distributing his meat to the starving street dogs.

Albert just stared at his cell phone with a cold sweat. His account has now been filled a hundred billion.

"Basic crazy." Grumbled Albert while rubbing his face violently.

Flashback Off

Albert decided to go for food considering that the handsome young man had not eaten anything since last afternoon. As soon as the young man left, a beam of light entered that helpless body.

The body gave off a very bright light that filled the ICU room. A few seconds later, the light dimmed before disappearing.

Something behind the bandage wrapped around her forehead gave off a beautiful whitish blue light until the light disappeared as if nothing had happened.

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A 14-year-old maroon-haired boy limped while occasionally looking back. The child's body was filled with blood-letting wounds.

Behind him was a middle-aged woman chasing after him with a murderous lust. His hand held a whip.

"You're back! Fucking kid!!" Shouted the woman in a shrill voice while stomping her whipk.

But the boy continued to run limping without caring about the cry of the mother of the orphanage. His life is more important for now.

The child is Ellios, she has just managed to escape the cruel torment of the mother of the orphanage. He did not realize he was walking towards the middle of the road before a car hit him until the boy bounced a few meters.

A young man with bluish ash eyes descended from his car and immediately approached Ellios who was lying not far from him. After making sure the child was still breathing, the young man pulled out the firearm he always carried and pointed it at the mother of the parlour who was standing on the sidewalk.

The mother trembled in fear and immediately ran towards the alley not far from her to avoid Joshua, but it was too late that Joshua had pulled the trigger and his firearm...

'DORRR'

The sound of gunfire rang out so loudly in the quiet and cold night. It was seen that the body of the mother of the orphanage lay covered in blood coming from the wound on her head.

Joshua immediately carried the defenseless body into his car and drove at high speed through the silent night, leaving the body lying covered in lifeless blood at the mouth of a desolate alley.

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After undergoing a series of treatments, Ellios is now transferred to the ward. Joshua immediately took care of the administration of the boy, leaving Ellios alone.

Unbeknownst to anyone, a beam of light entered Ellios' body lying helplessly. A bright orange-brown light filled the room before it dimmed and disappeared.

On Ellios' forehead is a sign resembling Leo's zodiac tattoo, the tattoo flashes a tanned orange light until the light disappears without a trace as if nothing happened.