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Kyungsoo leaned towards the night stand next to his bed,pulling out a small metallic packet.

If there was something Eun-ah was grateful about, Kyungsoo had been considerate at times. He didn't want to risk anything by being careless and not using protection.

At times, Kyungsoo was gentle. He listened to her worries,he seemed a little less insane than he actually was.

That night Eun-ah couldn't sleep properly, she felt sore.

"Close your eyes," she heard Kyungsoo's low commanding voice resonate through her head.

"Do you still read a lot?" She asked out of nowhere,after a short pause Kyungsoo nodded.

"Books used to be the only friends I had once...",it was dark and she couldn't see his face but she could feel a certain emotion radiating from him.

"Here,I bought you a new one."

"Thank you noona,what is this?"

"Little Prince....or something like that,tell me whether you like it."

The young Kyungsoo beamed brightly. Jinri was the house keeper of his palace like home,and he,a child that should've never existed.

Isolated in a lone corner of the house,away from civilization. Kyungsoo grew up reading.

His only human interaction was with Jinri,and seldom his family members who gave him beatings.

Kyungsoo was intelligent,he taught himself to read and write,he curbed the growing monster inside him.

But not for too long. It was one fateful night when he murdered his whole family