CONNECT: Rise Of The Undead King

Uche tilted his head and knowingly stared at Kante into his eye, who immediately moved his eyes away.

"You see, we are not the same, and can never be the same."

Uche smiled as he continued.

"Yes, I love making music and you love making arts, I'm hiding from the world and you're doing the same. Funnily enough, you're hiding from the world because of your alter ego, and mind you, the fact that the cops are hunting me is because of your little trick."

"Well maybe you're really the kind of person the world wants, someone who could put the whole world under their feet with a simple trick, the fact that you managed to trick the cops and the organ traffickers just to get me is really amazing, really."

Uche's smile widened, staring at Kante who was doing his best not to make eye contact with him.

"You said we are the same, but then why do you kill people for pleasure, or do I say you kill people for fun?"

Kante's expression grew cold as he leaned against the table again.

"You think I kill people for fun? Well, let me tell you a story, because even the people I killed think I just kill them for fun, you as someone who will soon become part of me should know different."

He continued.

"There used to be a strange family in this world that nobody knew about, this family lived in a secluded area, away from the humans, and they had next to no interactions with humans."

He paused, staring at Uche as if expecting him to say something.

"You won't ask me why?"

He asked, but Uche just shrugged, looking away uninterested.

"I'll tell you if you don't ask. This family lived away from everyone else because they had a very short life span, their life span was way shorter than your thing."

Kante continued with a smile.

"In this family, the highest someone could live was 25, no person had surpassed the age of twenty and the head of the family himself was twenty four. Both men and women in this family got married at the age of 15 to 16 to continue the bloodline, and they never married people outside the family to not cause their partner to mourn for their entire life after they're gone, so they married each other, and that's more reason they lived apart from everyone else. To not cause their friends to mourn when they're suddenly gone."

"That was until a guy rose, and claimed he wouldn't live with their rules, he wanted to live in the outside world among other people, because he had fallen in love with a pretty girl outside the family."

Kante's smile grew wider.

"Ah, I love that guy."

"They tried to stop him but he wiped out the whole family, every one of them not sparing a single soul. He killed the head of the family, killed the supposed leaders, he killed a crawling child and an infant, he killed a woman in labor and a pregnant woman."

"How cruel."

Kante's smile only grew wider as he told the story, as if he was enjoying it himself, he kept smiling in contrast with the people in the room who all had a grim expression.

"And you won't believe if I said this guy was only a 15 year old boy at that time. After wiping out his own family, he moved to the outside world, married the girl he loved, did the thing early and gave birth to a bouncing baby boy who unexpectedly became the first Snowflake."

Uche's expression grew grim at the mention of that word, at first, he didn't pay much attention to the story of the madman, but at the mention of a man rising up to wipe out his own family, his interest was piqued, and now it seemed Kante was talking about his own origin, his own background and family.

'Interesting, born by a father who wiped out his own family, the child will surely be evil.'

Meanwhile, Kante continued.

"The bouncing baby boy grew up under his parents' care, they lived happily and smiled every day but the father never found peace, knowing he soon would be gone and turn his happy family house into a mourning hall, he realized why his ancestors had kept it that way, to live away from everyone else.

But it was too late, he couldn't bring them back to live as it used to be, knowing his lovely wife would spend the rest of her life mourning both him and his son when they're gone, he decided to turn his anger to the world."

"He was like, if I couldn't live long, then I might as well take as many people with me. That's what he said that day, his anger was further fueled by the sudden death of his wife, who was killed by a group of gangsters after being raped."

"Since then, he lived the next couple years of his life killing and teaching his son how to cultivate the art of killing. He had brought his son up with the art of killing and gave him the name Snowflake, because of how fragile he was. He died a couple years later at the age of 25, and his son continued his legacy with the name Snowflake.

His son grew up killing people, knowing he also wouldn't live long, he always had his father's words implanted in him. To take as many lives with him."

Kante grew silent, probably thinking of his next word while inspecting the face of everyone in the room. Knowing that none of them would live to tell the story he was telling them, he continued.

"And then, his son gave birth to me after meeting the love of his life at the age of 16, I was also brought up the way he was brought up, to continue his father's legacy and take as many people with me. We used to operate together back then, but unfortunately he died a couple years ago."

"Should I say this is the rise of Snowflake?"

Uche asked, already knowing the end of the story. Kante was not the first Snowflake, he was the second, it somehow made sense because the Snowflake phenomenon had started before Uche himself was born, and looking at the madman standing in front of him now, they would be around the same age so it would make no sense if Kante was the first.

'Interesting.'

Kante continued.

"Yes, you might name the story the rise of Snowflake, so sad you wouldn't live to tell the story, it's really sad."

His expression turned grim.

"Look at me now, I am just 19 and I've killed as many people as I know, more than any of them had killed before, I always thought I would also end up like them, die at the age of 25 and that's why I never entertained the thought of having a child, I want this cursed legacy and bloodline to end with me, so I never think of having a child.

Don't you think I'm incredible."

His smile grew cold.

"Then I met you, or rather heard of you, a person with an immortal body, a body that cannot die or rot, and fatefully, I happened to have your eyes in my possession. Don't you think it would be nice for me to have the rest of your body parts and your organs, so I can finally create my own family and live a long peaceful life, Maybe then the name Snowflake will cease to exist."