Kapitel 3: chance? no chance

Of course Zorak's plan to kill Ryu without getting his hand dirty failed because Ryu after thrown out of his home universe landed in a much more powerful universe but that wasn't without a cost. It exhausted all of his whole lifetimes unused luck. But that doesn't mean Zorak's first trick failed.

After all as they say there is many things far worse than death. That's proved the case as Ryu reborn in one of the infamous Devil family named Phenex as the 4th child of the family. At first it was like Ryu's dream come true. A loving family where he has parents who loves him very much and 2 older siblings who spoils him too.

But all came to crashing down on him when he is three years old and it was time to what kind of abilities he born with.

ON PHENEX FAMILIES PRIVATE TRAINING GROUND:

Lady Raven Phenex aka Ryu's mother standing with her husband Ryder in front her youngest son Ryu. Then she started instructed her son "listen sweety, first sit down on meditative position then try to concentrate on middle of your chest."

Ryu did as she told him then he starting to feel something existed there which he never felt before a hot but small marbel size ball.AS his mother then instructed him he is trying to pull a string out of it. At first it failed after keep trying again and again for a long time finally it gave in as with heart full of happiness he opened his eyes he saw a small flame dancing on his palm but he don't have any wings that normally manifests as any devil awakens their powers.

But his happiness didn't last long as he looked at his parents expression. His mothers face is filled with disappointment but that disappeared in a moment now she is smiling at him with encouragement. But his father expression is that of disgust and he left while commenting "What a weakling."

3 moths later:

At first Ryu wasn't able to understand what's going on as everyone kept looked at him with disgust and kept commenting "weakling "behind his back even his mother kept looking at him with pity. So he went to library to research about what is going on. What he found shattered his heart as there is written that even the weakest of the phenex takes at most 10 hour to awaken his/her power and their core is at least size of a baseball.

He again starting to feel like he had fallen into quicksand as he knew no matter how hard he try he will always be a faliure.

"Damn you fate.For fucks sake even newly reincarnated devils have bigger core than him. why is it always I,who have to suffer ?"

Sadly it won't change the fact that his core is only the size of a marble. At first he thought that now his bad luck won't effect him anymore in his new life.Life just have to sucker punch him on the gut reminding him of that he is still fate's bitch.

But he didn't give up as he kept researching on the library to find a method to become stronger. Although there is many sinister old methods such as living sacrifice method which has been long since banned and if anyone caught doing so will be executed. On top of that although Ryu doesn't consider himself as a very good person but he refused to destroy others lives for sake of power.

So he kept looking at other method but no avail. Even these days his older brother Riser started to bully him even the smallest things like taking his pocket money to biggest of things like keeping him locked out of the house at winter night when he knows Ryu don't have enough power to teleport himself into the house.

Same thing like this happened one night but this pattern has come to notice into the eyes of some of the less than pleasant people. A man in Butler outfit came to kidnap him. Ryu tried to fight him but alas what a 3 year old kid can do against an ultimate class opponent. He was defeated in a second and was kidnapped.

After sometime later when some time later he regained consciousness he opened his eyes and looked around the room and saw it looks like some kind of lab with 4 people working over nearest table and most importantly he was strapped to a research table with his limb bound and mouth gagged. Seeing him woke up one of the scientist's came to him with a creepy smile as he started to run his hand over Ryu's stomach as to going go lower the female among the scientist noticed it "Enough about this Lucas, don't molest the test subject you disgusting freak".

In a instant he backed off looks like that female is the head of this group. Ryu just release a sigh of relief but same time he is cursing Riser for being such a bastard and whole phenex family for being such as uncaring monsters.

Now that Female scientist came forward and started the experiment. From now on the pain begins At first it is like his whole body is burning then he felt like his chest is getting cut open and his whole body freezing then again burning. As the process kept going on he starting lose his consciousness as the last moment he saw a whitish blue orb size of a fist going into his chest cavity.

Sometime later:

Ryu starting to gain consciousness. although he can't see what is going on but he can hear clearly a voice is saying which he is very familiar with "you are right Lord Bael. Looks like the trash of phenex family is now blind".

Instantly a firey female voice which he recognized as his mother's "Watch your tone Ryder. If your dare to call my son trash again I will castrate you."If he was afraid he didn't show it.

Ryder just replied "then what I will call him, huh? He brought nothing but disgrace and shame to our mighty phenex family."

Then and unfamiliar male voice said "As I checked the whole condition of his he was experimented and his body is now dying."

Hearing this his mother grasped in fear then started crying and begging that man "Please lord Ajuka do something, please just save my baby." But Ryder just laughed in happiness and said "good riddance". That was enough for Raven to start attacking her husband.

Then again everything went dark for him.

Sometime later when he finally regained his consciousness he found himself on an orphanage. Seeing this he instantly understood what happened his mother must have been subdued by Ryder and he was banished into human realm to die.

Now he starting to understand one thing that is might makes right. It does not matter if you do heinous crimes you won't get punished as long you are strong enough. He kept cursing himself for being a idealistic fool who thought that if he doesn't hurt others they won't hurt him". If he did those evil rituals that may have been made him a monster no different than monsters like those experimented on him. But this way at least he won't have to suffer. It's no ones fault but his own. His naivety and innocence caused this. If he get another chance he will never make same mistake again". But alas he is laying there waiting for his death to claim him.

He just mirthlessly chuckled like a broken man and said in hollow tone "once a fool always a fool."