Mercy was never ours

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Summary

No one remembers when Alice appeared. No one remembers when she vanished. Some call her a ghost. Some call her a curse. But everyone remembers her eyes—cold, empty, like the calm before a massacre. Years ago, her family died one by one. Then she disappeared. Now, the man who raised her is dead... and whispers say "she’s coming home, contract over " Ryan has been chasing shadows ever since his brother’s mysterious death. When he hears Alice’s name, everything he thought he knew begins to crumble. Two souls bound by blood and silence. One promise that can’t stay buried. And when Alice returns... the world will remember her again.

Genre
Mystery
Author
Rose
Status
Ongoing
Chapters
1
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Chapter 1

Ep 1 - The Storm Return

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Her name was Alice.

No one remembers when she first appeared.

No one remembers when she vanished.

Some call her a ghost.

Some call her a curse.

All they remember... are her eyes.

Cold. Empty.

Like the calm before a massacre.

Her parents died.

Her uncle, too.

After that-only silence.

But silence never lasts.

And when it breaks,

it sounds like war.

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His name was Ryan.

A man with too many scars,

and too few memories he can trust.

They say his brother took his own life.

He doesn't believe it.

He's been chasing shadows ever since.

He doesn't talk much.

He watches. He listens.

He walks like a man who's seen something

he wasn't supposed to.

Two names,

two paths-

both soaked in blood,

both heading toward each other.

And when they meet,

the silence will end.

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"A famous businessman found dead in his private mansion."

(To the public, he was a generous investor - a smiling face who sponsored charities and built schools.

To the underworld, he was the king behind the curtain - the one who made the rules, broke them, and killed anyone who forgot them.)

(The reporters called it "an accident."

The people called it "fate."

But the underworld called it a warning.

Because everyone knew what would come next.)

Voice 1: "If he's dead..."

Voice 2: "...she'll come back."

(Bars went quiet. Phones stopped ringing. Names that hadn't been spoken in years returned like echoes.)

Narrator: "Alice. The girl with no mercy. The woman with eyes that felt nothing.

They said she'd vanished years ago - gone after her parents' deaths, raised by the man who just died.

But if he was gone... then the storm was on its way back."

________________________________________(Scene change: A house far from the noise. TV flickers.)

(Ryan sits on the couch, watching the news replay over and over.

Beside him, his father sits in silence - the kind that comes before bad things.)

News Anchor: "Authorities report no sign of foul play."

Ryan: "Do you think it's true? That he just... slipped?"

(His father doesn't answer immediately. He just stares at the screen, the reflection of the dead man's face caught in his glasses.)

Father: "No one kills a man like him without knowing what follows."

Ryan: "What follows?"

(Father leans back, almost whispering.)

Father: "Her."

(The air grows heavy. Ryan turns toward his father - he's seen his father nervous before, but never afraid.)

Ryan: "You mean Alice?"

Father: (slow nod) "If she's coming back... this country's peace is about to end."

(The newscaster keeps talking - her voice is too cheerful for what she's saying.

But Ryan's father isn't listening anymore.

He's thinking of a promise once made - a deal signed in silence, sealed in blood.

And now, the one person they never wanted to see again... is on her way home.)

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His father rose slowly, voice barely a breath.

“You can’t stop what’s already been promised.”

Ryan frowned. “What promise?”

The lights flickered, and for an instant the air smelled like iron and rain.

“The one sealed in blood,” his father said.

“The one that wakes her.”

Somewhere outside, thunder rolled — soft, distant, almost like a heartbeat.