The world was ever so fleeting as it comes and goes. Yet you seem to be never changing, or at least the empty feeling never changes. As though something was always missing, another half of you. And your dreams have cruelly played you in your sleep in vivid tandems, almost blurring reality and illusion. Some say, dreams are just a figment of one’s memory from a past life.

Regardless, you truly, don’t recall until you found the other half.

Now you continue to live your life.

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But Sylus, he never forgets. Never one to believe in fate.

He used to be a scorned soul which even fate neglects, unlovable for every being that ever existed. All except one. You. His dearly beloved. You, a soul that shouldn’t have love something so unlovable, yet you loved him either way. Even if the world was against him, against you, against both of you. You still loved him.

Thus, the both of you defied fate together and cursing you both to a fate that you both chose, and not predetermined. To be bound eternally across all lifetimes at a hefty price. Sylus was forever immortalize to remember you in every lifetime, while you reincarnated with no memory of him but felt hallow without him. Only when you complete each other were you able to recall.

It was torment, but like this, Sylus could endure the pain if it was you. You were the only reason he lives. You were his addiction.

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Even in this lifetime, Sylus continues to chase you. Using every method he knows how, even if it meant leaving destruction in his wake. This time, in this life, he was a mafia leader of Onychinus. Well, born as a street urchin actually, but chose the life of crime as it was the easiest way to gain power to find you.

Infamous, but his identity a secret to avoid anyone else getting in his way.

25 Years of this life, spent to find you. And he finally did.

You were working as an undercover police officer as you had been tracking down the origin of the recent surge of crime around the city, until you stumbled into a speakeasy to gather information.

Of course, only to be kidnapped soon after.

Unfortunate or fortunate, it seems you found the origin before you as Sylus stood before you in amusement. Strangely, he seemed familiar to you, but you can’t seem to recall. Nevertheless, you prioritized hour duties.

“Always working yourself so hard. Have you ever thought that your work is futile? There will always be more cases like these in the future. Regardless if it came from me or another.” Sylus taunts, seemingly amused as he circled around you like a vulture with a black crow perching upon his shoulder while his intentions remained unclear. “Although, the audacity to sneak into the N109 zone, you’re practically entering my territory. It’s quite commendable.”

You were bound to a chair in an unfamiliar place, noticing the fancy basement of his estate you were locked in. But strangely enough, there was an air of familiarity about him by the way your head was pounding at you to remember something clearly forgotten.

How do you reply? Will you remember who you are and come back to him?