An Agreement with Fate

AK

[PAST LIFE]

It had been a few years since I arrived at the orphanage.

I had been a bit lonely (being away from home does that to you, I guess), but other than that, everything was fine, though I am still getting used to it even after a few years.

I made a friend here, he and I had a lot in common, in appearance, if not mannerisms. He was a couple of years older than me. Nobody really knew his name, not even he, but since he arrived at the orphanage when he was ten, he chose to call himself 'AK'.

Our matrons and everyone else mostly called him that as a nickname, with 'John Doe' being his legal name. AK didn't mind that though, he was just glad that they didn't ask him his real name, something about abandoning it after running away from his house.

He was always brooding alone until I joined him. Then, he would laugh and start telling me to get a future and study. I would tell him the same thing and he would say, "A corpse has no future."

Anyways, he is depressing, but he is my friend, I guess.

AK's smart, more than anyone I know. He tutors everyone here at the orphanage, including people older than him, does his own studies and then goes to study books that would give Einstein a heart attack if he tries to understand.
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It had been a while since I heard his name.

Decades, in fact.

I had been returning home, I had just got a part-time job as a cashier. It's a win for me, after all, not many try to hire an ex-con. I smile to myself, I had been lucky.

I held the newspaper closer to me with one hand and corrected my glasses with the other. The title read: 'Serial Killer AK strikes again'.

"Shit," I said to myself.

What happened to the world when I came out of prison that even angels were murdering?

The AK I knew hated violence. He had just got a job as a data analyst at a company, with a beautiful wife and a child on the way. What happened?

I couldn't help myself, I started reading the article.

'Serial Killer AK, legally known as John Doe, has fooled the cops once more. This time, numerous popular Conservative politicians were struck down in Manitoba. They were found in a sewer, eaten alive by rats. Police have found evidence related to the men being corrupt and related to the underground, according to the evidence that AK left behind.'

What does it mean 'evidence left behind'?

I discarded that thought for another time.

I laid back in my chair, my eyes closed. I let out a sigh. So, my suspicions were true. It is the AK I knew, and not some other random man. Seems like he is famous. I mean, the front page? That is something for a serial killer.

How did it happen though?

What happened to him that forced him to become a serial killer?

I looked at the newspaper and sighed again. Looks like I will find out.
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It has been three years now and I am still nowhere close to finding what happened to John.

He had killed numerous more people by now. Heck, he has a Netflix show now.

The shocking part was that people supported him.

Yeah, supported him.

The thing is, he is going after corrupted people, mainly ones related to the government in some way. That is the only thing I have found about him, his targets. But that was not so hard.