Prologue

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30th May 2024

Somewhere in Kuala Lumpur - 4.00pm

His hands shakes as he fixes his spectacles, denials fills up his restless box of mind. The peace that can be given from him wasn't his best choice as he believes he needs to put on his act of violence to show that he is right after all. "Nobody understands me as much as I understand myself," he thought. Thirst of attention, hunger of validation. Such a filling food for him as the puppet of chaos in people's world. He always says something nice about himself, how much he contribute for nearly everything so everyone view him as the hero. Pretty much making you think you can't live without him in your life if he decides to leave you on your own. He does leave everyone out now, but do everyone really cannot live without his presence?

"FINALLY FUCKING PEACE FOR TODAY!!" He screams within his thoughts as he arrives to his friends apartment. Awhile he is taking off his shoes, he heard a faint noise screaming in the background, "Shane!!! You're back already?!" Shane's friend asked emphatically as he puts his shoes back into the racks. "No shit, man! The place so fucking far out, I had to ask a fucking Grab car, man!" Shane exclaims. He walks in as the vibration of his phone was felt from his back pocket. Pulling it out, his eyes glimmered with sparkles of trepidation. To the point of restlessly eager for his excitement, he wait for a few days to get a full rest before he announce his big and amazing news to his entrepreneurship members. Curious of Shane's excitement, he questioned Shane, "The fuck you're giggling about?" Shane, who smiles like a phsycotic, demonic being that just got his human manipulated by his so-called 'righteous' charismatic words, respond excitedly to his oblivious friend's question, "I got my motherfucking interview with the fucking CIAST, man!!!" As he screams his announcement, his friend, who is happy for this announcement, screams with joy alongside with Shane. To commemorate this achievement, Shane opens his TikTok account to sing at his livestream. His old radio-like voice echoes through his mic until 1 o'clock in the morning.

Few days after, Shane tries to reach his members to explain the CIAST situation but most of them did not answer his calls but one. Although he felt slightly ashamed of the outcome, he shrugs it off and began explains lengthy about the CIAST situation very seriously. After hearing his member's approval for his leave, he then quickly turns off his phone and immediately turns on his friend's computer to play his favorite game, GTA V NoPixel live. In amidst of playing the game live, Shane's phone turned on by itself. His phone spurred out of control - opening and closing every single application that was on his phone until the WhatsApp application opened. The application itself open one chat after another and scrolled rapidly as if it was searching for something. Finally the app opened a certain chat, with an unknown number displayed on top. The app slowly scrolls down to look at the context of the conversation.

***-****-****: Congrats on your CIAST, my guy!

Shane: Thanks, man! At least you cared about me. Unlike my friends at UMK.

***-****-****: Speaking of that, about those 5 girls that you took photos of. Do you have the intel about them.

Shane: Oooo~... Wanting to meet one of them, man? 😂😂😂

***-****-****: Yeah... Something like that.

The screen immediately flashed and pops out progress bar which stated, "Downloading screenshots 1/120 files"


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