III. I Now Understand Forgiveness

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Kurapika doesn't believe in many things. He doesn't believe that ghosts exist or that the soul of a person becomes haunted enough to kill somebody. He doesn't believe in happy endings and he most specially doesn't believe in love.

He grew up in an orphanage and at a young age he understood that no one can love him. He feels it in the stare that the staff gave him when he was there, it was a stare of pity. Pity for the boy that no one wants to adopt. Most parents take one look at his eyes and hesitates if they truly want to adopt him. He doesn't count how many foster homes he has gone to, all the hopes that he has, hoping that one day someone would want him. But in the end they all end up with him having to stare at the ceiling back in the orphanage after he was dumped back again. He stopped feeling hope and started turning down adoption trials at the age of twelve.

His eyes were also not the only thing weird about him. He remembers who he was before his past two lives. He remembers the hatred and guilt at the first one for a man that has jet black hair and a cross tattoo on his forehead and he remembers the feeling of forgiveness to that same one in his second life. He knows the face of that man, however he doesn't remember his name. Only the feelings and thoughts that he had stays intact onto his mind. His dreams always end with him saying something along the lines of 'May we never meet in another life-' and then it gets cut off when he's about to say the man's name. He knows that what he said wasn't true because technically he did meet the same man in his second life, and he forgave him in it too. So yeah, Kurapika doesn't believe in many things but he does believe in reincarnations.

At the age of sixteen he had moved out of the orphanage. Of course he had been grateful to the staff and nuns in the orphanage for taking care of him and he never fails to visit and give donations to them every Christmas. After moving out, the first thing that he did was to find himself a job at the diner downtown. The very first thing that he bought with his paycheck is a pair of blue contact lenses, after that he starts saving money in order to go to school. He knows that if he wants to get a higher salary he needs education for it. By the time he had saved up enough he had enrolled himself into a local highschool. They have homeschooled him back in the orphanage and upon taking the entrance examinations did the school approve of his registration. There he had realized that he had been gifted in terms of studying. He easily passes all his classes and doesn't have a hard time understanding their lessons, this method continued on until he turned twenty-one and he had been accepted into Yorkshin University. One of the most elite schools in the country. He managed to secure his standing there without having to spend an insane amount of money on tuition fees due to him having a scholarship grant. There he pursued psychology and he was currently in his second year.

"Hey Kurapika, you listening?" Bisky is a young girl that he had met back in his first year orienteering at Yorkshin University. The girl 'accidentally' bumped into him when he was on his way out of the campus. Later on she confessed that she finds him attractive that's why she hoped that maybe she could have a chance at him thus leading to the bumping incident. Unfortunately, Kurapika doesn't feel the same and he flat out said that to her but instead of being discouraged Bisky befriended him and then the rest was history. She is also a student at the art department Kurapika thinks that being an art student suited her, considering her 'obsession' towards chiseled males.

"I didn't quite catch that. What did you say?"

"Tsk. Tsk. Have you been working yourself too hard again? You know, the amount of time that you zone us out has been increasing lately. Are you okay?"

Leorio is an obnoxiously loud guy and has a foul mouth. Given his attitude it would be impossible to imagine the guy being a doctor . He however expected it from him. He knows that meeting these two is not a coincidence as he has already met them back in his first life. However, that was quite weird to say that's why he kept his mouth shut.

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