Into The Grandiosity

Part 5

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"Did you..... really have to do this?"

The next day after Cameron's death, or should I say, assassination. His lifeless body full of scratches laid on the deathbed like an aged statue, gloomy and stiff. Marquis barely bothered to make sure the body looked good for the funeral, if Marquis would want so.

Marquis rolled his eyes at the question that seemed very apparent. "Seriously, Shaheen? I would've drive the truck myself if I wouldn't die from the crash. That cunt got fame to his head and looked at me like I'm his little shit. Every time he got drunk, he started shitting on me saying I'm just like on of his stupid followers just because he thought he was fully control on everything". 

Just like Cam, Marquis intensely loathe cocky people, but to an extreme extent. 

Strange, every time Cam and I had a drink privately, he showed the side that revealed his raw feelings. Somehow he even claimed that Marquis was the only one who would understand him because of their cruel behavior, of which he was a sociopath meanwhile Marquis was a psychopath.

He often had emotional outbursts that bewildered me because he would ramble about how all his past achievements were nothing to him as long as he had not yet show himself to the world without fearing the police. 

Cam's remarkable ambition stemmed from a very young age. However, he differed himself from his past self, Fiero. "If I don't do it, my life would be just like Fiero. Everyone would spit on me! A-and Fiero would look at me with loathe because I promised him that if I be nothing like him, he would not take over this body back,".

Startled, is he even who he thinks he is? I thought.

"Life is all about your achievement. This is the only achievement I want, but there's so many things I have to do. I 

"You know, I thought you would let him live to suffer. Not giving multiple powerful blow on the head to the point he died," my mind kept on imagining the horrifying moment, but it perturbed me more how Cam must had been internally hysterical to realize he nearly achieved his goal only to be damned by his own man.

"I just couldn't help the hatred inside me. But the after feeling was very appealing. Just wish I could wear the same outfit with his blood stains to the ceremony~". 

"Oh, by the way, from now on I will take the lead. But you will be the face of the community since you attended the ceremony instead of Cam due to unfortunate reasons that he had to solve. Everyone will suspect something, so clean up whatever mess you made".

Shrugging, he left the room with a grin still displaying on his face that might even last for days. But I lingered in the room to look at the unfortunate body of which the soul could be in misery in the afterlife. If I were to think positive, maybe Cam could reincarnate to redeem his past misdeed. 

"I don't understand why you're trying to be nice when you're in a corrupted industry" once he asked a question that made it seem as though I was a Saint from his point of view.

I was taken aback, "No matter how  corrupted someone or a place is, there should always be a mercy". 

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The funeral went smoothly, only there were no tears or sobs. Undeniably, not much would feel sorrow for the disease after all the misery he had put to everyone. 

His obsession with power costed him his life, even if it meant that he was murdered for just pissing off his co-worker. Because one way or another, there would always be threats in his way. It was whether he would be able to recognize it, or not. The funeral was to prove to him that he would be in our memories and deserved a respectable burial; even if we would only remember the guy named Fiero, not Cameron or Kezelo.

Everything was going smooth until, Marquis came in with the stained blue suit. The words coming out of my gritted teeth were like hisses  "I don't remember inviting you".  

"Whatever, man. He doesn't even deserve to be buried. Should have just burned him," his response was merely to taunt everyone, even the dead. He might even voluntarily fight Cam again if the dead were to arise.

I couldn't help but wonder if it would be me or Marquis who would rise in power after the death of Cameron since we were both technically Cameron's right hand man. I should step up, before he does, I thought. Things could fall into ruins if Marquis became the leader.

I would to do everything to get rid of him, even if it meant burning him alive. Because at the end of the day, everyone's point of view on what is right and wrong is different. But we were not so different in terms of behavior.

Even the nicest man can turn wicked. The question is.... would you be able to resist the temptations of life?

~THE END~