Chapter 1 - Emerged from the shadow...!!!

“Stop…… please don’t hurt her.” Rose’s father, who took three bullets in his chest, begged in front of the people who had just bragged about their home and killed his pregnant wife and his maids in front of him.

He tried to fight, but these men came prepared. He had only a wish right now, not to let them discover his daughter, whom he had hidden in the wardrobe.

These men laughed like manic as he walked toward the wardrobe since he knew where he had kept the girl.

Rose’s father dragged his blood-drenched body and tried to stop these men; he knew what would happen to the girl if they found her.

The men didn’t bother with Rose’s father and pulled open the wardrobe door, and little Rose, who was shaking violently, looked at the man with frightened eyes.

But when her eyes fell on her mother’s dead body, along with the maids and her father in blood, she couldn’t stay quiet and screamed.

How could a 10-year-old girl keep her calm seeing such a horrific scene in front of her? These men didn’t care about her; the man pulled his gun and pointed it at her head.

Then another man spoke out behind them, 

“Boss, it would be a loss to kill the girl; why not send her to dreamland?" I’m sure our men will be pleased with a fresh item." 

As the man spoke, he licked his lips. After all, the girl was such a beautiful doll; he was sure she would be an excellent toy for their men.

The man who raised his gun on Rose’s head suddenly looked at Rose with a wicked, murderous grin and then turned to Rose’s father, whose expression drowned in pure horror when he heard them discuss his daughter’s future.

He suddenly couldn’t keep calm and, with all his strength, grabbed the man by his throat. 

“You can keep dreaming.” Rose’s dad was like a wounded lion; even losing his wife meant nothing to him. As long as he could take these heinous people with him, at least his daughter would live.

But he underestimated them; how could he, taking three bullets, win against 20 people, be ready to tear him up in a second? The moment he attacked, the man attacked and put two more bullets in his chest, and this time it hit his chest straight.

Rose’s father’s hand loosened from the man’s neck, and he felt the entire world turn blurry in front of him as he fell to the ground. Not only that, but when he fell, the man stepped on his chest, and mocking laughter broke out.

Rose screamed in fear. How could she bear this? She felt her entire world shattered when her father looked at her with a painful expression; only pain and helplessness were in his eyes.

The man turned and grabbed Rose by her beautiful hair and pulled her closer. “Welcome to hell, princess,” the man said with a smile, which made Rose shiver; she felt disgusted by his touch and closeness.

She was a princess of her father’s kingdom, where he kept her protected from all danger, and she had only seen the goodness of this world; this was the first time she faced the dark side of the world.

“Daddy.” In fear, she called out to her father.

Her father would barely have the life to hear her call. He wanted to protect his daughter, but it seemed god had another plan; he couldn’t even answer his daughter, who was frightened.

Rose got her answer with silence; she didn’t know what she was feeling. “Daddy, ah, daddy, daddy, take the bad man away.” She couldn’t even say anything other than these words.

She finally knew how cruel the world was. She kept screaming and crying, but it seemed the world had abandoned her.

Rose’s father thought god had abandoned them already; god didn’t even want to spare his 10-year-old daughter.

But he didn’t; when gunshots were heard just from the entrance, the man who was holding Rose let her go and turned his face only with bullets.

Countless footsteps approached, and countless black-clothed people appeared in the room with guns.

Among them, a man in a black wind coat stood in the middle of them and looked at these assassins with a cold, murderous gaze.

Rose was crying until she saw the man before her, her blue eyes stuck on the man.

The man didn’t even blink when he fired coolly at these men, and not even a bullet missed. All the shots were on point; Rose flinched in terror when the man in front of her fell to the ground with a bullet in his head.

Her sound slowed down, but she couldn’t calm herself completely. Rose's father looked at the people with hopeful eyes. Finally, the world might have abandoned them, but someone didn’t, and he could now peacefully leave because he knew his daughter was not alone anymore.

Rose looked at the man; amidst a torrential of bullets, he emerged from the shadow, striding purposefully toward her. The noise of gunfire echoed in the air, yet his determined steps didn’t even stop for a second, even when the bullets just passed by him.

His silhouette moved with a grace that defied his aura; danger had just bypassed him, almost touched him, yet he walked toward the girl as if even the world stopped; he wouldn’t. It felt like the world stopped around him briefly, and only he existed.

Even these dangerous assailants didn’t even stand a chance in his presence, which made Rose look at the man in front of them with terror; she was a little soul. These assassins were already scary enough to suck her soul.

Rose stood on the other side of the danger, while her eyes widened in disbelief at his actions because her father taught her in this world if a person doesn’t even care about their own life, then no one is more dangerous than that person, and she knew her dad warned her about a man like him.

How could a person walk like this even knowing the bullet doesn’t have eyes? Only a senseless person could do this.

Little Rose's terrified eyes showed even more terror; she lost her voice when the man stopped before her. She closed her eyes in fear when she thought the man would hurt her.

But she heard the most beautiful, deep voice engraved in her mind for life.

“Don’t be afraid, Little Rose. No one can hurt you anymore.” The moment the man spoke to her gently, Rose opened her eyes, and the man’s dark yet mysterious eyes stared deep into her blue eyes.