Chapter 307
"There was a fire outside, and they locked the door. The fire was spreading quickly, and we... we couldn’t escape_" Dexter whispered with a trembling voice.
He couldn’t help but still tremble upon recalling those past experiences of his.
"Actually, we might’ve had a chance at escaping if I had worked with Simeon. But we argued in the dorm that day, and it escalated into a fight." Dexter looked up at me. "He accidentally struck me too hard, and I blacked out..."
Stunned, I looked at him in disbelief. I didn’t know something like this had happened.
"Simeon... knocked you out?" Even my voice was trembling.
Dexter continued, "He was too extreme. He wanted to kill everyone in the advanced class, and I was stopping him. I knew that they had locked the door from the outside and were deliberately holding him back.
"I never thought those people would start a fire. I thought it was just a prank to mess with us... They never expected the electrical system of the orphanage to short circuit. That spark of fire ended up resulting in a disaster."
Dexter tugged on his hair and leaned against my shoulder, blaming himself. We stood there for a good while, and I felt his pain.
I could somewhat understand the truth and reason behind the fire back then.
Dexter and Simeon were both one-of-a-kind geniuses. They would never allow anyone to burn them to death in the room just like that.
Simeon had crawled up from the bottom. There was both an angel and a demon residing within him.