Major spoiler about what's going on, and the Vault stuff revealed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . After little bro mentions that that he withheld the security footage of the blonde love interest being kidnapped, the MC slaps him and tells little bro to report the car to the police, and to say that he aldo went missing while looking for his boyfriend. Meanwhile MC gets his tattoo finished, so that the vault can be opened (it's gotta scan the completed tatoo). Adopted bro, who's holding blonde hostage starts to have a panic attack while talking to him about the dad while waiting for MC to arrive. Blonde tries to help him calm down, and when he does, Adopted Bro gets triggered by something he says, and then sexually assault blonde. Blondie has a flashback, he was assaulted previously when he was a kid, and the trauma he continued to face because of it, how at one point he internalized that trauma as being something normal for men to go through even though he knew what happened to him was wrong, the unhealthy coping, and why he doesn't associate with his family anymore.
The adopted bro had a somewhat similar experience as blonde growing up, and is horrified with himself at what he's done to blonde, fearing he's become just like the dad. Let me explain the dad stuff.
So the stuff in the vault that the adopted bro is so desperate to get are pictures. The dad used to sexually assault the adopted bro strating all the way back when he was a teen and continuing into adulthood, and would film it all and take pictures of him as he did it. Adopted bro wasn't interested in becoming a mafioso, but was blackmailed into becoming one by the dad, who threatened to expose the photos and videos he recorded of him being asaulted, as well threatened to do it again if he refused him or failed in any task he gave him. Adopted bro was afraid of the dad, scared he'd leak the images and then SA him again, or even maim or kill him, so he obeyed him to a T, even doing the most brutal and violent of things that he ordered him to do. Adopted bro hated the MC so much because he looks like their dad did, and he hates the dad.
In the dad's will, he vaguely mentioned something about pictures and videos of adopted bro being in the vault. So adopted bro wanted to get into the vault to destroy the pictures and videos that the dad had of him, then kill himself. The MC is shocked to find out that his dad was a pedo and a rapist, and burns all of the photos for adopted bro without hesitation.
The latest chapter ends with the adopted bro trying to commit suicide, while everyone is rushing to try to stop him from shooting himself.
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After little bro mentions that that he withheld the security footage of the blonde love interest being kidnapped, the MC slaps him and tells little bro to report the car to the police, and to say that he aldo went missing while looking for his boyfriend. Meanwhile MC gets his tattoo finished, so that the vault can be opened (it's gotta scan the completed tatoo). Adopted bro, who's holding blonde hostage starts to have a panic attack while talking to him about the dad while waiting for MC to arrive. Blonde tries to help him calm down, and when he does, Adopted Bro gets triggered by something he says, and then sexually assault blonde.
Blondie has a flashback, he was assaulted previously when he was a kid, and the trauma he continued to face because of it, how at one point he internalized that trauma as being something normal for men to go through even though he knew what happened to him was wrong, the unhealthy coping, and why he doesn't associate with his family anymore.
The adopted bro had a somewhat similar experience as blonde growing up, and is horrified with himself at what he's done to blonde, fearing he's become just like the dad.
Let me explain the dad stuff.
So the stuff in the vault that the adopted bro is so desperate to get are pictures.
The dad used to sexually assault the adopted bro strating all the way back when he was a teen and continuing into adulthood, and would film it all and take pictures of him as he did it. Adopted bro wasn't interested in becoming a mafioso, but was blackmailed into becoming one by the dad, who threatened to expose the photos and videos he recorded of him being asaulted, as well threatened to do it again if he refused him or failed in any task he gave him.
Adopted bro was afraid of the dad, scared he'd leak the images and then SA him again, or even maim or kill him, so he obeyed him to a T, even doing the most brutal and violent of things that he ordered him to do.
Adopted bro hated the MC so much because he looks like their dad did, and he hates the dad.
In the dad's will, he vaguely mentioned something about pictures and videos of adopted bro being in the vault. So adopted bro wanted to get into the vault to destroy the pictures and videos that the dad had of him, then kill himself. The MC is shocked to find out that his dad was a pedo and a rapist, and burns all of the photos for adopted bro without hesitation.
The latest chapter ends with the adopted bro trying to commit suicide, while everyone is rushing to try to stop him from shooting himself.