A.N: Hey guys sorry for late upload and thanks for the feedbank, I like constructive. Also I agree the first couple Chapters were fast, initially I just wanted to start with the auction part but I briefly covered how they got kidnap. So I hope you enjoy, the chapters get longer from now on.

The follwing Golden Abyss series is different from Golden Lover's Abyss but they link so Golden Abyss is spread throughout the chapters. You will know the difference when you read the headings. So do read if you want to understand the storyline and new villians (woops spoiler alert).

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PART I GOLDEN ABYSS

The sounds of clapping, joy and classical European music filled the halls of the Halyardir castle. Owning castles as a property was common for the wealthy citizens of Italy. The Halyardir family was one of the few families linked to royal heritage, their grandfather had two sons, Fredick and Richard. Living a life where everything was served on platter for them, the two sons were now twenty one. Celebrating their twenty first, the twins decided to have a unique traditional celebration, a masquerade ball. The hall was filled with elegant yellow roses, the marble falls were polished to perfection and the walls decorated with well define floral textures. Richard was a handsome man, his hair was dark brown, his eyes clear blue, resembling the character from fifty shades of grey, he wore a brown and white three piece suit with a v shaped vest.

For the celebration of his twenty first he was a given a golden masquerade mask from his father. The mask was made from real gold, crafted with a mixture of rare gems intergrated with diamond to make the mask more stronger. The right side of the mask was crafted into angel wings which winged out from the side of the mask. The design and value of the mask was so pure, his father said it was the best thing to give to his son. The boy strolled around the hall, mingling with the guests, praising their outfits and greeting them with his charming prescence. As he walked around toasting and sharing a glass of champagne with his guests, he turns to meet a beautiful woman he had never seen before. She was wearing a red kimono, her black hair draped towards her curvy hips, lips were red as roses with milky white skin. The mask she wore was a black mask studded with black diamonds that covered half her face. From that moment the Halyardir prince knew he had fallen in love on first sight.

The two introduced themselves that evening, the woman was named Hikira Yamano, she was Japanese and about the same age as him. The two dashed off from the party, where they flirted in Richard's quarters. Thus the two begun their forbidden romamce. Hikira was just a commoner, who was only invited to ensure that the interior design remained perfect for that evening. As a wealthy noble, Richard was not allowed to be involved in any serious relationships that were not approved by his parents. Without telling anyone, he would regularly visit her apartment in Rome. Hikira was studying at Rome whilst working as an interior designer, she had to depart back to Japan in two years but Richard begged her not too. Time passed quickly and with each passing day came sadness.

Their life became more difficult when the woman fell pregnant. If Richard's parents were to find out, Hikira would be forced into abortion. Shocked by the pregnancy, the woman broke into tears, she didn't want to leave the father behind. Nor could she stay after finding out that her only mother was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer. Richard looked into her black eyes and smiled.

" No matter how far we are from each I'll always love you and our unborn child,".

The woman smiled and wiped her tears from her face. His words gave her courage. She wanted to make her mother proud. She had one year left before she would return to her home, maybe her mother wouldn't mind having a grandchild. After all, how long was her mother able to live for. Her illness was slowly taking not only her life but Hikira's only family member.

Once the child was born, Richard would regularly come to visit Hikira's place to help her raise her son. Avoiding his brother and his parents was a bothersome as he had to make up excuses relating to work in order to see his family. Their son was named Armel, the boy was born a mixed race, he was beautiful, his parents loved him more than anything. The child was lucky enough to inherit his father's sky blue eyes. It was rare for mixed race children to inherit this sort trait from Western parents. The family would spend time together in their apartment only to avoid being caught by the Halyardir family. Armel was spoilt by his father. The child was not even one month and he had already received his first Louis Vuitton clothes set.

When one year had passed for them, Hikira needed to returned to Japan. Saddened by the departure, the couple embraced each other one last time together in bed. Tears rolled down both their cheeks, as they made love that was filled with passion. Once the morning had approached and after she had packed, the three had one last family photo. This was going to be their only one happy everlasting memory. After the family photo the man handed a farewell gift to his lover and son. Armel was given a red pendant with a silver chain. On the back it had his birthdate engraved in Roman numerals behind it. The length of the silver chain was long for the baby, however his father knew that his son would grow out of it once he becomes older. The mother was given money in cheque form to pay for her mother's chemotherapy and also to help raise their son.

It was finally time to say their final goodbyes. The three were standing at the departing gate for first class at the airport. Their son was cooing in the black pram, unaware that he was about to leave his father and Italy behind, for now. Richard reached for Hikira's wrist, he gripped lightly.

" I have one final gift before you leave," the man smiled sadly.

He bent down towards the pram and took out a golden box wrapped around by red ribbons from the nappy bag. Slowly he handed it to her and shook it slightly, prompting the woman to open the gift box. She smiled softly and slowly unbound the ribbons and opened the lid of the box to reveal what was inside. Her eyes widened in shock and her hands started to shake.

" I can't take this, its yours, gifted from your father!" the woman exclaimed as she stared down onto the golden mask Richard wore that night.

" I don't need it," he smiled warmly and glanced to look at his son cooing. " I know my father gave it to me but I want you to have it, look after it and pass it down to my son on his 21st birthday just like how my father did to me,".

Hikira smiled as tears of joy began to run down her cheeks. She kissed her man before finally embracing the him one last time. Richard could feel the distance already widening between his family. Turning to Armel he lifted his son up from his pram and kissed his white bubbly baby cheeks.

" Papa is going to miss you son,". The man then raised the baby higher and gave his son a rasperry blow to Armel's belly causing the baby to giggle and laugh. Both his parents awed at his cuteness. " Come visit Papa when you are older okay,". The man then proceeded to place the baby back in his pram.

"ATTENTION FLYERS FOR GATE 211 FIRST CLASS TO TOKYO IS NOW BOARDING,".

It was time to depart, they waved goodbye to each other.

" Arrivederci amore mio!" the man waved as he watched her descend towards gate 211.

" Arrivederci! ", the woman waved back.

The two then finally descended off to Japan, after exchanging a final wave and goodbye to each other. The two finally boarded the plane back to Japan, holding Armel in her lap, she rubbed his back and smiled gracefully at her son.

" Looks like a new life is waiting for us back in Japan ay my little one,".

[~¥~]

10 Years Later

Armel was sitting in the lounge room, facing the TV and grabbing two action figures, he lifted them up in the air and motioned the toys as if they were airplanes.

" Mum, I'm bored can we play some board games, these toys are getting boring".The boy waved the toys in front of his mother innocently.

" Yeah Yeah sweety, hang on mummy's on the phone," she said before continuing on with the conversation. The raven stood waiting for his mother to finish her conversation with someone he doesn't know on the phone.

" I told you, please I'll have the money for friggin idiots soon, just give me time, I said no this is my mothers house!" the woman yelled on the phone before breaking and sobbing. The young boy was shocked and confused to witness his mother's breakdown. She hadn't cried like that since his grandmother had passed away when he was only six years old. Armel missed his grandmother a lot, she was kind, caring and made the best meals he had ever tasted.

" Mum why are you crying? Mum?" the little boy asks.

Th woman didn't answer, turning to her son she wrapped her warm arms around the child, hugging him tightly.

" Its okay sweety, everything's fine, mummy's just having happy tears at the moment, get ready for school honey,". The boy was not convinced by this but he remained strong.

" Okay mum, are you sure you will be fine?".

" Yes honey, I'm just going through a girly phase. When I get home tonight I'll cook your favourite Katsudon, okay honey," Hikira smiled sweetly. Her motherly prescence would always soothe the boy's worries. " Now go get ready to go to school sweety, I'll see you tonight, walk safely,". The raven smiled at his mother unconvinced.

It was time for school and Armel was dressed in a green and white school boy's uniform with high socks. The uniform was similar to a Western primary school. Armel's mother had used the money given from his father to send him to a private school. His mother wanted him to have the best education for his future. Despite him attending a rich school, he was poor. His mother had used most of the money to pay for her mothers hospital bills, funeral and also a lot of expenses. The boy had to walk to his school since his mother had to go work. She worked in the city and had to drive far to just to get to work. Armel was left home alone most of the time but he didn't mind, he loved his mother a lot and understood the hardship she had to endure just to keep a roof on their heads and also to send him to a rich school.

He had arrived at the tall front gates of his school. The school had tall brick fences that surrounded the sandstone private school. Most of the kids that attended this school were the children of the wealthy citizens and some were even from Japan's most famous and powerful families. Armel felt like he was the odd one out. He feared that if they knew he was poor that he would be bullied. He was already self conscious about his blue eyes. He continued to saunter into the school grounds. Children from various age groups hung in groups in front of the school. There was the nerds, the plastics, the harajuku kids and the assholes that think they are popular. Armel headed to his classroom and not long after he walked past the other classrooms, the school bell rung, it was time for class.

Everybody was seated in their usual spots in the classroom. Armel was placed in corner, he was a quiet student and liked to hang in the chess club with his chess mates. He was known as the chessmaster and was never defeated, even though he had only challenged three classmates including his maths teacher. The raven rested his head on the desk waiting for the teacher to read his name out when they called out the roll. A silver haired child walked in the classroom, his prescence got the girls excited.

" Ah good morning Akihiko and Hiroki, come in, we're about to start the roll," the sensei smiled.

The two bowed and acknowledge their teacher, " Good morning sensei,". They both then went to their desks. All Armel could hear was the girls in front of his table giggle and whisper to each other.

" He's so cute,". " He's got purples eyes,". " He's from England, so beautiful, I bet he has an accent,".

" There goes the Usami fan club," the raven thought to himself.

The silver hair child had only been in school for a month and was already the centre of attention. Armel wasn't bothered by his prescence, the raven prefered to keep his distance from people. The class continued its usual way with the teacher at front babbling out educational nonsense. The raven had almost drifted off to sleep while scribbling on his notebook, the workload was excruciating and boring.

" Alright class, for social studies we are doing a poster presentation on Deforestation,".

" Deforesss...whaattt?" the raven thought to himself, as that last word that woke him up suddenly.

" Now since its a group assignment, I will allow only three people per group, you will present your work by next week,". " Now since we need to form groups, I shall give you ten minutes and if your not in a group I'll automatically allocate you to one,".

The girls in front of Armel got excited, the raven just sat there staring at them like they were the weirdest creatures who haven't seen a human boy before.

" Oh my god, I want to pair with Akihiko," squealed on of the girls. " I'm going to ask him,".

" Wait who says your the only who can ask him!" the other girl yelled.

Suddenly all the girls joined in the argument and all of them got up and approached the silver haired boy who was already paired with Hiroki. The girls surrounded them like a pact of hungry zombies ready to devour their prey.

" Hey Akihiko can we be your third person," one of them asked. "No pick me instead I'll get you good results,".

The room was filled with fan girls arguing and begging the silver haired boy to chose one of them. The teacher was starting to feel irritated, she placed her palm on her forehead in response to the level of the noise. Looking up to resolve the problem she scanned around the room to look for a candidate. She spotted Armel who was sitting in his corner desk, scribbling on his notebook. The teacher knew Armel was a shy child and who was also an academic achiever. He was always tied with Kamijou in grades, but he always surpassed him in maths and science. Armel however could not surpass Hiroki in literature and most assessments were literature based too. Seeing the boy sitting by himself as usually the teacher felt sorry for him, she knew a group of academic achievers would achieve the best results.

" Okay everybody silence, this is getting out of hand!". " Girls quit it with this nonsense, none one gets to be in Akihiko's group. Since you are all going to argue I am placing Armel in their group, problem solved,".

The horde of fan girls turned to Armel, their eyes filled with dissapointment. The raven felt nervous, he didn't like this negative attention. He could see Akihiko and Hiroki glance at his direction as well. The raven clutched both hands on his pants, trying to avoid eye contact.

" Now with that solved, I expect you to discuss things between your group for the next thirty minutes, after that its back to the board,".

Armel felt even more nervous now, he always hate group work. Should he head over there or are they coming to his direction? The raven looked towards the two, they appeared to be wating for him to move to the otherside of the classroom. Without a choice the raven began to gather his belongings.

Hiroki whispered to Akihiko whilst watching the raven gather his stationary equipment. " That kid is smart, at least its better than having the girls in our group,".

" Is he Japanese, why does his name sound Italian?" the silver haired asked.

" Probably, since first grade that kid doesn't really say anything, all we know is he is smart in mathematics and is good in chess,".

The raven had finally approached the two, feeling extremely nervous, his eyes looked down slightly to avoid eye contact before bowing.

" Good morning, my name is Armel Yamano, please take care of me,".

Akihiko smiled, he let out his hand towards the raven, inviting him to a handshake. The raven accepted it.

" This is how we great in England, Armel. You can call me Akihiko,".

The raven smiled slightly upon seeing the bright violet eyes. They shoke their hands before finally letting go. The raven looked towards Hiroki, the light brown haired stood with his arms crossed and leaning his hips against the table.

" We already know each other's name," Hiroki said arrogantly while staring at him.

Hiroki always wanted to achieve the highest in his class. The boy had always aimed high and needed to be competent at everything and with Armel as his competitor, it really brings down his self esteem. That was also one of the reasons he chose to hid in the secluded Usami garden when he was stressed. Although he had never complained to anyone about Armel, fearing that he might appear as a jealous failure in mathematics and science. Not to mention he was defeated by Armel three times in Chess, which left him to feel humilated. Sometimes he wanted to know how the kid studied, he was rarely seen focusing in the classroom and would often scribble random things. The raven was so secluded from others, people were used to ignoring him.

Since the three now had to discuss their project, Hiroki decided to take the lead. Armel remained quiet during the discussion and the two have decided to meet at Hiroki's place tomorrow to begin their project since it was Saturday tomorrow. Armel just nodded along with the whole concept, he didn't want the meeting to be held at his place. After all it was just a small typical traditional Japanese house that had been passed down to the Yamono's for two generations. After their discussion was finalised, they continued their day throughout school. The last bell rung and finally it was time to go home.

The boy returned from school that afternoon, he skipped along the concrete walk path. At the same time humming random tunes before turning to his house. He turned to find two men dressed in black at the front door. When Armel approached the wooden gates to his home, one of the men turned to him.

" Hey kid, your mother lives here, she still in there?"

" Umm she is still at work, what do you want with her?".

" Damn, the boss isn't going to be happy," the suspicious man complained. " Kid pass this letter to your mother, its from the Usami Corporations,". The man handed Armel the white envelope.

The raven stared at the letter, the men begun to make their exit from the property. The boy turned to see the men leaving into their black SUVs.

" Hey what do you want from my mother!" he yelled.

" We want you gone," the man smirked before finally closing the car door and drove off.

Armel sat in the lounge that evening waiting for his mother return from work. While waiting he caressed the red pendant that he wore since he was a toddler. Glancing over at the shelves full of framed pictures. There was one he always kept his eyes on. That was the picture of his family, with his father. He always wanted to meet his father, to see him and touch him. But his mother said maybe when he is older and has a good job to pay for himself and his mother as well to visit Italy to see him. The boy gazed in fascination at happy faces of his parents were making. Just as he touched the silver frame of the family portrait his mother pulled the car into the driveway. The raven waitied for his mother to enter.

" Armel- chan, sweety I'm home,".

[~¥~]

The dining room was quiet, his mother cooked her Katsudon specialty as promised.

" You seem quiet tonight Armel, is something wrong?".

Armel sighed and reached for the envelop out of his pocket and placed it on the dining table.

" Some guys from the Usami Corporations came to our house today they were looking for you and told me to give this to you. I asked them what they wanted from you and the man replied back to me that he wanted us gone. Mum please tell me the truth," the boy demanded.

Hikira's eyes widened in shock and disbelief at the news. He could see the tears that started to run dow from her eyes. The boy started to panic as well.

" Mum please tell me what is going on, don't keep it hidden in you. Were you crying this morning cause of this?!".

The mother wiped her tears away, " I'm so sorry Armel, I'm so sorry I've failed you as your provider,".

" Are you mad you have provided me, I don't care if you feel like your spending time at work, I love you mum,".

" I know sweety, but you have to understand,".

" Understand? Just tell me everything mum, please!" the boy begged as anxiety consumed him.

" Okay, okay,". Hikira took a deep breath. " Do you know why our neighbours are moving?".

" No, why, is it to do with the Usami Corporations ?"

" Yes sweety, they are a partnership with a construction company and want to build shopping complex over these old property and our property happens to be in our way. These companies are not with the government and therefore they use force and threats to get people to move out. Since we don't want to move out we have to pay a certain amount I can't affort since I spent most of the money for grandma's treatment and your school. We have the money to survive but I'm fighting for own home, the Yamono's family house and we're not going down without a fight," his mother smiled in lightly with determination.

" Yes we won't mother, we will not lose to these companies," the boy rose in determination as well.

" We are going to fight for our right," the boy slammed his fists on the table.

Hikira smiled lightly, she was proud of how her son took this information. Now it was time to find a way to convince the Usami Corporations to leave their property alone.

[~¥~]

The next day approached, Hikira had driven her soon to the Hiroki's address. They drove out the an area that was surrounded by forest. They finally arrive at the front of Hiroki's house, the place was huge and had a tall wooden, bamboo like fence surrounding it.

" Wow is this where rich people live," the raven said as he stared at fence whilst scratching the side of his head.

" Pfft sweety when you see your where your father lives, I'd say this is only one tenth the size, that man practically lives in a castle. Also I couldn't probably compare the interior design I have done, to be the best as that I have done over my..,".

" Yes I get mum you told me this story a million times about fathers birthday and how you met and dad raising me,".

Hikira smiled at her son, she was proud of him. The boy pressed the bell at the entrance to alert the owners inside. Not long after waiting, Hiroki along with his mother opened the gate. The mothers introduced themselves and their sons as well.

" Hello Armel, Akihiko will be here soon he just lives across the street,"

The raven smiled and waved lightly, trying hard not to embarass himself.

" Oh my is this Armel, nice to meet you, welcome. Well, is your other friend not here yet, I really want to see him, he's such a polite you boy," Hiroki's mother grinned as she heard Akihiko was coming over as well, she adored him.

" Hikira its so nice to meet you, I'm sure our sons will get along and not to mention you should meet Akihiko, he is the son of Usami Fuyuhiko,".

" Fuyuhiko?," Hikira stuttered. " You mean the owner of Usami Corporations?".

" Yes, the man himself is lives over across our street," Hiroki's mother pointed to the gate of the Usami property.

Hikira fell in disbelief. The owner of the company that is trying to destroy the future of the Yamono's was right across the street. The anger grew inside her to the point where she couldn't take it anymore. Armel could see his mothers reaction, he didn't know what to do. Seconds later the woman stormed off, leaving the others confused at her sudden departure. Hikira crossed the street and stormed off towards the Usami property.

" Mum wait!," the raven called out.

Hikira had already arrived at the Usami's front gate, ignoring her son's call she opened that gate which appears to be unlock. His mother opened the gate and walked into the property hoping she would confront the man.

" Mum wait, where are you going?!" the boy yelled whilst running after his mother.

" Keep up Armel, we got to teach someone a lesson,".

The raven had finally caught up to his mother. Trying to catch his breath, the two saunder towards the mansion. The property was full of forests and trees. It took them more than ten minutes just to reach the mansion.

" Are you sure you want to do this mum?".

" We have no choice sweety, they storm into our property, why can't we do the same,".

Armel clutched his fists in anticipation. Hikira approached the front door and knocked. The door opened and out came a middle aged butler.

" Good afternoon madam, welcome to the Usami residence, my name is Tanaka, how may I be of assistance?".

" I demand to see Fuyuhiko Usami immediately!,".

" I'm sorry madam but do you have an appointment with Fuyuhiko? ".

" You sure bet I do, we got some negotiating to do regarding construction and property,".

" I'll alert the master, please come in and I'll return with him madam,".

The butler slightly raised his right arm to invite the guests into the mansion. Armel was struck by amazement of the interior design.

" Please wait here sir and madam while I go find the master,".

The butler descended towards the stairs to the second level before disappearing. Armel and his mother stood there waiting for the Usami leader to come meet them. Hikira was still boiled from the letter she read last night. The letter demanded that she and her son would need to move before a certain deadline or pay a certain amount in order to extend their deadline. It was preposterous and she needed to do something to save her family's home. Armel was standing in the hallway, the boy was shaking, he was feeling extremely nervous about the situation.

" Armel?" a voice came from the side of the hall.

" Akihiko," the raven stuttered, surprised to see the lavender haired boy.

" I thought we are meeting at Hiroki's place?".

" Umm yeah, um about that..,".

" Fuyuhiko Usami will see you now, madam, follow me please me," Tanaka stood from the second floor on top the stairs.

" About time, Armel you can wait here with your friend if you want,".

"Huh.. wait mum!". The raven ran after his mother, he didn't want his mother to go by herself nor he did he feel comfortable with Akihiko.

Tanaka lead the two to Fuyuhiko's office. "Just to let you know madam, the master wants to make this a quick meeting as he needs to attend to other duties,". The butler then twisted the door knob and opened it. " I have brought the guests master,".

" Ah, invite them in,".

The two waddled into the open space office. Fuyuhiko sat behind a big wooden desk, his fingers were interwined on under his chin.

" You must be Fuyuhiko Usami,", his mother said in an uptight tone. She refused to bow to her superior.

" Yes that is me and who might you be?".

" My name is Hikira Yamano and this is my son Armel, we are from the Yamano residence, the residence that you intend to destroy, do you not recall my rejection?".

" Ah you must be that the one causing my company trouble with deadlines. First of all I never recalled having an appointment with a commoner such as yourself. Yamano please do yourself a favour for both of us and move out already before things get worse," the man grinned like he usually did.

Armel was distraught at what he had heard, the boy felt like punching the day lights out of the rich man. He could see his mother's frustration labelled on her face.

" For someone who doesn't care, that home is the only thing that me and my son have. There are plenty of open spaces, why my home?".

" Lady for all I know is that I am responsible for the future of this company and I will do what it takes to help my company prosper. However it turns out that your little home is in our way. So please I have other things to do, Tanaka will show you the way out and please move out by your deadline,". Fuyuhiko then turn to glance at Armel. " Well little one did you know your education, maybe your future will affected because your mother is not meeting her deadline, so tell her to move out if you want to stay in school,".

" Don't speak to my child like that, don't ever talk about my son's future like that!" the woman yelled before leaping onto the man in rage.

Hikira grabbed onto the man's collar shaking him back and forth like a rag doll. Armel had never seen his mother this fury before. The boy watched in fear as he saw the drama happening right in front of him.

" Arghh, are you crazy, TANAKA GET THIS WOMAN OFF ME !".

Tanaka heard the noise, he immediately comes in and tries remove the woman's grasp from Fuyuhiko's collar. Hikira refused to let go, she tightened her grip.

" Revoke you plans now!" she screamed constantly in his face.

Fuyuhiko had enough and with all his strength he stood up and pushed the woman as hard as he could causing her to stumble to floor head first.

" MUM! " the raven cried. He ran to his mother and wrapped his arms around her upper body.

" Don't hurt my mother!" he yelled as tears ran down his face.

Fuyuhiko tried to catch his breath, his butler at the same time trying to calm him down.

" You think you could barge into my home and act how you want, you stubborn woman. Face it you are going to lose your home and I mean it, even better go live in the streets! Now get out of here!".

" No I will not give up my home you bastard!". Hikira refused to leave, it was to settle this now or never. She stood back up and cursed at him. Armel was fired up now as well when Fuyuhiko taunted them.

" Tanaka call the guards, GUARDS! Get this pyscho woman out of here now!".

Not moments after the blasted argument, a couple of Usami guards dressed in black suits bursted into the room. They grabbed onto Hikira's arm and Armel's as well, pulling them out of the room. His mother resisted clawing the guards arm. Armel did the same as his mother, they wanted to fight for their right. The room was filled with screams of cursing and struggle. His mother was the first one to get dragged out followed by Armel but they boy fought back latching onto the sides of the door like a monkey.

" Usami how can you do this to us?" the boy cried still latching onto the door with both his arms while the guard was tugging his legs in the air.

" What are you doing you stubborn kid, get off my door already! Your stubborn like your mother!".

Hikira screams could be heard throughout the hallways as she struggled. The boy still latching on door tried to convince Fuyuhiko once more.

" Please Usami, don't do this to us, please,".

" Nghh, this stubborn child is giving me a sore headache, get him out already!".

The guard tugged harder, eventually causing the boy to lose his grip.

" Usami please don't do this!".

" USAMI! ", Armel suddenly woke up from nightmare. His body was covered in sweat on his now full grown adult body as he hyperventilated in anger.

That dream was always a constant reminder of one part of his miserable past. He had a lot of troubles in his life but he blamed that one event in his past as the one that start for all the miserable things that had happened to his life. He blamed the whole Usami clan as they were all linked to that corporation. He blamed them for the loss of his family house, the loss of his normal life and the loss of both his parents.