Kaizer has flashbacks on a very traumatic experience when he was a kid and how he's a little more like Max.

Chapter 10: Thoughts of a Tiger Cub

Later that day, Kaizer was leaving the house after spending some time with Max and as he turned around, he said to the cub, "I'll come back soon, okay?"

"How soon?" asked Max.

"Just...soon."

After Max waved bye to him, Kaizer just walked out of there to go back to his camping spot where he's been at for the past several days now and while he was there, he was thinking a lot more about Max and about how he's got to live with people like that; especially the ones that were raising him. It's really sickening to know that someone so young would go through plenty of suffering.

As he looked at the sky, he remembers that one fateful moment that he witnessed his parents get killed by someone and it just completely made him feel like like the world was totally against him and all the times he's been all alone in the world, being pushed away, called a monster many times and that's something he'll never get over.

Because of that encounter, he's really put his duties on hold to just keep this one tiger cub company while his parents are gone and he wasn't sure about the reason, but he's starting to believe that they're abandoning Max on purpose and that doesn't sit well with the teenage assassin. It's one thing to be mentally abused and live a rough life, but to purposefully abandon a young cub like Max just bothered him.

It shouldn't be that way, but he just couldn't shake it off for some reason...but that's not the major concern...at one point earlier, Max said that he's the only friend he's got and places his trust on him. That part really made Kaizer guilty because this cub has no idea that he's an assassin sent to kill his father and knows that it's the most dangerous way to be friends with one or get closer to one.

But at the same time, he related so much to Max when it comes to living through a rough life at an early age and how painful it feels to experience what it's like and understood it really well and if he could have a choice, he could take Max away from his parents for his safety and let him stay with him.

He got a little frustrated and torn between being loyal to his duty as an assassin or protect the only friend he's just made and he lets out a big sigh and whispered, "What do I do?"

Later that night, he laid down on the ground, looking at the moon and imagined himself in Max's position where he would be beaten, mentally abused and molested by his own parents and the pain he would have to endure and how afraid he would've been every waking moment to go through it, not knowing what day would happen if he were to die at the hands at one of his parents.

As he kept imagining what that life would be like, he just reverted back to how he got to witness what Max is going through and he opened his eyes and for the first time in his life...he felt one emotion that comes to mind; fear and sadness.

One lone tear fell on his face as he looked up at the sky and whispered, "Max..."

Pretty hard for Kaizer when he's an assassin and something inside of you changes when you meet a person that knows how you feel. We'll get more Max and Kaizer in a minute!