8 08: Congratulations!

"There it goes! Look! There!"

"No, it's here!"

A shadow jumped across the roof, several Yakuza members were chasing them. The figure dropped something near the Yakuza members, they looked at what was dropped... A metallic sphere, that had a blue button attached to it, the button was pressed. Smoke exploded from the metallic sphere, blinding them. The figure jumped off the roof and landed hitting the Yakuza members with his feet, breaking their neck. Above, in the sky, a flying figure was observing the other fighting against. Byron was observing Harold kill the Yakuzas, the target that Harold killed now was the actual master of the Yakuza! Byron was so proud of his child, he killed such an influential person! Byron observed as Harold jumped his way out of the Yakuza after he rushed out, his wings stretched out of his back and he flew toward where Byron was.

"So, you left the mark?" Asked Byron, since they became mercenaries they used special clothes that Byron made using [Hide Rune], [Light Rune], and [Darkness Rune]. The mark that he was talking about is two circles, one big and one small in the center of the big circle with three stars making a triangle, in the center of the small circle was a pentagram. This was the Tartarus mark, they first are forging a reputation for later, they already killed several people, well they are in Japan for almost 5 months now! In this time Byron taught Harold the art of assassination and torture using the targets. With a bag in hand, Harold removed the mask he was using and smiled, saying: "Obviously." The mask that Harold was using was a black mask with a red drawing of the Tartarus symbol.

"Good, let's take the head towards the contractor." Harold nodded his head and both of them disappeared in the night, minutes later they appeared inside the apartment of another gang leader! They were the enemies of Yakuza that contracted several mercenaries to kill the master of the Yakuza. Leaving the shadow with his white mask in his face, Byron said with a completely different voice he normally has: "Good Night, contractor." The man that Byron was talking to was an old man when he saw Byron leaving the shadows he gasped, but later he calmed down. "We are here to take the money." After Byron said it, Harold appeared behind him and the bag in his hands dropped, and three heads dropped down on the ground. Three men heads, one old, one rather middle-aged, and one young adult. The man saw the heads drop and gasped, but then his gasp turned into a smile and he said: "I'm afraid I can't give you all the money... I said to kill everyone. The lower of the Yakuza had a young son, where is his head!?"

Byron answered calmly: "I don't kill kids. Give me my money or I will do the same with you." Byron's voice became colder at each word he spits out, the contractor felt a cold sweat run down his spine and gulped, smiled and said: "You can try! Guards!" Byron sighed and said deeply: "Wrong choice." His body appeared in front of the contractor, scaring him. He walked slowly towards the border of the window, ready to yeet the guy out, killing him! "Wait! I-i will give you your money!" Byron looked at him coldly and the guy gave him a credit card, saying: "Inside it has 50,000,000 Dollars! Please let me go." Byron smiled and whispered in the contractor's left ear: "Poor choice of words." And he let go of him, he screamed while falling from his apartment, and with a splash, he hit the ground.

Harold started to laugh hard while Byron chuckled, he pointed towards the wall and instantly Tartarus' Mark appeared with a message: [The Hell is open, Demons are in delight, Tartarus is open, the world Is on fright.]

"Let's go." Saying it, Byron jumped from the window and automatically the door that was closed burst open, several muscular men wearing formal suits entered the room and started to look around until they found the red drawing and a bloody hand pointing towards the broken window. Byron and Harold were already far away from there, flying in the night sky! "Hahaha... *sigh* Father, you always know what to say in the right moment!" Byron laughed and said: "Let's go take this money before they notice." Mid-air, Byron's clothes, and appearance changed to the contractor. They landed near a bank and walked forward, the bank still not closed, but there's literally only them in the bank. "Hello mister, how can I help you?" asked the receptionist, a young lady... Both Byron and Harold gasped internally when they sensed her potential... It was amazing, her talent for computation... Is huge! Byron smiled and said with the dead contractor's voice: "Yes gorgeous lady, I want to take all the money from this account, please."

She nodded her head and took the credit card from his hand, taking out all the money was easy. "You are here all alone? By yourself?" asked Harold how was wearing formal clothes, he stopped himself and said: "Oh, in sorry, Name's Namiro, Sir's bodyguard." The lady smiled and said: "Well, yes I am, Mr. Namiro, the bank is almost closing, your patron is the last client we are having today." Harold nodded his head, such a beautiful lady smiling at him made him blush, he can have an adult's body but he has only a kid's mind. Byron inside his head thought: "They grow up so fast! It was like yesterday when he killed his first human! I feel like crying..." After some minutes she returned with all the money of the account. Byron bowed in Japanese style and thanked her, but before leaving he touched the balcony where the receptionist was... After some seconds he left.

"Father, you also saw it, right?" Asked Harold looking at Byron whose appearance returned to his normal self. "How you fell in love with that receptionist? Yes, I saw, and I also saw her potential for computation... Her brain can count several money notes at the same time! I have an excellent plan to make her yours my child, maybe like that, I can have a daughter in law faster!" Harold was completely red as he heard Byron laughing and teasing him, he said: "Y-yeah... I was talking about her talent!" he shouted blushing harder, but it just made Byron laugh harder! "*sigh* Okay, let's wait for an opportunity... or make this opportunity ourselves. I have an idea." Byron smile became dark, Harold sighed when he saw it... Every time Byron smiled like that, something is going to happen.

***

The next day, the news about the assassination of the minister of defenses of Japan exploded! Everyone knew about a strange mark and a phrase. The politicians were now worried, what if they were the next target? When Byron and Harold saw that they had killed one more influential person, they were proud! You know, when you kill someone that is influential, you did something pretty amazing, because the death of that person would be impactful, and chaos would be created~ *cough* Now let's talk about Byron's plan to get a daughter-in-law! Byron planned an assault to the bank exactly when the special receptionist is working, he contracted some thugs and used [Soul Rune] + [Contract Rune], marking their souls! They will die if they say something about him.

[Contract Rune] is pretty much like the [Condition Rune], you choose the punishment someone will receive if this person does something that could or can break the contract between you and your target. Basically, a bomb that will explode if you break the contract. Anyway, the contract was: [Attack the bank, don't kill {insert receptionist name that will be revealed later}, you can kill others. Not speak about me, or you will die an agonizing pain.] The agonizing pain we are talking about is the effect of the [Soul Rune] + [Contract Rune] that if you break the contract, your soul is broken and you die... Let's skip the boring part, the thugs entered the bank at night, stole a lot of money, police arrived, Makani, the receptionist was in the receptionist balcony when she saw a strange mark... Tartarus mark!

She gasped because the news showed this mark before, she knows that they are assassins and kill people. But what caught her attention was: [If you want to live, touch this mark]. Byron knows it, in despair moments, humans do anything to survive! The receptionist hesitated for a second before touching it, seconds later the bank exploded killing all the thugs. The receptionist was dying too because part of the bank fell on her and she can't move! Then, she heard a voice... The voice of the same young man she saw before. "You want to live? Say it... Say it... Vow by your blood." She didn't know if she was hallucinating or anything like that, but she did it. She was going to die anyway! "I vow by my blood..." her voice was becoming weaker and weaker and every word seemed to be so heavy to say... "I... will do any... thing... Please."

From below her, a blue circle appeared. She blinked her eyes and she was now in another place! She still thought that she was hallucinating, but she heard Harold's voice saying: "Drink it." She saw something red, like blood... She drunk it, she was going to die anyway! Why care? But... What is this hot sensation in her belly... It's burning, painful! She screamed for ten minutes until she felt that it wasn't painful anymore. She felt good... She felt alive! "What... happened?" She looked around and saw that she wasn't in the bank anymore, she was in a room... She then saw Harold wearing informal clothes, a red t-shirt, black pants, sunglasses... He smiled and said: "Congratulations, Makani, you became a devil." while she was looking at Harold confused, Byron appeared and said: "And congratulations Harold! You got a girlfriend!"