Kill the president!

"..." Ruby glared at Barnard with bloodshot eyes that threatened to explode with fury at any time.

"We shouldn't have let you go!" Barnard yelled at Ruby, his shaky appearance vanished.

"I ran, remember? You didn't let me go. I ran!" With a smirk, Ruby plunges the dagger into Barnard's ears, and a jet of blood spurts out.

"AHHHHHHH!"

"..." with each thrust, the wails increased like a crescendo. 

"p-please, I have money! You can take that, but please just spare my life." 

Surprised that Barnard was still speaking despite spinning the dagger in Barnard's ear, Ruby said:

"How ironic! I said similar things like that, right? but what did you do?"

Barnard went silent. He could remember that Ruby pleaded like this as well, but he didn't mind and still grabbed his sister in place for her to be chopped.

Is this what they call karma?

"A word of advice. Don't ask for mercy because you won't be getting that." He shoved the dagger more, and it popped out of Barnard's other ears.

The pain was so agonizing that Barnard wanted to grab his ears and subdue the pain; however, the shadow hands grabbed him in place.

"Are you screaming? Please don't, because we're just getting started." 

Slowly, the shadow hands started pulling Barnard into the shadows, and at the same time, Ruby sank into the shadows. Popping out in totally different places, Ruby and Barnard rose through the ground and appeared in what could be described as a kitchen.

As large and spacious as the kitchen was, no one was in there. They probably ran outside as well. Ruby couldn't tell. 

He approached a gas cooker with hot oil etched on top of a relatively large frying pan that could contain a human head. He glanced at Barnard, who was thinking...

'I hope it's not what I'm thinking, I hope it's not what I'm thin—'

"It's what you're thinking!" Ruby's voice resounded in his ears, and then, the shadow hands pulled him close to a scorching frypan filled with bubbling oil.

Scoping the oil with a bowl-shaped spoon, Ruby poured the oil into Barnard's already-stabbed ear, and as it slipped into the damaged eardrum, a fiery hot sensation blazed as white liquid oozed out.

Barnard felt like killing himself already because that would be the best thing for him right now.

He knew that sooner or later, he'd die due to the injuries he had suffered, but he wanted it to be faster.

And as I'd read Barnard's mind, Ruby said, "you want to die early, huh?" 

Unfortunately, his eardrums were damaged, so Barnard couldn't give a reply. If it weren't for the shadow dome, which restricted his invisibility ability, he'd have had a chance, but even then, he knew it was nil because... Ruby had strange powers.

He had never seen someone with more than one superpower.

"...The oil is warm, isn't it?"

"..." Barnard started to have a bad feeling about this. From Ruby's lips, he could vaguely make out that the latter was speaking about the bubbling oil right next to him.

"Oh, I forgot you're deaf now, so I'll just show you."

Barnard shakes his head furiously as Ruby presses his head close to the blazing frypan. Seeing that look, Ruby's grin broadened as he pressed Barnard's egg-shaped head into the bubbling oil.

"Agghhhhhhhb!"

After 30 minutes and being afraid of the man passing out, Ruby yanked him out again and revealed the bloody black face of Barnard with his inner flesh ripped out and his eyeballs busted!

For the next hour, Ruby submerged Barnard's head in the oil as if he were drowning the man in water.

Sometime later, he placed a collar—which would be able to translate everything he said—around Barnard's neck.

"Give me a name, then I'll give you a quick death." 

This was the word Barnard wanted to hear, but at the same time, he didn't want to reveal the person's name; however, this pain was too much!

'I'm sorry 

"H-he is pre-president Mar—"

Barnard's eyes slowly closed, and he entered eternal sleep.

"Fuck!" Ruby yelled as he kicked Barnard's body. "Wake up, wake up!"

At that moment, Muna, Natasha, and Sera stormed into the kitchen. Then a series of messages flooded Ruby's view.

[Quest: find out about the ones who killed your mom and your sister].

[Status: half complete]

[Rewards]

[Level up]

[level up] 

[level up]

[Level up]

[level up]

[New Minion unlocked]

[Multiple new features unlocked]

[Minions upgraded]

[1 million shop points awarded!]

[New quest: kill President Mark Black]

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End of Volume 1!