Corruption of the World [3]

How did he know my name?

"Huh?" I chuckled awkwardly to act normal, "Shadow...." Astro stood up and approached me.

"You're too serious Man!!" he hooked his arms around my shoulders, and shakes my hair with his left hand, "Eh?" I looked up to him and he smiled, "You're always serious even at times like this." he released his arms and put it on his waist.

"I see." I held my hair and sighed, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you." he laughed and looked at Scarlet, she shrugged.

"It doesn't even matter if one of the members found out your identity, all what matters is that you trust them right?" he put his fist on my chest as a gesture of trust.

"Yeah." I smiled and sighed. "So, did both of you already have a plan?" Scarlet crosses her arms behind us, "It depends on the Gakuen team." Astro puts his hands on the back of his head, and laughed, "But for real, this mission is just like a suicide mission."

"What's makes you say that?" I drifted back to him and he smiled, "Brendan Dolm is George's older brother, and he is more powerful than George, he got wealth, armies and strength, but, Brendan does things straight forwardly unlike his little brother."

"George is way creepier than Brendan, and if both of them shows up in our mission, it will be our loss." Astro looked at me with his eyes closed then smiled, "You got that, Shadow?"

"Yeah I got it. Wouldn't it be more easier if Scarlet is with us?" I held my forehead and he shrugs, "If she would go looking for Hollow then you can't stop her." He looked at her and smiled, "Why would she do that?" I raised a brow, "I don't know either, but what I know is that both Hollow and Scarlet are close." He pointed at her.

"I see." I narrowed my eyes as I put the cup on the table, "So, shall we start the operation?" Astro looked at me with both his hands clasped together, "Wait, we're going to start the operation now?" I jolted as I was shook from what he said, "Yeah, Brendan has hundreds of men you know?" he chuckled as he put his mask on.

"So we're going to assassinate his men first?" I put on my hood so that no one can see my golden blonde hair, "Of course, how can he protect himself with no one around him?" he looked at me and smiled, "Yeah well, he IS a dangerous guy right?" I closed the button of my coat.

"Yeah but, most of his men are scared of him, so they did what they could to not be killed on Brendan's hands." Astro replied while brushing off the dirt on his coat. "Shall we go?" Astro asked while walking down the cabin, "Yeah, let's!"

*Fshhhhhhhh* the sound of the rain came pattering in the town

All the corpses buried in that day, is now being putted by new corpses with blood dripping out of their eyes and the blood stains on their clothes.

"Let's go." We ran off the narrow alleys, looking for Brendan's men, "How many men will we kill?" I asked Astro, "100 should be enough." He replied while running through the dark hallways and into the broken buildings.

As we headed into the Gakuen's 12th hideout, the men were all mighty and strong in combat, and so we used some of our soul energy to defeat them, blood splatters along the walls, blood dripping from my fist as I killed many of them, one still crawls towards me with his legs all torn apart and only his right arms left.

"It's…..h..is fault…..that….we…..l…os...t—" I stabbed his eye as he tugged into my shoes, blood squirts from his right eye, my dagger is covered in dark red blood.

"Why did you kill him?" Astro looked back at me with his mask all filthy with blood, "He tugged my shoes with his filthy hands." I looked at him and smiled, "Let's go."

As we are about to go out of their hideout, there was still a survivor and he contacted the main base of Gakuen, "This is Fred Addison from division 12! We have been attacked! I repeat we have been attacked!" Astro pulled out his sword and approached him, "Astro…..let him finish." I tugged him from behind.

"I repeat, we have been attacked!—"

=Oi.

"!!!"

=Deal with that on your own.= tuut! The person from the other side hang up on him, "Shadow, can we finish him now?" Astro looked at me and lifted his sword up to his shoulders, "Yeah go ahead", I released my hands off his coat and smiled.

I watched Astro beheading the guy.

"Let's go." He stepped on the corpses as they lay on the bloody grounds, "We need to finish this phase without failing it, got that?" Astro gripped my collar as he cracks his middle finger, "Yeah." I replied, "Then why didn't you stop HIM?!" he shouted as he clenched his fist, "Tell me why you also followed my orders." I tilted my head.

"Haha…..hahahaha…." as I stood there quietly, he burst into laughter, "You cheeky bastard. I didn't know you have a big brain there, Shadow." He points his finger on his head, "Let's do this, using psychology!" he wiped the blood on his mask and smiled.

"Understand how the human mind works, Astro…" I sighed

"Tehee. Let's get going….Shadow!" he stretched his arms and chuckled.

*****

"Sir, the captain and the 12 division of Gakuen has been annihilated sir, and it seems like the suspect have left no traces behind." He held the photo regarding about the 12th division.

"What do you want me to do about it?" Brendan took a cigarette and smoked, "They are all so weak that's why they died, the 12th division? HA! Don't make me laugh, they have never been part of the Gakuen organization, throw that archive away—it's useless!" he stood up and threw the cigarette.

"But s-sir—"

"Shut up!" he strangled the man with only one hand, "If you resist from my orders, you die against your will!" he took a fatal blow on the man's neck which leads to pressure the man's cervical plexus, and will die eventually.

"I hate people like you. If they want to kill me then let them come, I am going to end their lives."

*****

TBC...