24 Chapter 24

A/N: I made a booboo by chosing MC's hero name to be 'The Ninja Hero: Phantasm'. Edgeshot has the same prefix, 'Ninja hero: Edgeshot'. So, I've changed it to 'Poison-dart hero: Phantasm'.

Some readers don't seem to like that the MC isn't a cold hearted bastard or is too indecisive. To them, I say, kindly fuck off. I don't need your judgement and your sass or your rudeness. As you can see, I can also be equally rude. You call MC a psychopath. Go read a fucking dictionary and learn what a psychopath truely means. You call him a beta. I call him normal. Every man has small bouts of wanting to be surrounded by beauties. Doesn't mean he's horny all the time. Take your fucking labels and sick em to some other guy's stories. I've written and finished 3 fanfics and this isn't the first time I'm facing 'experts' in the comments. (Nahi changa lageya ta na padho. Gand marao te dafa ho jo. TL: Don't read if you have too many problems. Go fuck yourselves and get lost.)

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I returned to my apartment after having a wonderful day at the University, only for my mood to be ruined at the thought of the bound criminal I had abducted a couple of days ago.

I had gained all kinds of information from him. All that was left was for me to rummage through his mind using 'Psychic' and release him in the wild... after I broke his mind and destroyed his self. I had done horrible things to the man... all except ripping his balls and raping him. I could hear his screams in my nightmares and it tormented me in my every living moment.

I had to live with the fact that I resorted to torturing a man for the rest of my life. No amount of goodness could redempt me from that. I had to come to terms with it, and move on, aiming to always be better than the previous day.

I sat in silence as I tried to push myself into the mindset, making myself cold and detached as I prepared myself to do the deed. Every time I tortured the man, I would meditate and dull my emotions. It was easier that way.

After hours, I was ready.

I entered the soundproofed room. The man was awake and ready to be tortured. I could see from his eyes that he was ready for the pain to come.

I said nothing as I strapped his arms and legs to prevent him from moving too much. Then, I grabbed his skull with my hands and closed my eyes.

Slowly, I drifted into his mind, seeing everything the man knew... from the day he was born.

An only child of a seventy year old man and his thirty year old wife, Ishida Hyena was a troubled child from the start. His parents doted on him and provided him with everything he ever asked for.

The first time he ever felt sexual arousal was at the age of nine when he saw his father behead a rooster for dinner. The rooster's cries as it was held in his father's hands, helpless against its fate, woke something terrible deep inside his mind. Hyena was disappointed when the rooster died too early. He had wanted to hear more and watch it struggle for a little longer.

His first wet dream was of him strangling the neighbors' three year old daughter and bashing her head with a rock. It was just the beginning.

Soon, the stray alley cats and puppies began to diappear. Hyena's parents knew what he was doing to the animals. But, once he told them that he wanted to be a surgeon and was practicing on the animals, they let him be.

Hyena first heard about the Musutafu Savages from a thief he had ran in on a random day. He satiated his sexual sadism by pinning the animals on a boad with nails and strangling them while pleasuring himself. Then, he ate the dead animals by making a stew. By the time he turned eighteen, Hyena had butchered hundreds of cats, dogs and birds.

He actively seeked out to find the Savages.

His initiation into the gang involved for him to abduct a child, molest it in front of the higher ups of the gang and kill it. That was the first time Hyena ever targeted a human and after that, he never returned to butchering animals.

Hyena's initiation as a soldier involved for him to rape and murder his own mother and then serve her as dinner. He passed with flying colours.

It was too much.. Way too much for me to stomach and I threw up. The evil of the Savages was beyond anything human. It was a cult for monsters to run amok amongst their prey.

Musutafu was one of the safer cities? I wretched again as I thought how grossly mistaken everyone had been. The leader of the gang, 'The First', looked like an aged man-vulture. He had rooted himself into the system, working for decades to solidify his hold over the law inforcement. His control over his men was baffling. It could have been a part of his quirk, but, 'The First' had absolute authority and everyone in his gang had blind faith in him.

I finally knew where they were hiding. Their base was an island of horrors where the Savages fulfilled their fantasies every single day. Women and children were kept as livestock, always ready to be bred, used, beaten and culled.

That day, I made it my life's goal to eradicate the disease called 'Musutafu Savages'. Finally, I had come to terms with my 'morals'.

I looked at Hyena with absolute hate and anger. Using 'Psychic', I ruthlessly attacked his mind untill it shattered. He strubbled hard against the binds. His eyes showed utter fear. He knew that I was going to be done with him. I grabbed his will amd crushed it without mercy, effectively killing his individuality. He was all but dead. An alive corpse with no self-consciousness. His instincts, his habits... everything.. I destroyed all of them.

I abandoned him near a railwayline using the shadows and got back to my appartment. I couldn't sleep that night and spent the time drinking saké.

Two days later, we were at the station to board our respective trains. It was time for our first ever internships.

I boarded the train and it took me an hour of train ride to reach my destination. I followed the directions and finally reached the building that belonged to the pro under whom I was going to intern.

I took a deep breath and entered through the door. There was a single person in the building. Looking into their eyes, I gently bowed and said, "I'm Phantasm, here to intern under you, Edgeshot-sensei."

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A/N: That's right!!!! I blue-balled you all horndogs!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! This story was not meant for the underage. I was very clear from the beginning. If anything disturbs you, you are free to drop it. This story is set in a dark, dark world. Almost as dark as the real world.