Maniac

" ~...h..hic..eu..uk.. y..you're a m..m.onster..~ " a little girl whimpered, her voice trembling, her eyes glistening with a cocktail of fear and despair as she bore witness to the monstrous actions displayed in her line of sight.

In front of her stood a boy no older than eighteen awash in a grotesque tableau of crimson standing at the center of freshly made corpses.

The numbers of bodies that lay on the ground were roughly around ninety five, with the girl being the only one alive, the boy looked at her before acknowledging the name she had called him.

"Indeed I am, and you know you'll be joining them soon.. I'm not very fond of killing kids except they get caught up in the middle of my massacre, so do us both a favor... Run away and don't look back.. it's best you start running now" he finished as the little girl no more than eight started running for her dear life as fast as her little legs could take her.

Observing the girl's hasty retreat, his expression turned into a contemplative scowl. Looking around him, he sighed. ' Damnit, I really am a monster... But I don't have a choice then again I can't keep on living like this. '

An arm wrapped around the boy's shoulder as a light teasing voice sounded " Lucas, don't tell me you've gotten soft... That's no fun you know, this is gonna cost you!" The voice whispered, followed by the sound of a gunshot, which flew directly to the head of the little girl scattering her brain matter all over the ground as she dropped dead.

Lucas turned to look at the boy who had killed the girl with a slightly enraged look. " Levi you didn't have to kill her!"

Levi gave an innocent smile, " haha did I? Actually yes I had to, your little slip up is gonna reach the commander's ears and then we'll all get punished, so I had to prevent that but I doubt you'd be let off the hook so easily."

Lucas looked at the body of the little girl then to the rest, ' alright that's it, I'm done, I'm fucking done, I can't continue this madness, at this point I don't even know if we're still humans.. '

"Don't act like you're all that holy, if you look that guilty one might mistake me for a worse monster than you, see, see just look dude you had the highest kill count... Don't tell me you're actually feeling guilty.." Levi interrupted Lucas thoughts his voice getting colder with each words he spoke.

" Did you forget the faces they gave us when we begged on the streets, they looked at us like we were trash huh?!, fuck, sometimes we'd ask for some leftovers and they'd throw it in the trash, lmao the trash even became our source of feeding.... Oh, I suppose

you wouldn't know what it felt like cause your sorry rich ass fell from a plane crash!!!" Levi said, yelling towards the end.

"Levi...."

"Oh, I'm not done, since you didn't know what it felt like to live on the streets how about the hellish training we survived? Huh? How many of us died on a daily basis, how many people you called friend died in front of you? Now you're feeling guilty? Hilarious... You were known as an emotionless killing machine what flipped on your switch, leader of squad zero.. gasp don't tell me it was that girl you saw me kill... " Levi asked loosing his cheerful demeanor.

He walked over to where the little kid lay, with a crazed grin he looked at Lucas while shooting several bullets into her dead body.

" Phew, that felt good " he uttered with a sigh "don't you agree captain?"

Lucas was enraged but he didn't show any emotions visibly " take a look at yourself in the mirror and ask the question are you still a human? Despite your cruel methods, in the end I guess you're the type to beg for your life because you're scared of death."

Lucas guestured to the other squad members signalling them to leave as he left Levi alone who had a bulging vein on his forehead, gritting his teeth he muttered. " "Scared of death? Me? I'll show you asshole just you wait, the day you die is approaching sooner than expected."

.....

In the most dangerous part of the city, a tall building stood amidst others, it looked like it was made entirely out of glass but that was just an illusive layer, beneath that glass was a hard material several times stronger than iron.

Lucas walked through the building, making his way to the commander's office where a man was seated on his desk.

Before Lucas could knock on the door the man requested for him to come in.

Walking in, Lucas looked at him with an emotionless look which the man replied to with a smile... "I guess you still hate me huh? But that's no excuse to disregard my presence, don't forget your manners in front of me."

"Cut to the chase commander I'm not here for your lectures." Lucas interrupted with a slightly irritated tone.

"Hahahaha, I wonder where you get the confidence from, Do you think you're strong enough to face me in a fight?" The commander replied with a mocking tone.

"If you called me here to provoke me then you're wasting your time, if you have nothing else to say I'll be going now."

'tch! Damned brat, there's no use keeping a dog that could bite it's master in the future, I have no further use for him so I guess it's about time'.

"Fine then.. the main reason I called you here is because of the stunt you tried to pull today, I clearly told you to leave no survivors but you tried to allow one to escape... You clearly defied my orders which on a normal case the punishment to be administered would be death but because of the position you hold I can't kill you however that doesn't mean I'll just let you of the hook.

Your punishment is to carry out an SS grade assassination all by yourself also you're to gather the information yourself without any assistance from anyone not even the information department."

Lucas expression didn't change however his inner thoughts were a mess. He knew that attempting an SS assassination on his own was suicide even for someone of his caliber but he still agreed.

"Alright then.. you still have to tell me who I'm assassinating, I believe basic info's like that are to be conveyed, isn't that so? Commander."

"Haha, that's right, the person you will be assassinating is your dear uncle... The president. I know how badly you want to kill him now that you've gotten all your memories back.. afterall he's the one who caused the plane crash that killed your parents."

'this bastard does he think I don't know that he's trying to get me killed he just doesn't want to do it directly... Fine I'll play your game, I'll use this chance to get my freedom.

"Alright, However commander this will be the last mission I'll carry out for your organization." Lucas said while attempting to leave the room.

The commander threw a knife to the door stopping Lucas in his tracks.

" I never permitted you to leave, did I? Also what do you mean by your last mission!" The commander asked in a grim tone.

"It is as you heard, I'm leaving this organization after this mission, it's my only condition Marcus.. even you should know that attempting an SS grade mission isn't reasonable for the crime of letting a little kid survive." Lucas replied in a slightly threatening manner.

" Hmmmm, fine then.. but you'll have to carry out this mission flawlessly, if you can do that then I'll consider it."

With that, Lucas left the commander's office with a light smile on his lips.

' Consider my ass, I'm used to all your schemes, first you're gonna tip the security agency that the president is gonna be assassinated and if that doesn't play out you'll send the clean up crew to finish me off but I'm ready for all of you, I mean what's life without a little challenge. '