Day of Elimination
Thunk.
The man behind me was dead, his head rolling on the floor.
The man dropped to the floor, limbs limp and lifeless as his body lay on the floor, paralyzed.
He was alone in his house, so I didn't have to deal with any witnesses.
He was the seventh person on my list - the seventh out of twelve higher-ups.
With one last glance behind me, I teleported back to the roof of the building.
I checked my watch to make sure I was on time with the plan.
Exactly 5:19 A.M - a minute ahead of schedule.
I had moved pretty quickly since I didn't need to worry about hiding my tracks and disposing of the bodies, so it had only taken about 10 minutes to kill each person and get to the next person on the list, a reasonable amount of time considering the distance needed to travel to each location.
Five more higher-ups, and then I'm on to their underlings.
With a final glance around me to remember this location (it had a good surveillance spot), I jumped down and started running to the next location.
***
Standing on top of another building, I aimed at the window of a building far away with my sniper weapon.
The man was with several women, and I didn't want to risk having to hear their high-pitched screams from too close so I opted to snipe the man.
He was the last of the higher-ups.
I made sure my aim was accurate, double-checked, and then fired.
The sniper was silenced, so the man crumpled quietly, a bullet hole barely visible in the side of his skull.
I closed my eyes and activated my shadows, slitting the necks of the women before they could scream.
While it was okay for one woman or two to escape, it wasn't ideal, since it would limit my time to kill the rest, which was why I used the shadows to get rid of the witnesses.
I had to make sure my target was killed swiftly and silently, which was why I took no chances and sniped him.
I checked my watch again - 6:20.
I didn't have much more time to kill the rest of the people on my list - it was only a matter of time before the bodies were discovered and the people left on my list took precautions and tried to hide.
Of course, that was part of the plan - Haisha was supposed to be unnerved and increasingly terrified as his associates, workers, and underlings slowly decreased in number, dropping dead throughout the city.
However, I had given myself a time limit to kill everyone so I had to make sure the underlings of the higher ups didn't run away.
After making sure everything was going according to plan and it wasn't necessary to tweak the schedule to adjust, I teleported away to the nearby location of my the next person on my list, feeling somewhat like a grim reaper.
***
Finally, I was done.
I had killed everyone on the list - after a while, it had gotten rather boring, so I decided to hurry it up and instead sent shadows in my stead.
After practicing, I got the hang of it and was able to kill everyone left on the list within an hour, putting myself several hours ahead of schedule.
It gave me a lot more time and allowed me to be more flexible with my remaining tasks.
Next was instilling fear.
Of course, everyone was getting scared because the people in charge were turning up dead all over the place, but it wasn't enough for them to flee to somewhere safe - there were still enough workers for Haisha's business to stay afloat.
I couldn't have that.
Unless Haisha was completely out of business, it wasn't an overwhelming success.
I took the blood I collected from some of my victims and teleported to one of the main areas under Haisha's cover casino.
I hid somewhere out of sight before changing my appearance to resemble that of a devil.
I changed my eye color to a menacing blood-red, shaped my face to look like a stereotypical devil's face, and morphed horns on top of my head.
Although I doubted devils actually looked like this, it would be enough.
The workers would believe the devil was after them because they were doing bad deeds or something along those lines.
I made my hair color as dark as I could, and increases its length as well as changing my body to seem more strong and intimidating (although my regular body was plenty strong, it didn't look that way. Normally that would be very beneficial, but when intimidating, it would be better to look scary).
Not sure what color skin a devil would have, I made mine pure white to resemble a more powerful devil, picturing a stereotypical demon / God of the Underworld.
As a last-minute addition, I added wings to my body to seem less human-like and more like a monster, though it felt a bit insulting because I thought wings were rather beautiful most of the time.
Feeling a bit silly, I looked at my reflection in the hand-mirror I drew from my small space pocket, making intimidating faces.
Sighing, I stopped and looked around, reflecting on my life decisions for a second before sighing again, glad no one was there for several reasons.
Sighing again, I poured intimidating aura out around me, feeling like I was sighing a bit too much.
***
"AHH!"
Screams were heard all around me, people running and shoving to get away from me as I kill workers left, right, and center.
The pleading was annoying, and I'd rather the gore-ish sound effects would be done away with, but otherwise I wasn't too affected by my surroundings.
Pondering on whether I should be making more effort to seem less human-like, I dropped the idea of "roaring," feeling it would seem half-hearted and do the opposite effect.
[A/N: I'm just imagining her with like a bad monster-disguise, bored face, and saying "roar," in a bored and monotonous voice, and it's cracking me up (made me snort).]
It seemed like my efforts weren't wasted, though, because the workers seemed like they were regretting their life decisions as well and wanted to quit, so those that survived would likely also not be returning.
Testing out a spiky, weapon-like tail i sprouted just for the heck of it, I impaled a nearby man, wondering if I was imagining the commonly used Roblox "oof" sound effect from my previous life coming out of him.
Ah well.
Must be getting old.
Sighing again, I doubled my efforts, wanting to get this tedious task done with.
Sure, I could have more fun with it, but I just wasn't feeling it.
I let out a sigh, wondering if the dead-inside feeling teens had was coming upon me since I sorta missed that phase.
***
A/N: sorry this is so short! Idk if her personality is changing cuz mine is, but hopefully it's not too bad.
I just finished this chapter up cuz someone kept upvoting my chapters, and I was like - to heck with it, let's do this. (Username Ertatheturtle1 cuz why not)
Hope it didn't fall too below your expectations, and I'm sorry I didn't update for so long đ
Found a bunch of good fanfics and stuff and felt like mine couldn't compare, so why bother, y'know?
Anyway, hope you liked it?
Am I becoming less eloquent?
Eh.
Doesn't matter much.
Anyway, this story might start changing a bit - I've realized recently this character is becoming boring and sort of a Mary Sue, so I'm making her speech and stuff less,
"My capabilities far exceed merely beheading these powerless workers, so I shall intimidate them and make others overwhelmed even if they've never seen me before as it would be more strategic and beneficial in the long run."
And more like:
"I could just kill everyone, but more could be hired, and that would be a waste of Assassination abilities so let's just scare 'em off."
I might be exaggerating.
Anyway yeah, bye and hope most of you prefer the change? If not I'll make an effort to stay serious and professional and cynical-like, but even I would get bored with that.
Oh, but if you're looking for a fanfic kinda like that, with really good speech and dialogue and narrating and stuff, you should check out this one I found - "Suddenly Quirkless" by DarkCooki3
Not sure if any of you might be interested in it, but it's a concept of Killua Zoldyck being super powerful and smart (I think?) and he's like transported into MHA after the HxH anime (I think?).
I don't think this Killua is as attached to Gon and HxH as in other fanfics with this concept, at least yet, but I'm loving it so far and the writing style is absolutely out of this world.
The first chapter is written in Killua's perspective, and I think more are as well, but the others and most are written from side characters' views for now (he's in 1B by the way).
This is turning into a review now so imma end it - bye and sorry for the poor quality!
I felt like my inspiration was dwindling so better end it before I make this chapter even worse.
Bye, again!
Cya when I cya. Which is hopefully soon.