1 Died by a Low-Class Kidnapper

Midnight arrived in Los Angeles after the hour hand pointed to the number twelve. In the darkness of the night, no one is aware of a shadow that infiltrated the bedroom of a corrupt government official of China. The shadow is Erica, the most famous hitman in the world. Even though the world only knows her code name that is Mystique.

Wearing an all-black outfit, she sneaked in from the balcony without being noticed by anyone. Even more so for two bodyguards outside who guarded the door to the room. Her steps have no sound. She mingled with the night like a shadow.

'Finally, I'm inside. The target seems to be in the bathroom,' thought Erica.

She then waited behind the door while preparing chloroform to make the target pass out. Although Erica doesn't like to use it as it took quite a long time to work, sometimes it came in handy. Two bodyguards behind the door will force entry inside as soon as there is a commotion. So the safest way to kill the target was to use chloroform then kill him.

A few minutes later, the target -Zhang Fubai come out of the bathroom wearing a white bathrobe. Zhang Fubai was a man with a big belly like a barrel. His face was swollen like a pig that took too much public money that was not his. Erica was disgusted by Zhang Fubai's appearance and behavior. Even though she was a hitman, she never took missions whose purpose was to kill, injure, or harm innocent people. That is Erica's principle as a hitman.

Erica immediately soundlessly walking to his behind. Her right hand that holding a handkerchief that has been stained by chloroform close to the nose and mouth of Zhang Fubai. Five minutes passed before Zhang Fubai was unconscious. For those five minutes, Erica tightly stopped the movement and prevented Zhang Fubai from making a sound so as not to cause a commotion.

After Zhang Fubai is unconscious, Erica immediately laying his body on the floor. Taking out the dagger she kept in one of her boots, Erica without hesitation stabbing Zhang Fubai's heart. Just like that and Zhang Fubai is no longer alive. Erica then gets ready to get out of the bedroom. She walked back to the balcony and took out a crossbow with an arrow connected by a string.

*Shuuu…*

The arrow gliding smoothly toward the top of the hotel building. Erica then pulled the trigger on the crossbow. The crossbow pulling back the string that caused Erica's body to be pulled up to the top of the building.

"Another mission did successfully," Erica grinning from ear to ear at her successful mission.

"Time to go back home."

Erica then takes the change of clothes that she had prepared beforehand on top of the building. Finished changing clothes to disguise herself as middle-aged men, she casually went down the elevator to the ground floor while carrying a suitcase which contains her crossbow, outfit, disguise materials, and other things.

Before she could get out of the building there are riots downstairs. The cause of the riots is a man's hostage of a child while pointing a gun at the child's head.

"Mama! Help me…" one little girl who is a hostage cried asking for help from her mother.

"Please let go of my child. She is innocent," a woman who wears a brand name clothes cries while begging the man who is holding her daughter.

"SHUT UP!" the man snapped at the woman.

"It is because of your husband that I was fired from work! It was his fault that my daughter is dead now because I can't pay hospital bills. If you want your daughter back, then give me back my daughter!"

"Please… please let go of my daughter, please."

The woman keeps crying her eyes out. Knowing if she continues to be in this building then her cover will be discovered, Erica decides to ignore the events in front of her. Unfortunately for her the mother holding onto her left hand.

"Please can you help me? My daughter was taken hostage, please help her."

"Madam, even I can't do the impossible. She was the one taken as a hostage, do you want me to replace her?" Erica asked sarcastically.

"Good idea!"

The woman pulled Erica's hand towards the man who was holding her child hostage. Erica struggling to take her hand off the woman's grip, but somehow this woman has Hulk power to not let go of her hand. The woman then threw Erica to the floor.

'Shit! It hurts.'

"Please replace my daughter with this man," she asked in confidence.

"Do you take me as a fool?" The man asked while still dumbfounding by the woman's irrational act.

As the man and the woman busy in their heated arguments, Erica slowly goes toward the man. She holds the man's hand then twists it back, the child then ran to her mother's arms.

"You bastard! Let me go." The man struggled violently.

As Erica is a girl, she can't win against the man's strength. Moreover, she had just finished carrying out the mission. Shortly after, she can't restrain the man anymore then Erica tumbled backward by the man's force. Anger clouded the man's mind as he pulled Erica towards him and taken her as a hostage.

'Why the hell am I in this situation?' Erica asked herself that.

"Back up or I will shoot him!" He shouted in anger at the policeman that just arrived.

"Release the man or I'll shoot you!" The policeman shouted back while pointing his gun to the man.

As the man and the police fighting with their mouth, Erica grabbed the wrist of the man that holding the gun then pointed it up.

*BANG* *BANG*

"Arrgh…."

Two gunshots rang out at the same time. One aimed at the ceiling while the other one aimed at the man's thigh. The policeman managed to shoot the man's thigh safely without injuring Erica. Erica then immediately went away from the man.

"Thanks for your cooperation," the policeman said in gratitude.

"It's okay, I don't deserve it."

'Cause I just want this to end soon and go home.'

"Don't be humble, I can shoot him on his thigh is thanks to you."

Erica only responded with a nod.

"IT'S YOUR FAULT!"

The man who had just been shot in the thigh screaming angrily at Erica. Before Erica could turn around to the man, he had drawn a knife at Erica. She got a fatal wound on her heart. Erica curled up in pain while one thought continues to haunt her.

'I don't believe it. How can I, the best hitman in the world die because of the low-class kidnapper? Unbelievable."

With that thought as her last regret, Erica leaves this world forever.