"Where are we going again?" She asked Dazai while she walked beside him. "Just some target practice I found nearby, they also serve food there so it should be fun. It kinda works like a bowling alley if I'm being honest." "Is it the one near the arcade along #### street?" "Precisely."
"Ohh! I've never gone to target practice before!" Senju said excitedly as she clung on Lilith. "Well I hope you enjoy your first time." She smiled at her before turning to Takeomi. "Oh, if you wanna smoke there Takeomi san, there's a smoking area outside the place. They also serve drinks there too I think?"
"Well that's convenient." He smirked.
"This conversation makes me wanna go to Lupin already..." Dazai whined. "You go there far too often anyways, I feel bad for your liver more than your mentality." Lilith narrowed her eyes at him. He dramatically gasped. "Your words hurt my precious little heart!"
After some time they finally arrived at the target practice. The siblings found themselves a seat near the shooting area while the two bought the food and drinks as well as their time for the shooting.
"Only Senju wanna go?" Lilith asked while she ate a fry from the fries basket. "Yeah, we're good." Takeomi said as she looked at Haruchiyo. "You?" "I'll just eat and watch, I like swords more anyways." "Suit yourself."
She then dragged Senju along with her and Dazai at the shooting area, their position gives them a clear view of what they're doing. In addition, they also have a close up camera where their bullets land on the target. Lilith had to teach Senju how to hold a gun first and how to aim. After her first practice shoot finally hit the target, Lilith left her be and went on her own place to shoot.
"I'm choosing leveling settings." She said as she propped up her guns and began shooting with such precision. Headshots and heartshots were being bullseyed within seconds and she was doing it with a pistol on each hand.
"Holy sh*t." Haruchiyo couldn't help but cuss at the scene before him. Takeomi already dropped his cigarette and Senju already had her gun down watching with her mouth wide open. Dazai only stood there watching in amusement before joining her. The other participants'jaws' dropped from what was happening. A literal child was dominating the non-existent competition. She was fast to reload too and fast to react once the wooden body dummy pops up.
An hour later, they came back to their table to eat since apparently the meal they ordered was ready.
"Well that ended quickly." Lilith said so herself as she sat down by the table.
Gun shooting might be fun but I hate it at the same time...
Blood...
"Well I could tell this isn't your first time but how are you that good?! You're literally already a veteran!" Senju exclaimed.
"I started literally just one or two years ago, but it was just airsoft and pellets at the time." She explained. She didn't really want to reveal too many things about herself, her real self. At least, not all at once. It would surprise them how much blood has already tainted her hands these past few years she's been living on earth. If not by killing but by beating people up.
"It's pretty hard to open up you know, I have plenty of friends who're better at this than me. If you could remember the Tenjiku incident, I had a friend who held a sniper take down the flying bullets along with the gun before arresting the culprits of Emma's death..." She said while she played around with her food a bit before taking a bite.
"But you were already so good at handling a gun yourself, why didn't you?" Senju asked her while the two brothers listened intently. "I wouldn't want to incidentally—purposely kill someone. Would've been better if they were actually wanted criminals, but they're just teens with no brain." She smiled rather bitterly. She really wanted to torture the guy before killing him as well. She hated him for even touching her sister. If she had the power to bring one back up from the dead repeatedly. She would've used it on Kisaki instead just so she could torture him eternal life and death. It's better to give the dead their peace but she won't let Kisaki have his peace...
"Stop being so gloomy already, the guy was tortured before death, what else would you get?" Dazai jokingly said, it was his act of comfort. "He got hot sauce and hot wasabi up his nostrils, I don't know if that's even torture or the one doing it is just playing with him..." Takeomi commented sweat dropping from his face.
God... Stop talking about it already... It's weirdly uncomfortable, please...
"How the heck did you know that?" Haruchiyo looked at him suspiciously. "I heard it from Mikey, he said it was actually funnier than having to do something gruesome."
"Seriously? That's the weirdest torture before death in history..." Lilith couldn't help but admit it was indeed funny. Although, she'd prefer that she didn't know anything about it at all.
"When are you planning on coming back?" Haruchiyo finally went straight to the point. She was silent for a moment as she finished the food in her mouth before she smiled.
"There's a bit of an error from where I am now. I'll come back when it's fixed. I don't know when precisely but I'd bet on 3 more months, but don't tell them yet. I don't want to get their hopes up." She finally answered their question. It's a question she's been avoiding for some time now since she was still unsure if she even wants to come back.
It's taking me longer just because someone finally revealed their true colors...
"As for that error, they're quite hard to find. I just found them recently too. I won't talk much about it till then, just know that I'm doing good." She smiled.
Those assassins are as irritating as expected.
"I'd prefer wine than beer not gonna lie..." Lilith whispered to Dazai while she took a sip from her cup with a lid. It wasn't transparent so they don't really know what's inside.
"Well I'd prefer whisky..." Dazai whispered back to her.
"I'll treat you later then, but we better be home before 12 AM." She spoke as she leaned herself on him while her feet was stretched out of the couch like bench.
"You guys going anywhere after this?" Haruchiyo asked them.
"Somewhat, I guess." Lilith said as she sipped her drink.
"Just don't follow my footsteps far too much." Dazai whispered into her ear.
"Of course, I would just be digging a deeper hole for myself..."
I'm gonna drink this whole night up...
"Take care of me will ya'?" Dazai only looked at her from the corner of his eyes as he drank his drink before smiling. "Whatever you say, princess.
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"Quite interesting isn't it?..."
"The predator becomes the prey mere seconds before it bit its fangs could even react..."
Lilith looked down at the corpses beneath her feet dully, her hands covered in blood as some were splattered on her face. She found some assassins near her classmates'residences by the forest. After reporting to Karasuma sensei about these presences, she volunteered to get rid of all of them. Of course, Karasuma sensei himself hesitated at the thought of a kid to handle all of that, but she mentioned how the Port Mafia territory was infiltrated by them and the fact that they too are now on a search for the said group of assassins, she knows what goes on inside made her have a deal with her old teacher.
I'll deal with everything, using the Mafia like a puppet isn't a hard job when I too am doing a job for them by killing these assassins...
Thankfully so, Karasuma and Irina sensei made sure that the identities of the assassins were on the list of criminals where they need to be executed as well. This fair trade with the government made it so her movements were all legal as if she was a spy.
"So how many more are there?... Shiro." She slowly looked to the side to see the one who has been ordering around assassins for months now.
"You brats just never learn!.." He cursed. He's been hiring a lot of skilled assassins for a long time, she herself was surprised by the size of his bank account.
"Could I have your bank password once you're dead? I mean, you wouldn't have any use for it." She said as she turned around to face him, holding her fully loaded gun and a knife on the right.
"Tsk." Out of nowhere, black tentacles emerged from his back and attacked towards her direction which caught her off guard since it came from all directions. It grabbed her and lifted her up in the air.
"You have a lot of talent for a kid... Maybe even more so than Itona. If I simply managed to experiment on your body... Perhaps I could use you..." He gave her a smug smirk as he squeezed her body harshly causing her to yelp in pain.
"There's none left, but I could still use you... Of course."
"Sano Lilith, one of the top 3 trained assassins... I must say, they really did succeed on their project when you've gotten this far to even kill humans." He said as he lowered her down slightly to face her face-to-face, her feet still not reaching the ground while he held her even tighter with his tentacles.
"You don't know my past you mad scientist!.. There's really no point in harming us students when we only did what we were tasked to do!" She yelled at him before letting out a short scream of pain when he tightened his grip.
He thought she would've passed out by now but no, she suddenly broke free when an 'anti-korosensei' knife suddenly burst through his tentacles. From the looks of it, she was well prepared of this outcome and only covered the green knife with metal to make it more durable and usable in normal combat and since the tentacles naturally melts metal, once the metal coating was all gone she was able to use it and burst his tentacles.
"Y-you!!"
"Die already you freak..." She said as she stabbed him in the heart with the same knife and shot his head with a real bullet. There he lay motionless in the blood tainted grass under the blue broken moonlight.
She called a number from her phone and talked as soon as someone picked up. "Irina sensei... I'm done cleaning... But I may need help with the actual clean up."
"What?! You're already done?! It's only been a month and a half!"
"Shiro came to me himself after I exterminated some of his assassins and tried to make me pass out earlier with his injected tentacles. It seems like he wanted to use me and experiment on me to use for his assassinations, but I was able to be 10 steps ahead of him and now he's... Uhm.. He tainted the grass." She tried her best to explain the full situation.
"Oh dear Lord... Hold on, I'm coming over, send me your location."
"Yes, Irina sensei." She said as she hung up the phone and sent her the location before looking up at the sky again, seeing a silhouette of her former teacher probably still smiling down at her even though she'd probably go to hell.
I wonder if I could go pray at a church after this... She sighed. Such a hassle...
I just wish... Everything could be normal again... But I know now that...
There's no turning back...
"I'm just a kid..."
"Why did I do all of this?.."