"Son, you can’t sleep your life away you know?"

‘... Was that dad?...’

Riku wondered as he remembered a time in his childhood..

‘It was the first time I went to the range…..’

Riku smiled inwardly remembering his promise.

‘Yeah that’s right. Every living creature is just my potential emissary.

All of these men… they are just walking corpses!’

With all of his strength, and with blood dripping he grabbed the nearest corpse and ran towards the firing line with the dead body like a riot shield.

As he ran he fired his pistol and with every shot another guard fell, but despite this there were still enough guards to fire at him. They fired at him through his human shield and a few rounds went through the corps and connected to his hoodie.

Riku broke through the line of guards holding a corpse riddled with bullet holes. Reaching beside the guards Riku let out a smirk.

[Bam!]

[Bam!]

Riku was already deadly at the foot of the stairs so naturally him finally making it to the top right beside the henchmen made him an absolute monster.

In a split second he had wiped out the entire line of henchmen and dragged his bloody body towards the boss’s room.

-

“Sounds like it’s finally over”

Grengy rocked back in his chair lighting a Cuban cigar as he spoke to right hand man Mr Lick.

“Yeah, who would've thought just one kid could hold them up this long?”

The boss and Grengy heard the silence outside and both figured that they had already taken care of the intruder.

“Care for a gamble?”

Grengy looked at his right hand man with a smirk as he took a deep breath of his cigar,

“What do you have in mind?”

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Mr Lick smirked before continuing,

“Let’s guess how many bullet holes the kid has.

Winner gets to report him to the police like a good citizen.”

Grengy busted out in laughter. It had to be understood that Grengy was currently the bane of the police force. But regardless of what they suspected, on paper he was a law abiding citizen.

For some no name brat to storm in on his property with guns blazing was still very much illegal. There was very few things Grengy enjoyed more than outsmarting the police and forcing them to work for him.

He got a little euphoric high from seeing them doing his bidding.

“Ouuuu, you’re on!

I know my boys, they love getting a good over kill, I would say at least one hundred.”

Grengy excitedly gave his guesstimate.

“Come on now boss, they aren’t so uncivilized to do that to a young lad. I would say just ten.”

Grengy cackled at Mr Lick’s assumption.

“That’s always your problem, you always see the cultured nature of humanity.

But I know, deep down we are all just slightly smarter barbarians.”

Grengy pointed his cigar at Mr Lick as they bickered between each other.

“And I say you only see the worst because they are afraid of you. But they can b-”

Mr Lick’s rebuttal was cut short when two… no three… no four… six! Six heads came rolling in one after the other.

Mr Lick was faster seeing that something was off and drew for his gun.

[Bam!] [Bam!]

Two shots were fired and Mr Lick was sent hurling through the glass window behind him.

[Bam!]

Riku fired another round and knocked the gun from Grengy’s hand before he could even finish drawing it.

Grengy tried to reach for the gun-

[Bam!]

“ARG! God dammit!”

Two of Grengy’s fingers were instantly blown off. Grengy held his hand with a look of pain and contempt towards the figure at the doorway.

“Hm, you really are just a kid.

Let’s just end this here before the cops come brat. If you leave now you could still probably escape.”

Grengy knew he was at a disadvantage but he knew the young kids these days didn’t have the drive like back in his days.

In his days he wouldn’t have even given them the chance to say this many words. Well Grengy thought he was in the clear until he saw the kid’s face under the hoodie.

It was an eerie broad smile drowning in tears.

“Escape? No, you miss understand. I am here to keep you alive as long as possible.”

Grengy was a little confused.

[BAM!]

A shot whistled through the air and left Grengy with one foot.

[ARG!]

“You bastard!”

[BAM!]

Another round landed in his right leg and Grengy fell to his floor.

Riku reloaded his pistol and walked over to Grengy still holding his broad smile.

“Let’s play a game… How many shots can the scumbag last.”

The night reverberated with the sound of gunshots once again. With every shot the wails of Grengy grew more agonizing than the last.

It took thirty minutes before the police finally arrived. When they made it to the warehouse the sight of piles upon piles of dead bodies made even the most hardened and senior of police officer’s want to vomit.

They thought they had seen the worst of it. But the body they found in Grengy’s office was almost unrecognizable.

Every limb had been riddled with bullet holes. Every phalange had been shot off.

But that wasn’t the sad part,

“Please… Please… kill… me”

Even in his riddled state Grengy was still alive. The police were completely dumbfounded how he could have survived.

The officers thought this was the end of the madness only to be assaulted by another voice.

“I am ready to go now.”

In the room was a young man with his hands behind his head and back turned to the wall.

The officers pointed their guns and placed Riku in handcuffs as they dragged him out of the warehouse of blood and bodies.