YEAR: 2011
The knife plunged through the windshield of a passing car, it began to swerve out of control heading towards Eve and tried to dodge out of the way but her legs got hit as the car went through the railing and crashed into a house below. Eve, now laying on the floor, let go of both children as shielding them from the crash managed to fracture both of her arms.
“Wow I was starting to think you glued them onto you or something, although I must say that it’s quite impressive that you managed to run so quick while carrying them.”
As Eve lay there, her body thought she didn’t need to run anymore and that surge of energy that was rampant throughout her body had now dissipated, all the pain and exhaustion she accumulated up to this point hit her all at once, the onset of pain was so severe that her body became numb and went into paralytic shock. But despite the numbness, Eve could feel each and every splinter still lodged in her skin, it could only be described as if thousands of bullet ants were relentlessly biting at her body.
Despite wanting to scream, Eve was unable to, her body had completely betrayed her in this one moment. As Butcher watched all this unfold he began to laugh but this was no sadistic or maniacal laugh, it was laughter comparable to that of a child, completely pure and true
“Pfft! Ahahahahaha! Hahahaha! Hehehehe!”
Butcher spent at least two minutes rolling around on the ground laughing before he finally cooled down and regained his composure
“Man! I would not have been able to get that good a laugh if I never told my guys to stay offshore! Now you’ll have to excuse me for a moment, I need to go retrieve something I dropped.”
He casually strolled by Eve's paralysed body and the bodies of the once again unconscious Kosuke and Izumi, Butcher approached the edge where the car fell from and proceeded to hop down to where the car was. As Butcher walked through the debris towards the car he seemed to be whistling a cheery tune and as he reached the front of the car, he saw his knife embedded into the driver’s skull.
“Hehe nice, headshot.”
Butcher turned back around, looking at the wall he just jumped down from and realised it was a little higher than he thought
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“Ah shit, don’t tell me I need to take a long way to get back up. Oh wait a minute there’s some stairs, nice.”
Before heading back up, Butcher went back to the corpse to clean off his knife by wiping the blade on the body
“Much better… I should probably head back now.”
He ascended the stairs and was glad to see that Eve didn’t somehow manage to escape, he was so glad that he approached her paralysed body with a grin as warm as a summer breeze
“Ahh it’s so nice when prey doesn’t run away, don’t get me wrong, resistance is fun and all but sometimes it’s nice to get a more relaxing kill for once. I feel like I said something like that already but meh, I’ll go with it.”
Butcher dragged Eve’s body off the road and in front of a small shrine structure, he moved her around so that she lay flat on her back with her arms and legs spread wide, he then went over to the children’s unconscious bodies and sat them on the shrine so they facing Eve’s limp body. Like a trick a party magician would use, Butcher began to pull long lengths of thin rope from his pocket and began to tie the children’s arms and legs together while also attaching it to a small pole inside the shrine so that they couldn’t move from that spot.
After setting everything up Butcher woke up Kosuke and Izumi who were both startled by this stranger who was very close to their faces, so much so that they didn’t notice Eve’s body on the ground in front of them.
“Hey kids, I’m gonna be teaching you about human anatomy!”
Kosuke and Izumi were both confused by what this stranger was saying, and despite Kosuke knowing what this stranger did he stayed quiet until Izumi spoke up
“What’s human anatomy Mr. Stranger?”
Butcher’s eyes filled with a crazed but joyous light, much like that of an otaku who was asked about their favourite show
“Why I’m so glad you asked, little boy! You see human anatomy is the study done on the structure of the human body! Isn’t that exciting? Although for today I’ll just teach you about the limbs and outer body, doesn’t that sound fun?”
As Butcher went on about human anatomy his expression had shifted from warm to obsessive and once again Izumi spoke up as Kosuke continued to only watched
“But mister, how are you going to teach us that anatomy stuff?”
Once again Butcher’s expression shifted but this time he went from obsessive to cynical as he stepped back revealing Eve’s paralysed body still laying there, completely motionless, this time Kosuke spoke up
“I-Is she d-dead?”
Butcher turned to face Kosuke
“Oh of course not, she’s just paralysed from the shock her body went through while I was chasing all of you. Besides, how would I teach human anatomy without a perfectly willing volunteer who wouldn’t struggle no matter what I did to them?”
Butcher picked up his knife that he had put next to Kosuke
“Now for your first lesson let’s look at the fingers and toes.”
And the knife went down