Side story 2.1: Reflection Part 1/2
[Edited by ArchmageNaoki & Arthur300000]
[Deathbricks really needs to get good at these entry quotes]
Normally bandits are a bunch of outlaws, so there was no one who suspected me of being a bandit. Officially, I’m just an ordinary citizen of the 46th Human Settlement North of Black Dragon City. However, in reality, I rob people for a living. The scene of people struggling, taking their last breath, and the best of all killing those pompous high-school students is so exciting!
Holding people’s lives in my hand makes me feel good. Once I heard someone say, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” And so I did, becoming a bandit is what I love.
One day, a stupid group of students gave us their competitors’ next field assignment location. They also provided security sweeps route and schedule. Children these days, just to eliminate their competition they even go as far as asking us to kill them. Well, why not? Just rob those greenhorn students. It’s practically a zero risk high return job. If there are girls in their group, I will enjoy training them slowly before selling those girls as sex slaves on the black market.
Everything went according to the plan. We set up the hideout, scatter sensors around the forest, and we distributed sensors in the forest so we could predict the routes those students would take. We didn't have to wait long. A signal came from sensor number 34 and 62, so we sent a team to intercept them. I really want to join that team to see those students’ despair-stricken faces first hand... However, because the ambush team will get more cut than the others we have to roll the dice. And because of my damn luck, I’m not on that team. Oh well, I'll get the next one. However, the ambush team got wiped out. And just like that, we lost a third of our fighting strength.
“What the f*ck are they doing, they're just a bunch of f*cking greenhorn students!” The boss is pissed. He has undergone full combat assist cybernetic augmentation, so no one wants to fight with him.
“We need to move. The security might come and try to salvage any information they could find on that team." Michael, a level-headed guy who would always propose brilliant ideas. I should feel pity for the guy, if he wasn't born to outlaw parents, he could've gotten a high-income job in the city. Not like I actually do care though.
“F*ck! Sh*t! This should be an easy job. I don’t want to go back empty handed!” Boss was throwing a tantrum. Of course, no one wants to go back empty handed, but you should at least know what to do next.
“Plant the big bomb that we got from the last job here. Then we should relocate around here.” He pointed to a spot on the map. “This place should be sufficiently far from security sweeps and close enough to raid them quickly when the bomb explodes.” Michael suggested.
No one rejected the idea. I’m not good at using my head, so I follow that plan. We relocate our hideout, set up the bomb and leave those newbies who joined us recently as bait. Of course, they don’t know they are bait. We told them to watch the base perimeter while we go hunting those students. What a stupid bunch of idiots.
We wait for a whole day, and no one came. It’s agonizing to wait while those sensors we scattered around the area show signals of some students. We couldn’t hunt them because if the security team comes we need for everyone to ambush them, and after we killed the security team those students will be just an easy prey waiting for us to pick them one by one. However, the longer we wait, poorer the boss's mood. On the afternoon of the second day, we got a signal of four people heading to our old base. It’s four people, so they must be students. These stupid kids must’ve thought they could take us on by themselves.
“Not good, if they trigger the bomb, we won’t be able to ambush the security team.” Michael said with concern, and soon after that, *BOOM* Ha harr! Goes the dynamite. Those stupid kids must be dead. The explosion is bigger than expected and the shockwave causes the entire sensor network to collapse.
“Let’s go.” Boss orders us, but Michael says otherwise. “No! It’s too risky! The security may follow and-” *Smash* Boss pulverized Michael’s head with a punch.
“Anymore bright ideas?” He looked at us menacingly. “I say we get in, take everything from them, and get out quickly. I’m bored of this shit. IS THAT CLEAR!?”
“””Yes sir!””” No one wanted to be killed by the boss, so we scramble to the explosion site. We split into five combat teams and three snipers. Four groups will spread out and block those stupid students’ escape route while we move closer to kill them. The sniper teams will provide fire support, and protect us from the incoming security team. The last group will protect the sniper team and secure our escape path.
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All we need to do is get in and out quickly, yet we took a lot of time to organize this shit. This is going to be the last job I’m going to do with this group. I’m sick of this imbecile boss. He only got his position because he’s strong and good with magic. But this job needs more than just that- *Boom*.
“SHIT! The trap was move-” I already know that- *Boom!* Shit! After two consecutive explosions, my team was assault by a rain of spells. Luckily, our gear was superior to them so we could block their spell easily.
“Thomas find out where they are shooting from!” I order my subordinate to climb the tree, but shortly later he was shot down by concentrated fire. How can they know he’s climbing the tree in this dense forest? The incoming spells are endless, and it’s getting more precise every second. Where does their energy come from?! Just four f*cking students shouldn’t be able to send this many spells flying at us. Are they not getting exhausted? We have more people than them yet why are we the one running out of energy?
“I’m getting out of here!” Jeff, one of my last subordinates has lost it. It’s time to run. I also turn back to join up with another team. However, what came next made me doubt my eyes. I saw from the corner of my eyes something like a black shadow flew past him quickly, and then suddenly his head fell off. So I ran even faster. A few minutes later, I heard another big explosion. That’s the distinct sound of a cybernetic core explosion. So the boss is dead. They’re not students. No students can do that. This is a trap set up by the school I conclude. Another group might be targeted by security team soon. Shit! I turn another way immediately, a while later I found a good place to hide. I jumped in the hole and activate my personal camouflage device.
This camouflage device is a very rare device which I found when we raid a military convoy. Even then there was only one of them on the truck. Luckily, I found it when no one was looking at me, so I took it for myself. To be invisible or soundless, anyone could do that but to avoid being detected by a security scanners pulse one would need this kind of camouflage device. However, this camouflage device is only effective when I stay still. My face is covered with sweat and dirt which itches like hell on my skin, but I don’t dare to move. I heard heavy fighting from the sniper group’s direction. So I am right, it’s an ambush. While I listened to the sound of a security space shuttle that is flying over me, I hold my breath. My heart's still beating loudly, and the sweat is getting into my eyes. It’s really painful, but I have to hold on because my life is on the line. It felt like an eternity before that shuttle was finally gone.
*Sigh*, it’s a failed job. Shit. After I waited for a while longer to ensure that they were really gone. I clean myself up, change into an adventurer's suit and leave the immediate area. It’s a bad day. Nevertheless, I survived. It's much better fate compared to that bunch of riffraff. I stay hidden until two days has passed in order to make sure that everyone has left the forest, then I travel back to the city. There are some security checkpoints, but all I need to do is just to show my ID card. A stupid idiot officer, I mock them in my mind.
It’s already dark when I reach the city, so I hit the bar that night. My wife is also an idiot. She still believes I’m a construction worker. I want to see her face when I told her that all the money she got from me came from those stupid students’ corpses and slavery. Well, I could only tell her that before I kill her. She still has some use. So I have to hold on.
That night, I drank too much, but still managed to stumble back to my house. My wife came to welcome me. How can she still love me? I have no idea. Women are stupid creatures anyway. Even so, today sucked, that meant she got an extra beating. *blurb* I relieve my pent up stress on her. Oh, maybe today I might've been too rough or her. She has passed out. So I moved on to tie up my daughter and start raping her. Well, these women are quite defiant. They helped my youngest daughter escape from me, or should I call her granddaughter. Never mind, when she comes back I’ll also rape her. She has nowhere to go anyway.
*BANG* Someone just lifted me up and slammed me down on the floor. *SNAP* It felt like a chunk of meat between my legs was pulled away quickly. It took me a couple of seconds to realize what happened, and the pain follows soon after that.
“AGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!” The pain that follows was more intense than anything I ever felt in my life. I almost passed out, but I mustn't. I rolled around in pain until I felt a healing spell from someone being cast on me. It's a unique tingling sensation. After I clear all tears and mucus on my face, I saw an unknown long black-haired girl turning her back to me. I’ll teach her how a pro does a real sneak attack. I got up quickly and quietly. Then lunged at her hoping to snap her neck in one move. However, what I saw before I collapsed is a blurred shadow. It’s just like what I saw in the forest. Is this a fucking new spell I don’t know? That’s all I thought before another wave of pain assaulted me. I couldn’t breathe and blacked out.
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“Are you alright Mr. Royce?” I woke up with a few police officers in my house. I tried to remember what happened, and then I saw that bitch again.
“Arrest her! ARREST THAT BITCH!!” That fucking bitch I will get you for this. “I will #$$#@% you!” However, the tan skinned fucking police won’t let me go. "Why?! That BITCH trespassed into my house and assaulted me, officer!” I scream my lungs out when these stupid cops put me into the car.
It took a very long time to make those idiot cops understand that I lost my manhood because of that bitch. However, after a series of lengthy testing and scanning they believe me. And because of those scanning procedures, they discovered that have been working with bandits… I’m an idiot. I’m going to get revenge on that bitch for fu*king with me! If I miraculously escape this... death sentence.