Chapter 95 - Declaration Of The Play : Part 3

Up, down, left-

Axel flew as he let his body disappear completely. He trained his speed while adjusting with his light body.

Adreanna watched him from afar, raising one of her eyebrows every time a part of Axel's hands appeared to touch some of the garbage and made them disappear. It looked like a flying hand every time he did that.

"Shit-" The boy cursed when he accidentally touched one of the punching bags and made them disappear.

He had been adjusting to make everything disappear, but he still could not switch between making it disappear or just slightly touching it. It took time for him to focus on that.

Being some kind of a ghost could be an advantage for him, especially on how you could move fast while disappearing from people's eyes. He wondered how his counterpart adjusted with this power.

He wondered if his counterpart hated him for impersonating him.

He just hoped he had a good rest now. He should apologize to him when he dies someday.

Axel swirled and made himself reappear as he landed on the floor with sweats adorning his head. Right as he touched the ground, he turned around and brought out his gun to shoot a bottle on top of the lockers and hit it right on the mark.

"No, wait-" The gun in his hand slowly disappeared as the boy cursed himself again.

"That's the last gun." He muttered as he slowly turned over to Adreanna. "Sorry." He apologetically smiled at his sister, fidgeting with his hands.

"It's fine. I have more." She dully answered. Despite her trying to tell that it was alright, her tone really did not match what she intended to say.

Adreanna took out the gun in her pocket and offered it to the anxious boy. She frowned upon his behaviour, causing Axel to flinch after seeing her face. The boy took the gun slowly, still wary of his sister.

"Sorry." He uttered again, looking at her with an etching nervousness within him.

Adreanna tilted her head. "I told you that it's fine."

She frowned again when Axel cowered away from her. Was he afraid of her?

"Axel-" She snapped her mouth shut and cut her own words when some footsteps were heard from the stairs.

Axel and Adreanna turned their heads to the source of sound at the same time. Their blue eyes glinted in silence as they waited for the people to appear. While waiting, the youngest adjusted his eyepatch to ensure his red eye was covered.

One, two, three-

The pair of siblings counted the number of people in their heads while their gaze darkened. Axel slowly started to make himself disappear while Adreanna's hand moved over to where her gun hid.

Four, five, six, seven.

Seven people. They could be police that had found where they were, or they could be the FBI. Maybe someone else that was more dangerous?

Axel had almost disappeared completely when the people finally came to their sights. Adreanna sighed when she saw seven men that were just nobody. The way they dressed up basically told who they were.

Gangsters. Wannabe mafias.

Axel noticed them right away and cancelled his power. He just stood beside Adreanna while staring at the seven gangsters quizzically.

"Ay, what you two doin' here? This is our place." One of them screamed, clicking his tongue as he squinted his eyes to the pair of siblings.

"I thought it's for the public?" Axel blinked as he politely asked, stepping forward so that his sister stayed behind him.

"Shut your mouth, boy." The gangster spat, dragging the bat in his hand as he stopped in front of Axel and stared down at him.

"This is our land, and you have no right to be here." He tried to intimidate Axel who did not even bat an eye at the intimidation.

"You should pay for getting into our property." The man's breath brushed Axel's face, causing the boy to cringe.

"We could beat you up easily, you know?" He grinned, feeling the high pleasure of making the young boy in front of him struck in fear.

That was what he thought anyway. He did not think about his stinky breath at all.

"My sister lived in this building." Axel ventured, still unfazed by the man's appearance while trying to stay away from his breath.

This man did not learn personal distance at all.

The gangster seemed to finally notice Adreanna's existence as he gawked at her. His grin grew wider as he watched her. Everything about her was beautiful, and all the gangsters had diverted their attention at her with glowing eyes.

"Your sister, eh?" He smirked as he walked closer to Adreanna who had been standing there like a living statue.

"You still should pay cuz' this basement is ours, young boy." He added without looking away from the beauty in front of him.

His behaviour was disgusting, really.

"How much?" Axel asked, glaring daggers at the man for looking at Adreanna with that disgusting look.

"Three hundred dollars." He stated as he walked even closer to Adreanna.

Axel frowned. "That's robbing."

"Well, you can always pay with something else." He did not even try to hide his dirty intention as he grabbed Adreanna's braided hair and smelled it.

That was Axel's last straw.

Before Adreanna could even react, her brother had already jumped and kicked the man's head, sending him to kiss the floor.

The other gangsters quickly came to his aid while glaring daggers at Axel. The boy's face turned cold when the man's eyes looked at him again.

"How dare you punch me! Do you not know I am? I am the head of the mafia around here!" He shouted while brushing the blood on his lip.

Axel's blue eye turned dangerous while he walked closer to the man. "Let me ask you back then,"

"-do you not know who I am?"

A hand touched his shoulder slightly, making him turn around. Axel blinked in confusion when he met Adreanna's eyes.

"Axel, let's train again. I'm going to teach you." She uttered while taking the gun inside Axel's pocket and putting it in her brother's hand.

She grabbed Axel's hand while helping him to aim at the gangsters. "We have free training buddies, so don't let it waste."

"Axel?" One of the gangsters mumbled. Not long after, the realization hit him like a plane.

"S-sir, that's the mute murderer." He quickly whispered to the man that Axel had kicked earlier with worry. "And if that's his sister, then it's the assassin." He continued while trembling under the criminal siblings' gaze.

The man gritted his teeth at him. "I don't give a damn if he's the mute murderer or-"

A bullet went past the man's head and the subordinate behind him, cutting their hairs a little. If the shot was lower, it could've killed both of them without having the time to even notice.

"...what?" The gangster croaked as his eyes shook when he tried to see the mute murderer and the assassin in front of him.

"Shoot it like that." Adreanna emotionlessly taught while Axel listened carefully, nodding along with her without giving a single damn about the gangsters' states. "Therefore, you can kill two persons with one bullet."

"If you don't want to kill them, aim it like this." Adreanna aimed the gun at their feet. With a single shot, the bullets took three people's feet at the same time, making them fall miserably while screaming in pain.

"It'll make them unable to walk."

"If you use the right moment to shoot, you won't waste any bullets and times." Adreanna loosened the grip and let Axel grip the gun alone. The boy scanned the weapon as he stared at her with a bright smile.

"W-we're sorry! Please spare us!" The man earlier bowed down to them that quickly followed by their men. They begged for their lives desperately, hoping that they would spare them.

Axel and Adreanna met with the man's eyes. The man could feel the murderous aura forming around them, and he trembled even more.

Axel tilted his head as he aimed at them. "Like this?"

The bullet pierced through three people's hands, including the leading man, making them all gasp.

"Yes." Adreanna ruffled his head, and Axel returned it with a knowing smile.

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The oldest and youngest Vergessene came out of the basement with a gun in each hand. There were some drops of blood on the clothes after they 'trained' even more.

Though they left one person in good shape so they would at least have someone to bring them to the nearest hospital.

They arrived in the main lobby. The receptionist glanced at them for a moment and looked away again, unfazed. It wasn't surprising though. She must have seen so many criminals here since this place was where every criminal hid.

The small tv on the top corner of the lobby flickered a little, catching the siblings' attention.

"Good fucking morning, every citizen in Livedam city!" The familiar voice caught the two's attention even more. Kiaran appeared on the screen, spreading his hands as his eyes glinted in danger. "It is I, your one and only mercenary, the machiavellian, your worst fucking nightmare."

"I hereby declare you, the long-awaited play, the coming soon entertainment you people will experience first hand." He exclaimed loudly, eyes full of glee as he madly stared at the camera.

"-The second season of the world burn."

Axel staggered back, dropping the gun in his hand. Why would he do this again? Why, why, why, why-

He choked as he felt a wave of nausea hit him. The memory of how he was fighting, the pain erupting in his heart, the kidnapping, the turning-

Axel quickly turned his head over to Adreanna and stared at her flat face bewilderedly.

"Adreanna, do you-" Axel stared at her warily as he tried to calm his ragging breath. "-did you know about this?"

Adreanna kept her mouth shut while emotionlessly staring at her brother.