Chapter 3

They finished eating and paid the bill. It only took them about 30 minutes to drive home because the road was already wide at night. They were in front of Akira's house when he found out that she had fallen asleep on the flight. He didn't wake her first and parked on the side of the road to look at her face. She is so beautiful even when she sleeps like an angel. The red of her lips so that he was tempted to wake her up with a kiss.

"What are you doing? I'm sleeping," Akira said while rubbing her eyes because he suddenly woke her up.

“We have been here at your house for almost 5 minutes. You are asleep,” he answered while fixing her hair.

"Why can't you just take me home instead?" she said while laughing.

"I can't, I'm leaving early tomorrow, babe,” he replied, feeling that she still wanted to be with him but he also had to go home to rest and prepare for his last assignment.

“All right, babe, be careful there. Come back as soon as you can, I love you!” And she left him a kiss before he could finally drive away. Azrael quietly drove away.

He can still see Akira in the side view mirror still looking at him in the distance as his car is driving away from their house. He drove quietly and pondered deeply what his next step would be for his final mission. He is so happy because he will finally be able to escape this chaotic world and they will be able to fulfill the simple dream of Akira and his as a normal couple.

When he arrived at the condo, he immediately took a shower first to be able to clean and to make sure if he hadn't been scratched before. As the water flows through his body you can see the blood of his victims clinging to him gradually flowing into the sink. Azrael’s body is full of scars from his wounds from his previous missions and on his back is a large tattoo— “Deus Mortis” which in Latin means “God of death” is what the organization called him because of the number of impossible missions he has accomplished.

When he finished bathing and getting dressed, he went to his secret armory. It was a bedroom inside his bedroom, it was inside the wardrobe hidden here a safe the size of a bedroom. In this room of his are all kinds of guns, blades, and other improvisations that he uses for his missions. In the middle of the armor, there is a large table, there are compartments and in each compartment has explosives like frag grenades, flash bang, and smoke grenades. There are also some different types of blades that he use. On the right side of the armory, there are the rifles M16, M4, AK47, AK74, Berreta ARX160, SCAR, T4, Remington R4, and the special assault rifle made in the Philippines. There are also a variety of snipers L96A1, Barrett MRAD, Dragunov SVD, SR-25, M110, M24, Steyr Scout, M40 rifle. On the left are heavy machine guns, shotguns, and grenade launchers. In the middle are Azrael's suits and ties. Each of these suits has Kevlar inside so it becomes Azrael's armor.

Azrael immediately made a plan using the details given to him by the taskmaster. Here, he made ten plans so that in case the first and other plans failed, he would still know what to do. One of his victim's routines is to go to an abandoned building to sell drugs that she uses as financial support in her current situation so this is what Azrael used where he executed his plan.  

His choice of weapon is two Heckler & Koch P30L, Coharie Arms MP-10, hidden wrist dagger, and some dagger hidden in his black belt. The black suit that he will use is also ready after which he has closed his private armory.  

The next day he got up early, at 4 am he left immediately for his target area. He watched it all day. Exactly correct and super accurate given his target detail. Its daily routine is still followed. Azrael, on the other hand, makes sure that the target will not feel his presence because he plans to do this monitoring for three days to properly layout the plan and make sure that this is what the target will do on the day of the assassination.

The target's daily routine continued for three days, so for the next four days, Azrael will continue the assassination of his target.

The day has come when Azrael will carry out his mission. Azrael had already prepared his guns and knife. Azrael placed the Coharie Arms MP-10 Using a duffle bag, and his pistols were in his pistol holster. He has already left his condo unit. He left all his feelings as he left his home. He knew this mission would not be easy so he needed to be more self-confident. He drove in his black Camaro.

In less than an hour, he was close to the place. Where he would carry out his mission so, he parked at a nearby supermarket. He does this so that his victim does not notice his presence and remains obscure. He was quick and careful in his position in the abandoned building. On the 2nd floor, he was stationed behind the broken plywood it was hidden and you wouldn't see anyone here if you didn't know it. Here he waited patiently holding his MP-10.

Hours passed and 10 PM arrived. He could see that his target was already walking. Azrael cocked all his guns and took his position.

But he noticed something strange about this woman. She always looks around and now her client is not in place usually precedes before she arrives. She was also careful with her every move and you could see that she was carrying a pistol. He knew something was different about his mission now but he had to keep it going no matter what happened. He called the taskmaster to confirm that he would do the mission today. His target entered the abandoned building walked inside while occasionally looking outside like she was expected someone is going to this place.

Enter the room where Azrael is the target. All of a sudden Azrael shot the target in the leg causing the target to fall. Azrael went down to his hiding place to finish the target with his blade but the target still held her pistol while she was lying on the ground. When Azrael was close to the target, she suddenly turned around and shot Azrael. Azrael dodged the first shot but was hit in the shoulder in the second shot. Because of this, Azrael just knelt down while holding his shoulder so that his blood would not leak. “You are Azrael Cross. What did you do to get the Association to kill you? As far as I know, you are one of the best assassins in the organization. Whatever it is, it is a grave sin for them to kill you and they took me for this job. They are demons, you need to gamble your life for the last mission before you can retire. You dumbass, you even shot me in the leg,” She said while the gun was still pointed at Azrael's head.

"What are you saying? You are my target. They are killing you for killing one of the Council members. What are you telling me about your assignment!?” Azrael asked angrily while still holding his shoulder and enduring the pain due to his wound.

"What are you saying? I'm not killing any council members!” Seraphine replied in astonishment. The two knew that something was wrong with what was happening so they lowered their guns first and at the same time the people in suits who were also hiding in the grass and trees came out.

"Azrael, it looks like they did it so we could kill each other, and did you see the people outside. I am sure they will kill whoever lives with us. They really made sure we didn’t get out alive here. They betrayed us, Azrael” Seraphine said while checking the enemies outside.

Azrael just sat down because he knew it would be difficult for him to return to Akira and at the same time he felt the injuries in his shoulder. Seraphine tore a piece of her clothing to apply to her wound. She also tore some for Azrael and helped him put it on his arm.

“I'm sure the groups that are there will come in when they confirm that one of us is dead. What are your plans, Azrael?” Seraphine asked as she peered outside.

"I want to confirm what you're saying,” He immediately grabbed Seraphine's two hands and tied them up.

“Don't make a noise or I will kill you. I will release you if I can prove you right,” Azrael answered seriously. Azrael took the piece of clothing that covered his wound and he pressed it on seraphine's face to make her look dead so that you could report it to the taskmaster.

"Close your eyes and I'll take a picture of you for the mission report,” Azrael ordered and Seraphine immediately obeyed. Azrael has already started taking pictures of Seraphine. It looks convincing because of the amount of blood on the seraphine's face. Azrael had already sent the report to the taskmaster and he was accompanied by a careful exit from the abandoned building but even before he was completely released, the phones of the group of men who had been waiting outside earlier rang at the same time. He knew very well that sound. That's the sound of the new mission given to each assassin. He knew the mission was to kill him. Just as the assassin was about to shoot Azrael, he fired his pistol first and the one he shot immediately fell. Azrael goes back inside to release seraphine. They are being rained down of bullets by assassins outside.

“What you say is true. Why did they manage to betray me? I gave my whole life to the organization!” Azrael asked while removing Seraphine's shackles.

“Didn't you say to resign? We have the same reason, maybe they don't want us to leave the organization of life,” Seraphine replied and immediately wiped the blood on its head.

"Did you count how many people were outside?" he asked seraphine as he prepared his guns.

“I think there are ten of them. Do you have a plan?” He replied as he peered at the opponent’s outside

"Yes, do what you are good at.”

He immediately went up to the 2nd floor of the building to shoot the pole lights one by one. It was getting dark all around the building. He tried to jump out. The three assassins were on the right side of the building, it was too late when they noticed that he had jumped. He shot two in the head and stabbed the one left in the chest.

"3 down right side,” he shouted to signal to Seraphine that he was successfully out of the building.

The assassins in front of the building heard him and just as they were about to go, Seraphine came out in front of them. Using his two pistols, she immediately rocked the three in front of the building. This woman is really something. Her accuracy is very high.

6 down. There are four more remaining assassins surrounding the house. He went to the back of the building and immediately saw the two assassins there. A gunshot and one of them fell immediately. He threw one of my blades at the one left to keep alive to talk to whoever ordered them to do so. The blade hit his shoulder and he immediately kicked him to knock him down. Seraphine immediately knocked down the two on the left side of the building before it came to him.

"Who planned this?" He asked as he pinned his arm around his neck.

"Azrael, this is a mission, you know I can't reveal what I know even if you kill me,” He replied that he also had difficulty speaking because of the tightness of his grip on his neck.

"Last chance. I will let you live, who planned this?” he shouted angrily at him. “Wait, Azrael. The council! They are in charge of it. You cannot leave the organization because of how much you know. We are not mad at you, it's just a mission. I hope you understand, Azrael,” He replied.

He was depressed and felt cold because of what he heard. It was as if he had been robbed of his life because of what he heard. He thought the council would accept his retirement but it would be the end of his life.

“You are stupid! You know you can't survive if you don't finish those and you really told them what you know!” Voice of a man getting out of a car. This is probably their leader. Azrael and Seraphine immediately stood up and pointed the gun at the man but before they could get ready, he tried to shoot Azrael. Azrael was still holding his captured man, He make him like a human shield and caught bullets from their leader's gun. Four gunshots ended his life. Azrael and Seraphine immediately returned fire.

The leader of them was hit in the leg, chest, and hand which in turn caused him to release his gun. Azrael and Seraphine slowly approached this man. Blood was leaking and this man was dying. Azrael was about to shoot him in the head when he suddenly spoke.

"Azrael, you have to kill that woman. We hold your girlfriend, my people are at your girlfriend's house. If I don't call for ten minutes, they will kill your girlfriend in a way you won't like,” His words. When he heard those words he was suddenly stunned. His cold sweat was dripping just now he was scared his whole life. His personality is filled with anger.

"Tell me you didn't do anything to Akira!" He shouted at him while holding both sides of his collar. He took out his phone and dialed a number and the other line immediately answered. “Boss, are you okay there? We still hold the woman. Can we use her first before we kill her?” Words of a man on the other line and he can hear Akira shouting. He immediately grabbed its phone.

"Hey! Dare to touch that woman with your dirty hands, I will make sure that I will chase you until hell, I will take your family with me!” “Azrael, don't come here anymore. They will kill you, they have guns!” Akira shouted on the other line before it was cut.

“Do you believe now, Azrael? Her life and yours in exchange for your girlfriend's life. I'll make sure she's safe when you do this.”

“You are an animal! Why do you even need to include the people who are close to me!” He angrily slapped this man in the face until his nose blew and blood flowed to it.

“Azrael, don't believe them. I'm sure they will still kill your girlfriend. Let's hurry and save your girlfriend,” Seraphine replied to him obviously worried.

"You're right. You are an animal! Let's meet in hell!” He shouted at it and at the same time took his M10. A series of gunshots were heard around. All the magazine content of his M10 he consumed in its head and body. Seraphine and him quickly went to the parking lot where he parked his Camaro. He drove fast to Akira's house at almost 120 Km/s. When they arrived at Akira's house, the door was closed but they immediately entered the front of their house. They immediately pulled out the pistol they were carrying as they slowly entered the house. Their house is chaotic and they are obviously fighting with those who broke into them.

“Akira! Where are you?” He shouted. The silence in their house was deafening so he was gradually consumed by fear and nervousness that something might have happened to Akira