Chapter 4

Chapter 4

I parked my car in front of a building with more than three floors. After I parked the car properly, I immediately walked into the building.

“Good morning, Ma’am,” Mae, who is also a member of the Black Assassin’s Squad, greeted me with a smile. But she’s not like me or Henry who kills people. She only became a member of BAS because she is the lady guard who watches over the first floor of the building which is the coffee shop. But even though she is only a guard, she is also capable of fighting. Because all BAS members, even the lowest members, also went through intense training.

“Good morning,” I greeted her without smiling. She is used to my face being serious every time I pass by so she doesn’t hesitate to greet me every time I enter and leave the building.

When I got to the elevator, I immediately pressed the third floor where the headquarters of BAS was located on the last floor. The coffee shop was on the first floor while the clinic is on the second floor. But all of them are just a front. The truth is that the clinic is a lab. I get my medicine there. I soaked my needles in the medicine when I have no more needles with poison. I soak my needles for a long time because the longer they soak the faster the medicine takes effect.

“Hi, Sha. Right BAS summoned you too?” Tom asked me when he saw me exit the elevator. He looks like he just came from the lab. Tom is a doctor. This is his front profession while I am a self-defense instructor of children aged ten years old to fifteen years old.

“You were also summoned?” I simply answered him. Out of all the BAS members, he is the only one I can say I am close to. I can call him a friend. I think he’s the only one who doesn’t envy me every time I accomplish a mission.

“Yes. A new mission, I think,” he answered me with a shrug then we walked together to the Right BAS office.

The Right BAS and Left BAS are the two people who are close to the head of the BAS except of course the officers of the BAS. The Left BAS receives the work from the client while the Right BAS chooses which assassin will do what the client is working on. When we got to the front door of Godfather Eddie’s office, who is the Right BAS, I knocked three times.

“Come in,” a voice from inside the office. Only then did I open the door when I heard Godfather Eddie’s voice. He immediately smiled when he saw me and Tom entering his office.

“My two best assassins. Sit down,” Godfather Eddie greeted us with a smile while pointing to the two chairs in front of the table where he was sitting.

“Another mission?” The expression on my face was blank as I asked Godfather Eddie.

“Can you smile at least just once, Shanra? It seems like you’re always angry so you can’t get along with your other co-workers,” Godfather Eddie commented to me while shaking his head. It’s because he noticed that he was smiling while my face was serious.

“There’s no reason for me to smile, Godfather Eddie. And you know the reason why. I will not smile until I didn’t kill the person behind my family’s assassination,” I answered him with a serious face. His smile suddenly disappeared when he heard what I said. He just shook his head while opening a folder.

“I just want you to get along with them because maybe someday, you will need their help or you will need to cooperate with them for a mission,” answered Godfather Eddie as he continued to open the white folder in front of him.

“I don’t need their help. I didn’t join the BAS just to be friends with those heartless assassins. If they don’t want to help me, then don’t. As if I care,” I bravely answered him. He stopped opening the folder for a moment and stared at me intently. I didn’t look down but raised my forehead to meet his gaze until he gave up.

“Alright, alright. I will not force you to get along with them, instead, I will warn you to be cautious with them, especially, Henry. Anyway, it’s good that you still have Tom as your one and only friend here in Bas.”

Suddenly I looked at Tom who was also looking at me. Am I really considering him as my friend? I think yes.

“What mission will you give me and Shanra, Sir? Will we go on the same mission together?” asked Tom as he turned his gaze to Godfather Eddie after giving me a sincere but spare smile.

“Nope. You have a different mission,” Godfather Eddie quickly answered. He took a folder and handed it to Tom while the folder he was opening earlier was given to me. “Their details are inside so you can check them at home. And the same rules. Accomplish the mission to get the payment. And you should not fail.”

“Yes, Sir,” replied Tom while I just nodded to him. Then Tom and I walked out of Godfather Eddie’s office together. It was just right that we got out when Henry passed by, giving us a bad look. Or should I say, giving me a bad look.

“What a lucky dog,” he said to me before finally passing us. Maybe he will go to the mini gym on the third floor to practice.

“Be careful on your way home, Henry. The dog with dangerous rabies might bite you,” I told him with a serious face. Henry just looked at me evilly but didn’t say anything. Then he opened the door to the mini gym.

“Be careful of Henry, Shanra. We know him. He’s a bad person,” Tom warned me as we boarded the elevator.

“I’m not scared of him. Besides, we are also bad because of what we’re doing.”

Tom laughed a little at what I said. “You’re right. What we do makes us bad people too. And I hope someday I will see you not like this. I want to see you smiling with your family. Not like this. You’re colder than ice. “

“It won’t happen because I don’t have a family anymore,” I quickly answered him before I exited the elevator that opened and left him sighing. Because what I told him was true. It won’t happen that he sees me smiling with my family because I don’t have a family anymore and I won’t have a family myself until I get my revenge. And besides, which man will love me and build a new family with me? No man will love an assassin like me unless he’s an assassin himself.

I thoroughly studied my new mission. I looked at the picture that was in the folder. This is James Mondragon. Thirty years old, single, businessman, and owner of three famous five-star hotels in the country. He’s not handsome but he has a beautiful smile that seems inviting to make friends with. So other women trust him because his face looks like he is very kind and friendly. But behind his beautiful smile and kind face hide a demon rapist sadist. Several times he was charged with rape and illegal detention and physical injury but the cases were immediately dismissed. Because those who became his victims retreated because they were paid a large sum of money or were threatened by his people. But unfortunately, his last victim was a rich man who was also a guest of his hotel. But the victim’s family did not go ahead with the lawsuit because they were threatened. However, they paid a large amount to BAS to keep the rapist be killed. Well, I’m just guessing that the victim’s parents paid to kill the rapist. Because the files of the payers are confidential and only the Right and Left BAS know their information. All we do is follow what we are told to do. But who will pay to kill this rapist other than the victim’s parents themselves, right?

“This kind of person is the scourge of society and does not hesitate to kill so they should be killed too,” I said angrily to myself as I stared at James’ photo. Then I looked at the photos of the last female victim that were also attached to the folder. A seventeen-year-old Ayumi Mizaki, half-Filipino-half-Japanese. Tall, white, smooth skin and long black hair. In other short, beautiful. Maybe that’s why the rapist rapes her. Next, I looked at Mizaki’s photo which was taken differently. She has many bruises on her body, she also has cracked lips, and large bruises on her face and her eyes can hardly be opened due to the extreme torture of the rapist.

Damn you, James Mondragon! I silently cursed him in my mind when I saw Ayumi’s tragic fate at the hands of that rapist. This kind of person should really be erased from the world.

James Mondragon was my fourth mission since I started to be an official BAS member after my long hard training. I need to assassinate ten people to be able to talk face-to-face with the head of BAS. I have to kill someone so that I can give justice for the death of my family. Fortunately, I only kill bad people so I don’t feel guilty. They deserve to disappear from the world because they are the dregs of society that the law cannot clean. So only people like me will clean and rem ove this kind of people.