SYSTEM OF THE BONE DEMON

A figure in black hoodie could be seen exiting a mall. She had a tall figure with her chin held high. Her eyes were obscured by the bucket hat on her head and on her hands, a pair of gloves could be seen. She also wore a cargo pant with a pair of snickers and everyone around could not help throw her strange gazes, especially at the fact that every single clothing item on her body were pure black, not a single hint of any other colour.

The girl reached a black compact truck beside which she paused before looking all around, her gaze lingered slightly on a gorgeous silver car parked at a distance, but she soon looked away before opening the pickup. Soon it revved to life and sped off.

In the silver car, Kurtz sat studying his target.

“Did she notice me?” He muttered, looking on at the departing pickup with thinned gaze.

“She is leaving boy.” the Boss voice suddenly spoke in his ears and Kurtz eyes widen. “Did I just phased off?” He thought in wonder, before blasting off after the pickup. Kurtz however could not get an image out of his head. The image of two silver eyes staring directly towards his through the strange lady’s hat.

“No, this isn’t happening.” He thought chuckling warily, he had seen so many girls in his life that he did not believe there was any other out there that could get him fantasizing any more. Of course this girl seems unique and all but Kurtz was not planning to start swooning over a girl any time soon, and certainly not when this person just happens to be his target.

Swiftly, his car followed behind the pickup.

Minutes passed before Kurtz saw the pickup took a sudden sharp turn and a grin climbed unto his face, “you eventually noticed.” He muttered excitedly before taking the same turn as well. The pickup immediately picked up speed but there was a reason Kurtz was using a sport car, just as he predicted, the pickup took another unlikely turn and he followed swiftly but the pickup followed up with another turn and when Kurtz took this one, he could see the pickup slowly coming to a stop.

“Did she made a mistake?” He thought, looking ahead of the truck where a dead end could be seen, but again, he did not think this was a mistake since his target was a terrifying fighter herself. She had probably branched into this deserted alley to finish him off quietly, “that is way better than playing around behind wheels.” Kurtz muttered as he stepped out of his car.

“Hey.” He called after standing for a moment beside his car, but the girl had refused to come down the pickup. “Well, it makes no difference.” He muttered before walking towards the car.

On reaching the car side, Kurtz could see the windows were rolled down, but there was no one in the car.

“What is this?” He muttered, greatly confounded as he stared into the empty interior of the car with bewildered face.

Suddenly, he could feel cold steels pressing tightly against his skull and Kurtz stiffened as a clicking sound of the trigger being pulled reached his ear, “I am right here” a female voice said and then...

Bang! The bullet was let off.

“Huff…” Kurtz sighed, grabbing the shooter’s wrist, as he looked at the gun barrel from which a wisp of smoke was rising. By the side of his cheek, a burnt line could be seen which swiftly closed up and soon disappeared. Kurtz had just been few millimeters away from having his head blasted away.

“H… how?” The girl stuttered looking at him with incredulous face.

Her gun had been resting right against this man’s head and she hadn’t even hesitate for a moment before pulling the trigger. There was no way a person should have survived such close shot, but here he was, the one she had shot looking at her while her wrist was held firmly in his hand.

She couldn’t even understand what exactly had happened, it was all a blur and now she could feel the steel like grip of the man around her wrist, in fact, she even felt the strength within her bones being sapped away just with his grab and even more terrifying was that fact that the bullet seems to have grazed his cheek but now the wound had disappeared like all she had seen was an illusion.

“How” Kurtz repeated after some moment before adding, “what about you answer my question first, how did you managed get behind me without me noticing?” Kurtz asked with a fascinated smile.

“Kill me already! That is what you came for right? I am still satisfied that I managed to kill a good number of your bastards before you got me, now kill me!” The lady spat in undisguised disdain and wrath.

“Kill you, okay let’s get this straight, while I indeed came aggressively after you, I am actually not here to kill you, I have simply been tasked to bring you by my boss.” Kurtz said, still keeping his smile as he stared into the girl’s eyes, at this close range, he was now able to discern clearly her facial features and Kurtz simply felt himself being drawn in into those silver eyes, he had in fact always loved silver but these were simply too breathe-taking.

“Bring me back, so that’s what you want, to use me as some lab rat just because I have some powers right? Well you will still have an easier time killing me right here than taking me anywhere.” The girl asserted while her other hand slowly crept out from behind her, in there she was holding another gun.

“Don’t.” Kurtz said applying more pressure on the lady’s hand.

The lady winced as she felt her bone almost being crushed, her grip turned weak and the gun in her hand dropped to the ground.

“You see, now that I think about it, I should have actually asked to know more about the target before coming after you. I didn’t know I would be attacking such innocent lady.” Kurtz said, before unfolding his hand around the girl’s wrist and she staggered back looking at her wrist which was now red and sore all over and slowly she raised her head looking at Kurtz with confused expression.