☣️𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙷𝚄𝙽𝚃☣️

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖜𝖔

"Attention, as all of you have long awaited, it is now time to announce......the beginning of ANHS' Annual Manhunt."

The atmosphere inside each classroom is suffocating.

Some students are quietly panicking inside their heads, the others are visibly stressed, but there also others who are 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙. Jake Peralta is one of those who are.

"Jake Peralta, target, Gift Alister" The robotic female voice in the speaker spoke.

'Gift Alister? Who's that?' He thought to himself as he leans on his desk, intrigued.

"Thank you for your patience. Regarding the announcement, please be aware that 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 is necessary and needed. Remember your trainings and always remember to NOT trust anyone, even the people in the same room as you right now. Focus on your 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩. Thank you for listening and good luck."

Jake lets out a heavy sigh. "Damn, I was looking for some challenge this year. Seems like it's another easy win for me."

His classmates just looked at him. Jake did not have a single sign of fear or worry in his face. They were not surprised at his behavior.

Jake Peralta is known by everyone because of his chaotic and psychotic attitude. Every year, all his targets are always found dead, and they were always found bleeding gallons of blood because of the amount of stabs Jake gave to them. He was a psycho. A madman. Nobody survived in his hands, and nobody has ever  and will ever lay a single finger on him.

But maybe except for one person.

Jake looked out the window beside him. Eyes looking tired and bored like usual.

He catches the eyes of a person he knew in another classroom. Althea Hazumi.

Althea and Jake were known to be rivals. Both of them are strong and they both know how to fight like beasts, like real Assasins. People in other classes have always feared them because of their abilities and strengths.

You might think that they get along well because of their reputation, but its quite the opposite.

They hate each other's guts. The other thinks that the other is a brat and is weak, and the other thinks the same.
They have never fought one on one before, but that might just change.

Jake gave Althea his usual smirk, still looking at her direction. She was taken aback by his actions and gave him the finger. They really like to get on each other's nerves.

"Are you ready to face your so called rival Thea?" Belle asked as she stood up. "You know I believe in you. But...Jake Peralta is no joke.."  She continued.

"..Im gonna be fine. It's about time I show him who's superior, me or him, and it's clearly me." Althea said with a rather confident feeling.

"You're gonna show him you're superior? Y-You'll just kill him, whats the point?"

"Well, we're gonna meet in hell someday anyways. Might as well shove it in his head while he's still here."

The sudden ringing of the bell snapped them out of their conversation.

The students start to panic again and some even started to cry.

"....Looks like they want us to get ready now." Belle said while her hands start shaking again. "Will we actually survive this time? What if Im being targeted by someone strong like you and Jake..?"

"Just don't underestimate yourself Belle Ackerman." Althea paused, putting her hands on her friend's shoulders. " You can do this. WE can do this."

Althea stood up and looked around the room. The people already have their weapons and gear ready. They were bidding their goodbyes and wished each other good luck.

And with the speed of lightning, the students turned on their predator mode.

'oh boy...' she thought.
They walked out of the classroom and were greeted by the strong cold wind, brushing against their faces.

A loud gunshot was heard.

"ACK!" Althea exclaimed as her ears started ringing again.

"What??! It's already starting??!"
"W-We still have 23 more hours left! What the hell's going on??!"
"Fuck!"

The students cursed on by one, bolted out the classroom and went their separate ways.

"What's going on?? Why..Why-!" Belle got cut off when Althea started speaking.

"No. It really is starting."

"O-Oh..Well then..lets hope we survive a whole month of massacre again this time." Her friend said, pulling out a gun from her bag and loading it. "See you around...."

"See you."

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"EVERYBODY RUN! IT'S STARTING!"

Everyone in Jake's class started running and gathering their gear after hearing the loud gunshot.

"Welp, guess I gotta move now too."
He grabbed his only weapon, a knife, from under his table and stood up, walking towards the door.

"Hmm..The school is as big as a whole neighborhood, where should I look for this Alister guy first.."

As he stepped outside the door, he sees Althea standing outside the classroom beside his.

They looked at each other dead in the eyes. "Why are ya so tense? You afraid you're gonna die or somethin?" Jake teased pointing his small but very sharp knife at her.  "No. I am not dying this year." she responds. "But Im thinking maybe YOU will." She said, pointing her gun at his direction.

A loud speaker coming from the tallest building in their school suddenly spoke with a glitchy robotic voice.

"Let the Annual Manhunt commence"