Brook X GN Reader || I'm The Grim Reaper

Chapter 12

       The early morning streets were bustling with people, per usual. Scarlet walked through the streets, thinking about the woman she had just murdered. She felt bad for her. She went through so much... Scarlet touched the top of her bead slightly. 'That woman... She's a sinner, but... Her life was fucked. She felt like her only option was the kill her son... But murder is still an unforgivable sin.' Scarlet stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, staring at the hand she had used to kill her. 'Did either of us have a way out of the mess we got ourselves into?' As Scarlet looked up, her eyes widened in disgust. The city didn't look as pretty as it used to. 'Has the world always been so ugly?'

   Behind her, she heard a lady scream. "My purse!" A person in a black coat dashed by Scarlet, the woman's missing purse in hand. Scarlet stopped for a moment, watching his disappearing figure. She slowly followed after him.

    There was a rattling sound as the young man dumped out the contents of the stolen purse onto the floor. "Shit... All that lady had was junk." He rested his cheek on his hand. "What a waste of time." Scarlet walked into the alley he was in and stood behind him. "Hey... Do you have a family?" He turned around to look in the direction of the voice. "Did you steal that to feed them? To feed yourself?"

   Scarlets hand was dripping black. The man's eyes widened. "W-what the fuck!?" Scarlet's face was partly covered in a black and red glitching material-like thing. It looks like it had simple, scribbled red eyes drawn on it. "Or are you really just some cartoonist sinner with no depth?" He turned around, his hands on the ground as he scooted away from her. "D-Don't get any closer, you freak!"

   The side of Scarlet's face that had the demon on it came outwards, like a mouth with sharp teeth. "Ah, what do I care? I'm still going to kill you. I don't have time to be following some arbitrary moral compass. One sinner... Per day...." The young man pulled a gun out of his thick coat. "W-what the hell are you talking about?! Stay back!!" He held the gun up to aim at Scarlet, but his hand was shaking. "A gun?" Scarlet kept walking closer, her demon energy emitting from her began to grow larger, going around the two. "That's dangerous."

   "A... A..." His voice wavered. "Monster.." There was a bang, and the bullet went through Scarlet's face, the half that the demon was emerging from. It went back to its disfigured shape quickly. "... That didn't hurt at all." The young man, now frantic, started rapid firing at the 'monster.' Scarlet kept walking closer, not even flinching. He started crying. "What.." He presses the trigger over and over again. "... Even are you?!" A bullet went straight toward Scarlet's face, and she used her demon energy to go in front of her face and stop the bullet. It crumpled and fell to the floor. The demon was now covering her other eye. "Did something just happen? I can't fucking see. God, what am I waiting for, you're a sinner!" She zoomed towards him and he fell back, scooting away again.

     "W-wait, please, i-am just a dumb kid! I-ill never steal again, rea-" Scarlet's energy created a scythe that went straight towards the boy, going right through him. She retracted her weapon. "Not enough." She brought the weapon back down. She retracted it again. "Not enough!!" She kept stabbing the boy, over and over and over again. "I'll scrub every one of you sinners from the face of the planet. I'll save myself from hell...and make this world a better place." She turned around. "Starting with that detective."

    Scarlet left the alley, and from the shadows came two figures. The green-based person from Ana's apartment and the pink-based person from the roof. The green one knelt down over the mutilated body. "Someone was a little trigger happy." They said with a smirk, starting to collect the items on the floor and put them back into the purse. "They both were." The pink one said, picking up the now empty gun, which was full when the boy started firing. The green one picked up the purse, holding it up. "I'm gonna go return this."

  "I never want to draw one of those scribbly red eyes ever again." - Graveweaver

(Revised and checked for errors: yes, once.)

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  Fun fact of the day: Blue ringed octopus have enough venom to kill 26 adult men with a single bite.