SEVEN: Cursed Souls

CHAPTER 11: REAPER

July 11, 2018

"Punch!" said Assassin.

My body is not fit for this, why are they forcing me to learn how to fight?

After I completed my mission with Sophia, two of the superiors started teaching me different skills. Assassin and  the man with the deep voice taught me how to fight. Months had passed and I acted as an ally who truly wants to learn. My first mission was concluded last April but they never gave me another. To my understanding, each of the sinners dies in different times. It has been an agonizing three months of waiting and forcibly training under these ruthless people.

I and James were able to save some other people whom I recalled but it was hard to communicate because I am heavily guarded. It took me months to hone my ability from James help. He taught me how I could see the future in my own will.

"Sleep in a position you are most comfortable with, then before falling asleep, think of someone or some event you want to see," James said. He told me that it is similar to his power which is also rooted through the dreaming.

***

The next day.

"James, it worked. I kept asking what may happen in the next days before I fell asleep, then I saw a man who is almost the same age as you are--early to mid-20s--and also same physique as you are. He will be killed. It was fortunate enough that he opened his phone. Allowing me to see the date. It'll happen tomorrow," I said.

"Same age as I am and same physique? So is it me?"

"No! It's not you! I was not able to see his face but in the back of his left hand was an eye tattoo."

"An eye what? No! We can't intervene with those guys' business!"

"Them? You know him? And it's not only him who has it?" I asked in shock.

"Yes! It's the One-eyed! We are basically rivals."

"We? What else are you not telling me, James? Rivals? So you'll let that man be buried alive because you are 'basically rivals'?"

James stared at me. "Buried alive?"

I stared back at him. "Yes! He'll be abducted and buried by a group of men. No distinctions of who they are, just a group of men who was wearing all black, their face was also covered. They were riding a white van and he'll be kidnapped while walking behind the Gintong-Lawa Elementary School."

"Gintong-Lawa? That's two villages away. Ryder, I don't know."

"So you don't want to save lives? Is that what you are trying to say?" I faced him in suspicion.

"No! It's just that...I can't assure you if I will be able to help him. But okay, I'll try."

What else does he know? Why do I feel like he isn't telling me everything he knows?

"James, are you hiding something from me?"

"It's not like that." He shook both his hands. "Hope that I'll succeed tomorrow, then I'll tell you," he answered.

I smiled. "Promise me then, do your best to save that person!"

"Bro, okay! For now then, train with Assassin. I'll get going!"

JAMES

5:00PM the next day (July 13, 2018) at Rosas, Gintong-Lawa.

That Ryder! This is gonna put me in trouble. Of all that he can dream of, why is it Puppeteer's 'crop'?!

Huh! Okay, James. Think!