Ninjas' love story. Sonic (One Punch Man) x OC

Punch 2. First meeting

The task is to make a person disappear. Usual practice: zero questions. You have an address, a time slot, a photo.

You are at the indicated place, clueless for cameras and motion sensors. You dart fast, invisible. You have climbed over the hedge that surrounds the house, and the iron fence hidden among the leaves.

The entrance to the manor is an avenue paved with porphyry cubes, arranged in a semicircle. Two sheets of greenery spread to the sides.

A glass on the first floor is wide open. The wind stirs the hanging curtain and it flutters outward. You leap onto the windowsill on the ground floor. With your hands you squeeze the frame, barely embossed. One jump and you put your feet on it. You are now closer to the opening. You can grab the marble slab of the parapet. You enter.

You do a somersault to break your fall and pull yourself up. There is nobody around. You are in a room. There are a bed, on which pajamas are crumpled up, a bedside table, with pills and a glass of water, and a dark wooden wardrobe set against the opposite wall.

You look out the door, ears strained to pick up every sound. It seems that the upper floor is empty.Based on what they told you, in the house, in addition to the target, there are two servants and his wife. But there is no footsteps. Just a set of low-volume musical tunes. A TV, turned on, on which commercials are playing.

You get to the stairs, and peek down. You recognize the person sitting on the sofa. It's the man you were looking for: white-haired, with a prominent belly, and the wrinkled skin full of dark spots. He smokes a cigar, shaking it from time to time in a glass ashtray, which he holds in his hand.

You are not alone. Someone else is leaning against the door jamb. A slender figure, highlighted by the tight-fitting overalls he wears. You can't bring anything else into focus of him, he is already disappeared.

Your attention is drawn to a strangled sound. The target is dead, before you thought about it. His throat is cut, streams of blood run down his neck.

The being that had appeared in the room is a ninja, like you, but faster. It's impossible that he didn't sense you. For a moment, you are terrified.

"Relax, I've already fixed everything."

You feel his breath on the lobe of one ear. He's behind you, his hand on your arm.

Turning around, you can only catch its afterimage. He is disappeared, once again.