Black Knight ◇ Yuri On Ice

Beginning Of The End

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Entire story is from Yuuri's pov.

Once I finished at Yuko Coffee I walked home and got straight into my car without even going near my front door. I don't mind my colleagues seeing my uniform, Sara says it really brings out my face and the rest of my assets, whatever that means.

Having reached my destination, I use my clearance card at the reader to get into the car park. Our HQ is based in an office building near central London, we disguise ourselves as an insurance company when really we kill people the British government wants dead. As I work for AU, I'm not the type of assassin that kills cheating spouses or small time crooked business partners. I'm more of a political killer. We're ordered to kill corrupt world leaders that come to visit and so on.

Getting out of my car, I lock the doors and walk past Pichits red ferrari, Minako's grey Range Rover and Sara's black Alpha Romeo to get to the lift. I swipe my black and blue clearance card on the reader and push 4. Of the seven floors the building has, floor four is sort of the common area, where we all get food and update each other on jobs.

I don't have to wait long for the lift to ping and the doors to seamlessly slide open, showing me the round tables and stools of the dining area. People mill about like particles in a hot gas, most of them probably Pichits staff. They're in charge of admin and making sure the jobs get to us without a problem.

Gathered around one of the white tables are all of the people I work with. Well, I mainly work with Sara as she's my partner in the field and Pichit my partner behind a computer.

I approach said table and loom behind Leo and Mickey, stretching to see what they're all so interested in. It appears to be... the front of a newspaper.

"Oh you're here, look at this" Sara says when she spots me, moving to the side so I can join the huddle. The headline of the paper reads; 'World's best assassin spotted in London'. Below the large letters is a picture of a figure climbing into a widow of a building, all that can be seen is a white boot and a white cape flowing behind.

"This isn't who I think it is..." I say to myself more than anyone, leaning over the table in interest. This is a person of interest.

"Yep Yuuri. You're looking at the great assassin Silver." Pichit clarifies from somewhere around the table. He's been sighted in Russia once before, a couple of years ago. Now he's in London?

If this paper was published a month before now I'd slit the publishers throat because my mentor was the best assassin ever to live. Although even now, I don't believe in its credibility.

"Looks like you've got competition Yuuri" Sara playfully elbows me in the arm. In response I straighten and look at her seriously;

"I'm not worried. The best assassin in the world doesn't get caught on camera"

That shuts everybody up, they all do nothing but watch as I leave the table and approach the famous wall of boards. I spend most of my time at HQ in front of this wall. It's made up of several boards; the largest is a black cork board, used to pin on jobs that anybody can do if they have a free gap in their schedule. I usually don't, my hands are too full with jobs that are personally sent straight to me. Pichit deals with those, the information goes to him from the government and he sends it on to me if Minako deems it appropriate.

The other boards are personal to us. These are digital. My one is right in the middle. What they do is display how many kills we've made since we joined and our successful kill streak.

"I've heard, in the air, that he's signed with The Agency" Pichit says, standing next to me, also looking at my board.

The Agency is a new constitution, as in only a month new. It's made up of the assassins that used to be part of us but left because they're cowardly traitors. It's the group that works inside the government. Although we take jobs from the government it's not that black and white. It's more like Pichit hacked into the government's database and we steal The Agency's work. The government knows, they must, they just don't say anything because we're doing them a big favour. Infact, every kill we make for them gets us a lot of state money, money The Agency is losing. I hope it pisses them off.