I hear my alarm go off even though I do not remember setting it. Grudgingly I turn over one more time but the alarm just keeps ringing. Finally, the sound gets me out of bed.
I take a shower and go downstairs for a quick breakfast. No message on my phone today, so no new job. Did he give up? No way, not after all he got me to do for him. Plus, he's got at least 3 more to go, if I'm right about the whole 7-sins-thing.
I leave my house for just a second to go and get the mail when a courrier arrives. "Good morning, Sir. I've got a package for you." My breathing stops for a moment. Without opening it I know who it is from. "Thank you, Kid." He nods at me, turns with his bike and rides off.
***
Back inside I open the package with shaking hands. I have to use a knife which leads to me cutting myself. I sign and continue opening the package after taking care of the cut. Once I got it open I find a Video-Cassette inside. For the first time I am glad we still got one of the recorders that play those. Most people only have DVD anymore but we have kept our recorder because we still have old videos of ourselves and the kids that have not yet been digitalized.
Carefully I enter the cassette into the recorder and press the start button.
***
First all the video does is flicker. Then the picture of male hands in gloves.
"Good day George. I expect you've been waiting for a sign of me already? As you can see I did not rest but found ourselves another sinner to take care of.
I know that killing is new to you and it might still disturb you to take such drastic measures but I would like to calm you a bit. All of the people who died through us, they were all the scum of the world. They had no worth whatsoever to this society. All they did, was destroy it with their behaviour.
So now let's get down to business.
Your next job is the guy on the picture. The details are found on the back of the foto added to the package. It's the same I show you now.
Alright, let's get to work, shall we?"
***
On the picture I study a blond man. He is pretty big and muscular. On the back of the picture it says:
Name: Jason Marcus, Age 50, blond hair, Brown eyes, Date of Death: today, cause of death: beaten to death, guilty of: Wrath
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