[Autumn Leaves] ; Assassin Kim Taehyung

Deal

May the 3rd, 2017

Spring. The flowers are blooming and the sun is shining. People are falling in love. Children's laughter are audible from every corner. They are running across your way and playing hide and seek. The parents are watching their kids with a smile, are recording them and laughing with them.

Spring is the season of memories, love and new life. The season, people like the most. Everyone did, everyone, but me.

I hated spring. Spring was loud and powerful. A total mess. Spring was the time, where people were going out. Too many people were around me. People would recognise me. They would panic when they see me. My face is known by almost everyone.

Maybe did the kids not recognise me. They wouldn't understand why people hate and fear me. Until they see what I did to my victims. Until they would watch me killing people. Their eyes would burn these pictures into their brain, and haunt them forever. I would end up killing them too if I get caught by them.

I watched the people in the park from my apartment, directly next to the park. They were all happy and smiling. They seemed to have fun. I wished I could have fun, too, but that's not possible for me anymore.

I closed the window and made my way to the kitchen to get something to drink until I noticed that my TV was doing strange things.

It switched through the channels in a 2 seconds tact. It stopped at a black screen and made a quiet crackle sound. I took my drink and sat in front of the TV. Listening to the crackle of the TV, I took a sip from my drink.

After a while the black screen got color until I saw an old man, about 60 years old, sitting behind a table.

"Good evening, Kim Taehyung.", the man suddenly said and I raised a brow. I just looked at the man and waited for him to continue.

"You can speak Mr. Kim. I will able to hear you.", he said casually and folded his hands on the table.

I still didn't say anything and just looked at the room he's sitting in. Everything was build with wood. Probably it will smell even like wood and wiskey there.

The man seemed to be a bit questioned about my silence and wrinkled his forehead, meanwhile I just took another sip from my drink. I lifted my drink to signal him, that I'm listening and he should continue talking.

He nodded and finally began to tell his point immediately: "I want you to kill Byun Jaesik, also known as the mafia boss of the Byun-Park family. He's not only Korea's most dangerous man, but also very dangerous worldwide. As we all know, you are one of the best or even the best Assassin worldwide, so I thought of contacting you, which took a while."

"What is my reward?", I asked curious and put the drink on the table.

"We'll discuss that in my office. I'll see you then.", he told me and the screen went black again.

What office? And where?

I was really confused and still looked at the screen. Suddenly a text was visible on the screen. It was the Adress and Date.

"It's in 2 hours.", I sighed and took out my phone. I took a photo of the text on the screen and looked at it for a while.

I laid back on the couch and drunk out my drink, before I stood up and prepared everything so I could go outside.

Facemask, Glasses, coat and a bucket hat. Nobody is allowed to see my face.

I left the house after preparing everything and carefully walked through the streets. Of course I got some attention, since I hid myself, but I was just another weirdo for those people.

As I walked through the park, kids started to run across my way and didn't even mind my appearance, but one did. A little girl blocked my way by just standing in front of me and staring at me. I stared back. Suddenly the girl started to smile. I guess she was like 5 years old and probably loved to talk with new people.

As kid, I was the same. I was really curious and wanted to make many friends. I loved it to talk to people and tell them, what i already experienced. I also mostly talked to strangers on the street or buses. My mother was always scared about me, because I have been really naive.

This girl seemed to be the same as I was. She now smiled even brighter and i could see her teethgap. She was really adorable and made me smile lightly.

She could recognise my smiling because of my eyes which were only able to be seen.

"Down!", she said and I looked a bit confused at her.

"Mask down!", she tried to signal me, that I should pull down my face mask, so, that she can my smile.

I perched down to her and pulled my facemask down, under my chin and greeted her with a smile.

As she saw my face she looked very amazed and immediately smiled back, but now shy.

I already knew why she did so. Her expression was amorous. I smiled now wider and chuckled.

"What is your name?!", she then asked and I just put my finger on my smiling lips.

"I am the mysterious man.", I answered and stood up.

She looked at me with an open mouth and watched me pulling my facemask back onto the right place. I waved at her to say goodbye and then made my way to the old man.

As I arrived at the adress, I noticed that his House wasn't even tried to be hidden. I looked skeptical at the House until I entered it.

As from the outside it was also inside completely out of wood. The wood smell was very intensive. Disgusting, but also somehow good. It was hard to describe.

I recognised the women, who was looking at me, standing in front of a door.

"Please go upstairs and enter the first room on the right.", she said straight, without any expression.

I didn't even mind to ask, if she knows why I'm here or just confused me with someone else, so i just walked up stairs.

As I entered the explained room, I saw 6 younger men, in my age, sitting on the right to the wall. They didn't say a word and just watched me entering the room.

My eyes went from man to another man until I looked at the Old man from the TV. He was smoking a cigar and greeted me with a nodding head.

"Welcome, Kim Taehyung.", he said grinning and puffed his cigar.

One of the 6 guys seemed to be surprised as he heard my name. He seemed to be in the same age as I am. His face was longer, but a bit chubbier. He had puffy eyes and plump lips. His hair was parted and he was dressed very casual, yet elegant. He looked like a normal guy who's just following the fashion trend.

"So who are you and who are these 6 men?", I asked as I took of my hat and facemask.

"I am the boss of the mafia Choi-family. And these 6 men are as well Assassins. I want you 7 to work together. Of course I know, that you are as well one of the most dangerous man worldwide. But I think that Byun Jaesik is still a level higher than you and as well his family is huge. You don't only have to kill the boss. You also have to kill most of the family's members. This whole huge family would make it too hard for you as single person.", he explained and puffed again his cigar.

I didn't like the idea at all. I didn't want to work with other Assassins, which I don't know or even trust. They seemed to be amateurs for me.

Sure they noticed, that I wasn't trying to deal with it. Yet they didn't say anything.

"I see, that you aren't fascinated by the plan, but the reward will be huge for each of you, if you guys success. The base will be 234000000,00 (about US$210.000) Won. And each member you kill, will highen the your base for 5%.", he told us and of course this was a lot of money, but still I wasn't positive about the plan.

The other guys looked at me with a very serious and I could tell that they probably had the same reaction as me, but still decided to deal with it. All of them sat there with crossed arms and waited for my answer.

I sighed and scratched my nose. "Fine. I'll do it.", I said annoyed and crossed my arms as well.