Chapter 23

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CREED

"So do you reckon they're still in there?" I asked Viper
"Probably not. He's not dumb. He'll have moved out as soon as he killed them" he replied. Three Black Cats never checked in and Black Cat Jons checked in late. He told us he had escaped from it and the others were dead. He never told us what "it" was so Cyrus had sent us to investigate.
"Well, lets go inside" Viper said walking towards the door. It was locked of course. Viper held out his hand and mechanics coated them. He punched the door and it went flying off and through a wall. I walked through the doorway and looked at the hole in the wall the door made
"Bit excessive" I said. Viper smiled and started searching the house. I walked from room to room methodically.
"Creed, come see this" I heard Viper say. I found him in a thin, plain room with a long table through the middle of it. However on the opposite wall, we found our three Black Cats. All of them were naked and contorted, their bodies were pinned to the wall with knives in each of their joints. The bodies were shaped into three letters. SIN.
"Shit" Viper said "he fucked them up huh?"  suddenly the air seemed to get colder
"Viper, what's happened?" Viper suddenly froze. A tall, slim boy with silver grey hair and stormy grey eyes walked past us, barely acknowledging my existence. Fuck. It was Strike. He looked at the bodies.
"We just found them like this" Viper said
"It seems he's telling us his name" Strike replied. He analysed the bodies carefully.
"What's the bounty on him?"
"Who?" I asked
"The only person we know is sick enough to do this. That ??? guy" Strike replied "matches his style perfectly"
"83 million"
"Raise it to 120"
"Only 40 higher?" Asked Viper
"He wants as high a bounty as possible. If we give him a lower bounty than what he expected, he'll do it again" Strike said
"Which makes it easier for him to find" I finished
"Which is now your job" Strike said to me
"Do you want to let him strike at us again?" Viper asked
"Is that a problem?"
"No. It's just. When he strikes, he kills. We'd be loosing men just for one guy" Viper said
"They're collateral. If you catch him Creed, the people he's killed would make his bounty sky rocket. Which you'd be collecting. Everyone is happy"
"Yes sir" Viper replied
"Creed, take this Sin down, collect his bounty, get rich"
"Yes sir" I replied, then left to get ready. Finally I got a hunt.

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