The End Cafe

6. A long story

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"Hey, listen." A familiar sound came from the earphone in my right ear. "Today's quest is very dangerous. Are you sure you want to do this? It's not worth it."

"Yamika does whatever she wants." I replied emotionlessly.

"Well, okay then." She continued. "Today's goal is to assassinate that guy I showed you earlier, in a disaster. He will be escaping the city, and that is when you can kill him.

"Yamika can hide herself in the disaster."

"If you say so."

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Back to the mission, I have arrived at the place to wait for him to come to me. I have checked multiple times, that this is his only way of getting out. Now all I have to do is wait-

And then, I felt something cold from my back. Definitely not the wind, I jumped away immediately. It was a knife, and it has almost went through my back. Holding the knife, is another girl. But comparing to me, her colors are white, soft, making that knife being a very different color on her.

"You're here to kill me, because I wanted to kill your 'master', correct?" I asked, and no reply. I'll just take that as a yes as default, because I knew that rich fat guy had money to hire someone to protect him.

"Let me kill him. I know you're not dumb enough to not know he didn't get his money properly." I said, and no reply again. She just silently swings her knife at me, though I could dodge them easily.

We had a battle in the sky, and of course, I won, but I failed killing my target, I let my target get away, for the first time, which is not allowed —— I have nowhere to go now, after I fail. She fell down from the sky, crashing hardly into the ruins of the building. Wounds can be seen all over her body, but she also got me a few scratches. My bad for not paying attention —— she's actually better than I though.

Being so tired after the battle, I completely forgot about the most important thing —— there is a disaster, going on, right here, right now. Soon, stones began to fall down from the sky, touching the ground and then exploded, making it look spiky, and it is, too, so I better get running now, no matter if I have a place to go.

This is my first time actually experiencing a disaster, and it is worser than  I though. Stones began to crash even more densely and harder to dodge.

And soon, that moment when my energy runs out, I was hit by a stone, and crashed into the ground with it. Glad it didn't turn into spikes like the other ones, but now I am stuck, weak, and hopeless.

And then ——

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