Fantasy Assassin in a modern world

Chapter 32 - Spreading His Name (1)

"Fade..." Matsuri mumbled the name. She then looked at Loki with a serious expression on her face as she asked a question.

"Are you the one who killed the gang leaders in the last few days?" Matsuri had no evidence to support her theory, but her gut was telling her this guy was the person she was looking for. Loki could not help but look at Matsuri's eyes that were full of resolve. He was rather impressed at her seeing as she knows the gap in their abilities but she remained determined and unyielding. To answer her resolve, Loki gave an answer.

"I will kill any evil, for as long as the price is right and the reason is just."

"I'm taking that as an admittance to your guilt." Matsuri then pointed her gun at Loki. "I have a few more questions for you, Mr. assassin." John also came out of his hiding spot pointing his gun at Loki. Seeing the two of them pointing their guns at him, Loki sighed. A battle seems unavoidable, but he didn't want to get rough on them.

"I would advise you not to do anything that you would regret." As Loki spoke to them, he was watching the guy hiding at the back.

"That's something I should be saying to you. I know that you're a martial artist and a highly skilled one at that, but we police officers aren't as helpless as you think we are." At this moment, both Matsuri and John took out a weird-looking object and attached it to their guns.

"There are many martial artists that could dodge gunfire. They could especially easily dodge those from handguns that have a slow rate of fire, so of course, we made a way to make it more difficult for the martial artist to dodge it. This is what our enhancers are for. So if I were you, I would come quietly." Hearing what Matsuri said made Loki sigh.

"I respect you, officers, for doing your job and I really do not want to hurt you two, so you better stop this."

"An assassin with a conscience, or are you not killing us simply because you aren't paid to do so? Culling evil if the reason is just and the price is right? Are you trying to justify your selfish desires and wrap them around something good? Who are you to decide what is right or wrong, what is evil, and what is just? I hate your kind, the ones that are doing bad things, but think that they are in the right! I'm going to arrest you now and teach you the ways of society." Loki once again sighed as his fingers twitched a bit. It was at that moment Matsuri's gun flew out of her hands.

'The same move as he did with the thugs. How did he do it?' Matsuri looked at her gun and saw a thing string-like thing attached to it. As she was focused on that, Loki used that moment's distraction to get behind her. In the corner of her eye, she could see Loki and tried to raise her arm to block whatever was coming, but that prove useless.

"I didn't want to do this, but you forced me." Those were the last words Matsuri heard as she lost consciousness. John who was watching at the side could not react fast enough as Loki got behind Matsuri. Now that Loki was holding Matsuri up, John had no clear shot of him. It was at that moment the person hiding behind a wall who was part of Harada Kenji's group left. Loki tossed Matsuri's body towards John who reflexively caught her. After catching Matsuri, John noticed that Loki had disappeared.

...

Outside of the hospital, the person who was hiding while watching Loki and Matsuri's confrontation was calling someone as he walked away from the hospital.

"Boss, the men failed to kill the Detective and her partner."

"How did that happen, I sent at least a dozen of men, and you guys can't even deal with two little police officers."

"Someone intervened, a martial artist who claims to be an assassin called Fade."

"An assassin? Why is an assassin getting in the way of our business?... Tell me everything you've seen and heard."

Kenji's subordinate relayed everything he saw and heard. After listening to every detail of the confrontation Kenji frowned. He was most concerned when he heard that this assassin had a peculiar quirk of wanting to get rid of evil for a price.

'That assassin is after us... Tsk, who the f*ck would hire an assassin to attack us? Damn, I have too many enemies that it could be any one of them. Still, to attack at this specific moment just a few hours after my son got hurt. It's as if he knows... Wait a minute, so that's it. The one who hired this guy must be the one that attacked my son. That b*stard, I'll be sure to pay him back no matter what.'

As Kenji was getting even more irritated, he suddenly felt something was wrong. After thinking about it for a few seconds, Kenji suddenly noticed something weird.

"Wait you said that this guy has the same capabilities as a higher-level martial artist right?"

"I don't know his exact skill level, but he should be at least better than most of the young martial artists."

"Tsk, where are you now?"

"I'm walking on the sidewalk heading towards the base."

"Don't go there, you stupid idiot! If he really is as good as you say he is, that would mean that he had already noticed you since the beginning. So then why would he allow you to escape, instead of knocking you out like the rest of them? That guy is using you as a guide to get to where we're hiding."

When the subordinate heard what Kenji said he was really surprised, but what his boss said made sense.

"Boss, what should I do now?"

"Don't come back to the base, no matter the cost. Go and hide somewhere else until everything cools down, or until I find a way to kill this Fade character, as well as the person behind him. If you do anything the leads him to us, then consider you and your family dead." Kenji didn't wait for a reply as he hanged up the phone.

Kenji then looked at his unconscious son and gripped his phone so hard that the screen cracked a little bit.

'Fade... An assassin I have never heard of, an assassin that has some kind of sense of justice...'