Chopping The Big Fish

“Squire, Kingfish KIA.”

“Affirmative, Artermis. Put the HVT’s body in a body bag and get Crow out of the sight ASAP.”

Crow, this team was a codename I gave to a team composed of Miu, Cara, and Yuna. They’re tasked with bringing with the body bag containing the HVT’s corpse for delivering to the Society, who in turn, discreetly turn it over to the Adventurer Guild for verification, and give it back to the Angevinian authorities to remove mana network from the body before cremating it after announcement of the ‘accident’.

The same could be done to the other target I’ll be ‘erasing’. The one who would put the body in a body bag would be the one from the Shadow Hand, an Angevinian version of Russian Alpha Group.

“Roger. Good luck.”

Revolvers drawn, like a thief in the night, supported behind by Maeryn who had her magic crossbow ready, and Yuri who took the role of sniper and was very distant to our position, we sneaked our way to the location of our target, the dumb cunt magic user, a friend of Corazon Paredes named Alma Cataluna who was an active adventurer that had a bad record on her conduct in bad report Lyonel delivered the files to the Adventurer Guild.

The Adventurer Guild confirmed it. They’ve given us a green light that had us to eliminate the former upcoming adventurer in this island. The magic user violated the code. I read a web novel similar to the case of that, the vice guild master of once prestigious dissolved adventurer guild in that story, received a karma together with the guild master because of the vice guild master falsifying the reports of the main character’s behavior which in the next part affected the main character’s former guild as a whole.

‘Facing a magic user, huh? I can take them out at long-range if they’re not alert of our presence.’ Looking back at Maeryn who like me disguised, she nodded.

“Darling, we will make it quick and clean.” whispered Maeryn.

“Yes. I’m glad you are a genuine combat vet, Maeryn. Things will be easier for us around.”

Maeryn smiled.

Early morning after I had the girls report to me last night, I gave them a sightseeing in Cerces while the others like Ursula/Julienne spent time with me and talked about our former selves and the days we had at VIAUC as students in uptime year 2011.

Julienne was distantly related to the Tokugawa through her past life father. The British-Japanese and her family recently moved to the Varela/Baguio, Imperial States at that time. The good thing was everyone there knew how to speak Nihongo, Japanese language. It wasn’t no trouble for me, Melody, Kathie, Jamie, and Erica to socialize with her and practice English. She was like a “foreigner” heroine like Katsumi, Sayuri, and Ekaterina. They all each had a charm, nothing to stop me loving them as being them more than themselves being my friends, that was to say my beautiful lovers and wives.

Before we go take care of the ‘problem’ this midnight, me, Airi/Sayuri, and Athena/Katsumi had a small ‘bout of roleplaying, an acting, with ourselves disguised as our former selves in appearances at our current age. Leen was a bit wow to see our former selves and jokingly remarked Katsumi was the best sister because of plum-colored eyes and brown hair which in turn made Sayuri pout and tickle Leen, making themselves laugh.

That event was still fresh in my mind. That’s the best part for having a personal harem who get along with each other.

This midnight, the economic activity of Cerces will be back to turn normal at the cost of assassinating Alma Cataluna, and Corazon Paredes, who was now dead from an ‘accident’ in courtesy of Yuri/Erica.

Erica, my first love and girlfriend, was a trained sharpshooter. She’s one of the best in our former country and the top our alma mater. She’s like me. Back in our former life, she was offered a varsity team captain position but she declined because she wanted to help me in things. She even declined a post in Youth Parliament and Student Parliament like me because serving the country as one of the national shooting team was more than enough to serve the country, the people, and to give youth and the next generation an inspiration to take up shooting sports besides for the Andresian-era military reservist training.

“We’ve arrived at Point Bravo. Maeryn, watch our 6.”

“Roger that.”

Summoning my rifle, I set it up and put myself into prone shooting position.

Loading the 7.5 Swiss made up of Snowium, I put my sights on the target.

Under the full moon, there stood a tanned blonde woman in a red nightwear dress at the balcony. The expression she wore was nothing but content when she looked at the three moons floating above.

Wind’s fair, the weather was cold as December at Japan with a temperature 18 degrees Celsius.

Target Distance: 1,001 meters.

Good day.

‘All set.’ Zero applied, I started counting down.

‘3,2,1.’

BANG

While watching the bullet flying straight to the target, I put first the mind of the consequences and troubles caused by Corazon Parades and the Mama Corazon business.

‘Big Fish KIA.’ Seeing the Kingfish fell down dead bleeding, I stood up and took out the signal mirror out from [Dimensional Storage].

Staring at the direction where the hidden Shadow Hand operator at, I flashed them a signal.

“Big-Fish-Erased-You-Take-It-From-Here.”

“Roger-Squire.”

I smiled at the figure.