A day to forget

The young boy arrived at his target's mansion after 4:00 pm. He had changed the color of his motorcycle thanks to his customizable panels. He made sure to leave his vehicle in an accessible place for the getaway and reviewed his inventory.

Everything is ready. Today is the day the Yamadas will be alone in their mansion. I just need to take care to avoid the guards patrolling the area and manipulate the network that controls all the electronics in the complex.

The house was, for all intents and purposes, a mansion. It had a large front door, and despite being within the metropolis, it had a large garden that was extremely well kept. Such buildings were unusual in a metropolis dominated by huge metal buildings. However, high-ranking government officials such as Mr. Yamada and other multi-millionaire and powerful celebrities used to live in places like these.

People living in the suburbs suffer from a shortage of clean water due to the amount of resources needed to maintain these green spaces. The [V-pills] were the social pillars that allowed these luxury homes to be built.Because people could hydrate themselves with a simple pill, resources could be used to water the grass.

Okay, time to infiltrate.

Ano put on his demon mask and took out his PDA. Thanks to both technologies combined, he was able to access the mansion's alarm system and deactivate it without the need to connect to a remote point via cable.

Thanks to the passwords the duchess gave me and the mansion's blueprints, this is proving to be very easy. I can’t go through the main entrance since there are guards guarding it. Time for a little climbing.

He activated his wrist-mounted folding claws after taking care of the remote security. From those stylized metal bracelets, claws unfolded on the young boy's hands, and he used them to climb up the outer stone wall.

Once inside, he had a clear path to the house as the only guards guarding the residence were at the outer gate of the wall he had already breached.

Nice!! The alarms and cameras in the house are also deactivated.

*WOOF, WOOF*

A dog started barking once the young inventor entered the residence. Without a second's hesitation, he launched an electric shock device against the animal. It knocked him unconscious but without any damage.

Sleep tight, dog.

He tied up the dog and hid it inside of a room so that it would not bother him when he woke up.

Once inside, getting what he was looking for was not a problem. He went into both of the Yamada's Cyber Huts and downloaded what the duchess had asked for. He also went to the trouble of getting some extra data that would be of use to him in the near future.

These pigs from the government… So this was what you were hiding!!!! I can see why the Duchess wants this information!!!! Now I just have to wait for them and give them what they deserve.

Once half of the operation was done, he had to fulfill the second half. He waited to give the message from the Duchess to the two members of the government.

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After an hour of waiting for the Yamadas to return home, they finally arrived. The young inventor had been waiting all this time without moving from the place. As soon as they entered and closed the door, the young boy pointed his folding pistol at them.

"If you make a single noise, I'll shoot you both. Let's cooperate on this, and I'll leave without hurting any of you."

The Yamadas raised their hands in surrender without making any noise or calling for help.

"All right, don't shoot. We'll give you whatever you want."

Mr. Yamada's wife began to cry.

"Take the plastic handcuffs on the table, Mrs. Yamada, and put them on your husband."

The woman obeyed, and once done, Ano put the handcuffs on Mrs. Yamada's wrists. With both subjects now stripped of their mobility, he began to recite the Duchess' message.

"Listen, you government pigs. We know what you are doing. If you don't want anything to happen to your daughter, obey the orders that will reach your private terminals tomorrow. You see what we are capable of, so don't try to get help."

"Agreed. We will obey."

The Yamadas were strangely quiet. Despite being obviously frightened, their demeanor was strangely cautious as they knew they were needed alive. The normal thing to do would be to try to negotiate with the white demon-masked thug in front of them. Ano noticed this.

"What are you hiding?"

"Eh? Nothing. We will do as you tell us. Please don't hurt us." Said the gentleman as his wife continued to cry.

These two rotten apples are hiding something from me. I won’t move from here until I unveil what’s happening here.

"I still have some time. Tell me what you are hiding."

"MANAMI NO!!! STOP!!!" Shouted the woman.

The young daughter of the family appeared behind the young boy while she was pointing a gun at him. Trembling and fearful, she tried to shoo away the man who was scaring her parents.

"OUT OF HERE DEMON!!!"

The girl... She wasn't supposed to arrive until late. Was the information wrong? No, she was here the whole time!

Ano again made a good deduction. Yamada's daughter was sick that day. That’s why she stayed at home instead of going to school. The reason the Yamadas were so quiet was because they were trying to get the thug to leave as soon as possible so that he wouldn't hurt their daughter.

“You are a rotten root. I have to remove you too from this world.”

The young boy turned and pointed back at the little girl. A strange purple and invisible demonic figure emerged slightly and slowly from his back as it grabbed him by the arm he held the gun with.

"WAIT, PLEASE DON'T SHOOT!!!!" Mr. Yamada stood up and shouted as the mother continued to cry.

"Don't move." Said the boy.

Ano fixed his gaze on the frightened adult. That look that characterized him went all the way to Mr. Yamada's bones, and his legs lost whatever strength they had, causing him to fall to the ground. The young boy fixed his icy gaze on the girl again. However, the girl did not lower her gun nor was she affected by the demonic aura he emitted.

"GO AWAY EVIL!!! OR I’LL SHOOT!!!"

"hahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" laughed the boy lugubriously.

What's wrong with me, where am I, and why am I aiming at this little girl… It’s like I was trapped inside my own body!! I can’t control myself!!!

The young inventor could not believe what he was doing. It seemed as if another being was controlling his body. A being full of hate and evil that was out for blood wherever it went. For almost two years, the young boy had been living with the hatred and resentment caused by Hana's death, which had changed his personality from a kind one to a cold and calculating one. However, at that moment, he felt as if he was watching another person controlling his body.

"GO AWAY!!!"

*BANG*

The girl fired the gun. Fortunately she missed the bullet and let go of the pistol due to the recoil. At that moment, hallucinating, what Ano saw in that little girl was the image of Yu Asu. Then, something tragic happened.

*BANG*

A second shot. This time it was Ano who fired. The young boy aimed, as usual, at the heart of his opponents. However, the bullet only grazed the girl's arm, causing it to bleed.

I missed!! But why?

His left hand was helding Hanna’s star on his pendant, while a yellow aura slowly faded from his right arm. It looked as if someone had moved the young inventor's arm at the last moment. Thanks to that, the girl was saved.

I gained control over my body again!! I must have reacted at the very last moment!!

Seeing the girl bleeding from his arm, the young boy hallucinated again. This time, what he saw in that girl was his dear departed friend lying lifeless on the floor of that mansion.

Confused and bewildered, after having obtained what he was looking for and having delivered the message from the duchess, the young inventor left. The purple demonic figure had vanished again.

I almost killed her, I almost killed her, I almost killed her... What's wrong with me…? What am I…? What do I do…? Why do I exist…? Where am I going…? Where do I live…? Why do I live…?

Ano left the mansion without stopping to think. In front of him stood the guards who had entered the property, alerted by the gunshots.

"Freeze!!!" The guards shouted as they pointed their guns at the young boy.

Ano turned around and entered the mansion again. He crossed from side to side and shot at the glass window at the back of the mansion's living room. In one leap, he jumped across, destroyed the glass, and was able to get out into the garden. However, the guards had followed him into the mansion and shot at him multiple times.

*BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG*

Most of the bullets failed to hit the young boy. Some bullets bounced off the ground or whizzed past the boy's ear. All except one, which hit his shoulder from behind.

Ano moved to the left, cutting off the guards' line of sight. One of them stayed to help the Yamada family, and the other chased the young inventor while giving a warning signal via a special transmitter.

"Armed suspect on the run at the Yamada residence. Send reinforcements and prepare for a possible pursuit. He’s dressed entirely in black and he’s wearing a white demon mask."

Ano activated the devices on his wrists one more time. The iron claws came out of them, and in a matter of seconds, ignoring the pain of that bullet in his shoulder, he scaled the stone wall of the mansion and reached the street. Unfortunately, his Z-910 was a few meters away, so he had to run.

Shit! It burns a lot!!!

The young boy reached his Z-910 and without wasting a second, with a terrible burning in his shoulder, he set course for the joint where the people who hired him were waiting.

"We have a visual of the unidentified assailant. We're in pursuit."