When I wake up in the morning there is a lingering iron taste in mouth and something smelt awful. Suddenly a rush of information overcomes me and the events of last night come back to me.
"Ugh, I can't believe I bit him."
"Yes well I had fun last night~. It was especially fun to watch him slowly break into an empty shell. Ah~, I can't get that face of absolute despair out of my mind~. Of course yours was my favorite but it was just so exciting to watch him go mad from just that small amount of pain~. Unfortunately he got boring quick. His bodies just in there if you wanna stab it a few times. He's dead but you at least deserve that much."
"I'll do you one better. Can you go fetch his head for me~?"
"Certainly dear~."
She walked into the bathroom and came right back out a second later. In her hand she held a bloodied head, a look of pure terror written all over its face. I took the head and placed it on the mantle. I dabbed two of my fingers in some blood and started to smear out three words.
"THE PINK DEMON."
"Quite fitting don't you think?"
"Oh come here my fluffy pink ball of cuteness." I wasted no time and jumped into her arms.
We sat there looking at it for a while before, "ah! Just a sec."
I let go of her and reached for the head. In just a few seconds it was grinning from ear to ear with one eye open and the other shut.
"Much better."
"Well I'm going to rinse off and get dressed before we leave so grab anything you want. You're free to join me but it's going to be a couple of minutes till it's clean enough to use the tub."
I hadn't noticed before because the whole killing thing but she was only wearing the lower half of of her outfit.
"Hehehe-"
"Now don't you go getting ideas over their." She said while walking into the bathroom
I decided to join her and when I entered the bathroom she was just starting to take off her pants.
"Well hello there sexy~." I did one of those cringy purrs and slowly approached.
...[1]
About half an hour later we left the bathroom clean and refreshed. We threw on some clothes but most of the stuff we had was covered in blood.
"Gonna have to do some more pickpocketing."
"Don't worry honey it won't take too long with both of us."
"Cya later Jimmy!" I said as I closed the door
"You named the head?"
"Yeah, he's our first kill outside of the research center."
"Huh. Bye Jimmy!" She yelled
"KEEP YER VOICE DOWN." Someone yelled
"I'LL BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT!" She responded
"Haa~"
...
It took us about an hour but we amassed a fortune of 200 hundred dollars. To a child at least back in the early two thousands that would have looked like a fortune and even here I'm sure the kids living in the slums would have seen it as a blessing from god. Unfortunately once you grow up a thing called reality smacks you in the face and things seem to become much more expensive. Just to get two decent sets of clothes cost us enough money to make a dent in our funds. Plus the food we got afterwards we had lost a bit less than half our funds. As you'd expect, ramen was cheap so we had loaded a good bit into our newly purchased duffel bag. Seeing as we cared more about food than shelter we bought a cheep burner that was fueled by propane that had a broken leg. Alongside that we bought a small pot, an extra propane canister and two plastic bowls. By the time we were done our funds were practically depleted.
When we were done we walked for hours looking for a suitable place to lie low and were rewarded with a shoddily made shack that we were allowed to use as long as we shared our food with the two "owners". The "owners" were a pair of children who's parents had died some time ago. The older brother being at the age of ten had been looking after his six year old sister. Apparently their father had died before the sister was born and their mother passed two years after giving birth to her.
Originally they had been living a decent life until about a year ago when the money their mother had left for them ran out. Even before the money had run out the brother had learned how to survive in this cruel reality and was actually quite the sweet talker. Along with sharing food we would provide protection to the siblings which was what we had expected to do when the boy had offered to let us live here.
Not even ten minutes after getting here a racket was being made outside. The tarp that made for a makeshift door was torn from the rusted hooks as a large man barged his way into our new home. This irritated me extremely and I glared at the man.
"What is it?" I force out
"Where are the little shits that own this dump?" He asked, his voice deep and authoritative
"Mind your tongue young man. That's my landlord you're talking about. I expect payment for the door and an apology."
"What'd you say bitch?"
Veins visibly popped on my forehead and I could feel a slight breeze as something quickly moved pass me.
"You won't be leaving here alive." Pain said seething in rage
He was led by gun point out the door. Outside a few other people could be seen.
...
Sever minutes later pain returned, the stench of fresh blood clung to her clothing. All she did was smile as the reason to why the siblings wanted us became apparent.
"So who were they?"
"Thugs, debt collectors, r*pists, murderers, drug dealers and the list goes on."
"Well it looks like our two cuties got us into a bit of trouble. Not that I'm too worried."
"Yes, I'm sure it will be fun living with these two."
"Well now that we've all settled why don't we introduce ourselves~?"
"M-my name is Elijah Tracy and this is my sister, Adeline Tracy." Said the boy a bit shakily
"This is Pain the third and I don't have a name! Though a lot of people called me demon so feel free to call me that."
"H-hello, it is good to have you ms. Demon and ms. Pain." He said in a polite tone
"Well at least you have some manners."
"How about we have some food and we can talk about the future later."
...
When the first two bowls of ramen were done pain handed them to the children along with some plastic silverware I assume she stole from some restaurant.
The two of them scarfed down the ramen like they hadn't eaten in years. A while later and two portions of ramen entered the bowls again and before we knew it they were empty. Pain and I were given a very short tour of the three room shack and were unsurprised at the horrible state it was in. The other two rooms consisted of a bathroom and bedroom. The plumbing worked surprisingly but neither Pain or I wanted to get close to the fixtures. Within the bedroom sat a sad looking mattress with a flat pillow and extremely itchy blanket strewn across it. All throughout the ground was dirt except in the bathroom. I assumed of the pipes and other stuff were all under that one room in awful conditions. I didn't know how it still worked and I didn't really want to find out.
It was apparent the place needed a lot of work that would cost a good sum of money. With the tour done me and Pain went out again in search of necessary supplies. The now dead thugs had quite a bit of cash on them and we happily filled our pockets.
...
It took us a couple hours but we had gotten our hands on four decent cots, two large comforters and four pillows.
We returned to our new home greated by two excited children. Two of the cots were placed side by side in the bedroom while the mattress was placed against the wall. A pillow was placed on each and the comforter stretched across both of the cots. The same was done in the big room I deemed the living room with the duffel bag placed at the end along with the burner.
In the morning our first priority would be to find an easy method to earn money.
...
When I wake up I'm greeted with the cutest sleeping face I could've hoped to see. Unfortunately she wakes up just a second later and stares back with a soft gaze and slight smile on her face.
"Good morning my little monster." She half whispers
"Good morning to you too."
"You enjoying the view?"
"Couldn't ask for anything better."
"MMMMMM" she let a small moan as she stretched her whole body.[2]
I mimicked her and we got up out of our "beds".
"Now that you've slept on it do you have any ideas for making some easy money?"
"Actually yes, it's quite simple. What are we both good at?"
"Taking and dealing out pain."
"Mhm, and what accompanies pain?"
"Stubbing your toe! Hurts like a bitch."
"No. Well yes but no. Think bigger. Oh, think about jimmy!"
"Death?"
"Ding-ding-ding! And out winner is Pain! We can be killers for hire! Considering our particular set of skills. It'll be easy peezy![3]"
"Where would we even start? It's not like we can just start off anywhere if we really want to earn some real cash."
"Well I thought about it and I thought we'd learn more about our area and all the influencers around us. But first we should have a talk about what you've scrounged up in that brain of yours."
"Sounds like a plan."
We both take a seat on the cots and start talking about the information Pain dug up in the fanatics memories.
"Not much of the stuff she knew was too important even if she seems like she was all that. If we were talking in simpler terms she was like the head honcho of the unimportant's. She was told enough about things to do her job but just enough to still be ignorant. Unlike normal kids she was brought up in a facility below ground with a bunch of other children. It wasn't anything fancy like the place you were in but they were for the most part cut off from the outside world. Down there women were bread like animals only serving the purpose of giving birth. Normally a person wouldn't willingly do that but for a women it was of the highest honor to give birth to children who would serve their god faithfully. Don't be mistaken though, women had just about as many rights as men with some exceptions. If they really wished to join another branch they were given the chance. Take 'me' for example. 'I' wished to spread the grace of 'our' god to all the world.
All throughout their early years from birth to about ten years old they are brainwashed and turned into fanatics. If they wish to join another branch other than the mentioned option then they are physically trained to fight if necessary hence the scars and well built body. The ranking system is kind of like that used in Europe with peasants, nobles and royalty but using more pretty titles. 'I' was the leader of the enforcers which would mostly preach and force 'our' religion upon anyone that seemed easily brainwash-able. Things like the other day actually happened quite often. Though 'I' personally didn't know it's quite obvious that whoever the authorities may be they have been payed off. Otherwise with a country like this I'm sure they would have been put down a long time ago especially in a time like this when the population is as I'm sure, dwindling.
There are a few groups that 'I' have been told to avoid and those that 'we' are on friendly terms with. There are several other groups such as the rumored problem fixers that took out any person that threatened to cause problems for the 'Church of the one true God' as they called themselves.
Even if 'my' position sounds important it isn't as highly valued as others though it is still lusted after by many of the lunatics in lower positions. Thankfully 'I' managed to keep ahold of it thanks to physical enhancements by way of technology directly implanted into my body."
"That's good enough for now but how about those groups you mentioned? Do you have any information on them?"
"No unfortunately 'I' was just told which groups to avoid and which ones 'we' were allied with."
"Ha~, well it was worth a try. Do you know where we can find them at least? If we could get a job from them and complete it quickly and efficiently I'm sure we could have them spread our 'names' around a bit. Oh and before I forget you wouldn't mind me calling you Pai right?"
"Pai? Why?"
"Cause I like pie and it's cute. On top of that I don't think you always want me to call you Pain do you?"
"Well fine but if I get made fun of for this you won't hear the end of it!"
"Okay~"
"You wait out there and I'll go grab the kids."
"Wait you're bringing them with us?"
"Yeah, I don't want those scumbags shit heads to come back with us gone and only these two left alone! I'm not that dumb!"
"Oh, good idea!"
"Thanks."
A few minutes later and she held a hand in each of her own. She let go of the girls hand and I picked her up and placed her on my shoulders. I grabbed Pain's left hand with my right and we merrily made our way to one of the groups she was told to avoid.
Note: hey it's been quite a while. Won't say I was busy because that's not totally true but not totally wrong. Anyways here's another chapter. Went into some touchy grounds today that may or may not come back to bite me in butt later but this is how it is for now. Unless I decide to change it later. But I probably won't so enjoy.
1. Time skips :)
2. Might reword this
3. Don't know if this is spelt correct, I used voice to text so it could be wrong but I'm sure it isn't and I'm just paranoid someone will mention it and I'll feel dumb.
Oh yeah sorry there was a bit of an info dump but I'm sure you would've liked to know this now...or maybe not. That's up to you.
Welp stay safe, stay healthy and have a good whatever time of day it is for you.