"Anything else sir"
The waitress asked, completely unbothered by Lucious's unnatural appearance.
"A vanilla pastry"
"Would that be all sir"
"Yes"
The waitress turned and walked away. Lucious kept staring at her though, there was not hint of any kind of emotion of his face, but if someone were to see from back they would take him for a pervert.
He then stared at all the other workers in the cafe, as he noticed what was about these workers a small creepy smile crawles up his face. Lucious's smiling was a rare occasion. He rarely smiled and when he did it was just his lips that moved, his eyes still showed nothing, completely devoid of any kind of emotion.
His red pupil went to every staff member, getting locked at them for a second before moving to the next.
The staff, they were all supers. He was sure of it, the air around them and the absolute discipline that they were displaying in their work seemed a little out of place.
It was way too perfect, without any clumsiness. It was too much like those CCD officers when they are at work.
He just knew it, they have to be from the CCD bureau, they cannot be any mistake in it, he had killed enough of those officers to identify them when he sees one.
Lucious covered his smile with his right hand. Ashley always told him that it looked creepy when he smiled and there was not any point in attracting attention to him anyways.
But why are they here, did they already find out about his involvement in the incident the night before. No, that can't be, the CCD was not that fast and he knew it. He has also dealt with all the footages that could lead a trail to him and he even left quite a glamorous distraction for them to waste their time on.
Then why are they here, disgusted like normal citizens.
The public may not know it but almost all the criminals knew that there were special decisions in CCD. These divisions were different from the once that dealt with all the criminals publiculy and were portrayed as harbringers of justice and happiness. There were people in the CCD who worked with all kind of thigs, things apart from normal criminals.
One of those many divisions was the one that located and disposed of criminals silently. They did the work that cannot be revealed to the general audience. And the squad currently disguised as the cafe staff has to be one of those.
Still his right hand covering his mouth, Lucious looked out of the window on the opposite wall.
His red pupil glowing slightly. He stared at the people walking down the footpath, the cars and bikes running on on the streets, children tugging at their parents's sleeves asking for treats. All of these people were just going on with their ordinary lives. But if a battle between supers were to break out here how many people would die. Of course the CCD will evacute as many citizens as possible but still there were always the unfortunate once.
Lucious's smile widened on the thought but he still managed to cover his lips with his hand. He cannot do that, not now. First he needs to know why they are here and then there was the matter to deal with "that person". First he has to finish all of the pending work before starting a new one.
Even if that was what he thought, his smile cannot help but widen
How could he not smile after all this would be so much fun. Watching the CCD officers trying to save so many people while those upper eschleons of the department could not care less about public safety..they would sacrifice hundreds if it meant keeping their wealth and secrets safe.
For someone normal, leave normal, even for some criminal it would be sad for so many innocent people dying but that was not that case that appied to Lucious. He did not know what it meant to feel sorrow, what if meant to be hurt. He did not know how it felt when someone you value more than yourself died befor your very eyes. He never experienced those things. The closest thing to emotion that he felt was.....
Entertainment.
Entertainment that would help some of his boredom. It was not that he enjoyed plopping sound of people's guts brusting out. It was just that it was the most entertaining thing he has experienced so far.
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In a room lit with several screens that were covering one whole wall of the room a man was sitting on an office chair, typing something on the keyboard on his hands. Only his back and brown hair were visible as he was turned to the screens.
The sound of keys pressing echoed in the almost empty room. There were just these screens and a table in front of these screen on which the keyboard was kept. Other than this and the figure in the dark left corner of the room the whole room was empty. It was a huge waste of space indeed.
The sound of his fingers hitting agnaist the buttons continued to echo and then one of the screens changed and started displaying a footage of a prison. It was an ariel short probably taken from a satellite because of the area it covered, a drone will not be able to cover up this much area.
The video continued and soon it displayed a streak of red smoke landing near the prison. The blood red smoke dispersed and someone emerged from the smoke.
The man paused the video and minimised it. On another screen he then opened a webpage.
This one displayed some sort of database.
The man selected a particular file from the data.
The file loaded, it was the very same video he was watching just now.
His right hand slid on the desk as he moved his mouse. On the screen the cursor moved to a particular button which he pressed.
A pop-up window appeared on the screen. It read "delete from database".
The man moved the cursor again and clicked the button " Confirm".
After some processing the video was deleted fro the database.
The Man sighted and leaned back on his chair, his face still not visible to us.
He then took out his phone out of the pocket of his shirt and dialed a certain number.
The call was connected and after some rings it was finally picked.
"Speak"
Luscious's cold voice came from the speaker. Just this voice was enough to make him flinch. He took a gulp and said.
"Sir, as per your demand all of the stellite footages of Sant Crussia prison have been deleted. There is no footage of the incident on the internet anymore sir"
The man spoke, his voice shaking from the sheer pressure of talking to the person who was on the other end of the phone.
"Okay"
Luscious's reply came after a second. He was about to cut the call when...
"Sir what should we do about him?"
The man asked, looking at the dark figure on in the corner of the room.
Two second went in silence and then Luscious replied.
"Just let him be, I will deal with him tonight".
Without waiting for the man's reply Lucious cut the call.
Sighting in relief, the man kept the phone back in his pocket and then proceeded to walk towards the dark figure.
The man's face still not visible, he crouched next to the dark figure.
The dark figure was a man, his hands and legs missings, one of his eyes was also missing. It was a mystery how this person..... this thing was still alive.
The man grabbed the figure's creek and said in a pitiful tone.
"You should have begged him for mercy when you had the chance. Now look at you, not even able to move an inch."
Contrary to his tone, however the man was not least bit sad. He gently slapped the figure's cheek and continued.
"What happened, did you forgot how to speak.. huh. Answer me....
Bloodwork".