A large square-shaped airship floated in the sky in God's nowhere.
The spaceship had a see-through glass exterior, but the material looked sturdy and strong.
It was known as the world's strongest glass.
These glasses were extremely rare, so it looked strange for someone to make an entire airship out of them.
Inside the airship, men and women in black uniforms patrolled the area in a quiet manner.
They all had Hunter gun logos on their chests.
The air felt serious.
In a particular room, several men and women in black attire stood in a straight line with their tummies sucked in. They looked like military trainees.
They all held a mechanical gun with glowing blue veins running through the sides.
The guns had bars on the sides, like phone bars, indicating the amount of energy left in them.
These types of guns didn't use the normal bullets the old-era guns used. Instead, it used a blue energy beam.
That can cause more damage than normal bullets.
No one made any noise in the room. After a while, a man walked through the metal door.
The man stood at a massive 7 feet. His head nearly touched the ceiling, and tight, bulging muscles were everywhere.
Several battle scars ran through his skin. Veins stuck out of his face; he had shaved eyebrows, bald hair, and large pairs of eyes.
He walked confidently with his head held high.
He narrowed his big eyes, staring at the trainees. Only the sound of his footsteps echoed in the room as he walked.
The trainees all put on their best tough faces.
In the manhunt, this man had quite the reputation.
The scar on his face proved that. Those scares were evidence of near-death battles.
But he was mostly known for his ruthlessness. He goes by the name Kali.
"Alright, pricks and bitches." Kali said. "You all should be thankful for being here. You had nothing when we picked you from the streets, cleaned your asses, put a cloth on you, fed your stinking mouths. "
The words sounded rude to them, but they knew better to raise their voices.
Some groups of students once questioned him. They thought they were talking on behalf of the other trainees, but the next day they found their heads in a hot frying pan being prepared for the dogs.
Since then, no one has said anything about his way of speaking.
"With that being said, I'd like us to go straight to the training." Kali said. "correction torture.
The trainees swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
This wasn't called training for them. Rather, it was more like torture.
They were told that they would be trained. Most of them lived in the streets, so when this opportunity came, they grabbed it, but they never knew they would be used as tools.
Kali tapped his earpiece and made a call. "Bring in the buckets."
"Sure, Kali," said a feminine voice from the other side.
"buckets? What would he do with those? " The student mumbled to themselves in a low voice.
Sometime later, a group of men in black uniforms walked in with buckets filled with water.
The number of trainees was the same as the number of buckets.
The buckets were filled with cold water.
The icy mist could be seen sipping out of the buckets.
The trainees had a tingling sensation. They already guessed what he wanted to do.
The men dropped the buckets in front of the trainees and walked out.
Kali gazed at them again after the people left.
They swallowed another round of saliva.
"I won't be bullshitting you on some sort of speech. I will go straight to the point. Put your damm heads inside the buckets. "
The trainees all put their guns away.
They had one important rule: obey before complaining.
They all squatted down and dipped their heads into the fridging buckets.
They didn't hesitate or stop to think about the consequences of their actions, because if they hesitated...
"Hmmmmm." The cold water made them scream muffled screams.
"If I hear any damm voice again, I'll kick that person out of this ship," Kali said, in a loud voice.
All the screams suddenly turned silent, not even a ping of sound echoed.
The trainees all grinded their teeth together as they endured the cold water pounding against their faces.
"You pricks might think am torturing you. Of course, that is what I'm doing, but it is to make you familiar with this type of torture.
"Our past agents in recent times have fallen victim to this type of torture, and they spill some things they shouldn't have said.
" you wanna guess what happened to them?" Kali asked, but all the trainees had their heads inside the bucket.
"We killed them," Kali said. "We fucking killed them. We lost a good number of toys that day, and despite the joy of killing, we can't continuously lose our people, so the management instructed me to waterboard you guys. Isn't it fun? "
The trainees thought: "Not fun, you asshole."
Kali walked around the hall, inspecting everyone.
"What do you think you're doing?" Kali glared at a trainee.
The trainee raised his head above the water as he placed it inside the water.
"s-sorry, sir--"
Kali kicked him before he could finish what he said.
The student crashed into the huge glass walls, but the glass didn't chatter.
Kali walked towards him again, but his communication line beeped.
"Kali, the Chief wants to see you."
"I'll be there in a minute."
"Thank that call! It just saved your life, "Kali said, and walked out of the room.
But the trainees still had their heads inside the bucket.
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"Kali, my man, have a seat," a man with a black metal mask that had white narrow slits said.
"Chief, you called for me?" Kali sat down.
"We have a new mission from the Boulders."
Kali sat straight in his chair. "What do they want this time? Another set of human organs? "
"Not that, seriously."
"I thought they had some sort of a fetish with human parts," Kali said. " The few missions we have received only had to do with human hearts and kidneys. Will this be any different?
" Hope so, because I am frigging tired of harvesting human parts. It's not a nice thing to do, you know? "
"I know you worry, Kali, but I promise this will be different." The masked man said.
"I'm all ears." Kai adjusted himself again.
"The Boulders tasked us with eliminating a student—"
"Wait! You called me here to eliminate a kid! " Kali sounded enraged. "have better things to do. can't play with some kid. "
"Listen, would you?" The marked man hit his table, making it crack into two. "He is not just any kid. Our intel from the inside told us that the academy had an interest in him. So you know what that means? "
"They would be keeping an eye on him," Kali noted.
"Now you get my point. I need vets, not amateurs, for this hit. What's more, there are the likes of Wu Chen and the strongest man in the city, Xavier. "
"You don't want them to trace the hit to us? I get it now. "
It seems like you're not good at just killing. Either way, here are the target pics. " A glass tablet materialized in his hands.
Kali took the picture of Ethan in the Elite Canteen with Noah, Ileus, and Layla.
"Such a handsome kid. so bad, you'd be my 500th kill. "
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