Ana wanted to chase her, he didn't know if he should, but he wanted to, and just as he was about to follow her, a burning hotness spread through the side of his abdomen, making him toddle a little.
"...!" Ana winced slightly due to the sudden hurt he felt, before he searched for the cause only to find a glowing knife deeply embedded in his left side. "What…?"
[Warning! Male Body (F) has taken fatal damage]
Ana looked towards his assailant, a different man than the ones he killed, but wearing a similar cloak like them.
[Hunter Assassin: Boyka (Rank A)]
"Hm, how did someone like you kill two of ours?" That man pushed his knife further into Ana and twisted it, ripping open a big entrance in Ana's abdomen.
[Warning! Male Body (F) has taken fatal damage]
"Agh." Ana grabbed that man's wrist, trying to stop him from pushing his weapon further into Ana.
But the man didn't even budge an inch and rotated the knife alternately in clockwise and counter clockwise direction, tearing open Ana's organs, not letting Ana have the strength to summon his gun to retaliate.
[Warning! Male Body (F) has taken fatal damage]
"Hm, maybe you just got lucky." The man scrutinized Ana and found that there was nothing exceptional about him.
Ana, using all of his remaining strength, held Boyka's forearm with both his hands and steadied himself, trying to calm his legs that felt numb and disobedient.
"Too bad today's mission failed." The assassin, however, only looked at the starry sky, not even acknowledging Ana's resistance. "It would have been better if we targeted their headquarters instead of this academy."
"Agh…" Ana felt himself dying but he still didn't let go of his grip.
[Warning! Male Body (F) has taken fatal damage]
"But what if it's not even in there? What then?" Boyka mumbled to himself in a daze, as he kept torturing Ana to death.
"Agh." Ana wasn't afraid of dying, he had willingly killed himself before but Boyka's words were like salt on his bloody wounds.
[Warning! Male Body (F) has taken fatal damage]
"Agh!" But being someone who could never accept being looked down on, he resisted Boyka even though it looked futile and impossible.
"How will we find it? Should I-" The man kept talking about his dreams, when Ana interrupted him.
[Warning! Male Body (F) has taken fatal damage]
"Hey, you punk." Ana may be weak in this world, "How dare you ignore me?" But his mind wasn't.
"Hm?" Boyka nonchalantly looked at Ana. "Have you still not died yet?"
"Aghh-!!" Ana felt the knife explore into his chest, making him breathless. "-!!"
[Warning! Imminent death detected]
"Hm, do not worry, I will grant you a painless death." Boyka mocked Ana by torturing him with more pain.
And that was what pushed Ana too far, far enough for him to forget that he was a dead man fighting someone beyond his league.
"Ha-h!" Ana pushed out his voice with insane pain. "-De-ath?"
[Auto switch activated]
Ana's strength, for some reason, returned and he grabbed the knife this time, the sharpness of it too blunt to hurt his now extreme skin.
"Death?" Hot fumes blowed out of Ana's mouth.
"What?" Boyka sensed the change quickly and made the smart choice of jumping back.
But Ana's hand, which was fast as lightning, shot into Boyka's chest, tearing open his ribcage and penetrating him deeply, easily, almost as if Boyka's A-rank hardened body was just soft butter.
"ARGGGH!!!" Boyka screeched in suffering, as blood flooded out of his open mouth.
"Death?" Ana grasped Boyka's heart within his torso, with strength and sharpness unimaginable for Boyka to fight against.
"Acckk-!!" It was Boyka this time who was breathless.
"Grant me death?" Ana pulled Boyka's heart out of him, and along with it, all of the attached vessels.
"..!" Boyka became limp and collapsed immediately, a gigantic hole in his chest spraying a fountain of red blood.
"Grant me a painless death?" Ana squashed Boyka's heart within his palm like a fruit. "Who do you think are; to talk to me like that?"
Red viscous fluid flowed down Ana's hand onto Boyka's dead face, onto his psychopathic eyes looking up in disbelief at Ana, and travelled further ahead to Boyka's dying body, a useless soon to be corpse now at the mercy of his killer, and Ana, who cleaned his hand in one swift swipe, all the blood splattering like a crescent arc on the dead hunter, looked at him without a tiny bit of remorse.
Ana wasn't a serial killer, but he would kill, rather than have someone grant him 'a painless death.'
"Why are all the guys around here so crazy?" Ana clapped his hands and cleaned the remaining sticky drops of blood before turning around, ready to leave and go chase that girl, and if he didn't find her, he planned to return to Klara.
But what Ana saw when he looked towards the alley entrance left him speechless.
Eva was standing there, looking at him speechlessly too.
An anxious trepidation, a fright of being caught killing someone, a dreadful horror of being hated by Eva swiftly made Ana jog towards her in hopes of quickly explaining the situation. "Eva, listen, I-"
Whoosh
Eva threw a fencing epee, with a speed unbelievable for most hunters, and shot it straight at Ana, but Ana could watch it clearly, so he easily turned his body to the side, making the zooming weapon fly past him; and then Ana monitored its course, the weapon's slow speed which felt like a snail crawling, traversed behind him and dug itself into another man wearing a cloak, wounding the stranger mortally, before disappearing after piercing through this strange man who had appeared out of nowhere.
Ana, a little shocked at Eva's casual killing, turned back to find his lover charging towards him like a missile with the fencing epee she had thrown reappearing in her hands magically.
"Wait!" Ana asked Eva to stop, since he had no intentions of fighting her. "Wait, I'm not with them!" He solemnly and sincerely asked his love to stop.
Lucky for Ana, Eva's weapon halted just inches away from his neck, but it was ready to decapitate him anytime Eva wanted.
"Eva." Ana smiled at her for trusting him and giving him a chance. "I-"
He was about to go and hug Eva when upsettingly, Eva straightened her weapon, further closing the gap between his neck and the extremely sharp tip, until it was fully touching Ana's skin.
"Eva, why?" Ana was stupefied at Eva's hostility.
"I do not recall giving someone like you the permission to call my name." Eva's eyes weren't green like Ana remembered them from the afternoon, instead, they were velvety red.
"What?" Ana felt like Eva was acting oddly cold towards him. "Why are you acting like thi-"
But when Ana raised his hand, with which he was intending to activate his aphrodisiac skill to calm Eva, suddenly his senses felt too unfamiliar, his body, unknown, and the sight of the back of his hand, strange.
"Acting?" Eva's tone became more hostile and her red eyes grew murderous. "How would you know if I'm acting?"
"Wha-?" Ana had to look at his hands, which were now much smaller and cuter, and then his screen, to finally understand what was happening to him.
[Ana Krauser: Rank (SSS/F)
Current Body in Use: Female (SSS)]
A cold chilly and metallic feeling originated from below Ana's chin as he saw Eva with his raised head, who appeared much taller now that Ana actually looked at her from his shortened height, the sensations of Eva's weapon engulfing him in a disastrous conundrum and deeply impregnating his brain with uncertainty.
"Who are you?" Eva asked Ana, for she had never seen this side of him before.
A female side, or some might call, femboy, but definitely not Ana Krauser.