It's already late night. The night is a bit windy, the clouds were hiding the moonlight that shines the town. A person standing in the alley way seem waiting for something coming up.
BUZZ-BUZZ
He picked up the call from the communication device on his ear. A man's voice heard.
"Ace, there's an anomaly move at the Spring forest street, an alley between Blossoms's cafe and Bakery shop. The CCTV caught a long limbs creature drag it's prey there" says one man.
"Got it" says the person nicknamed 'Ace' on alley. He wears navy blue combat suit, gloves and boots, a white mask with serious expression with just electric blue eyes appear behind the mask. He's having double short swords on his back, he's looking at the location on virtual map and then make a rush to the location.
Few minutes later he arrived, he carefully checked the alleyway and see that anomaly or could be said the 'demons'. Soon the demon notices him, grinning widely with it's sharp fangs covered with blood of it's prey. It quickly lunge at him, with a fast reflex, Ace quickly take out his short swords at once and begin to chop those limbs to make it immobile. The demon started to screeching that sounds so ear-piercing, Ace quickly cut off those screech by cutting it's vocal cords in its neck. After checking it wouldn't move he contact the person who order him this mission.
"Target eliminated, the victim is dead and... Scattered. Ir was a mess" said Ace as he glances at the corpse with unrecognizable face.
"What a pity... I'll send a person from your team to clean the traces" said that person as the communication turned off.
"... Person in my team, eh?" Mumble him as he looked into the cloudy night sky. His identity was anonymous for some reason, he doesn't even know who is his team members due to this terms and conditions, his team members also don't know much about his true identity. But at least, this man provides some information from each member in his team.
Soon a van with dark window arrived, a person with black combat suit, and black latex glove arrived, he also had a white mask but with devilish smile as his expression with red eyes appear from behind the mask like a true demon, this appearance startled him a bit as he quickly ease.
"It's the Joker, he's known as 'The Lunatic' due his unpredictable behavior. I've heard some of his rumors from other team was about he can't be fully trusted, and he usually doing this cleaning traces or evidence for long almost nobody except his team know what job he did all this time especially including the 'interrogation mission' he known as a sly person. Why this kind of person was in my team?" Think Ace with serious. This is first time for him to interact with this person, the more he saw the smile on that mask, it's getting unsettling.
"Yo! You must be one of my team aren't ya? 'The famous anonymous'" say him nonchalantly with a bit teasing at the last sentence. The Joker look around the alleyway. "That's a lot of pieces you got here" say him saw the pieces of dead body as he get out from the van and taking something from the van storage.
"So it's you... what are you taking?" Ask Ace with serious tone.
"Nothing much, just some sacks I've prepared, this regular sack for the demon corpse and this white is for the victim. I just did what they told so.... Don't be so serious... Hm... Well it matched with your mask expression tho" say him nonchalantly as he picked up those body parts of demon to the sack.
"... Need help for putting those in your sack?" Ask Ace a bit unsure seeing that much of gory view to be cleaned by one person.
"It's fine, you're not even using latex glove either to clean this" he seem not worry or something. The rumors he heard from other secret forces members in the office makes him more convince with how this kind of person's personality.
After sack it all and put it in the van, he spray some kind of chemical liquid all over the place, some seconds passes and there's no odor of the blood again as if there's nothing happened .
"Oh I've almost forgot, are you going to the headquarters? Wanna come along? I can drop you there" invite Joker to Ace. Ace seem doesn't want to agree at first, but think about it. The headquarters and this place is very long, it'll take at least a half an hour to arrive at headquarters this might be efficient way to save some time.
".... Fine" says him as he get in the van, still wary if he try anything.
Few minutes pass, it's still a long way to go to the headquarters. This is a moment of silence both of them, Ace feels like just entering the kidnapper's van with corpses behind the seat and the kidnapper is one of his team.
"Why there's more than 2 bags? I'm sure there's only two dead bodies" Ask Ace with serious tone.
"Well isn't it clear? I'm doing this more than one place I'm not just coming to clean these for one person".
"... Why you don't seem carrying a weapon?" Ace asking with serious tone again, still feeling suspicious with this guy.
"Geez... You really wanna know, huh? It's up to me carrying weapon or not" Joker tone seem annoy Ace even more.
"Stop your annoying tone, no wonder why you nickname is 'Joker' your life is a joke already" says he with an irritated tone
"Heh, I can be as annoying as I want, just hope you won't died by high blood pressure right now or you'll be in my sack" says him with a chuckle.
"What's that liquid you spray? The blood smell was... Just gone" Say him in curiosity.
"Just an info, it's one of the research from our other member nicknamed 'Queen' she's the most knowledgeable in medic and chemical thing. So yeah, our group sounds like poker deck, right? Maybe our commander was too much playing poker" Joker explain.
"Yeah.... At least another useful member and more sane than you" says Ace a bit relieved and annoyed.
"Whaddya mean by that? Well.... You got the point tho, hehe" Ask Joker half offended
It's already past midnight, still following the traffic lights in normal speed. The smell of blood still linger from the back of the seat making Ace also feel dizzy. But at this late hour also make Ace feel a bit sleepy. "Geez.... How long will this takes? The smell won't go away!".
"Don't be such a whiner, whaddya think of me for doing this everyday with these smell, huh?". Ace suddenly see something crossing the road and the van still on high speed. There's a figure like a person just crossing the road but the van doesn't slow down.
"WATCH OUT!!!"
Alert Ace to Joker but instead of slowing down or hit the brake, he speed up and crash it with full of force.
CRASHH!!!
That thing was knocked few meters from the van, everyone was in shocked state. That thing seem motionless, the crash seem causing instant death to the victim by hitting the fatal part.
"Well... Here's the casualty again...." Says Joker nonchalantly. He go out and take out another sack. Ace still having a heart attack thought joker maybe has crashed a civilian in high speed until he noticed Joker was taking a regular sack than the white one. He observing more and found out that thing they crashed was another demon. Joker immediately sack that demon and put it in the van. "First time? Well.... at least no civilian was crashed today"
Ace still in shock, first time experiencing for crashing something with a van in high speed. Even more shocking that it isn't the first time Joker did this. Now he's way more convince that this member of his team is a definition of crazy. He's getting a new shadow tonight.
Few minutes passes again, the van entering the underground way. Ace was wondering where this way going to, then the van stopped at the front door of an office. "Here ya go, the headquarter's basement. G'bye, see you never" as Joker literally drop him here, he drive the van away to some place.
"Heh....."
"... See you never too"
To Be Continued...