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Sunshine-pure-turning-corrupt Elliot and Assassin Guest

This is extremely cringey. You've been warned.

♫ Nico Collins - On Accident

I was on my way back after finishing a mission late.

The shoulder that got cut earlier was throbbing.

I walked alone through the damp, dark streets at dawn, covered in blood, with not a soul in sight.

I pulled my hood down low and didn't lower my guard. In this industry, people appear and disappear every day.

As I emerged from the alleyway, the pizza shop across the street caught my eye.

Oh, the pizza there is good.

But I didn't want to see a man dressed in black breaking the glass door and breaking in.

Is he what they call a robber?

Yeah, I know this is really meddling.

It's not like I need to help.

I look like a total wreck right now.

"Aaaaagh!!!"

In the end, I did it.

I smashed the pizza shop's CCTV by stabbing it with my knife, then stepped through the shattered glass door.

Sorry, Mr. Employee, but a broken CCTV is better than a trashed shop, right?

A man screams as I twist the wrist of his knife-wielding hand.

• Get lost. Come back and I'll kill you.

I let go of his wrist and gave the stumbling, fleeing man one last kick in the rear before looking ahead.

But what I saw where the man's figure had been blocking my view was...—

"Th-thank... you..., ...?"

....Was this place a 24-hour pizza shop?

Why is there an employee here at 3 AM?

I'm screwed.

I pulled my hood even lower and pressed my index finger to my lips. Then, a few seconds later, I extended my thumb and drew it across my throat.

• It means you die if you open your mouth.

I turned around to make a quick exit, but—

"Wait a minute, there... your shoulder, you're hurt, aren't you...?"

"...Huh? You're the one who... came here a few times before..."

I clearly said you'd die if you opened your mouth. Listen to me for once.

That was my first meeting with that man.

A strange person.

Anyone who smashes a CCTV while covered in blood at 3 AM is the number one person to avoid.

No, let me correct that to number two. Number one is the person smashing a glass door with a knife at 3 AM.

Anyway, it's obvious to anyone that they aren't normal, but the employee just treated my shoulder without a word.

A kind, good, and warm-hearted person.

The exact opposite of me.

It was happiness.

I came to love such a person.

Such a person came to love me.

Coincidence, like a cruel joke, entangled that person and me so deeply.

These two hands, which had only ever held red blood, held red roses for the first time.

Even someone as disgusting as me can love someone.

Even someone as disgusting as me can be loved by someone.

It was anxiety.

If this filthy world, where dozens were killed and killing today, were to reach into that person's pure and clear world.

If that dirty, hideous, and disgusting sin deeply engraved in my soul—that unerasable sin—

Were to touch that person's pure soul.

If, because of me, that person became like one of today's dozens—

No.

Right, from the start, he was a gentle and somewhat foolish person.

He probably couldn't know how heavy the weight of being an assassin is because he was so far removed from it.

I can't ruin a person like that just for my own greed.

..I have to set it right.

For his sake.