It starts off just like any other night. Sneaking past the door security and settling down to crouch next to the empty shipping containers that had long since become her ideal place of hiding. While it’s rather empty now, surely there will be more people crowding in soon enough and so, Rin makes herself comfortable. If her intel had been correct, she’d finally be able to get the information she’d been looking for all these months. Idle chatter washes over the ten or so that had gathered and though she can make out bits and pieces, a full conversation isn’t able to be pieced together.
Then it happens. A commotion and raised voices echo throughout the place, alerting the others so much that they turn to see what it’s all about. From her hiding place, she too peaks to see what it is. ‘Who the hell is he?’ There’s an unexpected visitor, that much is clear when the few that had gathered brandish their weapons in preparation of what’s to come. 'Whoever you are, you just made a big mistake.’ Their words don’t seem to deter him. Then she sees him, under the dim lighting. He’s tall, with sharp features and bright blond hair. What catches her attention, though, is the slight blood spatter that adorns the suit he wears. It’s over before she can even fully process what’s going on. One by one, they all fall to the ground without having put up much resistance.
“…No way,” She doesn’t realize that she’s said it out loud until his head turns toward her direction. Though it’s in vain, she ducks down and tries to calm herself. But it’s far too late because before she can properly gather her bearings, he’s staring down at her and Rin immediately feels her entire body freeze up. “I…I’m not with them.” Is all she can manage to say in her defense. “And I won’t tell anyone either. They deserved it.”
HOW EASY, HE THINKS, EVEN with his abilities (could you even call them such beyond a curse?) dampened as they were. barely a second passes before blood splatters upon his suit, seeping into darkened cloth as if it were natural. lifeless, the once chattering bodies only moments ago now fallen to the ground, slashed open with one of their own knives he had swiped in the slowed down atmosphere---the very atmosphere which red eyes and bore witness to in his brief bout of time control. one hand slips itself into his pocket, observing his handiwork, before a set of words garners his attention.
another enemy, those two words ring in his head, alert as he steps toward the voice only to be greeted with a huddled teenager. there’s a humor to her attempts to dissuade him from anything rash. besides, since when has he ever concerned himself of someone being told about what he’s done? ❝ It wouldn’t matter if you did. ❞ crimson stares down at her, voice lowering as to not alert any further attention just yet. ❝ Just like for those guys over there, ❞ he adds, scrutinizing her with every moment.
❝ Tell me one good reason why I shouldn’t think you are. It’s not like those bastards are above using children as soldiers. ❞ any chance to disarm the enemy with the face of an innocent was enough motivation. he would know, being raised since a child by the government for that very reason. fingers keep hold of the knife, guarded to strike at any unexpected movements. though he was without his precognition, it wasn’t as if he was entirely useless, instead holding his stance steady. ❝ Well, kid? ❞