#event vicus

“Heads up kiddo,”

Cecil called out from a nearby rooftop, far more relaxed than he should have been all things considered. He wasn’t even sure if the young man head exactly what he said, but he was fine so long as he caught his attention for a moment. The fragment in his hand caught the light overhead with a shine that made him think that for a moment that it might have been worth as much the sort of jewel it was billed as. His hobby of pretending to be a serious appraiser of goods wasn’t quite behind him yet, but his eyes weren’t as good as they used to be.

A second opinion certainly wouldn’t hurt. 

“What do ya make of these?”

“Up an’ at em, young lady. We’ve got a full day’s work ahead of us by the looks of it.”

He sneered to himself as he tapped the girl on the head. The proposal was tempting enough, no doubt many were already flocking to dodge the infected and gather the fragments for their own gains, and he was more than happy to join them. At least on the surface. There was no real shortage of ways he could spend the money, but that was hardly his main aim.

Everyone who had merely been biding their time waiting would be out and about, those insistent on lurking in the shadows would have fewer places to hide. If there was ever a time for him to see just what it was he was dealing with here, it was now.

To Hakuno, she couldn’t help but get the strangest sense of deja vu. This scene that she was witnessing, as graphic as it should be, to her, it was almost as if it was a normal day witnessing a murder. She couldn’t help but feel a bit ashamed of herself for being so calm when seeing a dead body being dragged around on the streets. “...” Pressing her lips together, Hakuno was now in a staredown with the supposed murderer in front of her. He looks familiar to her but at the same time, this was the first time the two have ever met. 

Like Hakuno herself, he was wearing a school uniform, a blue trail blazer. None of them say anything and Hakuno herself didn’t want to get in trouble, after all, this boy, similar to her in age, is a Servant and a one that specialized in killing.