Kill the Lights by Jangryang
Proofreader/Editor: Kaima, Hwarang
“What is, he….?”
Ashley murmured. Apart from the creepy acting skill that can’t be Haley’s, that stare felt like something she had seen before…..
Click. Before Ashley could figure out where she had seen that stare, the screen that was showing pouring dark rain with a solemn music, was turned off.
“What? –I was watching that!”
It was an important scene! Ashley shouted and stood up and looked at the man behind her, who had clicked the remote. The man was looking at her with dislike.
“Is it the time to be watching a TV show, right now?”
“Then what should we do? Should we go out and turn ourselves in to Zii?”
Ashley asked him coldly, and the man, Aaron, frowned.
“That’s probably better, right? If Zii finds us first, just getting shot in the head won’t be enough.”
“Shut up, Ashley.”
“Then why did you kill Mason, you idiot!”
She said it in a resentful way, and Aaron who bit his lips, shouted loudly, “Fuck!”
“Because that son of a bitch was trying to shoot Alta!”
Aaron admitted he had acted crazily. Shooting Mason had been a spontaneous reaction. He hadn’t acted rationally like he should have. It had happened without him knowing. Right afterwards, he realized why. Mason was trying to shoot Alta and as if someone had held his hands, he had pulled the trigger and it had happened unconsciously.
Aaron thought that Mason Taylor was a very annoying man.
When he was first transferred to Mason's team, he has had some expectations. Of course in Zii and even in other corporations, Mason was famous for being an outstanding mercenary. An incredible Veteran who had executed many missions that was seemingly impossible to succeed and had survived. His team was famous for getting dangerous missions, but he had been optimistic about being able to watch such amazing skills put to action.
But the real Mason was not so amazing. He completed the missions like a moth, rushing towards the fire. He wouldn’t have said anything if Mason didn’t have the skill. Even though there were safer ways to execute a mission, Mason acted ignorantly that propelled their opponents into sudden panic and shook them and run towards them with a knife.
Aaron thought, ‘Isn’t it enough to only put himself at risk?’ What made Aaron more annoyed was that, Mason never failed even with such risky strategies.
Like that time, when they went inside the war profiteer, Alta’s, bunker. That kind of idiotic move had worked once again, and right at the moment, when they were about to complete the mission, Alta told them that he would give 50 million dollars.
Fifty million dollars! It was that kind of money, which when you hear about, you don’t even realize how huge it is. Mason had indifferently aimed his gun at Alta, even though he had offered them money, which even if they divided among themselves– Mason, Aaron and Ashley AND their children’s grandchildren, there would be plentiful. Aaron got annoyed at Mason. Motherfucker! He was acting as if he was the only cool guy there.
Looking at the steady gun aimed at him, Alta said the password with a frozen face. 12, 36.5, 37….., and right before the last number came out his mouth, Mason pulled the trigger, unhesitatingly.
At that moment, when the 50 million dollars disappeared in front of his eyes, Aaron couldn’t not pull the trigger. He couldn’t think of anything else except to stop Mason.
‘What are you doing! Team Leader…!’
He found out what he had done after Ashley screamed. A dark red hole appeared on Mason’s forehead, and blood gushed out from behind his head. He was staring at him in wonder, ‘wow, what a pathetic bastard,’ and soon he collapsed.
From that point onwards, there was no turning back.
Alta was trembling on the ground with a shot to his chest, and Aaron pulled his hair to raise him up. And he said while pointing the gun at Ashley.
‘Do you want to die or open the safe and be on the same boat?’
Ashley knew he wasn’t kidding about killing her, so she slowly nodded.
Aaron dragged a shivering Alta and put him in front of the safe, and he was forced to unlock the iris recognition and fingerprint scanners. 12, 36.5, 37, -But before he could say the last number, Alta stopped breathing.
It was such a shitty situation. If he accidentally pressed a wrong number and the password got reset, he would have to start from iris recognition all over again. No matter how many times he put the dead Alta’s eyes in front of the locker, the password will never be solved.
There was no other choice. Aaron, along with Ashley, damaged Mason’s corpse and made it look like himself. Fortunately their heights and size were similar, and he destroyed his face completely so that it cannot be recognized even with dental records. After that, they put the corpse in front of the bluff safe and shot the safe to make it explode.
Alta’s bedroom had several secret passageways and those two ran away with the safe. They erased their tracks and got a shelter in a pretty safe place, but that was it.
They still couldn’t open Alta’s safe, and Zii’s chase was choking them every minute. They contacted a pretty well known safe worker, but they only got shitty news that a bomb was planted in the locking device and if they press the wrong numbers several times in a row, it would explode.
Just like Ashley said, the only thing they could do was either watching dramas or order pizzas. Even so, they won’t be able to continue for long because they didn’t have much money left.
“I told you, right? Team Leader was not an idiot. Do you think he wouldn’t know about this?”
Ashley looked like she was sick of it. Ashley had worked with Mason for three years. Mason mostly worked recklessly and sometimes she thought he was really crazy, but she knew after having worked with him for three years that he was strong in times of danger, quick on the draw and had a natural talent of being able to dig through other people’s inner circle. If there was genius and mediocrity amongst the mercenaries, he was a genius. Mason seemed clumsy, but he never misjudged the circumstances. He’d never failed anything that he said would work and never succeeded anything that he said wouldn’t work.
Aaron complained that Mason was an idiot, but Ashley knew it was Aaron that was the idiot. Also love, was their enemy. Ashley knew that this personality of hers would one day get her killed.
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