Building The Perfect Harem With My Heavenly Desire System-Chapter 57: Uno Reverse
Chapter 57
’Think, Alex. Think. There are currently three professional hitmen pointing their guns at my face, torso and legs. Any slight movement I make will trigger them... but even if I stay still, they’ll still shoot me.... So my only choice right now is to use my speed to my advantage and quickly get behind one of them. With that, I should be able to buy myself a few more seconds, before launching an unexpected attack. Alright, that could work.’
With a fully functional plan in place, Alex darted his eyes around the room, searching for the perfect person to target. His eyes settled on one of the hitmen; a man of average height, with a smooth, shiny bald head that reminded him of an old neighbor back home. He noticed that the bald man was the only one who was closest to his position.
So closing his eyes, he took a deep breath, and suddenly dashed for the bald man. It was a good thing that he was really fast to the naked eye, if not, the plan would have been a huge failure. So before any of the hitmen could even register anything, Alex was already behind the man.
The bald man reacted in shock and tried to turn back, but Alex locked his arm around his neck in a crushing chokehold, and wrenched the man’s gun arm behind his back, effectively neutralizing him and in turn, also using him as a meat shield to block any advances from the other two hitmen.
"You can shoot if you have the balls," Alex spat, his voice low and dangerous. "But just know that If you do shoot, you’ll just end up killing your buddy over here, so why don’t we just drop the guns like good little boys and fight each other like men?"
The lead hitman; a blonde man with rugged features and a scar that ran from his lips to jaw, which was proof of the numerous life and death battles he had faced over the years, looked at his other companion with a cold glint in his eyes and subtly nodded his head.
Alex felt an awful foreboding while watching their wordless exchange. He tried to formulate another plan, because it was clear from their expressions that the two men were going to shoot him regardless of whether he was holding their colleague captive or not. After all they were hardened cold-blooded mercenaries who looked like they had definitely stained their hands with a lot of blood over the years.
"Wait, wait! Hold on!" Alex shouted as a hint of genuine disgust flashed his face. "You guys are seriously going to shoot your own guy? Now that’s just messed up."
In his grip, even the bald man’s eyes went wide as he frantically nodded his head in agreement with Alex. He couldn’t believe that his teammates, with whom he had spent years with, thinking they were brothers, would not even hesitate for a single second just to end his life and complete a stupid mission.
Though, if he was being honest he knew that if it was one of them that was in his position, he would have done the exact same thing. After all he wasn’t exactly a saint himself, but nonetheless, that didn’t mean he didn’t want them to at least kill the brat behind him, without killing him in the very least. Was it too much to ask?
Alex meanwhile noticed that the blonde man was about to pull the trigger and panicked a bit, but then he quickly realized that the bald man’s gun was still gripped in his pinned hand. So before the others could pull the trigger, he hurriedly pulled out the gun and shot the hitman with black hair at his chest, simultaneously, the blonde man shot at the bald man and cursed out loud.
"What the hell? You frickin bastard!" The blonde screamed.
Alex had just ruined their elaborate plan. The blondie had planned to shoot the bald man, so that his accomplice would use that opportunity to finish Alex off, but now that plan was completely ruined.
The black haired man collapsed to the ground with blood spilling from his chest, at the same time, the bald man went limp, as the blonde man’s bullet had punched a hole directly through his forehead.
The blond man in a fit of rage, fired another shot, in rapid succession, but Alex used the bald man’s corpse as a shield and fired a bullet at the blonde man’s leg. With a plop! sound, The man dropped to the floor and grunted in pain.
Alex shoved the bloodied body aside, strode toward the blonde man’s direction and slowly picked up the gun next to the man’s left foot. Now it was his turn to instill fear into the bastard heart. So straining his muscles, he dug his fingers into the gun, as if it were made out of wet clay and bent the gun in half, until the head folded inward, in front of the blonde man’s eyes, leaving him with his mouth wide open in shock and disbelief.
His eyes instantly widened in horror the moment he realized what kind of monster he had just messed with. Even the black-haired man who was clutching his chest while groaning in pain a moment ago, forgot all about the pain and stared at Alex in shock as he began to piece two and two together.
Now everything made perfect sense. The extraordinary speed that caught them off guard in the beginning. The way he accurately shot them without missing a single shot. The inhumane strength he had just displayed. It all pointed to one thing.
"Y-you are an... Awakened!" He croaked out, as a raw primal fear began to spread across his face. "No no no... This wasn’t the deal. If we had known that we were going to face an awakened, we would not have taken this damn job in the first place. N-now Tim is dead for nothing!"
The black-haired man’s words caught Alex’s attention.
’How the hell do they know about Awakeneds? Weren’t their existence supposed to be hidden from the world?’ 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
But then he reasoned that since they were mercenaries who had constantly seen the world, then it was possible that they might have brushed with one or two Awakeneds in the process. But still, even though he figured that they must have met one, he was still curious about what they knew.
So lowering the mangled gun, his eyes narrowed as he studied the two injured men.
"So you know about Awakeneds? Now that’s an interesting development."
The blonde man clenched his teeth as he tried to suppress the sharp pain shooting through his leg, but the fear in his eyes was impossible to hide. He shifted back slightly, dragging himself across the floor in a futile attempt to create some distance.
"We were not supposed to meet dangerous people like you, who could kill us with a snap of your finger.... Please that... Bastard didn’t tell us that you would be an Awakened."
Alex tilted his head with a faint smile forming on his lips, though there was no warmth behind it. The familiar sadistic tendencies from earlier in the warehouse were forming again. He was once again beginning to enjoy the feeling of fear emanating from the two men on the ground, it kind of filled him with this sense of power that he couldn’t quite explain, but he once again snuffed the feeling.
’No! I can’t let myself get addicted to this feeling.’
Clearing his restless thoughts, Alex decided to ask the system about this strange feeling later. So paying attention back at the black-haired man, he moved closer as a sinister thought began to form in his mind.
"Since you pointed a gun at me, then I think it’s only fair I give you a parting gift to remember me by." He said with a smile, but his voice was utterly devoid of emotion.
The black-haired man coughed violently, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth as he struggled to move backward, but Alex caught up with him. Then with a brutal stomp like earlier, Alex crushed his hands slowly, eliciting a scream from him, before he finally broke his legs, leaving all four of limbs absolutely useless.
The blonde man froze in terror, his entire body began to tremble violently as Alex turned towards him.
"No... Please don’t come near me. Don’t you dare come near me. STAY AWAY! Ahhhh...."
He screamed out loud as the crisp sound of bones breaking, rang out throughout the entire room, but it didn’t last long before the second strike followed, then the third, then the fourth.
He didn’t stop until all four limbs were in the same condition as the first man. It was to serve as comeuppance for daring to hold him at gun point. If it hadn’t been for his quick thinking and insane abilities, then he would have ended up a dead man, so he didn’t really feel the slightest bit of regret for treating them like this.
Just as the final scream faded into a whimper, the door of the bathroom slowly creaked open. The boss stepped out while casually patting his face with a towel. He looked refreshed, calm and completely oblivious to the carnage that just took place.
"So boys, did you finally kill that bra—"
The words immediately died at the back of his throat, the moment he saw two men on the ground with twisted limbs and a third man lying on the ground with blood pooling below his body.
His eyes widened in horror the moment he shifted his gaze up and spotted Alex, standing there unharmed with no scratch on his body.
