The Truth

I start cleaning by separating the bodies from their belongings and removing the corpses. Then I think about how many points I have and how much stronger I can get. But then the system let's me know I don't have any points.

System "You idiot you think you gained from your actions. You blindly stormed a building with armed men inside and attempted to take them out mostly unarmed. Look at your clothes."

I look down and realize there are holes and bloodstains all over. Front, back, arms, even my pants. Dried and fresh blood. I don't have scars but it's clear I was shot and stabbed many times.

System "The times I controlled your body were to avoid fatal injuries. All your points went to healing you and upgrading. You could have been smarter and cleverer about this. The least you could have done was improve your strength and agility then get a regeneration ability. Use stealth and go in in during the night using a knife. Use guns to take everyone out. Use chemicals, Carbon Monoxide pumped in would have taken out everyone quietly. The hard truth you need to accept is, you are lucky to be alive right. It's time to use your head, be creative. Just don't be dumb about things."

I feel like I got smacked in the back of the head.

Wrath "If you like using your hands boxing and wrestling, maybe taekwondo."

Pride "Judo and aikido would be good too."

Envy "A nice blade could go a long way, dagger or short sword."

Sloth "Stealth, if they don't see you they won't shout for help."

Greed "Could pay off the cops or a rival gang to take them out."

Gluttony "Really now guns, makes things fast and easy."

Lust "Easy would be pumping the building full of a nerve agent."

So why did I get stronger and faster as I went. It got easier because you were using the points to make me faster and stronger right.

System "Damn it, block the door so no one comes in the building seriously a little more forethought will save you. Then finish cleaning up the bodies."

I pile furniture in front of the door and finish cleaning up the bodies. I feel a little stronger with every body I make disappear but no notifications still just upgrading. I bring my stuff into the top office area and sit in the big chair. I should be hungry after what just happened but I feel like I just had a big meal and like I have an empty stomach at the same time. I fall asleep after sitting in the chair for a few minutes, well thinking about how I could have done things different.

I'm back in the room with the sins. In the middle of them is a black faceless bodyless thing. I can tell it's the system because it's part of me.

System "I started out as a soul system. Something to help a person realize their full potential."

I picture myself as a caped super hero

System "But then someone evil used me and I realized that everyone has a different potential. I thought that after helping good people that I could help him find the good in his soul but I was used to conquer and kill. Then I became the soul eating system. Devouring the innocent to fuel a mad man's desire for world domination. It was a grand success he ruled the world with an iron fist but his bloodlust and desire for power was still unsated he eventually killed everyone on the planet, then everything. There he sat on a planet devoid of life except his own and all he had left was regret and me. So he blamed me for helping him get everything he wanted. When he died the sins found me they had watched as this man destroyed. They put an aspect of each as part of me. Their action took the sins committed, well I was being used. You have potential to do some good. At the very least you could break up the stasus quo of the world. So I will continue to monitor your split mind while the sins teach you in your sleep. It's up to you what you learn..."

I am again separated. Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Aikido, kung-fu, taekwondo, and anatomy. I have learned I like using my own hands to fight. 3 months passed in my mind something about a lifetime could be lived in dream. I decided on stealth next but after a month I awoke to my phone ringing. I open my eyes and my body is already moving on it's own. I was going to pick up the phone on the desk but I'm standing reaching for a foot on the desk about to step on the phone and my other hand is reaching for wrist a dagger is about to be plunged into my neck. I let the system keep control it knows what I know except the movements feel mechanical this must be what it feels like to be a video game character. I take over to deliver the killing blow snapping the would be assassins neck. The years of assassinations and stealth techniques will come in handy, whats left of the hidden killer sysytem is now mine. Valuables are mine and the sins get the body.

It must be mom calling. I answer..."Do you know how disrespectful it is to make me call more than once. So rude and uncaring get your ass home and help me pack I'm being evicted. I swear to god Im gonna sue that motherfucker kick me to the curb." "I'll be there as soon as I can." I hang up and silence to ringer. I practice with the stealth abilities for a few minutes. Going through the memories of the would be assassin in attempt to learn the abilities quicker, I realized he was hired by a rival gang they plan to attack in a couple hours.

So now I have to decide wait for them to show up or leave and just let them have the building. I'll stay I need to test my abilities. Glue nails and broken glass to make some traps and household supplies and drugs for improvised explosives and weapons.

Hey system clever enough

System "Enough for the short prep time"

After the preparations are made the system pops up a message and a map. -Are you ready- It looks like about 20. Hand to hand a knife and stealth as they chase me up and guns and explosives as I chase them down. Door unblocked and a couch set to fall on the first through. Door gets kicked in I knock the couch on to the first two through and dive on them stabbing them till they stop struggling. The third guy is just standing there stunned he just watched his friends savagely murdered in front of him and he's frozen. I move to the shadows. He turns pale as blood reaches his feet and pukes as other guys enter laughing at him. Numbers four and five get their throats slashed they never saw it coming. Number three falls on his ass and starts to crawl out of the building. Six Seven and Eight enter Six and Seven get punched and Eight gets his gun taken it goes in my pocket as I back up and make my way to the stairs. The trio give chase Eight gets a knife to the chest at the top of the stairs, six and seven fumble enough avoiding eight as he falls down the stairs for me to stab the dagger in the floor and pick up the cut open bricks of drugs and into the faces of six and seven. I can see on the map that about ten are on the bottom floor and not chasing me up. So IED's away they don't kill anyone but enough of a distraction to start shooting. Three left back to second floor still no chase so I go up to the third and grab the shotgun time to finish them off. I notice three on the map outside so maybe four left. On my way back down to the first I meet them in the stairs between first and second blast blast one left blast and he is still up so two more shots he falls down the stairs but is still kicking toss the shotgun pick up the dagger and take out the pistol. A shot to the head and he is back on the floor, three shots to the chest and the dagger goes in the hole made by the bullets it takes a bit but he fades. Body armor system available system recommends exchanging for a regeneration ability don't mind if I do. I start cleaning up the bodies making sure to get any valuables and weapons off of them. I can see three coming back, I am almost done. He gets to the door and sees me make the bodies of the guys, he watched me stab, disappear. He drops the two by four he found as a weapon and starts dry heaving. He just stands there clearly wanting to say something. He is still red on the map but I'm pretty sure he is not a threat. I finish the clean up and he is still watching while I finish. In my mind Is he a threat system says no I ask if the sins can make him not red but not kill him the sins we can try. I put my hand on him and the red dot turns grey. I smile at him and close the doors. Off to help pack.