Paying The Debt

Takeshi you have the list, buy them all," shouted by a teenage girl at the orphanage gate, She is skinny with a mechanical right arm, soft face, white hair and emerald-colored eyes.

A little girl comes to her and said "Alle! Alle! the food is ready let's go," Alle said "Oh then let's eat, to the table!" while saying that she carry the child and punch the air in her front.

On the other hand, metal boots are clacking in every steps of a lady in white armor and a boy and girl in white armor too, follows her, "why are we called off?" a handsome boy with a slicked purple hair in the left question.

"Perhaps they have leads of the princess whereabouts" a girl with rectangle glasses and a braided purple hair answer his question.

"I will find the princess no matter what!" the lady said as they walk fiercely in a grand hallway of the palace leading to a throne room.

A vast circular white throne room with twenty knights standing in the sides, a big flashy chandelier, and a big white throne.

They reach the throne room; "Our King, we're here for your orders" the lady said while they bow to pay respect to the king who sits in the throne, a old man who has a simple yet elegant crown and wear a clothes of kings.

"Our watcher said that Snowston Town has suspicious activities regarding to the princess; Ying Ikenega, conduct a personal search their with your people, I'm trusting you as the Commander of the Siltrem Palace S1 Company and as a First Grade; Find any leads or find my daughter in that place"

"I will my King, this mission will not be a failure" the lady said with a brave voice; as they continue to bow in the king.

The sun start to set; Takeshi dropped off and gives two box of food and the other things at the list and give Alle some money in his left pocket.

"Umm, thanks for acting as a sponsor for us," Takeshi replied "it's nothing just take care and don't be hungry, i'm leaving now"

Takeshi is in his early 30's but looks like an old man because of his thick long beard with a black messy hair down to his shoulder, he always wear black hoodies and black pants, has digital watch, raven black eyes, and a chiseled body.

While Takeshi walks off, Alle said with a dissapointed tone "Takeshi has emotions right? sometimes it irritates me and why he can't pay a haircut?"

While the other kids are taking the box inside, the rain starts and Alle is alerted "Rain, kids don't run you'll be tripped over" and she closes the gate"

*Time Passes*

The moon starts to shine and Takeshi reaches his destination, a empty squatter with abandoned buildings with the noise of silence as the rain stops.

He stop immediately and gaze through his surroundings like something is off right here, with a calm face he walked to his single-floored house and inserted the keycard to it and when he opened the door his eyes widens.

"Dennis?" Takeshi said with a bunch of question in his head, a man who has dark clothing sitting on the corner of his little house with a nervous face, sweating a lot, and having a numerous fatal wounds, while the blood is gushing out through his body Dennis says in the soft voice.

"Senior, I'm sorry" when he said that, from Takeshi's back a beam of a rifle emitted crushing Dennis heart that cause his immediate death.

This cause Takeshi to have an angry face while looking at his back to find the shooter, after that a beam emitted again targeting him.

But he managed to avoid it easily by just moving his head because of that he pin pointed his enemy at a abandoned building not far from his location.

Takeshi tied his hair and reaches his pants pocket and puts a foldable goggle with a black lens in his eyes; a goggle that could help him hunt his target by sensing heat temperature.

He started running fast to his left reaching a building with one floor and a rooftop without hesitation right after running he jump in a three stories building

"After all we have done, Don't insult us Mercenaries!!" he shouted after he landed, the goggles works perfectly and sense that the enemy jumped through the window to the next building and started to run away.

Takeshi chases the enemy wildly he run so fast like a he is not a human.

When he reaches the enemy in a another unfinished 2nd floor building, Takeshi jump and grab the enemy, and they stand up fast while walking away with each other.

Enemy is a woman who wears a blank black mask, tight red suit, black cape, pistol on right waist, and large rifle on her back while they are staring at each other the woman talks with a teasing voice in a voice changer.

"Who are you; you seems to be connected t-" "Sh*t-up and i'll kill you" Takeshi interrupt her while pulling his black knife with a straight shape *soft laugh and sigh*

"this is my debut and i'm happy; but you're ruining it!" "so what?" Takeshi replied as he takes a stance and charge toward his enemy with a straight knife attack directly to her head.

She avoided it and grabs Takeshi's hand; planning to bring him down to the floor; luckily he grabs her hand and turn the force to him; slamming her in the floor and the rifle on her back detached.

She kick Takeshi forcing him away to the corner, and stand-up fast,They walk into each other and she throw a right punch but he deflected it with his left arm and a right punch comes to her stomach two times.

As she walk back by the pain, a spinning kick comes to her head knocking her straight in the floor, she struggles but manages to stand-up, with her last energy.

She run to Takeshi and tried a triangle choke but he again grabs her legs and throw her outside the floor to the ground.

As Takeshi heard a loud bang on the ground he jump on the floor recklessly to reach the ground and landed safely where he found his bedridden enemy.

She is suprisingly conscious and manages to reach the pistol in her waist aiming it slowly with a shaking hand to Takeshi's head, but he stomp her wrist.

Takeshi remove his foot and dug his knife in her right stomach "no sensor shields in the body, how bold" he didn't hear any scream and pulled the knife out while the blood is gushing out in her body.

"Are you a Higher First Grade?!" Takeshi dug again his weapon into her right thigh while she speaks right after that she drums her fist on the ground because of the pain; "I'm more than that."

"you f*cking piece of sh*t!" she said with her broken voice changer revealing a teen voice, "what now black widow? after killing him, you call me that?" Takeshi replied.

"Don't make me like you, with your strength you perhaps killed hundreds" while she aim again the pistol shaking, he stab her wrist and she let go of the gun.

Takeshi pulled the knife in her wrist and stand-up, she's watching her stabbed wrist while she force to move her unwilling hand.

He throw his knife again to her other wrist and just by seconds she lost a lot of blood enough to unconscious her.

Takeshi use that opportunity to reveal his enemy, "my turn" he struggles a bit to the mask but removed it, a woman in her 20's, a black short hair with a short bangs, and a short slant scar on the left cheek.

"Dark Traders, so they sent the weak intern for me... as a bait,"

after that four men wearing red suits with blank black masks corners Takeshi in the street in a long distance "obviously, this happens"

after Takeshi said that, one red suit said "where is the package?" Takeshi start to run, the red suits block his escape route but Takeshi just beat them and rendered them unconscious, he run as fast as he can to his house.

He realize that on the left side of Dennis there is a sack as he hear again Dennis voice inside his head "(Senior, i'm sorry)" as he run in the puddles "(I have a debt in you, and i have to pay it)" Takeshi said with a desperate face.

He opens the door and hears a girl's voice in the sack "Help! please i - i can give you anything! anything you want just free me here and send me to Siltrem Palace"

A dead body and a desperate annoying sack with accent was in there, as he expected a kidnapped organism.

"You don't know who is it" Takeshi replied, "What?!" right after the sack has taken the hint, gunshots pierce his house but he duck and take the sack through the backdoor.

The sack screams as Takeshi carry her recklessly; he jump on the roof and run again roof by roof; the 4 red suit is conscious and chase them in the ground.

"Put me down! put me down! this is not the way to treat a royalty!" the sack said, Takeshi run faster after he hears what the sack said.

After he jump through another rooftop an explosion set off in their left and it blows and slam them in the right wall, Takeshi uncarry the sack.

"Ouch" sack said while Takeshi struggles a bit to stand-up and he raises his knife ready to fight "Withdraw, forget the package" the one red suit on the left said and they withdraw quickly.

"What?" Takeshi sit down breathing heavily, he then untied the sack and a girl with flashy dress stand-up fast "Ahhh my legs, thank you for untying me in this sack, umm are you okay?"

A busty teenager with a long straight light blue hair, and the color of her eyes is light blue too.

A white armored lady landed in front of them and unsheath her sword in her left waist and planning to pierce it to Takeshi's neck.

The girl in the sack is shock in the scene; she look to the lady's face and recognize that she is one of the guards in the palace, "Ying, i'm glad you're here"

"My lady, i'm sorry for my inconvenience but i'm here to take you back to the palace and kill this man for his actions to you"

Ying said that but the girl interrupt her and said "Wait! he saved me from those who chases us, even if i can't see anything in that time i'm sure of it"

"This man saves my lady? unbelievable" after the chat ends Takeshi heard a nostalgic name, a raging face comes and he attack Ying a powerful punch right in her face but she grabs his fist.

"First Grade, why are you here?" Takeshi's teasing reply "You're so strong a First Grade too, who are you?" Yingas a face of a experienced fighter, grey eyes, and high bun style of her greyish blue hair.

While they struggle pushing each other "Oh i'm Ghost by the way" "Wait, what?! Ghost is an old man, if you are the Ghost you are arrested for killing officials and some innocent people, and your sentence is death!" Ying said.

"Should i say corrupt officials and people who is connected in them? you're always clueless, that's why i hate you and you're flashy uniform. you have a muscle brain don't forget that. Takeshi's teasing reply.

"Hey stop both of you, i order you Ying Ikenega to stop what you're doing, especially you old man" they stop by pushing each other away, "i'm sorry for my actions my lady."Ying sheath her sword.

"Like a dog huh?" while Takeshi remove his goggles and put it in his pants pocket

"you!" Ying is so irritated but the girl stops her again "Let's go to palace; by the way, is it your ally who talks to me softly, his last words to me is that their is a guy i can trust; is that you?" the question of the girl.

"What this man!? my lady, first he is a mercenary and most of all he is a killer who only cares about money!" Ying's interjected reply; "Who knows?" Takeshi's reply to the girl while looking away.

"Ying let's go and old man you are invited to the palace; Oh by the way, i'm Sachi Siltrem the 9th generation princess of the Siltrem Pala-"

Takeshi interrupt her and said "yeah, yeah i already know you when you come out in that sack, and i'm not gonna go to the palace."

Ying ready to unsheath her sword again while saying "you, you dare to interupt her words and deny the invitation of my lady herself, your breaking a rule you know."

"I don't want to be feasted by your underlings, First Grade." Takeshi said.

"I can clear your name, you know that right or you want to remain in the top list" Sachi said while referring to the criminal top wanted list.

"I can give you a honorable job and your paycheck will be doubled." As Sachi talk, Takeshi shows interest in his face.

Ying still want to change Sachi's mind "my lady you can't do that, he's a kille-" "Shut it Ying" you know the situation of the palace, and we need the strongest we can get by now."

Ying is silenced by Sachi's loud voice "So what now Ghost?"

Takeshi remembered the children in the orphanage by her provocative deal.

"You wait here for 30 minutes." Takeshi said while he walk to the edge of the building and jump down, "I guess that's a yes" Sachi's words while smiling, "Again my lady this is the worst idea at all."

"We'll see."

Red suits are in the top of the building, and resting "We failed to get the package a Sentry First Grade interrupts; stand by for orders" one of the red suit said while holding a communication earpiece in his left ear.

A voice comes out in the earpiece "Go back now, we don't want to lose someone in our line because of a First Grade."

"There is a guy who beats the newbie and defeat us in a little time i suspect that he is a Higher First Grade too." "Take the newbie to the lab and tell to the doctor to run experiments to her and investigate that guy" the call ends.

On the other hand, Takeshi sets a large fire in his backyard he stand aside there while playing with his knife, with his emotionless face, he left as the fire ends.

"My king!" another old man appear in the throne room wearing butler uniform, as he stops he bows in front of the king, "A good news from Commander Ying."

"What is it?" the question of the king. "She founded the princess and on the way to the palace" the king sighs and smile from his heart, "thank goodness, my daughter is safe." "And their gonna take some guy, it is ordered by the princess."

"Hmm... who is it?"

"Father! i'm here!" while Sachi is walking fast to his father's throne, the King stands and reach his daughter to hug her

They talk to each other like a long lost friends. "I am happy to you my king, to be reunited with your daughter" Ying said happily, the King nods on her and said, "Thank you Ying, i will not forget this"

The king see's a guy behind Ying, while Takeshi hesitates to enter the room "who is he?" the question of the King, "Hey, old man come here now, i'm sorry my king, this guy is the one who saved Princess Sachi while i'm searching in the Snowston"

While Takeshi entered the circular throne room, he look in the big chandelier and in the twenty knights in the side and in the king

"A brave guy who saved my daughter, introduce yourself" the king seats in the throne as he said it.

"No lying if you don't want to die and deal is a deal" a small voice coming from Sachi as Takeshi walk closely to the throne and start to speak

"I'm Takeshi, a retired mercenary"

"You are strong enough to save my daughter in their hands. All mercenary has it's alias what's yours?"

"Ghost, I'm a Zero-Grade."