Encountering Kindness as Punishment

And thus, she begins her exploration of the 8th district.

After 7 hours of searching for a spot to observe society, she has managed to find one.

It is 3 kilometers far from the northeast where the main road of 5th district is located and so she checks on it and it was perfect, it has a slightly besmirched toilet from the comfort room, an old bedroom, and a rooftop to observe the society and scout the perimeter.

She found it mostly because of her new skill. In her active skill, it takes some of her stamina in exchange, she returns with a full amount of luck in different situations, and it might be even useful during chasing scenarios.

But the thing is, she wasn't furtive while checking the new spot, and because of it she was been attracted to another strange character.

It was a man wearing a black suit or a coat perhaps, also covering his behind is a cloak with a mask like this emoji 😐.

While too scared to move, he begins to introduce himself,

"Hello there stranger, my name is Mr. Shady, what are you doing inside my dead friend's compartment house?"

While Claire is too focused on fleeing, chances of his uncanny appearance and intimidating height might be another character that would potentially endanger her.

So she had no choice but to act like a lost individual, trying her way out of her house due to the unfamiliar places she was stranded.

She replies with a concerning tone,

"Hello Mr. Shady, I'm sorry for trespassing. I am just trying to find someone who could help me?"

In Mr. Shady's response,

"Sure but in exchange, how come a protagonist like yourself be in this predicament?"

In his question that contains a red-flagged situation, Claire immediately kicks upwards targeting Mr. Shady's sensitive private part, he was stunned for quite a bit delivering the next roundhouse to his face.

"For a girl, you really pack a punch.

For some reason my 'mind control' doesn't affect on her."

She quickly runs towards the place, she was able to get far as possible from the designated spot she hardly find earlier.

Crying from such a troublesome situation, suddenly the greyish clouds were pouring a bit amount of rain.

And within that moment, it was raining constantly.

Running from the puddles after feeling so tired.

Data-kun managed to gather intel from the identity known as Mr. Shady.

Claire was so glad to hear that as heavily breathing from a 4-kilometer run from the north where she found her new spot.

"Mr. Shady is considered to be one of the representatives of today's humanity from SK Foundation and considered to be one of the seven dominators present to it.

Analyzing all his characteristic status, your ability Colorful Humanity seems to be his weakness."

As she knew his weakness from the current situation, Claire might be able to face him.

But it was a bit biased and too late.

Mr. Shady calls her from behind, before she could react, he grips her neck from behind and raises her from the ground.

Strangling by his strong hand, she was unable to do anything but… attempt to activate Colorful Humanity. For a moment of concentration, she seems unable to do so too.

She struggles to talk as he continues to keep pressuring her neck,

"Why… why won't… it work…?"

Data-kun answers her confusion,

"The rain seems to nullify your ability."

Claire was hopelessly shocked as she stare at the continuous raindrops from above the greyish clouds.

Her consciousness starts to blur, and as beginning to faint, Mr. Shady immediately pushed her body to the ground with much impact.

With that, she wasn't able to breathe for a while, as a familiar voice was heard, a loud shouting voice coming from Mr. Shady's behind.

Since Mr. Shady looked back, at this little boy with a scared but angry expression of calling, he shouts once more,

"PUT HER DOWN!!!"

His tears start to drip slowly towards his pale cheeks, pointing her to stay away from Claire. Claire, however, in her thought, was imagining a far worse experience than dying alone.

Claire's eyes widen as Mr. Shady stops gripping her neck and starts paying attention to the little boy named Tim.

"Heh, what are you gonna do about it?"

And with that, he lastly says with an unforgettable and unimaginable expression that was not depicted to be a child.

His expression was so focused on saving Claire, that Tim was obsessed with putting Mr. Shady to die.

"I'LL KILL YOU!!"

He starts rushing closer towards Mr. Shady pulling a standard knife from his little hands, his face was covered with nerved roots pulsating from the constant feeling of malice towards Mr. Shady.

Though it was expected, Mr. Shady easily dodged his attacks and simply slap him with heavy hits in the face, torso, and a kick in the abdomen.

Slowly, Tim was beaten up as time passes.

Claire was horrified by Tim's continuation to attack Mr. Shady as he keeps on getting heavy injuries such as broken limbs, twisted neck, and heavy bruises all over his body.

Claire screams,

"ENOUGH!!! THAT'S ENOUGH… PLEASE…"

Mr. Shady continues to injure him as he was finally on the ground lying and constantly breathing.

Mr. Shady stares at him with a smile,

"You put up a good fight. Now, where was I?"

He stares at Claire as coming closer.

That's when he didn't realize that Tim was still unto him, piercing his back with a knife, Mr. Shady was pissed and push kicked him at a 30-meter distance as he was impacted by a demolished wall.

"This is why your kind is a problem. You don't fall too easily, you make me sick."

Mr. Shady drags his body to the ground and then he rips off Tim's right leg and tosses it off from afar.

Claire was aching from seeing Tim being dismembered one by one.

From right to left, up until he has no limbs yet.

Mr. Shady grabs his head up from the ground and looks down at his beyond mutilated condition.

Tim still looked at him with burning rage and murderous intent was immensely continuous in his eyes.

He grips his neck so hard it rips as tossing it to Claire.

With Claire's eyes filled with guilt, regret, and so much agony from involving him in her life.

She hopes that she could change it… but wait, she can.

She just needs to die.

As Mr. Shady slowly walks closer to Claire, she sees the knife from Tim earlier at her position.

She grabs it tightly and fast, Mr. Shady tells her with obvious common sense,

"You know you won't be able to kill me with that-"

His words stopped halfway as Claire intentionally sliced her neck as blood quickly gushes through it.

She was drowned by her own blood as falling from the ground and see the raindrops slowly stops.

Her consciousness begins to faint as her blood mixes with the puddles near her as her vision blurs and darkness embraced her once more.

She died two times and thus she has 19 lives left.

Feeling hopeless, she stared at the darkness and see an option.

A. Continue

B. End