Blood rushed out of John’s chest and his mouth as the lady pulled out his heart slowly. With the break of every vein and muscle, John’s eyes widened with pain. The lady had anger on her face and shouted in a heavy voice, “It is because of you people that girls never get the justice they deserve. You are the one with the darkest heart. A rotten heart that pumps black blood in your mind and has made it corrupt.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduGudilu1g
The masked man looked at the lady and laughed, “You are an interesting character.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDz7MkuAv7
The lady didn’t respond and pulled the heart. John screamed and looked with disbelief at his heart in the hands of the lady. The heart pumped and the lady squeezed it. John’s vision blurred and then went dark. The lady threw the heart in the dustbin kept on the side.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRkEzRbs5m
She turned to the masked man, her fingers trembling from the adrenaline. "It isn't over yet. There are more black hearts out there. And your heart too," she whispered. 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQGcsiwSUC
The masked man laughed and took a slow step toward her. "I agree but there’s one more heart already missing, isn’t there?" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEh29x54A1
She frowned, confused. "What do you mean?" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r7z5XD9jp
He reached forward and touched her chest lightly, right where her heart was beating wildly beneath the skin. "Yours." 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylx48yCpln
She took a step back, "What are you saying?" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8kGoDbntJ
The masked man let out a small laugh, "You spent all this time searching for black hearts, for corrupted souls. But did you ever stop to wonder about your own?" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAoaqrWuOp
The lady clenched her fists, shaking her head, "No, I only took the ones that deserved it. The ones who destroyed lives. The ones who…" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9v08EPUchT
"Who were just like you?" the masked man interrupted, his voice dripping with amusement, "You think you’re different? That you’re above them? But tell me, what do you see when you look in the mirror?" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLql2xnZiVi
The lady’s breathing quickened. She looked around the room, at the blood, at John’s lifeless body.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjT9EklxA8P
Her hands trembled as she whispered, "I did what had to be done." 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7H56mikzHl
The masked man nodded, "Of course you did." 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMMy5ym35H
The masked man took out his knife from John’s chest, "The truth is that justice and vengeance are two sides of the same coin. And you? You became the very thing you sought to destroy. There is never a justice, there is only chaos." 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufoodOEbvQ
Before she could react, the masked man thrust forward and the knife pierced her chest. Her eyes widened in shock as pain burned through her body. Blood spilt from her lips. She looked down at the knife buried deep in her heart, her breath coming in uneven gasps. The masked man held her, whispering in her ear, "You were never meant to cleanse the world." 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjvprjw2ks
She fell to her knees, her strength fading. Her fingers weakly grasped at her wound. The masked man crouched beside her, watching as the light in her eyes began to dim. 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXLwuyr6of
She gasped, her voice barely above a whisper. "My heart… is it black or white?" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfGGfFnknO
The masked man tilted his head and with a weird smile, he whispered, "It doesn’t matter. You have no heart left to judge." 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07G2d9sV21
Her body wobbled and she collapsed onto the cold, bloodstained floor. The masked man stood, gazing down at her lifeless form.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmo95EVQc9Y
He let out a deep sigh and turned toward the door. As he reached for the handle, he paused. He looked at the body of the lady, went toward it, grabbed it and took it out with him.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPyZp8QUPy
“And that is her story,” The masked man stood up.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GeHd7eVz7
Harper said in a serious tone, “She’s dead? Why have you kept her with you? And where is the answer to why there was no case file about this lady?” 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKV1j9qytf
“What were you told when you got transferred here?”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeSam6nap6
“Nothing, just that this area needed a strong head of the police,” Harper said in a confused tone.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHxsaOltBV
The masked man smiled, “They didn’t tell you or anyone what happened to the previous head of the police. How could they tell? There was so much mismanagement under his regime. So many cases left unsolved, so many cases that were never filed and at last getting killed by a psycho or a revenge maniac.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUhbSl5osH7
Harper clenched his fists, “That doesn’t make sense. If she’s been killing people for months, how come there’s no record of her? No reports, no missing person cases, nothing?”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnnPNLaTHr
The masked man continued smiling, “It is funny that I have to tell you all this. You corrupt people know more than me but act like you are innocent. There was a very silly reason. The mayor of this town got all the reports of mismanagement, but he never acted, but after the murder of John, he acted. This town is so corrupt, that the mayor needed the funds from the treasury of this country, not for the police but for himself. But, they need some proof of what is happening here, you know the progress made, but a corrupt and inefficient head of the police is murdered. So, a story was made. The head of the police’s heart was placed in the original place and he was kept in the car and the car was blasted. It was shown as if he was assassinated by one of the psychos and that’s the reason you were brought here to control all this mess. And the records of the lady and her case were destroyed so that all this could be hidden. Isn’t this interesting? Some people will call this story nonsense but this is what it is.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPRxYRxO3l
“You’re lying.” Harper muttered, his fists clenched, “The mayor wouldn’t cover up something this big.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6xx1yzAhd
The masked man chuckled, stepping closer, “Wouldn’t he? Or are you just afraid to admit the truth? That you’re nothing but a pawn in a much bigger game? Have you ever thought that even all this is real? If she was real? If I am real? If you are real?” 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPActZpfoAL
Harper interrupted, “Shut up with your bullshit.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwz92A8PTqO
The masked man leaned in, lowering his voice to a whisper. “The question isn’t whether you believe me, Officer. The question is, what are you going to do about it?”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEuCvKrZ0U
Harper swallowed hard. His instincts told him to arrest this man, to take him in and interrogate him until he got every last answer. But there was something in the masked man’s stance; calm and unbothered. Almost as if he knew exactly how this would play out. 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRj0MmscV94
The masked man took a step back, placing a bloodstained hand on the door handle. He opened the door and stepped into the darkness.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Gfeh0gZ95
Somewhere else, Ace was lying on the bed and looking at the fan on the ceiling.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2XypVcfSr
Clark came to him and said, “What are you thinking?”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhiJjTahSF
Ace looked at Clark and said, “Something doesn't feel right.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMFBh2bawe
Clark sat down beside Ace on the bed. "What do you mean?" 112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3mevhis5n
"I don't know. It's just a feeling."112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vWYbgcLDa
Just then, the fan above them suddenly flickered and died, plunging the room into an eerie silence. Ace's heart skipped a beat as he felt a chill run down his spine and then he heard a faint whisper: "You're right, Ace. Something is very wrong indeed.”112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jc2FJ8oy8
