Chapter 507 - DELUSIONAL PEOPLE (1/2)

Kaito laughed.

”It depends if you have the ability to take my life.” He said with obvious disdain. ”I have vanquished you once, and I can do it again.”

The five people felt insulted by the fact that Kaito did not seem to be taking them seriously. If anything, he was looking down on them. One of them flipped the knife in his hands and licked his lips, making him appear more vulgar.

The man was thin and had a sharp face, but his most prominent feature was perhaps his beady eyes. He had a dishonest appearance and an almost snake-like aspect that made one feel uncomfortable when looking at him.

He was aptly nicknamed Snake in the mercenary world.

Unlike Spider, his sentence was not that long. He had only stayed in the ground for about two years. The exact period depended on when Ayumi decided to open the Ground and let go of the prisoners Kaito had put down there himself.

”Do you think that we are the same as you?” Snake asked. ”We might have been locked up, but we did not give up on our training. We lived every day knowing that we would have an opportunity for revenge. As for you…”

Snake laughed as he licked his lips again. ”You have become comfortable. You have become a soft young master. You are not a match for us. No, you are not a match for me.”

Snake was not like Spider. He did not kill people indiscriminately. However, he was also a bad seed that Kaito had prevented from growing. The reason he was locked up was his tendency to torture his victims instead of killing them outright.

In Kaito's understanding and teaching from childhood, ȧssassins were different from normal murderers and killers. Killers and murderers would eliminate a life because of issues like revenge, greed, passion and anger. There were also serial killers with a compulsion for murder.

However, ȧssassins were not driven by emotions.

Their work was to eliminate a scourge cleanly. The old man had told Kaito as a child that society had countless evils, and some evils could not be taken out through the justice systems. Some of these evils were part of the justice system.

Others were too strong or too smart to be destroyed through normal channels. Without something to counter the growth of such evils, the world would be swallowed by them. It would be a matter of time before the balance of the world broke and everything turned into chaos.

Assassins were the answer to keeping the balance. Their advantage was the lack of a personal connection to their targets. All they needed to do was understand the target and eliminate them from the equation.

Snake used his role as an ȧssassin to satisfy his sick dėsɨrės. He would carve and gut the targets, leaving a scene that belonged in hell. Based on police reports, some internal organs were often missing from the bodies.

There was speculation in the Shadow Brotherhood that Snake was a cannibal.

Kaito did not make his decisions based on rumours, so he investigated the situation with Snake and found out the truth. Snake was not a cannibal, but he would take the organs of his targets and keep them as trophies in jars of formalin.

Naturally, Kaito also made an example out of him.

However, it kept new mercenaries on the line and prevented dangerous situations.

”What I see is a small man pretending to be a big shot. You were useless in the past, and you are useless now.” Kaito looked directly at Snake. ”You were always weak, but you could still not suppress your baser instincts.”

Kaito's cold eyes rested on each of them, one at a time. ”I do not make apologies to any of you. You have not earned the right to come before me and demand an explanation. If you have the ability, fight. Perhaps, I might have some respect for you.”

Snake was the most angered by the speech. Without waiting for any cue from his team members, he threw the knife he was flipping in his hand at Kaito. The knife flew quickly at Kaito who did not look flustered at all.

Compared to Hu Lei's knife-throwing skills, Snake was an embarrassment. Kaito lifted his hand and caught the thin knife between his index and middle finger. And then, he threw it back, and it landed on the man's ċhėst.