Chapter 523 - SETTING THE STAGE (1/2)

In another part of Tokyo, two people were humming along the piano ballads emanating from a small Bluetooth speaker. Their smiles were wide as they looked at each other with eyes filled with love as if they hoped to be dancing together.

This beautiful scene in an old house was washed by the soft sunlight of the rising sun.

Everything would have looked picturesque and perfect if the two people were not trying to create an improvised explosive device. Or perhaps, the sight was more beautiful because of their adeptness in creating their bombs.

The man and woman cooperated as their nimble gloved fingers worked on their masterpiece.

The cubes of explosives in the man's hands looked innocuous while the woman twisted wires with slender fingers and connected them to a timer device. Once each of them finished their part, they kissed over the explosives.

Then, they started combining the constituent parts to finish up their bomb.

”This is our greatest work yet,” Clyde said.

”The eruption of our love will fill the world,” Bonnie added with a smile.

The two people were not actually named Bonnie and Clyde when they were born. Rather, they chose these two names after they became ȧssassins. More accurately, they chose the names once they decided to pair up as ȧssassins.

It could be said that the two of them were just ordinary mercenaries before they met. However, once they got together, their minds became wild and wilder. Their connection fed a madness in them that led to complete chaos.

”It is a shame about Spider, Snake, Venom and the rest of them,” Clyde said as he pulled Bonnie into his arms.

He held her by the waist and started swaying with her to the rhythm of the piano love ballad from the 1950s. The moment was a little beautiful as they were caught in the beautiful rays of the sun in that old house.

”Indeed. I wish they could see the glorious fireworks we will light up tonight.” Bonnie replied as she laid her head on her lover's shoulder.

”I do not understand why they chose to blow up by going against Kaito in such a ridiculous way. Did they think they could win?” Clyde questioned with a sceptical look on his face.

”Do not mind those short-sighted fools. They are already dead anyway.” Bonnie said as Clyde twirled her around and brought her back to his arms. ”We should focus on us and our great show.”

”You are always right, my Bonnie,” Clyde said.

”All we need is to set the stage for our glorious moment, sit back and bask in the light of our genius and glory,” Bonnie whispered with an intoxicated smile as they kept swaying.

She felt powerful and unstoppable and pulled Clyde in for a kiss. They both became immersed in their love and drowned in their lifelong fantasy of watching the world burn. They were unaware that their plans would fail miserably.

At the same time, Kaito was checking with his sources on the location of the two people. Among the dangerous factors in Shadow Brotherhood, he was most concerned about the two parties from the prisoners who had gone missing.

The two were not like the other prisoners who he imprisoned.

They were much more dangerous because they were lovers. And their love was bound together by their destructive behaviours. This aspect is what made Kaito recruit them to the Shadow Brotherhood despite being volatile factors.

As demolition masters, they were quite experienced in explosives. It was a rare skill in the ȧssassin world. Mercenaries did know about common bombs, but they did not have the finesse displayed by Bonnie and Clyde.

At most, normal mercenaries could handle creating a crude bomb or using a controlled explosion during a moment of emergency.

But Bonnie and Clyde were masters who stood at the top of the explosive game.

The couple could create a small charge which could explode in a single car in a traffic jam, and the blow would not touch the adjacent cars. Their charges were so targeted that it was difficult to imagine that bombs were used.

However, that did not mean that they could not handle the serious stuff.