lMakoto had stood to watched everything unfold before his very eyes.
From his point of view, he can see Karen's efficiency and brutality.
Every moves are deliberate, all for the sole purpose of giving his opponents the most painful of moments but still keeping them alive. At least keeping them from bleeding to death.
At the moment, Karen's emotions had been forcefully turned off. Not to the point of him becoming no different than a machine, but enough to make him be more efficient to know when to stop.
The reason for this?
Morality.
"Every lives are sacred,"
"Be it the life of a child, to the life of a man who had took the lives of others,"
"Even the man who had took a hundred lives, if he repented deserve to see the light of Allah's mercy,"
"In our belief, no human deserves to take the soul of another human,"
"Just the loss of one innocent life, is akin to the death of all mankind,"
The blood of the most heinous of villain ran inside his veins. Just this fact alone had made him a being who instinctively seek destruction. However at the same time the blood of heroes also ran inside him, giving him the nature of good.
Karen is a complex character.
A part of him is brutal and ruthless, and another part of him is kind enough to know not to get innocence in his way.
Now imagine what happened when both sides of his clashed?
Imagine the brutality when they had used an innocence to get in his way.
It was for this reason why he had suppressed his emotions.
A body smashed through multiple rooms before landing into a public toilet.
The civilians who were present watched in shocked.
Then, they heard.
Footsteps.
And a hooded figure clad in white walked out. Only those pair of crimson eyes that glows in the dark can be seen from underneath his hood.
"It's Whitera-" A civilian who recognised who Karen is wasn't able to finish his words when Karen already started beating the hell out of the man who is heavily injured.
Torrents of fists rain down upon the man, inflicting more injuries over hus face.
Each fist carries a great strength, enough to knock a man unconscious with a single strike. Luckily or unluckily for the man, his aspect, a form of shock absorption aspect will absorb a percentage of the shockwave from Karen's fist.
This resulted in Karen punching even harder the moment he realized the other person's aspect.
"It's Whitera-"
Bang!
A civilian was about to shout out when suddenly a gunshot was heard.
Immediately, all civilians panicked and ran out of the public toilet.
Amidst the crowd, a redhead walked out, watching the scene with a frown.
Karen's brutality is quite efficient in a sense.
Of course the informations that those goons had given them was false. When they arrived at the location given, it was just another trap set up by those bastards.
Karen give no heed to the matter and proceeded with another violence.
As of right now, this is already the third 'bases' those people had given Karen tonight.
With another false base, a violent beatings followed.
Makoto ever the loyal friend - if Karen even sees him as one - have been following him the entire night. This was to ensure Karen doesn't do anything that could cross the line. Of course, Karen have long crossed that line.
Not only the laws are after him, even some bounty hunters had already on his trail.
Someone had put hundreds of thousands on his head. It was no wonder many now wanted him dead.
Karen of course doesn't care about all of this.
The fourteen year old boy continue on beating the living out of him. With every fist connecting to the man's face, his eyes turns even colder.
With every fist landing, more injuries are inflicted 9n the man's face.
A part of Karen's face screamed, telling him to stop the violence but another side of him laughed, showing the image of that boy's bloodied figure after the explosion.
Suddenly, the man clenched his fist.
All the shock that he had absorbed from Karen's fist was released in an instant!
However much to the man's horror, Karen casually catches his fist. The shockwave from the impact causing the entire building to shook and glasses shattering.
Crack
The sound of bones cracking can be heard as the boy easily crushed the man's fist.
The man screamed in pain, agony filling his scream as he tries to release himself of Karen's grasp.
Makoto stood in silence.
The sound of the police sirens can be heard approaching.
Makoto closed his eyes and takes a deep breath.
He pulls his hood and his mask up, hiding his appearance before walking out of the public toilet.
A while later, the entire street of Cybercity is silent with only the sound of the news being broadcast by the holographic screen in the air.
[ The vigilante Whiteraform is suspected to have caused the terrorism attack on one of the biggest entertainment center of Cybercity.]
Makoto blinks his eyes, watching the news with a frown.
Surrounding him, are the lifeless and unconscious bodies of a few cops.
[ A few buildings owned by a large corporation have been destroyed by the vile Whiteraform! ]
The dagger in his grasp gleam under the moonlight as he looks down on the cop who is bleeding.
With a sigh, the dagger in his hand descend at a blinding speed.
Suddenly, an arm shot out, grabbing his hand.
"Karen," The red haired boy frowned, seeing the white haired boy standing beside him.
"There is no point in killing him. Those people are already here." Karen who had already sneaked up to him said.
As he said so, they can hear a few cars approaching them. The cars were parked and a few men walked out.
The leader, a masked man looks at the two.
"Three bases gone and many of our men captured because of two kids going wild," The man said as he looks at the two with interest, "Now I see why the boss wants to see you."
A few of the men chuckled.
"Alright then you two come with us. Someone go deal with that trash over there." The leader shout to one of his men.
Of the men walked out, with a gun in his hand.
Under the neon lghts, the man pointed his towards the police officer who was heavily injured.
The leader turned back to the car, only to hear the a gunshot followed by the sound of bones cracking. Following the gunshot is the sound of the man screaming that revebrated through the district.
The man who had been holding a gun now is kneeling on the ground with his arm twisted into an awkward position.
In his own hand, Karen easily dismembered the gun before smashing the magazine against the head of the man, knocking him unconscious.
Karen stood in silence.
The white haired boy glanced at the redhead before turning to the injured police officer.
"Tend his wounds,"
That was all that Karen said before walking towards the men.
What followed soon after can only be described in one word.
Violence.
So much so that Makoto who was tending the officer's wound ended up vomiting alongside the injured police officer.
"Is kids from your district this violent?" The injured police feels dizzy seeing the brutal scene.
"He's from Samara. I don't know him until a week ago" The red haired boy said before vomiting all of his lunch, dinner and even breakfast.
Meanwhile, the leader screamed in horror, dragging his injured body to escape from the approaching boy.
Karen slowly approaches the man, completely casual as he stroll passed the unconscious bodies on the ground.
Broken bones, fractured limbs, severed tendons. These types of injuries are enough to make them reconsider choosing a getting career in the future.
"Please! no! I'll tell you everything! Please let me go!!!" The man beg.
Karen completely ignores him, approaching hik with cold gaze.
Sensing the danger, the man tried to climb up into the car in an attempt to escape.
Karen reach out to the opened car door and immediately slammed the door against the man's upper body.
The sound of metal being smashed against metal revebrated across the lonely district.
A while later after a very violent interrogation Karen dragged the man's body and dropped him to the ground.
"Let's go." Karen said to the redhead, dragging him with him to the cars.
Only for Karen to stop. Turning to the police officer, Karen stare at him dead in the eye.
Traumatized by the violence, the police officer nodded. He immediately laid down and pretend to fell asleep. Luckily he is body camera had been destroyed by Makoto some time ago.
Karen turns to Makoto and asked, "Do you know where New Manila is?"
"That," The boy furrowed his eyebrows, pausing, " That should be half an hour from here."
"Good," Karen throw something out of his pocket.
Makoto abruptly catches it. Looking at the small car key in his hand, he frowned even further.
"Karen, are you sure we are doing this? That crime syndicate is quite influential."
"So? What does that matter?" Karen asked, his voice remaining cold and emotionless like a puppet.
Makoto feels uncomfortable hearing his voice.
"If you wish to survive in this city then you should know," Makoto said in a low tone, "There are people you shouldn't offend."
"There is this concept in the Islamic beliefs,"
"One that someone always told me back at Samara,"
"Amal ma'ruf nahi mungkar"
"To do good and forbid evil,"
"And that includes destroying those bastards who had injured the innocence,"