Chapter 14

The Mass Murder at Dionaea Salon and Spa 9

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A lone silhouette silently moved from shadow to shadow in the halls of Dionaea Salon and Spa.

If you didn’t know better, the sight of this ghastly apparition would have been akin to the grim reaper himself.

Anyone would be scared shitless.

This was exactly the shock value Theo was after.

Miss Samantha’s training circled around the manipulation of emotion in all scenarios.

Theo’s combat tactics often targeted 3 of the 8 basic emotions, namely terror, rage and grief.

As such, Theo made use of the Foxhound Stance which belonged to one of the 3 combat shooting stance taught in HAA.

The Foxhound Stance was more of a ‘way of fighting’ rather than an actual shooting technique.

The main idea revolved in stealth and close quarters combat.

Among the 3 combat shooting stances, Theo was least skilled in the Foxhound.

While he was good at the stealth part, his CQC was slightly lacking.

‘Slightly lacking’ was a lethal weakness in actual combat

Hence his reliance on high-tech equipment and guns.

Based on the thermal camera of his spy drone outside the building, all the heat signature in the building were all converging in one area.

FYI: Thanks to the Z49 Scout Armor, Theo has no heat signature or electromagnetic field.

Unfortunately, the Z49 cant hide from video cameras, the naked eye and magic based surveillance.

For that reason, only people with relatively high level Foxhound Stance training were qualified to wield the ‘Scout’ Power Armor.

While Theo received a failing grade in the Foxhound training, this was because his unsatisfactory CQC. If it was about stealth, he was proud of the level of skill level.

A proof of this was him moving at high speed while barely making a sound.

Sadly, all of his stealth skills meant nothing if he was already exposed.

“Dear Intruder! There’s no need to sulk in the dark! The Dionaea management and staff invites you to the middle of the building. As a member of the service industry, I’m sure we can satisfy your cravings!”

Raymond Alfonso Dionaea’s voice propagated from the building wide speaker system.

He was a flashy guy, that’s for sure.

Normally, Theo wouldn’t bite for such an obvious trap, but the situation outside forced his hands

The spy drone detected a spike in chatter in the police frequency. A terrifying number of highly skilled people were being mobilized and their destination was the Dionaea Salon and Spa

“Shit! They reacted way too fast!”

The law enforcement in Vermilion City’s business district was top notch. Unlike the police in other parts of the city, the business district’s law were highly militarized and can bring down a lot of firepower on fools who were stupid enough to disrupt the peace.

Was Theo terrified of them?

Very much so.

Calling them ‘policemen’ greatly downplayed how skilled they were.

In this city, only the HAA staff could match them in terms of ability, weaponry and overall power.

The military would love some of Vermilion’s policemen under their ranks.

And this was bad for Theo.

Given how well organized the Vermilion policemen were, Theo could safely assume that they would have this building surrounded in at least 15 minutes.

He needed to accomplish his mission as fast as possible.

Theo abandoned stealth and ran as fast as possible to the middle of the building

The Dionaea building was fairly large and was fancy as hell.

The center was akin to a dance hall from the Beauty and the Beast movie.

The first floor was completely devoid of any furniture. As expected of a dance floor.

There was a flight of stairs that led to the 2nd floor balconies that overlooked the dance floor

There were 51 people in the small dance hall.

50 of them were very beautiful women, and by using facial recognition installed in Theo’s mechanical eye, he was able establish the fact that every last one of them were employees of Dionaea Salon and Spa

Naturally, Raymond Dionaea was the only male in attendance.

There were 30 on the second floor.

20 of them were wielding Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun. They have a fine taste in guns

9 were armed with Remington 870 pump action shotgun. A wise choice given how effective those were in confined spaces.

For some reason, one of them had a Bren light machine gun. Do they want to start a war or something?

There were 20 on the dance floor with 15 of them wielding MP5s.

For some reason, there were 5 women who had their arms tied.

“Oh? What’s this?”

Theo walked confidently into the dance hall while his full body armor covered his confusion.

“Well well. I know the higher ups in the city council want their women back, but to think they would resort to hiring a professional like yourself. They must be really desperate.” Said Raymond who sat cockily on the stairs.

Theo paused for a second thinking ‘What the hell is he talking about?’

Theo decided to pretend what he knew what was going on

He activated his voice scrambler and began his bullshit

“That makes things easier. You know their demands, right? I’ll be taking you and the others back to the client and we can end this as peaceful as possible.” Said Theo

Did Theo truly believe that this will end peacefully?

Absolutely not.

He would most likely kill every last person in this building by the end of it.

Raymond’s next action caught him off guard

“Hmm… Okay. I’ll surrender.” Said Raymond. “Ladies, please release them. Please check the ladies first. I wouldn’t want your clients to suddenly chase after me saying that I physically harmed their woman”

At Raymond’s command, the women around the 5 removed their shackles.

“Thank you so much for saving us! You’re our hero!” said one of the woman as all 5 of them rushed towards Theo.

Suddenly, one of Juno’s anti-lust demon advices flashed through his mind.

Theo used his cybernetic eye to look at the eyes of the 5 girls.

He saw the empty blissful eyes that he saw a few days ago.

Without hesitation, he took aim and fired 5 rounds with one for each head.

Various bladed objects hit the floor at the same time as the girls.

“I’m not sure if you know this, while the Scout Power Armors were portrayed as ‘armors with paper thin defenses’, knives wont even leave a scratch on this baby” Said Theo.

Theo’s advice fell in deaf ears.

Everyone in the room was in a state of shock of how Theo shot the girls in cold blood.

“You bastard! Those were women! How could you harm them you pig!” roared Raymond

Theo could help but chuckle at Raymond’s words.

“How could I harm them? There are two reasons. First: I am a believer of ‘True’ equality. Your race, gender, age, sexuality, religion or belief doesn’t matter to me. If you are my enemy, you die like everyone else. Second: Earlier, I lied. Im not here to save anyone. I’m here to hunt you Mr. Incubus”

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