The Reaping

[Yukki Kazuto]

I sat on one of the many couches around the hideout, scrolling through different things on the dataverse. I found myself scrolling through the bounty list that had originally brought me to this building to find Luci. I scrolled through the list, looking at potential people to hunt down. The people on the list were not alike in any way. They jumped from a seven foot blond, to a man with golden scales for skin, to a pair of giant mice, to Luci herself.


I paused on the picture and description of Luci. This page had brought me to where I was today. I put the phone down next to me as Princess Hellstab walked up. “Don’t you have a job to be doing?” I suppressed the laugh that rose from this little girl asking me to do a job.


“I’m sorry if my pace is a little slow for you, your highness. Besides, I never said I would do it.” I said this with a smirk, already knowing I was going to do it anyway. Might as well have fun while I did.


The princess glares at me, folding her arms across her chest. “Please. We both know you’re going to do it.” Her arms drop, and she turns away from me.


I feel the heat rising to my face. “And what makes you so sure of that?” Princess Hellstab doesn’t bother to turn around as she responds.


“Because it’s what Luci wants.” She disappears through a doorway. I glare in that direction, and glance back at the phone that I had placed on the arm of the couch, specifically of the picture of Luci the Empire got while she was fleeing the scene of one of her crimes.


I picked up the phone, and turned it on silent. I tried to place her comments behind me. I checked that my pistol was loaded, and left the hideout.

I had a Hutt to kill.