"But I don’t even understand, like this is impossible to do with a single grenade." Benjamin said as he was still eyeing the remains on the floor, and well, it was truly sothing else.
Pieces of human flesh everywhere, so limbs on the side, the whole ground and ceiling covered with blood and, hell knows what.
Not even talking about the sll of it, the blood, the burnt flesh, it was so bad that even Sophia couldn’t be in it... she actually did vomit the mont it hit her nose because it was not sothing she ever slled before.
"It might be because of that." An agent with the forensics squad looked at the remains of a gasoline can. "I think they wanted to burn everything up and run, but then the grenade ca in and ignited everything."
"But gasoline doesn’t do this, and it’s just a small can." Benjamin said as he truly wanted to know the reason behind what is in front of him, because he was sure a single grenade and a small can of gasoline doesn’t do this.
"Oh, I see now." The agent said as he poked around with a stick beside the wall. "Look, this was it." He pointed to a black sothing.
"What is that?"
"Black gel." He said as he poked it. "It is an incredibly unstable and explosive chemical compound that mostly broke gangs use to create Nightcrystal."
"And you’re poking it?"
"It’s not even ten grams of it, it would blow like a firecracker." The agent said as she finally finished looking it over and stood up. "Though these boys were blown up by kilos of it, and looking at the wall there." He pointed with the stick. "It is all black, aning black gel was sitting there." Then he turned again towards the broken window. "The grenade ca in and ignited the black gel and the gasoline, which, well... resulted in this."
Well, Benjamin got his answer from the agent and it was right... that’s why they can’t really see how many people it was, because that black gel just blew them to pieces, and if that wasn’t enough, the flas from the gasoline burned their remaining flesh.
"That’s good... though y’all need to find out how many are here and who they are." Benjamin said as he turned.
"What do you an who they are?" The agent asked back. "Don’t you know who y’all blew up?"
"The main target is in the kitchen, but who the rest are I have no idea, so list them together or sothing."
"Oh thank you fuckass director."
Benjamin said nothing back, just laughed, then turned around and left them, going to Sophia outside. "You can leave, Sophia, go sleep and I will be in contact with you." He said, as both of them didn’t sleep for almost a whole day, and Sophia did need that sleep and a good shower.
Her whole body slled like blood and death, well everybody slled like that, like they just ca from the bloodiest trench in the world war.
"Then I hope we never see each other again." She replied as she turned around and just sat in the car he already prepared for her, and without any word or last look, she left.
"I hope we do et." Benjamin whispered as he looked after the car, though it wasn’t the best first et... far from the best.
"Was he—"
"Don’t talk, just drive." Sophia imdiately shut her driver up as she closed her eyes and tried to focus on her breath, as her hands were shaking because what she had experienced was far from what she thought it would be... no, she thought sothing like this from the mont she t Benjamin.
That aura around him, and that he is the worst she ever t, was proven there as she saw what he had done.
Benjamin wasn’t... playing, nor were his n. Through the night into the morning, and the worst of it, she was there with them.
It was a mass killing in the so called na of justice, of the greater good... she didn’t just see gang mbers being killed, but entire families wiped out, and even for her that was too much, because... they didn’t stop.
Soone passed by, saw sothing... and was shot. A family ran out of the target house, only to be shot on the spot. They silenced everyone, and after a certain point it beca unbearable. It was too much to watch Benjamin and his n not care even for a second, and to realize that they were truly a force that could have wiped her out, along with everyone else, without hesitation.
She was scared... scared of seeing how easily she could die, scared of imagining what they could have done to her, and at one point she was scared of the blood itself... until everything blurred. She lost herself, lost the ability to simply accept reality. All she could see was blood, all she could sll was blood, and she could envision a future where they would co for her.
She had truly broken, and it felt so hypocritical, as if she had suddenly developed a sense of morality... a woman who had killed many, tortured many, yet seeing the other side when so-called justice arrived terrified her. If Sophia had finally understood what life was... and how much it was worth... how ironic it all was.
But it wasn’t just her... even Benjamin had his own share of battle... though it was very different from Sophia’s.
"We have the number of civilian casualties, sir." An agent stepped to him. "It is fifty-seven."
"I thought it would be much more." Benjamin replied as he was smoking a cigarette.
"It is, but we counted the adult family mbers of the target as criminals too, as they were involved." The agent said as he looked straight ahead. "From the fifty-two targets, twelve are civilians who saw sothing they shouldn’t have and the rest is—"
"Human shields, hostages, crossfire, and add other elents." Benjamin cut him off as he stomped his cigarette and looked into the agent’s eyes. "Be sure that the crossfire number is the lowest."
The agent didn’t say anything but he understood very well what Benjamin ant by it and with and he left, why he himself just stood in place with his eyes closed.
"Let us all burn in Hell for eternity for our sins." He whispered, but when he opened his eyes... he saw sothing that shouldn’t exist.
Benji... you killed them? A faint voice, and a child in a pink dress, long hair flowing, standing a few ters from him.
"My pills—" He reached for his pocket, but they weren’t there...
Hey Benji, did you burn them like they burned ?
She is not real, breathe, Benjamin, she died long ago, don’t think about her.
He wanted to push her existence out of his mind, but the more he tried, the stronger her presence beca. The louder her voice grew, and the more it blended with the innocent tone of that child.
Then everything fell silent, as if the world around him had stopped, but when he looked up... she was still there.
A few ters away, staring at him in silence... not in that dress anymore... but her entire body burned down to bones.
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