In a deep place.
Underground.
Full of violence.
Unfair competitions.
Unfair decisions.
Brutal honesty.
Stands 5 legendary assassins.
Legend says "anyone who goes to face them. Never returns the same or even alive" and they all have one boss. But different personalities.
One kill with deep feelings
One kill with brutal
One kill for fairness
One kill for justice
And fifth? Unknown his purpose or name or face.
One day.
Rika one of the 5 legendary assassins.
Retired for normal life but that killing never goes off her head.
This is why she opened a small café at least to feel better. And no one came.
Rika looks around her empty café
"I guess no one is coming this day either" her voice was heavy, caring things she never wanted to do but forced to do.
She looks at her reflection in the glass.
She doesn't see a beautiful maid with red eyes and long black hair.
Her lips were shining from her pink and red lipstick.
Instead she sees a killer.
Victims.
And blood.
She grabs her head, and start shaking violently.
"Please….leave me….I just did my missions"
She screams. Her voice caring things she can't lift alone.
Then she hears a whisper. She opens her eyes to see a victim of hers.
"You need to face justice"
You need to face Justice.
This is all she is hearing
She needs to face judges
And then suddenly,
She blinks and the victim vanishes.
It was an illusion.
She is still alone in her lonely café
As she was staring into the glass reflection.
Suddenly a young boy enters.
His hair was messy, he tried to wear his glasses with his shaky fingers, and he was carrying an old backpack.
He sat down on one of the tables
Rika slowly raise her head.
His eyes and hers looked in each other's
Silence.
Between them both.
Then the boy speaks up.
"Excuse me…c-can I have a piece of cake"
His voice came out like a lullaby.
Like a whisper.
Rika smiles wide.
She was first time happy like this in decades.
All she was in the past years are mostly.
Emptiness.
emotionless.
Guilt.
This is all what she has been feeling.
And for the first time.
It's gone and replaced with Happyniess.
Rika slowly stands up. And walk to him.
Her steps were silent
The boy looked up at her.
Down to up.
All he could see was beautiful,innocent maid.
Rika slowly looks down at him. With a gentle smile.
„You wanna piece of cake?"
She asks with gently
The boy.
Still stunned by her beauty and gentles.
„Yes"
He says quietly.
His come came out like a whisper.
Rika smiles and walk slowly to the kitchen door and blow a kiss to him before entering.
The boy's cheek turn red lightly and smile quietly.
Meanwhile Rika moved carefully around the kitchen as she gets the ingredients one by one on counter
Her moves were alomst like calaulated.
She takes the ingredients one by one.
Rika shut the kitchen door behind her.
For a moment, the café was quiet once more.
She put a small pot of water on to simmer and broke bits of dark chocolate into a bowl. Gradually, the chocolate melted, becoming smooth and shiny.
Her hands were moving with an odd precision.
Butter.
Sugar.
Eggs.
Crack.
The noise reverberated through the empty café.
She carefully divided the eggs, letting the whites fall into a separate bowl.
Her whisk moved quickly now.
The mixture lightened and thickened as the chocolate aroma filled the small kitchen.
On the other side of the closed door, the boy waited.
Rika smiled to herself.
"First customer…" she whispered.
She folded the dough carefully, as if she were shielding it.
Then she poured it into a small tin and put it in the oven.
There was nothing left to do but wait.
And strangely…
Waiting no longer felt lonely.
She takes the Cake out carefully.
And put it on a large plate with her hands trembling.
Her thoughts were screaming with
"First costumer"
"Don't mess this up"
"Please be delicious"
And then she take the plate, carefully and moves out of the kitchen.
The boy looked up and gasped
He was distracted but he couldn't hear her steps
Rika looks down and put the plate Infont of him with gentle smile
She didn't notice her silent steps.
The boy looks at the cake.
"This is the first ever cake I had"
He says.
Rika understand it.
"I was also born without parents-"
Pause
She realizes what she said
"Sorry, I got too emotional"
She says, trying to cover it up.
But the boy looked at her in the eye.
She froze.
Thats the first time somone look in her eyes
without showing any sign of fear.
For her that was beautiful.
More beautiful than a sun flower
"Thanks for treating like human begin"
She says in her thoughts.
And she handed him a spoon and fork. With lovely movement
The boy slowly took the spoon and fork, his hands were shaking lighty.
So she helped him to put them down Infont of him.
He slowly stared at the cake then
Looked at Rika in the eyes.
And he says slowly without hesitation.
"Why don't you eat with me?"
His voice was weak.
And he still says it.
Carefully.
Rika gasp lighty but quickly cover it with a very light smile.
Something she never did before.
Her heart was racing.
now it's racing even more faster, than ever.
She sit on the chair besides him.
Then looked softly at him