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Manslayer- Chapter 10

Shin'en shook her head to bring herself back to the matters at hand, and laughed. "I'm not going to go anywhere."

Sanosuke looked at her like she was crazy. "Yes you are. To jail as soon as we tell the police!"

She smiled amusedly. "I'm not going to jail, and you're not going to tell the police about this."

"What are you, crazy? Of course we're going to tell the police! You've no right to get away with this! And I won't let you!"

"Oh, yes you are. You're going to help me."

"What? No I'm not!" Sano yelled back at Shin'en. Kenshin, however, detected a plan in her voice, and his mind was racing to figure it out. He suddenly realized that he and Sanosuke were trapped between Shin'en and the river. But, that means that she could…

Shin'en grinned sadistically. "Perhaps not by choice." She pulled her hand out of her pocket, along with what she had been fingering with, a gun with a silencer in it. "I don't normally use guns. It's kind of like cheating, but it seems I have no choice but to use it this time."

"What do you mean?" Sanosuke asked cautiously.

Shin'en smiled sweetly and raised the gun. "Say hello, twenty-seventh and –eighth victims." Kenshin jumped to the side and backwards, not quite sure who she would shoot at, and watched as a bullet went into Sanosuke's arm, just barely missing his chest.

"So, it seems I was right in not attempting to kill you back in the alley. It's just a shame you had to figure out who I was and pursue this even though all of the evidence pointed away from me."

"Why are you doing this?"

Shin'en's smile faded. "I really don't want you to know any more than you do now. I've explained enough to you as it is. You're going to die now, anyway, so I need not waste my breath on you."

"Won't the police wonder why we're dead when you're here?"

Shin'en laughed. "Oh, but no. Because when they come, dear little Ikari will be here, knocked unconscious by Shin'en and guilty that she couldn't save you two. And I'll be free to destroy more men!"

"You're insane!" Sanosuke yelled. Then he charged her, raised his arm to punch, and crumpled to the ground. The bullet wound in his head poured blood onto the ground.

"Looks like he forgot that I can move my arm and fire at the same time." Shin'en turned the gun back so it was aimed at Kenshin. "Good bye. But, you shall die knowing that these two deaths would not have happened if you had not decided to help." She fired the gun, and he fell back into the river.

"Only one thing left now. The police must never suspect me." Shin'en gripped the barrel of the gun and raised it over her right shoulder. She brought it down as hard as she could onto the pressure point and the gun fell out of her hand as she fell foreword onto the ground.