Otoya had told everything to Shiena, about what Reiko told her, that the Mikage twins were the culprits. Of course, if it was her dear teacher who told her that, it must be true, so the brunette firmly believed it. Otoya was kind of pissed off, she was frustrated that her girlfriend had such a blind faith toward Reiko. But she decided to stay silent about her frustration. Like Reiko told her, she wasn't someone trustful, even Otoya admitted it. Deep down, she couldn't be angry at Shiena for not being totally honest with her.

Couple days later, Shiena got an assassination to carry out. Like last times, Otoya proposed to the brunette to kill the target, but her girlfriend refused. This times, she wanted to do it by herself, she didn't want to always rely on Otoya.

The target was a young girl about Shiena's age named Subaru. She was a terrible bully, at least as nasty than Tanaka. She was regularly bullying a younger boy from her school. Collective Dismissal promised to this poor boy to stop the bully. Of course, "to stop" meant "to kill" the bully, but the boy didn't know this. He didn't have to know this. No one will know that Subaru was murdered anyway, he will probably think that she ran away or something like that.

This time, Shiena prepared a plan to kill the target and she would have to kill her by herself. She had spied Subaru for a week to find the perfect way to lure her. She learned that the bully had a history exam tomorrow. Since Subaru seemed to care about her grades, she would probably study tonight. However, she couldn't, because she forgot her history book at school. Well, she didn't really forget, someone stole her book, but Subaru couldn't know this.

They were no one in the school at this hour. Shiena was waiting, hiding into the bully classroom. After she had stole her history book, the brunette put the book back into Subaru's desk. This girl was bullying younger students all the time. She was taking advantage of their weakness to mistreat them. Shiena hated her, everything about this bully disgusted her. This girl was so despicable that the brunette really wanted to kill her. It was pretty rare for Shiena to have urge to kill, she wasn't someone who naturally like killing.

Subaru entered into her classroom. She seemed frustrated. Well, that was understandable. She was forced to come back to school at this hour in order to get back her book to study.

"Dammit, why did I forget my stupid book?" she thought.

She went to her desk and found her history book and she put it in her bag.

"That's really strange, I was sure that I had it…maybe I mingled it with another book"

When she was about to leave the classroom, Subaru heard a noise behind her. She turned back and discovered that she wasn't alone.

"W-Who are you?" asked Subaru, a little bit afraid.

Shiena didn't answer. She was wearing a coat with a hood, which was hiding her face. She didn't want to show her face to her target. Usually, assassins didn't need to hide their face to their victims, since they are going to kill them anyway. But the brunette was someone really cautious, she didn't want to show her face, just in case that someone saw her killing or if she failed to kill the target.

"You're a terrible bully, it's time for you to pay for your crimes!" Shiena said.

"Huh? Who the fuck are you!? Are you the big sister of one of them? You think that you can scared me, you bitch? Come at me, I'll beat you to a pulp!"

"I'm not a big sister, I'm an assassin. I'm not here to scare you, I'll kill you, you dammit bully!"

Shiena pull out her gun. Subaru understood how much she was screwed, while the brunette had her at gun point.

"W-Wait! What's the meaning of this? This is a joke, right? This can't be real…" Subaru said. "Why I should die!? I only bully some brats, it's not like it was serious, I don't deserve to die just for that!"

"Shut up! Bullying is wrong, you don't know how much it can negatively affect people! They have bullied kid who killed themselves because of people like you, bullies are as bad than murderers!"

And some of the bullied kids became assassins, like Shiena.

"I…i-it's not my fault if some people are too weak and commits suicide" protested Subaru.

The bully threw her bag on Shiena and left the classroom, closing the door behind her. The brunette sighed.

"Great, now I have to play hide and seek with my target…"

Shiena was really a cautious person. She had locked every exit door with chains and padlocks, except the principal front door. If Subaru want to leave the school, she needed to use this door. But the bully didn't try to run away from school, she hid herself. Shiena heard a noise coming from the bathroom. The brunette ran toward the bathroom. The door of the boys' bathroom was ajar.

"I found her" Shiena thought.

Shiena entered into the boys' bathroom. Every single toilet's door were closed and locked. It was probably a trick from Subaru to confuse the assassin. Shiena checked the entire toilet stalls. Subaru wasn't their.

"How strange, maybe she let the door ajar to trick me too…" the brunette thought.

Shiena noticed that there was a closet in the bathroom, probably to stow cleaning stuffs. The brunette approached from the closet, without making any sound. She rapidly opened the door. Subaru was their, armed with a mop. She tried to attack Shiena, but the brunette pointed her with her gun, forcing the bully to throw the mop.

"Get out!" Shiena ordered.

Subaru obeyed, too scared to try anything. When she was out of the closet, Shiena violently pushed her on the floor.

"How was it, the bullying? Did you enjoy it? Did you enjoy bullying those kids? Was it pleasant, to mistreat people who were weaker than you?" Shiena asked.

Even if she asked questions, the brunette didn't expect that Subaru would answer. In a fit of rage, Shiena began to brutally kick Subaru, who was still on the ground.

"How can you have pleasure by other people misery?! You dammit bully! You're disgusting, you deserve to die! For all those kids you had bullied, I'll kill you! Go to hell!"

Shiena remembered all the people who had cruelty bullied her. She saw them in Subaru. This girl reminds her those bullies. While she was still beating her, Subaru began to sob. Shiena suddenly stopped kicking her when she noticed that her target was sobbing on the floor. There have rules to respect when you are a member of Collective Dismissal. Assassins weren't supposed to make their targets suffered uselessly, they have to kill them quickly and painlessly.

"If I make her suffer, I'll be not better than those bullies" Shiena thought.

The brunette raised her gun, ready to kill Subaru, who was sobbing and shaking on the floor. Shiena suddenly noticed something on Subaru's neck. It was an ecchymosis. It wasn't recent, like she had it since few days. Intrigued, Shiena grabbed Subaru's arm and pulled up her sleeve. She had multiple bruises on her arm.

"Where did you get that?" Shiena asked.

"I-It's my…step-father…who did that" Subaru answered, with a shaking voice.

Shiena understood. She already knew that there have a lot of different categories of bullies. Some bullies were like this because they were beaten at home. Since they were beaten by someone stronger than them, they bullied people weaker than them. They tranfered their anger on other people to romp.

"idiot, you should have call the police instead of hurting innocent people!" Shiena reprimanded. "If you had done that, you won't be in this situation right now…"

"P-Please, don't kill me! I swear, I won't bully anyone from now on, so I'm begging you, don't kill me!" Subaru implored.

Shiena hesitated. She lost her urge to kill her, but she still had a mission to accomplish. Subaru was now on her knees, heavily crying. She reminded to Shiena when Hiyori was begging for her life before getting killed by Reiko. She also remind to the brunette the day she had killed Tanaka. Maybe something bad happened to Tanaka that made her become a bully. But it was too late now to ask her, since she was dead.

"Do you promise?" Shiena asked.

"Yes, I'll stop bullying, I swear!" Subaru promised.

Did she say that she'll stop to bully? If Shiena remembered well, her mission was to stop Subaru from bullying anymore. Well, "to stop" was usually a euphemism for "killing", but maybe it would be alright if the target stopped bullying by herself rather than being killed.

"You better not lie to me. I'm part of an organisation, if you continue to bully, they will send other assassins to kill you" Shiena warned.

"I'm telling the truth, I swear!"

"Tomorrow, you will apologize to your victims and call the police to report your step-father"

"Y-Yes, I will! T-Thank you for sparing me and letting me a chance"

"Understand that you won't have a second chance. Now go back to your house, you have to study for you history exam tomorrow! And you better not telling anyone about what happened today"

Subaru rose up and quickly left the bathroom, while Shiena sighed, wondering if she did a terrible mistake.

Do you think Shiena did a mistake by sparing Subaru? What do you think would be the consequences of this act?