Suddenly, he heard some male voices yelling out in surprise, then yell out questions and threats. Bucket, who had fallen asleep during his wait, woke up to a sunset and a group of stupidly-dressed businessmen looking at him from a distance, demanding to know who he was. Slowly standing up to tower over them, Bucket focused instead on first putting on his clothes, making sure that they had properly dried up before he spoke.
“Greetings, gentlemen! My name is Bucket and on the orders of some shaman whose name I don’t care to remember, you lads have to die. I will take no questions, I will take no bargaining and I’d appreciate it if you'd lay down and die.” He said with a casual and cheery tone, much like one talks about what they ate for breakfast or like how one would tell their family about that awesome vacation they’re going to go on next week. Even as some of the more cowardly ones screamed and turned for the woods while others charged him, Bucket’s demeanor did not change: after all.. they’re just business bros. Weak. Frail. Easy pickings.
Fists flew. His big, weathered fists that would easily sink into their frail skulls, going in through their brittle nose, breaking the bone around the nasal cavity and into their cranium. The first died easily. The second soon followed suit. Three, four. After the second one, the others who had chosen to fight were too shaken up to act properly.
The ones that ran were somehow easier: when someone’s in a state of panic, they often do various mistakes, a lot of them related to their balance. After all, frantically running, focused on only moving their legs as fast as possible without the attention that one usually would give to their surroundings is a recipe for disaster. They’d fall, they’d stumble or slow down and, eventually, the madman reached them, killed them and moved on. It took but a few minutes before they died, having no proper bodyguards to save their lives.
Dirty deed done, he’d take extra care to set up their mangled bodies upon the shore, laid out to the ground and set on fire. With their personal possessions and identification, Bucket would make the agonizing trek through the sea once again, reach the Shaman, show the proof and take his prize. Wonderful. More money to the bank.
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