"Stay back! I will shoot!" one of the guards in front of Happiness Through Taste ;) shouted as he pointed his guns at the people.
Several of the people in the crowd had already been injured, but that didn't seem to deter the others.
In fact, they only grew more aggressive.
For now, nobody had been killed.
While the Extractors from Happiness Through Taste ;) fought against Specters from time to time, they had never fought against other Extractors.
After all, the other Manufacturers never touched them.
There was no reason to fight.
Because of that, none of them had ever killed a human before, and they didn't like the thought of being forced to.
They would do it if it was necessary, but they wanted to use up every other option before pulling the trigger.
The shouts became louder.
The pressure increased.
BANG!
A Barrier appeared around one of the Extractors guarding the building shortly before the sound of a gun being fired reverberated throughout the surroundings.
The guards immediately focused on a John with a rifle.
The guard that had been fired on was shocked.
Then, he became terrified.
Then, all of his terror turned into rage.
He grabbed his spear and threw it.
BANG!
The spear shot through the John's Barrier, punched through the John's head, and nailed him to a wall.
Silence.
The first person had been killed.
Everyone looked at the corpse.
Meanwhile, the Veteran who had just been attacked gritted his teeth.
"Everyone back!" he shouted aggressively, waving another spear around. "I will do it again if you don't back off!"
His colleagues took deep breaths, but they quickly backed him up.
"Back off!" they shouted.
The crowd retreated a couple of steps.
But they didn't disperse.
Instead, they became silent and started to whisper amongst each other.
This seemed to be a good thing, but the guards could tell that it wasn't.
The whispering felt... malicious.
It was like the crowd was planning how to get into the building.
The guards watched as some of the people in the crowd sneakily pulled their weapons.
The atmosphere became heavy and strained.
And then...
"Governor!" someone shouted.
Everyone turned to the side and saw a younger woman with black hair landing beside the crowd.
For some seconds, she looked at the crowd.
Nobody dared to talk to her.
An instant later, several city guards appeared behind her.
They were Specialists and Experts.
"Everyone gathered here is under arrest," the Governor declared.
The eyes of the people in the crowd widened in horror.
Everyone?
She was capturing everyone?
But most of them didn't even do anything!
They just stood there!
Sure, there were a couple of them that attacked the guards, but the majority were just watching.
But the people could see that the Governor was determined to go down that path.
The Governor saw the scattering people, and a mask of unending rage appeared on her face.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG
'You would've done the same!'
Several clouds of gore appeared.
All the people who had tried to run away were killed.
'You all would've done the same!'
Nobody dared to move.
The Governor had just killed seven people!
'You also would've chosen your own power over the happiness of others!'
'That's normal!'
'That's human!'
'You are the ones forcing me to kill you!'
'You are the ones hurting me with this guilt, regret, and doubt!'
'You're not better than me!'
'You're just as horrible as me!'
The Governor silently glared at the crowd in unending hatred.
Nobody knew what she was thinking about.
They only knew that they should not move.
Sometime later, the guards returned.
They quickly grabbed the next batch of prisoners and left.
After a couple of round trips, the crowd was gone.
"Governor, we made 137 arrests," a Specialist told her.
The Governor took a deep breath.
"Keep watch over them," she said.
Then, the next words of the Specter shot through her mind.
"Chances are," she continued, "they will start to attack each other."
The guards seemed worried.
"Governor, what are your orders? How are we supposed to deal if they truly start fighting?" the Specialist asked.
"Anyone that initiates physical violence will immediately be executed with prejudice," she spoke.
With these words, she had caused the death of tens of people.
Yet, this didn't feel nearly as bad as killing some humans with her own hands.
Making a choice that would end in the death of a hundred people was easier on the mind than choking one person to death.
The guards were not the biggest fans.
"Governor, are you sure? There has to be another way. We could restrain them and wait for them to- "
"I gave an order," the Governor answered, not letting the Specialist finish. "Anyone who initiates violence will be executed."
The guards were surprised.
They had known the Governor for a long time, and they would have never thought that she would make such a decision.
Sure, she wasn't the friendliest, but she always seemed rather diplomatic with her orders.
In fact, detractors might even say that she was playing it safe and that she was trying not to anger anyone living in the city.
But this was definitely not playing it safe.
A moment later, the Governor looked at the building of Happiness Through Taste ;).
"I want a full investigation of Happiness Through Taste ;)," she ordered. "All of their Specters will be confiscated and contained by the city. Any Manufacturer that wants access to the Specters needs to negotiate with me personally."
"If any Specter goes missing, I will seek repayment from the people involved by collecting their heads."
"I want every single Extractor from this company in Containment Units, and I want all of them interrogated."
"I want to know what's been going on in this company and where this chocolate comes from."
"I want all of these walls torn down!"
Then, she turned around and glared at her guards.
"I want this to be done by the book," she spoke in a threatening tone.
"And if I find anything... ANYTHING... that seems suspicious..."
In the Governor's mind, the image of the terrifying Specter seemed to smirk.
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