Cliff

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Cliff is sleeping, wrapped in a blanket, leaned against a building while on the street.

[Oh good. You heard that too. I was starting to think you weren't the only one who was crazy.]

[A woman screamed.]

[Oops! A gunshot. Too late. Some hero you turned out to be.]

"I'm no hero," Cliff says.

[Well, no doubt. Hmm...Screams and guns...]

[What does that remind you of?]

Cliff has flashbacks to the war.

[Good, you're up.] 

[Last time you were out for five days.]

[Let's go for a walk.]

[Ya know...you could easily be one of those back from the dead comic book heroes. I can see you on the roof of a building over-looking the city, in the rain, staring at a clenched fist.] 

[Good thing you stole this old coat.]

"Quiet!" Cliff shouts to the voice in his head, startling a random pedestrian. 

[Oh that's right, you can't clench much of anything these days.]

Cliff sniffs around. 

[Hey! Something's happening.] 

[Do you feel it?]

"Yes..." Cliff says quietly. 

[That building.] 

[Over there.]

A man, wearing a black T-shirt with a skull and bones, has a woman tied up. The man says, "Come on! You liked me back in the bar--"

Cliff sneaks up behind the man and cuts his genitals off with the scythes that he has for hands.  The man screams, "AUYGHH!"

"NO!!" The man pleads, Cliff cuts his hand off with a THWAK sound.

"YAHH!!" The man screams while crying. 

[He makes too much noise.]

"GAK-K!" The man screams while his throat is impaled. 

[Thank you.] 

[Fucking amateur.]

Cliff walks in the rain, he follows a man. Cliff looks through the window of the man's house, the man is threatening to hit his wife.

[So, what have we learned today?] 

[One: You know how to steal rags. And I'm not saying they don't look ravishing on you. I'm saying they smell like shit.]

[Two: He beats his wife and kid. No big surprise. Go do what you have to do. But first a quick reminder of why you have to kill him.]

"I don't need it!" Cliff shouts.

[Too bad, you're getting it anyway.]

Cliff gets another flashback of the war.

The man is watching TV while smoking a cigarette and holding a can of beer.

"AGGHHH!" The man shouts at Cliff stabs his wrist, "AHH!!"

"W-we killed you!" The man shouts, Cliff slices his neck "Gack!!" 

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