A Hitman's Guide To Becoming A Hero

As she wandered down the street, Julie couldn’t stop pointing her camera at everything around her.

The kids ran across the field in excitement as they played ball.

"Our team is definitely winning this year!"

"You’ve said that a hundred times already. At this point you should just accept you’re losing the school cup again." The kid laughed mockingly as he tore the net with a kick.

*Click!*

Julie quickly captured the moment, shifting her attention, she caught another scene;

A tall lush tree cast a canopy over a nearby bench, where two cats sat grooming each other’s fur.

"Awwn! A cat couple!" Julie jumped excited as she took another shot. Selena’s image crossed her mind, "I’ll show her this. Even cats have a better love life than she does." Julie chuckled evily before sitting on the pavement by the side of the road, looking through all her shots.

They were all beautiful and nice but something was missing in all of them, "It’s all boring!" Julie sighed dropping the camera.

"If I don’t post for three days, I’ll lose more subscribers and if I start posting boring pics they’ll all go" Julie’s expression dropped, "..Or I’ll get an all girly fanpage" she felt goosebumps climb up her spine at the thought.

She let out a sigh of resignation, but was suddenly hit by a wonderful idea.

Her eyes gleamed in excitement as a mischievous laughter escaped her lips.

’That’s right, I should tell the chat that I know phantom hero!’ She quickly entered her subs chat, she had just thought up in her head.

[Hey guys!! It’s your favourite streamer Peach Fairy, I know you’ve all missed me]

[Josh246: The heck am I still doing in this channel]

>>>>Josh246 left the chat.

"Come on!" Julie yelled in frustration, "I won’t let that brat ruin my day. Tch."

[Y’all don’t want to miss out like Josh246 cause if you leave you won’t get to see the phantom hero]

>>>>Hiyafrog left the chat.

>>>>AngryTina left the chat.

[Hey ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ why’s everyone leaving?]

[Sadninja: Trying to use the phantom hero hype to blow up? C’mon, you could do better fairy]

[But I’m serious, don’t worry, just stay tuned y’all will see the Phantom hero in action soon]

[VitaminDih: yeah, soon enough your chat will be a phantom]

"This is hopeless" Julie closed the chat window and rubbed her forehead. "Selena should’ve let us do a better mission. But no! She wants us to keep watch in a perfectly happy neighborhood." Julie pouted, looking up into the sky.

Her eyes slowly widened in delight as she caught the amazing scenery.

Butterflies drifting across the sky in perfect synchrony, dancing beneath the afternoon sun. Their blue wings shimmered beautifully as they moved together.

"Wow, so many butterflies!" Julie jolted, picking up her camera to take a picture.

One of the butterflies flew towards her.

But as she focused the camera on one of them, Julie froze.

The butterfly had a mouth.

Not a normal one.

A strange maw lined with tiny teeth.

"Eish!" She felt goosebumps run down her spine as she quickly avoiding the strange butterfly.

Then she noticed the odd number of butterflies in the sky.

"Where are these butterflies coming from? There aren’t even any flowers nearby." Julie frowned, "Something is wrong, I have to go tell Selena" she retreated, racing back to the hotel.

Meanwhile, in the hotel, Nicholas had just entered his room, he stopped by the mirror observing himself closely.

He could notice his muscles had tightened, becoming more refined, ’The ability is really taking effects’

Now behind closed doors, he finally had the time to peer at his system status and clearly observe the changes.

✦ ݁˖Strength: 12.5

.✦ ݁˖Agility: 13

.✦ ݁˖Stamina: 2.5

.✦ ݁˖Intelligence: 3.5

.✦ ݁˖CP: 5

He could feel his strength increasing rapidly, if he had to train normally like he would, improving Nicholas body would’ve taken so much more effort.

But thanks to charm points, he was growing stronger rapidly.

’It seems, 5 should be the average for normal people and from eight to about ten should be considered athletic’ Nicholas calmly assessed his body, the fight with the guards back at the brothel had helped him to come to a better understanding of the system. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

’Sadly, gathering Charm points isn’t so easy. But with the camera girl around, I should be able to gather fans without having the media all over me’

He had put more thought into this when he allowed Julie to join them on the missions... Aside from the fact that he got to earn revenue through that, he would also have more time to understand the dynamics of the system and how it worked.

"It would have been good if we actually did go on a different mission" Nicholas said, as the system screen faded allowing him to observe the room, "But at least it’ll give Void enough time to cool down."

[Void cooldown time: 7hrs remaining]

This seemed more like a vacation than a mission, since it was clearly apparent that there would likely be no signs of any villains whatsoever, but since he’d already used void to cancel whatever mind control ability was being used on the girl from before, this mission was perfect to allow the ability to cooldown.

The room dimmed suddenly and long shadows crawled across the ground toward him.

"It’s getting late already?" Nicholas thought as he noticed the long shadows.

He turned his gaze to the window pane and quickly noticed the swarm of flies gathering on the window pane.

Nicholas raised a brow at the strange scene.

His expression shifted as the buzzing sound increased sending vibrations through the wall and into the room, his hands cautiously moving into his coat.

’That’s...’

BOOM!

The glass shattered, as a swarm of flies flooded the room.

Downstairs, Julie had just reached the hotel and quickly caught the scene.

"They are coming here?" She turned her gaze noticing more and more flies coming towards the hotel, her eyes slowly lit up as she saw the scene, "We’re under attack!"

She quickly rolled out her camera, "Yeee! This is perfect, now I can prove them wrong"

Julie squealed as she quickly went live on her feed.

"Y’all thought I was joking right?! Time to see the phantom hero in action!"