CHAPTER 337: END.

"I think it is over." Ramirez said as he eyed Maria, who was like a statue. She didn’t move an inch, not even blink, just kneeled there, and it reminded Ramirez of the same thing at war.

When the young soldier froze down after a shelling, when they froze after they saw their friend, their comrade, ripped to shreds by a mortar round... she was exactly like them back then.

"Yeah... and what did we learn?" Hector looked at Ramirez with. "That they didn’t even fucking know what they signed up for, and when the reality came, their emotions took over... what the fuck is this." He laughed as he truly didn’t understand it.

How the fuck you join a mafia without knowing what a mafia does... why the fuck do you join up when you know your morality will keep fucking with your mind every single time you see something bad?

"I mean... money. Since James raised the salaries, a lot of people want to join, but they see some shit and dip, or more like they want to act like a hero." Ramirez pointed his finger at Maria. "But heroes are not real."

Indeed, heroes are not real, nor villains at least not in a comic book sense. They don’t have superpowers or anything like that, though there are heroes and villains in the world, and now that is happening.

They thought they could be heroes who struck down the big bad villain called James Bellini... but quickly learned that he is on a level that can’t be beaten down by ordinary people, by so-called self-claimed heroes who are operating on their emotion but don’t know shit about the real world.

They just live in their own bubble, in their own system and that is fucked up too.

Their own will to change something would have caused much more chaos than they could have even imagined, and it was not about James or his plans but about the people in the family. Because there are lots of people working in warehouses, in the fields, who have never even killed once, but just truly want to make money, truly want to be at a place that gives them hope... but with this bullshit, they could have fucked up everything... yeah, could have, because well, they were caught, and second, Hector was running out of patience... or more like already ran out of patience.

"Well, I am truly disappointed by all of this. I thought it would maybe be something crucial." He looked at Ramirez. "But it’s nothing."

"Indeed it is nothing." Ramirez said as he turned back, pulling out a pack of cigarettes.

"Jimmy, kill all of them. When you’re done, send a picture of their bodies, okay?"

"I will." Jimmy said, and he didn’t even wait for Hector and Ramirez to leave the warehouse.

He did it straight away, and this time fast.

He didn’t give them a single second to cry or pass out or just realize they were going to die.

No, he just stood behind them and stabbed them in the neck one by one, and it was worse than cutting their throats, as Jimmy’s knife sometimes went a bit off, which meant they didn’t die immediately.

By the sheer amount of blood some of them had time, maybe a minute or less to choke on their own blood, to slowly see their vision fade, and then just die.

Especially Maria... with her, Jimmy did what he did for a reason.

He stabbed her just precisely enough to make sure that death would be longer, more suffering... he wanted her to realize as the adrenaline took over her body. He wanted her to feel the feeling of bleeding out.

It was gruesome and... sad to see as her entire body twitched uncontrollably on the ground, as the blood was flowing everywhere, spreading out beneath her. But it did not last long, her movements slowed, and finally her body froze... and she died.

She died, and the last thing she saw through her blurry vision was none other than Jimmy... looking down at her twitching body, the blood, and just smiling at her as she was bleeding out... but she saw something else too.

She saw the others in line on the ground... she was the last one that died, like a joke to see that it is all because of her, that this is what her end is, to see her friend, her comrade dead...

"Oh my..." Hector suddenly spit on the ground and he had a kinda surprised face because he got a message... from Kilian. "Now this is... a message." He said as he turned the phone to Ramirez, and he too had a strange reaction.

He started vomiting, or at least his body tried to, though nothing actually came out, but he couldn’t control it at all. His whole body reacted to the pictures and videos, but his mind couldn’t process what it was seeing. His body moved on its own, trying to vomit anything, something, just to escape the feeling.

"Like a fucking horror movie..." Hector whispered as he spit once again and had that strange feeling in his stomach. He even got a bit nauseous by the pictures as he swiped through them, but the video was the worst of it.

He saw so many things and did many things himself, even Ramirez, but seeing how Kilian butchered Xavier, and how he truly did what Hector ordered him to do was... on another level, because he thought he would do it, but not in this way... like how Ferucci does it clean and that’s it.

"I’m not going to send this, that’s for sure." Hector giggled as he spit once again.

"I’ve seen stuff but... this." Ramirez said as he finally stopped vomiting, or at least trying to vomit. "...this is the worst."

Well... what Kilian did worked, as even Hector and Ramirez got fucked up by it, but sending it to everybody would... not be the best idea. But as a hidden weapon, as terror or manipulation, it would work good, that for sure, though they had to do a lot more and they did so.

After they finished killing more than thirty members of the family, they returned to the main house, where they made sure to send extra protection to the warehouse storing the drugs, and of course to Finn himself, who was in terrible condition, but not in any life-threatening danger.

On the other hand, Jimmy did what he needed to do and got rid of the bodies, or at least started the process with some heavy industrial acid, while some of his men pressure-washed off the blood in the warehouse.

Kilian, well he... he for some kind of reason, didn’t get rid of Xavier’s body but threw his parts into a deep freezer... who knows why...

Meanwhile all of this happened, Sophia and Benjamin continued the raiding till the morning. They had killed many people, while Linda, Stephen and Thomas watched it all through the body cameras and the drones.

They went into the houses and killed, they went into the trap houses and killed, killed, killed, and kept killing people, though they actually captured four ministers alive, since those would be executed later after a public trial to show that real change was happening.

But of course the news spread quickly, the social media, even the news were full of the so-called "Special Operations", and everybody was talking about that, so the decision to strike the most important targets first was a good idea.

And of course, the other half of the plan worked too. The moment word spread that ministers had also been arrested, their ministries went into chaos. Not just chaos, people working inside the ministries who were affiliated with the arrested ministers immediately started shredding files and destroying documents. But they were caught off guard when hundreds of agents swarmed in to seize everything.

From midnight to the early hours of the morning, the biggest, most complicated and successful raid was done in the country’s history.

All while somebody else in another country with a different timezone was being prepared for a meeting.

And that somebody was James himself.