Bab 43: Conflicted
Tiffany may not have been able to feel it right away but there was a weight that had been added to her from the actions she had taken.
The lives of others that were taken by her were the result of her direct actions.
It may not have been up close and personal but she was still the one that took an action which resulted in the lives of others being lost.
It was still far from doing the deed herself where she was physically there and was close enough to see the life leave their bodies but she was not too far away from that.
Tiffany was still taking action and observing everything from the bodies of the toys she controlled.
She still saw the result of her decision to trigger the weapons that were planted inside of her toys.
What she witnessed after that was the aftermath of it all and the dead bodies that followed as she commanded her toys to finish them off.
Some of her toys finally got close enough to end their lives but Tiffany did not choose to insert herself into any of those bodies.
If she was thinking logically then what she had done was necessary.
Tiffany had chosen to come to Butch after her previous lifestyle was no longer available and she had been abandoned.
There were a couple of options available to her where she may have been able to live a slightly more comfortable life.
Her position where she was abandoned was in a spot where it could be better if Butch picked her up but it did not mean that he was the only person who was somewhere nearby.
Even she did not fully know why she chose to contact Butch out of anyone else since she was already aware of how dangerous his lifestyle was.
Perhaps she had been exposed to it too early so she had less of a rejection to it all or it was that she trusted Butch a little more than the others.
All that she knew was that if she did not trigger the toy's mechanisms at the right time, it would end up putting Butch's life at risk.
When she thought about what was right or wrong and involved her emotions a little, Tiffany did recognize a little that what she had done was wrong.
It was not like she was born evil or was raised to be a murderer, it was more like she had just gotten used to certain realities from a young age.
When the lives of others were at stake, hesitation meant death.
The only way to ensure survival and to reduce the damage done was to be able to make harsh decisions.
It was not the kind of place where the enemy could be reasoned and it was not the kind of place where there was enough time to understand their point of view.
There was no room for pity and holding back when the enemies they would be facing were aiming to kill and would do what it took to achieve that.
Tiffany had made the correct decision for the current situation but that did not mean that she should feel comfortable with it.
She may not have been feeling too comfortable about what she had done but that did not stop her from getting back to her duties.
After telling Butch about her success, Tiffany returned to her body where she was sitting in the safe room.
She looked down at her hands which clenched in front of her eyes. "That was almost too easy..."
She had never truly known how easy it was to take the life of another and how fragile many living beings were.
The toys that were developed for her usage were supposed to be kept for emergencies and self-protection yet she had used them quite early.
Tiffany never expected to have to use them so soon and she never expected that they would be so effective when used.
Perhaps if things had played out a little differently and the enemy had caught onto something earlier then the result might not have been the same but they still got caught up in her trap.
All of them died without putting up that much of a fight so it seemed like the whole process was too easy.
A life could be taken just like that with a single triggering of one of the devices inside of her toys.
There was a complicated feeling swirling around within Tiffany for some time as she sat there trying to understand how she was feeling until she finally pulled herself back together.
She returned to Butch moments later and observed the surroundings allowing Butch to finish off the remaining enemies who had already realized they had lost.
Several of them were already fleeing for their lives and after that, they would go into hiding for fear that they would be hunted down.
Butch and those who survived along with him had been able to reduce their numbers greatly and ended the lives of a couple of traitors that emerged during that time.
With the aid of Tiffany, he began his counterattack as he began hunting the others down so that he could bring some of them back alive with him. "Capture them alive! I want some of them who can talk! As for the rest of their bodies... you know what to do."
He commanded that it did not matter what would happen to the enemies so long as they were still living and were in a state where they would still be capable of talking.
The hunt began right away and many of the enemy were rounded up before Butch gathered his allies and the captured enemies to head back to their base.
Butch made sure to let those higher above him in his gang what had happened while making some arrangements to keep any of the police from visiting before the meeting place was cleaned up.
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