Erosa lounged on her throne, smoking a cigar as she surveyed the month's earnings. Around her, gang members, bodyguards, and women counted the cash, ensuring not a single cent was missing.
"This is where it is, girls." She sniffed the bills. "Do you smell that? That's money!"
"Heh, boss, since we managed to make this much, can I play with one of the boys for fun?"
Erosa looked at the woman who asked this, then at the men she had in a large cage. "Sure, have your fun. Just don't break them. I at least want three of them for tonight when I wind down."
"You got it, boss." The woman approached the cage, considering her options before finally pointing to a skinny, shy boy of about twenty, noticeably short in stature.
"I want you." She teleported into the cage, grabbed the boy, then teleported to one of the rooms nearby.
"N-Noo! Please! Ahhh"
"Heh, love them bitches." Erosa chuckled.
A woman wearing all black walked over to Erosa and spoke into her ear. "Boss, the Aegis Corps is still on our tail. I saw someone spying on one of our other spots the other day."
"I'm not surprised. The Aegis Corp is persistent—this is our fifth building since the others were compromised. But I know how they think, and if they force us to move again, I've got a gift for them."
Just then, the elevator dinged and opened, revealing a young man walking out of it.
"Who's that?" Erosa wondered, looking at her women for clarification.
"I don't know, boss. Is he one of the men you ordered?"
"No. All of them are in their cages."
Another woman pulled out a gun. "Aegis Corps!"
"Put the fucking gun down. He's a man, why would he be with the Aegis Corps?" Erosa asked with an annoyed expression.
"U-Uhhh, he could be a guardian?"
"Without his vanguard?" Erosa asked
"S-Sorry, boss."
She sighed. "Useless idiots. Hey, little man, who sent you here? Are you a part of the next shipment of men I ordered, or did you accidentally stumble across this place?"
Jin didn't answer. He simply continued to walk toward Erosa slowly.
"Guess he's hard of hearing. Get him." Erosa ordered her women.
One of her bodyguards charged at Jin, her body morphing into stone as she drew back her arm to strike his chest.
Normally, a man would cower in fear and beg for his life. But Jin simply caught her arm, twisted it until it broke, then chopped her neck with his hand, snapping her neck.
"Erosa," Jin said, his voice full of anger and disgust. "I'm going to hurt you, really, really bad. And once I'm done, you're going to die."
"Ha! What are you? The Grim Reaper? Get him!"
All women charged at Jin with the intent of subduing him. They wanted to know why he attacked their base, how he was this strong, and wanted to have fun with him after everything was done.
Jin, however, was not going to give them that chance.
He took a deep breath, feeling mana surge through his veins, energizing every part of his body. With a steady exhale, Jin launched his attack.
Mana exploded from his feet, propelling him faster than they all could see. He took out the speedster first, coming to the conclusion that she would be the most annoying to deal with.
Then came the woman who could mess with technology. Jin had a phone on him, so the thought of it exploding in his pocket did not sit well with him.
Thankfully for him, the majority of the women had some sort of super strength or durability, whether it be turning into stone or metal, or simply having super strength.
He dropped most of them to the ground, throwing needles into their necks, which ended their lives in a heartbeat. That was 10 people taken out in an instant, leaving only 4 left.
"W-What's going on? How is a man doing all of this?!" The women started to back away, not understanding how Jin was powerful.
"I-Is he...you know?"
"I was born a man." He responded.
"I don't care what you were! Kill him now!" Erosa demanded.
The remaining four women reluctantly charged at Jin. Unfortunately for them, their powers weren't a threat to him. They either had some sort of super-enhanced senses like X-ray vision, a healing ability, flight, or phasing through objects.
Jin easily outmaneuvered them, incapacitating every woman without any effort at all. As they all lay on the floor with broken limbs, Jin clenched his fists, and the mana strings he attached to their necks as he was attacking jerked back, snapping their necks.
"You're next," Jin said in a low, cold tone.
"Boss!" The other woman teleported out of the room with no shirt on.
"I heard some commotion. What's going-arghhh!" A mana needle entered her throat, dropping her to the floor.
"Okay, you've piqued my interest. Who are you?" Erosa asked as if she wasn't worried about Jin at all.
Jin tossed her a picture, one that she caught. She looked at it and saw him and his parents in the photo.
"You and your parents?" She asked.
He then tossed her a newspaper, one dating back to the day his parents were killed.
"Ohhh, you're one of my victims. Haha, I understand it now. I see why you're after me." She took a puff out of her cigar and looked at Jin.
"Do you know what they called me back in the Aegis Corps?" She asked.
"Crimson Flame." He responded.
"Good. At least you did your research." Erosa flicked her cigar toward Jin, and it exploded in a violent blast of red fire.
"Idiot. Even with powers, you men are beneath us."
"Is that so?"
Erosa glanced back to see Jin casually watching her. She swung her arm, flames erupting to scorch him, but he caught it mid-swing and broke it instead.
"Arghhhh!!" She bellowed in pain, jumping back to make distance while shooting a flame at him with her free hand.
"Pathetic." Jin slapped away the flames, not bothered by the intense heat it gave off.
"This is the power you killed my parents with? This is your full strength?!" Jin grabbed her by the collar.
"You wanna see my full power?! Don't blame me when you die!" Erosa's entire body burst into flame so hot that it started to melt the stone around them.
She hadn't gone all out in a while, yet she remained a force to be reckoned with. Still, Jin held her effortlessly, as if her flames were nothing. Her confidence wavered, and when she met his glowing blue eyes, all she saw was fear.
"That's your true power? Let's see how you handle this." Jin's body ignited into a torrent of blue flames, overwhelming Erosa's fire and scorching her.
"Arghhhh! It burns! P-Please! Stop it! I'm sorry! Agggghhhhhh!! Pleaseeee!"
"Your victims probably begged like this as well, and what did you do?"
She didn't answer, only continuing to cry in pain.
"You just watched them burn." Jin increased the intensity of his flames until there was nothing left of Erosa's body.
"Mother, Father, may you rest in peace. I have avenged you." A huge weight was lifted from Jin's shoulders as he smiled at the charred ceiling
"I still have to pick up groceries."