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Dead Man Walking

Summary:

Korosensei rarely remembered the faces of the people he killed during his time as the Reaper. Once they were dead, it didn't matter much what they looked like. Even if he did want to remember all of them, there were too many. Faces all blended into eachother. But, every so often, there'd be a memorable moment or particularly annoying assassination that made it difficult to forget a target's face.

But every single face, remembered or not, was dead. He made sure of it. He would usually hang out by the corpse for a second, just make sure they actually died. If he had gloves on, he'd check the pulse.

So why did his co-worker look and sound exactly like one of those few memorable face?

Notes:

I LIVE!

I am so sorry for vanishing off the face of the Earth for two years. I do not have an explanation.

Chapter 1: The Dead Man

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The Reaper really hoped that he couldn't sweat anymore. Because if he could, not only would that be gross, but someone would probably notice and realize that he was nervous about something. And if they figured out that he was nervous about something, they'd immediately get suspicious and start trying to figure out what it was in the hopes that'd it help kill him. And maybe the man making him nervous could actually kill Reaper. There was absolutely no way that he was a normal human.

By "he", Reaper meant the tall, muscular, black-haired man in a suit standing next to him. It was... unsettling to see that face again. The last time he saw it, it had been wide-eyed and drenched in blood.

This wasn't the first time Reaper had seen the man since escaping the lab, but this was the closest he's been to him. In the past, he'd managed to gaslight himself into thinking that they were just someone that looked very similar to the man that coincidentally had the exact same name. But he couldn't deny it now. They had the exact same face shape, eyes, voice, clothes; they even had the same eyebrows- which were now very clean.

But Reaper had to forget about the undead man for now. He had other things to focus on. Like the fact that he was a teacher now. He had students to watch. They were talking about the money, which would take all the kid's attention. He needed to pull himself together before anyone got suspicious.