Villain Ch 1429. Executioner
The second was smaller but somehow even more unnerving. A shadow wrapped in flesh. Its elongated limbs twitched unnaturally, its fingers stretching into razor-sharp claws that seemed to phase in and out of existence. Its face was obscured, wrapped in what looked like surgical bandages—only they moved, shifting like living tendrils. Twin, glassy, pupil-less eyes glowed from the darkness of its hood. Its movements were fluid, erratic, like it wasn't entirely bound by normal physics. It flickered, appearing and reappearing in small bursts of speed, never fully there, but never fully gone. A jagged, black dagger hung loosely in its grip, its surface coated in a substance that shimmered unnaturally under the lab's flickering light.
Mutated Assassin