This is me practicing plotting out stories.
Once upon a time a strange foul creature that looked like it had appeared from the darkest dungeons of hell came upon Earth and made itself known to a newar boy in Kathmandu named Haka. Haka was terrified of the creature, Khyaak, and lost his senses when he saw it first. The creature subdued Haka and told him it was not going to harm him as long as he did its bidding, and that it would assist him in its tasks. It promised Haka good health, immortality maybe, and wealth for following its instructions.
As Haka came to know the creature better, he had a deeper understanding of what the creature wanted from him. He thought that the Khyaak wanted him to do various criminal tasks it was too afraid to do. However he figured out what the Khyaak really wanted him to do was to commit murders in cold blood -- planned for weeks and months in advanced, calculated and unlikely to arouse any suspicion towards him as he would have no clear motive to so calculatingly kill random strangers.
The weeks went by and the Khyaak explained to him how he was actually getting rid of evil and corrupt people. That's how he convinced Haka to commit his first murder -- by poisoning a famous Principal of a school at the deepest of nights.
Haka cried and sobbed for days, wouldn't talk to anyone and wouldn't leave his house. He felt guilty for having taken someone's life, he was fearful of the police knocking at his door at any point, and he saw himself as a heartless monster. However as time flew and there was no repercussions of the death, which he didn't even hear about at all, he began thinking if he'd dreamed the murder at all.
Few days after, the Khyaak set him on another murder, a little harder this time, and he was less apprehensive about it, though perhaps just as willing. He planned it out better this time to avoid the fear of getting caught, and thought about it for a good while. He justified the killing as being an alternative judicial system in the place where the traditional judiciary had failed.
After killing several more individuals under the Khyaak's instructions and guidance, Haka grew to become more confident and less guilty about them. He saw himself merely as a planner and an enforcer, he was convinced that he had no agency for the murders -- it was either him or them, and since they were the evil criminals, he'd rather it be them than him.
That was until he was instructed to murder a girl about his own age. After scouting the location for the first time, and giving it a bit of thought, he decided to call it quits, that he didn't want to kill someone his own age for crimes that were unclear and rather exaggerated. He was firm in his decision to tell the Khyaak that he was rejecting his instructions, and made himself ready to face the repercussions. On the way home from the location, he saw that the woman -- his target -- was standing by the microbus's door just like he was, and an accidental (not so) shove due to the wind caused her to fall down from the vehicle and break her head. She was in coma for weeks. Despite not having wanted to hurt her in any way, Haka had still almost killed her. The Khyaak said in response to Haka's pleadings that he didn't really care if he killed the girl or not. However, Haka read in newspapers that she was regaining consciousness, and foul play was suspected in her injury. Haka had to go out in his own accord, use his personal contacts and resources, to make sure that the girl would never make it back, just to protect himself.
In the end, Haka lived happily ever after as a psychopathic murderer who justified his seemingly random acts of violence as commands from a cosmic entity. He graduated to become a contract killer, though he was caught (and later shot dead) after killing a Supreme Court judge, which is ironic because he had considered himself to be a judge of sorts in the beginning too.
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