The Worn Path

The Worn Path, also known as Scorn is the 2nd episode of Project I-X, continues from the end of Tying Up The Loose Ends.

Plot
The mobster brings Anna Novackova's car to a known chopshop of his.

The chopshop's owner, Giorno, while talking on the phone, recognizes the car, then hungs up the phone to ask the mobster where did he found the car. The mobster then avoids the question by saying "why would he care, he paid the debt" which then Giorno punches the mobster in face, but one of his bodyguard points the gun at Giorno.

Giorno taunting the bodyguard to shoot by holding the gun at his throat, his mouth and then his head, then tolds the mobster to get out of his chopshop and never go back.

The father of the mobster, Vladimir, calls Giorno up to ask why did he punches his son, to which he simply replies that the mobster steals Anna's car and killed her cat, and the father only replies back with an exhale.

Back to the mafia's headquarter, the mobster, which name's Ivan, shows the father his new suit, which then he punches him twice and explains what did he done not just to himself but also to the family, and that's when Anna's past was introduced to him.

The scene then cuts to Anna pulling a sledgehammer down to her basement while the father's voiceline overlapped the action.

Anna then smashes through her foundation to dusting off her arsenal, before cuts back to Vladimir tolds Ivan the story of her killed an entire rival gang with a pencil, which then Anna looks for him to acquiring assistance and additional firepowers against General Hirashi's men; to which he asked her a favor in exchange for her peaceful life, with a bloodoath marker: to kill of his rivals within a single night. To his surprise, she did pulled the job out; the marker was then sealed and her life became peaceful again, after the job has done.

Realizing that both of them are gonna get killed for breaking the premise of the sealed marker, Vladimir tries to advocate peace with Anna, only for her to silently ends the conversation. Vladimir then send in a group of hitmans to her house.

After Anna has brutally killed all of the hitmans (either by gunshot, knife wounds and more brutally, decapitated with her cleaver), she calls a group of professional crime scene cleaner to cleans up her mess.

The day later, she cames to a small antique store to look for the manager, to which Anna came to meet The Smiths to order guns. She then bought 3 pistols, a carbine and a sniper rifle, the latter 2 didn't used throughout the rest of the episode and in the future, though.

She then infiltrates the headquarter of the mafias, and brutally killed everyone including the father as well as the son.

The father, however, revealed to her that she's carrying a bounty on her head, which marked her wanted internationally.

Realizing the threat that she no longer can hang there, she escaped to Sri Lanka by heli from her former associate, Vadim.

Coincidentally, she also met Ayato Tokouryo in the helipad as well.