As he looked at the hand he used to hang that man, Noah seemed to be completely lost in reverie.
'What was that feeling? Surely there was someone else, but that human wasn't here, so how? Maybe it's that…" he smiled as he closed his hand. "Well that doesn't matter as I sent him a little gift anyway."
After having these thoughts, Noah looked around and, after seeing the dead woman on the table, a man with a hole in his chest and the other stuck in a tree outside, he said, "It looks like everything has already is resolved. Well then…" after saying that, Noah simply fell over. And seeing that, Ting's uncle, who had been practically paralyzed by now, rushed over to Noah and caught him before he hit the ground.
'How did this happen? …The gap between them was huge, so how did this boy manage to kill that man so easily?" He put Noah on the ground and kept thinking, 'And those weird eyes…I sure saw it somewhere…but where?
Having this doubt in his head, he got up after having sighed and after turning around, he walked slowly towards his niece, who was a little ahead of her. She was there, crouching and shaking, as she used her hands to cover her ears so that she couldn't hear any more.
So when her uncle gently touched her shoulders and said "Ting..." she opened her tear-filled eyes slowly and, seeing him in front of her, Ting couldn't stand it anymore, and jumped into her arms as she silently cried. .
Although he was happy that she was okay, as he kept his injured hand away and returned the hug with his other arm, smiling he said "I think you'd better back off a bit, unless you want to get your clothes dirty… "
"What are you talking about?" she asked as she cried.
"No big deal, it's just a little problem on my hand."
"In your hand?…" She pulled back a little and started wiping her tears and when she looked with her red eyes at his hand she asked "So what happened to your hand? …For me everything is normal."
"Not this one."
'Isn't that one?…' Confused she looked at the hand that was beside her and, seeing it, surprised she said "What happened, for you to get hurt like this?!"
"It's nothing too serious, so it doesn't matter that much." he replied while smiling. Ting looked at her uncle and, seeing that he really wasn't going to tell her what had happened, she took a piece of the handkerchief from around her clothes and wrapped it where the wound was.
"At least for now this should contain the bleeding." she spoke after she had already rolled up her handkerchief.
And while smiling her uncle said "You know that this will be cured soon, right?"
"Even though. Leave it there as a guarantee."
"Okay okay okay." he said.
Then, after he had stopped his uncle's bleeding, Ting stood up, and as he did so, the calm expression of moments ago quickly turned into the expression of someone who looked like he wanted to cry again. She walked over to her aunt's body, which was lying on the table, and as a tear ran down her face, she withdrew the sword that was embedded in it.
And as she threw the sword to the ground she asked "Who do you think ordered them to do this?"
Her uncle looked around and as he closed his eyes and shook his head he said "...I don't know..."
Clenching her fists tightly she said "Please don't lie to me uncle! I deserve to know who did it." she turned to him and, with tears streaming from her eyes, she said, "I deserve to know who you are, and why you are doing this to me! He's already pushed me away, so why don't he and the others next to him leave me alone?! Why do they always come back?"
"…You have to understand, that you are first in line to your father's succession. So there are definitely many people who want your harm."
"…But I'm not there. So the succession should have been passed to your other son, no?"
He approached her as she said, "Not exactly. For being the oldest, while you are still alive, no matter where you are. You will always be the successor."
"So you mean this will never stop?"
As he placed her hand on top of her head and shook it gently, smiling he said "Don't worry I'll fix this. Even because, now that you're not sick anymore, you need to make up for all the lost time and make the most of your life."
She smiled as she wiped her tears and said, "As if that were really possible…"
When wiping her tears she was a little nervous, because just thinking about the scene she had seen a few moments ago, her body was already shaking. But even so, she turned and looked at Noah's body, which was a little behind her, and as she kept that small distance she asked, "And what happened to him? Why is he like this, stretched out on the floor like that?"
"I do not know. After killing that man, he just passed out where he was."
"And where is the body?"
"Does not exist. It simply disappeared after being consumed by a strange flame."
"He Disappeared after being consumed by a flame? …Do you think it might have been a demon?"
"I don't know… we're a long way from demonic territory so it's kind of hard to believe a demon would have made it this far."
"But what if it is? …That would explain why he was able to cure something that was seemingly impossible."
"Yes, that might even be true… But that was weird. He didn't seem to be using demonic IQ, but his personality seemed to change all of a sudden… it was like he was literally another person."
"But is that even possible?"
"Well, that's what I'm going to try to find out."
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From the center of a completely dark and unfurnished room, suddenly came a large beam of light. And from that beam came a man, who after having taken a few steps into the room, knelt down and while trembling said, "My lord, it seems that the mission has unfortunately failed."
Then out of all that darkness came a voice saying "...But what about the murderers?"
"Apparently they're all dead, sir..."
"…And what happened to Aunt Yaang?"
"She unfortunately passed away…"
"Well that's really a shame…" the voice seemed to be slowly getting closer and closer. "But why are you giving me this information? Where is Lao Ai?"
"…Mister Lao unfortunately… also passed away…"
"Like?"
Although it was just a question, that man seemed to be totally terrified, and soon began to tremble as he said, "While carrying out the order to observe the entire mission process, using the eye link technique, which had previously been given to him by the Mr. I regret to inform you that while carrying out this order, Mr. Lao died."
"…And how could this have happened? Wasn't he in a room being surrounded by several guards?"
"Yes sir, but unfortunately none of these men can prevent his death."
"Like this? Are you telling me someone came in here and just killed him? Even though he was surrounded by guards?"
"No sir…"
"So how exactly did he die?"
"As Mr. Lao used the technique to see everything the three assassins saw, he suddenly began to shake and scream, as if he had something extremely haunting in front of him."
"So they were killed by a mighty demonic beast?"
"No sir. For before he died, Mr. Lao had said that the assassins had already contacted the princess and Mr. Fusu."
"So what happened?"
"As he screamed and tried desperately to get away from something, a strange blue-white flame engulfed his entire body, and moments later there was nothing left of him."
"So you're telling me he was literally turned to dust?"
"Maybe not even that is left, sir."
"One last question. Was there anyone else with them?"
"Mr. Lao had said there was a young man. But I said gamba that he was only in the tempered body, so you don't have to worry about such a person."
"…Then that's it?"
"Yes sir." the man stood up and as he bowed he said "So if you'll excuse me, now I'll leave."
"Oh, sure. You can go now."
The man turned and walked slowly towards the exit. However, from the darkness came the voice o calling again "Wait! There's just one more thing."
And when he turned around saying "Well, Si…"
Before he could even finish his sentence, without even having felt or seen what happened, that man's head was already on the ground, and everything around him was much darker than before.
"What do you mean I don't need to worry? Any threat must be eliminated and the blind who don't see it, don't deserve it or even should, stay by my side. …Looks like maybe my older sister found someone really interesting in that backwater. If possible, I admit that I would like to meet you again…"