Prologue Volume 2

Four days before the event ...

April 17th, 2223 ... In the evening ...

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Several people were running somewhere. After a while, they arrive at a cemetery. An abandoned old cemetery ...

"Y-You didn't m-m-mistake for the meeting place, d-did you?" The thin guard questioned stutteredly.

"I didn't. I'd checked several times before coming here. So I'm sure of it!" The medium-size guard refuted against him.

"Y'all are fucking noisy! If it was wrong, I'll beat him for sure!" The big guard was annoyed with his colleague.

"Enough for the nonsense. We come to the business matter, understood?!" The fat man who wore noble clothes was intervened them.

As a result, they were silent as soon as they perceived their milord's words.

Next, The noble looked ahead as he spoke,

"Did that "Bastard" trick me again??! I gave him a lot of money to fuck up Aeron Schmidt's life. Where the fuck is Edward?!! I'll ruin his life if he doesn't appear this time once and for all!"

Abruptly, a mysterious voice commented,

"Delectable quietus or ludicrous demise?"

Hearing that, the guards immediately protected the nobleman with alacrity. The nobleman asked it,

"Are you the assassin hired by "that bastard" or his comrade?!"

A mysterious voice responded,

"Didn't you know the "etiquette" of hiring an assassin? Looks like there were several idiotic nobles in this kingdom!"

"Khh!" The nobleman was annoyed with it.

"Hey! Show yarself before our milord if ya still care of yar life!" The big guard reacted as he pointed his spear.

Yet, The mysterious voice only uttered,

"Delectable quietus or ludicrous demise?"

"Ludicrous demise! Now, get out or—!"

*Stab!*

Before the big guard finished it, something warm was felt on his neck. When he looked at it, something was struck deep in his throat ...

*Shrrock!* *Splash!*

Blood came out of his throat. The mysterious person started to pick up his sword. As a result of the mysterious person's action, his blood scattered all around ...

*Drip* *Drip* *Drip*

The remaining people, including the nobleman, became alerted about it.

Before them, the mysterious voice turned into a person who wore a black hooded robe. With a crow mask used on the face, the person talked,

"Delectable quietus or ludicrous demise?" While approaching the remaining people.

*Walk*

"I'll shut your filth mouth shut forever if you come here, you lowlife beggar! Along with your family like cremation ashes!" the medium-size guard reacted angrily.

The nobleman ordered him immediately,

"Kill that freak!"

The medium-size guard wanted to attack. However ...

*Swoosh!* *Shhrock!*

He felt as if he had fallen ...

*Fall!* 

Amidst that moment, he could see his body was standing clearly ...

"Isn't that ... me???!"

*Fall!* *Thud!*

A few seconds later, his body fell and, followed by his blood, which scattered out ...

*Scatter!*

"ARRGGH!" He screamed after realizing that.

Swiftly, the mysterious one stabbed the guard's head forthwith ...

*Stab!*

Subsequently, that person took the guard's head and threw it to the nobleman ...

*Swoosh!* *Thud!*

The head fell under the noble's feet. The nobleman suddenly panicked and almost fell to the ground. Yet, his body could still be held by the thin guard.

Realizing it, the nobleman gave an order,

"You must be my "meat shield" !" While pushing his last guard toward the mysterious person.

The last guard fell in front of that person. Pleadingly, he uttered his words,

"P-please forgive me! I-I still have dependents to take care of my mother, who was sick because of leprosy!"

He —the thin guard— broke out in cold sweat subconsciously. Unexpectedly, he peed in his pants and fainted instantly.

"Khhh! You unusable guard!" The nobleman pissed off.

The mysterious person only passed him by and continued the walk ...

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Ultimately, the mysterious person was standing before the nobleman. Thereafter, the person expressed the thoughts,

"So, did you understand "it" fat swine?"

"I got it! B-but, spare my life!"

"A swine like you want to spare your life? Pfft! Get lost!" That person swung the sword through the nobleman's neck immediately.

*Swoosh!*

Betwixt those momenta, the nobleman suddenly confronted his idea,

"I-I-I will give you everything! Money? Fame? Status? I will give them all it once!"

Hearing his idea, the swing of the sword stopped, although it was almost slightly reached his neck. Subsequently, that person replied,

"Who?" 

Receiving a question, the nobleman cleared his throat and voiced his thoughts,

"Kill the man named Gilbert from Adventure Guild!"

As a reply, the mysterious one expressed it,

"Tell me more about the prey."

...

After telling several information about Gilbert, the assassin confirmed those,

"Is that all? Any clues that are left?"

"If I add some, it'd be that he has a close relationship with Aeron Schmidt. For the last name, don't think about crossing the line with him. Just focus on Gilbert!" The nobleman warned that assassin.

The assassin didn't reply to the last one, and only a silent reaction appeared.

Seeing that reaction, the nobleman questioned something,

"I thought about something for a while. You, as an assassin, did you know where Edward is?"

"He already died,"

"W-what???! How did—I mean, by who?"

"The last one you warned before. I was passing by. And, coincidentally, I saw him fighting against him. Seeing from the outside range at the time. To be clear about it, does he has a black color and tall height?"

"Yes ... he has those ...."

"It is what it is then. So, any clues about the prey next?" the assassin asked again.

"No. I've said all."

... 

April 18th, 2223 ...

The assassin began to observe the prey. Everything were observed. That person only didn't observe him when he was doing a mission to the border.

April 19th, 2223 ...

The assassin tried to see several places. Road until Alley were becoming the mysterious person's spot list for executing Gilbert. The mysterious person also did that until night to decide the best location based on several pieces of information.

...

April 21st, 2223 ...

The assassin appeared before the prey. With the scheme that was prepared, that person did the plan. Soon, it started ...

"Are you one of the customers who want to take your weapon?"

The assassin did the same thing. With the same acts, it worked,

"Instead of looking at me like a freak, you'd better tell what your aim is!"

In the same way, the assassin made it again ...

The prey —Gilbert or Nagao— started to take out his weapons. When the person was preparing to combat him, an unexpected intruder came unfortunately. By that situation, the assassin vanished from his sight ...

*Vanish!*

Then he talked with his companions,

"Big brother! You've come back! What are you doing here??"

"Hey, Emilia! As you can see," he replied. "I want to fight someone in front of me. That person wore a crow mask,"

"A crow mask?" she said while looking around. "But no one was wearing that before you," she commented confusedly.

"What do you mean? That person was standing before—"When he looked toward it, that person had disappeared—"Where did the freak go??!"

"You might be tired after taking much work," she sighed. "Luckily, we wanted to eat. So, come join us!" While holding his hands.

Then he looked at Mr. Schmidt,

"Go easy on yarself, boy," he tilted his head. "And, don't sweat the small shit because I gotcha yar back!"

"Daddy!" she was annoyed by his words.

"Oh, silly me!" Mr. Schmidt talked back with chuckles.

"Fine ... if you insist!" He sighed afterward.

Eventually, they went into somewhere place.

Meanwhile, the assassin hid amidst the crowd. Following the situation, the assassin perceived conclusion,

"Plan one was successful. Plan two began to execute it!"

The assassin went out from the crowd, precisely, went into one of the alleys amidst Keldam kingdom territorial ...

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Along with it, the assassin commented again,

"The more difficult the prey, the more tastes sweetly~!"

The assassin walked casually amidst it. After a while, that assassin stopped and talked with itself,

"Looks like I must change the place for executing him. If that's so, I would choose that route then~!" the person looked at the sky. "I hope in the middle of that action, the rain will fall. It will be much worth it~!"

Abruptly, the drip of rainwater fell to the ground ...

*Drip!* *Drip!* *Drip!*

Until it became rain ...

*Pitter-patter!* *Zhurr!*

The assassin looked at the rain, smiling amidst it, and commented,

"Looks like natural as if approving of my choice. How amusing it~!"

That person still stood amidst the rain. Suddenly, the assassin uttered the thoughts,

"I've got a good feeling about this~!"

With these thoughts, that assassin began to walk away from it. Later, the assassin vanished from it.