David felt sorry for Adrian's fate even though he already knew his past when he read Ren's fantasy world novel, in the novel after his mother's death Adrian's fate was even worse. When Mia, who is his younger sister, was taken by the gangsters, Adrian tried to help his younger sister but all his efforts were in vain. Adrian also began to train hard to be strong to help his sister who had been sold and became a slave of a nobleman, until finally Adrian's hard work succeeded and made him a B rank hunter.
He also started going to the nobleman who had bought his sister to save Mia but it was too late because when he got there he saw Mia dead in a terrible condition, he saw Mia's body full of wounds without using a single piece of clothing. Adrian cried as much as he could while hugging his lifeless sister, all the events that happened to him made Adrian even more depressed, and vowed to kill everyone who had hurt his sister.
Because of this, Adrian also hated the nobles who he thought always acted at will, he started his revenge action by killing the gangsters who had brought and sold his sister followed by killing the nobles who had killed and tortured his sister. With all these incidents making Adrian the most dangerous fugitive in the world, many kingdoms began to put up posters of himself which resulted in Adrian often being targeted by other hunters. However, this did not scare him because he had unique skills that made him very difficult to catch let alone kill, even the people who pursued him ended up dying at Adrian's hands until he was dubbed the great assassin.
David is determined to change Adrian's sad future and will not let Mia die just like that, but when David is in his thoughts suddenly the system gives a notification to David.
[DING]
[Special mission (changing Adrian's future)
Adrian is a tritagonist who will have an important role as the main protagonist but he also has a bad destiny, changing Adrian's bad destiny by preventing Mia's death.
Reward: life chance increased by 5%, Adrian's trust in you increased, and gain telepathy skills.
Failure: life chance reduced by 10% and Adrian's trust in you reduced]
'Heyy... how come my chances of survival are drastically reduced if I fail, while mission successes are even less? Hah... never mind at least I got a new skill' David said to himself.
David began to comfort Adrian and Mia who were crying when he told them about his past problems, he even said that he would treat Mia and Adrian to a meal at a restaurant and would discuss his purpose here with Adrian. They agreed and started to go to a nearby restaurant to eat.
***
Meanwhile, in a building there were men gathered, and in front of him was a large man with a lion tattoo on his back and a snake tattoo on his right arm.
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!!!!... YOU FAILED TO BRING THAT LITTLE GIRL HERE."
"S... sorry boss, we failed to bring the girl because suddenly there was a boy who helped them, boss," His subordinate said while kowtowing in front of the boss.
"Ha... you lost to a little boy, how is that possible HA..."
Their boss began to strangle the neck of one of his subordinates until he raised one hand, the person who was strangled thrashed because he began to run out of breath. A few seconds later their boss released the stranglehold on his subordinate's neck and made the person feel relieved to be able to breathe again.
"w... we're the sorry boss but that boy can't be underestimated, he's so strong"
"DAMN... USELESS!!!! "
Just as the boss was about to raise his hand to one of his subordinates, the other subordinates suddenly came and brought a man to their boss.
"Boss... we found Farel," said one of his subordinates.
Seeing that made the boss happy again and started walking in the direction Farel was, after their distance was close he immediately gripped Farel's chin firmly.
"Hey... look who's back, you think you can escape from me forever Farel"
"I'm sorry Mr. Samuel... I... I didn't mean to run away" Farel said while shaking.
"BASTARD LIAR!!!" Samuel said while hitting Farel's cheek so hard that it even made Farel's mouth bleed and made one of his teeth fall out.
Samuel was the boss of the gangsters most feared by many people in the suburbs of the Malvyn Empire, he was famous as a loan shark who lent money at very high-interest rates, of course, he did this work illegally and people who could not pay then they would torture, kill or sell one of the borrower's family and sell it to the slave market.
"Forgive me Mr. Samuel, I... I will pay the interest immediately"
"Hah... what are you going to pay with, you don't even have any money let alone a job... hmm... how about we sell one of your kidneys to reduce the interest payment"
Farel who heard that was so scared that he even prostrated himself in front of Samuel to not do that. He did not want one of his organs to be sold, he would do anything to do so even if it meant sacrificing his son and wife.
"I... I beg you Mr. Samuel not to do that.... I...I will do whatever you want but please don't take my kidney."
"Hmm... whatever yes... ah I happen to want your daughter for me to sell to the slave market, I'm sure the price will be quite high especially since she is still 11 years old there will be many nobles who want her"
"Ah... I will bring her to you, Mr. Samuel... I will bring her here but if I do that you will not sell my kidney right"
"Of course... if you bring your daughter here then I won't have to sell your kidney and your interest payment will also be reduced by 50%"
"Thank you, Mr. Samuel, I will bring Mia here," Farel said happily.
"Alright... you can go now and bring your daughter here UNDERSTAND... if you try to run away again watch out"
"Yes sir, then I'll go first"
Samuel just nodded his head as a sign that he allowed Farel to leave, Farel hurried away to bring Mia to Mr. Samuel.
****
Meanwhile, David, Adrian, and Mia finally arrived at the restaurant they wanted, without lingering any longer they immediately entered and were welcomed by the waiter who was there. At first, they hesitated to serve them because they saw Adrian and Mia's shabby and slightly dirty clothes but David immediately took out a bag of money in his pocket that he had gotten from Adrian after he returned it to David. The waiter saw David's very nice and elegant clothes looking like royalty and immediately chose the best table for them and gave them the best food menu in the restaurant.
David told Adrian and Mia to choose any food there, but Mia and Adrian were still confused about which one to choose considering the price was very expensive. David who felt that this was a waste of time immediately told the waiter to take out all their best food. The waiter understood and left immediately after taking down their orders.
David was not at all afraid of running out of money because he had a lot of money in his inventory that he had gotten one week ago from the system as a reward for completing his training. The money stolen by Adrian was only a small portion of it, fortunately, David was not too fond of spending money even though he had a wicked nature.
"Is it okay if we order all the best menus here, the food here is very expensive"
"Hahaha...what are you afraid of Adrian, I'm the son of Lewis Hilbert a high-class nobleman, food like this is no problem for me at all. If I wanted to I could buy this entire restaurant and its employees"
"Wow... you being able to buy the whole restaurant is amazing," Mia said enthusiastically.
"Mia!!! Hahaha... Sorry David, Mia's just very excited."
"It's okay, oh... yes you must be wondering why I came to see you right"
"Yes... I was wondering what made the son of an influential family in the Malvyn Empire want to visit me"
"Look, I am currently 14 years old and according to Hilbert family regulations I must choose a shadow guard as my bodyguard and right hand and I want you Adrian as my shadow guard"
Adrian who heard that was very surprised, he didn't believe David's words who said he wanted to make him a shadow guard. How could he be a shadow guard when he was not even able to protect himself.
"What!!! How can I be a shadow guard when I can't even protect myself?"
"Don't worry, you will get training in my family, they will train you to be a shadow guard. Don't you want to be strong?"
"Being strong..."
"Yeah, it's not like you're tired of being oppressed like this, don't you want to be stronger? Besides, it's not a bad decision because then you have the power to protect your loved ones like Mia."
Adrian was just silent in his place, what David said was true he was tired of living like this, living full of suffering and always receiving violence from the people around him, he also wanted to be a person who could be relied on and could protect Mia who was the only family Adrian had. An opportunity like this should not be missed.
"I want to, I want to be strong to be able to protect my little sister"
David just smiled at Adrian's answer, he was happy that his plan to make Adrian his subordinate would be realized.
"Well then after eating come with me, we will start the training together so that you can feel an aura and shape it into an aura star"
"Hmmm... but this training is very painful because I have already felt it, are you sure you will still follow this training"
"Of course I'm ready, I'll take any risk to become strong like you"
David again could only smile at Adrian's extraordinary determination, while Mia could only be silent because she did not understand what David and Adrian were talking about, until a few minutes later their food had arrived and they ate it quietly.