His sentence caught Kayden by surprise. He didn't expect something like this so suddenly. The boy prepared himself in a fighting stance, even though he didn't want to fight, he still needed to defend himself.
The female figure began to approach. Kayden recognized her right away. It was the woman in the video, with the same brown hair and brown eyes. Her height was small and she did not carry any weapons.
"Child, do you know why we are here? I don't remember anything," the woman began in a friendly tone. His footsteps got closer and closer.
"We're here to fight," Kayden said bluntly. He didn't trust the woman. She could be an imitation or something. His response made the woman look scared.
"But why? I've never fought in my life, please don't hurt me," his tone, along with a frightened expression, made Kayden unconsciously lower his katana and stow it on his waist.
"I don't know, ask him," Kayden turned and pointed to the guide. Before the boy could turn back around, he felt cold metal enter his back. By reflex, he used acceleration along with a pop flash to move away.
Unfortunately, the damage had already been done. Kayden could feel at least 70% of his movement impaired with the left side of his body weakened. The boy began pumping mana into the bleeding to close it.
But that was the most he could do. He saw the woman approaching again with a smile on her face. The pop flash caught her by surprise, but she wouldn't fall for the same trick again.
Kayden used the technique of pretending to be injured. He began to stagger backward. He didn't expect that a woman as good as shown in the video would be a cold-blooded killer.
His katana was being held sloppily in one hand. The boy raised his gun above his head as if he was going to make one last blow. This elicited a laugh from the woman.
When she got close, Kayden used a pop flash on his blade. The woman was already expecting something like this and just looked away before the spell broke. Unfortunately for her, Kayden was no longer a rookie. Along with the pop flash, there was a concentrated beam that directly struck her chest.
This froze her movements for a few thousandths of a second, but that was enough for Kayden to use proximity along with another concentrated beam to get closer to the woman.
Quickly and lethally, Kayden aimed for both of his opponent's hands. With a precise cut strengthened by acceleration, both hands left the female body, accompanied by a scream of pain.
Kayden walked away and began to catch his breath as he watched the guide. He knew that in the end, only the ghost's word mattered. Seeing the boy waiting for his words, the man said:
"She's still alive," was just that.
"I'm not going to kill someone defenseless," Kayden refused to kill a woman unable to even use her arms.
"Very well, then I will heal you," as he said this, the woman's two hands were levitated and sewn onto her body again. The process was dreadful, but at the same time effective.
Kayden's face became serious again. He might have caught the woman with his trick once, but twice would be a matter of luck, and he probably hadn't. His only hope was that the woman seemed to have no combat or cultivation experience whatsoever.
"Too bad for you, little boy," the woman had a lunatic smile on her face. She again began to advance on Kayden.
The boy tightened his grip on his katana, this time he maintained a firm stance. He knew this would be a one-attack-each-side confrontation, this time he could not hesitate. The woman took the same calm, slow steps.
It seemed like he hadn't learned anything from the last confrontation.
Zummm !!!
Kayden felt his leg stiffen and hurt. Without him realizing it, a tiny ice dart had been thrown at him. His movement in one of his legs was frozen. The woman laughed again.
This time, she approached quickly to try to take advantage of the boy. Kayden knew it was all or nothing. He compiled half of his mana into a concentrated beam. When the dagger hit his sword, he unleashed the attack on the two.
The woman certainly did not expect a suicide spell of this type and was electrocuted along with the boy. Kayden used the other half of his mana to accelerate his body beyond its limits.
His acceleration reached 40%, and every muscle in his body was screaming and popping like a balloon. His katana came down decisively against his opponent. The woman didn't have time to react to the boy's attack.
Silence.
For a few seconds, only silence could be heard, until the woman fell to the ground lifeless. Seeing his opponent fall, Kayden was finally able to subconsciously relax.
His body was exhausted and would have passed out by the time the acceleration ended, but his mind pushed him beyond his natural limits. Before the boy's body could fall to the ground, he was caught by the guide.
This was the first person Kayden killed in his two lives, outside of his knowledge, a small part of him was broken forever. This would be a milestone that would divide his life into before and after.
"Better than average," the man muttered as he burned the female body until there weren't even ashes left to tell the tale.
His sentence made the boy remember his physical condition. His body was new, it didn't even look like he had destroyed his body. Passing a circulation of mana through his heart and veins, the boy was surprised.
He seemed to be slightly more efficient, it was as if his body naturally understood where it needed to be improved.
"Now let's go through a little psychology session, Kayden," he said. "I'll ask you some questions, try to answer them most honestly." His sentence caught the boy by surprise. He expected an assassin's guild to be more on the brutal side.
....
Kayden woke up again on the stone bed, this time his memories came back quickly, the fight and the death.
The boy let out a sigh and closed his eyes. His mind fell into thoughts. This was the first time he killed another person. His feelings were...normal.
He didn't regret what he had done, his heart did not doubt that it was necessary. It was him or her. What haunted him was the image of the child and father in the video. Even though he knew it wasn't his fault, he still had a little resentment about it.
Kayden continued thinking for a few minutes. His thoughts were racing until they were like a lake in winter. Calm.
The boy decided by himself. His eyes opened to find the guide waiting for him in the corner of the room.
"I hope you recovered well, I did my best efforts to patch you up," his tone made it seem like Kayden was just a rag doll that could be tweaked as he pleased.