"Lucius, You must never hesitate to kill when assassinating someone."
A young man with long black hair, blue eyes, long eyelashes,piercings on his ears, wearing a black suit, standing beside Lucius.
Lucius just silently listened without giving an answer. His face was bruised like he was in some kind of fearsome fight. In here Lucius looks a lot younger and shorter.
"I know you are a newbie so it is quite understandable that you would hesitate to kill. But, you need to understand that if you don't show your worth to the top dogs of our organization, you will be disposed off...."
Then the man's face got a little serious.
"And only way to prove your worth is by killing your targets without any mercy."
Lucius gasped as he widened his eyes.
Now to the present:
Lucius, after getting smashed below his chest, he was laying on the ground with his face against the pitched black road.
"Haha. You are done for."
The white haired man smirked as he stared down at the fallen Lucius.
Then with a smug face, he thought:
Nobody can stand up after getting hit by my Perfect Blast.
He then confidently walked near Lucius, thinking that he was completely knocked out. After all, so far nobody had every stood up after getting punched by Perfect Blast.
After getting near him, he placed his right palm on Lucius' back of the head.
Devour
As he uttered that word, a dark yellow color square appeared before his palm.
In the heat of his victory, he put a smile on his face. The moment he smiled something unexpected happened.
Abruptly, he was getting chocked by Lucius, who immediately got up the moment the white haired man squatted near him.
Lucius tightly grabbed the man's throat with his right thumb, index finger and middle finger. As a result, the man was getting chocked.
What!
The gritted his teeth in surprise.
Because, he was sure that Lucius was knocked out the moment he was hit with the Perfect Blast. But here Lucius was still conscious, looking at him with emptied green eyes while trying to choke him to death.
The man immediately covered his right hand with the curse energy to punch Lucius on the face.
Seeing that the man was preparing to deliver one of his another killer punch, Lucius let go of the man's throat and quickly grabbed the man's head with both of his hands, then in the blink of an eye, he rose on his feet and twisted the man's neck, making snapping sound.
After that Lucius moved his hands from the man's head, and let him fall. The man fell on the ground with his eyes opened.
There wasn't even an ouch of breath coming out from him. He was dead.
Lucius stared at the dead man with blank and Expressionless eyes.
Soon, as he was standing he clutched the place below his chest, and bent his upper body down, then vomited blood with an excruciating face.
The effect of the Perfect Blast has finally kicked in, or more likely he just couldn't ignore the pain anymore.
After vomiting a good amount blood, he felt nauseated, and intentionally fell on his back, looking at the bright yellow sky.
I just killed someone again. I made a pledged to myself that I won't kill anyone anymore. But look at me now. What was even the point behind stopping killing for a whole year then, if it means I have to start killing once again... It seems I can't live a normal life, after all.
Lucius was conflicted. His transformation wore off.
Some of his ribs had probably been broken due to that monstrous punch. Even though he had impressive tolerance to any kind of physical attack, but still that man's strength behind the punch surpassed his exception.
Damn. My body is hurting like hell.
From being conflicted, he quickly clinged his teeth as his face twitched in agony.
Another punch from that guy would have meant death for me. Even though I intentionally took that killer punch so that I could lured him close to him while making him let his guard down, but damn that hurts.
In his assassin days, he always had to put his life on the line. Comparing to the threat of those times, the man was quite literally nothing to him. Even though being reckless wasn't in his nature before becoming an assassin, but somehow after becoming one, before he knew it he became a kind of guy who wasn't afraid of being reckless.
A man can't always put his life in the clutches of death and say I want to live...But, even though I don't wanna say this, I think I might actually be a hypocrite. Because... I always say I wanna live while I don't hesitate to put myself in danger. Only reason I survived so far was because of combining every bits of wits I had inside that brain of mine and the gruesome training I had received from Nowlin.
Lucius just remained sprawled on the ground. Even if he wanted to he would be able to get up. So, he just squinted his right eye and looked at unconscious Levina.
As he was aimlessly staring at her, after some time, he saw that she regained her consciousness.
At first she was slowly opening her eyes. Then she, at once, opened her eyes with caution, and sat up without wasting any time.
After sitting up, she looked around her, and remembered that she had taken care of the enemies a little while ago. With a reassuring face, she sighed.
After that, her eyes caught the sprawled Lucius.
Is he dead or something?
She slowly got up, then went near him. Seeing that his blank eyes were still opened and his eyeballs quickly shifted to her, it was as though she was somewhat disappointed that he was alive.
Then she bluntly said:
"Oh, you are alive."
"Hey, come on, what kind of reaction was that? Shouldn't you be relieved that I am alive. I mean you said I was your pray or something like that."
Levina smirked.
"Does that mean you want me to really kill you."
Lucius left eye twitched. Though he didn't talk back because he was in severe pain and was hardly in any shape to talk. He just closed his eyes.
Don't think even for a second that I will let you kill me. If we really end up in a future where our fighting is inevitable, I can assure you that I will defeat you no matter.
Luckily, Levina wasn't using her Mind Reader. So, she couldn't read those thoughts of his.
She just squatted beside him, and asked:
"Where are you hurt?"
Lucius opened his eyes in confusion and blinked for a while looking at Levina.
Then he answered right below my chest.
Levina then moved her right hand to that spot, and put her palm gently on his abdomen, then uttered:
'Accelerated Healing'
As soon as she uttered those words, her hand was enveloped with dark red energy.
The energy was entering Lucius' abdomen. As it entered in his body, he began to feel that the pain in there was slowly fading away. Instead he was now feeling a lot better...