Adopted Soldier

Once Carlo was done bribing the people in the arcade, he greeted Oliver and Kei. He once again apologized to Kei, while glaring a bit at Oliver. When Oliver noticed Carlo glaring at him, he smiled.

"Oh my comrade's father, Mr. Carlo. I'm sorry about last time, I didn't mean to be rude or anything. It was just part of the mission."

As he heard Oliver's explanation, Carlo sighed. Oliver and his son, seem to follow the same principle in regards to a mission. Which is do what you must for the mission. Once he heard that explanation from Oliver, he couldn't stay angry at the young lad.

"It's alright, it doesn't matter anymore." Carlo smiled wryly at Oliver, and shook hands with him. Oliver's grip strength had amazed Carlo, since that handshake they did was a casual one, and Oliver didn't even truly put any strength to it. He tried to grip Oliver's hand a bit for a little revenge, but Oliver unconsciously responded by adjusting his grip strength.

Once they were done, with greeting each other Carlo got Alex, Lilitth, and Niki to ride in the car he brought. Kei and Oliver were old enough to be able to get home on their own, so Carlo didn't bother to send them home.

After dropping off Niki at her house, the family of three returned to their own mansion. In there the two siblings reported everything that happened in the arcade. Once they were done with their report, the two headed to their rooms.

Alex who was walking side by side with Lilitth in the hallway, noticed that she was cheerier than usual.

"Did you have fun Lilitth?" Alex didn't know why he asked such a weird and stupid question. It was plain to see, anyone with eyes would've noticed that Lilitth did indeed had fun. So there was no need to ask her. Yet here he was, asking her a question with an obvious answer.

Lilitth looked at her onii-sama, with a bright cheerful smile and answered. "Yes"

...

Oliver after parting ways with Kei, headed towards a mountain trail. Even though it was nighttime, for some reason he can still see quite clearly. This is was an ability he had since young, it was like he was wearing night vision googles.

You might be wondering why Oliver was walking down this mountain trail. The reason is simple at the end of the trail is where his master lives. Once he got to the end of the trail he saw a man dancing with sword at hand, this was Ken Seto.

When Oliver saw his master dancing with a sword he was entranced by it's beauty. While watching his master's sword dance he suddenly disappeared from sight. This was a trick that could fool any normal person. But Oliver wasn't exactly normal, he knew that his master already noticed him, so he tried to move into his blind spot.

"What is it Oliver? Why come here at this hour? Have you already mastered the second sword move?" Ken who was already behind Oliver asked.

"Oh about that, I finally got a hang of it awhile ago, but that's not what I came here for." Oliver then started to explain what happened in the arcade, about how Alex broke a punching machine with his bare hands. Using a martial art called Ultimate, and how he wanted to learn the same martial art.

Upon hearing Alex's name, Ken's competitiveness was roused.

'So Ryu allowed his disciple to learn from another. How can I let his disciple be better than my own disciple. You might have trained a monster Ryu, but I will train a monster killer.'

"It's okay Oliver, you can learn that martial art. Just remember to come for your daily sword training. Also what happened to that lady who came with you last time? Is she ready to learn from me as well?" Hearing his master consented made him happy, but hearing the latter half made Oliver's face scowl.

"She is busy doing something... Master why do you want to take her in as a disciple as well? Didn't you say last time she already knows a different set of sword techniques. Is it because her sword techniques are weaker than yours?" Oliver asked his master confused.

Ken didn't answer Oliver, as he started to recall the little lass called Sayaka. The girl had the stench of death, which was the same as Alex but the way she carried herself was different. Ken who noticed all these was told off by the girl. "Please keep this a secret from Oliver. I will tell him and the others about it sometime in the future, but now isn't the time."

The girl made him promise to not tell.

'Still I didn't decide to make her my disciple because her sword techniques are weak. On the contrary her sword techniques are most probably almost as good as mine and Ryu's sword techniques. Her way of the sword seems to also derived from efficiency like Ryu's. It just made me feel itchy that another set of sword skills are derived from that guy's philosophy.'

Oliver seeing that his master seems to be in a deep reflective state, decided to head home. But as he was about to leave the mountain his master spoke to him.

"Oh right next time you spar with Setsuna, you are only allowed to use the second move of the sword dance." Oliver smiled and raised his thumb upwards as he left.

...

Saya was in a dimly lit room, as she stopped herself from sneezing. 'Someone must be thinking about me... It must be Oly.' While she was thinking this, Saya was about to head out of the room.

Inside this room besides her there was another person. He was a dead man who looked like he hanged himself. This person was a corrupt police officer, and he didn't commit suicide Saya killed him.

Before leaving Saya took a pic of the dead police officer and sent it to her dad. She also sent a message saying mission accomplished.

A few minutes later when Saya was already in a more populated area, she received a message from her dad.

"3/10 that's your score for this job, since you scratched his hand with your nails. Before coming home, he didn't have that scratch. Now when the police investigate, if they aren't stupid they wont simply pass this on as a suicide. You have succeeded in killing the target, but failed to make it look like a suicide. The target must've evaded your first strike and blocked it with his arm, and you were able to kill him with the second strike by choking him. What have I told you about waiting for the opportune time? You were being sloppy."

Saya who read her father's message was already aware of her mistake. So she replied to her father as to why she failed to kill the man on the first try.

"Well I was indeed waiting properly, and I also hidden my presence quite well, but as I was waiting

I saw that he was about to touch himself. It felt gross and without noticing it, I couldn't stop myself and attacked him."

"That is not an excuse. We are assassins, when we are doing our job we must keep our human emotions at bay, and become a single killing weapon that pierces the heart without mistakes. I will head over there now and fix your mistake."

"I'm sorry father it will not happen again." Saya messaged her father who didn't reply after this.

'I could be having fun with Oly and the others, but here I am doing this stupid job.' Saya sighed as she headed home.

...

Niel was on the ground breathing heavily. At the moment he was on a privately own land which was Lyner's. Today's lesson from Lyner was extremely difficult, so difficult that he almost died a couple of times tonight.

Yet this kind of difficulty didn't make Niel scared, it actually made him excited. With this much difficulty the moment he rises above it, he would surely have improved leaps and bounds.

...

While the other members where doing different things. Alex was the only one who was actually practicing for the FPS tournament tomorrow.

Well ever since the other members of the club saw Emily's skill, they all thought the same thing.. With her around victory is all but assured.