Adopted Soldier

Alex was feeling extremely relieved as he was able to get to Rachel's side in time to stop the blade of the enemy from taking her life. Alex then looked at the surrounding people. It would seem that they do have a lot of people on their side. Still it wasn't a problem for him to deal with this much. Since it look like they were just numbers with no quality.

First off Alex quickly dealt wit the man that was about to stab Rachel. Using his sword that was as long as a longsword, and shaped like a katana. He knew that Rachel was watching so he couldn't kill the man, so he stabbed the man's legs instead, making him unable to move. The man who was stabbed couldn't react at all, since Alex moved without showing any signs that he was going to attack.

Alex then proceeded to attack all the enemies near Rachel. With his inhuman speed and reflexes Alex was able to beat them with ease. He subdued the enemies by stabbing their legs, breaking their arms, or just doing both.

The quality of assassins and mercenaries here wasn't all that good. The best they got was practically a B ranked merc. Even the assassins were of low quality. Well this is what happens when the client doesn't tell the reason as to why he wants to kill the target. The top notch assassins would be wary or irritated by this. While the higher rank mercs wouldn't care, since they don't need that much money anymore.

Alex looked around double checking if everyone within Rachel's area was immobilized. Once Alex was sure that no one within the area near Rachel was left standing, Alex took a look at Rachel's wounds.

"Are you alright?" Alex who was sounding relieved awhile ago, was now back to his usual indifferent tone.

"Do I look alright to you?" Hearing Alex's indifferent tone of voice, made Rachel feel truly relieved. Hearing his voice, made her feel like everything will be alright. She was now even able to smile at Alex's stupid question.

Alex who was looking at Rachel's injuries was relieved that none of them were life threatening. They were all simple scratches that would heal after a few days. Seeing this Alex felt relieved and at the same time extremely angry. Even though his face was betrayed no emotions as per usual, deep inside he was boiling in anger. It has been a long time, since he couldn't suppress his emotions, but for now he wanted, no he needed to release it.

He wanted to kill all the fools that were blinded by greed and show them something scarier than death itself. He wanted to torment them for every wound they inflicted on Rachel, but he couldn't since Rachel was watching. He needed to simply beat them all up, without killing them.

"Don't worry I'm here now, and I will protect you." Even while saying this line Alex voice remained indifferent. Alex then carried Rachel and placed her in a safer spot. Once he was sure that Rachel couldn't be hit in the spot he placed her in, Alex bursted into the fight. The first target was the people delaying Kumiko.

Looking at Alex's back Rachel whispered, "I know you will... After all, you are, my knight in shining armor."

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Kumiko looked at how Alex efficiently subdued the three men she was having difficulty with. When she saw this, she was now sure that Alex really was going easy on her the first time they met.

"Kumiko can you please, go and protect Rachel, she's the target..." When Kumiko heard what Alex said, she wanted to ask for more details, but seeing the current situation she decided to ask again later.

Now that Alex was sure Rachel will be properly protected, he decided to go all out, and end this farce quickly. Alex stabbed his sword into the ground, this time he will be simply using his hands to beat them into submission. He did this so that he can inflict as much pain as possible before the opponent faints. Alex then used RELEASE and charged forth to help Rachel's three brothers.

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The moment Alex arrived the battle became one sided, as he easily mowed through all the enemies. Even when they decided to set aside their differences and attack together, they weren't even able to touch a single hair on Alex's head.

Alex was truly angry as he punched and kicked the enemies with power sufficient enough to give them extreme pain, but not kill them, just barely keeping them alive.

Kumiko and her sons who were watching Alex, looked on in amazement. Aside from Dan, this was the only other time they saw someone with such a perfect martial form. Alex had literally no openings, and even if he did he was too strong for anyone to exploit that opening.

The only one who wasn't shock by this scene was Rachel, who could only smile wryly.

'So even after all that training, I still needed you to protect me... How pathetic am I... I at least wanted enough strength, as to not be a liability, but it doesn't seem like I'm there yet. But someday surely...' While Rachel was strengthening her resolve, Alex was finishing off the last remaining enemy.

When he was done, he proceeded to call the police chief again. This was the second time he called in this one night. It was like all of this incidents were coordinated.

Still Alex wasn't sure if this was a coincidence or a coordinated attack, all he knew was he needed to protect Rachel at all cost.

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When Alex was done explaining about how he knew Rachel was the target. The Regius family instead of gaining answers to their question had even more questions now. Like why is Rachel being targeted? Why did someone place a bounty on her head? What does Sayaka know about the bounty on Rachel's head? and other such inquiries.

Rachel also wanted to know how come Sayaka knew about this, and didn't tell her immediately... 'Well I guess its because, she wanted to send Alex to help me. If she called me first, Alex might not have arrive in time. She could also-' While Rachel was convincing herself why Sayaka telling Alex first was the right thing to do. Alex said something that shocked everyone present, especially Rachel.

"Rachel, please come live with me." He said this out of nowhere, and without any context. Making the whole Regius family look at him in stunned silence.. Rachel almost fainted on the spot because of the confusion, as her face was getting redder and redder.