Adopted Soldier

After Rachel finally finished talking with Sayaka who was of no help whatsoever. That best friend of hers didn't even give on good advice. She just kept on pushing her to do something with Alex. What kind of best friend does that?

Rachel sighed as she looked around her room. Talking with Sayaka took so much time, and led to nothing. Now she needed to clean up her room, while Alex was still waiting patiently outside. The first thing Rachel did was take all the underwear she had scattered all over the room, and placed them in a laundry basket.

Next thing she needed to do was get her diary and hide it someplace Alex wont accidentally see. Rachel then remembered all the magazines she was reading about how to get your boyfriend to listen to you. She needed to hid those as well.

...

Alex who was done talking with the head butler, was waiting outside of Rachel's room. Noticing It was taking Rachel quite some time to do what she needed to do. Alex knocked on the door to check up on her.

"Rachel is everything all right?"

"Yeah, everything is good. Don't peek okay, I just have to do something before you can enter. It will just take a few more minutes."

Alex didn't ask anything anymore and continued to wait for Rachel to finish whatever she was doing. kumiko and her three sons were watching everything unfold while they peek from the room across Rachel's, the four of them sighed at how nothing was happening even now.

Alex obviously noticed the four of them watching him, but wasn't bothered by it since he knows that this was their house, and this might be something they usually do.

While waiting Alex received another call, and this time it was from Emily.

"What is it Emily, did something else happen?"

"Yeah something happened."

"What? Give me a full report."

"You are actually sleeping in Rachel's house! That's what's happening! Who knew you had it in you Alex."

"What are you talking about Emily? Are you actually just reporting to me what I'm doing? Is that it?"

"No there's more, Lilitth wants to talk to you." Emily handed her phone to Lilitth, who was looking a bit sad.

"Onii-sama are you really not coming home anymore? Are you really going to stay there with Rachel-nee-san forever?" Lilitth sounded distressed while she said this, which confused Alex.

"Huh? Who told you I'm staying here forever? I'm just staying the night so that I could protect Rachel, seeing that someone might attack again. I'm coming back home tomorrow."

"Really? You're not lying to me are you?"

"Why would I lie? Also have you ever heard me lie to you before, Lilitth?" When Alex said this, he heard Lilitth screaming at Emily telling her that Emily was a meanie.

...

While Alex was trying to calm Lilitth down, Sayaka who was in her room felt surprised and relieved. After she told Alex about Rachel's situation, she too wanted to go to where Rachel was, but her father didn't allow it, saying.

"If Alex is already going, there is no need for you to go. Tell me my daughter, if you went, will it change anything? or will you just get in the way of Alex? Let me remind you, we are assassins. Direct confrontations isn't our forte. If you went and joined that kind of melee, that's happening out in the open, you wont be as effective as normal, making you another target to be protected. Is that what you want?"

Sayaka wasn't able to answer her father after he said that. So she reluctantly stayed home, waiting for some news.

It didn't even take an hour for Rachel to call her telling her everything was good, and now Alex was actually going to sleep in her room. Most likely Alex wanted to sleep in the same room, so he could better protect Rachel. Still even though Sayaka could easily guess this, it was still enjoyable to tease her best friend about it.

Sayaka who had just teasing Rachel on the phone was now laying in her bed, thinking about how useless she was in this situation. She had the ability to protect herself, but not her best friend. She might be better than most kids her age in the art of battle, but in face of something like what happened awhile, she was just another cannon fodder.

Assassins weren't really people that are meant to protect. So protecting Rachel with her skill set was obviously not going to work, she knew that, but it was still frustrating.

'I didn't really want to be an assassin, it was just a family thing... But now when I thought I would be able to use my skills for something I wanted to do, it turned out it was useless. I just wasn't good enough. This kind of thing might happen again and the next time I don't want to say I wasn't good enough. I want to be able to do something... I guess I need to resolve myself for what's to come.'

Sayaka who hated her family business had now decided to truly master the art of assassination of her family. Sayaka stood up and exited her room.

"Father, teach me the ways of the shadow." Without making even the slightest sound Sayaka's father appeared beside her. To anyone else they might've jumped in fright, but Sayaka was already used to it.

"I knew you would say that. As the next successor of the name 'Shadow' you were always meant to learn the techniques. I will train you and once you succeed in the final test you will be given the name 'Shadow'. Are you ready for this Sayaka?"

"I am ready."

...

As Sayaka was experiencing a life changing event. Emily too was about to make a life changing decision. It was whether to tell Evangeline that Alex was going to sleep in Rachel's room, or not. If she told Evangeline about it a fun event might start, but it could also ruin something precious, or it might not. Basically it could go either way. If she doesn't tell her one way or another Evangeline will eventually find out, and by that time Emily might not be able to control the situation.

"To tell or not to tell that is the question"