Adopted Soldier

While Lyner and his men were heading to Cromer city. Alex and the others were steadily moving the civilians, and as Oliver and his family were fighting mercs from the Shadow Mercenaries. The group all somehow forgot about one person that suddenly disappeared, this person was none other than Sayaka Mutsu.

She had hidden herself from view after looking at her best friend one last time as the doors to the safe room closed, her father was also close at hand. Even with a beast like Dan present, he couldn't sense the two assassins.

The father and daughter duo had been hunting down assassins and snipers on the vicinity that were rated as extremely dangerous. After killing some of them, Sayaka noticed that the assassins had different targets. These group of assassins were divided into two groups, that Sayaka noticed.

The first group of assassins which seem to be of an adequate level of ability were all targeting Niel, or to be more specific the whole Rayheart family. Though now that the other Rayhearts were inside Lyner's safe room, most of the assassins attention was now solely on Niel, who was out in the open. They started to get more aggressive seeing that Niel was the only one present among their targets. Sayaka was the one dealing with these assassins from the shadows. She was doing this since Alex and the other were already hard pressed in fighting the units out in the open. They had too little manpower to deal with the assassins as well.

'An assassin to deal with an assassin.' Thinking about this made Sayaka smile.

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The second group of assassins were targeting Oliver, and they weren't any ordinary assassins. These assassins were the so called named assassins, and most of them had a track record of a hundred percent kill rate. These assassins each had a kill count that easily numbered in the hundreds. Seeing as Oliver and his group were already having an extremely difficult fight against the Shadow Mercenaries and it was entirely possible that Oliver might be killed by these assassins. So the one dealing with the assassins that were after Oliver was Sayaka's father, the man with no name, who has been nicknamed the Shadow.

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Assassins point of view:

I was sent here to deal with a boy named Oliver Minx. The target was supposedly an ordinary boy, with great combat potential. That was all the information they gave me, and so I thought that this was going to be an easy mission. Still knowing that they hired me to kill the kid, that would mean it wasn't as easy as it might sound. Well in reality nothing is ever easy when you get to my level. All the work they give me is always the hard crap.

Still knowing all that I couldn't help but shout in my mind, what the hell is this?! I was now running inside a school building and for some reason the whole floor was dark. I know for a fact that it was afternoon, and the sun has yet to set, but what is with this, the whole floor was covered in darkness.

Is this the work of another assassin, trying to kill Oliver? When I infiltrated the school, I noticed an assassin or two, and even recognize some famous names. Still did someone really have an ability to do something like this?

I then heard footsteps from behind me, and without hesitation I fired my gun at whoever it was. Yet I hit nothing but air, it was then I heard multiple sounds of footsteps, slowly coming towards me. I could feel my heart racing in fear, as an assassin who has lived in the dark side of the world, I knew a thing or two about scare tactics, but this was on a whole other level altogether. It was like I was in a horror movie.

I moved my legs and headed into a nearby classroom, which I thought was empty. When I entered I smelled a very familiar smell. This was the smell you usually get to sniff in my line of work, this was the smell of blood. Looking around I saw inside the room was piles of flesh upon flesh. It was a pile of dead bodies!

"What the hell is this?" I whispered to myself as I approach the mini tower made of flesh. Upon closer inspection of the bodies, I saw some familiar faces. Weren't this the other high level assassins, that infiltrated the school. What the hell happened here? Did a fight break out or something. It was at that moment when I thought that, I felt a spine tingling sensation from behind me. Every fiber of my instincts were telling me to run but for some reason I couldn't move. Was I afraid? Gritting my teeth, almost gnashing at them, I took out a knife and stabbed myself.

I used the pain from the knife wound as something to overcome the fear. I just need to focus on the pain. After confirming that I could move again, I heard a voice echo throughout the room.

"Pretty impressive, as expected of the black hound of the underworld. Quick to act no hesitation in attacking, and even in such a situation where you couldn't understand what was going on, you kept your cool and acted in what you deemed was most efficient. Truly impressive, my daughter should learn from you."

I don't know where the voice was coming from, and I had little to no information about my opponent, while he knows everything about me. Isn't this a checkmate already?

"Hey how about showing yourself. It's bad manners talking to someone while hiding."

"Hmmm, I guess you're right." When the voice said that, a silhouette appeared before me. I wasn't sure if it was a man or a woman who stood before me. I tried to focus all my senses on him, but no matter how hard I look I wasn't sure, if the person I'm seeing was really standing in front of me.

I see so the man before me is that guy.

"What an honor to meet the legendary assassin Shadow."

"Oh, you know about me?"

"Anyone worth mentioning in the underworld knows you. The immortal Shadow, the assassin who has held the most kills throughout history. They say you existed since the beginning of Berdonia. Well anyway now that I know you're here as well, I'll resign from this assignment in killing Oliver Minx. I hope you let me go."

It was a long shot but I might as well try and retreat.

"You really are a good assassin, knowing when to fight and when to retreat. Fine, I'm not really under contract to kill everyone in sight, just those who wish harm upon the boy called Oliver. So sure you could go."

"Why, thank you." I bowed at the silhouette of Shadow in front of me, as I tried to get something from my back pocket. Yet before I could pull out the object from my back pocket I felt a long knife stab through my chest. I coughed up blood, as I felt my body getting colder and colder.

"Why?" I asked even though I already know the answer. Shadow's voice that was once masked by multiple noise now sounded like a middle age man whispering into my ear.

"You really are a good assassin, masking your killing intent. Acting out like you would go and do nothing else, even though the truth was you had no intention of backing out. Still you must work on that body language of yours, as well as your poker face. It was easy for me to tell you were about to do something... Oh right you won't be able to practice anymore seeing as you're going to die now."

Hearing the real voice of the man called Shadow, I chuckled.

"Who knew the legendary assassin, was such a talkative man."

"Well you were a special case. I truly didn't want to kill such a talented man. Truly what a shame."

"What an honor to be praised by a legend such as yourself." It was at that moment I could no longer feel strength from my body, as it slid down like a puppet whose strings had been cut. I then heard Shadow telling me something.

"Tell death for me, tell him that the Shadow approves of you.." That was the last thing I heard when everything turned black.