[Are we doing this again, Pupa?]

[Pupa: It is in the plot, so it is inevitable.]

[Sigh, I just don't want to fall and get hurt again.]

[Pupa: Then don't be clumsy.]

"Senior Grind, are you ready?" HenTai tapped James Grind's shoulder as he controlled the fly drone. "I've located the drone in the vent. You just need to sneak in and kill Long Zhen in his sleep. Though, you may need time for that because Long Zhen is currently with a woman."

[That same female assassin?]

[Pupa: Yes.]

"Hmph, that Long Zhen is not only evil but also practised debauchery! I will teach him a lesson!" James Grind said.

HenTai frowned when Senior Grind said that. He thought James Grind would say that Long Zhen should be dead, but apparently, he would only teach the mafia lord a lesson?

"Senior Grind, your mission here is to kill Master Long Zhen, not only to teach him a lesson," HenTai warned.

"Ah, yeah, I—I mean, death lesson!" James Grind said in full spirit. He checked all his gears and said to HenTai, "Your senior will be leaving now. If I don't return in one piece, then please tell the Director that I will haunt her every night for making me cross-dressed as a cat maid before."

"… Did you have a photo of that? I need it for… research," HenTai asked.

"H—HenTai! You are a hentai! Don't be such a hentai, HenTai!" James Grind yelled, but his face blushed red, and he used a mask to cover his face.

James Grind sneaked from the backyard where it was the darkest, just like the previous cycle's assassination mission. He expected few bodyguards were guarding behind, but he was surprised when he only saw one bodyguard, and he was asleep.

[Eeeeh, where are the bodyguards? I want to meet that bodyguard again and accidentally touched his police stick.]

[Pupa: That is not accidental anymore.]

[Hehe.]

James Grind infiltrated the mansion by sneaking to the sleeping bodyguard. He took the key to the kitchen neatly placed on a small table beside the sleeping bodyguard and unlocked the door.

James Grind pushed the door open, ready with his taser watch in case that same bodyguard was still eating the raw cookie dough. To his surprise, there was no guard at all. Only a bowl of delicious cookie dough neatly placed on the kitchen table.

James Grind sat on the counter and started eating the cookie dough, "Hmm… this is too weird and suspicious."

Pupa materialized in front of Yunyu and asked, "What do you mean suspicious?"

"Everything is so neatly placed everywhere," Yunyu said while munching on the cookie dough. He pointed to the kitchen door with his spoon. "There is only one bodyguard in the backyard, and he is sleeping. This place also has no bodyguard, but the raw cookie dough is here."

"Mmm… the cookie dough is even better than the last life, though. This is like the same cookie dough I used to binge when Long Zhen locked me inside that Lakeside mansion for months," Yunyu commented.

"Maybe he knows that you are going to come here, so he set everything up?" Pupa suggested. "Maybe he doesn't really want to hurt you."

"I mean, I'm not stupid enough not to recognize that. He has kissed me in that Lakeside Mansion. I believe he regrets chaining me so much, so he is

trying to compensate me," Yunyu said while swaying his feet because he was happy eating such good cookie dough.

"Well, since you know it, do you still want to continue this mission?" Pupa asked.

"But of course! I need to do it because of your stupid warning!" Yunyu pouted. "Don't you remember how many times your OOC bell rang whenever I said I don't want to kill Long Zhen? Do you think I have a choice here?"

"Well, not really," Pupa shrugged with its nonexistent shoulder and turning invisible again. "I've checked the main hall, and there are a lot of guards. Your best bet is through the vent again."

James Grind finished the cookie dough and drank a glass of water before burping slightly. He opened the vent and went in. Truthfully, he didn't need to check on HenTai's coordinate to know where Long Zhen's room was. But to stay in character, James Grind followed HenTai's guide and found HenTai's robot near the supposed vent.

James Grind peeked from the vent, and he saw that a female assassin was sitting on Long Zhen's lap, and she was going to kill Long Zhen with a knife behind her back.

James Grind was excited to let Long Zhen die in this female assassin's hand in the previous life. But since his mission after he killed Long Zhen was different, James Grind had no other way but to prepare his watch and snipe the female assassin's neck. At least it should be enough to tase and paralyze her.

[Pupa: Be careful not to fall again.]

[Tch, yes, I know. I won't accidentally unscrew it. I'm not that type of person who falls into the same trap twice!]

James Grind prepared his watch. He thought the vent was strong enough to support his body for a while. But turned out, the vent was already rusty since the beginning.

CREAK!

"UWAAA!"

PUFF…

James Grind thought he would fall into the same bed with a twisted leg again. But he felt nothing at all. He slowly opened his eyes, only to realize that the mattress was padded with soft feather padding. It was thick enough for James Grind to land unharmed on the bed.

The female assassin and Long Zhen turned their heads and stared at James Grind at the same time.

James Grind gulped and grinned stupidly. "Eh—heh, good evening…"

Long Zhen immediately caught the female assassin's hand and cracked it. !"

"GUARDS!"

The bodyguards outside hurriedly stormed in and saw the beautiful woman offered to Master Long Zhen an hour ago, writhing on the floor while holding her cracked wrist. "Take her to the investigation chamber, make her confess on who is her master. We need to eliminate him."

"Yes, Master Long," the bodyguards said

They glanced at a beautiful man who was dazed on Master Long's bed, alongside a broken vent.

Long Zhen blocked the bodyguards' line of sight, and he glared at them. "What are you looking at? That is my special guest."

"Y—Yes, Master Long."

The bodyguards carried the female assassin away so Master Long Zhen can have alone time with his special guest. James Grind and Long Zhen stared at each other, and the first thing that James Grind said was:

"I—I didn't mean to break the vent. I thought it would be strong enough to hold my weight…"

"Ah, don't worry about that, as long as you don't get hurt," Long Zhen said. He sat beside James Grind on the bed and checked James Grind's heels first. "Ah, fortunately, the bedding is enough."

…

Long Zhen smiled, "So, are you going to sleep here with me or…"

[Pupa: You said you will not fall into the same trap.]

[Tsk, tsk, tsk… Pupa, sometimes you have to learn from a mistake not once… but twice.]