21st day of 8th month year 10440

It was so early in the morning, that the sun hadn't even started to rise from the horizon. And so, it was still dark outside, when Nevada woke up and the first thing he saw, was Marias wolf ears. He looked at the cute wolf ears before looking at Marias face, which was snuggleing against his chest. Her hands were wrapped around his body and so were his around her body.

He rubbed her back a little, before carefully taking her hands off and then getting out of the bed. Immediately her face showed dissatisfaction, but it disappeared after a few seconds.

Now that he was out of the bed, he started to put on his clothes. He started with his underwear and then his white pants. He then took and put on a gray shirt. He then took his white winter coat and put it on, before sitting down on the edge of the bed, to put on his black boots.

As he was tying his laces, he welt a gentle touch on one his tails. So he looked back and saw Maria touching his tail, while looking at him.

"Why are you up so early?"Maria asks Nevada, who answers her"I need to get to Urte town before the sun sets and so I need to start moving, so wouldn't have stay behind the gate."

"Urte huh... Stay at the Relia inn there. The food is the most decent one in the town."Maria recommends to him, who replies"Thanks Wolfy."

He finishes tying his boots and then looks at Maria, who is slowly raising, to sit up on the bed. They look at each other, before gently kissing for a few seconds. Their lips depart from each other and he says"I gotta go now."

"I know."Maria replies.

Nevada gets up from the bed and puts his sword on his back and his quiver, horizontally, on his back waist. He then takes his new bow and puts it on his back, right next to his sword.

The bow itself is 150cm long and is made out of Panridain, like he ordered. The draw weight of this bow is by Nevadas calculation about 300-350lbs. On Earth, a recurve bow with such draw weight, didn't exist. And even longbow didn't have a such a huge weight. But because this is another world and made out of special metal, this bow has such a draw weight. And because he is pretty strong, he can pull the string back without a problem. As for the look, the bow is white and the blade, which is attached to the upper part of the handle. The blade itself is about 22cm long and its purpose is to use it, when someone gets a drop on him, when he is using his bow and he doesn't have a time to draw his blade.

Now that he is ready, he check over If everything is nicely on and then he takes his mask, with a new second line starts where the first one did and goes along the lower eye hole and ends where the first one did too.

He looks at the mask, before putting it into his coats inner pocket. He turns around to look at Maria and says"Bye Wolfy."

"Be safe Foxy."she says her goodbyes and watches him leave the room. The door closes behind him and Maria lets out a sad sigh after that. She drops her body back onto the bed and looks at the ceiling, while pulling the blanket onto her.

A few hours later, she is sitting on the couch of her nad Nevadas room, with Veronica. Both of them are drinking tea and while doing that, Veronica asks"So how's your life with Nevada?"

"It's pretty great. We get along nicely."Maria gives her a short answer.

"Ooh. Is that it?"she asks with a curious tone"So how are the night activities? Do you enjoy it or maybe addicted to it?"

"I won't answer that Veronica."Maria replies to her with a serious tone.

"Why?"Veronica asks her.

"Because you Are indirectly asking how's your son in bed."Maria tells her"I don't want to say that."

"If you put it that way, it does sound kind a weird."Veronica remarks"But I'm just curious how good he is that he managed to tame a such a wild wolf."

"Veronica."she calls out her name.

"Sorry. You don't want to remember those days."she apologizes to her friend, for accidentally bringing up the wrong thing.

"It's fine....just don't mention it again."Maria tells her in a sad tone.

Veronica looks at her and says"You have seem to be feeling down from morning. Why is that?"

"It's Nevada. I am worried about him, when he is on a mission. I know how dangerous they could turn out."Maria answers her honestly.

"There is no need to worry about him. He was trained by us and especially you. You taught him the most. He knows what you know, so he will be fine."

"I know that, but he doesn't have my abilities or the weapons that I have."Maria argues back.

"Maria. Just stay calm and don't over think it. Find something to do and the time will fly by. This is what I do, when Alice is away or the other way around. Just believe that Nevada is good enough."

The sun was setting now and in about an hour, it would disappear behind the horizon. Nevada himself had entered the town of Urte. The town itself is a small town with a population of 5000 thousand people with a city lord being the boss here. The towns main focus is lodging, as a lot of people pass through this town, so they could stay a night. The food supposedly here isn't that good, as it is hard to deliver ingredients here, because of the snow. So the food is probably un seasoned.

As for Nevada, he had changed his appearance to that of a normal foxkin and was covering his Mark of Sola with his hair.

Nevada was now looking for the Relia inn. The one, that Maria had told him about. Luckily, he found it pretty quickly and so he entered the inn. There he rented a room, to where he immediately went.

In the room, he took of his sword and bow along with his quiver. He puts them all on the table and then he himself went down to eat dinner. He doesn't need to eat, because kitsunes feed off from mana and the only reason he eats at all, is because he enjoys eating from time-to-time. As for his main source of mana, it's Maria, who has a ridiculously large mana pool.

So right now, he was sitting at one of the tables in the inn and was waiting for his. While waiting, he watched around the inn and studied the people here. About half of the people in here, were hunters or mercenaries. The other half, seemed to be just some random people, who have come here to eat and drink with friends. But there was one person, who stuck out. The persons gender couldn't be identified, as the person was wearing a cloak, that covered both of his)her face and body. The person looked around, while holding onto the mug with both of his hands.

'Definitely suspicious.'Nevada thought, while watching the person.

A few minutes later, his food finally arrived and so, he started to eat. On the plate, there was a piece of grilled meat and some vegetables aside. On the side of the food, he was drinking some alcohol,

As he was eating, he felt a pair of eyes on him, put instead of looking towards the person, who was staring at him, he decided to act, like he hasn't notice, so he wouldn't alarm that person.

After Five minutes, he takes the last bite of his bland steak and his last sip of his drink, before getting up from the chair, to go to his room. He walks up the stairs and walks through the hallway, to his door, which he then opens and enters his room, closing the door behind him after that.

He looks at the bed and decides to go to sleep, so he could start moving early tomorrow. So he takes of his clothes and only leaves on his underwear. After that, he lays down on the bed and cancels the disguise magic, he had on for the past few hours. He pulls the blanket over his body and falls asleep quickly.

After midnight, the door to Nevadas inn room is slowly being opened and into the room, steps the figure with a cloak over his body. With quiet steps, the person walks over to the table, where Nevadas equipment is. As he is stepping there, he looks at Nevada and sees, that he is peacefully sleeping.

'Good.'the person thinks, when seeing his state.

He gets to the table and looks at the equipment there. A sword, a bow, two daggers, a dozen or so throwing dagger and a white mask.

"Oh shit."the figure says with a manly voice, confirming him to be a man. The reason he said that, was because he recognized, that the mask belongs to the Ice Fort assassin, which means, he better get the fuck out of this room.

But when he turned around, he saw Nevada standing in front of him, while having his arms crossed. The man smiled wryly under the hood, which Nevada could see. Nevada smiled back, but his smile was completely cold.

"Wai-"

He couldn't finish his sentence, before his neck was twisted 180° and now was facing the other side. The body falls down onto the ground and Nevada looks at it, before putting on his clothes and his equipment on. He takes his mask and puts it back, where it was before.

He then walks out of the room, leaving the body there. He doesn't have the time to deal with it right now and he rather not run into the guards in this town.

And so, he leaves the inn and disappears into the night.