-Vol 5: A New Life-

-Morning Horror!-

Inside a huge western styled villa, with its own private helipad and park, seven people could be seen running around like headless chickens. Among them were two young women and five old ladies. All of them were wearing French-style maid outfits with headdresses. In their hands were towels and bowls with hot water, they were carrying all these to a luxurious room repeatedly before coming out a few minutes later.

Inside the luxurious room, on a king sized bed, a person was laying with his face pale as a white sheet. He was covered white blanket, an IV drip was attached to his right hand which continually dripping some kind of red solution into his body. A doctor was standing to his right, examining his condition with his stethoscope.

Beside him stood a married lady who looked to be in her middle twenties. She had midnight black hair that was tied in a bun, her brown eyes had a light makeup done to them. On her lips, she wore light red lipstick. Her moon like a face would look absolutely beautiful to anyone. Right now she had a worried face on as she looked at the fallen man with teary eyes. The man who was sleeping on the bed was none other than Kaio, the one who was defeated by Kenshin with just a single punch.

“What's the matter, doctor. How is my husband??” the lady swiped her eyes of tears and asked sadly.

“Hmm! I have diagnosed him, it seems all his internal organs had received a light shock that’s why currently he hadn’t gained his consciousness. His fever was also due to the same reason, I have seen this kind of cases before. Generally this happens when they fight something several times stronger than them, and as a result, their interactions affected his internal organs. Nothing to worry about, he will be fine after a few days of rest. but make sure that he didn’t do anything strenuous this week.” The doctor kindly advised before packing his equipment to go back.

“Thank you, doctor, for wasting your time. on behalf of my husband, I thank you.” The lady said kindly before ordering one of the maids to escort him out.

“It's of no problem, it's my duty to treat my patients.” The doctor smiled kindly and followed the pretty maid out of the room and then the villa.

The moment the doctor was out, the lady’d demeanour made a hundred eighty, and her tears were wiped clean in seconds. Her face which was looked anguished before looked as cold as frost as if the life and death of the man have nothing to do with her.

Looking at the old lady standing behind her she commanded, “Call Rock in!”. Acknowledging her order, the maid walked out to call for the said man. Before long she returned back with the same man whom Kenshin had ordered to carry Kaio out.

“Madam” Rock entered and bowed respectfully to the cold-faced woman. She didn’t even nod at him and looked coldly.

“How did this happen?” in a voice that could even freeze a hot spring, she asked the shaking man. actually, Rock knew this would happen, they had discussed how great master would have their lives in the car, but they also silently knew that before informing the great master they have to pass through the lady of the house.

Their fear for the lady of the house was on the same level as the great master.

“This…” after that Rock narrated everything to her, not daring to leave anything back. He even told them how the man made them clean the restaurant after beating the master black and blue, that too in a single punch.

“Okay, you can leave.” Feeling as if he had given amnesty from the death god, the man, Rock left the room as quickly as possible. He didn’t want to stay with this cold woman any longer than necessary.

‘Since when did such a fierce person living in Mito? What’s happening here? how come we didn’t know about such a powerful character living inside Mito for all this year?’ Her head was filled with many questions. Her pretty face would sometime frown and would sometime return to being cold. After contemplating for some time, she finally thought of something.

Looking at the woman who was there earlier and gone to call Rock, she asked, “Check his background as well as that woman’s. I want a detailed report within this week.”

“Understood.” The old lady nodded her head before continuing to stand like a statue.

Nodding her head in satisfaction, she looked at the man laying on the bed then snorted in disdain. After looking at the pale face for some time, she looked at the old woman and signalled her to come with her. Nodding her head, she followed the beautiful lady out of the room.

XXX

After the event of the night, Kenshin had some dinner in Mrs Yui’s home before returning to his apartment. The next morning, wearing a jersey and pant, Kenshin decided to go on a morning jog. Putting on his ‘skullz’ earphone, he played music and started running at a slow pace. The chilly morning air together with the mist surrounding everything, it provided an excellent environment for someone to have a little jog.

From his apartment, after approximately two kilometres there was a little park. The same one where Kenshin would take Ellie and Akari to play when they were little. After running for some time, he reached the park. Deciding to take a break, he went for a bench and sat down. He wasn’t tired, not by long sort…heck he wasn't even sweating. Nobody could tell that he had just run two kilometres nonstop just by looking at his body and face. Its as if he was relaxing here by sitting for a long time.

While relaxing and listening to some good music, his senses tingling suddenly. This happens every time whenever someone emits some killing intent near him. after a huge level up, and a few upgrades of his WIL while enduring the pressure of the fifth servant, his sensory perception had undergone a huge evolution. If he concentrates nothing could leave his senses, not even a tiny ant, four hundred meters around him.

But this skill was like a passive skill, it’s active always. Even if someone scolding someone near him, his senses would tingle. He still hadn't gotten used to this. But the intent he was filling was a little different from what he usually feels these past few days. It’s an intent filled with murder, the type which was emitted when someone was going for the kill.

Furrowing his brows in worry, he decided to not investigate and leave. He didn’t want to be a busybody, he had already pissed off a large family, he didn’t want to add a possible another. As such, he got up and started to run the opposite direction from where the feeling of intent came from.

But fate sometimes played some weird jokes. Just when he was about to run, a muffled shout of ‘help’ came from his behind. Now Kenshin wasn’t a fellow who would go out of his way to help someone whenever they were in need. He understood human psychology better than anyone, he knew that even if he helps that fellow now when the time comes that fellow wouldn’t think twice before betraying him. This is how the world works, during his sister’s upbringing, he had also meticulously drilled this statement to her.

Thankfully she didn’t have the habit of becoming a busybody.

But even so, he couldn’t just ignore it when he heard someone’s calling. It was contradictory, and he knew it, but this contradiction was born after numerous favour done to him by Mrs Yui. In the past he would often think that it was because they were her tenant and pay money, so she was courteous to them, but after seeing that she wasn’t that friendly to her other tenants, he realized that she wasn’t just doing it because they were her tenants, its because she was genuinely kind.

Even after he heard the call for help, he still continued to run. So what if someone’s calling for help? It has nothing to do with him! Consoling himself with these words, he ignored it. But even though he ignored it, the call for help didn’t seize, in fact, it got closer the faster he ran away from the noise.

Although he had an excellent vision, the surrounding was somehow covered in mists thick enough to obstruct even his vision. This made him feel weird inside his heart, so he stopped and looked around his surrounding in wonder and vigil. Even though he was strong, he still shouldn’t underestimate anyone, it was the code for surviving any fight.

As he stopped, the noise of help also got closer at a faster rate. Kenshin stealthily retrieved a small dagger from his inventory and held it in a reverse grip. The dagger was aqua blue in colour, it had an intricate pattern drawn on it making it look like a piece of antique. As soon as he held it in his hand, an invisible barrier appeared around him. It was this dagger’s special property. He got this as a drop from his mass killing during dungeon break. He kept it all this time to gift his sister at a later date.

As he stood taking a dagger stance, the mist around him started to swirl weirdly. Its as if a massive tornado was raging around him, and he was standing in its eye.

“Help!” a very soft, almost husky voice came from beyond the mist storm. Kenshin’s body involuntarily shuddered when he heard that sound. That sound, it didn’t belong to a man or woman, almost as if both were crying at the same time.

As he narrowed his eyes, a faint outline formed on the swirling mist wall around him. Soon enough the outline transformed into the silhouette of a woman. Soon the silhouette transformed into a real-life lady with skim paler than snow. She was wearing a white dress that went all the way to her legs. But looking down made Kenshin’s spine chill.

Although her face looked beautiful like that of a noble lady and her midnight black eyes could enchant anyone, her white hair was let loose and swinging behind her. But when it came to legs, Kenshin had to use all his willpower to not scream in terror. Her legs, they were not facing front like normal, her long and unblemished legs, they were facing backwards.

Seeing this a word came to his mind.

“Witch!”