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“Kuh...Kuh”

Starting to regain his breath, the dark clothed figure somehow managed to sit down with much difficulty while still experiencing a strong dizziness.

“Hah...Hah… I seriously thought you were going to kill me for a second.”

With a cold smile and without any hesitation, Mystel beautifully kicked his body, sending him flying at least twenty meters away before landing on a tree.

“I WAS going to kill you, you idiot.” She replied with a glare while crossing her arms.

The dark figure’s hood fell down, exposing a pretty pale yet beautiful face of a seemingly sickened teenager. Coughing a few times, the teenager wryly smiled as he held his chest, trying to check if that kick hadn’t broken a few ribs.

Even though Mystel had deliberately held back, the strength she had used wasn’t something he would normally dare to face head on even if he was at his peak.

“Ugh… I am on the point of dying right now.”

“Then die, you piece of sh-.”

Mystel practically spat at her last sentence as she was going to curses him. But throwing a little glance at her daughter beside her, Mystel swiftly adjusted her words to make them become less offending.

“Piece of useless trashy assassin…”

Both Shina and the man looked strangely at Mystel as they understood her intentions.

Pulling on Mystel sleeve, Shina mumble a “That wasn’t much better…”, making her mother slightly reddened and transferring this embarrassment into anger toward the man as she saw him put on a very small smile.

“Irio…”

Sensing an intense amount of bloodlust emanating from Mystel as she called his name, the young man started sweating as he wished he could just run away as fast as he could.

“Who do you think you are laughing at?”

Irio who was already showing a pale face was now harboring a ghastly face. Mystel’s killing intent already went past the joking level, he wouldn’t have been surprised of seeing his body being torn apart within the next few seconds.

Once again pulling on Mystel’s hand, Shina’s eyes seemed to be rebutting her mother who almost instantly repressed her bloodlust. The atmosphere around them finally relaxed, leaving only a shocked Irio behind, unable to believe that for the first time ever since he battled with Mystel, she hadn’t delivered the finishing blow.

But the most unbelievable thing was that the child standing beside her had managed to make Mystel’s legendary rage vanish with only a few words. Irio couldn’t help but curse her as he remembered how many puppets he had to sacrifice the last time she went crazy and had destroyed the Darkened Realm’s moon.

As he inwardly continued to emit a few curse, Irio sensed someone very intensely staring at him. Shina strongly stared at him as if extremely concerned by a certain fact.

“W-What?”

With a perplexed look, Shina gathered her courage as she opened her mouth…

“Are you a man or a woman?...”

Coldly maintaining a poker-face, Mystel innerly laughed so hard that her eyes moistened despite continuing to glare at Irio.

‘My daughter for sure, right where it hurt!’

“Is that really impor-”

“Shut up and answer already.”

“But you already know the answer.”

Flames formed around Mystel’s eyes as her stare seemed to pierce through his body, making his shudder and promptly close his mouth.

“I am a man...”

Shina looked surprised as she looked very closely at his face, analyzing his features.

“Even though you have such an effeminate face? You look even more girly than Eniel.”

‘My daughter for sure…’

As if receiving another blow almost as powerful as Mystel’s kick, Irio’s head dropped as he almost lost consciousness a second time.

‘Is that why she didn’t finish me? So that she can psychologically torture me? Just kill me already and be done with it.’

“Shina, let’s leave it at that and get going. Talking with that idiot will just be a waste a time.”

“Merciless…” Irio said as he was on the point of crying.

“Uhm… Goodbye then mister?... Effeminate face?”

“Just call me Irio!”

“Irio? Doesn’t sound womanly.”

“Because I am a man.” He said as he vanished, appearing right beside Shina under Mystel’s deadly eyes.

“R-Relax already, I am in no state to shape to battle anymore.” Irio quickly replied, making Mystel relax a little as she removed her two fingers positioned just a few centimeters away from his eyes.

Irio finally managed to ease out in relief as he could now start relaxing to a certain degree.

“And so, who are you mister effemin-... Irio?”

Hearing the hidden sarcasm in Shina’s voice, Irio sighed as he whispered “Is she doing it voluntarily?” to Mystel who simply laughed it off.

“Probably.”

Trying to put his feelings aside and puffing his chest, Irio removed his black clothes, revealing a very simple blue outfit similar to an army’s one which matched very well with his blue hairs and indigo eyes. Countless little throwing knives of diverse colors were bound to his clothes, a few were shattered on his chest probably due to Mystel’s kick from earlier.

“You can call me Irio, the god of assassins. Or at least it’s how most people refer to me since I’ve never failed a single contract in my whole life.”

*Cough Cough*

Mystel simply sneered at Irio’s boast while staring down at him.

“Apart from her, I mean.” He rectified under the pressure of her glare.

Apart from giving some interest to the knives, Shina looked somewhat disappointed as she closely examined his body.

“So you’re really not a woman?...”

“She really reminds me of an annoying person…”

Two red eyes shone at Irio within an instant, containing a mix of anger and happiness which made Irio feel at loose as he momentaneously lost his control over his mouth.

“Said something?”

“Absolutely not.”

Mystel nodded as she pursued his introduction.

“As he said, this is Irio. Now let’s go.”

“W-Wait! At least introduce us!”

Showing a disinterested look on her face, Mystel looked at him with an expression full of annoyance.

“Why should I? We’ve already battled so stop being such a bother and just get lost already…”

Completely ignoring her, Irio walked past Mystel and stood to Shina’s height with a little childish smile.

“So you’re an assassin?”

Looking at Irio in the eyes, Shina was filled with surprise as he openly admitted his assassin’s job. Moreover, he seemed to be pretty well known for even having his mother not denying or rebutting his surname, meaning that she somehow acknowledged his abilities.

“You’re admitting being a killer so openly… You probably don’t have that many friends, do you?”

Irio feigned a hurt expression as if he was about to cry.

“I am actually pretty popular you know? I don’t know how you see me, but I don’t kill anyone outside of my contracts. Killing is just a job, it’s give and take. Why bother killing someone if you don’t gain anything in return but problems?

“So, you mean that when you tried to kill my mother… It was a contract?”

“Of course! Do you want to know who ordered it?”

Shina frowned as she heard that assassins would normally never reveal who gave them the contract.

“Don’t look at me like that, it’s not that much of a secret anyway.”

“It’s that moron.”

“Uhh, I was going to say it.”

The illusions of a few interrogation marks seemed to appear beside Shina’s head as she couldn’t understand why he would do something so crazy as the try to assassinate Mystel.

“I don’t understand… Are you stupid?” She asked with an amazed expression.

“Why are each and every word coming out of your mouth cursing at me?...”

“Cause you’re openly showing that you’re a moron?” A sarcastic voice said from behind him.

“Right… Well, you can consider it as some kind of training. Can you think of a better way to improve yourself than fighting an unkillable evil goddess who can easily crush you even without fighting seriously?”

Daughter and mother both looked at Irio with pity as they simultaneously shared the same thought… ‘That guy definitely is a moron’

“That’s pretty strange, I didn’t know assassins had a god. Do they pray for you to help them killing their target without being caught or for something like that?”

As if hearing something stupid, Irio started laughing as Mystel grinned.

“That’s just a nickname, I am not a god after all but just a simple demonic being.”

Making a small nod with her head, Mystel remembered that she had forgotten to teach Shina about the various beings living in the world.

“Gods are simply beings who after achieving some requirement ascend to godhood and obtain a certain ability depending on their affinity and character. Space, fire, wind, food… Wasn’t there also that guy? What was his name again?”

“Who are you talking about?”

“You know, that god of misfortune whom you killed 32000 years ago. His ability that his luck decreased every year.”

“Ah, you mean Malum? That bastard almost got me killed during the contract a good dozen of time, who would have thought that just as I was about to get killed, a meteorite landed right on him before being hit 3 times by the thunder.”

Shina almost exploded as she tried to restrain herself, just what kind of ability was this? Did the universe itself have so much pity for him that he decided to finish his existence, moreover the three lighting strikes were pretty much overkill.

Restraining her chuckle, Mystel regained some composure as she pursued.

“In short, one doesn’t necessarily need to be a god to kill another one. There are a lot of demonic beings or spirit who are able to kill them easily.”

“They are still the most annoying target, as they grow older their power becomes more and more powerful and their control over them make killing them much harder.”

Seemingly in deep thoughts, Shina lifted her eyes and looked at Mystel with a cute and eager smile.

“Do I have some ability as well?”

Mystel eyes suddenly became serious as she brushed Shina’s head with her fingers, a mix of feelings crossed her heart as she looked at her daughter.

“Most likely, they’ll probably manifest themselves as you grow up. You’re my daughter after all.”

Hearing her mother’s reassuring words, Shina jumped into her embrace as she started imagining what kind of ability hers would be. While enjoying this moment, Shina’s eyes sharpened as many memories passed through her mind.

‘Whatever it is, I just want to never lose to anyone…’ She innerly wished as she remembered her previous life.

‘I’ll never return back to those days!’

Embracing each other, the mother and daughter team had completely forgotten about the effeminate assassin who had fallen to his knees.

“T-This is the end of the world… THAT Mystel has a child!...” He said as if it was the start of the apocalypse.