The After World Breaker

Chapter 29: The Intel and the Assassin

Towards the end of winter, many people began to move back. Many people started doing activities as usual.

At night, Zen was alone outside his home. Just sit on the porch of the house with the silence of the night. Nia inside greeted some of Zen's personal maids, she carried a small lamp as a lighting. From inside he saw Zen who was still outside alone.

Get out and slowly approach Zen.

"You haven't slept?" Nia was surprised when Zen realized his arrival, facing Nia, Zen continued asking. "What else is sleeping?"

Still wary of Zen, Nia replied. "Already, only a few servants have not slept and a few people are on guard."

"so." Gazing back into the night sky, Zen fell silent again.

Nia walked over, tidied up her skirt and sat down beside Zen. Just look at the same thing.

In silence. Nia asked about the real Zen. "Who are you? How do you get close enough to Allenz and even His Majesty the king believes in you so much?"

Chuckling at Nia's question, to Zen Nia was a quite wary woman. "Maybe I'll tell you a little bit about myself."

Nia with a serious face she put on her ears well. "What story can I believe?"

Raising one eyebrow, Zen retorted. "Tell you, believe it or not. I won't tell you much anyway. Miss assassin." Zen's guess made Nia, stunned. "Already, ' I guess. Before, when I was here, my job was almost the same as yours, an intel. In fact, this job made me what I am today."

Nia heard the story was quite surprised by Zen's background. "I-intell?!"

"Look, I'm not intel anymore, because my old residence might have been destroyed a long time ago, did you forget? Allenz helped me back then, he brought me here, and this is my new life now. Start a new life, and move away from the past." Obviously Zen.

Nia was pensive with the story, Zen then stood up and was about to enter. Nia quickly held back Zen's clothes. "For this time, I believe you." After saying that, Nia let go of her hand, and let Zen in, leaving Nia alone on the porch of the house in the silence of the night.

The next day, at breakfast, the waiters prepared food for the Allenz and Zen families, where, while eating, Nia gave a special meal to Zen.

"Here, for you."

Zen and the others stared at Nia who was giving Zen some food.

"Juu...." Nayaka who saw that while covering her mouth, smiled at Nia.

"What's this?" Ask Zen.

"Is wrong? I'm just doing my job as a waiter." Answer Nia with a ketus.

Allenz gave the code with the look on his face, as if asking Zen. But in reply with Zen who shrugged both his shoulders.

After breakfast, everyone there does their own thing. Allenz and Nayaka are invited by Arthur to train with him, Iris was taken by Anya somewhere, then Zen? He had no activities whatsoever, making Zen nothing he could do.

Stretching his body, he decided to take a walk in the city. At the same time, Nia was also about to come out.

To Nia, Zen asked. "Where are you going?"

"Buying food, less kitchen material. Then, you're on your own?"

"I'm bored, so I'm going out for a little walk."

"Then, please help me go buy the ingredients, it will definitely buy quite a lot of kitchen materials."

Without a second thought, Zen agreed and joined Nia to buy materials.

Going to the southeast of the city, the usual location where grocery shopping there is sold.

Passing through a number of shops, on the way, people pass by. Some places are not covered by snow, spring will enter in a few weeks. Although the temperature still looked cold at this moment, piercing the skin every wind passed.

When near a shopping place, many people are shopping, from staples, clothes and some sellers from out of town to trade the proceeds from their city.

Zen was quite stunned by the atmosphere of the market, many opened merchandise from carts, shops, or also selling on the floor of cloth. He's been here all the time, he's never been to this place, it's amazing for him. This atmosphere reminded him of where he used to live.

Zen's hand was instantly drawn by Nia, she was taken to follow him so as not to separate there. The first ingredients Nia bought were potatoes and carrots. There carrots have a variety of colors, and the most colors are carrots are slightly white and pale yellow.

Zen took one carrot, he asked the seller. "Excuse me, is this a carrot?"

Getting the question, the salesman who was a fat woman chuckled. "Hihi, it's a carrot, don't you know?"

Nia also let out a small laugh as well when she heard the question Zen had asked.

"No, the carrot I know is orange." Answer Zen.

Hearing Zen's reply, Nia explained that orange carrots are usually served to nobles. He also continued, that the carrot could be orange because it was given something when planted and produced a bright orange color.

"Well, that's the carrot I used to eat in my old place." Answer Zen.

The seller panicked and assumed that Zen was a noble. "Pardon me for being presumptuous, you must be a high-caste person."

Zen was even confused by the seller who called him a person who was. "It doesn't have to be that way, I'm just a regular guy. Indeed my place always produces good staples and including orange carrots is one of them. In fact, I just found out there are carrots other than orange ones."

Nia and the seller fell silent at Zen's explanation. The seller was even more panicked and even considered Zen to live in a rich place.

"I told you, I'm just an ordinary person!" Denying Zen.

Not wanting the ridiculous matter to be long, Nia paid for what they bought and left.

"You said 'just ordinary people', huh? Though has received a number of luxurious houses and got the title 'Sir' from the king, from where are ordinary people?" Nia Syndicates.

"Can you forget what happened?" Zen said with an irritated face.

In the middle of them going around, Zen asked about Nia being an assassin. "When did you first become an assassin?"

This question made Nia stop and made Zen ask. Inside Nia's head, all twisted back, her former self became a bloodthirsty assassin and she seemed to be able to hear the sound of screams in her mind.

That memory made Nia imagine her past. Even until he could see a large house that was burning violently, in front of the house, many bodies were lying.

At his sight, he looked at his former self, standing in front of all of it. With a large knife covered in blood.

Zen who saw Nia was silent, immediately tried to call out to her and resuscitate the woman. "Oi, awake!"

It worked, Nia regained her senses and immediately stepped back as Zen resuscitated her. "W-uh..."

"You... That okay? And forget about my question." Zen said, because he realized it should not be questioned on Nia.

Nia was sweating a lot, and her breathing was hunting. Like seeing something terrible.

"Let's go shopping, ok?" Zen said while calming Nia down.

Quickly Nia shook her head to regain consciousness and massaged her forehead slightly. He also agreed to it and hurriedly left from there, even leaving Zen.

Zen who was conscious was almost left behind by Nia, he also hurriedly chased after the woman.

As long as they went back to buying materials, there was no conversation between the two at all. In fact, Nia sometimes became careless when buying materials. This makes Zen feel guilty and he thinks Nia needs to calm down somewhere.

Calm himself, take a deep breath and try to enjoy the atmosphere there. A shopkeeper approached them and asked what they were ordering.

Both ordered juice drinks. The waiter also immediately requested payment of their order. Making Zen speechless, he immediately looked for money to pay for the order.

Nia became gloomy and her mood got worse. Zen is still looking for his money. "I forgot my wallet."

"Wallets?"

"A-ah no." Zen just realized, the current period there is no such thing as a wallet. Until he realized he kept the money in his watch. Tinkering with the clock, he instantly paid with one white gold coin.

The waiter was surprised by the amount of money spent by the large number. "Sorry sir, but we don't have enough exchange rates for that money."

"Take it." Answer Zen.

The servant received the coin, and immediately made an order for Zen and Nia, firmly grasping the coin.

Nia looked at what Zen had done before, then asked. "Do you know how much money is worth?"

Zen, who did not know, asked again. "How much?"

"That's worth a million bronze coins you know."

Zen frowned, because he was so ashamed that he did not know the exchange rate of money here, he reasoned. "The money here is different from my place, so I don't know."

Sighing, Nia rolled her eyes and decided to look out the window. On the other hand, in the heart, Zen cursed as a result of ignorance just now who does not know the exchange rate of money here.

Their mood became awkward, Zen chose silence instead of doing other stupid things.

Occasionally Nia noticed Zen who saw the atmosphere in the restaurant.  He smiled knots, then fixed his sitting position. Before long, their orders arrived and were placed on the table for them to enjoy.

Both drank their orders, feeling refreshed. The two get better, Nia then plays her fingers on the edge of the glass. Looked at his shadow from that juice. Before long, he told me about himself, he was someone who was kidnapped as a child and brought in to be taught to be a hitman when he was 14 years old. He was also given doctrine to the order of assassins, until he entered the academy to disguise himself as a student and target who is Anya Weller.

"Tu-wait! Your target is the mother of Nayaka and Allenz?!" Zen cuts and is shocked upon hearing Nia's target of killing.

"Yes." Yeah." Nia continued. At that time, Anya had just retired to become an adventurer, and decided to become a teacher at the academy. Anya is also engaged to Arthur and her brother is also engaged to King Ronald. Nia's client at the time wanted to get rid of Anya who she thought was more unawareness than her sister, Her Majesty Queen Vanessa.

However, he is known by royal intel due to the dismantling of the assassin order, and Nia is the last member to be arrested, due to being outside the headquarters and disguised as a student there. All members of the order were sentenced to death a week after the arrest, even his client was also sentenced to death along with other members of the order.

While he could avoid punishment due to the actions of Anya herself who still considered him a student of the academy. Although many protested, especially Arthur himself who felt Anya did not need to protect the killer like himself.

Until the court allowed him to avoid the death penalty and replaced with another punishment. His hair will be cut short and will be carried around the capital with a wooden board that reads Perverted! Killer and Member of the Order. At that time it made Nia like she was not him, during the tour of the city, she was spat on, pelted with objects and cursed by everyone in the city, until she even gave up living her life.

That being the worst point in him, he was even like a two-week undead facing that punishment, to the point that he was already unwilling to move while touring the city again, causing himself to be dragged around every day.

After three full months of dealing with the horrific ordeal, she was released, though she was expelled with the guards throwing her away on the other side of town and leaving her there.

Anya who only worried about him until found herself two days after he was banished and took care of her. Although Nia looked like a corpse, not moving, not talking, not even responding. Just breathing can do. Her mentality had also been shattered during the time she faced the punishment, Anya took care of her like a mother to her during her recovery, and there were also still problems from Arthur and the royal family who still refused to accept her. Even Anya and Arthur almost cancel their engagement due to him.

Until Ronald qualifies Nia to be included in the vanguard in the war, if Nia is unharmed and still alive, she will be accepted. If he dies or gets even the slightest injury in the war. Then he will be rejected. Although it seems impossible, and also Anya who protested against the requirement. Nia accepted that and went to war. About half a year, he joined the war, Nia managed to survive and return.

For his achievement, he received a full royal pardon and will serve Anya, even until he is old. Finished telling the story, Nia again sipped her drink calmly. Turn around with Zen who was wary of hearing the story.

Zen did not expect the woman in front of him to have a dark past, who was seven years older than him. Zen asked him the last question. "Do you have any intention of having a partner?"

Nia fell silent, and replied. "No, even though Miss has met a number of men, but no one I think is suitable. Anyway, I have a logical reason why I rejected them."

"What's that?"

"As in my previous story. My life is for the lady and her family, nothing less, nothing more."

"Ah... I get it." Zen said, but in his heart he felt satisfied. Because she could blacklist Nia from her dream woman list clearly.

After enjoying their respective juices, they went back to buying the remaining ingredients and returned home.

When they want to exit the market, there are many people who gather, making the way of Nia and Zen blocked. Holding Nia's hand, Zen tried to get into the crowd, with difficulty and urgency, they could go out and find a man holding a girl.

From the man's clothes, which were thin brown t-shirts, signifying he was a prisoner, there were even some soldiers who prepared with their swords and surrounded the man.

On the other hand, the mother of the child seems hysterical to find her son taken hostage. Two soldiers tried to restrain the mother from acting rashly.

A soldier decided to choose two options: kill the prisoner by helping the child or without the child, in the sense that the child could have died by the soldiers or died in the hands of the prisoner.

Zen who saw it felt like a cliche story in a novel or movie. "Well, hostage in the real world, halfway anyway."

The soldier who made the choice was forced to choose the second option, because it was impossible to save the child. This even made the noise worse and made the child's mother faint on the spot.

Zen only looked around, he also saw Nia who looked like she was worried, this made Zen feel that Nia was looking at the shadows of her past.

Sighing, and scratching his head, Zen let out a loud voice. "Excuse me, can you step aside? I'm going through!"

Everyone immediately stared at Zen who spoke, including Nia.

Walk slowly, and a little stylish. Then deliberately wagging the tip of the jacket he was wearing, Zen spoke back. "I told you, I want to go through, you guys get in my way, stupid." But in Zen's heart, he felt ashamed, this was the most shameful thing he had ever made. 'Anjir, the cave is very shy.'

The prisoner was caught in the presence of Zen. "Who are you?! You don't try to get close, otherwise the life of this kid is at stake!"

Gazing lazily, and not piling at him, Zen asked about the man's crime to one of the soldiers. "By the way, what's he under arrest for?"

The soldier asked replied. "Estealing, committing acts of terror, rape, and other grave crimes."

Either heard the two crimes called earlier, making Zen's ears hot. "Attacks of money and acts of terror, huh?"

The prisoner hung in horror as he looked at Zen who was staring intently at him.

The soldier continued. "She will also be put to death in two days, but because of running away, inevitably we have to bring her back alive or dead right now."

Hearing that explanation, Zen nodded. Then took out his suitcase from his watch. "So it doesn't matter, if you kill it now?!" Zen said with a horrible smile.

The suitcase quickly turned into a gun and shot him right into the prisoner's shoulder, at the same time, the sound produced by the gun made people near Zen surprised and panicked to run away.

The first shot managed to make the girl in the hostage escape, and quickly too, Zen issued a second shot that managed to hit one eye of the prisoner, making him die on the spot.

"Done." Zen proudly turned the gun around, then blew the tip of the gun, which had no smoke at all, acting like a cowboy.

Feeling that it was over, Zen invited Nia back home, because he thought they had been here too long. Everyone slowly looked at the corpse of the prisoner, blood spilling out from his eyes, some soldiers also fell silent and just watched Zen leave just like that along with Nia from there.

Arriving at Zen's house, Anya greeted them. "Gosh, you guys were so long ago, I thought why did you guys come home so late, it turns out you guys went together, so romantic."

On the other hand, Nayaka still responded with the same thing as this morning. "Huuu...."

Just like this morning too, Allenz asked with the look on his face to Zen, and of course Zen answered with the same answer, namely shrugging both shoulders. Exasperated by Zen's reply, Allenz smacked the man's stomach into the ground.