The Assassin and The Blind Saint

Arc 2 Chapter 8: Nightingale

"Nightingale..”.

Hearing me mutter her code name, the woman smiled instead. He then walked back to me.

“I told you not, if it's just the two of us, call me by my real name, Sirius.”

Ignoring his words, I took Baselard out of his scabbard. Seeing what I was doing, the woman smiled even wider.

“Ahahahaha... Oh Sirius, you never change huh?” He walked even closer and stopped just a step away from my slash range area. “What are you doing here? doing an investigation?”

He has good deduction skills. I know how great he has been for 5 years as his Partner in doing various missions.

“You did not respond to my words.. That means you consider me your enemy, Sirius?”

He knows my habits. I'll always be silent to analyze someone if he thinks he has the potential to attack me. If he was an enemy, even I hesitated to be able to defeat him without using that power.

He stepped closer. Even though he seemed to be casually and carelessly stepping into my range, he remained calm and confident. On the contrary, I who was wearing a weapon and was already preparing to slash it, felt pessimistic about it if I attacked him now.

He was very close to me, our faces almost touching. He looked me in the eye without even blinking. The scent of perfume she was wearing began to smell my nose. He smiled again and put his mouth to my ear.

“I was assigned to guard this place, you know.”

Clangs!

I attacked him suddenly. However, he managed to hold Baselard with a knife in his left hand.

“Ah.. Baselard. Do you miss your mom, son? Hey, has papa Sirius been playing with other women behind mom lately?” She said it in a tone like a mother was talking to her child.

I jumped back to keep my distance. In a situation like that, the weapon is more in the strand than my weapon.

“Hey, Sirius. I'm still mad that you picked out the name of a weird little boy that you know. A kid as sweet as Baselard was supposed to have a cute name.” He looks really upset just because of a name.

Baselard, I stared at the sword in my hand. It was only me, the Master and the woman before me who knew the secret of this weapon. I then darted towards him performing a vertical attack.

“Huh? What a boring attack.” He can easily avoid it.

I then set my foot on the ground violently then activated Long Jump magic to dart swiftly towards the woman.

-Clang!

The woman could easily repel him. “What's up? where are the things you used to bring? Without adequate light, you won't be able to beat me you know it.”

Yes, an ordinary attack would not be able to injure him. Within the Ouroboros organization, Nightingale was the fastest besides Master. I won't be able to defeat him if I do it half-and-half. But, if I wear it, the voices will come back to me again.

I then saw Nightingale's body begin to multiply. He's activated his magic, hasn't he? Magic that makes his opponent hallucinate. He would utilize the confusion of his enemies' senses to kill them easily—Fatamorgana.

I concentrated more on being able to figure out her true attack later and started running away from her.

“Chase as usual?” the five figures I saw started following me.

They then split up. No matter how many figures I saw, the real one was still only one person. In front of me, the woman darted towards me. I then did a slash. However, Baselard only penetrated the figure. I then sensed something behind me and hurried to turn around and fend off his knife that was about to stab me in the back.

The five figures around me began to split into four parts. Now, I saw 20y women holding a knife around me. Those twenty figures started to dart towards me. I focused all my senses on finding the real one from that woman.

- Slash!

There was an incision wound on my shoulder. His illusions distracted me, made it easier to attack me. The twenty figures then ran round. Preventing myself from running away. They then shot back towards me.

- Slash!

I tried to fend off responding to his attack but for free, I was too distracted by the illusion of the woman. Do I have to use it?

“What's Sirius? Did you become this weak after becoming a Guard Patrol? Where's Sirius the 100-man slayer Knight I used to know? A ruthless killer who slaughtered a Clan by himself!?”

Hearing his words, I remembered the bad things I had done when my Arbil curse was out of control. I tightened my grip on Baselard. A black aura started to come out from all over my body. I felt my senses sharper before. I then looked into the eyes of one of the female figures then shot towards her at full speed.

“…!”

He looked surprised but both sides of his lips were raised. The illusions of the woman then blocked my view but I didn't care. I already know the real one.

“You are the original!”

I did a few slashes towards him but he was able to dodge my already faster-than-usual attack. I did a diagonal slash towards him. He then lowered his head and lifted his leg trying to kick towards my face but I managed to hold back his kick with my left hand.

We then exchanged attacks, like two couples dancing in the chorus of party music. Not long after, I noticed a change in his movement speed.

The stamina's starting to drain, isn't it?

I then increased the intensity of my attacks. He then dodged and carried out a stabbing attack aiming at my eyes. I then turned around and caught him and slammed him to the ground. After that I rushed up to end it with an attack on the heart.

“So you want to kill me?” He asked that while holding my wrist prevented Baselard from stabbing his heart.

“I have no other choice.” My position is on it.

He still seemed to be smiling even in this situation. Sometimes I don't understand what's on his mind.

“Hey, did you guys hear anything? I think I heard the sound of people fighting there.” I heard that voice faintly from behind.

“They'll be here soon you know. If caught, more of them will come here.” Back, the woman below me said it with a smile. “What will you do?”

I then looked into his eyes. My left hand held back his right hand which started to revolt trying to break away. I started hearing footsteps behind me. I then banged my head with her forehead then got up and started running to disappear behind the trees.

I used that power, I don't think I'm going to sleep well tonight.

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