The Crisis World XX

Chap. 101: Assassin

Two people who should have died this time again managed to be resurrected by a person who was never expected, someone who had a family relationship with Astaroth, Seana Blaircass.

And now they were heading to where the Assassins were still siding with Astaroth. He intends to take revenge on Black Rain and the other members of Kuni no Hashira.

This time he was confident in his combat power, as he had a colleague who was believed to be the strongest person in the country. Although he is also still in a newly resurrected state and his appearance is much different, but his soul remains Murasaki Oita.

They all went out of town this time and headed to Nagoya because Astaroth last heard all his members gathered in Nagoya after the failed attack.

On this night, Astaroth walked without direction in an area of flats that looked deserted due to the time that had shown past midnight.

"Uncle ... is it still a long time?"

Seana seemed to have been sleepy from having yawned and rubbed her eyes many times.

"Seana-sama, I can carry you if you want to sleep."

Dillon who was sensitive and behaved like a reliable servant immediately took a position so that Seana could easily climb into her carriage.

But Seana who was no longer a child immediately felt annoyed to Dillon for always being treated like a child by him.

"No need, Dillon! I'm not a kid anymore!"

"But if you want to sleep, I can—"

"I said no need, you stupid Dillon."

The talk of Seana just now really pierced into Dillon's heart and made his spirit that was burning instantly dim to make this beloved princess comfortable.

"I-I'm sorry for my stupidity."

"Have they always been like this?" ask Oita-san.

"Just let them, we'll be there any minute. I can feel the aura of my comrades around here."

Other than Astaroth, the others could also sense the powerful aura that was around here and coming from one of the flats here. But they did not know exactly what aura it was coming from.

Although it was powerful, but its original location was vague as if the aura did not have a definite location. And there is only one possibility why it can happen, which is because the owner of the aura is moving or hiding the aura.

The owner of the aura seemed not to want its existence known by Astaroth and his friends. Suddenly someone came to them.

Swuush...

"?!!"

"Revelation, Seana-sama!"

A grip from the palm that was large enough to reach and crumble Seana's head that was careless because of drowsiness.

But Dillon swiftly took out his dart again and threw it right at the palm of the hand earlier and parried it. For now, Seana is safe thanks to Dillon's reflexes.

Zwuush... Bugh...

Despite being safe, Dillon and Seana still could not breathe a sigh of relief as the next attack from the other big hand came.

Dillon mounted the horses with 'X' shaped hands in front of his body to withstand the punches targeted at him.

The punch was successfully held by Dillon. But he also had to be dragged backwards in a standing state due to the enormous impact of his pressure blow. Even getting hit so hard doesn't make Dillon worry about himself at the moment.

He was more worried about Seana who was away from him this time because she had just been pushed back by the person earlier.

"Seana-sama! Get out of there!"

"Eh?"

Swuush...

"good. Enough to get there."

Suddenly Astaroth moved and was now halfway between Seana and the one who wanted to hit him. Seana who was still shocked and instantly drowsiness disappeared, and the person who stopped before hit Astaroth's face.

Seana who had been tense fell limp and then sat on the floor which was immediately approached by Dillon to check her condition. While Astaroth spoke to the person who attacked Seana earlier.

"You're as strong as ever, Baram."

"B-boss? You still alive?"

"Yes, lucky so. All of them here are my comrades, so you don't have to attack them anymore."

"Well boss, sorry for attacking your friend."

Baram regretted his actions and bowed apologizing to Astaroth, though he forgave him immediately.

Now Astaroth asked Baram to take them to another place, which Baram immediately obeyed.

They all went straight to one of the rooms in the apartment. The room of the flats looks small for Baram who has a height of more than 2 meters so he has to duck to get into it.

And after going inside, it was true that there were already two people sitting inside. A small child and also a grandfather of—Lennova and Ivis.

"I'm back."

"Have you finished the patrol? Hn? Who're they?" Lennova was puzzled when Baram brought many people into the hamlet room.

"Ehehehe .. Can't you recognize me?"

Lennova and Ivis' eyes widened when they heard a familiar voice. It was a voice they thought was impossible to hear from the owner because he was killed.

The two of them who had been sitting relaxed immediately stood up and watched the person who approached them.

"The voice ... Boss?"

"It's true."

"But aren't you—"

"A lot of things happened before, I'll tell you about it later."

"Ba-good."

Astaroth did not want to discuss how he could come back to life any further. For him the past is not very important, he now wants to introduce people other than himself who came here.

"In addition, I want you to get acquainted with all of them."

"They?"

"That woman is my niece, Seana and the man next to her is her personal servant, Dillon."

"Servant? Ah .. I just remembered that you are a person who has noble blood," said Ivis.

While Dillon himself lowered his head slightly to pay his respects and Seana did not respond too much because of her tired and sleepy self.

"Who is that weak looking man? Don't tell me you took him off the road and brought him here, boss."

Lennova said that because of Murasaki Oita's new appearance which was only a man and his face was battered because it had just been finished by Astaroth.

But Astaroth answered Lennova's concerns with the answer she least expected and left them all shocked.

"Calm down, even though it looks like this but he's pretty strong, really."

"Lumayan? Do you want me to beat you up again?" oita said hearing the explanation given by Astaroth to her.

"Hajar? Who would you dare to say that to the Boss," replied Lennova who was somewhat offended.

"The truth is he did, because he was Murasaki Oita."

"??!!!"

As Astaroth had expected, they were all shocked and incredulous at what Astaroth had said. But he said he would explain everything to them later. Astaroth was eager to get revenge and set the plan in motion.

"You just rose from the dead, boss. Are you sure you want to plan your revenge?"

"Yes. My heart is itching and my pride is trampled if not revenge as soon as possible. But my body doesn't support my current desires."

Astaroth looked towards his own palm which he felt was still very weak and not strong to withstand his strength if it was ejected too large.

"Then, while waiting for my abilities to fully recover, do you have any plans to fill my void, Lennova?"

Lennova let out a smirk when asked by Astaroth like that. This was a good opportunity for him to do as he pleased. After being asked like that, Lennova immediately answered him excitedly.

"I've been waiting for you to talk like that. Does that mean everything will be under my leadership?"

"Yes. Do as wild as possible, that's what I always tell you, right?"

Lennova then took a TV remote and instantly turned on one of the channels that showed an Idol concert show that was trending at the moment.

"I'll use them."

"They? These guys? Are you gonna do something to them?"

"Boss knows that popularity is one of those deadly weapons, right?"

Lennova pulled out a playing card that she had taken out of nowhere and then played it between her fingers running from one finger to the other.

"I'll take advantage of that. Big mess that only I can do, but of course I need your help, boss."

While continuing to play the playing cards in her hand, Lennova continued to explain the plan she would use using these idols.

Astaroth who saw the confidence shown by Lennova had no doubt about her. Therefore, he would help as much as Astaroth could for now.

"Then I'm counting on you."

"Hehehe ...."

Lennova looked at the TV screen where the idols were singing and dancing on stage with a huge audience. While continuing to play his cards, his eyes focused on one of the idols who were there because the idol position was in the center position.

His face looked carefree with a cheerful laugh and also a body filled with sweat. The center idol is none other than Koyomi Arisu.

Having felt their chatter tonight was enough, Astaroth asked them one more thing. That is about their members who are now reduced quite a lot even though the one who died at that time was only Astaroth.

"Oh yeah by the way, why are you three here? Where are the others?"

"If that is the case, Delta has permission to return to her home in Kyoto. But for the other three, I didn't hear from them, nor could I call."

"Hm ...." Astaroth held his chin to think for a moment.

"... Nimis and Ardenter have betrayed us."

"What?! They're betraying?!" lennova was shocked.

"Well, I've been expecting that for a long time, anyway. But if for Caramel ...."

Astaroth tries to find the right answer to Caramel's disappearance. He had thought that he had died from his meteor, but that was impossible because the Black Rain members managed to destroy it before it fell to the ground.

Then something appeared in Astaroth's mind. Iraya Satou. As long as he paid attention to her, Caramel's eyes on Iraya were different from those of the others.

Caramel did say that Iraya was very interesting attention, but he did not know that it could make him betray as well as the other two.

After all Astaroth and Caramel had been together for almost eight years. There was no way a boy yesterday afternoon could shake Caramel's heart just like that. Astaroth's thought only produced a faint smile in his mouth.

"Is there anything funny, boss?" ask Lennova.

"No, I think I should see someone later."

But Astaroth's thoughts about Caramel's current betrayal were only his conjecture, there was no solid evidence to prove it. So for now, he'll take care of that later.

**

Meanwhile in Kyoto, at Hasuki Chifu's house on the same night. Hasuki slammed the front door and went inside in a hurry.

Blaamm...

This time there was no maid to welcome him home as usual as he did not set his return schedule as before.

But even so there were still some servants who came immediately when they heard the sound of the door opening and as much as possible welcomed Hasuki's arrival.

"Welcome, Chifu-sama."

But their welcome was ignored by Hasuki who immediately walked quickly into his room. His servants were also confused by Hasuki's strange behavior.

Then when they were talking about Hasuki's strange behavior, came the father and owner of this house, Hasuki Nakamura. The servants immediately stopped their conversation for fear of being heard by Nakamura.

"Did Chifu come?"

"Really, sir. Chifu-sama immediately ran towards her room."

"Oh, yeah."

While in Hasuki's room, he immediately threw the mask that he had always worn during his time as a subordinate Assassin member of Astaroth originally onto the ground. After that he jumped into the bed and buried his face in the pillow.

"Iraya-kun's stupid! You idiot! I hate you, you liar!"

Hasuki shouted with a face set so that her voice was not too loud to sound. He was still thinking about Iraya's previous speech to him.

"Huh?! You don't need strength to get close to me."

"Don't trick me! You're against me because I'm weak, right?! That's why you're closer to Herlin-chan than I am, right?!"

"Who said that?! I even saved you on that roof. It's all because I want to make us friends again."

The words from Iraya kept ringing in his head even though it had been going on for quite a while. Hasuki even got to go back to Kyoto from Nagoya just because her mind was disturbed.

After being satisfied to scream and kick the mattress, Hasuki stopped because he was tired himself and considered that the thing he did just now was useless.

Then after that he fell silent and thought for a moment. Again think about the words Iraya said at that time.

"Your words are unbelievable, you liar," Hasuki murmured.

"You seem confused, Chifu."

"D-dad?!"

"Dad knocked on the door before entering, and then I heard a little scream. That's why I went straight inside."

"Sorry."

Nakamura then walked over and tried to calm the currently troubled Hasuki. He sat next to her and then stroked her head.

"Is this because of Satou Iraya again?"

"Th-that ...."

"Dad right, right?"

The silent answer from Hasuki seemed to be a justification of the guesses made by Nakamura.

"Had you said it wasn't that Satou Iraya was a bad influence on you. He only accepted strong people to be his friends."

"On that ...."

"Can't you see an example? Herlin's ririsaka, Murasaki Oita, then your own upperclassman, Kurobane Mei. They were all people who had their strength in their respective fields."

"But Iraya said, that I don't have to be strong to—"

"Then you believed him? Even with the evidence in front of your eyes?"

"...."

Hasuki was silent again. He had no ability to refute his father's words because he considered in himself that what his father said was true.

"Even if you want to go back to your old life, didn't you destroy it yourself?"

"?!!"

Hasuki's eyes widened. He remembers that he destroyed his school days by burning his friend alive.

"There's no turning back for you, Chifu. All you can do now is step forward."

Nakamura continued to convince Hasuki that the path he was taking right now. And then Hasuki was silent for a moment and came down from her bed.

He took the mask he just threw on the floor and cleaned it up a little. There was a small crack in the mask but it was not very influential and could still be worn, as he currently does.

With the appearance of a huge robe covering his entire body and a mask covering his face, Hasuki Chifu had again turned into a Delta.

"I understand, Father."

A grin was created on Nakamura's face as if he had managed to regain what had almost slipped out of his hand. This time, Hasuki Chifu was back in his grasp.

"really. It's like it should be, Delta."

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