Late in the night, Northern part of Eria's city.
A man shrouded in all black and with a mask with the same hue tiptoed to mimic the stillness of the night.
Only his blue eyes were visible, you could feel no emotion from within only eerie calmness that sends a chill down to one's spine.
The man would go slow at times and would flash silently like a cat jumping from one building to another.
After an indeterminate amount of time, he stopped on top of a certain three-story building with a signboard, drawn on the signboard was a Moon illuminating a black world『Moonlight』was written there.
It was now 2 hours past midnight and all people inside this building should be already asleep by now which made this specific time the best moment to attempt a perfect assassination.
Even so, he decided to be sure of his assumption.The man paused and listened for more than ten minutes to ascertain if his assumption was correct.
He then crouched down and steadied his breathing to the bare minimum as he tries to check through a certain window.
All this man's actions denoted trained expertise in the ways of night combat that could only be had after many successful kills in this kind of job. Indeed, this person was a master assassin. This is what he does for a living.
After the twenty-minute of careful observation to make sure his target sleeping, the seasoned murderer moved closer to the window giving access to his soon-to-be victim room.
He took out a dagger to help him open the lock of the window.
Of course, he could have punched his way in but that would defeat his purpose in coming.
After all, a full-fledged veteran assassin was at his best in remaining unseen and unheard. You come, you kill and you leave, all of these three things must be done silently as possible. This the Art of perfect killing.
The man in black was about to use the sharp weapon but was only halfway through the motion before he was stopped completely in place.
He felt a strong presence from behind him that was not there a second prior.
''It's quite late for a nightly visit don't you think?" Someone suddenly said the voice was genderless.
When the assassin heard these words, he could not help but shiver in fear.
To be able to arrive at his blind spot without him knowing when and how that happened was ridiculous!.
He knew this because he was a master in the arts of hiding and moving at speed.And a pretty accomplished one at that. He was not a weakling either, a Rank 7 assassin.
So, the man was astonished by what was currently happening.This kind of thing just doesn't happen unless there was a huge gap in strength or this unknown master has used some kind of advanced concealing technique beyond that of his understanding.
'Fight or flee!' the assassin thought briefly.
There was no reward to be had for any heroics or useless endeavor he might do if that would culminate in him losing his dear life for it.
That would be a funny thing for him to do because he was an expert assassin who loved slaying his targets throats as they sleep, he thus got the nickname 'Throat Cutter', he is famous among his peers and currently, he was in trouble.
Should he fight or Should he flee instead?! the assassin once again asked himself this question. To be a warrior and face a foe head-on was not one of his strengths.
Especially not against someone who was clearly more powerful than him.'FLEE!' the assassin finally decided, then he jumped and arrived on the rooftop like an agile monkey.
The assassin's steps became heavy and gone was the cover of silence that he had meticulously applied ever since his arrival.
Screw that, he was running for his dear life.
After all, what mattered most right now was to get away as fast as he possibly can of the unseen monster.
"Oh? You are leaving already without accomplishing your goal?"
The person with the genderless voice taunted the quickly escaping assassin.
'Like hell, I will wait to accomplish my goal. I'll be the one dying tonight if I stayed.' The assassin shouted in his mind as he continued his mad dash on top of the rooftop.
And soon he was about to jump onto another building like a cheetah, however suddenly he felt like he has been enveloped in darkness and,
"BANG!"
Sound could be heard as a wrecked figure of a man dressed in all black bounced back as if it hit something so hard against when he tried to jump.
"Puh!!!" the assassin coughed a mouthful of blood.
He felt that he may have suffered internal bleeding just from that one attack alone which scared him silly.
In fact, he was sure of it with every hard breath he took.
"Hah! Hah!'' he exhaled his lungs out and there was more even more blood as a result of his efforts.
He was badly injured! The man looked around in hope of seeing the person who left him in this sorry state.
Alas, all he saw darkness and endless darkness.
''What the hell is this?!''
''What just happened?"
The assassin asked a bunch of questions to nobody in particular.
Suddenly, his eyes widened in utter terror when he came up with a possible explanation for the current phenomenon he was experiencing
.''An easy job it was said? What a joke!. I hate it when the information is faulty, to begin with. It makes the job a little more difficult than necessary.'' The assassin grumbled before adding,
''This may be my last mission. To think that the target has a powerful guardian who can deploy the famous Dom-"
Suddenly, the man stopped as he felt the world turning upside down, he was back in the real world, he witnesses a headless body falling onto the ground with a thud sound and without a doubt he knew it was his, he was dead with his head separated from his body.
Indeed a death befitting 'The Throat Cutter'.He didn't regret his death because, in the end, he got to witnesses something normally he wouldn't have never seen in his life, someone with Domain. It is extremely rare to find one.
''You talk too much, I guess with this tonight work is done.''
Said the person with the genderless voice before disappearing from the rooftop with the black assassin dead body, there was not even blood on the rooftop, everything was clean as if nothing took place here.
From the start until the end, no figure was seen except for the sound of a voice.
Soon, silence returned to the rooftop.
...
In another location, Guild branch of Eria's City, second floor.
In a room, on a bed a figure could be seen, it was a woman, a beautiful woman.
She was dressed in a lascivious neglige. A see-through cloth that made heavy use of lace! The white skin underneath it could be seen even the black underwear she was wearing.
Suddenly, a shadow materialized inside the room, it was had to see through this shadow feature.
The sleeping beauty woke up with a yawn, she was not surprised by the newcomer entrance, almost as if she had been waiting for its arrival.
Making herself comfortable on the bed she waited for the shadow report.
Finally, the shadow spoke with a genderless voice not different from the previous one.
''As you have expected, someone attacked and I have taken care of it. Nobody noticed anything.''
''Good. Did you do as I ordered once you finish taking care of the trouble?" the beautiful woman asked.
''Yes. I have already sent the gift back.'' the shadow responded.
''Good. You can go back and good job, good night by the way.'' the beautiful woman said while yawning.
Without responding the shadow left leaving the beautiful woman alone.
Sighing the latter mumbled, ''Already causing troubles and leaving me to take care of it, what a troubling boy.''
The beautiful woman went back to sleep.
If Alex was here he would have identified this beautiful woman as Leena, his backer and as he had said, when you have a backer, better make use of it when there's a problem you're incapable of taking care of, it was exactly what happened tonight.