Volume 1 Chapter 20 Assassin from the Kingdom
I asked King Sofia to hire my sister.
She agreed and we started working in the beastman country together.
"That's fine, but why are you in the same room?"
At night.
Cino is also in the bedroom assigned to me, looking calm.
"Is it strange for siblings to sleep in the same room?"
"No, I guess it's not strange."
"Yes, it's not strange at all!"
With a big smile, Cino hugs my arm.
"Big brother, big brother! It smells like you... It smells good... I love it!"
I thought she was growing up, but at that moment, I realized she was still a child.
"Cino, step back."
I pushed her away gently.
Then, whoosh...!
Something flew by.
"What? An attacker!? I'll take care of it!"
"Wait. Using magic indoors is dangerous."
The room is filled with black figures.
But they don't feel like normal humans.
"It's the skill [Shadow Man]. Physical attacks, Paralyze and Sleep skills don't work on them."
Shadow puppets appear one after another in this spacious room.
"They will spawn infinitely unless you kill the person using the skill."
"Understand"
Whoosh...!
Dozens of shadow puppets attack all at once.
I took out a needle and thread from my pouch, and...!
Dash.
It passes through them like a gust of wind.
"Phew..."
The dolls seemed unable to move.
The user try to move by force, but something is binding them and preventing them from moving.
'What?! Y-you did something to them?!'
I can hear a man's voice from somewhere.
"A skill user, huh?"
'Yeah, one of my shadow puppets has A rank strength! And it should be immune to physical attacks, magic attacks, and abnormal status magic! Why!?'
"Just a little sewn on."
If you look closely, you can see that transparent threads are tightening the limbs of the shadow puppets.
"As expected of you, big brother. You managed to subdue all the countless enemies in that one moment."
'Ugh...! This... but as long as I am here, I can make endless dolls! It's useless!'
"Here, [Paralyze]."
I tap the shoulder of one shadow doll and use the Paralyze skill.
"W-Why...! How did you know... I was hiding inside the doll...!"
"Um, I just listened to your heartbeat?"
Animals don't speak like humans do.
We need to rely on the sounds they make with their bodies, like breathing and heartbeats, to help them.
That's why our senses as beast veterinarians are better than normal people.
"W-Without using anything... to hear my heartbeat... you're a monster..."
"[Sleep]."
Thud, the enemy falls down.
The dolls disappeared before I knew it.
"Huh... but what is this guy?"
"Let's make him confess directly, brother."
Cino, filled with quiet anger, approaches the man.
"Don't kill him, okay?"
".....................Of course."
The silence before the answer is too long, it's scary.
Cino takes out her stick from her pocket and waves it like a conductor.
A white mist emerges from the tip of the cane and is absorbed into the man's body.
"[Mind control] Now he has become an obedient puppet who answers all questions honestly"
"I-I see..."
What kind of magic is this?
It's scary.
Cino has always been good at these kinds of tricks.
"So, who ordered you to attack my beloved brother?"
"...I was ordered by [the King and his Prime Minister] to kill Zeke..."
Apparently my former employer sent an assassin after me.
"Seriously... why... Hey, Cino?"
The ground freezes... with a crackling sound.
"...I can't forgive them. They tried to kill my brother who was serving their country so desperately."
"M-Ms. Cino? "
"Brother...I'm going out for a bit"
Before I could stop her, Cino used teleportation magic (which allows her to go to a place she has been to before) and disappeared from the spot.
"Where did she go...?"
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