>>6056625“You’re not exactly the most intelligent woman are you?” You state as you stare at the fuming woman for a long minute.
“The fuck is that supposed to mean?!” She again tries charging, only to land face-first on the ground. How pathetic. However, you are an evermerciful noble and decide to take pity on the poor, poor, woman. The bugs and grease are dispelled, the magical particles that comprise them dispersed into the air as you let go of the spells. You doubt you need to keep them up, the Stranger should know she’s beaten. Doubly so as you raise your boot and press the Stanger to the floor, a physical metaphor for your power over her life. For some unknown reason, Marie raises her eyebrows a faint dusting to her cheeks.
“Oi- Hell you think you’re-”
“Silence!” You snap, “In that minuscule mind of yours do you even know why you were sent here.”
“Yeah, to kill that fucker,” He gestures to Asher with her head as best she can manage. She hisses as you press down harder.
“Wrong, you were sent here to die.”
“Fuck you mean-”
“Do not interrupt me!”
“Great, she’s monologuing,” You hear Asher half-heartedly whisper before a loud crack is heard from Alyssa as he tries to align her bones. At least she’s unconscious.
“Shh, it’s getting good!” Marie also half-whispers. Do they have no respect for your authority? Damn them!
“You agreed to assassinate someone without knowing any details of the mission on the vague hope that you’d be free of conflict should you succeed. Did you even think this could go wrong?”
“Well I didn’t expect a fucking army to be-”
“Stop. Talking,” You stress, “Because I’m sure you didn’t have the slightest clue that the man you were sent to kill can’t die. Literally, it’s his Cheat Skill-”
“Fucking Christ, Lorina! You’re not supposed to tell everyone!” Asher shouts, shocked. He is silenced by your glare. Man, you’re good at this. Especially seeing as Asher is definitely not only humoring you. Not at all.
“Her ‘employers’ already know, it’s less than an open secret as far as we’re concerned at this moment,” You hear him grumble but don’t hear any other rebuttals so you turn your attention back to the Stranger… Well, the female Stranger- The Stranger you’re standing on! You get the idea! “You were sent, most likely as a distraction, to die to a man who can’t be killed. Sure for him it might take a while to finally dispatch you but for you, it wouldn’t be more than a minute I’m sure.”
Asher sighs before talking to the woman as Marie carries Alyssa to his bed, “You ever watch Re:Zero?”
For some reason after that the woman loses tension under you, almost deflating, “Shite,” Is all she says.
“You were sent here, as nothing more than a pawn, while malicious actors target my family. Are you ignorant of the recent attacks on them?”
“Oi, whole city’s on lockdown! Course I know that!”
