Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 148

Chapter 148
As they were walking to the clearing outside of the town, Suzanna and Anfey saw Blavi kicking a gnome with another mage . Blavi would kick it to his friend, who would then kick the gnome back to him . Suzanna frowned . She did not mind killing the creatures, but torturing one like this made her uncomfortable .


"Blavi, what are you doing?" Suzanna asked .
"Lady Suzanna," Blavi turned around and replied . After Anfey and Suzanna confirmed their relationship, the team members began to respect Suzanna even more than before . "Is everyone safe?"
"Everyone’s accounted for," Suzanna said . She glanced at the gnome and appeared disgusted . The gnome had a large head and a small, thin body and was very disproportionate . Not only was it ugly, it reeked as well . Suzanna took a step away from the gnome . She did not like things that she deemed dirty . "Blavi, why don’t you just kill it? Why torture it like this?"
"You don’t know what it was doing . When we found it, it was taking advantage of… Miss, what’s your name again?" Blavi turned and looked at the woman .
"Doris, are you alright?" Anfey asked softly .
"Anfey?" The weeping woman looked up, and her eyes landed on Anfey . She jumped forward, threw her arms around him, and began sobbing loudly .
Anfey hesitated, then raised his hands and patted Doris’s shoulders awkwardly . Suzanna frowned and turned her gaze towards the sky . Seeing a stranger hugging her lover was uncomfortable, but she didn’t want to say anything and make the situation even more awkward than it already was .
Blavi looked like he did not know what to do with his hands . After Suzanna joined their team, he found himself attracted to the powerful and beautiful swordsmaster . However, he knew that be it strength, family background, or looks, he was not good enough for Suzanna . After Suzanna and Anfey confirmed their relationship, he made a decision to keep the feelings to himself . He wouldn’t do anything stupid or anything to harm the team because of unrequited feelings .
This time at Moramatch, he had saved a girl and discovered that she was a senior mage . Blavi was a hopeless romantic, and imagined a romantic future between himself and the girl . He didn’t know that she was a friend of Anfey’s and was close to him .
"Alright, Doris, everything will be alright," Anfey said softly . "What are you doing here?"
"I-I passed my test and I c-came here to-to…" Doris was sobbing too hard to speak properly .
"To train?"
"Y-Yes . " Doris nodded and wiped her eyes . Her tears stained Anfey’s shirt .
"As long as you’re with me, no one will harm you . Here, let me introduce some friends to you . " Anfey snuck a glance at Suzanna . Suzanna’s expression was cold, and she was frowning . She was staring at the sky, seemingly lost in thought . Anfey blinked and turned back to Doris, "This is my fiancée, Suzanna . "
Suzanna began to smile, and her eyebrows lifted . Her mood thawed as quickly as a block of ice tossed into a pit of fire . The suspicion she had a few seconds ago disappeared as well . "Nice to meet you," she said .
"Nice to meet you . " Doris wiped her tears and forced a smile .
"This is my friend, Blavi . "
"Greetings, Lady Doris," Blavi said as he bowed dramatically .
"Greetings . Thank you…for saving me back there . "
"No need to thank me . It is my duty . "


"Doris, how did you end up here? Shouldn’t you have gone to Forest of Death or Wild Plain to train?" Anfey asked .
An unfortunate story began to unfold through Doris’s narration . The magic school in this world was different from modern schools . The school did not hold regularly-scheduled tests . Instead, students would apply to take the test whenever they were ready . Students could keep studying in the school even if they failed the test . If a student wanted to, he or she could apply for as many tests as he or she want . As long as the fees were paid, no one would be thrown out of the school .
Doris was lucky and passed the test on her first try . After that, she was desperate for money . She went to the Country of Mercenaries and joined a mercenary group . During one of her missions, her team discovered a werewolf with a slave brand . Due to systemic discrimination, the team did not treat the werewolf as an intelligent being . They tortured the werewolf and almost killed it .

Doris, however, did not like their deeds . She rescued the werewolf in the middle of the night and released him, but the werewolf had lost most of his mobility . Leaving the werewolf alone in the forest would be a death sentence . The werewolf begged Doris to come with him, and Doris agreed .
After she arrived in the town, she was not welcomed with grateful words . Instead, she was greeted by Barak and his lustfulness . Had Anfey and his team arrive half an hour late, she would have been assaulted .
Anfey was speechless after listening to Doris’s story . He had never met anyone who would willingly help a werewolf . When he was still studying at the academy, Doris was the only person willing to help . She talked with him and taught him many things about magic . She even warned him after seeing his dimensional ring . Anfey had experienced Doris’s kindness first hand, but this time she was too kind .
The carriages entered the town slowly . After a careful search, the team found a few dozen dwarves and some gnomes who were either too young or too old to fight . There were some humans as well, either dressed in rags or naked . Clearly they were human slaves bought by the original residents of the town . Most of the residents were once slaves, and it made sense for them to act in retaliation after their escape .
There were some residents who escaped into an underground tunnel . Killing all of them would be impossible, but the surviving ones were not enough to post a threat .
The team had just taken over the city, and there were a lot of things to take care of . They needed people to take care of the carriages and the horses, guard the prisoners, clean the battlefield, and search the tunnels . Christian couldn’t do everything by himself . Thankfully, he had help from Black Eleven . Everyone in the team had their own role and began working methodically .
The good thing about being in power was that one didn't always have to do what everyone else was doing . Anfey didn't care for the chores, so when everyone was busy, Anfey and Suzanna snuck away to a hill outside of the town to watch the sunset .


"Anfey, look at my hand," Suzanna said after a few minutes of gathering her courage . She held out her hand shyly . If Anfey hadn’t introduced her as his fiancée earlier, she would have never said that .
"It’s very white . "
"You…"
"And beautiful," Anfey added hurriedly .
"Look at it again," Suzanna said .
"It’s very beautiful," Anfey said . He was thinking about Shansa’s griffins, so his attention was not entirely focused on Suzanna .
"Don't you think it’s missing something?" Suzanna asked, slightly frustrated .
"One, two, three, four, five," Anfey frowned as he counted Suzanna’s fingers .
"You idiot!" Suzanna stomped the ground angrily and pushed Anfey . However, without combat power, she was too weak compared to him .
"It’s not missing anything," Anfey said . He stopped thinking about the griffins and observed Suzanna’s hand carefully .
"A ring!" Suzanna said . She was blushing furiously, and her face was redder than the sunset .
"Isn’t this a ring?" Anfey asked .
"That’s a dimensional ring . " Suzanna sighed and shook her head .
"A person can only use one dimensional ring . I…"
"I don’t need a dimensional ring! It doesn’t matter what kind of ring it is, as long as you’re the one…" Suzanna’s voice died down slowly, and was almost inaudible . She was too shy to finish .
Anfey stared at Suzanna’s hand as if dumbstruck, and began recounting his time with Suzanna . At first he only treated her as a friend, and her presence often reassured him . Women weren't the only people that need reassurance; men need it as well . Even if Anfey was a cold and calculating person and treated Suzanna as a piece in his game, she had became an indispensable part of his game .
Anfey rarely hesitated once he made up his mind . Suzanna’s hand was in front of him, but he did not take it . Taking her hand meant that he would take on more responsibilities, but he was fond of Suzanna .
Under her passionate gaze, listening to her slightly heavy breathing, Anfey’s hand moved towards Suzanna’s .
"Look!" Riska called out . In his Eye of the Sky, Anfey and Suzanna were moving closer together .
"Enough is enough," Christian scolded him playfully .
"A bit longer," Riska said, grinning . Anfey may be smart, but he would never imagine his own teammates spying on him .