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Chapter 77 – Rushing Through the Guards

  After my run around the city, I didn't have time to have my massage with Alzi. But I had plenty of time to roll around ihinking about Nakuma. Some part of me is still scared of her, but after we got our affihere's something that draws me to her. F me to work through that fear she put into me when we were kids. She was a menace back then, pulling my tails, throwing dirt, screaming. I hated being around her. Nakuma was always doing something to piss me off. Eventually, I feared just hearing about her.

  I worked hard to limit my time with the crazy girl until we got our affinities. I didn't have much of a choice after that. The same elders taught us illusion magic, how to use mana and skills, and about our patron Goddess. She found a way to glue herself to me then.

  She ged a bit.

  She still didn't care about my personal space. The real ge was what she did to me, huggiaking every ce she could to see me with less clothing on. Her hands willing to wander around my body. It was a fusing time. She had trained me to expect pain wheouched me. Instead, I felt a strange heat as her hands ran over my body and skin. I even liked it when her hands wandered.

  Slowly, I stopped expeg pain from her.

  She would take it too far, running her hands over pces she shouldn't. Her hands stayed too long. Pying pranks on me so I would end up naked arouhings that should've made me throw her away food. I should be happy she finally ran off food. But I just 't be happy knowing she's gone. Maybe I'm too used to sex and perverts after staying in a brothel for a decade.

  My life has bee to find a man to futo submission for hty years now.

  Then there is Alzi.

  Alzi does all the things Nakuma does but with a thought about me and my needs. She never pushed me to do things. Alzi will take everything I give and not a touch more. I've felt how much she wants to fuck me for years, yet she did her job without pushio the bed.

  I worry about Nakuma ter. She's a little rude, but she'll e running back. She ays away long without the Queen holdiill. I'll have to apologize for yelling at her. But she o uand my limits. Alzi only ged me so much.

  My bigger problem is the damn assassin guild. My sve has given me some cover, and I still have the way in from Nakuma's hahe problem is all the guards. I may be able to kill two guards with my sve's help, but if she leaves, I'm fucked. That leaves me with two options, quit or poison all of the guards today and tomorrow.

  I told Mai she'll get her revenge, so I'll just have to run around poisoning them all.

  Six targets, I'll o get four today and two tomorrow so I have some ma for the actual heist. As long as there are no surprises, I'll be fine. I just first o get through my show.

  ...

  The woman wanted me to py a silly little pied sing, keeping my legs and mana in top shape. With the appoi done quickly, I start my run to the noble district to get the st damn dog. She should be here with her limited w hours.

  ing up to her house, I find the servant's door and wait for oo e through. I do my best to keep still while I wait, invisible off to the side. I only have two poisons with me that will kill at a set time. I have enough that do have a bit of a dey, but the exact timings for these will be wildly different. Each fight I do have to take should be just a short fight when the poison speeds up and fihem off for me.

  A maid pops the door open, and I jump in, sliding past her and having her body cover me for the alerting ward. My illusion fshes as it passes the border, but I get in without i. I move quickly, looking for the coasting to the retirement guard. During the day, she should be in an open room for me to see her.

  I slip around the mansion, dodging the maids and wives. I pass each luxurious room I used to be familiar with. I quickly check all the rooms on the first floor, so I push up the stairs and start my path.

  Again, I don't find the old guard, just her husband reading a book, ao the st floor. My hands shake as I keep ing up empty with every passing room.

  "GIRLS I'M HOME!" echoes through the house. SHE WASN'T EVEN HERE! I ran around for almost an hour looking for this bitch!

  I rush back dowairs, just slow enough to stay silent with a touy sound affinity. I spot the target surrounded by her wives, getting a kiss from each as I reach the top of the first set of stairs. I start to calm down and wait for her to separate. I just need a minute aloo hit her with the poison.

  I stalked her around the house as she rexed, spending a short time in ea I rushed past before. With ea she sat in, I loosened my needs before I gave her the dose. Four rooms ter, she went to the bathroom, giving me enough time aloh her to do my deed.

  I have to sit through her business after I poison her, but once she's done as me out, I rush back to the servant's entrany wait. Luckily for my nerves, I get out quickly behind an old maid and make my way to the assassin's hall. If I 't even go after the damn zy guards easily, I'll have to let them lead me home.

  Ohere, I now have to wait firl to go off duty. I should be able to poison them on their way home, speeding the process up. I just o get a needle stuto them for a minute.

  If only that were all. The more I t on the poison w, the worse I'll be if it fails to kill them. Or if they die too fast, raising the arm in the guild. There are few poisons with sisteh times, and most are weak timelines, uhe first poison we used. The shorter ones, I don't have the ingredients for, aing them isn't easy. Not that I have the time to evehe potions anymore.

  To limit the mana I o use over what is going to be a long night, I stand as far aossible, hide my tails, and ge my hair color to a standard brown. I find a spot o a little fountain of the Goddess of the Sea and wait for my opportunity.

  It doesn't take long for it to e. I spot my sve ing down the narrow road from the noble distrid walking directly into the guild entrance. I slowly make my way there, winding through the small croreparing to follow whoever leaves the building.

  Of course, with my luck tely, she'll pick the other damn dog and make me go running, trying to find the girls that aren't on duty.

  The guards switch quickly, the off-duty guard walking out just as I reach the entrance.

  I send an illusion of my old self walking down a random alleyway, my real body disappearing from sight. I follow the wood elf back towards her home, just a few paces behind.

  She takes a turn down a smaller road, oh enough room for me to get right behind her. As I near, I bring out the poisoned needle and look food patch of skin to sink it in. Her hair blog the back of her ned long sleeves c her arms force me to aim for her calf.

  Not lettiurn onto a busier street, I throw the needle out as she takes a step. The needle goes in deep and starts letting out the poison without the guard reag to the thin needle.

  I let out a few paces between us, letting all the poison leave the needle before I used a touana t the needle bae. I run off, having taken four of the women needed out of the game. Not willing to risk a long wait fuard ge, I head to a se that has two women close together. At least one of them should be off duty.

  The ruake me to the far side of the noble district, but I always check a few houses on the way back if one is empty.

  These two girls are basically neighbors; just a single house splits their rge manors. I don't think they are the main wives in these marriages, uhe women I've ied with so far. They're closer to the royal castle. The mansions here start to have an actual yard to enjoy. Few even go for a smaller house to fit in a true garden that's normally only found in the tryside or on the Queen's castle grounds.

  The first house I visit has my target actually enjoying the garden, watg the su behind the tall walls with a few maids, wives, and a husband. With my arget in sight, I start up the pn to close the distaheir talking and ughter should let me slip in easily; the maids worry about p the wine and keeping their dies' dresses from spills.

  I make my way across the lush green grounds, trying to keep a bush between me and the party. While I am invisible there is o get overfident in my stealth.

  Bush by bush, I make my way to the gazebo. I stop at the final bush and look to see if each wife has a particur wihey drink. I don't want to poison too many girls et the man. More hat die the more likely the Queen es knog. Get a man, and I may just start a war. It won't be hard to trace this back to Nakuma or me; I doubt there are any other assassins iy besides her own that could kill seven nobles within a few hours of each other.

  Unfortunately, the guard is sharing her bottle with others, so I'll have to poison her more directly. I wait for her gss to nearly empty and make my way to the table, ready to spike her refill. The maids all put the cup down for a few seds to grab the witle, giving me a perfect time to dust the gss with poison.

  The maid makes the familiar movement, pg the rge wine gss on the white-clothed table. I pour the poisohe bottle just as she turns to pick up the witle. She pours the drink without a thought and delivers the poison to my target. I see her take a drink and then make my way out of the garden, ready to go to her neighbor.

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