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Chapter 155: Confronting the Assassin

From the day after the attempted assassination of Tauro, he began to take personal action.

It can be called a provocation against the assassin.

As if to lure the wary assassin, Tauro rented out the top of the “Soraki no Toa,” one of the tourist attractions in the royal capital from which he could view the city, for a few days and waited alone at the top all morning.

On the third day, while Tauro was sitting on the edge of the tower’s rooftop looking out over the city, he heard a voice behind him.

“I’ll show myself to you as you wish.”

Tauro turned around and saw a man standing there with a hood pulled up over his eyes.

The impression of the man is vague, probably due to the use of “presence blocking”.

“You’re still receiving requests to kill me, right?”

Tauro questioned the assassin who finally appeared.

“…I thought I had killed you and reported it, but you were still alive, so their trust in me has been shattered. Today, I will put a proper stop to it and clear my name.”

The assassin quickly put a thin tube to his mouth and blew a needle toward him.

Tauro had read this, so he readied his small sword and parried it.

Click!

The needle was bounced and fell to the floor with a “kin” sound.

However, another needle was stuck in the hand holding the small sword.

It seemed that he had released two needles in quick succession.

“Unlike last time, I prepared a secret poison. You’ll never be able to save yourself by accident again. I’ve won.”

The assassin, convinced of his victory, declared.

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“Umm… should I scream ‘gyaah!’?”

The assassin seemed to be waiting for his response, so Tauro asked if he should be concerned.

“…Why doesn’t the poison work?”

The assassin was astonished.

It wasn’t that the poison was slow to work, but that it wasn’t working at all on this child.

He had shamelessly asked for the assassin’s guild’s secret poison and had put it in the needle, but the child in front of him was still alive and well, and he could not help but be amazed.

Tauro pulls the needle out of his hand.

“I’m resistant to the poison, so it won’t work.”

He replied matter-of-factly.

“That’s impossible! I’ve never heard in the history of the Guild of Assassins that the guild’s secret deadly poison, which is so lethal that it cannot be tolerated even with resistance, doesn’t work!”

“That being said, it doesn’t work, so…. You lost the moment you failed to finish me off the last time.”

“Damn! Then I’ll only kill you with other methods. I know you chose this place so as not to get people involved, but I have time until noon and you made a mistake in getting rid of people until then!”

The assassin said and drew his dagger.

“If we fought normally, I would probably lose. I know you are strong. But I’ve got my Kingsguard on the ground and when I give the signal, you’ll be the rat in the bag.”

“As a member of the guild, I would be happy to kill you. If you send a signal to the ground now, I can kill you before they come up. I know the only way in and out of this summit is this door behind you, you can’t escape.”

This time, the assassin was confident of victory, that he could complete his objective.

“Then I’ll give the signal. The spirit magic of light, ‘illumination’.”

Tauro, standing on the edge of the tower sent a light signal to the ground with “Illumination.

The ground became hectic and from above it could be seen that the Kingsguard were rushing to the doorway.

“Looks like I don’t have much time, die!”

The assassin readied his dagger and flashed it at Tauro.

“Then I win, goodbye.”

With that, Tauro leapt backward over the edge of the tower.

Which meant he jumped off the tower.

“What? Stupid!”

The assassin was again aghast at the kid who jumped off the tower proclaiming victory.

“He thought he would have won if I hadn’t killed him…. If he jumped, he would die with me…!”

Muttering this, he was stunned for a few moments, then rushed to the edge to check for death and looked down to check the ground.

Then, from the ground, the child who had been his target waved at him.

“Once again, you have lost! I’m so sorry!”

Tauro waved his hand as he loudly addressed the assassin at the top.

Tauro had descended to the ground unharmed by the ‘levitation’ magic.

In essence, it was a bungee with no strings attached, but Tauro was inwardly quite scared to jump off.

But he was relieved that it worked.

“I mentally don’t want to do this move again…”

Thinking he didn’t know what kind of person would do a bungee, Tauro doubled down by tearing the assassin’s self-esteem to shreds.

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