3 – #003 Train (2)
[Sudden quest occurs!]
[Escaped Assassin]
[An assassin who failed to assassinate the daughter of a certain family is approaching this auditorium. You are free to ignore or subdue him. However, I cannot see that he will pass by this room suitable for hiding.]
[Success Reward: Hermit’s Mask.]
[Failure penalty: ???]
“… ….”
Looking at the quest window that appeared in front of my eyes, my head went blank for a moment. I knew roughly what the quest was after hearing it from my father.
The ordeal of the system to its owner.
If you succeed, you can get special rewards that cannot be obtained by ordinary methods, but if you fail, you are like a double-edged sword that puts death in sight.
Now the failure penalty is ???, But there was no law that the hidden penalty wasn’t death.
Are the assassins coming here really that strong? No, why did they come to my place after leaving many rooms in the first place….
“Ah….”
The moment I saw the empty seat where the hat was placed, the question was clearly answered.
If you want to hide in another cabin, you have to kill one person to avoid suspicion, since the cabin has four seats, but there are three empty seats in my cabin.
If you want to hide yourself, you will inevitably have only my own room. Perhaps they checked the cabin in case things didn’t go well.
‘It’s like I dug my own grave. But if I know it’s coming, do I have an advantage?’
Knowing that the opponent is coming, the advantage of being surprised is completely gone.
Moreover, an assassin is someone who aims at the enemy’s throat on the premise of a surprise attack, not a head-to-head match.
I got up from my seat, put on a hat from the opposite seat, and immediately took out a spear from my inventory.
Although shorter than a long spear, it was still longer than most swords, so it wasn’t suitable indoors, but it didn’t matter if you were only using stabs.
‘Then it was said that it would come soon, but when the hell will it come….’
When I closed my eyes and listened closely, I could hear the faint sound of footsteps approaching from afar, though it was difficult to hear because of the vibration of the train.
At this speed, will it reach this room in about 10 to 15 seconds?
Even though they were approaching quickly, the sound of their footsteps was surprisingly low, suggesting that the opponent was familiar with assassination.
‘This has happened in the past.’
Someone tried to assassinate me in the middle of the night while camping, and I killed the assassin in reverse.
I’ve been wondering for a while what kind of crazy bastard was targeting a nobody like me, but when I thought about it, there was only one person who would do such a thing.
‘Yes, it’s true that I commissioned it.’
‘Again, it’s an absurd reason, but may I ask why?’
‘Of course it’s to test you. And it was very disappointing.’
‘Why?’
‘You still don’t know!! That assassin was a female assassin!!’
Since she is a nobleman who casually makes the absurd remark that women who are not virgins should be torn to death, she probably isn’t angry at the fact that she killed the woman herself.
Could it be that the assassin was even a virgin? When I asked just in case, my father nodded, saying, “Have you realized it now?”
‘A female assassin is basically a virgin. But you didn’t even check if the other person was a woman or not! You just killed a heroine!! Do you see your mistake now?’
‘…… Crazy guy.’
That was the day I first cursed at my father and the day I swore to kill all assassins, women, men, old people and children.
Since that day, I haven’t had a chance to be assassinated, but it was a good thing that I had an opportunity like this.
‘Now, come quickly. It’s better if it’s a girl and a virgin, and my father will hate it more.’
I had no such intention, but it was when I was thinking of something like a perverted killer.
There was the sound of a rough opening of the aisle connecting the trains outside.
Soon after, the door of the guest room was opened and an assassin wearing a black mask with only eyes visible appeared.
“…… !”
The assassin looked quite surprised as if he hadn’t expected to be awake at such a late hour.
Since the assassination failed, I expected that he would not have been injured, but at least there were no external wounds.
“I’m asking just in case, are you a woman?”
The only visible part was the eyes, and the body was small, so if it was a man, it looked like a man, and if it was a woman, it looked like a woman.
“Hey, if someone asks, you have to answer.”
“… ….”
As if he wasn’t worthy of an answer, he quietly held the dagger firmly in his hand.
Perhaps he was quite confident in his skills, the assassin charged with the dagger he held in his hand, even though he knew that a head-to-head match would be unfavorable.
Courage to attack the enemy without hesitation, a posture that minimizes useless movements with few gaps.
Even if you are not a master, you can call yourself a skilled person. If he was attacked while sleeping, he would have been a little dangerous.
However, when awake, they are not opponents. Before the assassin’s dagger could reach me, the dagger in his hand shot out like an arrow and pierced the assassin’s heart.
When the feeling of piercing through my clothes and the chain armor inside it, passing through my skin and bones and piercing my heart, reached my hands, I smiled confident of victory.
“…… !!”
As if the assassin hadn’t seen that moment, right after his heart was pierced, his pupils began to shake and he glared at me with eyes full of emotion, whether it was anger or fear.
‘You’re out of luck. It would have been better if I had jumped off the train.’
Confirming that my heart had completely stopped with the spear pierced through my chest, I roughly pulled out the spear pierced through my chest.
Then a stream of blood spurted out of my heart stained my face and clothes with blood.
“… Should I throw it outside for now?”
To spend a night with a corpse is unacceptable even if you die. Besides, if someone sees you with a corpse, it could lead to misunderstandings.
It was when I lifted the body to throw it out the window because I couldn’t leave it in the hallway.
“Mmm, stop!!”
When I turned around at the unfamiliar voice I heard from behind, an old man who looked like a butler with a long longsword pulled out was glaring at me.
What else is that?
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‘It was my mistake… !’
Articles Penwood blamed himself as he recalled an unfortunate incident that had happened a little while ago.
I expected that my enemies would use dirty tricks like assassination during my travels, but I never thought they would be so bold.
Two miscalculations, the first is that the assassin’s level was several steps higher than expected.
The second was an assassination attempt on a running train with nowhere to run.
More than half of the escorts were killed, and Rose was almost attacked by an assassin, but he managed to repulse it somehow.
‘We have to kill here!!’
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There is still a long way to go to the destination, Sage Academy. Since more than half of the escort had been taken down, Penwood had no confidence to protect Rose if it attacked next.
In addition, there was a possibility that next time he would realize his own lack of strength and call his comrades, or dig a trap and wait.
After having another escort escort Rose in preparation for her second raid, Fenwood sets off alone in pursuit of the assassin.
It is safe to say that there is no possibility that he jumped off the train. He couldn’t do what even a strong knight would risk dying for, with the body of an assassin.
‘Then there is a high possibility that he is hiding in the guest room.’
Or, the possibility of waiting in the aisle and ambush could not be ruled out.
Penwood inspected the cabin, wary of traps, and moved forward cautiously through the darkness.
And a moment later, as he passed through the aisle and inspected the cabin through the window, what Penwood saw was a truly shocking sight.
‘…… That.’
Although it is said that the knights trained by Penwood himself were ambush under the cover of darkness, the assassin who had killed four of them had turned into a ruthless corpse.
The opponent who defeated the assassin was probably about 2m tall, and the man with a short spear in one hand lifted the assassin and was about to throw it out the window as if throwing away any trash.
“Mmm, stop!!”
Penwood tried to move as quietly as possible, but inadvertently heard a loud voice at the shocking sight.
The tall man quietly turns his head. The intimidation made Pennwood involuntarily put his sword forward.
“… ….”
“… ….”
Silence hung between the two with a sword in between. Penwood drew his sword in momentary panic, but in fact there was no need for this.
There was little chance that he was the Assassin’s ally, and whether he was an enemy or an ally, he defeated the Assassin, so there was no need to be an antagonist, if not an ally.
“…… I’m sorry. I’ve been a little sharpened by something unpleasant. If you’ll excuse me, would it be all right if I ask your name?”
When Penwood said that, withdrawing his sword first, his man also lowered the assassin he was about to throw out of the window to the ground and slowly opened his mouth.
“I….”
The man opened his mouth after a long time, but then he opened her mouth as if pondering something.
Under these circumstances, it’s not unusual to feel pressured to identify yourself, so after Pennwood waited for a while, her man said.
“John. John Doe. That is my name.”