Chapter 185 Lana's Tale(Chapter preview)
"Was that the same Lana as this one?" Kiana asked as they stopped seeing Kai's memories.
"I really don't know. She just asked me to get her inside an abandoned building and then meet her at the same place where we met earlier. She came back an hour later and when I asked what happened, she just told me that she was successful in freeing her sister." Kai replied as all four of them looked at the unconscious Lana on the ground.
"Can't you just check her memories?" Watanabe asked as Kai shook his head.
"A loli blocked my memory manipulating powers" Kai replied as the three girls stared at him with confused faces as if they weren't sure whether he was joking or not.
"Are you joking? Guess what, don't answer that." Levina said as Kai shrugged.
"So should we just wake her up and ask her if she is the same person? Watanabe suggested as Kai
bent down and touched Lana and with his fingers.
The girl jolted awake as she stared at Kai's face examining her. But before she could move, her entire body except her face went numb as she looked at Kai in horror.
"Do you know anyone named Kana?" Kai asked as Lana's face suddenly went blank as her eyes slowly widened.
"She knows her." Kiana muttered from behind as Kai sighed and released the paralysis effect on Lana's body.
The girl blinked for a few seconds as she stood up and slowly examined the group with wide eyes as her mind wondered how they knew about Kana
"Do you really know her?" Lana asked as doubt crept up in her voice since she found it hard to believe it
"Your name is Lana and your elder sister's name is Kana. She used to be an assassin for hire on Nyander in the half-beast realm. You were once kidnapped by some whore masters and your sister killed every one of those whore masters to rescue you." Kai replied as Lana's jaw dropped.
"H-How do y-you know that?" Lana asked as she stuttered.
"She used to be my disciple. I trained her to beat most people with one good placed dagger. She used to take on assassination missions to earn money but I gave her enough funds to last her for her entire life so she stopped assassination and decided to live a life with you." Kai muttered as Lana suddenly punched his chest.
He didn't even flinch as Lana pulled her fist back and punched his chest again before crashing down on her knees.
Tears trickled down her cheeks as Kai bent down on his knees and stared into her eyes. Lana stared back as her eyes turned red from crying.
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT THAT SHE IS DEAD!" She screamed as Kai just touched her shoulder as Lana felt her body loosen up.
She stopped crying but her eyes were still puffy and red as she looked at Kai who was giving her a sad but firm smile.
"What happened?" He asked as she took a deep breath before telling everything.
"After you left the half-beast realm, me and my sister both went to leave on another continent. We had a small house and life was good for many centuries. Even though she had stopped assassinating people, she still used to practice and little and she taught me some moves. I grew up learning assassinating strikes one by one but when I reached the spiritual core realm, she vanished.
I woke up one morning and found the house empty and there were no signs of sister anywhere. I thought that she went out and waited for her return but she never came back. After a week, I started asking people if they had seen her but nobody knew where I went. But by doing this I made a mistake and despite knowing that it was a mistake, I still did it.
So after people knew that Kana was gone, something was bound to happen. So I packed everything in the house, threw it inside a space ring, and left. I traveled throughout the realm but didn't find any news on Kana. It was as though she never existed." Lana said as Levian furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.
"How does that tell that she is dead and why are you blaming Kai for it?" Levina asked as Lana looked at with piercing eyes but didn't speak anything as she continued.
"After a few months, I had become a professional assassin since my sister had left her gear behind. I caught wind of a person with too much money on the run and the police had a bounty on the person's head for catching them alive. I took it and went in search of the person by finding clues. I finally found the person in a cave but he had gone half-mad because of something.
He told me that no one can be safe from the creators and the ones before them and told me that they are coming for a certain someone and anyone close to him will die. Guess who that certain someone is." She finished as all eyes turned to Kai.
"Those creators." Kai said as he clenched his fist and gestured for Lana to continue.
"I didn't believe in that person's words and life passed on for a few millenniums or more. I stopped counting years by then and had lost hope that Kana was even alive. But an organization contacted me and asked me whether I wanted to work as a personal assassin for them or not. I was reluctant at first but since I didn't have anything else to do, I accepted the offer.
They asked me to come to a special realm created by them and that's where they told me that Kana was killed because of you. They showed me reports on how every single one of your harem members had vanished without a trace as though they were wiped from history. They then showed me something that guaranteed that something similar had happened to Kana as well.
They showed me pictures of her with you but I didn't believe them but they then showed me a scroll containing some person's memories but they actually belonged to Kana and it was her farewell message that said that she would be dead by the time I received it. She said that something happened to her while she had left the animal realm to meet Kai and this her warning to me." Lana finished as the entire place went silent.
"Uh, who were these people?" Kiana asked in a soft voice as Lana opened her mouth to speak but suddenly froze as she started choking.
"I... can't breathe." She gasped as Kai quickly touched her forehead and knocked her unconscious.
Her breathing stabilized after that as Kai's eyes turned dark and grim.
"I think that another memory manipulator is roaming through the realms." He said at last as everything went silent.
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