When the black halberd which was imbued with drawings of different diagrams on it, contacted the simple-looking strike from the katana, not a sound was produced and Bobby briskly retrieved his sword and turned around to leave while the Assassin holding the black Halberd stood still like a statue.
Just after he took his 7th step, the Assassin opened his mouth by forcefully speaking word by word. "How-did-you-do-it?" Unfortunately, the moment he made a tiny movement as he spoke, blood spattered everywhere as his body split symmetrically from head to between his legs, and the halbert was also split into two halves, all of which fell to the ground, spraying a quantity of blood everywhere.
Bobby continued trotting toward the foot of the small hill.
Next, he lifted a large boulder and walked back toward the remains of the assassin and then dug another pit beside the newly built tomb similar to the one he made for Assassin No.10.
After the messed remains of the Assassin No.1 were buried inside the pit, he installed the large boulder and began to carve with his slightly curved dagger.
He engraved it as:
'The resting ground of A Highly Skilled Assassin!'
'I have my fair share of fun today 'cause of you. And I guess you have yours too. Anyway, you came trying to take my head as part of your job but unfortunately, you met me as your marked so, so I cut you into equal halves as a way of showing my courtesy to you and giving me all those fun. All I can say is RIP,' - from the one who took your life.
After that, Bobby stood up and dusted away all the dirt from his clothes and hands and he ran up, climbing the tallest tree and stood at the top of it and observed his surroundings and he saw the nearest place to the road on the south-western side of his current position. Then he took out the black AI ball of his red vehicle and clicked a button, activating it. "Show me my current location and also show me the spot where my car is about my current position?" instructed Bobby.
Ding!
With a dinging sound, a beam of multicolor light flashed out from the AI black ball, and a 3D landscape of the miniature form of the woods appeared on the screen and two dots; one green, which was in the middle of the map, showing Bobby's current location and the other yellow dot, showing the location of his red vehicle.
After observing it once, he shut off the AI ball and said to himself. "Hmm, it's exactly 5 and half a km away from here. Should I just instruct it to autopilot and drive it to my nearest spot?... Nah, I'll just return the way I came here." "Ninja Movement Technique, Ist Law, Racing Against the wind!"
Then with a whirring sound of the friction against the wind, he vanished from his current spot and a shadowy figure began to jump from one tree to another and quickly disappeared from that surroundings.
Just after making sure that Bobby was long gone from that place, two people; a lady and a blonde girl appeared out of thin air at the top of the hill, and they walked down and stood before the two tombs. They were none other than Silla and Jo-Jo from the Gentlemen's club.
"Big Sister Silla, ah…. are you sure that the target of our assignment is that man?" A blonde girl of Ogarian descent asked, somewhat hesitantly.
Silla turned, gazed at her, and replied with a smile on her face. "Yeah, he's the one…. So, Jo Jo, what did you think of this guy?" And she further added. "You can tell me anything in your mind."
"For some reason, when I used my celestial soul sense on him, I saw that ?he didn't even use a thin shred of Origin Chi and used some kind of energy derived from his blood. And after he used that lightning elemental origin chi, I could sense that his innermost self is like the purest thing I have ever witnessed from anyone, even more, purer than my daddy, just like my mama's inner self." The little girl named Jo-Jo replied and suddenly she changed her expression and continued speaking like an adult with her childish, still chubby face. "But the next moment when I used more of my soul force, I saw something dark and gloomy resided in his body and it roared at me, making the ghastly sound of thousands of ghosts and thereby disrupting my Celestial Soul Sensing skill."
On hearing her description of the impression of Bobby, Silla frowned for a few seconds and returned to her all amiable, smiling face. And she pondered in her head. "Even disrupted Jo Jo's celestial soul searching skill!…. Hmm. That means this boy named Bradford had something troublesome with him. I should be careful from now on or the entire club will surely be in some undesirable, precarious state."
Jo-Jo approached the tomb of assassin No.10, caressed the words carved on the stone, and said. "But still, I thought that he is one of the gentlemen and most cultured men. Who in these days made tombs and paid homage to the assassins after clearly knowing they came after his head?"
Then she craned her head and said, looking at Silla, "Silla, do me a favor? Send an official golden card to Bobby Bradford."
"I can do that. But, before that, don't you think from your earlier sensing you said something about something evil and dark living inside him? So, I don't see any reason for inviting him, and most importantly, will it be better for us if we avoid him?" Silla responded, trying to test her apprentice.
"Reason?... Reason?" Jo Jo pondered repeating the word twice and responded after some time, pointing at the two graves. "Big Sister Silly, this guy is a gentleman to the core. See his works and quotes here. Is this like how a real gentleman should perhaps do after killing his opponents? And right now, from almost all of our secret employees, I felt these repulsive, stinky, and foul bloody smells from their inner selves…. Our Gentlemen's club needs a gentleman like him."
Hearing her say that with an expression that she was almost about to throw up in disgust, Silla felt almost at a loss and she asked with a worrisome face. "Jo-Jo, do I have that stinky thing on me, too?"
"Eh! What are you even thinking about, big sis?" Jo Jo quickly corrected herself. "No-no, I don't mean you…. Truly speaking out loud, I feel this feeling of warmth like in the summer morning and by the way, you have the smell of this um...like-like-like… yes, like the redolent smell of those exotic Champa flowers."
Hearing that, Silla's lips lifted upward, and smiled from ear to ear as she knew that the little blonde girl was telling the truth as she was someone who seldom lied when it came to the sensing ability of her Celestial Soul Sensing skill.
"Well, then I'll send a postcard to him with a golden card and put your name on the record as he was officially invited into our humble club, especially under your recommendation," Silla declared. The little girl began to jump playfully on hearing her say that. "Alright, now that our assignment is coming to an end with these little detours, the target is no longer a target anymore, but an important asset to us. So, let's get back to the headquarters." Then she held the little girl's hand, and the two disappeared from the spot.
Unknown to them, all this time, Jeremy and Mia were watching attentively, trying to see their motive from their space projection skill of his inside the guest room of Mia's house.
"You should go and follow them," Mia said.
"Yeah. See you then," Jeremy replied, and he made a slashing motion in the air with his palm and an elliptical dark portal appeared before him and he jumped into it and soon the portal vanished too, leaving Mia alone in the room. "My little beautiful boy is this strong within these few months of arrival at this place. Truly a genius. I wish that one day you become the strongest sovereign and protect all of our kinds from those two-faced aliens."
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Later that evening, Bobby and Diana went to the teleportation station of the Aphrodite to send her off for her visit to her family.
At the last moment, Diana kissed him as she was about to enter the teleportation room while they were inside the station.
After kissing passionately for a long time, they separated. Diana said, "Wait for me. Soon after I'm done with all my family's covenant meetings, I'll get back to you."
Bobby smiled in response and kissed her cheek and whispered in her ear, making her face blush all of a sudden. "Bon voyage, my little butterfly! Next time we meet, be ready because I'll eat you, and you'll become mine, my woman." "Off you go, " Then he pushed her lightly inside the teleportation room.
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