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“Dammit!! Jake is an idiot. I could have helped him fight. I just hope that he will be alright,” Sethu grunted.

‘This household just gets much more freaky. I also have to find the rest of the men quickly,’ Sethu thought as he sprinted through the house.

After sprinting through the house for some time, he heard a small voice of a child through the halls as she called out for someone. Sethu followed the voice as it led to the dining room.

“Umm, Daddy, is that you?” cried out a little girl.

Sethu stopped to see a beautiful young child with short black hair and bright blue eyes. And the child looked around age five and had a small appearance that could make her seem very fragile.

This child’s looks stunned Sethu, but he had to be careful because everything in this household was strange.

Sethu inspected the child’s look and a mischievous smile was plastered on his face when he realized who he found.

As the captain described, they were looking for Isakawa’s daughter. A girl with bright blue eyes like her father and black hair like her mother.

However, the strangest thing is the reason why Isakawa locked up his daughter in this house. It was clearly a prison since the entire house can restrain the abilities of an ability user to a certain extent from being able to use their full power inside the house once the field has been activated. Something was going on and it all started with that child.

“Daddy, are you there?” Iris cried out as she held her doll.

‘This... this is the child we came for. I’ve finally found her,’ Sethu thought happily to himself as he strolled towards her.

“Umm, who are you, mister? I’ve never seen you before,” Iris asked, confused.

‘How did she see me?’ Sethu thought to himself as he got a bit scared. ‘I am clearly using my [ Stealth ] skill and not anyone can ’t easily detect me, so how?!’

“Hmm, mister, won’t you answer me?” Iris asked with an innocent expression.

“Well, let’s say that I just came to meet you,” Sethu smiles sweetly, and he scratches his head.

“I’ve never seen you before and I don’t remember aunt Sally saying there was a visitor,” Iris said with her arms crossed and her cheeks puffed out.

‘This person is indeed suspicious,’ she thought to herself. Iris squinted her eyes and looked at the guy closely.

‘He’s wearing all black like those Ninjas on tv.’ Iris beamed, “Hmm…..Yes, I’ve got it. You’re a cosplay ninja sent here to entertain me!” Iris stated proudly and Sethu looked at her with wide eyes.

“Pfffftttttttt, hahaha, you think I’m a ninja?” Sethu laughed, holding his chest.

Iris pouted, “Don’t make fun of Iris!!! Let me guess again.”

Since Iris has always been a safely guarded and protected child, she never knew who could harm her. She also wasn’t also aware some assassins constantly came to her home to try and kidnap her or kill her, but most of them failed because of Isakawa’s brutal traps he has laid all over the house. It has only been Tina’s group that had been able to survive longer than two hours.

Sethu walked closer and closer to Iris as he was thinking, ‘Most of our men died to find you, so I must make sure I take you back to the Organization at all cost. And ask for an explanation.’

Before he could approach her, a woman with a long silver spear as tall as her appeared from Iris’s back and held her.

“Oh, it’s you, Sally,” Iris smiled enthusiastically.

“Iris, leave here now,” Sally instructed with a serious expression on her face.

“Sally, who’s that mister,” Iris asked innocently and pointed at Sethu.

“He’s an assassin sent to kill you,” she answered, keeping her guard up for any strange movements Sethu might make.

“Huh, but why would someone want to kill me…” Iris looked at Sally in disbelief as she stumbled on the ground gripping her teddy.

Sethu dashed toward Sally quickly and swiftly, aiming to slice her neck. However, Sally quickly blocked his attack with a large spear as tall as her.

“You’re quite strong,” Sethu complimented.

“So are you!” Sally smiled back.

Sally quickly used her spear, blocking most of Sethu’s stab attacks with his dagger that had a purple aura, and when it splashed on the ground, it corroded it.

[Invisible string ]. Sally crossed her hands together as the entire area around Sethu was filled with her string. [Invisible string detach ]

Immediately, strings wrapped around Sethu’s entire body and it squeezed him.

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But….. Sethu’s body radiated a bright green light which broke Sally’s string spell.

“Whaaattt….,” Sally gasped in shock when for the second time someone had actually broken her string. “Who the hell is this person?”

Iris just stood there, watching Sally in admiration. Sally was in a battle, struggling with a trained assassin. But Iris’ eyes were filled with sparkles as she watched Sally, who would make cool poses as she fought the supposed villain.

“Yes, Sally beat that baddy,” she cheered from the side.

Sally used her spear to try to stab Sethu so many times. But unlike the other assassins she dealt with, Sethu was on a different level. He was to evade all of her attacks smoothly and even managed to injure her.

Sethu spun around and kicked Sally in the stomach with a powerful impact, which sent her flying backward.

“Weak…. I can’t believe you’re the one who killed the other assassins,” he taunted as he gripped Sally’s hair.

“Leave aunt Sally alone,” Iris yelled at Sethu with tears in her eyes. Even as a child who never experienced outside nor gained severe injuries, she could tell Sally was greatly injured.

“Oh, I almost forgot you were here,” Sethu’s face darkened as his killing intent rose as he walked to Iris.

‘I can’t let him touch Iris,’ Sally thought to herself as she closed her eyes tightly.

“Aaaahhhhh!!!” Sally rushed towards Sethu with her spear, but this time her body was divided into five reflections attacking at the same time.

Sethu raised his palm up a little as a small magic circle appeared around his hand with different engravings. [ Gravity Force ].

A huge magic circle appeared around Sally, making her body fall onto the ground and almost crushing her, which caused her [ Reflection ] skill to break.

“Aackkk,” Sally coughed up some blood, as she struggled to move under the intense pressure.

“You’re really trained to fulfill your duty, huh?” He looked down at her, “So was I. I appreciate your struggle. We can’t play any more games.”

Sethu rushed to Iris, who was on the floor, helplessly trembling in fear. As he grabbed her hand, he noticed the ability restraint collar that was placed on her neck.

“Isn’t this only placed on people with terrifying abilities? Impossible, does Isakawa really think his daughter is that special?” He said to himself, looking at Iris. ‘Let me see for herself. I know I shouldn’t play games now but this just seems so fun,’ he grinned with an evil smile at Iris. ‘If she’s truly special, I bet she can survive this.’

Sethu used his dagger to quickly slit Iris’s throat where the collar remained.

Iris’s eyes went blank as all she saw was her blood flowing onto the ground.

Blood was scattered on the floor below Iris’s neck.

“It hurts!!!!, Aaaahhhhhhhh, it hurts!!!” she cried as she used the rest of her strength to walk up to Sally.

“Aunt Sally,” Iris whispered, mouthing her words as she stretched out her hands to reach for Sally.

“I’m sorry,” Iris began tearing up as she eventually collapsed in her own pool of blood.

“Irisooo!!” Sally screamed in horror as she ignored the gravity spell on herself and ran to Iris. However, Sethu was more shocked than her. “I didn’t think she'd die that fast. oh man the organization is going to kill me,” he sighed a little disappointed.

As Sally tried to get closer to Iris, something strange happened.

Iris slowly like nothing had happened as blood stopped dripping from her neck. Her eyes were dull but filled with fear. Iris looked at Sethu and her eyes were filled with rage.

“I don’t want to die….” She mumbled, clenching her chest. “I don’t want to die!” Iris muttered with a cold expression as the surrounding blood glowed.

Her blood quickly formed into an enormous portal, and suddenly a claw came out of the portal gripping its sides.

The claw hands stretched out as a being pulled itself out from the portal of blood. The being was made of blood and shaped as a seven foot tall knight. The monster looked at Iris with its bloodshot eyes. On its face was a knight’s helmet, which covered half of its face, and below its face was accompanied by a row of sharp teeth. It walked to Iris, who was almost losing consciousness because of losing too much blood.

Iris was terrified by the monster that was in front of her. She thought it was going to attack her and closed her eyes, but she was wrong. The blood knight laid its large hands on her head and her body was covered in a bright purple light, which immediately healed the cut on her throat.

The blood knight then turned to look at Sally, but not with the same peaceful gaze it gave Iris. It then turned to Sethu’s direction as it noticed him running away.

The Blood monster tilted its head and released a terrible ear-splitting scream of pure rage.

“Sally, getaway!!” Iris warned but Sally rushed to her and held onto her tightly. The blood knight looked at her before turning towards Sethu immediately identifying who is the enemy.

The blood knight dashed towards Sethu and it was able to catch up to him in a mere amount of seconds. It then caught Sethu by his face, throwing him to the roof causing the young man's body to smash against it. Sethu coughed blood after the monster delivered him a powerful blow to the stomach while he was suspended in the air.

It then held his face and slammed him down on the ground with a powerful impact. Sethu then condensed his mana into his finger and shot a hole through the monster’s chest that caused it to stop moving for a while, which gave Sethu time to stand up.

Sethu stood up as he coughed up some blood. ‘I haven’t been injured by anything for over five years of my work.’

“Just the hell is this thing?!” Sethu said nervously as he looked at the monster more closely, “A Blood Knight??”

‘It’s impossible for it to be a Rift monster since there are no Rifts around here. Hmm, it could be that child. The monster came from her. And it seems like her blood acted like a Rift. Maybe this is why the Organization says we should bring her back. Who would’ve thought Isakawa would hide such a powerful asset from the Organization?’ Sethu grinned and dashed towards the Blood Knight.

Sethu’s dagger increased to the size of a sword that he was about to use to slash the blood monster. However, the blood monster’s eyes glowed bright red, and it roared, releasing a terrifying sound as it quickly blocked Sethu’s sword with its own sword.

“Sh*t!!” Sethu cursed as he saw the monster’s quick reflexes.

Sethu and the monster quickly exchanged a series of flashy, quick but deadly techniques.

‘I can’t do this anymore.’ Sethu thought as he blocked a slash attack from the monster, but his elbow was grazed. ‘’I’m at a disadvantage here if that monster has so much stamina. It’s barely using both hands to block my attacks.’

Sethu condensed a huge amount of energy onto his sword and released triple strikes at the beginning. But to his despair, he barely did any damage to the monster this time. It seemed that every time he attacked the monster with a new skill, it got immunity for it.

Sethu realizing there's no point in this fight, begun to calculate for his escape. One thing he knew for sure was that if he stayed any longer he was surely going to die by this strange monster. Tina's face flashed through his mind when he thought about her.

Sethu's face darkened for a while. "Who gives the sh*t about the captain, my life is more important."

He fought the monster relentlessly, but it was all in vain. His severed blade hit the ground as his body slumped down. Since he knew he couldn't win, he immediately started to dash towards the way where he and the letters came through into the house, but before he could reach far, the Blood Knight dashed in front of Sethu who was trembling in fear, "I don't want to die," after his last words the monster protruding claws sliced Sethu's head into pieces.