Nero was standing on the roof of his high school’s building and was enjoying the cool breeze of the day with his eyes closed. Today was a truly beautiful day, a clear blue sky partially filled with white clouds and the cool breeze that gave one a refreshing feeling. Nero opened his eyes and sighed, such a calm peaceful day was truly rare, his days were usually filled with bloodbaths, assassinations, and whole scale slaughter with him being the main culprit. Killing was all he knew since a young age. He belonged to world’s most infamous and deadly Zai family of professional killers. Yes, his whole family, down to the smallest child knew how to kill and proficiently at that too.

 His family had been in the business for centuries and also had a hand in some assassinations that changed history. Since his family was around for so long it had some really firm roots and was a major player in the world’s killing business and well as the financial business. One would think that having a big business empire would lead to them not resorting to the killing business but nope, unfortunately for the many victims of the Zai family, everyone in the family was exceptionally bloodthirsty and would often than not go out to satiate that blood thirst, and one of them gave the brilliant idea of why not earning a whole of money in exchange for higher difficulty targets, in this way they could also train the family members especially the younger ones.

Everyone thought that only these maniacs would think of such a way to train the young family members. As a result even the younger ones were ruthless killers that could make one shiver uncontrollably, and among these younger members the brightest was Nero. He was highly praised by the elders of his family and had skills that far surpassed most adults of his family. He also had a fearsome reputation in the outside world and was unconsidered an unstoppable force. Everyone looked up to him and had great expectations from him, and he was also selected as the next leader of the family. The Zai family’s head position meant that one stood at the apex of the world and held the most power among the underworld as well, it was all well and good in Nero’s eyes but Nero didn’t care about all that at all. Why you ask? It’s simple. He was lazy.

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He only wanted live a normal professional killer’s life with him not doing much and only killing a few people here and there, making a few heads fly every now and then to get by and live leisurely and enjoy his hobbies, which were mainly reading, painting and a whole lot of slaughtering, okay maybe that last hobby wasn’t that healthy, mainly for other people.

Nero really enjoyed this rooftop, here he could come and relax and feel normal for a small while. There had been some people that had tried to disturb his high school life but after a series of loving gifts in the forms bloody heads that were sent to their employers, it seemed they got the message and stopped messing with his high school life. Nero decided to skip the next class and sleep on the rooftop, he lied down on the ground and looked towards the blue sky with the few white clouds. The weather was nice and his eyes slowly grew drowsy as he closed his while looking at the beautiful sky. To him it almost felt as if he had just closed his eyes before he opened them once again, but in this short period it seemed something had changed. He remained lying on the ground and looked up but instead of blue sky with white clouds he saw a darkened sky with thundering clouds.

Hmm the weather got bad very quickly.

He just closed his eyes and went back to sleep with a carefree smile on his, it seemed he didn’t care at all about the weather and intended to sleep through the bad weather. A little rain wouldn’t do him any harm. He suddenly realized it was really noisy at the rooftop than before with a variety of sounds that one would hear from a war based movie, but he decided to ignore that too. Suddenly he heard a fierce shout that finally made him open his eyes. Someone had given a command with a really loud and earth shattering voice.

“SHIELDS!!!”

Nero finally opened his eyes with his head facing upwards, he saw a volley of arrows coming towards him, the arrows were so many in number that they furthered darkened the surrounding as they blotted the little light that was illuminating the surroundings. The arrows continued descending down while Nero continued lying down with the same carefree smile and was looking at the sky at a leisurely manner and then he closed his eyes again. He then opened them once again when he realized he probably wasn’t dreaming and said two words as he saw the arrows descend upon him.

“…………...well fuck.”

 A little rain wouldn’t harm him but a rain of arrows sure would.

Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped that class.