3rd day of 2nd month year 10440

In a dark night, the sky was covered with dark clouds and a cold wind was blowing. There were small signs of rain.

On top of the Church of Sola bell tower, a man about 1,9m tall was standing there with a longbow on his left hand. The man was wearing white winter clothing and had his hood up, with his pair of white fox ears with blue tips, sticking out of the holes in the hood, made for that. On his face, he was wearing a white mask, with two diamond shaped eye holes. Above his right eye hole, there was a blue stripes starting from the tip of the eye hole, then going along the hole and then the line was drawn until the end of the mask. On his back, he had his quiver, full of long arrows. Under the quiver, his nine white fox tails with blue tips were slowly moving around. On his back waist, his longsword is sheathed and is currently placed horizontally.

He then took ond of the arrows from his quiver and places it on the longbow. He proceeds to pull the string with the arrow on it and then starts to aim.

"Target..250m away...Wind speed 4m/s to east."he calculates his shot, as he holds his sight on the man. He adjusts the shot and then releases the arrow, sending it flying. A second later, the arrow flies through the glass and into the mans heart, from the left side.

Seeing, that his target is dead, he puts his bow onto his back and leaves the tower. Inside of the mansion, where the man was just killed, there is a complete panic, as they try to find the assassin. The guards have been dispatched to find and kill the assassin.

In an another mansion, a man is drinking wine in front of his fireplace. Above the fireplace, there is a painting, which the man is observing with great interest.

"It's done."the assassin says behind the man, who is slightly surprised by the sudden appearance.

"Do all the Ice Fort members sneak behind their clients?"the man asks, while turning around, to look at the kitsune assassin.

"The payment."he says, as he doesn't have time for small talk.

"Sebastian!"he yells and a man, wearing a butler uniform enters the room.

"You called, Sir."Sebastian says, while holding his hands behind his back.

"Bring the money."he orders Sebastian, who bows and goes to bring the money.

As for the client, he sits down onto the sofa and asks"So tell me...How does it feel to kill for living? I have always wondered that."

The kitsune doesn't answer and just keeps standing there, with his hands crossed on his chest.

"A quiet type."he says"I get that."

He gets up from his couch and walks over to the painting.

"Tell me....What does this painting look like to you? For me, it looks like a mushroom"he asks him, but still nothing from the kitsune. Finally, Sebastian returns with a pouch in his hands. He hands it over to the kitsunes, who takes it and puts it under his coat.

"The painting is a picture of a dick. It's hanged upside-down."the kitsune says, before disappearing from the room, without the man noticing it, as he is too busy looking at the painting.

He takes the picture of the wall gently and turns it around a d puts it back onto the wall. He looks at it and the mutters"God fucking dammit. It's a dick. It's 100 gold dick painting."

"Sebastian. Burn this thing."the man says, as he leaves the room, disappointed in himself.

As for the kitsune, he has already left the city of Hertdh and was walking back home. The trip to home was about five hundred kilometers, so it's gonna take some time to get back home.

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6th day of 2nd month year 10440

Nevada is sleeping under the tree, while a small bond fire is burning in front of him. He also is holding his sword in his grasp, as he sleeps.

Suddenly, his ears twitch, as he hears footsteps approaching.

'One set of legs, heavy steps, stench of alcohol...A person...No five people.'Nevada thinks to himself, as he pretends to still sleep. He hears them getting closer and when they get near, he starts to hear their conversation.

"There's the fire and it seems that he is travelling alone."

"Shame that it's a male. But we can at least sell him. Kitsunes do fetch a great price."

"His sword is pretty expensive looking too."

'Great. Time to kill.'he thinks, while hearing them close in.

When they get to where Nevada is, they are about to hit him in the head, with a stick. But before it could hit him, Nevada had opened his eyes, drawn his sword and killed the attacker before, he could realize what happened.

"Holy sh-."his sentence is cut short, as his head was decapitated.

Next one is stabbed through the heart, the second is kicked into the fire, where he starts to burn alive, because his easily burning clothes.

The last man tries to run away, seeing that their plan went to shit real fast. As he runs away, he trips over a rock and hits the ground face first. He then starts to crawl away, only to be killed with a sword through the head.

Nevada then walks over to the man, who is burning alive and kills him, before his screaming attracts too much attention from the wild life.

Because his sleep has been already ruined, he decides to continue walking. He picks up his stuff and walks away.

10th day of 2nd month year 10440

Nevada has finally reached back home. He already has entered through the fortress gate and home is very close now.

So after walking through the crowded street, he has arrived at the Citadel gate, which he pushes open. He enters the citadel and the gate behind him is closed.

He wants to go take a bath and a nap, but before he could do that, he has to report it to the Assigner. So he walks into one of the bigger rooms in the citadel.

The room is about five meters high, twenty meters long and ten meters wide. In the room, there is a board, with bunch of missions attached to the board for assassins to take. Each mission is different and require different approach. There is no rank for the missions.

Nevada walks to the counter, where the Assigner is sitting and working on stuff. He stops in front of it and drops the coin pouch on the counter, which makes the Assigner to look up.

"Aah. I see you have completed your mission. Good job."she says"With this mission, you earned four points and with that, you have ranked up. You are now a second rank assassin. Congratulations. You can now draw the second line."

Now to explain, how the rank up works. To rank up, you need points and to get points, you need to successfully complete missions. Each mission has it written how many points it will give. The harder the mission, the more points you will get. To reach the second rank, you need 100 points. With each rank up, the amount of points needed to reach a new rank, doubles. So from second to third rank, it's 200 points. From third to fourth 400 points. And so on, until you need 25600 points. Yep. That's a shit load of points and that's why, there are only two tenth rank assassins. Because the total amount of points to get from first to tenth rank is 51100 points. And the max amount of points, one can get with the most hardest missions is 50 points.

The Assigner counts over the coin and then throws the pouch back on the counter.

"Your share."she tells him and he answers"Thanks."

He takes the pouch and walks away from the room. He walks through a couple of hallways and up the stairs, before finally reaching his room.

He opens the door to his room and enters the room, closing the door behind him. First, he takes of his equipment and puts them back, where they belong. He then takes of his coat and hangs it into his closet. After that, he takes off rest of his clothes and puts them over the chairs back.

Now that he is naked, his muscular body could be seen with a few scars on it. One of the scars was made by Veronica, when they were practicing and it got out of hand. The others are from his jobs, that didn't go so smooth.

He walks into the bathroom, where he fills the bath with warm water and then gets into it. He soaks there for half an hour, before getting out of it. He then wipes his body dry and puts the towel onto his shoulders, as he walks out.

When he gets back to his room, the door to his room is opened.

"Nevada. I heard that you got ranked up cong-ratu-lations....Oh my."Veronica stares Nevada, who looks at her and follows her gaze.

"Pervert."he says and covers himself with one of his tails.

"I'm not....It's just.."Veronica stutters and Nevada, who doesn't want to talk about it, says"Never mind. I'm too sleepy to deal with it, so lets talk later Veronica."

He says, as he gets into the bed and pulls the blanket over his body.

"Sleep well Nevada."Veronica says, before leaving the room. She still feels weird about the thing, she said to him. And because she is thinking about that, he pumps into a wall.

"Ouch."she mutters, as she rubs her right hand.

"What wrong Veronica?"Maria asks her, as she walks up to her.

"Ooh nothing. Just thinking about what happened."Veronica replies.

"What happened?"Maria asks curiously.

"Well I heard Nevada returned and ranked up, so I wanted to congratulate him. So I went to his room and I walked in, when he was just out of the bath and completely naked."

"Okay..Soo?"

"Well I may have said something, when I saw his hmh."Veronica doesn't say out the word.

"What did you say?"Maria asks and puts her hands on her hips.

"Oh my."Veronica answers.

There is a ten second silence, before Maria yells"Veronica!"

"I'm sorry!"