Now that Reiren and Eliphia were willing to listen, Aurora needed to find a way to convince them to work with her. It wasn't that easy.

They asked a lot of things that she was forced to tell them the truth, mostly.

First, who she was, and who her companions were.

"My name was Aurora Starlight, the only daughter of Viscount Starlight from the kingdom of Avalonera," Aurora said.

"My name is Ruby," Ruby said.

"And I'm her knight, Rita," Rita said.

Reiren and Eliphia nodded.

"That sounds normal enough so far," Reiren said.

Aurora smiled. "What were you expecting exactly?"

"Something that explained why you came here, why you know us, and other stuff," Reiren said, not holding back anymore.

"I see," Aurora said. "Fair enough."

"This is where things started to become a little tricky. She could tell them about the transmigrator, but the concept was hard enough to understand, let alone believe. So Aurora went with her usual lie.

"Princess Catherina and I were kind of similar," Aurora said. "Not long ago, we were suddenly gifted with an unusual ability, something that helped us know the future."

Eliphia looked concerned. "You mean clairvoyance?" she asked.

Aurora nodded. "Something like that."

Reiren blinked. "Wait, clairvoyance as future sight? You can see the future?"

"That's right," Aurora smiled. "Princess Catherina knew all your hideouts because she saw what happened in the future. And I knew because of this too."

"This is hard to believe," Eliphia said, looking doubtful.

"Future sight," Reiren murmured. Unlike her companion, she looked excited. "Does that mean you know what will happen today? Like, can you tell what kind of person will pass by us or something?"

"No, sorry," Aurora said. "I don't have control over this, so my knowledge of the future is limited. And it doesn't happen all the time."

"Oh," Reiren said, disappointed.

"So, it only works on big events or something?" Eliphia guessed.

"Yes, but not always," Aurora replied.

Eliphia looked at Aurora. "So the reason you know us was...?"

Aurora nodded. "If Princess Catherina didn't do what she did, both of you would have grown into the best assassins in the world, eliminating all the corrupt people in this kingdom and making it a better place. You guys were going to be really influential people."

"That...I can believe," Eliphia said.

"Huh? So you think you're the best?" Reiren said.

Eliphia blushed. "That's not what I meant!"

Aurora giggled. "Anyway, the point is, I noticed that Princess Catherina was using her knowledge to do terrible things, so I felt compelled to offer my help. But, well, I have my agenda too, so unfortunately, not for free."

Reiren looked at Aurora and said, "I get it, but look. What you wanted was our service, right? I might be an assassin, but don't get me wrong. Just because you help us doesn't mean I will follow your order and kill someone for you."

"Yes, I know," Aurora said, smiling. "You didn't do this for money or fame."

"Then...?" Reiren said, still confused.

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"So I can promise you this," Aurora continued. "When I give you the name of my target, and you don't want to kill her, I'm fine with it. You don't need to do it."

"Really...?" Reiren said, still unsure.

Aurora nodded. "I promise."

"But you clearly said you didn't do this for free!" Reiren said.

"Yes, but I didn't like forcing people to do something they didn't want to do either," Aurora explained. "So it's fine if you don't want to do it."

"You just make things confusing," Eliphia said. "Can you just make it clear? Are you going to use us or not?"

"Hey, Aurora is giving you guys a huge benefit," Ruby said, annoyed. "And you guys are complaining about it?"

"But this makes her offer sound suspicious!" Eliphia said.

"Yeah, you're confusing me," Reiren said. "You talked about a contract before, but this seems like it's not binding us at all."

Ruby nudged Aurora who was sitting beside her.

"You should just ask them for complete cooperation," Ruby said. "No need to act nice to them."

Aurora smiled. "I guess, but I don't want to do that."

And with that, their discussion ended for the day.

The next day, Reiren and Eliphia came to Aurora with clear annoyance on their faces. They were sitting with warm tea and sweet Aurora had brought in Serena's bag but the mood was not good.

"We're not sure yet about the future sight stuff," Eliphia said. "Whether we believe it or not. But we think we figured out why you're giving us such an advantageous offer."

"You talk as if my actions had hidden meaning or something," Aurora said.

"It does!" Reiren said.

"Really?" Ruby said. "Isn't it just because Aurora was nice?"

"That's too, but that's not all, right?" Reiren said. "You know a lot about us, so we start to think, does that mean you know about our childhood experiences? How we grew up? That we didn't choose to be assassins. That we didn't have a choice."

Eliphia nodded. "You know about me... That I can't hurt people. The reason why I ended up as Reiren's support."

"You guys are just overthinking this," Aurora said.

"Stop pretending!" Both of them said.

Aurora sighed. "Fine," she said. "So what then? You guys are pissed because I intruded into your personal lives? I apologize then."

"That's not it," Reiren said, her eyes welling up. "It's unfair to act so considerate towards us. We're not good people, why are you considerate towards our feelings? It's just... never happened before."

Reiren started crying. So did Eliphia.

Even Aurora didn't expect this development. She didn't know how to handle the situation. Of course, Ruby and Rita were even more confused than her.

"Uh... Um... Please don't cry," Aurora said, panicked. "I... I didn't do anything! Why are you crying? Please!"

Reiren had wiped her tears. "Sorry... We got a little emotional there," she said.

"That's more than just a little," Ruby said, sighing.

"Anyway," Reiren said, purposely ignoring Ruby's comment, "we decided we would follow you."

"Oh, okay," Aurora said, unsure how to respond. "That's great..."

"Sorry to make things a little awkward," Reiren said, "but we felt we could trust you now. So please help us, and we will follow you."

Aurora calmed down and nodded. "Alright, you guys want to eliminate Princess Catherina, right? But I believe she is hard to approach, with lots of knights and guards protecting her. So I have a perfect solution for that."

Aurora grabbed Serena's bag and pulled out three bottles of potions. They were transparent potions that almost looked like normal water, but sometimes a small blinking light would appear.

"That wasn't a healing potion, right?" Reiren said, observing it.

"I've never seen this kind of potion before," Eliphia said. "What kind of potions are these?"

Ruby smiled, recognizing the potion. In fact, she still had it in her bag.

"It's an invisibility potion," she said.

"What?" Not only Reiren and Eliphia, but Rita was surprised too.

"You don't know too?" Ruby said to her knight.

"It's my first time hearing it!" she said.

"Oh right, the only people who knew were me, Aurora, and Marina," Ruby said, counting on her fingers.

"And Nova," Aurora added.

"Wait, are you serious, miss? Invisibility potion?" Rita asked.

Aurora nodded. "The duration was short, but I believe this will be useful for assassins like you." She pushed the potions towards Reiren.

"Is... This for real?" Reiren said, picking one up and staring at it.

"You can try drinking one to test it out," Aurora said.

"If it's true, isn't that a waste?" Eliphia said, staring with interest at the bottle that Reiren held.

"Well, that's true. I only have three bottles at the moment," Aurora said. "It is kind of a waste, but you need proof, right?"

"Oh, how about I drink the potion I have? It's been stuck in my bag since forever anyway. This should be a good time to use it," Ruby suggested.

"Is that okay?" Aurora asked.

"Of course!" Ruby immediately rummaged inside her bag and then pulled out a similar-looking potion.

"Miss, if it's just a test, can I be the one to drink that?" Rita asked in a hurry.

"What? Aurora gave this to me. Are you questioning it? Do you think it's possible to hurt me or something?" Ruby said, offended.

"No, I mean... It's kind of a weird potion, so my job was..." Rita's voice trailed off.

Ruby ignored her knight and opened the bottle and drank it.

"Miss!" Rita exclaimed.

"Don't worry about it. Geez," Ruby said as her body started to fade away and then disappeared.

Reiren and Eliphia gasped.

"It worked!" they exclaimed.

"Miss, are you okay?" Rita asked, looking towards an empty seat in front of her.

"I'm fine," Ruby said. "See? The potion worked as intended."

Aurora nodded. "The potion you're holding is the improved version," she said to Reiren. "It will have a longer duration, but not that much. So make sure you use it at the right time."

Reiren gulped. Her hand was trembling. With these potions, she did indeed have a chance at assassinating Princess Catherina.

"We... Can really use this?" Reiren asked, feeling the need to make sure.

"Yes," Aurora said. "Feel free to use it however you want. While I told you to use it carefully, don't feel burdened to use it. I can still make more if necessary."

Reiren nodded.

The next day, news about Princess Catherina's assassination was spreading fast. And of course, it reached Aurora's group that morning. Aurora knew it was going to happen, but she still felt surprised and kind of bad.

"So, a transmigrator still dies normally if killed," she murmured.

"What?" Ruby asked.

"It's nothing," Aurora tried to smile. She was still not sure how she felt about it. Not to mention, it meant that she officially helped Reiren kill Princess Catherina. She indirectly made someone lose their life. Sure, Princess Catherina was evil, but Aurora still had mixed feelings about it.

Later that day, they met up with Reiren and Eliphia.

"Thank you for your help," Reiren said. "We finally managed to get revenge."

"You don't look too happy for someone who succeeded in getting revenge," Ruby said.

Reiren tiredly smiled. "Yeah, after it's done, it's not as fun as I imagined," she said. "But forget about that! Miss Aurora, no, master, as promised we will follow you."

"Uh, no need to call me that," Aurora said, feeling uneasy.

"But you're our master now, right?" Reiren said.

"Yes, master!" Eliphia said.

While Reiren clearly meant it, Aurora couldn't tell if Eliphia was serious or just playing around.

"Ah, but before we follow you," Reiren said. "Can we have a couple more days to do some stuff?"

Eliphia nodded. "We want to try to talk to the remaining members of the assassin's group. Now that they know we are the ones who eliminated Princess Catherina, they won't suspect us as traitors anymore."

"We want to explain the mistake," Reiren said. "And if possible, recreate the group. Just because Princess Catherina isn't here anymore doesn't mean this kingdom is safe. There are still a lot of problematic people here. So if we leave, we want to at least have someone who will deal with them in our place."

"So if we can have a couple of days..." Eliphia's voice trailed off.

Aurora smiled. "Sure, take as much time as you need," she said. "We will visit the dwarf kingdom first, after all. Just come to our kingdom, Avalonera, later when you're done with your business."

"Thank you!" Both of them hugged Aurora. Aurora just giggled, while Ruby was surprised, followed by a look of jealousy.

"I will hug her a lot later," she murmured.

They said their goodbyes, and then Aurora, Ruby, and Rita rode in their special carriage to the dwarf kingdom.

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