In the end it ended up with me going to the branch family house. Well I don't mind but since I don't want to be suspicious I'' head out tomorrow morning and ensure that the adventurer, Alasrair Freidrich has exited from the town. 

Showing my guild card to the guard I was allowed to exit as he listed that I already went out. Though I had a bit of trouble since I entered as Touren Grace since I was with Lily at that time I was able to get out f it as it seems that many adventurers use their code names since they didn't want to be tracked by the guild. Well I think that's stupid as their biodata is technically recorded but well since not everyone is educated in these types of things I'll just let it be.

In any case I realized that I forgot to ask if the kills are still recorded by the adventurer card when you have the assasin card. Though it's not like I'll have problems with that after all being treated as a threat to national security is already something I'm used to also hiding is not that hard in this world. There are many places where people wouldn't want to enter that I could and unlike in my previous world with satellites, computers and the like here they simply put out a request. 

"Took you long enough"

The girl from last night said. She was leaning under a tree while still wearing the same clothes.

"Well I used the normal exit which has an insanely long line"

"Why not use the other exit?"

She asked me, of course I knew the pther entrance that assasins and other shady figures use but since I'm going out with the name of an adventurer I want to show that I did exit from the town.

"Well going out through there is already going against my reason for exiting today."

I want to show that I went out already to erase all suspicions and if I used that exit then my exit would not be recorded and confirmed.

"Well then shall we go?"

I said looking at the hooded girl under the shade of the tree. She pulled her hood lower covering half of her face revealing only her mouth. She then turned and started walking but unlike how I first saw her she didn't slouch or bend her body to hide her portruding chest instead she seemed to be showing it off. I could only take that as a way to provoke me into attacking her.

Though I already understood what she meant last night.

"Will you marry me?"

Those words were said without any hint of emotion more like it was said in a business like manner much like she was asking me for my approval on her projec tor something. Well hearing only the word assasin family and need to get I understood immediately why she asked me to merry her.

Simply put, her family is one of those bigshot families that have a long line of great assasin and she was something like a failure. If she wasn't why would she be taking a low level job with a bunch of idiots. Since she was a failure since she is a girl she would need to find someone who exels as a husband. I reckon that the people on this world still believe that if the parents are exceprional talents then their children would be better than them.

Truthfully I sympathise with this girl as she is much like me, used as a tool by her own family. The only people who she could run to is the very same people who brings her to her doom. I wouldn't be shocked if this girl were to be killed when she enters the premise with me in tow. 

Well in any case I understand that she's a girl who was gronw to believe everything that her family says. I guess her words last night were words that her family told her to say. Seeing as she didn't understand her own words I could only arrive to that conclusion.

A few hours later

"So where exactly is this family house?"

I asked as we were already walking for hours and yet I wasn't able to sense a single sign of life. Well the fact that I can't sense life even that of small animals is already weird by I guess we already entered her families territory but then again it's already been a while since I felt signs of life.

I used the overdrive again yet increasing my sense I realized that in a few kilometers there isn't even an ant.

"This is not right"

I stopped the girl and when I did the cloak turned to a simple cloak on my hands.

"Heh~ this is very surprising"

The girls body turned to air no more specifically she disappeared. I focused my senses and I still wasn't able to sense anything.

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"This is weird"

I put my hands on the hilt of my sword and just then I felt a prescence appear from out of nowhere, the bloodlust was so intense that I reflexively  unsheathed both my swords and parried the incoming attack. Just then three more prescences appeared, I threw the first man away and then reflected the other three. Then the prescences blurred and disappeared.

"This feeling..."

I felt something familiar... yes it is familiar... no. This is basically that, what the butler at the Lancaster Manor did. I was shocked at that time as he appeared from out of nowhere like a ghost. The scariest thing is that I didn't feel him when I was walking in the corridor. The attacks a while ago and their disappearance it's...

[swoosh]

"That was a close call"

I said to the figure in front of me.

"Same here, to think that you could dodge that attack"

A deep voice resounded. It sounded ancient and yet full of life.

"hahaha, Cindy did find a promising young man!"

The person stood up and romoved the hood covering his face. What was revealed is the face of an old man in his sixties but his eyes... those are not the eyes of a weak old man but that of a very intellectual person. I only saw eyes like those when I met the old buddhist priest that lived deep in the mountains far from civilization. And his aura... the aura of someone who murdered an uncountable number of men that's what I get from him.

At the same time that he revealed his face a dozen more figures appeared and similarly removed their hoods. But unlike the old man they are all young men and women and I could clearly see the girl I was with... wait did that old man call her Cindy so she is Cindy huh.

"Well then Cindy why not introduce this man to us"

The girl, I mean Cindy stood up and bowed towards the old man and appraoched me. She then pointed towards me and started telling them how she met me and her first impressions as well as how much she understood my strength.

"Well he is powerful but he did take a long time to realize the change in the surroundings"

One of the young men said as he looked at me with eyes filled with hate. Wait could he be that kind of guy? The person who likes the heads daughter or maybe granddaughter but lost his chance and now is looking down on all other candidates to marry his beloved.

Well that was long but still to think that someone like him would be present but then if he's here why did Cindy need to look for a man outside? I do understand the things about genetic mutations due to relatives having children but then again in this world this kind of things may still not be known.

"Orlin!"

"Ye-yes!"

The old man called out to the young man in an angry tone and the young man Orlin obediently kept quiet.

"Now then you are called Alastair right?"

"Yes"

"Also you are the assasin Zero am I correct?"

"Wha-what?"

I answered to him stuttering with a face full of shock. To my answer and shock the old man grinned.

"Do you think we wouln't send some reinforcements to protect the holy girl of our branch family?"

Saying those words he snapped his fingers and then five men appeared. They similarly appeared from out of nowhere.

"They were tailing you and saw all you actions"

"Tailing?"

"Yes, tailing"

I was shocked but I made sure to keep my shock hidden after all if I showed it I'm sure that the guy named Orlin would surely say something again. Then I looked at the five men and seeing them I noticed one yes one of them I recognized him. He was not someone who you would notice and keep in mind but I did after all when I showed the head of Julius in the guild he was the only one with the reaction that stood out.

The other people were all checking the head of Julius with disbelief and there were some who didn't care but he was the only one who simple stood up looked at the head nodded and thern returned to his seat. From what I understood I first saw him as a fine assasin but that made me keep his appearance and his mana signature in the back of my head. After all I understood that I could be killed or die in any way.

But now I see this person here standing following this old man who is most likely the head of the branch family in this area.

"Since when?"

I asked, after all I used my senses and yet I couldn't find them no I didn't even notice them, if I were to judge myself I was very much lower than Cindy. That girl although she didn't find me she still noticed my prescence even if it was just for a second. But unlike her I never once felt anything off.

"Well if you ask me when..."

The old man looked towards the five men and then one of them stepped up.

"We tailed him since he started tailing the young mistress"

When he finished his words Cindy as well as the old man and all those other background guys looked at me. Cindy looks at me in wonder as if she was comprehending something and the old man looks at her then at me with a grin and the background guys... they were stared at me with reprouchful ayes.

"I see... then may I ask the reason you tailed my granddaughter"

Oh so Cindy is this old mans grand daughter and when he asked me he didn't have any hate or anger but instead I felt a hint of playfulness in his words. This old man... he's not the steroetypical traditionally enclined overprotective father/grand father but the simlarly steroetypical playful old man.

Really now well in my previous world where everything simply repeats over and over again it's not weird to expect many steroe types. 

"Well I did it because I felt that they were you know... assasins and well I wanted to find out where the assasins guild is I tailed them"

Hearing my words he looked towards the direction of the five men again and similarly one moved forward and talked.

"What he said is true, after following the young mistress to the guild he entered when the young mistress got the request to assasinate him. Similarly he entered but wore a mask and then he registered as an assasin and then proceded to take and complete the assasination request on the vngeance pool for Julius Lancaster's head"

When he finished the old man looked at me.

"You wore a mask?"

"Yeah"

"Only that"

Hearing those words I understood his meaning.

"No I wore a different coat and that covered much of my body"

He looked towards the five men and they all thought and then remembered that I did that and they bowed towards the old man.

But instead of getting mad the old man just shrugged it off and then looked towards me.

"I heard of how you took out Julius but don't you think that the method you used is too..."

"I know but then I don't know what skill you guys use"

I answered of course I know that the butler named Ben used that same skill on me but sadly his skills were inferior to mine.

"I see well then, come and I will tell you more about the Number one assasin family in the continent, the Marquee Family"