A Girl and A Hitman - Chapter 5

The next day, I gasped as I headed to one of the remaining hideouts. They must have known that their hideout had been discovered and devastated, so I thought they would change their base during the night. In the underground desert, where nothing was around and it was impossible to find without knowing, all the people inside had breathed their last. This must have been their main base. The interior was vast, and there were many corpses. However, each one was carefully placed with a blue rose

There, too, everyone had been killed with such care, and a blue rose was placed beside them. The timing was just too coincidental. Had someone taken my job? I picked up a lighter from there. It was a well-used black oil lighter. When I lit a cigarette, it tasted strangely nostalgic, even though I had never smoked before. I finished one without coughing.

The last hiding place was, needless to say, a massacre. There was a blue rose, and this time, whiskey was placed there. By this point, it was clear that the figurines had been deliberately left behind with me in mind, but strangely, I didn’t feel any poison in them, so I didn’t think of drinking. Generally, no matter how much money I have, I only drink cheap stuff—I’ve always wondered why that is. It’s not that I have any other use for the money,

When I returned to the hotel, I didn’t think about who had killed them. As soon as I saw the first scene, I had already thought of someone who could have done it. “One-armed,” “Worship,” “Madness,” “Atonement,” “Sword Saint,” “Defiance,” their plans had been communicated to me as well. It might be a fake, but even if the alliance judged that I had failed this mission, I didn’t think any of these people would be sent

When I called the man from the federation who had called me the day before yesterday, he answered surprisingly quickly. And he said, “If it’s her, she’ll go missing as soon as you get there.” I am a hitman who has engaged in negotiations countless times. I immediately knew that those words were a lie.

If she is just an ordinary dangerous person, then the Federation should mobilize a large number of personnel. Even though there is no one like me, there are six people who are close to it. In a one-on-many battle with such people, the Federation would surely have the upper hand. Or is it that they estimate she is even beyond that? Somehow, it was hard to believe that the reason the girl was targeted for assassination was solely because of her.

Continuing, I called the shopkeeper to inform him about the completion of the task and the mysterious assassin. “You understand, don’t you?” he said. The call ended there. Unlike the old men of the alliance, he seemed to care for me to some extent. I felt a bit grateful for that. As far as I could remember, I had no allies anywhere.

I felt reluctant to smoke the remaining seventeen cigarettes, so I bought a new pack at the street corner. It was a brand I had never heard of before.