The middle-aged man in the hotel took a shower. The water was slightly cold, just the way he liked it.
He wiped himself with a towel and walked to the bed to dress up. Once done, he looked around his coat's pockets to find his cigarette.
"You know that's bad for your health right?"
The man imdiately turned around to see soone standing in the room. He side-eyed his door, but it was still blocked with the wooden chair. He then looked at the window, but it had tal grills on it.
He imdiately pulled out a gun from his storage and pointed them at the person. "Who are you, Kid?" he asked in a rough voice.
"Nice to et you. My na is Ning Ruogong," Ning introduced himself.
"Ning?" the man's eyes narrowed a bit. 'Was this the sa Ning from the docunts?' he wondered.
"How did you get into the room?" the man asked. He still hadn't figured out how soone could possibly enter a locked room.
"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. That's not very nice now, is it? When soone introduces themselves, you have to introduce yourself too," Ning said.
The man cocked his gun and asked Ning again, "How did you enter the room? Answer or you will die right now."
Ning ignored the gun and walked to the door before taking the chair. He placed it back in the room and sat on it with one leg perched on top of the other.
"Alright, listen, Elijah," Ning said. "Should I call you Elijah? Or would you prefer if I called you Sam?" Ning asked.
The man's face showed the purest shock he had ever felt in his life. Even his hands that never shook when he slit his target's throat started shaking a little.
"That's your na, right? Sam Wiseman? Born in the Odrain Empire to two duds, bullied as a child, but you got lucky and found a fruit sold by a rchant and accidentally got awakened."
"Your parents died during the coup in the capital and since then you've gone out of your way to kill any noble and royalty you can find. The Shadow Pavillion noticed your work and hired you 35 years ago, and since then, you've been one of the most successful assassins in the field."
"Quite an amazing resu you ha—"
BANG
The man shot his gun, but the bullet didn't hit Ning at all. It had veered off to the side and hit the wall behind Ning.
"That's quite rude you know? I was in the middle of talking," Ning said.
"Who are you and why do you know so much?" the man asked, while at the sa ti wondering why his aim was off. He tried calming himself and not letting his emotions ss up with what he needed to do.
"I have my ways of finding information about soone," Ning said.
BANG
The man shot once again. This ti, instead of the head, he aid at the heart. As the chest was larger than the head, his chances of hitting him would be higher.
"You really want to call the hotel staff, huh?" Ning asked as he pried open his clothes to reveal the place he had been shot at.
It was very close to the heart, but Sam couldn't tell if he hit the heart at all. After all, Ning was still speaking.
He was about to shoot once more when he saw the bullet wound pulse. The wound didn't bleed at all. When sothing finally ca out, the man realized it was the bullet. Once the bullet was out, the wound went back to being fixed.
"Ho-How did you?" the man started freaking out.
"Alright, let's get to the point," Ning said. "You ca here to kill the princess under the Pavillion's order, but that's not happening. All the Pavillion mbers have already surrendered themselves to the police, even the ones that weren't part of tomorrow's job."
"Wha—"
"One of your stupid mbers decided to enter the capital through the gate, looking like a beggar despite being a wanted criminal. So stupid. You can bla him for the ss… although he did kill himself already," Ning said.
"I ca here to make you do the sa—? Can you put that thing away? You know it won't hurt ," Ning said. However, the man didn't listen to him. Ning sighed and continued.
"Anyway, I wanted you to go and give yourself up as everyone else did," Ning said. "However… I didn't expect the Pavillion to send an Aether Emperor to do the job. That changes everything."
The man couldn't even speak with just how much new information was being thrown at him. The kid— no, this thing couldn't possibly be a child. This man, this thing, he knew a lot. He knew things that Sam had never revealed to anyone, and he knew things that even Sam had forgotten.
Not to ntion, he didn't die when a bullet shot his heart.
"What do you want from ?" the man asked, gun still pointed at Ning.
"I want you… to fight ," Ning said with a smile on his face.
The man got a little confused. "What?" he asked, not sure if he heard him correctly.
"You heard , I want you to fight ," Ning said. When he still saw the confusion on the man's face, he proceeded to explain. "Well, you see, I recently entered the Aether tower, because I didn't know how to properly use Aether."
"It's been a few weeks and, well, it's been fun, but I can't do anything serious with what I've learned. So, I was hoping you could help with it by fighting with ," Ning said.
"You want to fight?" the man imdiately started using so Aether to use telekinesis on Ning.
"Uh… not here, you idiot," Ning said. He stood up, completely ignoring the man's control, and walked up to him.
"We will be fighting soplace else," Ning said and grabbed the man before disappearing.
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