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Published at 27th of December 2018 08:17:15 PM


Chapter 13

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I jump and escape the grenade.

Why grenades?

Respect me please!

Megumin come on, people are not supposed to throw explosions everywhere!

Well the one who threw the grenade is not really called Megumin, but that's her nickname, she's quite new to the business but quickly shot up through the rankings.

She's devilishly sexy, and really gives a perfect example of the words 'femme fatale'… Beautiful but deadly…

But if it's really Megumin who threw a grenade, it's better for me to escape.

There's only one grenade Megumin use: the 'Super Great Mega Explosion of the Heavens Beacon' one…

As its name suggests, it's a beacon.

The grenade is not the real danger. The real danger is what comes with it: an explosive strike coming down from the heavens!

If I guessed correctly, the strike should be here within a minute!

I rush outside!

I see almost a hundred of people.

It would be a hundred if the three bastards, as well as Megumin were here.

But one is far at a sniping spot, another is unconscious in my room, and the third… flew a bit far.

As for Megumin, it seems quite evident she fled. She intends to kill me together with all the others…

-Hey guys! How're you?

All of them are staring at me like some bulldogs about to pounce on their prey.

You can almost read 'grr' on their lips.

-Listen, guys, we can still talk about i-

With a gunshot, a bullet is almost exploding my head like a watermelon.

If I didn't move and continued to talk, I would be dead.

They're all part of the top 100 of this world's assassins. Well I am too, but that's a 99 v 1… hum… 97…

-You kno-

I escape another bullet.

This one was a bit slower so I'm not underestimating it at all, I take a few steps on the right.

And I was right to do it! At the moment it reaches the place where I was before, the bullet suddenly take a turn in my direction.

-Fuck it! Who's the fucking bastard who-

BOOM!

An explosion rang as a trap on the floor is activating.

I wasn't ready for that so I had to take this explosion head on.

It's quite good that I'm an aberration of nature too, so I didn't take too much damage.

But this trap released a poisonous mist all around it.

For this one, I have to hold my breath without taking it before, so I know I won't be able to last for long.

But that too won't stop me!

Living is always harder than dying, for everyone BUT me.

My physical body don't seem to be able to hold on for very long against all of them, so I decide to use some real power.

Without a word, my hand is moving in the air with precise moves.

Everyone in front of me is suddenly acting.

In their heads, there are certainly two things:

A strong feeling of danger.

And a word: Magic!

I first move the poisonous mist around me.

It is quite a pain as it requires me to move all of that separately.

Gases have always been the harder thing to manipulate.

My hands are reaching an incredible number of actions per minutes, certainly enough to make any pianist or pro-player green with envy.

I use magic to project myself high in the air.

There's some magic barrier stopping me from advancing.

That kind of barrier requires at least a few hundred mages.

-Heh, seems like this time they used some money on this.

If they don't want to lose money by paying this kind of mage, the best level of mage they can pay should be a rank A at max.

100 A should be able to momentarily slow down, or even stop a SSS+?

Yes, normally they can.

It could've been a dead end for any normal rank SSS+.

That's a pity I'm not an ordinary SSS+… I am the number one SSS+! And the number one mage on this earth! What? You want to test me?

-CAN'T!

I move my hands.

-FUCKING!

My hands are moving so quickly they're creating afterimages.

-TEST!

My hands are moving so quickly they're disappearing.

-MMMMEEEEEEE!

I break the barrier with all my might.

[…]

A/N: Female lead? Maybe, maybe not! Just send a message in the discord!

When you think about Megumin, you think about several things.

Me or the one in the anime.

The truth is that assassin is just a random job I took recently, as for the name.

It was just a matter of convenience because the company that manages it is clearing everything up… Including the traces of my explosions.

Well… Maybe it was also because of this man but… you know, that's a secret.

When people think about my ancient identity, they think about some matters partially hidden by the world governments:

Chernobyl, Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, some explosions in the Pacific… and all kind of things.

But I think the best part of it all is that they said it was bombs! Ha ha ha! Their bombs at that time weren't even able to explode a little village, what more a city!

Currently, I'm on a table, just besides a café, and am drinking well… coffee.

This city is quite big, but they managed to plant tree all around the roads, on the sidewalk.

Right now, I'm hoping for a miracle.

After all, there's one important thing for me: will he leave by the side of the barrier I am in?

[…]

-Fuck it!

Just after I leaved the barrier, it closed.

I am fuming as it looks like they let me pass.

I was sure they would at least be injured by the backslash, but they didn't!

I land besides the barrier.

I look at all the SSS+ rankers inside, trying to leave the barrier, but unable to do so.

I am showing them my middle finger, when I hear a voice:

-Oh, my, what a deliciously beautiful middle finger… Do you mind if I take it with me?

I instantly know who it is before even turning:

-Take your mother!

This time I point it behind me as I turn.

She's eating a fruit, a coffee on the table, with a tranquil air in her face.

In an instant, she's instantly moving to me, and her mouth almost reached my finger.

-Let my fucking finger alone, I'm not here for my middle finger to be sucked!

-Oohh, come on, you're not fun! I was just joking around…

She lazily stretches before going back to her seat.

She points the seat in front of her, inviting me to sit down too.

I sigh, and sit.

On my right is the barrier, where the SSS+ are still trying to break through…

-Hey, you've got a beautiful lady dying for your attention in front of you! Don't be so distracted!

-Dying for my attention?

I laugh sarcastically.

-You had my attention, but not in the way you want…

-Don't say this, I am a heroine! I just saved you of all these SSS+ guys!

-Heroine? You tried to kill me but as you failed, you decided to side with me instead, no?

-Not at all, you know you're the only one in my heart!

-I strongly doubt this.

-Why won't you accept my love?

-Because I don't want to.

-Come on, you kept looking at my perfectly-sized arguments for these past 6 years! Can't you just spend a night with me?

-I do NOT have a death wish.

-Just imagine I am a very special vampire! Besides, I won't do anything to you.

-If it was just having sex with a vampire, it would still be okay, but here it's not a question of blood, but of soul!

-I know this. This is why I took some precautions!

-I don't believe this.

-Well, listen, what if I absorbed enough soul force for during one night without any hunger? Would it be possible for you to love me?

I know this is absolutely impossible: this quantity of soul would be more soul force than I have… So accepting this deal is nothing. I drink a bit of coffee.

-But then you need to also solve my bounty problem, too lazy to keep running.

She smiles.

-Okay, that's a deal!

Wait, did I do well by accepting this?

I check around me:

No contract altar, no runes, nothing to force me to keep my word…

There wasn't anything this time, but I should be more careful when casually promising things in the future.

What I don't notice is the shining eyes of the woman before me.

[…]

Yes!

He's just so used to fool around that he didn't think twice before making empty promises!

He just didn't see that he drank in the same cup of coffee I drank earlier.

I asked a second cup a bit before he arrived, and it is in my hand.

The one he drank in was also drunk in by me.

Nothing to do with strange fetishes, this kind of one cup for two can be used in some ancient rituals to seal contracts!

He didn't see that the moment he accepted the deal the veil of magic hooked to him. Usually, the veil is not linked to thing unless you manipulate things to be like this.

Now I just have to do what I got to do!

First, souls!

I take advantage of a passing taxi to click on a button.

This lovely guy has a really strong sensitivity to sounds.

A spell shell is falling in the zone.

-Look, this is beautiful, isn't it?

I say to him as we look at the silently spreading shockwaves inside the barrier.

[…]

-…

I'm speechless. I didn't know she would kill them like that.

I see their face filled with despair as they're punching on the wall…

They're inevitably all engulfed by the explosion.

The barrier finally breaks as one that seems survived is crawling on the road.

The people are finally reacting to this: they're all panicking: the barrier was hiding what was really happening inside.

Now the veil of reality is acting: every ordinary man is seeing a sudden gas explosion at the place the barrier was.

I look at that poor guy crawling.

He says:

-Whyyy?

Before dying.

[…]

Well, this is certainly maybe a bit extreme to kill 98 friends I made in the last 5 years, but this is for love! I'm sure they'll understand it!

There's a survivant.

He seems to be saying something.

I go on his body, and finally hear what I wanted to hear:

-I understand…

-See? He said he understands!

I say to my love.

[…]

-…

How can she actually mishear 'Why' in 'I understand'? These words are not alike at all!

And I strangely feel… like a weight has been lifted from my heart. I think I'm being influenced too easily today…

[…]

Half completed!

Now, the bounty!

After going back to my seat, I open the app on my phone, and cancel the mission I created!

Ha ha ha!

I'm such a scheming girl!

[…]

I look at her visibly delighted face, and know she managed to do her part of the deal so quickly.

I'm about to retract my word, but a strange feeling stops me.

The vision of her madly laughing is making me… filled with love… and care… and… a will to let her continue to do it because it's lovely???

Without me being able to do anything, my will was instantly broken under some over powerful ancient magic.

Under this state, I'm unable to even have the will to stop myself from reinforcing the ancient spell, even less to break it….




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