"Sorry for just then," Roy said with a cough.
The little assassin became flustered when she heard what he said.
If he had just kept quiet and acted as if he hadn't done that to her, she wouldn't be red with embarrassment and anger.
"You... damn pervert!" The little assassin gnashed her teeth at Roy.
"But…"
"Hmph!"
Roy felt wronged.
"Hear me out. When I looted you like a bandit, I didn't know you were a gorgeous girl disguised as a man, alright. Otherwise, I would've still looted you like a gentleman."
"Y-you… thug!"
In the face of Roy's shamelessness, Swift Death felt defeated.
Wasn't it because of the Magic nullifier that he failed to inspect her?
Now that it was off, what would happen.…
『You've inspected Swift Death』
As expected, Two blue screens popped up in his vision.
The first one contained her stats.
Roy skipped that and moved to the second one.
It contained her background story.
『Swift Death's Background』
『Swift Death's Childhood: Swift Death was an orphan wandering the cold streets with her sister. She and her twin sister were adopted by Weimer, the head of a small noble family. They thought that they were lucky to catch the eye of a noble. They thought they would be provided shelter against the cold and be fed well. Well… they thought wrong. They were mistreated and sold to an assassin organization for a few coins. The Yama's Gate used them for an experiment, hoping to create a deadly weapon. They were trapped in a dark underground dungeon with hundreds of other children with limited food and were forced to kill each other for survival.』
『Swift Death's Teen Years: Years have passed since she first found herself trapped in the hellhole. Hundreds have died. She was 14 years old, but because of years of malnourishment and eating rotten food, she looked like a kid. The number of children had decreased to 40. She would've died, too, if not for her overprotective and sweet sister. She had yanked her away from the grasps of death many times.』
『Swift Death's Nightmarish Days: One night, Masked men descended into the underground dungeon to teach assassination techniques to the remaining 40. At first, they were met with resistance. But after they killed a few and broke the bones of the others, the children learned to behave in front of them. They trained and beat them every day until they lost all desire to go against them. Swift Death was worked to the bone every day. Snakes and all sorts of poisonous creatures were used by the masked men to induce poison resistance in the children. Those who failed to survive the bites died. This torture lasted for several years. Swift Death and her sister held on, hoping to one day take revenge. Out of the 40, 10 more died. The other became numb to pain, gained resistance to poison, and became fearful of the masked men.
『Swift Death's Luckiest Day: The experimental area was invaded by a bald guy who called himself the Sun's third Hidden blade. As he fought with the people running this experiment, Swift Death escaped the hellish place with her sister.』
『Swift Death's New Life with Her Sister: The twins became adventurers, using the viciousness and assassination techniques they had learned in the hellhole to hunt monsters. During one of their adventure, they found a testing ground and discovered two Soul shards and awakening stones. Swift Death gained the teleportation skill and became the dweller of the night using them. Her sister gained a healing power and the Holy Priest Class using the soul shard and the awakening stone, respectively. Not long after, the twin learned that the cause of their torment was selling a batch of children to the Yama's Gate. They launched an attack on him. Swift Death's twin died, taking Weimer and his knights down with her. The second her sister died, Swift Death vowed that she would destroy Yama's gate. Swift Death killed the rest and escaped the place with the children, who had nowhere to go home. If left alone on the streets, they would become preyed upon. Thus, she became their pillar of support.』
『Swift Death's Life After The Death Of Her Sister: At the age of 18, she was forced to bear the burden of 25 children. She needed money to support them, so she became an assassin, doing dirty deeds for the Nether Gate. She was killing two birds with one stone. She was climbing up the ranks by completing missions and also earning money to keep the children well fed. Only through reaching higher ranks would she realize who was running the Yama's Gate, its inner working, and all its important executives. She planned to assassinate all of them. But she had a soft heart, and she had let go of two targets already and hence was punished twice.』
『Swift Death's early twenties: At the age of 20, One of her adopted children became infected with a plague. She found out too late as it spread to the others. She urgently needs money to cure them. She found a good job, but her assassination failed as her target was too strong. Now, she has failed three times. She has to pay ten times the job's reward for the fine, or the Nether Duke's shadows will get rid of her. On top of that, she needs a thousand gold coins to cure the children, or they will die in three days』
The 2nd level of Perception was really something. Swift Death was stripped of all falsehood, her truth laying bare to Roy's eyes. He realized she wasn't irredeemable. She was not born pure evil. Circumstances forced her to commit evil.
"What are you going to do to me?" Swift Death asked after a moment.
She was unaware Roy knew her sad past.
Roy smiled at her like a fat greedy merchant and spoke.
"Let's see... You're an assassin—a danger to society. You also tried to kill me. It's my duty as a noble not to let you roam the street freely. But killing you would be a waste. So I will have you make amends using your body."
Immediately after, he was spat on the face by the assassin.
"You're disgusting, just like the other nobles. I did rather die than let you disgrace me. Have fun with my corpse!"
In all of the ways one could interpret Roy's words, she assumed the words.
Unwilling to be disgraced by a "dirty" noble, she tried to kill herself by biting her tongue off.
Roy realized what she was going to do and immobilized her jaw.
Swift Death immediately feared for the worse, but what she heard made her realize she had misunderstood him.
"Get your face straight, lady. Your head is full of shit, not mine. When did I say I was going to do "that" to you? I'm not asking you to prostitute yourself to me. You'll be working as my maid in the open and as my blade in the dark. I am demanding that from you." He freed her jaw after giving her a piece of his holy saint's mind.
