Chương 26: [Bonus chapter] Chapter 26 – New Mansion

A/N: We have reached the goal of 300 Power Stones! I never thought you guys would reach another milestone in a day. Thanks for your support! Here is another Bonus Chapter!

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Sheathing my iron sword, I wiped the nonexistent sweat on my forehead. At that moment, I heard frantic footsteps from the main street, and then Rania showed up.

"Arthur! Are you–" Her words stopped midway as she looked at the situation in the alleyway. Her eyes widened in surprise after seeing the corpses scattered around the ground.

"It seems like you're okay." She said, suppressing her urge to throw up. This scene was even hard to see for a former Knight Commander in the Virtue Kingdom. Then her eyes stopped at the assassin in my hand. "What are you gonna do to that assassin?"

"I am going to interrogate her," I said, patting the assassin's bosom.

They were hard, unlike my expectations. Maybe she still hid something there?

'Well, I will look at it carefully later.'

"If you ask why, the answer is I wanted to know who attacked me. So will you do me a favor and take care of this scene? Unfortunately… I can't do anything about it."

Looking at the dumbfounded Rania, I smiled reassuringly.

Well, when I thought about it again, there was no way she was overwhelmed by this scene. Maybe it was just because of how brutal I became and how calm I was after I killed 19 people in a span of a few minutes.

Maybe she was worried about me instead of what happened here.

So I approached her while smiling widely, using <Purification> to wash the blood from my clothes and body.

"Rania, I am fine." I patted her shoulder, and she was pulled out of her thoughts.

"Huh? I-I see…" She stuttered a little. Then she took a deep breath to calm herself. It just took a few seconds for her to regain her composure.

"I will ask the knights to take care of it. You can return to the Academy or go to the mansion prepared for you by the headmistress. You know the place, right? Both had dungeons, I think." She started.

To my surprise, she then extended her hand to my cheek, looking at me worriedly.

"Still… Thank Goddess, you're okay. I was really worried about you."

As expected, she was just worried about me instead of the scene behind me. I held her hand with my free one.

It was really regrettable that I couldn't make any progress with her.

Slowly, I took her hand off my cheek and smiled at her.

"Thanks for worrying about me, but I am fine. Please take care of the things here. I will go to the mansion prepared by the headmistress for me."

"Yeah." Rania nodded. "Leave it to me."

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Rania watched Arthur, a boy she saw as a little brother, walk away while carrying an assassin girl on his shoulder.

For some reason, she felt strange. Not because of the sight that she saw when she just arrived. Seeing mangled corpses, innards, and blood was an almost daily thing for her back when she worked as the Knight Commander.

It was surely not because of seeing Arthur kill these assassins too. Even she thought that assassins who targeted people didn't deserve to live. Besides, they could also revive, so that wasn't the problem.

Those weren't the reason. The reason was herself.

Thump!

Her heart was beating fast when she saw Arthur's cold visage when she had just arrived. Those cold eyes seemed to have a peek of the abyss, domineering.

She wanted to be looked down at with those eyes. She wanted to be spanked like that assassin. She wanted to be dominated by him. She wanted to be his p–

Clap!

'No! Rania! That was bad!'

Rania stopped herself from useless thoughts by slapping her cheeks hard. Red marks appeared when she lowered her hands.

"Focus!" She said to herself, taking another deep breath to calm down.

The civilians around this area had already been evacuated, and she asked some of them to call the knight order stationed near this area.

'Focus. Keep your desire to yourself!' She told herself again as she turned to the alleyway where the massacre scene was still fresh.

Red blood flowed to the gutter. The body still moved slightly because of the spasm of the muscle, causing Rania to squint her eyes slightly.

"He's really strong." She muttered as she looked up at the mark left from the massacre. Sword strokes left deep marks on the wall. "Those will cost some money to fix." She continued with a wry smile.

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The mansion Alesia gave me was located near the academy. The process to transfer the ownership to me must've finished by now, and the nuns sent by Sana must've already been waiting for my arrival.

While I was walking toward the mansion, I got many curious eyes looking at me. More precisely, the busty Dark elf in my hand.

Yup, I found out this assassin was actually a Dark Elf. My 'Requirement Appraisal' showed her status like this.

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Name: Sandra

Race: Dark Elf

Description:

An assassin who was born in Sin Kingdom's orphan facility. She's the vice leader of an information-searching team stationed in the Academy City of Virtue Kingdom.

Her ability to collect information is top-notch, but her common knowledge is a bit lacking due to her upbringing. Her dream is to eat 3 times a day.

Status:

Sins: 50

Virtues: 0

Sins needed to dominate her: 50

Requirement:

1. Make her swear her loyalty toward you

2. Give her 3 meals a day for 3 days straight

3. Praise her when she finishes a job you ordered

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The Sins needed to dominate her weren't that much compared to the other girls.

My normal <Appraisal> showed the result of her status, which was surprisingly at the average of 25 with 35 in her AGI, which was really high. Her skill was Lv 2 <Assassination> and Lv 3 <Information Gathering>. Lv 1 <Poison Immunity> was there, but I could just ignore that.

For people in this world, she was a bit strong. It made me want her even more as my underling.

After walking for a while, I arrived in front of a luxurious mansion. Alesia said that the mansion she gave me was small, but this… wasn't something I expected. It was still smaller than my previous mansion, but this was at least more than 850 square meters.

The garden was wide, with a variety of flowers and trees. The mansion building was beautifully designed, with two lion statues near the entrance. Tall fences surrounded the mansion, protecting it from thieves.

I entered the mansion through the gate, which automatically opened when I came close. How? Probably some magic technology I didn't understand.

A road leading to the mansion's entrance welcomed me, and I walked down this road while looking around curiously.

'This is a great mansion.'