“Are you sure he can be trusted?” Amir asked Sid, whom he hadn’t seen for a very long time.

“Yes,” Sid replied. “I am sure that he only thought that reviving me as his subordinate was a good idea because he was short on manpower back then, but I never felt like I was being taken advantage of. In fact, it is the other way around. It is me who has received a lot of kindness from Master.”

Amir had a complicated expression on his face as he gazed at the one person whom he wanted to surpass in Twilight Rain. He didn’t even think that Scarlet was someone worthy of becoming his new rival because it had always been Sid whom he idolized in his heart.

“But how should I explain my failure to the organization?” Amir sighed deeply. “This is my first mission after becoming a Slayer. My track record would be ruined if I go back empty-handed.”

Lux, who had been listening from the side, thought of a good idea on how to save Amir from his current situation. In fact, the problem wasn’t that big in the first place. All they needed to do was put the blame on someone else!

“Usually, when you Assassins are given a mission, you’re given a full report about your target, right?” Lux asked.

Amir nodded. “That is usually the case. Although I did a bit of research on my own, most of the data I have about Colette was given to me by the informants of the organization.”

“Well then, that makes things easier.” Lux chuckled. “All we need to do is prove that your target has a bodyguard that far surpasses your rank, making the kidnapping attempt nearly impossible. If that happens, your organization will probably send more Assassins to handle it, right?”

Amir’s eyes widened in shock after hearing this loophole. Indeed, if the high-profile target was guarded by powerful individuals, a single Assassin would not be enough to complete the mission.

Lux’s case was special because his assassination mission had been a promotion contest between Sid and Scarlet. They were not working together and were even competing against each other.

“You speak the truth,” Amir agreed. “If we are planning to kill a high-profile target that is heavily guarded by strong individuals, the organization usually sends more than one Assassin to kill them. In this case, my mission was only to capture Colette. Since the organization deemed that she didn’t have strong bodyguards to protect her, they sent me, who had just become a Ranker, to do the job.”

The Half-Elf then began to explain to Amir what reasons he could give his superiors to explain why he was unable to capture Colette. His plan was to lure in more Assassins to handle the job, and this time, he would not show any mercy and go for the kill!

After their brainstorming session, Amir headed back to the town in order to talk to the Merchant, who served as Twilight Rain’s Branch Manager in Wisp Tree Town.

Meanwhile, Colette, who had been saved from the assassination attempt, had returned to the inn that they had reserved after taking the commission for their guild.

She was still quite shaken by the incident that had happened an hour ago. Even Emma, who served as her bodyguard, almost panicked when Colette was captured by an unknown individual.

Lux had tasked her to look after the children, and she didn’t want the Half-Elf to be disappointed in her for letting something happen to them.

Fortunately, Eiko was there to save the day.

Had she not been there, Colette and Emma both didn’t know what would have happened if the kidnapper succeeded in his mission.

Unfortunately, the Assassin managed to escape at the last second, but the important thing was that Colette was safe and sound.

“Thank you, Eiko, for saving me,” Colette said as she patted the Baby Slime sitting on top of the table. “I’ll order a lot of food for you today, so eat as much as you can, okay?”

“Un!” Eiko nodded her head happily. “Eat a lot!”

“Still, I didn’t know you were this strong,” Helen said as she playfully poked Eiko’s cheeks. “You’re still a baby, yet you can already fight against a Ranker. Just what kind of food have you been eating as of late?”

“Dreadnaught Core!”

“Hahaha. I almost believe you. Do you want cookies? I have cookies.”

“Un!”

Colette and the others didn’t believe that Eiko had been eating Dreadnaught Cores because, for them, those kinds of Monsters were something that they couldn’t hope to defeat with their current Rank.

Although the Baby Slime was strong and their Big Brother was stronger, they only thought that Lux could, at most, fight against a Deimos Ranked Monster even if he used all of his Summons to help him.

Robin, who knew a bit of Lux’s abilities, also didn’t think that the Half-Elf had what it took to fight against a Dreadnaught Rank Monster.

When his little sister, Anastasia, was captured, Lux tried to gather as many people as possible in order to save her because he didn’t have the strength to fight against Rankers.

The Prince of the Kingdom of Gweliven didn’t believe that Lux could have become that strong in just a short span of time.

Having thought of this, he assumed that the Half-Elf told the Baby Slime to say that what he was feeding her were Dreadnaught Cores despite the fact that they were only low-ranking cores.

“Here is your order. Enjoy your meal,” the waitress said as she placed the dishes on the table. Her gaze lingered on Colette for a brief moment before going to another table to take the customer’s order.

Naturally, her gesture didn’t escape Diablo’s gaze, but the latter didn’t do anything and simply sat opposite Colette while paying close attention to their surroundings.

It was not only Emma who felt frustrated when the Ranker managed to kidnap Colette. As Lux’s firstborn, Diablo knew how much his Master treasured the little Dwarves, whom the red-headed teenager treated as his little brothers and sisters.

The Death Knight didn’t think that someone would actually try to kidnap someone with him around, and it made him realize his shortcomings.

While they were waiting for the food, the door of the tavern opened.

A chubby young man, who was clearly a Human, and a handsome Dwarf, who was wearing a gray robe that covered his face, entered.

Almost everyone focused their attention on the chubby Human, whom they hadn’t seen before. The Kingdom of Gweliven was not a place where people of other races could enter as they pleased because the control of their borders was very strict.

As soon as Colette and the Golden Slayer Party saw the chubby Human, they immediately recognized him for who he truly was.

“Big Brother…” Colette almost sobbed after seeing the person whom she thought had died during the defense of Whitebridge Town.

Matty and the others also felt as if their tears were going to escape their eyes as the chubby young man walked in their direction with a smile.

Even though he was wearing a disguise, they couldn’t possibly forget the presence that the Half-Elf gave off when they were together.

A presence that made them feel as if there was nothing in the world that could harm them as long as he was with them.