True King's Ecstasy

None of them made any moves during the daytime, since it's easy to escape the city at night without getting noticed by the people with so many carriages.

As the sun began to set over the kingdom, a group of thugs gathered together in a hidden alleyway, their hearts racing with fear and anticipation.

They knew that the guards were on high alert, searching for any sign of escape attempts. But they also knew that they couldn't stay in their current situation any longer. They needed to be free.

Their leader, Luck, the mercenary, stepped forward and addressed the group.

"We can't keep living like this," He said.

They were all nervously looking over their shoulders, watching for any sign of the guards that patrolled the gate of the kingdom they were trying to escape.

"Any moment now, we will get caught, if we don't leave now," Luck said while looking at the time carriages.

"We have support from inside, don't worry, you should just do what we ask and close your mouth, Luck," the boss of the Terrio group muttered in a dissatisfied voice by how authoritative Luck's words were.

"Start moving the carriages, don't hesitate to kill guards on our way, if we need it," He didn't want anyone ringing the city bell to attract attention.

They had planned every detail meticulously and had managed to slip past the guards undetected.

Especially the carriage managed to move without any guards trying to stop them and it alerted Luck even more knowing that this was the obvious path, where the guard should be protecting.

They were almost out of the kingdom when they reached the gate without any effort, but as soon as the guards saw them everyone went inside the building like everyone was waiting for them.

"See what I told you, I had some ties with the army and one of the commanders promised to open the gate for us," Seeing his plan working smoothly, the disgusting pig boss started bragging about his connection while breathing hard like a weasel.

"Is that so? But, sadly, we took care of your friend and now you're going to die here," Appearing out of nowhere, Naomi kept her dagger on one of the lackey's necks and slit it without even giving him a second chance to realise he was killed.

"..."

"Where did this woman come from? Kill her," Quickly backing down in fear, the boss started using his servants as shields to cover his body.

Those who were foolish enough to underestimate Naomi, came forward with smiles seeing it was a single girl until one by one started getting shot by arrows, which pierced their thick heads.

"Damn pest in my master's territory, I will clean every single one of you out of this kingdom," Naomi took her dagger and went after every one of them, who was out of the shooting range of the other assassins.

Akiyo noticed Naomi's fighting style and couldn't help but be amazed by it.

"This is completely different from our style, she's like the wind," He couldn't help but compliment her.

She had a precious dagger that she wielded with deadly precision, and she used it to eliminate anyone who dared to cross her path. Without any hesitation, she killed anyone either brutally or with her poison.

"What the hell is wrong with this woman?" Luck couldn't even follow her movements, so he obviously tried to retreat as it was the best choice.

He sneaked behind the dark road and quickly left the area, where the gate was situated, but as soon as he entered a mini narrow road, Luck saw the figure of a boy standing in front of him with hatred in his eyes.

"Going somewhere? Damn criminal," Luck didn't even answer his question, as he took his sword and went straight for the boy's head but, he quickly dodge it and managed to block the attack.

The two of them circled each other, each waiting for the other to make a move and patiently waited.

At last, Luck lunged forward, swinging a massive sword at the boys' head again. He dodged to the side, his sword flashing as she struck out at him. The two of them battled fiercely, trading blows back and forth.

"Kid, let me go, I'm not with that old man, I have a family to feed, I was forced by them to join," Luck tried to guilt trip his opponent, but the boy looked even more angry as he heard those words.

"Luck Bastio, a former commander in the royal army of the Rapidclaw kingdom, and the man, who's famous for going crazy after losing the war against the rebel army," Soon Luck's face had a darker look seeing, his trick didn't work anymore.

"What's your name boy? You're quite knowledgeable for an outsider,"

"I'm Akiyo and the son of the new duchess Sukeno," Pointing his sword at Luck, Akiyo started feeling some juicy information, which caused Luck's face to get even darker.

"You're married but your daughter got killed by one of the nobels of the former Rapidclaw kingdom, I still don't understand why you licked the boots of those nobles if you were so angry with them," Akiyo questioned wondering what caused him to go crazy like this.

"Haha~ you seriously did your research aren't you?" Luck laughed looking at his opponent.

"To put it simply, I did all this for my wife and to take revenge for what those nobles did to my daughter," With a saddened face, Luck said while tightly gripping the hilt of his sword.

"My wife went crazy after our daughter died, I did my best to take a knight peerage and get close to the nobles, who killed my daughter but it was all in vain because I lost my chance to have a knight peerage,"

Akiyo listened to his story, but he didn't let his guard down even a little bit knowing that the person in front of him is a veteran soldier.

But he still doesn't understand why he joined a criminal organisation or why he didn't join the rebellion to kill nobles.