Fantasy Assassin in a modern world

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Captain Tang Ao came to the city to look for a date since he didn’t want to be single anymore, he even brought one of the Sergeants in his unit to help him. It was supposed to be a normal day and things were even going nicely.

Yet as he was speaking to a beautiful lady, everything turned into chaos. A Gigantes appeared in the city, and it wasn’t alone there were four more that appeared. The lady he was talking to fled the scene while screaming. Tang Ao looked at the Gigantes with irritation and clicked his tongue.

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Sgt. Howard Morian was one of the new Sergeants transferred to Tang Ao’s branch of the Elite Dragon Brigade. When he first met his new Captain, his first impression of Tang Ao was that this man was going to be a strict leader. So he never expected that very Captain to suddenly ask him to help him pick up some chicks, he also never expected to be in a situation where five Gigantes were attacking the city. He could not help but sigh in his heart at how unlucky he was.

“Sergeant, what’s the ETA on our reinforcements?!” Tang Ao shouted as he was helping the civilians evacuate.

“Sir, reinforcements are being delayed there seems to be a problem back in the base.”

“A problem?”

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“Sir, an unknown force attacked the base.”

“An unknown force, in this timing?! Damn, that must mean this f*cking accident is nothing more than a distraction! To sacrifice so many lives just for a distraction!”

Tang Ao gnashed his teeth as his anger rose. Too many things have been happening in Leim City lately. The assassin Fade showed up killing almost all the people related to the underworld in the city, which wasn’t too bad, but then other powerful individuals started appearing. The demonic genius Leila appeared in the city, then there was the Elegant Scorpion, and worst of all the Alchemist Johann was lurking in the city as well.

‘At least with those other things I was aware of them, but this came out of nowhere. I wasn’t even prepared for such an attack to happen. It was already bad enough that I have allowed the Star of Dawn to come into the city, then this happens.’

Tang Ao clenched his fist his anger not only for the enemy but also at himself grew.

“Sir, what are we going to do now?”

“Since reinforcements will not be coming anytime soon we need to do what we can with what we have now. First, Sergeant, I want you to contact the local police force and coordinate with them, and I will gather the martial artists near here to help in subduing those Gigantes.”

“Sir, yes, sir!”

Howard saluted Tang Ao and left. When Tang Ao was about to leave as well, he noticed someone dashing towards him from a distance. The person was carrying two people and another one hanging on his neck. As the person got closer Tang Ao finally got to see who was running toward him.

‘Isn’t that Loki and his siblings, that woman hanging for dear life should be the Detective.’

Despite the dire situation Tang Ao almost laughed when he saw the sight before him. The always serious, always cold Matsuri was actually clinging onto someone’s neck while holding back tears. Tang Ao was also rather surprised at how much Loki had improved.

It was just a few months ago when Loki was nothing more than a normal citizen, but now he was a rank-four martial artist. When Loki arrived in front of Tang Ao he placed Alisa and Liam down.

“Sir Tang Ao, I’m glad that I spotted you. Do you have any idea what the heck is going on?” Loki showed a very worried look on his face as he spoke. Tang Ao shook his head in response.

“It’s still unknown if this was all an accident or something intentional. For now, we need to do our best to save the non-martial artist civilians. So can I ask for the help of you and your siblings?”

Alisa was about to say something but before she could open her mouth something heavy hit her, the same thing happened to Liam. Alisa and Liam had fallen unconscious.

“I don’t know about the other martial artist but I’m pretty sure that even though we are indeed martial artists, we are civilians first before we are martial artists. Shouldn’t you as a military officer protect us instead of trying to ask for our help?”

“I understand what you’re saying but this is an emergency and unlike martial artists, the normal civilians stand little chance of escaping. Still, if you don’t want to help I won’t force you.”

Loki looked at the unconscious Alisa and Liam before he responded.

“I did not say I won’t help.”

“So then.”

“I will help you evacuate the civilians. I just want you to bring my siblings to a safe place.” Before Tang Ao could respond Matsuri pulled Loki.

“Are you sure about this Loki? It’s just like you said, you have no obligation to help them. This is a problem for the military and the police. You might be a martial artist, but you’re just a librarian.”

“Yeah, I’m sure.”

“Alright then, if that’s your choice.” Matsuri nodded her head.

“Thanks... Hey, I have a favor to ask.”

“What is it?”

“Can you please look after my siblings while I’m away?”

“I promise to protect them.”

“Thank you.”

Loki and Matsuri then started staring at each other with smiles on their faces. As they were having their moment somebody suddenly coughed.

“Sorry to interrupt, but now that you decided to help we need to move quickly. I promise to bring your siblings to a safe place. So please guide the citizens to this area.”

Tang Ao showed a map on his phone that had a certain location marked, he then sent a picture of the map to Loki’s phone. After receiving the picture Loki nodded his head.

“I’ll do my best. Oh right, Captain, I’m not sure if this is relevant but a while ago, I spotted a group of suspicious individuals heading into a building.” Tang Ao frowned as he heard the new information.

“Where did you see them, and what did they look like?”

“At first, I thought that they were soldiers from your unit as they were fully armed. I wasn’t able to see them clearly but I think they weren’t wearing any kind of uniform.”

Loki checked his phone and sent Tang Ao a picture of the building. Seeing the building that the suspicious individual headed into made Tang Ao feel confused. That was just a museum, if those guys were truly the group that caused this big mess surely they did this with something big in mind.

“That’s where I spotted them. Alright then,” while Tang Ao was deep in thought Loki was about to leave Matsuri grabbed his hand.

“Be careful.”

“I will,” Loki then left running towards the area where the Gigantes were rampaging.