The trio decided to make their way down the Gale mountain. On their way down, Bianca expressed concerns about her absence from her post as Town Guard captain. However, Hajime had already thought of that contingency. He proposed a plan. The plan was simple yet brilliant. They would simply leave her dead. To the townsfolk, Bianca was dead. As such, they would simply keep it that way. Bianca expressed another concern. Where would they go from here?? Hajime smiled at her. Leaping off the side of the mountain, He asked her to keep up. Bianca was worried for his safety since he was still battle ridden. They ,are their way through branches and tree trunks. Jumping from tree to tree, Hajime suddenly stopped in his tracks. Planting his feet firmly on a tree branch, he signaled to Bianca to stop and hide. He summoned Lily's sword form and equipped the Reaper's Mask.
Jumping down, he called out into the darkness, saying;
" You'd best show yourself if you don't wish to die without an explanation".
From the darkness, behind two trees, five dark cloaked figure emerged. On their faces, the wore half masks that covered their eyes, showing their mouths. They looked at Hajime and Bianca as if accessing their strength and skill.
One of the cloaked figures had a golden sash on his cloak. Stepping forward, he emanated a massive amount of aura. With a serious tone he asked, " Who are you and were you responsible for the Head Hunter's demise?!!".
Hajime and Bianca felt an intense pressure. A system window appeared.
[ Situational skills acquired [✓] ]
Fortitude - Lv. 3 : S- rank
Specifics: administrator can resist mental and hypnotic type suppression and control skills below his magic rank.
Current magic rank: A
Menace - Lv. 4: S- rank
Specifics: administrator can exude deceitful killing intent, to suppress an individual's mental fortitude.
Hajime smiled behind his mask as the fortitude skill self activated. Walking amidst the assassin's intimidating aura with ease, Hajime approaches the assassin, exuding a calm presence.
The remaining four assassins were still trembling from their superior's aura. The senior assassin among them looked at Hajime with an intense rage. Drawing out his daggers, he attempted to fight him.
Hajime simply looked into his eyes and the menace skill initiated.
Their superior promptly dropped both daggers. Shivering intensely, he questioned Hajime's identity once more. Hajime, calm and collected decided to give an answer.
" I am the Reaper. I'm the embodiment of death and the seeker of souls!!.
Tell the hunting shadows to either stay off my path or get destroyed".
With a deep breath, he gave them a maximum of ten seconds to vanish from his sight. Turning around, they all suddenly dashed through the bushes to try and attack him by surprise. Their superior saw Bianca hiding behind a large tree and made the grave mistake of attacking her. Hajime quickly intervened, catching the assassin by his throat. With strong squeeze, he broke his neck. Vanishing into the bushes, he disposed three of the four remaining assassins and caught the last one looking at him with menace activated,
" You heard what I said, right?!!. Good, I'm leaving it to you to deliver the message. Now...., run!!!!".
The assassin scurried off as a system notification appeared.
Four soul energies have been devoured. Conversion into stat points successful. Displaying current stats.
[Administrator]: Hajime Floriene Grimm
[ Age]: 18
[ Height]: 180cm
[ Class]: REAPER
[Job Class]: SOUL DEVOURER ( hidden )
[ Level]: Lv. 59
[Physical Composition]:
-Strength:340.
- agility:493.
- health points:200000.
- Mana points: 10000.
- Regeneration: Lv. 29 [ 100mp/second ] ( new)
[Unique skills]:
- Shadow Cloak- Lv.5
-Sky Walker- Lv. 9
- destruction magic- Lv. 15
- Menace - Lv. 4 ... ... ..
[Magic Rank]: A
[Guild Rank]: F
Hajime was excited at how high his status values were. His starved state had deactivated and the marks were gone. Releasing how grip, the Petal Scattering Blade vanished.
Bianca came out of the darkness and was shocked to see how much he had grown in just three days. Bianca was still wondering how she was alive. She was literally at deaths door. After the trio walked for sometime, they arrived at a river. Bianca bent down to wash her face in the water. Catching a good look at her reflection, she was shocked to see the stark changes in her body. Her glowing red eyes and here creamy white hair. She was happy seeing Hajime's eyes in the river. She thought of how their eyes now had the same colour.
She stood up when she was done, rubbing her face with the hem of her uniform. They soon arrived at the very same opening Hajime was brought to. Holding Bianca's hand, Hajime asked: " are you ready?".
Bianca was confused; " ready for what?".
Hajime pulled her into the void and soon after, they were in the vampire garden. Bianca's eyes lit up at the sheer number of mythical creatures. She looked at the beautiful flowers around. In Hajime's head, Lily spoke to him. " What are you standing there for, give her a flower you idiot".
He knelt down next to a patch of Scarlet Lilies and picked one, placing it in Bianca's flowing white hair.
Inside the mansion, silk welcomed the return of Lily and Hajime, expressing her joy to see a friend of her master and mistress. Bianca introduced herself to silk as Bianca Frost. That was when it hits her. Her family will think she's dead. As such, she needed a new name. Hajime took her to the study along with Lily and silk. In the study, Hajime sat on a chair behind a desk. Behind the chair, a long and wide window, gave a beautiful view of the entire front yard.
Hajime decided to give Bianca an alias as well to prevent suspicions.
He thought long and hard, until Bianca decided for herself.
" My name is Elisa. Elisa Grimm".
Hajime was surprised but also excited. He decided to continue the meeting with the plans for the next stage of their plan for revenge.
Before leaving the vampire garden that morning, he had asked silk to visit the City of Blossoms, The imperial Capital and gather some information.
Also upon his visit to the city library, Hajime not only did research on his reanimation, he listened in on the newest gossips in the city. There was news of the youngest son of the Floriene family, Lucas Argos Floriene, attending the Goldeneye Academy. He wanted to find a way to infiltrate the family and exact his plan for revenge. However, after much thought, the only idea that came to mind was to become a teacher at Goldeneye Academy. But, he did not qualify for that either qualifications. Silk brought a suggestion.
" If I may Master Hajime,
I believe I discovered some information about the royal family of Limpersia. The Emperor's first son, first prince of the empire, Cyrus Roseworth, is fond of giving scholarships to promising awakeners in the imperial Capital. That is, on the condition that they become his knights.
I also found out that all the other lesser royals and governor's children that have come of age are also attending on an imperial scholarship".
Hajime was excited at the idea of infiltrating as a student. Elisa was curious and decided to ask a perplexing question.
" Umm, Hajime, you aren't exactly fourteen now, are you?".
Hajime turned to look at Elisa and gave a creepy smile, saying in a more creepy tone,
" Oh I know". He continued.
" I spent an awful lot of time in the library and happened to stumble on some ancient artifact creation methods. There I found a scroll for making an artifact that can allow one to regulate their age from one to ten years of their current age. To make it I need very tricky to acquire materials. However, being in the forest gives me a lot of free space to research".
Hajime believed that with that artifact, he could infiltrate the academy as a new student. Elisa decided to go with him to keep him away from noble girls. Hajime grew nervous, a cold sweat running down his skin. He tasked, Lily with the job of helping Elisa get used to her vampire powers.
The meeting ended on a good note.
In the master bath, Hajime relaxed and reflected on all that happened in the day. He thought of when to start nurturing his familiar embryo. While in thought, he caught the sound of foot steps in the bath hall. Paying
It no mind he continued to soak in the rune stone heated bath. Elisa called out to Hajime soon after. Hajime turned around to look, only to see Elisa without a towel, also in the bath. Hajime was nervous but decided to keep a cool head. To make matters worse, she got closer to him. Hajime sulked at his luck as the night ended on a calm and relaxed note.