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"Take however many lands and mines you want. I'll give you anything when I become the queen. Your job is to kill my very own father, the king, who's a bastard."

She stands, her eyes daring, powerful, and fearless. Her eyes were more hooded and staring at him who had been standing there listening to her. He had his heart beat crazily from her gaze. He could say he liked how she was looking at him. Her gaze, it was captivating. Her eyes shine as if she was stubborn about what she was going to do.

JK breaths out a chuckle as he turns his gaze to her. He slowly takes his steps walking in her direction as he leans to her eyes, "Are you sure, princess? Aren't you scared you'll get caught and you will have to step down from the line of throne yourself?"

She takes a step back from him because of being too close. Her eyes look up in his eyes as she stares in them that they're mesmerizing to look at. Her lips open, "I am," She moves her gaze down taking her necklace out and her earrings, "Take this. For now, I merely have this to give you."

She was avoiding the second question making him breathe out a scoff.

How was she even here? She was a princess. There would've been guards in her way. And did she walk till here? He couldn't understand. Being a princess, wouldn't she have wanted a carriage and thought it was disgusting to walk on some commoners' streets?

Jasira looks up after hearing the scoff as she eyes his hand for a mere two seconds since she hasn't touched a man in a long time. Her hand moves to his grabbing it and keeping the necklace and earrings in it safely. JK raises his eyebrows at her giving him that. His eyes were on the necklace that had a big jewel in it. He wouldn't deny he wanted that. It would've cost a fortune to purchase it, but what more can you expect from a royal?

"Accepted," He grips the necklace and earrings. Bam's eyes start shining as he waits for JK to give him that. They both were greedy for more money. Bam had to buy a brain for JK, man!

The bird was still making excuses...

JK stares at her ring that she adorned waiting for her to take it out too. The parrot has his eyes on it too. Jasira hesitates to look at their greedy eyes. Reluctantly, her hand pulls the ring out, she tries to give him that slowly but the man snatches it away.

He dumps it with the necklace and earrings as he turns his gaze to her, "A mine and a castle is deal. Now go back to the palace," He waves his hand at her wanting her to go away, "Or else, you'll seem suspicious to have disappeared in the middle of the night."

She knits her eyebrows. Was he even going to do the kill? It didn't look like it.

His fingers wave at her, "Have a good night!" He turns around stepping away with the parrot whose eyes are shining from joy.

He was treating her like a little girl.

"I want you to do it today." Her stubborn voice says and he slowly turns around blinking once.

What did she just say?

It was dark in front of him and a little light that was coming from the inn.

"It's killing a king, lady. Do you think I can do it whenever you order me to?" His eyes radiated disbelief as the parrot did the same. He's always here to support his master.

She strides to him in seconds snatching her bijouterie away, "Or else, you will not get it too."

He blinks, stretching his lips in a painful smile and snatching it back, "I'll do it today."

She squints her eyes observing him and he tries his best to show he's telling the truth radiating from his eyes.

"I have something else to ask of you."

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Jasira stares at the rope hanging to her balcony. She presses her lips together as she pulls the cloak off her body and throws it away behind the chair. She had crouched down in her gown to keep it back.

Before stepping out, she embellished herself in jewels just in case to save herself. It had worked out and the jewels were of use.

She didn't know how there was a rope that someone had thrown outside her bedchambers. She didn't know why no guard was in her way while she slipped out of the palace. She didn't know why it was so easy.

Who was helping her? And why? What did he even get out of this? It seemed like he was controlling her fate but in a good way. She had forgotten to ask the guy if he was the one who had trespassed her chambers, but it seemed foolish. Since he didn't seem like the type of person who would do something like this. He seemed more greedy.

She stares at the cloak hiding behind.

She couldn't keep it there. She'll get caught if things go as planned.

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He climbs the wall reaching the balcony high up that was in his view. He was breathing heavily because of having run all the way from the inn. If the day arrives faster than it has to, it'll be a great mess.

The bird behind him was flying little by little so he can be with him all the way.

He climbs the designs of the palace, also taking the support of the windows that came in his way every now and then.

Killing a king can be hard. However foolish he may be, he has gone to war at least once in his lifetime, or he wouldn't have been a king.

Eventually, he had a belief in himself that he can take anyone down so he wasn't scared. He was trained all his life to be fearless and skilled in using blades. He hasn't changed his blade in a long time because of being so busy with his work. He still had the golden blade with him.

He gestures Bam to stay outside and keep watch as Bam nods at him flying to a nearby tree to hide there.

His eyes move to the balcony he was at as he climbs it jumping to the door and walking to it without a noise. A thump would've been heard because of him unconsciously jumping.

He opens the doors as he slowly yet steadily steps inside. His neck is grabbed as he's pulled in. JK takes a deep breath after being pushed to a wall by a guy. He was pressed on his stomach.

He could feel a sword being pressed to his neck.

"Who sent you?" It was the king himself. He had grabbed his hair roughly playing the word on his throat.

He looks at the sword immediately pushing the man with his back and taking his blade after grabbing his collar.

He stares in the man's eyes who owned the nation he was a citizen to. The man who he had to kill today.

The man kicks him in his abdomen grabbing his mask and throwing it away as he pulls him using his clothes pushing him to a nearby wall and pressing the sword to his neck back again.

His face was quite wrinkled because of being near the age of fifty, yet he was still so skilled that not even an assassin could take him down.

JK breaths heavily feeling blood trickling down his lower lip after having been pushed to the wall before. His head was smacked there.

The aged man in front of him stares at him as he unfastens his mouth feeling a blade being kept to his abdomen. The assassin in front of him had done that even after being pressed with a sword. If he died today, he'll take the person down with him.

"Who sent you?" He asks again seeing the assassin wasn't speaking up. It was his job to take the secrets of his customers down to his grave. He couldn't say it to anyone. The king scoffs out his words, "I have lived long enough to take down any assassin or any knight in my way," He stares at JK in the eye, "I ASKED WHO SENT YOU?!"

He yells in his face making JK wince closing his eyes. In the dark, he couldn't even see the bedchambers he was at that were especially for a king.

The man in front of him presses the sword more. JK could feel himself getting more injured by time. The man in front of him slices his hand so more blood could come out. He had done it in seconds keeping back the sword to his throat. JK's screams filled up the chambers as he saw the blood and did his best to keep it in.

"I will not only kill you but torture you to death."

No one had entered here because they knew the king didn't need anyone to him. There were two knights outside who kept quiet since if they entered, they were afraid they'll anger the king. The assassin could run away taking this chance. They knew it was an assassin inside because of the king having many attempts of getting killed.

His hand shakes as fear penetrates him, fear of dying. He shouts out his words to save his own life after his hand had been cut by the old man, "JASIRA IVREA!"

He'll give up those jewels to save himself. He didn't want that now. He was going to die.

He didn't even feel like being saved by now. He couldn't. This is why Kitten was warning him again and again. He should've listened to her.

The man ironically smiles at him pulling his lip in a smirk, "Mendacious."

JK shakes his head rapidly. The king could see how he was telling the truth since he could feel his hand shaking near his abdomen. He was scared and his eyes were truthful.

"How did she go to you?" The assassin shakes his head again not knowing the answer to that too.

"I-I wish I knew, your majesty." He had used the only manners he knew. He merely wished the man would leave him alone after him being respectful for the first time in his life.

The owner of the kingdom he lived in grips his suit pushing his hands in his pockets to take out anything he could. JK closed his eyes in horror.

The king's hand pulls out a ring from his pocket that belonged to his daughter. Why? How did she even approach an assassin?

He had kept it in his pocket just in case. He had plans of selling the items one by one. The ring was the first one that came to his mind. He was going to sell it just after the kill and go back home with money in his hand. The necklace and earrings were safely kept in his closet for future use.

The ring was gone. JK was mentally crying and trying not to show it. The ring would've brought him a whole fortune. His lucky day has turned into a nightmare.

He could feel his hand that had the blade in it being grabbed. The king didn't once look down but in his eyes as he thrust the blade in his own abdomen in one go.

His brows crash together staring at the man dying in front of him after coughing out blood.

"Go!" The man pushes him towards the balcony.

JK's eyes are wide as he couldn't comprehend what was happening in front of him. He immediately snatches the ring away from his hand even in the man's last moments. He can't give that up.

"GO AWAY!" The king yells pushing him more and the assassin immediately runs to the window jumping from it without a second thought.

Why was he killing himself and on top of that, saving an assassin's life?

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