Ankoku Kishi Monogatari ~Yuusha wo Taosu Tameni Maou ni Shoukansaremashita~

people.
And then, as I arrived at a desolate place, the people who were wearing white masks were already standing there as if waiting for my arrival.

「No way!! When did you arrive in this place!?」

The masked man swung his sword.
Fast.

I stepped back immediately to dodge the sword.

Since my opponent could move at a high speed, showing my back to him was a bad move.

The moment I made this judgement, I slipped past my opponent’s gap when he swung his sword again and sweeped his feet.

The masked man lost his balance and fell right on his face as soon as he finished swinging his sword.

I used that chance to escape from this place.

I turned around to see the situation of my pursuer a bit after I fled.

The masked man rose to his feet again as if he didn’t feel anything from that fall.

— And then I saw it.

The face that was peeking from the crack of the man’s now slightly broken mask was definitely not the face of a living person’s.

I ran.

I felt the presence of several pursuers.
Their speed was abnormal.
It wasn’t the speed of a human.

「Can’t be helped I guess…」

I touched the curved swords that were strapped on my hips.
And then, I took out a small water pouch which was filled with a drug from my pocket.

The name of the drug in this water pouch was ‘Assas.’ I would gain tremendous power for a limited amount of time once I drank this drug.

Originally, it was something that was drunk by Garmi Bears.
The magician Getafix then improved it into a magical fruit juice drug.
I heard that the brave Asterix could fight against powerful monsters due to the effects of this drug.

But of course, this didn’t change the fact that Assas was a dangerous drug.
In exchange for great power, one would be able to control their body and would end up destroying their own physique.

But, my body had undergone training so that I could use this drug.
The one who’d trained me was none other than mother.
Not even father and big brother knew about this matter.

Yes, they had no idea that mother was an assassin.

The reason we were called assassins was because we use this drug called Assas as warriors who protect Ishtar-sama’s priests.
Majority of Ishtar-sama’s priests contradicted the laws in many countries and weren’t protected by its laws.
That’s why those priests needed the power to be able to protect themselves.

The result of that was us, the assassins.

But, our specialty doesn’t lie in combat since we aren’t originally warriors.
Thus, we use this dangerous drug to boost our power.

However, the opponents of Ishtar-sama’s priests weren’t monsters; it was humans.
The assassin’s job was to bury the people who dared to commit outrageous acts towards the priests of our faith into oblivious.

We used the darkness to our advantage in order to prevent the soldiers of this country from noticing our existence.
Naturally, we would be arrested if we killed the people who dared to commit a sin against the priests of our faith out in the open.

Those kinds of people were marked by us to be killed later.

In this way, no one would be foolish enough to think about harming out priests again.

Since we killed people in the shroud of darkness, the others would call us shadow killers as well.

I drank the assas.

I wonder what kind of expression my brother would make if he were to know that I drank a banned drug.
He would try to stop me for sure.

But, now wasn’t the time to be thinking about those matters.

Soon after, I felt that my body was overflowing with power.
It was as if I could do anything.

And then, my sharpened senses told me about the situation around me.
My pursuers were getting closer and closer.

I leapt up.

With my enhanced strength, I could jump over the roof of a second story build with just a single triangle jump.

But, my opponents had also jumped up to the roof after me.

Their physical strength was absurd.

They became even faster as they continued to chase after me on the roof.

Every single one of them was wearing a robe and a white mask covered their faces.

They could move without hesitation even when running on top of the unstable roof.
They might even be as fast as the current me.

Each of the masked men was holding an ominous weapon in their hand.
Some were holding a mace.
Thus, I concluded that they were fast and powerful.

I unsheathed the twin curved swords at my waist.

「Come, let me to show you the sword dance of Ishtar-sama’s follower.」

The masked men came at once.