The Dangerous Exit

After they had contacted the front desk to have the van brought to the front entrance for them, Ye Sakura and Miko headed for the elevators. But to their surprise, once they reached the ground floor, they found that the person at the front desk had conveniently left out the fact that there was a huge crowd of people surrounding the front entrance.

From where they had just gotten off the elevator, they could hear the crowd chanting loudly.

"Terminate the granddaughter's contract!"

"Terminate the granddaughter's contract!"

Seeing for the first time how bad her reputation really was at the moment, Ye Sakura was left stunned even after finding out about it in the meeting just now. While she was still trying to comprehend the current situation, Ye Sakura missed a rare chance to hear Miko talk as the girl was the first to recover and went up to the security guard at the front desk.

"Can you move the van to a different exit?" Miko asked.

"I'm sorry, young miss, but it has already been moved to the front entrance. With all the people that have seen the van, there's now no point in moving it." the guard explained.

Sensing something off about the current situation, Miko was just about to say something when she realized that this must be a trap set up for Ye Sakura. Thinking about it, as the assassin hired to do the job, should she not lead the target into the trap.

"I trust you will secure a path for us to the van then?" she asked, needing to keep up appearances before heading back to Ye Sakura.

Feeling a tap on her shoulder, Sakura looked over to see Miko gesturing for them to head out. She was confused until she saw a bunch of security guards head out the front doors to secure a path for them. Oh, so we are going this way…

In her past life, Ye Sakura needed to always stay vigilant and pay close attention to those surrounding her when she was in crowded places in order to stay safe. Therefore, realizing they were headed into that crowd, she pushed away all her thoughts and focused on the people in the crowd.

As they approached the doors, the people closest to the doors noticed them and the crowd went from chanting in unison to flat out chaos.

"Look, there she is!"

"Hey, Ye Sakura, quit, or else!"

"Don't be a selfish pig and leave Ye Entertainment!"

Random insults and demands were thrown out left and right as they exited the building. They had made it no more than five steps past the doors when Sakura felt an object was moving towards her at a decent speed but slow enough for her to side step it, so she did just that. Looking to see what it was she saw that one of people in the direction the object went had been hit by an egg and were covered in yolk. So, someone just through an egg at me?

It was not long before multiple eggs started flying in her direction. Though the guards had made a clear path for them to the van, they could not stop people form throwing objects over their heads.

Even though she had the ability to dodge every single one, she decided not to. They were just eggs and she did not want to reveal all of her abilities just yet. But before the first egg hit her, she noticed that Miko had started acting as a human shield for her. Not knowing if she was doing so because it was her job or if she just wanted to help her, Ye Sakura decided she would return the favor regardless.

That was when she noticed it, her sense of danger blared to the highest of levels. An object that she now knew was not just an egg due to this sense off danger was now heading towards her. However, Miko was moving into the path of this object. Afraid that something might happen to this girl that was eagerly trying to protect her from the eggs due to something that was meant for her, she gave up all thoughts of hiding her martial art abilities.

Using a quick dash, she appeared immediately right in front of Miko and, applying a layer of her fire magic on her palm in order to hide the magic and protect herself from whatever the object is at the same time, deflected the object successfully. Looking down at the ground near her feet where the object landed, she saw a sharp knife sticking out of the cement.

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After Miko tapped on Sakura's shoulder and motioned for her to follow, she started walking towards the door. Once outside, she immediately noticed the first egg that was thrown at them, but as she was playing the role of an actress's assistant, she could not dodge them like she normal would have been able to. Instead, she even decided to block some of the eggs intentionally for Ye Sakura in an attempt to reinforce her role more, or was it an excuse to help her?

The events had started so fast she didn't have time to think about that and could only react. It wasn't long before she had noticed the sharp object headed straight for Ye Sakura. She didn't know why, but her body all of a sudden moved on its own to attempt to block it for her as well, even though doing so could end her life.

However, what happened next thoroughly surprised her, before she realized it, her, an assassin trained since before she could remember, did not notice how a human body suddenly appeared right in front of her before hearing the sound of metal hit the ground.

After realizing the person in front of her was Ye Sakura, Miko's world was turned upside down. While she was dazed by what just happened, Sakura grabbed her by the hand and quickly pulled her into the van.