The Raider

Daiyu believed everything was going well until she heard a strange voice and her life changed from that day on.

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Few years ago,

In The Forest of Shadows.

Daiyu was sold to a gang at the age of 8 by her father, she was brought up in the world of crime and the person who brought her up was Xui Xue, A Master Thief and a very Beautiful and Cunning woman, who hated men and loved money, she had many suitors but none of them were rich enough to satisfy her.

Xui Xue was The Leader of The Dragon's Fist Gang and even though she had subordinates no one had a say in anything that happened in her gang, she just allowed them to believe they did.

Xui Xue brought up Daiyu like her own daughter because she reminded her of herself when she was a kid, she taught Daiyu all the dirty tricks she knew and nurtured her into a professional thief like herself, she had taught Daiyu never to trust men (so it would be hard for her to believe Kin Tarou in the near future).

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Midnight,

In The Shadowless Forest.

Daiyu and a couple of raiders(thieves) were on their way back to their hideout, they were playing a popular game between raiders leaping from tree to tree which requires a lot of concentration.

Daiyu was winning when all of a sudden, she heard a voice in her head, it was a man's voice,it confused her and she misstepped and fell the tree on her way down she hit her head and fell unconscious.

Daiyu was unconscious and the voice(Kin Tarou's) still kept on playing in her head on and on about the prophecy, it was annoying her.

One of the Raiders touched Daiyu and she jerked awake. she couldn't believe what she just heard. she didn't know what to do, she thought she might be going crazy due to the fact that she hit her head and wasn't dead. She didn't want to think about it.

She was feeling a little lightheaded and thought everything she had heard was probably a dream, she didn't want to pay attention much to it so she got up from the bed, dressed up and hurried to the quest board, she wanted to take on another quest to take her mind of things.

When Daiyu was about reach the quest board someone hit her on the shoulder as she moved towards it, it was Li Min, One of her Seniors in the gang and also her arch nemesis, she had always hated Daiyu.

From the first day Xui Xue brought her into the gang. she hated that Xui Xue personally trained Daiyu while her and the others were trained by senior raiders.

Li Min had just finished cashing out for a recent missions and was feeling very happy, then one of her spies ran into the room. he had news for Li Min he told her all about what happened to Daiyu. Li Min was overjoyed when she heard the news, she could get back at the teacher's pet.

Wang Yong, One of the Masters in the gang was passing when he saw Li Min And Daiyu, Li Min had a devilish smirk on her face, she knew that if she beat up Daiyu, she could simply say that it was a matter of a senior punishing a junior for disrespect.

Li Min moved closer to Daiyu and smacked her head and told her to apologize for hitting her shoulder but Daiyu couldn't stand Li Min.

She would prefer to clean the pig sty than to apologize to Li Min, Daiyu never understood why Li Min hated her but she swore never to accept defeat in any matter that involved Li Min.

Daiyu grinned and ignored her, and continued to the quest board.

Wang Yong could see the enmity between the two, so he stood in a corner and quietly watched to see the result of this quarell.

Li Min was angry to see Daiyu ignore her but she knew Daiyu would do something like this so she didn't let it show on her face, she wiped her hand at Daiyu, in her hand was a thin silver lasso.

A thin silver line flashed before her eyes and a few strands of her hair fell to the ground leaving a weird slant line on the bangs of her hair.

Li Min told her again that she should apologize to her as her senior or the next time she wipes the lasso, she won't just cut a few strands of hair but one of her eyes.

Daiyu was a little scared but she didn't allow it to show on her face and give Li Min the satisfaction she want.

Li Min waited for a minute and wiped the lasso at Daiyu in anger.

Then all of a sudden,

Everything around her began to slow down, she looked up and saw the thin metallic strip lasso heading towards her, then after a moment.

It began to move faster again as it first was, when Li Min first tried to hit her. Daiyu was both confused and excited, she didn't know what was going on but she liked it.

Immediately after the metallic lasso passed by her, Daiyu lunged at Li Min and punched her in the neck.

No one could believe what just happened, Li Min was one of the most deadliest person to wield a lasso in thier organisation and Daiyu a junior was able to dodge the lasso and also beat Li Min.

Li Min was still in pain from the punch to her neck but she felt much more angry due to the fact that someone like Daiyu could dodge her lasso and land a punch on her.

A Freaking junior was able to land a punch on her and that person was Daiyu, Wang Yong was equally shocked to have witnessed something like this.

Being a Master himself, he wasn't sure he could dodge Li Min's Attack or even see the thin metallic lasso when she striked, Because even though he witnessed it he didn't see the lasso until after the fight was over.

Daiyu couldn't contain the excitement on her face so she smirked in a manner that angered Li Min and simply went to the billboard and picked a mission from the quest board she didn't pay much attention to the flier she picked because it looked simply and offer some pay.

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Daiyu was lying in her bed thinking about the fight between her and Li Min, she couldn't stop thinking about the moment when the lasso was about to hit her, then all of a sudden the world started slowing down and she could see the lasso.

Daiyu was wondering how she did it because she knew that she couldn't do it before and now she could see everything on slow motion.

After giving it some thought she decided to go and meet the witch that lives at the edge of the forest of shadows to know what was wrong with her.

She had forgotten all about the quest she had picked.