13:The Slayer Nomination

When I woke up, someone was carrying me on their arms. I didn't know who, but given this irregularity, I instantly woke up and got away from them as I opened my eyes. A big room. Like a corridor. Someone just had opened the door and when I woke up I ironically ended up entering the corridor. "Oh my... We guess we won't have to wait until you wake up... Truly outstanding... Azezal." That person knew my name... I instantly turned to look at the direction the voice was coming from. "Just to stay clear... We are responsible for your adoptive parents' death..." Just hearing that made me want to jump at him and kill him, but I instantly held myself back when I saw all the guards in the corridor. Even if I slow time down, there is no guarantee of surviving... I can try to teleport, but it's not sure to work... Furthermore, Now I realized that I was held by chains. There were two people, one on each side. They pulled back, but I didn't even move an inch. I stopped looking at them and looked at the person who spoke to me. Red and black clothes, with a crown on top of his head and a scepter in his hand. "Stop trying to restrain him... He is stronger than all of you... However, Azezal, even if you are strong... You are too cautious... But if you weren't, you would be dead right where you stand... This room is under our complete control. We could make you kneel right now, but we want a more... Informal air. Well then, if we may keep explaining... even though We have killed your parents, the corpse of your father hasn't been found, so who knows? Maybe he survived! But just so you know... If he were to be before us... We would end up killing him, again... And this time, we would do it in front of you so that the image of what happens to those who oppose us gets forever engraved in your mind... We also haven't found your siblings... But it's a matter of time... And when we find him... You will kill them." Right now, I really hated him... There was no way to do anything? Wait... Why is he telling me all that...? He wants to subdue me...? He has told me about his absolute control of the room, but he hasn't proven it... "Get to the point already." The instant I stopped talking, a guard complained "How dare you-" "It's okay... I know what you mean, but I thought that it would be tiresome to repeat the same thing twice... Oh..." As the majesty was saying that, Akatsuki, who was in the arms of a guard "Hyah!" She kicked the guard in the face and hurriedly asked "Where am I!?" "Good morning, Akatsuki... I am responsible for your captivity since you were... 1 year old? 2? I don't care, to be honest." 'Is this how the emperor saluted everyone...? I don't understand how the diplomatic relations with the empire still exist...Wait... Since she was two years old?!

'The moment she heard that, she instantly jumped to the emperor, screaming

"You bastard!"

If I wanted to set up something, this was the perfect chance. I set up some kind of 'Backdoors'. In mid-air, Akatsuki got hit by something. Behind the king, there was a man. Some badges were hanging from his chest, and he was holding a strange bow with his two hands. "Argh..." "To have been shot by an arrow of my personal knight and to still be alive, not even bleeding... the ones who bear the blood of phoenixes are indeed no joke..." Blood of phoenixes? Akatsuki? What? Isn't she a normal girl? Lately, her strength has been increasing but it's nowhere near mine. If I didn't hold back every time we trained, she would be dead... "Well... Now, let's get to the point. we want one of you to become a swordsman, and the other to become a sword." The instant I heard that, my whole body shivered at the prospect of transforming a human into a sword. "What we mean is that one will gather info and give orders, and the other will carry them out." Eh? It was only that? Ok... "Azezal, you will be the sword. Your tremendous battle prowess has lead us to believe that you are the one that must draw blood.

Akatsuki, you will begin to be trained to recollect information, conceal yourself and spy other people. You must explain Azezal everything so that he can carry out a flawless execution.

Understood?" "No." There was no way I could understand everything with just that. Though I had a rough idea, I needed to confirm what it was exactly. "What exactly will we be doing?" The king frowned and shook his head side to side. "You still don't understand...? Sigh... You will be assassinating people. To be exact, all those who trouble me." I had hoped it wouldn't be this, but at least, I am the slayer. That means I will still have chances to kill... Even if they are people.

I looked at Akatsuki. 'Eh?' She didn't look really happy. Did she also like killing?... I felt as if I didn't have enough information to understand everything. I mean, I understand that she hates the emperor. He kept her prisoner for a long time... Maybe she was scared to go out? Or because of that her role would be very different from what we did until now? I mean, recollecting info is not something we are used to... As I kept thinking, the emperor abruptly interrupted my thoughts. "Bring them back to their cages." They tried to pull us, but we didn't budge. "If you know what is good for you, you will cooperate." As he said that, the man behind him drew an arrow.

As I saw that, I had an idea. I won't use it now, as I still got things to learn from them, but in the future, it might be really helpful...

"Hey, Akatsuki..."

She turned at me with a stare that spoke one simple word. Disgust. Pure disgust felt towards a gross bug. It was almost as if she wanted me dead...

'What... has happened...?' I was puzzled about the reason for her strong and sudden hate towards me. "If you don't have anything important to say... then shut the f*ck up, bastard." 'Woah, Woah, Woah there... I think I haven't done anything wrong to receive this kind of treatment haven't I?... Wait. Did she guess that I am the adopted son of the king of the Lunar Kingdom...? She might hate nobles for some reason? Or she hates the amount of luck that I had for being adopted by royalty? Wait... She called me 'bastard'... No one knows who my parents were, so there is no way to know whether they were married or not, but that doesn't matter right...? If she really cared for whatever I was feeling she wouldn't have said that whether I was or not, so she thinks that being a 'bastard' or an adopted son explains more about me than all the time we have spent together...'

"Do whatever you want. I am going back."

"You are staying, and you will help." She answered with a commanding tone. However... 'I am not under the command of hers. Never have, never will. All the times I have fought, I have fought alone. I don't owe her, and she doesn't owe me.' "If you want to do something, do it yourself, I am not your servant." I answered trying to keep my cool. "You will!" She shouted.

She jumped at me. Her punch was clad in blue flames, but they weren't the flames she usually used. The ones she usually used were deep blue, however, these... these were azure. Azure as the sky. How could I analyze this so calmly... Of course, because I was stopping time. I used a space dot to lock her space and freeze it, and then, I lifted it up, accidentally some pieces of the floor and ripped the carpet apart. "Your majesty, your honor, emperor... However you want to call yourself, we are leaving. I hope that the next time, we are given more information on our work, and we receive the proper teaching for it." "Who talked about leaving, do you even know the way to your cell?" As I was about to explain, I had an idea... "Know what, forget it. It's not worth it." The emperor fell silent. I had thrown a little bait. "Rolain, Knock him out" 'Yes!' he fell for it. Real hard. The man on the back of the king took out another arrow and... 'Wait... The man on the back of the king!?" he tensed the string and let it go. Although I could have stopped time, I did have to get knocked out for the plan go work. And he was the only one who could have done it in this room. I clenched my teeth, and a sharp pain came from my forehead as I lost consciousness...

Author Notes:... Well... I hoped you enjoyed it. By the way, in this chapter I wanted to show where Akatsuki and Azezal are going. Akatsuki is becoming more and more a typical arrogant noble. She has just discovered that she is important. That she has a place to go back. That she is part of royalty.

Azezal, being aware that two unknown entities are with him 24/7, he is becoming more and more cautious, even though he doesn't really need it that much. I tried it to stand out, and to bring out a cold, analytical, pragmatic, and maybe too paranoid side of him in the interaction with Akatsuki, and I hope it has gotten the message across. Now I will probably be sometime writing the perspectives of the emperor and Akatsuki.

Though maybe now you hate the emperor, in the future he might not seem so much of an asshole.