CHAPTER 25: Her Soft Side

"And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief."

– William Cullen Bryant

MAX'S POV

It's already been weeks since the training camp started, and it's already been weeks when we start to get close with the famous Beheader Rinleigh. She's a tough lad. Until now, she's not talking to any of us, even a single word. Though she always takes the foods we are giving her secretly, she's still won't talk not even say a single "thank you".

She always stays a lope from me and my twin together with the other practice assassins around who find her cool too.

The way she killed the guy from the last time is pretty awesome. Some assassins try to befriend her too, while some seem to envy her as she gets more attention from the guy population on this camp.

For even those High Ranks, and those Full Pledge assassins seems to got interest from her.

Of course, she will be getting all kinds of attention if she keeps on acting like this. She always acts like a mysterious badass.

She doesn't talk, but she always excels.

She won't just follow anything she was told to, even if it causes her so much punishment.

And to sum it all up, she's gorgeous.

I wonder how old is she now. She already looks like she's 18 years old, from the way she thinks and acts.

I and my brother get a huge crush on her, right after we watch her previous battle with Jago. And now, as we study with her in this camp, were having a crush on her even more.

I mean...

Who would ever resist a Rinleigh's charm anyway? She's smart, she's mysterious, she's a badass, she's hot, and to sum it all up, she's also a snob. She's so cool, for every reason.

Though I can't deny the fact that our Assassin instructor always gets a hard time teaching her a lesson, because like seriously? She's not scared of torture. And they can't possibly have her follow them as they please. She excels so much in academics which only makes the instructor looks like a fool in front of her.

We don't know what's with her and the Wall Sina, because even though the instructor wants to kill her, because she's a smart ass, still nobody can ever touch her. She's too tough and too stubborn at the same time. Even the most intelligent assassin inside the Dark Claws realm is no match for her.

Rumours around the camp spread like wildfire saying that Rinleigh is Wall Sina's daughter from a male slave. But these rumours don't have any good claims and proof, to begin with, that's why people use to disregard them.

"Hey bro? A penny for your thoughts?" Ask by my twin brother Min.

"It's nothing bro. Don't mind me." I said trying to end the conversation.

"I wonder what are we supposed to do next, to get ourselves close to our crush?" Min stated playfully.

" I'm wondering that too," I said absent-mindedly while looking at a fat rabbit hopping on the bashes.

"I remember, rabbit meat tastes heavenly right? I remember eating some in Paris." I said still looking at the fat rabbit.

" Yeah. Why did you ask bro?" Asked Min wrinkling his forehead in confusion.

So I put his gaze on where the fat rabbit's direction, by tilting his head on his side. He then starts putting on a smug smirk, and look at me. It seems like he already got what it is I'm trying to tell him.

We exchange our famous wink, and wicked smile before we started to jump on the bushes too, to catch the rabbit. This rabbit will surely taste good in soup.

I'm already drooling just by the thought of making a rabbit soup and giving it to Rinleigh.

I wonder what would be her reaction after tasting a piece of its meat.

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We did not get a hard time catching the fat rabbit, for it seems like it is having a hard time with its breathing. I and my brother want to kill the rabbit already, but the problem is, we don't know how to cook, rabbit soup.

So we're about to just take it to the camp cook when we saw Rinleigh walking not too far away from us. She looks at the rabbit on Min's hands, before looking at the two of us who were so filthy with mud.

"What are you guys planning to do with that rabbit?" She asked for the first time without giving us her cold look.

"We are planning to make these rabbit's meat as a soup. It'll taste great. Once you chew its meat for the first time." Min answered her with a huge smile plastered on his face.

This jerk! He's taking my supposed to be dialogue to make myself cool! I just want to hit him on his head, and say "hey dude! Stop stealing my spotlight asshole!" But that was never my character, so I just decided to add information instead.

"We already have a taste of a rabbit's meat in Paris. We're pretty sure you will like it too. It tastes heavenly." I smiled.

"Making a soup out of a pregnant Rabbit? Not so cool of you." She asked arching her eyebrow while looking at us and leaving a sarcastic remark.

I and my twin brother look at each other, speechless. I mean, we never thought that the rabbit is pregnant. All we thought is that it's fat and juicy.

She then steals the rabbit on Min's hand and starts checking on it.

"This rabbit is having a hard time doing her labor." She said, most likely to herself.

She made us remove our t-shirt for some reason. I and my twin brother are completely clueless about why she asks us to remove our shirt. I thought she is trying to be silly around us, so we immediately remove our shirt. I was about to remove my pants too, when she eyed me, giving me a death glare.

"What are you doing? Go and get me a warm water!" She commanded, before shooing us out. I take a peek at her and saw that she use our shirt as a cover for the bunny.

At some events, I might have gone furious seeing someone use my beloved shirt as a cover for some filthy bunny. But the moment now is surely not the same as the usual. I'm seeing the dangerous Rinleigh soft and genuine side by looking at the bunny. She's trying to massage the bunny's stomach trying to help the bunny on her laboring.

As we get back from where we left her, she is still massaging the bunnies stomach, for quite 10 minutes already. When nothing happened, she took the warm water from my hand.

It happened so fast that she is now cutting the stomach of the bunny open. And taking her babies out of her womb.

I and my brother are both speechless. Like seriously? What the fucking hell just happened? We are both in shock while looking at her, stitching the bunny's womb close. We don't even know where she freaking got her thread and her needles!

She put the babies on Min's shirt, while my shirts are filled with the bunny's blood. And the two of us are shocked to see, that the mother bunny and her babies are both alive after an hour of her operation.

We are gawking looking at Rinleigh when we felt starstruck as she looks at us smiling. She looks so hot on how she looks at us right now.

Her sweat drip at the side of her face, making the two of us gulp at the same time while looking at her.

"Mission accomplished." She said smiling sweetly at us.

That is the first time we ever saw Rinleigh smile. And we are all so shocked to find how beautiful she is when she is no longer on her badass side.

"Hey? You guys ok?" She asked while tilting her head in confusion.

Her perfect brows are knitting together, as she wrinkled her forehead innocently. While looking at us.

"Your..." I said absent-mindedly while looking at her, gulping.

"An angel." Min finished, which made me look at him.

"Eh?" She asked more confused.

So I and my twin brother Min just shrugged our head, while looking elsewhere.

"N-nothing." We spoke in chorus, which made her brow's arch in confusion.

I think I want to marry her, in this instance. She's so pretty, and we never thought she can also be an angel inside this hell, where demons are around.

Oh good, Lord! Help me! Help us! I think I'm falling to an angel. In the land where feelings are forbidden.

She then looks at the rabbit resting on our shirt. She then smile as she pet its fur.

"You'll be fine now. Congratulations little fella. You just got four kits." She said to the mother bunny resting.

After that afternoon, we just found ourselves admiring the deadliest well-known beheader even more...