Chapter 16: Party and Performance - Jackal Part
I stepped on the stage and I heard a lot of people saying, "Woah" when I first revealed myself.
I ignored them and I am only immersed in the piano. I sat down the piano and started to play [Longing]
A sharp and smooth tempo and the sound echoed through the ears of every people and they get attentive to me as soon as they heard the very first key. As if they got hit by a magic spell.
[Once we were kids~]
[We've always known each other,]
[Why does my heart keep fluttering,]
[While we are just friends.]
[Once we were teens,]
[We always fought at each other,]
[Should I look for a way,]
[To let us stop from being like this.]
[Every time we see together, I felt happier than ever.]
My sad voice echoed through the hall and everyone is dumbfounded. Everyone is silent without anyone talking, they are listening very well. I kind of changed the rhythm into an intense one and continued,
[What now?]
[Where are you now?]
[When will we ever see each other again?]
[I am longing to see you once more.]
[I tried, I tried to find you.]
[But I've got no idea,]
[Where you left and came to.]
[I am longing to see you again.]
I made an instrumental and stared coldly at the piano as if my consciousness is not here with me.
[Once you decide to left,]
[What did you feel?]
[What did you think?]
[Did you think of me before you left?]
[I don't know what to do anymore,]
[I don't want to think anymore.]
[I only want to laugh,]
[Laugh once again with you.]
[Every time we laugh together, I feel comfortable than ever.]
[What now?]
[Where are you now?]
[When will we ever see each other again?]
[I am longing to see you once more.]
[I tried, I tried to find you.]
[But I've got no idea,]
[Where you left and came to.]
[I am longing to see you again.]
As I played the instrumental who it getting sharper and smoother, I changed the tempo on every common song and continued,
[The pain that you left to me,]
[Will be forever carved into my heart.]
[I only want to become the past,]
[And never proceed to the future.]
My voice with the sound of my pain in longing for my comrades is portrayed perfectly and continued,
[What now?]
[Where are you now?]
[When will we ever see each other again?]
[I am longing to see you once more.]
[I want to see your smile,]
[And laugh with you once again.]
[Maybe this tears and pain,]
[Will bring us back again.]
[I tried, I tried to find you.]
[But I've got no idea,]
[Where you left and came to.]
[I am longing to see you again.]
[I am longing for you.]
The final chorus ended in a low voice and instrumental once again. When I stopped, I looked at my audience and saw how they got themselves into tears and silence is throughout the whole place.
I've always known that my song has very common words used in it but I compensate for it by singing. As you can see, again and each other are repetitive.
'I hope they liked it, I am still amateur at making song lyrics, after all.' I said to myself as the audience started to cheer.
"Xeros' talents are really insane! Haha!" A man said while wiping his tears.
"All of their children are also charming!" The woman said while her face is betting in red. 'Is she drunk?'
As I heard several comments, I stood up and the MC who is also wiping his tears escorted me to climb down the stairs.
"Thank you, you're performance is really great" I nod at his compliment and walked back to my seat while I didn't even dare to look at other's face because of embarrassment.
I immediately sat down and felt comfortable because of the gazes of several people. My family is just smiling at me that made me feel creeps. Then, I noticed that they plugged something in their ears and I said, "Haha, you plugged in that thing for what?"
"To avoid us feeling sad! Haha, your charm changes when your feelings change too. That's what I found out, you know?", father proudly said and the party is ongoing again after several people finished wiping their eyes or in some case, they cried.
'I don't want to play sad songs ever again...' I said to myself while watching the performance of other families.
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"Ah~ brother Theo! Do you know this food? You are studying the culture of another country, right?" Rafaela asked as she pointed her index finger in front of the plate full of sushi, a traditional meal of Japanese people.
I explained it to her and said, "Raw fish? Is this really edible?"
I laughed at her panicked face and said, "Don't worry, they're clean and edible" I pat her head and looked at the room full of successors or children of some powerful families. When the performance ended, the party ended on the most important part, only the adults can be included in the conversation. I also got a note from the master that I don't even know when did he hand it out to my pocket. Saying about the first form of the assassin arts and how to treat ladies. 'Huh? Why how to treat ladies?!'
We are currently at the next hall next from the hall where we're at earlier.
As expected, several eyes are on our spot because of the commotion we both made together. We sat on the seat of eight which there is no one sitting there at all. Then, I felt the presence of someone familiar.
'Viole?' I said as I started to have a conversation with Rafaela randomly.
"Do you know that-" I said as my shoulder tapped tightly by Viole and said, "Why are you avoiding our presence?"
"Am I? Haha," I said while laughing awkwardly, "By the way, that performance earlier is really great, Theo" He compliments as he sat beside me, and then several presences are heading towards us, "Then, your whole team is composed of children of the 12 big families of the west, huh?" I said with a forced smile.
"Haha, yeah. I also had no idea that a member of 100 Rulers is also a member of the 12 big families of the west, you know? A-s-s-a-s-s-i-n-K-i-n-g?" The man's voice is very familiar to me because he is the one who is ordering us on the whole battlefield, Rufus. He stared at me and said, "D**n your charm is really not a joke, you also looked really the same in the game with the same charm"
"Huh?" I said in confusion, "What do you mean?" I continued and he replied, "You don't know that you are also so charming in the game? That is why we found you, you know? But at that time, I also feel like you don't want to get exposed and your charm is adjusting to your desire. That is why the gazes of the people in the game are different from the real world"
"So fate really let us meet up again?" Another voice sounded on the other side of my head, it is Ain, Rufus' little brother.
"Haha, America is vast but why at the west. Come to think of it, which family are you from?!" I asked Ain and replied, "Fronda!"
"As far as I know, Fronda's family came from..." I got silent all of a sudden and Atalina who is beside Rufus replies, "Maine, the family of leader and Ain is located at Maine, above New York!"
New York is almost next to Maine but they are also being blocked by 3 more states.
"I am from the Anderson family in Virginia," Atalina said as she follows Rufus and Ain sitting next to Viole.
"I am from the King family, you know?" The last voice said and when I looked at him, he is the last member of the [Cold-blooded Team], Yuno, the fire-elemental archer.
"No wonder!" I said as I remembered that the King family is located in Tennessee and they are more focused on law. They are the kindest family but they are also terrifying because they use law and pieces of evidence to defeat an enemy in one snap of the fingers.
Fronda is more focused on public affairs, we are focused on martial arts and the Anderson family is into the development of the technologies.
Like the great or big families of wuxia novels that I always read when I am bored, our families are focused on a certain thing as our main business.
Assassination is hidden in the big families but there is always one in every family. Our family has one too but they are only used to assassinate people from our rival companies or something.
"Brother, what do they mean that you're a part of the legendary 100 Rulers?" Rafaela asked as she tilted her heads in surprise.
"I am one, on those 100 people, they all called me the [Ice Prince] but Rufus' team calls me [Assassin King]" I explained as I pat her head and all of them are dumbstruck. I don't even know why they acted like that.
"[Ice Prince]? But aren't you more proficient in fire element?" Ain asked and I replied angrily, "Remember what my class is?"
"[Sage Assassin], ah! You can also use water's subsidiary element of ice because you are proficient in all elements. We actually forgot the details after seeing you using impressive sword techniques and assassination skills using fire element. Haha" Viole said as I said, "Come to think of it before I entered here, I never saw the forum. What is the current highest level of the person named Xera?"
"Level 28, I think he got x2 EXP gain card permanently, his pace is insane for the normal players like me, It seems like he is grinding from morning to night after we announced that we leveled up 8 times," Ain said in embarrassment.
'Well, I have x5 EXP gain permanently...' I wore a smug face inside my heart.
"Then what is the worry at that time? I thought that you won't announce the rewards for the clearance of aeria difficulty?" I asked.
"Well, even before we announced the special awards of the dungeon clearing in Aeria difficulty, the guilds already started to monopolized several dungeons. We can't do anything to that and we just accepted it since some of them also successfully cleared aeria difficulty of the dungeon called [Molphic Grave]" He replied as he sighed afterward.
"They already started to monopolize the dungeons? What the-- I can't enter the dungeons if that is the case unless I found it first!" I complain as they replied, "You know a lot of dungeons, right?" He asked and I replied, "So what? You want me to give you a list? No way!"
"No! I will ask you to cooperate with our [Menacing Gaze Guild] created by King, Wellston, Anderson, and Fronda family. Since there is also the King family who thinks of others before themselves, I would like to ask you to give us some information on some dungeons and we will open it for the public. I promise! It is for that reason!" He stated as he promised.