Roger Hunter - Faraway Stars

“Thanks for the kind words, but I’m just a wandering entertainer for the livelihood consideration!” Holding the doorframe, Felix laughed softly, arranged his clothes, looked at the darkening sky, and walked towards the door. It seems that I may have to sleep on the streets again tonight… I remember a long time ago when I was sleeping under a bridge, even my wallet was taken away by a stray dog. It can’t be that bad now. I should have known to make more money before coming to this place of indifferent people, what a miscalculation…..

However, just as he was about to walk out of the room, the reflex nerves developed by the long exercise worked perfectly. In the instant the alarm sounded in his head, almost without thinking, Felix’s footsteps moved back, already flashing away from the doorway and disappearing into the shadows behind it.

Although he didn’t know what was going on, he knew one thing.

One can never be too careful.

And the facts, too, completely prove it. Just as he dodged out of the way, a thin figure, slamming open the hidden door flew in and fell heavily to the floor.

“Yoshi!” With a gasp, Livia scrambled forward and took the person in her arms. “Are you…are you okay?”

“Livia….it’s that person….run!” Lying in his sister’s arms, the boy, who was called Yoshi, seemed to have relaxed a lot at once, and the original expression of pain relieved. However, between his innocent and childish face, there was a look of panic, fear and anger. It seemed like he still wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he just burst out a strong cough. Livia hurriedly patted her brother’s back, his face already completely bloodless.

Those people, at last, coming to us? Although she knew sooner or later it would be unsafe here, she didn’t expect that it would come so quickly. The two siblings have been hiding for so long, it seems that there was really no escape today. If we really lost our lives today, we might still be able to reunite with our dead relatives in the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s just that she felt sorry for poor little brother, who has been hiding out with her for so many years and hasn’t had a few good days …..

Looking up, Livia glanced towards the door. That man has the ability to kill Yoshi easily and would never give him a chance to escape. Now the only possibility that the younger brother can come back here is that someone had let him back on purpose.

There was no use in panicking at this point, just go with it.

Her conjecture was soon confirmed. With a few unheard footsteps, a short, slim figure, silently appeared in front of the gate, cutting off a hard piece of the blood-colored lingering sun. Long black shadows reached into the house wordlessly, as if to suck all the sunlight and warmth away. The shadow stretched longer and longer, stopping only when it was about to touch the duo. Immediately afterwards, an unhurried, impersonal voice swept through the room.

“Just the other day, I received word that a figure of Her Royal Highness’s likeness has been seen working as a maid here. I didn’t believe it, but I didn’t expect to meet His Highness today. So I was able to do what little I could to send you back. Your Highness, how have you been?”

Taking a deep breath, Livia forcefully suppressed her fear and blandly said, “Thanks to you, not yet dead in this place.”

The voice sounded very pleasant with a laugh.

“Your Highness, what the Lord means is that as long as you go back, everything can be discussed. Please your Highnesses follow me back.”

While speaking, the man took a step forward, respectfully removed his hat, and, with a slight indebtedness, made the standard courtesy of meeting royalty - and yet, in this case, it was ironic beyond words. As he straightened up, his face, at last, was exposed to the gaze of the sister and brother.

It was a very plain and mundane face, and it was even more of a very plain and mundane person. Even in his eyes, you can’t see even a hint of killing, only a very sincere and heartfelt smile. If this man was said to be a young man in a neighbor’s family, no one would suspect him. If it wasn’t for his lean body like a skeleton without flesh, you wouldn’t be able to recall this man coming after seeing him.

But Livia knew too well what kind of strength this man had. It is hard to say the exact number of the masters who died at his hands. However, he is still not famous at all.

Because he’s a real killer, a killer who acted only on his master’s orders.

A famous and easily recognizable person could not be a killer.

The cold wind blowing, release the blast of cool, straight through the heart. At the moment, Livia was completely wrapped up in that biting cold. However, her eyes were still clear and her back was still straight. Her hands held her wounded brother steadily without a single shudder.

“Nope. Mr. Salvador, I’m not going back. Please, just kill me.”

As if exhausted and weary, Livia shook her head, speaking slowly. All the efforts were in vain. With herself and Yoshi, trying to escape in front of such a top assassin was nothing but a daydream. For years of being displaced, she had learned not to think about the impossible things.

“Livia! You….” hearing the last sentence, the boy snapped and wrapped his arms around his sister’s neck in an effort to sit up. However, the injuries he suffered were, after all, beyond the reach of his young body. After struggling for half a day, Yoshi still couldn’t sit up and just gasped heavily. With no more comfort, Livia patted her brother on the back with a silent sigh.

“Your Highness, please don’t be capricious, it’ll bother your lordship a lot.” Watching this scene with interest, Salvador had no immediate intention of taking action. He had received orders to take only two people back to his master, not two dead bodies. Just let these two poor little flying bugs perform a little longer! What’s more, it was a rare treat for him to watch the desperate expressions of such mission subjects in the face of their plight. However, although he had cloth the silencing boundary in this house, if he let time drag on, people outside might notice the anomaly here. It’s better to take them away early.

Taking another two steps, he was already standing in front of the two siblings, separating the blood-colored sunset from the sister and brother completely.

“Your Highness, it’s time for us to go.”

Although the other party was only a weak girl and a child, he didn’t take it lightly in the slightest. For, there have been many nameless killers who have inexplicably died without knowing it, under the counterattack of these women and children. So while stepping, the muscles all over his body were already tensed, and every nerve that reacted to it was elevated to its peak.

As soon as they made a move, he had the confidence to capture the two before all the changes took place.

So it’s hard to describe how much his heart vibrates when a gentle voice rings behind him.

“I thought there was something exciting going on, but it turned out to be a boring palace drama.” With an exaggerated yawn, the minstrel leaning against the wall smiled. “But for the sake of the lady’s delicious Ronnie, I think you’d better not take her.”

Pressing down hard on his inner shock, Salvador slowly turned around and faced the unknown opponent in front of him. All samurai swordsmen more or less mastered the use of aura or energy field in the process of training. Even the average soldier, after a long battle, can naturally learn to sense his opponent’s killing aura, or to exude the corresponding aura himself to counteract it. High-ranking warriors are able to distinguish the unique aura of each individual, and even use this to “see” the opponent’s attack clearly without using their eyes. As for specially trained assassins like Salvador, they were far superior to ordinary martial artists in terms of aura induction. Even an ordinary master of fame was completely unable to hide his presence in front of him.