So it is done

...between good and right...

It would be a ruthless death.

Jonathan exhaled slowly, then looked at the clothes lying in front of him, pierced by several bullets. Cinder, clearly unable to comprehend the reason for Jonathan's actions, nevertheless only continued to stay by his side, certain that what Jonathan had just committed his actions for, he did have a purpose for it.

Even, perhaps, a little too ruthless.

Jonathan slowly lowered his assault rifle before he heard a knock on the door. "Your Majesty?"

"It's all right," He replied to the curious voice of one of the operatives coming from behind the door.

You do realize you might not have to do it, don't you?

Jonathan was aware that there were more humane ways to deal with the escaping Marcus.

For example, he could have just created a small portal equal in size to the bullet, so that it would pass through Marcus' clothes and into his body seamlessly. He couldn't have done such a feat three years ago, but time doesn't stand still, and neither did he.

It might not have been enough.

Aura. The special ability of the locals, a manifestation of their souls that acts as a force field, one that every Hunter possessed.

According to the local world lore, it is a force that supposedly can be awakened in every one with a soul, even animals. Still, even if it was supposed to be able to be used by anyone, only a very small stratum of people could make use of it as they're 'awakened' to it. Jonathan could only smirk sardonically when he heard such a thing.

As far as Jonathan knew, the process of awakening and training an Aura is not fully understood, and the ways of Aura training kept a great secret relative to the general population.

Even Jonathan himself, a King who had a personal relation with two Headmasters of Hunter Academies, had been unable to obtain any information about it. Other than the fact that it was a very rare ability, he doesn't really know the specifics to it.

In all of Mountain Glenn, excluding Cinder and Neo, there were maybe ten or twenty people who possessed an Aura abundant enough to set their abilities apart from the rest of the populace. And most of them had already been recruited into the army or the RATS. There may be a few hundred or even a couple of thousands who had at least a potential for Aura, paltry in the face of a Kingdom of nearly three million people. Or, to be fair, a city-state. And without an ability to awaken it, they might as well just be ordinary civilians.

Moreover, even among that small percentage of people possessing Aura, most often called Hunters regardless of whether or not they had graduated from a Hunter Academy or licensed, there was within it, a small percentage of people possessing an even more advanced manifestation of Aura. The so-called Semblance, an Aura-born ability, supposedly the manifestation of their inner essence.

In all of Glenn, there were only three who possessed Semblances, or were at least overt enough that they were easily seen. Cinder, the head of the RATS special task force, who coincidentally was just outside the door, and the First Captain, the second-in-command of the army after Aisa.

However, while numerically speaking, three was negligible compared to three million, four was still an unprecedented number, as it was obvious that Marcus possesses a Semblance. So, who has the ability to hire a Hunter with a rare Semblance to assassinate Jonathan, or at least anyone in his entourage.

Of course, there exists the possibility, no matter how slim, that Marcus was a Mage.

Still, since Ozpin hadn't divulged to Jonathan the existence of any actual 'magic' of sorts, the most logical conclusion still remains was that Marcus was simply a Hunter using his Semblance.