Save (Gusion x Lesley)

Chapter Thirteen

I love this chapter *evil smile*

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Machiavellian City wasn't the city that they expected to be. Because it was an assassin city, they thought that this place would be creepy but it wasn't. It wasn't that lively, but it wasn't gloomy as well. The city was pretty normal to be an assassin city.

"It's my first time to be here, to think that it is my mother's hometown." Lesley said while they were walking along the city streets.

"Me too. My mother doesn't visit this city even though she came from here."

Assassins were known as people who didn't trust anyone for they preferred working alone– well, except for her mother and Gusion's mother– as well as the two of them since they trusted each other.

But it looked like these assassins got along pretty well since they could see them having casual conversation with one another.

Lesley wiped her sweat from her forehead as they continued to walk.

"Tired?" Gusion asked her, noticing she wiped her sweat.

She shook her head a little, "Not really. We should gather some information now if they knew about that group who kidnapped Harley."

"It wasn't easy, you know that Les." Gusion answered.

Lesley then realized that an assassin didn't easily give an information to anyone. It might take a lot of money– or even life just for an information.

"Don't you know any of your mother's relatives here? It will be a great help." Gusion asked.

Lesley shook her head once again, "None. We stayed at my father's hometown in Archer City for seven years before we stayed at the Vance household. How about you?"
(A/N: Archer City - city of marksmen. I only made this up too, okay? XD)

"My mother's clan was assassinated, she is the only survivor of their family." Gusion sadly said.

Lesley gasped, "I'm sorry about that."

"Nah, it's okay. Though this gathering of information will be hard." Gusion muttered. "But for a city like this, I'm sure there is someone who knows a lot of information. We can do a bargain."

"Don't you think that's risky?"

"That's how assassin works. I know you know that."

Lesley nodded a little. She knew that. But as much as she could, she stayed out of that kind of system.

"We should eat first before anything else." Gusion said before pulling her to a nearby restaurant.

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The towns' folk lead them into an abandoned house outside the city. They said that this was where the 'king' stayed whenever he was in the city.

"Stay behind me." Gusion told her as they reached the door.

Gusion was about to knock but they were startled when they heard some rustles behind their back.

They turned, only to see a monkey holding a gold coin.

"Wow, a thief monkey?" Lesley whispered.

"Wow, an inside gang?" They heard a voice of a man said.

Suddenly, the monkey was now replaced by a man. He had something on his arm, looked like a long range weapon. His hair actually reminded Lesley of an ice cream.