Chapter 162

After Rachel finally finished talking with Sayaka who was of no help whatsoever . That best friend of hers didn’t even give on good advice . She just kept on pushing her to do something with Alex . What kind of best friend does that?

Rachel sighed as she looked around her room . Talking with Sayaka took so much time, and led to nothing . Now she needed to clean up her room, while Alex was still waiting patiently outside . The first thing Rachel did was take all the underwear she had scattered all over the room, and placed them in a laundry basket .

Next thing she needed to do was get her diary and hide it someplace Alex wont accidentally see . Rachel then remembered all the magazines she was reading about how to get your boyfriend to listen to you . She needed to hid those as well .

. . .

Alex who was done talking with the head butler, was waiting outside of Rachel’s room . Noticing It was taking Rachel quite some time to do what she needed to do . Alex knocked on the door to check up on her .

"Rachel is everything all right?"

"Yeah, everything is good . Don’t peek okay, I just have to do something before you can enter . It will just take a few more minutes . "

Alex didn’t ask anything anymore and continued to wait for Rachel to finish whatever she was doing . kumiko and her three sons were watching everything unfold while they peek from the room across Rachel’s, the four of them sighed at how nothing was happening even now .n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Alex obviously noticed the four of them watching him, but wasn’t bothered by it since he knows that this was their house, and this might be something they usually do .

While waiting Alex received another call, and this time it was from Emily .

"What is it Emily, did something else happen?"

"Yeah something happened . "

"What? Give me a full report . "

"You are actually sleeping in Rachel’s house! That’s what’s happening! Who knew you had it in you Alex . "

"What are you talking about Emily? Are you actually just reporting to me what I’m doing? Is that it?"

"No there’s more, Lilitth wants to talk to you . " Emily handed her phone to Lilitth, who was looking a bit sad .

"Onii-sama are you really not coming home anymore? Are you really going to stay there with Rachel-nee-san forever?" Lilitth sounded distressed while she said this, which confused Alex .

"Huh? Who told you I’m staying here forever? I’m just staying the night so that I could protect Rachel, seeing that someone might attack again . I’m coming back home tomorrow . "

"Really? You’re not lying to me are you?"

"Why would I lie? Also have you ever heard me lie to you before, Lilitth?" When Alex said this, he heard Lilitth screaming at Emily telling her that Emily was a meanie .

. . .

While Alex was trying to calm Lilitth down, Sayaka who was in her room felt surprised and relieved . After she told Alex about Rachel’s situation, she too wanted to go to where Rachel was, but her father didn’t allow it, saying .

"If Alex is already going, there is no need for you to go . Tell me my daughter, if you went, will it change anything? or will you just get in the way of Alex? Let me remind you, we are assassins . Direct confrontations isn’t our forte . If you went and joined that kind of melee, that’s happening out in the open, you wont be as effective as normal, making you another target to be protected . Is that what you want?"

Sayaka wasn’t able to answer her father after he said that . So she reluctantly stayed home, waiting for some news .

It didn’t even take an hour for Rachel to call her telling her everything was good, and now Alex was actually going to sleep in her room . Most likely Alex wanted to sleep in the same room, so he could better protect Rachel . Still even though Sayaka could easily guess this, it was still enjoyable to tease her best friend about it .

Sayaka who had just teasing Rachel on the phone was now laying in her bed, thinking about how useless she was in this situation . She had the ability to protect herself, but not her best friend . She might be better than most kids her age in the art of battle, but in face of something like what happened awhile, she was just another cannon fodder .

Assassins weren’t really people that are meant to protect . So protecting Rachel with her skill set was obviously not going to work, she knew that, but it was still frustrating .

’I didn’t really want to be an assassin, it was just a family thing . . . But now when I thought I would be able to use my skills for something I wanted to do, it turned out it was useless . I just wasn’t good enough . This kind of thing might happen again and the next time I don’t want to say I wasn’t good enough . I want to be able to do something . . . I guess I need to resolve myself for what’s to come . ’

Sayaka who hated her family business had now decided to truly master the art of assassination of her family . Sayaka stood up and exited her room .

"Father, teach me the ways of the shadow . " Without making even the slightest sound Sayaka’s father appeared beside her . To anyone else they might’ve jumped in fright, but Sayaka was already used to it .

"I knew you would say that . As the next successor of the name ’Shadow’ you were always meant to learn the techniques . I will train you and once you succeed in the final test you will be given the name ’Shadow’ . Are you ready for this Sayaka?"

"I am ready . "

. . .

As Sayaka was experiencing a life changing event . Emily too was about to make a life changing decision . It was whether to tell Evangeline that Alex was going to sleep in Rachel’s room, or not . If she told Evangeline about it a fun event might start, but it could also ruin something precious, or it might not . Basically it could go either way . If she doesn’t tell her one way or another Evangeline will eventually find out, and by that time Emily might not be able to control the situation .

"To tell or not to tell that is the question"