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    (POV: Ruby Ley)


    The tragedy is what you could describe my life as, I was never treated like a human, to begin with, but some sought disposable trash.


    An eyesore for my mother, a taint in the career of my ''supposed'' father, a thing that shouldn''t have existed, that was me.


    My mother used to be a cheerful person, a beautiful woman that came from a middle-ss family, graduated from a renowned university inw and was an aspiring human rightswyer but everything in her life crumbled down when she filed a case of human trafficking against the guild master of Sentinel Guild, Cillian Colombo.


    He kidnapped my mother, killed all her family members, kept her in the dark for several months caged her by chains, provided the minimum amount of food for her survival and raped her, resulting in me.


    If that wasn''t enough he torment me and my mother till I turned seven, threw us in the slum area in some corner of the city and hired some men who raped and murdered my mother by tearing her flesh in front of my eyes.


    They were about to do the same to me, but my mother managed to buy some time for my escape.


    From the day I was born till then, I only had four to five baths and due to my vile and heinous figure of mine people treated me worse than beggars on the street. At some point, they would give leftover food to a street dog but won''t even nce at me.


    I survived by stealing food from the stalls and sometimes picking it up from the trash cans.


    This continued for a year when I was again forcefully taken by a group of men who were wearing ck hoods and masks on their faces.


    They were from a branch of the assassin guild that kidnapped kids from the roadside and slums and trained them to be an assassin.


    If one wasn''t able to keep up with their training, they would simply kill him/her and burn their body.


    They trained and tortured me physically for five years, with severe injuries came severe pain, but over time I got used to it.


    During those five years, they made me kill or assassinate many people and out of the people that I killed, a lot of them were innocent and had a family they cared about.


    Every time I got severely injured, my injuries would healpletely, and even the bruises didn''t remain, the reason was, the branch leaders were devil worshippers, they put a curse on me so that every time I suffer an injury, it would use my life force to heal my bodypletely and every time I disobeyed them I would go through severe pain and the intensity increased every time.


    By the time I turned thirteen I only had five years left to live, so, to use me onest time, they decided to admit me in the Cypress Academy, so that I could provide them with every crucial information I could stumble on, hence for two years, instead of focusing on my physical training.


    I along with a few more kids, was given ess to every facility avable to them in regard to academics and after two years, when I turned fifteen I gave the entrance test.


    We were taught ethics, and fake expressions; along with improving our aptitude, knowledge in history and mythologies, and differentnguages, all just in two years.


    Those who got admitted to the academy survived while those who didn''t were disposed of.


    As a member of the Assassin guild, I already had the required information about the teachers, first-year rankers and academic representatives and was ordered to give them information about their progress in strength.


    The day I entered the academy and was assigned a dorm for ss A-3, was also the day I sleptfortably for the first time in my life.


    Since there was no one to monitor us, minor spies, I slept for two days straight.


    ''Ah, I don''t even have points to buy some food'', I was feeling hungry since I haven''t had any food for two days, but this was manageable, so I applied for a job in the cafeteria and waited another day for eptance enduring my hunger.


    The very next morning I received a letter of eptance from a quick service restaurant named ''Anytime Burger'' with a card attached to it which had an advance payment of 2000 points.


    Exiting my dorm room, wearing my first-year cadet uniform, I arrived at the cafeteria and the first thing I did was have a full-fledged meal which cost me up to two hundred points.


    As some events transpired and I strolled around the faculty, time went by and the sun had already set.


    So, I came back to the cafeteria and after having a brief conversation with Boris, the owner of ''Anytime burger'', I decided to start working.


    It was then, when I was wearing an apron a soothing low-pithed voice resounded from the counter, "Excuse me !"


    "Just a moment, please", I replied and rushed out of the kitchen.


    What I saw left me dazed for a moment, but I recovered in a matter of seconds. Although I have seen him in pictures of the document I received containing his information, I never imagined him to be this charming in reality.


    He had dark purple hair, and ck eyes, and wore a silver-rimmed square spectacle and those thread earrings had a unique charm in them.


    The person standing in front of me was Rank 1 on the entrance test, Kael Hashirae,  ording to the data, his test analysis wasn''t in any of the documents of the academy plus he didn''t take the entrance test in the academy, he is one of the people to whom instructors were sent to evaluate them.


    ording to the information I received on him, he is from a middle-ss background and was an orphan at first but got adopted by an impotent couple, who thenter had an ident leaving the little property they had in his name.<novelnext></novelnext>


    That is forged, he might be a son of a big shot or be the one himself, but he is someone the best assassin guild failed to obtain information about.


    "What would you like to order sir ?", I asked him.


    "You", he muttered under his breath while looking right at my face with a warm smile and I heard that. Wait!!, did he just fall for me just by looking at me? That''s clearly not possible, am skinny and not as beautiful as the girl that came along with him.


    "Sorry ?", I eximed acting like I didn''t hear him.


    "Wasn''t there a boy here just now ?", he asked.


    "Umm, yeah, you''re talking about Boris? actually, he is the chef here and also the owner of this ce, I just got a job from him and was supposed to start today but got a littlete", I replied.


    "A littlete ?", and again I clearly heard him while he chuckled.


    "Ah- my order is for two burgers and regr fries", he said getting out of his stupor.


    "Two burgers and friesing right up !", I said while smiling and was about to leave when I heard a girl, whose name was apparently Ste shout from behind, "One regr fries for me too !".


    I looked at him with a questioning gaze as to ept the order or not to which he said, "You heard her !".


    "Two burgers and three regr friesing right up", I revised the order and went into the kitchen to inform Boris to prepare the order.


    After a short while, I picked up the tray on the shelf of the kitchen with two burgers and three regr fries and stepped out.


    "Here is your order, enjoy your meal sir !", I said.


    "No need for the pleasantries ''Mydy'', we are both first years", hemented.


    "To me, you''re a customer and you aren''t wearing your uniform sir, you are in casuals", I replied to hisment.


    "That''s harsh", he said with a grin.


    Iughed a little and said," It is what it is"


    "Ah- and onest thing !", he said halting his steps and snapping his fingers as though he remembered something. ''He is trying his best to act normal'', I thought.


    "Yes ?", I questioned.


    "If it isn''t too much, may I know your name ?", he asked.


    ''Yup that''s a great development, You''re going in the right direction'', I thought and I don''t know why but I was feeling excessively rxed andfortable around him.


    "Yeah, sure. My name''s Ruby Ley", I replied and added, "What''s yours ?"


    "A name befitting your appearance aye, my name''s Kael Hashirae", he said.


    ''Ok, that''s the first time in my life I received apliment'', I suppressed my emotions and replied, "I take that as apliment, and that''s a cool surname too".


    ''Dude if you are interested in me just say it at this point!!!'', I thought, and as if he read my thoughts, he asked, "And I take that as apliment, by the way; are you single ?".


    Even though my heart was pounding really hard against my chest I tried to act calm and but unconsciously my stupor turned that of seduction.


    "Hmm, what''s this? You wanna go out on a date with me ?", I asked leaning forward to the desk and resting my chin on my left hand.


    "That was supposed to be my question, but, yeah I would love to", he said, and my emotions were reaching a threshold at this point.


    "Are you avable next Sunday ?", I asked with all the willpower I had.


    "Anytime you feelfortable", he replied.


    "Then the next Sunday it is", I said while winking at him and ran inside the kitchen with a red face, my body was heating at an inordinate temperature.


    When I was behind the curtains of the kitchen I heard his group''s conversation.


    "Took you long enough, how was she ?".(Ste)


    "Beautiful, alluring, charming, attractive, delightful, appealing, lovely, dulcet, and much more", he replied and at this point, I sat on the ground taking the support of the wall and buried my head between my knees.