“I agree. I paid them so much money and yet, at such an important time they became useless. However, you guys are different. Even though we’re in the empire, you were able to corner me this far.”
Affirming the tall shadow’s words, the man sang praises about them to try to reel them in. And then, he asked to confirm the deal.
“So, how about it? Not bad don’t you think?”
Did he think they were convinced? The man had a disgusting smile on his face.
However, the words he expected didn’t come. As if declining, the small shadow approached the man.
“Wha, why?! 100 gold coins, that’s a huge amount you know!”
“True. But…”
The voice of the small shadow that spoke for the first time was surprisingly young. It had the sound of a child who was still at the age where you could not tell the gender. To what that person was trying to say, the man swallowed nervously.
“...What’s wrong?”
“It’s as you said.”
“...?”
“There’s a person we want to get rid of.”
“What about it? Everyone has a person or two they want gone. I don’t know who wanted it, but because even you guys are like that, in this way they wanted to hurt me right. So how about it? If you’re dissatisfied with the offer then I’ll give more and--”
The man didn’t refer to what happened before his words. To the man immersed in his own little world, the small shadow began to let off a surge of hatred.
The man froze mid breath for a bit, and then
“...That person, can I kill him.”
“...?! YOU! It can’t be his doing could it? No, it can’t be that you…”
“There is no need to tell you. Do it.”
Interrupting the words of the man who realized something, the tall shadow told the small shadow to take his life. And then, the small shadow began to recite a spell incantation.
“Darkness. You, the body that exists in nothingness, sink into our enemy. Imprison the one enslaved by his own greed. Orgo Lecula Ragua Sakunt Labilal Peibalon…”
From the small shadow’s mouth a spell incantation began to take form. Anyone who heard it would recognize it was a frightening dark magic. But instead of chanting it as expected, it was more like that of an inexperienced student. They were words with no meaning, nay, it was more like an inhuman coarse roar.
“From the given darkness a wicked torment.”
With those words, the dark curtain around the small shadow began to undulate, and what seemed like a mysterious image was shown. In the darkness, magic power swelled up, and from the outstretched arms directing the magic, there was an uncanny squirming feeling. And then, from the man’s eyes, the two shadows, the moon, the stars, everything disappeared.
“Stoo---aaaaaaaaaa!”
The man’s pitiful scream was swallowed up by the darkness.
Before long, the man’s body was spit out crumpled on the stone pavement. After confirming it with his own eyes, the tall shadow then quietly said.
“Let’s go.”
“...Yeah.”
Then, the two shadows vanished into the darkness. As they left, the unnatural dark curtain silently vanished.
What remained in the alley in the upper class district was just the bodies of the man and his guard.
There was just the twinkling of the stars and the shine of the moon projecting onto the man’s face.