The Beast and the Sword Book 1: The Lost Heir

Page 32: The Devil in Disguise PT4

The Helmet Family are known to be the top assassins of the Diamond Kingdom. With each coming generation, they are trained in the arts of magic and combat as they are bred for one purpose.

To eliminate a Magic Knight Captain.

Using their tricks and advanced spells, they infiltrate the kingdom under the guise of someone else. And once they are close enough to the target, they kill them without hesitation and remorse.

As the years passed however, the Magic Knight Captains became stronger and harder to kill as it had often resulted in an end to the lives of the assassins.

The Helmet Family began to look into new ways to hit back hard, and faster than their enemies and put them down permanently. All in effort to keep their legacy and name.

Their researchers found a way to make it so, after they had made a deal with the kingdom that has said to have looked into Forbidden Magic...

...The Spade Kingdom.

In return for their research, the Helmet Family arranged for a child to be married to the ruler of the Spade Kingdom when she came of age if she proved to survive a certain procedure.

Though the child survived, not everyone within the Family--Agreed with the deal.

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(Third Opening Theme: Hamatora The Animation Opening-Flat Performed By Yuuki Ozaki (Galileo Galilei))

Karasu and Fafanar found themselves both screaming and choking on the water as they were struggling to keep themselves afloat, though they ended up failing miserably as they found themselves nearly submerged. Eventually they found themselves going down hill and into ruins of what they assumed to be an old town as finally the water seemed to have disappeared as they both rolled on their backs coughing out the water they had swallowed.

They each started to catch their breaths.

"Did I ever mention--" Karasu started to say as he coughed, "--How much I HATE Magical Items?"

"Especially if people use it as a crutch instead of working hard to enhance their magic.." Fafnar added.

"Glad we're on the same page." Karasu said, before he took Fafanar back when he practically threw up what looked to be dirt when he sat up, "I am going to MURDER the one that thought THAT would be funny."

Fafanar said as he couldn't help but cringe, "Did you just--"

"What?" Karasu said, "I accidentally swallowed some of that while we were in that typhoon of waters okay?" He soon stood up from the ground before he looked around. He noticed that two certain people weren't with them.

"Where the hell is Yuno and Prism?" Karasu exclaimed, "Don't tell me we lost them while in that craziness?!"

"I think they might've--"

Fafanar was soon cut off as he started to cough and gag; much to Karasu's surprise coughed out a couple of dragonflies, as he couldn't help but give him a look.

"Okaaaay..." Karasu said, "... I'm just gonna ignore that."

Fafanar said while giving him a look, "Wait, didn't you just puke out dirt?!"