True colors

" Guildmaster, it is as you predicted, the boy has withdrawn from this contest and looks to be affiliated to the old man you told us to keep an eye out for".

" Ha-, I knew it from the second he walked into the Assassin Alliance, that footwork. There's only one man who knows how to do it.

So he chose the Mu family's brat as his disciple? What an interesting choice-" Dem Paltrow said as he revealed his true colors behind the facade of the cool and ever so calm Assassin Alliance leader.

" There's only one reason I've spared Ben Faulkner and allowed him to live the life of a wretched old man and that's because I did not want him to die in an instant, but rather watch him fade away slowly.

If he has taken in a disciple, then his techniques have a risk of being passed down.

If that happens then he can die as a satisfied old man.

Damn it-, I can't let it happen.