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The game of Gods is still active, and the people around him are pieces, and he is also one of those pieces. This game has no winners, nor losers. What the final outcome will be, no one knows.

Sometimes he thinks he can forget everything and start over, but rebuilding is a very difficult thing that cannot be done alone. Thinking back, the past few years, he was not much stronger, still weak and hesitant to strike someone. If we continue to act hesitantly like this, history is bound to repeat itself.

Gekkou, Makoto!

When he looked back at his three students, he was reminded of his time as a Beginner and then Assassin. He was also on the team of three, a student of the current Grand Master Sixth. He is the mentor of three children, well that was two years ago, now he is the superior, and the three are subordinates, can be considered as teammates.

Salt is something like Makoto but also not Makoto, while Gekkou and Haruka have a huge similarity: Tiger reports weasel. It would be even more perfect if Kuroba had the same personality as him, fortunately because he and Kuroba had opposite personalities.

Kuroba was too extravagant to take things lightly, and he was able to stay calm in the face of his enemies.

Will he be able to protect them or will he lose them as his comrades?

"Salt?"

Muttering in his mouth, his eyes only dimly saw the figure of a girl about 14 years old with shoulder-length blond hair, blue eyes trying to hide her fatigue, she placed her hand on his forehead and asked. han:

"How do you feel? Does it still hurt?"

When Nervo was stuck in his throat, he was in so much pain that he wanted to die and come back to life, now it - the sharp pain almost completely disappeared, now it's gone so he can completely open his mouth to reply:

"The pain is gone." Tadashi looked at her for a moment and then looked up at the ceiling, but not the ceiling. What was above was like a crimson sky composed of tiny Ifi-nano particles. In other words, this was the barrier that covered this place instead of the ceiling. After a while, he asked, "Where is this place?"

Salt's finger points to the left and then sweeps in a clockwise direction. Tadashi looked in the direction her finger was pointing, something telling him he had done something wrong.

"Fragrant Olive Library" She replied with a big smile.

Fragrant Olive Library is also considered a treasure of human knowledge. From the moment you step in here, everyone will surely be stunned by the boundless scale of knowledge in this library. The bookshelf is not made of wood or metal but is made by Ifi-nano, thanks to that protection all the books here never rot or tarnish. The floors of books are lined up to the red sky, the bookshelf seems to stretch endlessly without stopping.

Well, maybe even the next life won't read all the books in this library.

Tadashi clicked his tongue. He was originally not interested in reading books let alone this infinite library of knowledge. But if it was a novel written by Salt, he would definitely read it. Of course this is a secret and he doesn't let his dear student know, if she knew, she would definitely laugh at him because she was old and she would read Shounen. What's more important is:

"Why are we here?" Tadashi asked as he started to put his hands on the ground to sit up. If I remember correctly, I was in the royal garden of Nahema, then suddenly I opened my eyes again at the Fragrant Olive library?

Salt's smile seemed to stiffen, her face had a gray color like a dark cloud pulled back, her voice was more dry than ever:

"It's our punishment"

[We] here means that the whole team consisting of Tadashi, Salt, and Kuroba are all in this library. Although it was unclear what the punishment was, he could vaguely imagine that Salt and Kuroba had heard cai luong singing on his behalf, even though the mission failed because of his fault. Just because of him, the whole team was implicated, and that's it...

"While you and Yamamoto were lectured by Mr. Rokudaime for two hours, and you slept like the dead," Salt continued, she almost shouted a curse, trying very hard to contain her anger. She couldn't blame Tadashi-sensei, because he was so absorbed by Nervo that he fainted. So Kuroba and she had to carry the body of the teacher back when Mr. Rokudaime appeared. And a song that was two hours long Kuroba and she couldn't miss a single word, listening to it, it felt like the hair on the top of her head was half gray.

Without exception, even if you are the boss's daughter, you still have to listen to reform as usual.

"Teacher, do you know how dangerous it is to stay awake all day?" Salt grabbed Tadashi by the collar and pulled. The stupid face of the lovable teacher made her want to punch her once to reduce her stupidity. As a Master, you must always be careful and attentive in all situations, but here you are blinded by a girl, almost dying, but your face is still blank. She continued, "Suppose you and Yamamoto don't come then—"

At this point, her voice dropped a little, as if she didn't want to continue.

"Then?" Tadashi frowned in confusion. It is true that at that time when Salt did not arrive in time, he could lose his life like a game and more...

"Then that question, when I was hit by the Nervo spell, I answered Akazaka. The person with the last name Akazaka only four people are papa, mama, me and Haruka hyung. So the person you love, also has the last name Akazaka. who? Don't tell me mam—"

"Of course not." He placed his finger on her soft lips, stopping her from saying the next word.

Looks like she heard. Luckily I didn't say it at the time.

Having said all that, he must be lying in a coffin, not sitting here gossiping.

"I don't want to admit it, but I did like your mother. Now I don't, I just see her as a senior." Everything he said now was true, she knew it, because When lying, he has a habit of holding his right hand.

"You don't have to worry, I won't steal your mother from your father" he said teasingly.

Salt felt that his gaze on her was no longer the same as that of a teacher looking at his students. The image reflected in his black eyes was no longer a 7-year-old girl, but a beautiful 14-year-old girl. Salt grinned mischievously:

"Hehe, I never worry about mama being taken away by someone, even if that person is you. Because you're not good enough to beat my papa"

Oh that's right, I'm still late enough.

Tadashi smiled wryly, what Salt said was not wrong, very true. Even if it was ten thousand, no, no matter how many millennia he passed, he would never be able to surpass the Grand Master Sixth. That's only obvious.

A piece can never win against a chess player.

"I know. Can you take your hand off?" He pointed to her hand that was clutching his collar. She quickly withdrew her hand, a little embarrassed. It's just that these days, she herself doesn't understand why she gets mad at Tadashi so easily. Is it possible that since the day he quit the Assassin profession, he was born free, read too many romance novels, so his mind was affected or not, but even the ability to hide emotions was almost completely lost.

Probably not.

She is curious and wants to know about the person Tadashi loves, but asking about other people's private love is taboo. And she didn't really want to hear the answer either. Because if she knew the answer, it was possible that this teacher-student relationship would not be the same, or she would change her view of him - like with a Gay.

Could it be that he loves Haruka?

Indeed, she did read Yaoi and had a little interest in it. But she never thought that Tadashi-sensei would fall in love with Haruka.

Oh my gosh, what the hell am I thinking?

"I know you're thinking about [it]. Stop thinking about it, I'm straight." Tadashi's face showed three black lines, he glared at Salt with eyes that had turned on his Six Hearts, it switched pairs. His black pupil turns green and has a red cross shaped like a cross in the center of his eye. The Eye of the Six Hearts is one of Reality's top five limiting bloodlines. Tadashi possesses the Eye of the Six Hearts and controls it perfectly in battle. Thanks to it, he can easily read the opponent's mind, see his next move and can increase his own attack speed. It is no exaggeration to say that besides him, no one else possesses the Luc Tam Eye, or in other words, it is unique.

Because the people of the Tadashi clan are all dead. He was the last to maintain this limited Bloodline.

The ability to read other people's minds is still the best, even though it invades personal life and is a bit sick.

"Turn it off, I don't want to have nightmares tonight." Salt turned her face away to avoid meeting Tadashi's eyes, because if she did, he would read all her thoughts in her head. Although she liked those charming blue eyes and wanted to look at them a little more, but because of her pride and personal life, she couldn't do that.

"Um" Tadashi nodded, his eyes returning to their original black color. Using Luc Tam Eye for a long time is also very harmful to the nerves in the brain, he rarely uses it and only uses it when necessary because he does not want his brain to explode like tofu pulp.

"You think I'm in love with Haruka and I'm gay?"

His voice was slightly irritated, as if he was about to bend Salt's neck into a 90° angle.

He rarely gets close to women, as evidenced by the fact that his friends in the Assassin and Master teams are all experienced, he is still a novice, even though he has experienced it once unconsciously. with Sanada. However, he dares to claim that he is a straight guy, has no interest in Haruka in particular and men in general.

He said he loved someone with the last name Akazaka. Not her mother, nor her brother, did he love her father?

Salt scratched his head and smiled shyly.

"Haha, I'm sorry. It's just that I find it a bit strange, you don't love Haruka, so you love papa?"

Salt, you're thinking nonsense again!

This stupid baby. Can't you get rid of that delusional disease?

I used to see your father as a love rival, an enemy, little girl!

Now he is still jealous of Akazaka Minato, but no longer considers Minato a love rival. He considers Minato to be a teacher, a father, someone he deeply and forever respects even though he is still jealous from time to time, but he dares to bet he never thinks badly of the Grand Master Sixth.

"Then why didn't you think of it?" Tadashi leaned closer to her, his eyes looking at her with a treacherous part holding some dark plot. And she stepped back a little, but the further back he went, the closer he got. He smirked and continued: "The one I love is you?"

Salt's face changed color continuously, finally turning white and then sitting frozen in place. I'm sure this girl has read too many romances to be so corrupted. Oh my students from Assassin never show emotions, but after reading love stories, they blush easily like this...

But the main reason is not due to language error, but also because of something else.

Toxic!

Even so, he still likes the Salt of now more, she smiles more than before, her expression is also richer than the Assassin's two expressions. That poison is something that is both harmful and beneficial.

"That's impossible." Salt denied Tadashi's statement as he regained his composure. He was her teacher, she was his student, that was something that shouldn't have happened in the first place. Maybe he just wanted to toy with her a little, but how could he love her? Knowing that she was always hanging around the wall of teachers and students, he grabbed her shoulder, his voice became serious without joking:

"That's possible, since I'm no longer your teacher, Salt."

Since two years ago, the day she passed out in the hospital, I was no longer worthy to be her teacher. She is now an Assassin just one level behind me, not a mere Beginner girl, even though she no longer participates in quests like before, she is still a student that I am always proud of.

"Salt, you haven't been my student since two years ago. We're comrades now, you understand? You've admitted it yourself, right?"

"Teacher..."

If you still touch my comrades, don't blame Ciliegia!

Salt stiffened. She recalled that she had indeed admitted it directly in Nahema Park. So now she has to face her teacher with a different identity - a teammate. It was not because she was annoyed or hated this identity, but it was true that she was not used to it. A person she called by [Teacher] now has to change to another name, it's a disaster like...

"Call me Kakashi if you want. Don't call me teacher, he's getting old." Tadashi crossed his arms and lifted his chin. Just hearing her and Kuroba call him teacher made me feel ten years older.

At this point, teacher... ah, you're still acting like a young man, Kakashi?

Salt took a deep breath to get used to the new calling:

"Yes. So Kakashi, I think you should go and carry out the punishment before someone takes the place—"

"So you two are hiding here?" A sharp voice interrupted Salt's words. She and Tadashi at the same time turned their heads to look in the direction of the voice. The 14-year-old boy was a little taller than Salt with messy black hair that still had cobwebs and dust covering the black Assassin uniform. Kuroba's black eyes were like bullets waiting to be pinned into Tadashi's skull. His left hand was holding a mop, and his right hand was holding a bucket of water as if he was about to hit Tadashi in the face.

While he struggled with cobwebs and mopped the vast floor, these two sat here chatting.

Without letting Salt explain, Kuroba spoke up:

"I'm done sweeping the cobwebs and mopping the floor, it's your turn to clean the bookshelf."

Then Kuroba purposely threw the mop in the direction of Tadashi, fortunately he caught it or someone else's face would be sunken.

Everything that Tadashi and Salt said to each other, he heard not a single word. He didn't want to see his old teacher as a rival, or more seriously... A love rival.

His hands were clenched into fists, hoping there was a pillow or sandbag to punch.

Without saying anything more, Kuroba turned around and left the two of them dumbfounded on the floor.

By this time, Tadashi knew what the punishment Grand Master Sixth had given him was.

Clean up this big Fragrant Olive library!

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"Oh shit!"

Tadashi sighed in complaint, sitting with his butt on the ground, his back against a nearby wall. After cleaning a bookshelf bigger than a theater like this, I want to break the skeleton. I have to imagine jumping on each frame to clean it, and the total number of frames is n+, I can't even remember how many frames I've cleaned already, I keep wiping this one and then jumping over the other. another to wipe.

It would be simpler to use spells to clean up this damn library. It only took him three seconds to use Kurea to wipe away all the dust from the bookshelf. Kurea can be understood simply as a house cleaning spell and he often uses it instead of doing it himself. But all kinds of jutsu were useless here, so the method of using Kurea was impossible. The reason was that the ceiling was made from the red Ifi-nano barrier, besides the function of creating a beautiful red light effect over the library, it was an optimized thing that blocked all kinds of power. Why be so harsh? That's because it has to protect the knowledge of mankind - books of different thickness and thinness.

Well, there are exceptions! If you don't count the Gods, there are four people who are not affected by the barrier, because their power is so great that this high-class barrier is just a piece of rags to them.

Emperor Adonai Ha Arezt.

Grand Duke.

Grand Master Sixth.

Who is the fourth person?

Tadashi couldn't remember the person's name or face, even though he felt like he had met and even got along very well with the fourth person. It was just like a fleeting vague memory that could not be seen clearly, swirling in his thoughts. Granted, Grand Master Sixth gave a relatively [mild] punishment, so light that it was easy to indirectly break people's bones. What do you think, entrusting him - someone who is lazy in cleaning the house to handle the Fragrant Olive library? If you want to execute a human body, say it straight out so that I can prepare mentally to be less surprised. Well, it's better than having to go to the swamp to live with mosquitoes, worse than traveling to the bottom of the sea, guaranteed to never return.

Recently, Grand Master Sixth has been very strict in giving punishments, every punishment is like an SS+ grade thunderbolt falling on the head of the person who is punished. After receiving the punishment, it was like a dry skeleton, maybe even bedridden for two months. It is said that because his wife ran away from home for so long, the Grand Master Sixth acted so harshly. In short, he is using other people as a sandbag to vent his anger. Normally, he's very nice, caring, like everyone's Sugar Daddy, but now he's appearing more and more with a glaring look on his face. Salt said that one day when he saw his mother with some handsome uncle, the Grand Master Sixth immediately became jealous. And that was the main reason that the hill north of Reality collapsed to rubble after a stormy night.

Since then, all the Riders, Assassins and even Master or RAM associations for short, they all beg Rena about Reality often, it's best not to go with some handsome uncle to avoid someone else getting jealous. Some mountains have collapsed. And for a gentle punishment, not a punishment that leads to hell on earth. That is the wish of all the RAM brothers.

Salt must have been miserable to have a father who is a famous boss and a mother who is a space-class backpacker. The Akazaka family still has a son to follow in his mother's footsteps!

Akazaka Haruka, the name that caused a storm when he established a two-year bushwalk record when he was 12 years old, only needs three more years to equal his mother's achievement. Thinking of Haruka, Tadashi burst into laughter. Wherever that kid goes, it's bound to cause big problems. When he was in the team, Haruka was the main comedian after exhausting missions. At any time, its face is very fresh and cheerful like the name [Haruka] - spring.

Well, spring is coming, but the red spring hasn't come yet.

Perhaps it would be better for Haruka to be taught by Lord Godaime than he was. He was not a good teacher and experienced in combat and spells like Godaime. I'm sure that when she returns to Reality, Haruka will definitely be much better than before. He's a kid with a lot of potential in the future, so he needs a good teacher. But before she comes home and walks into the house, I'm going to punch her in the face hard for the crime of leaving without saying goodbye.

"Wha... Kakashi? Are you done cleaning there?"

Salt's call came from behind the last row of bookshelves. Hearing her call his name, his emotions couldn't be expressed in words...but something like joy was rising.

He is now single, although he is 27 years old, he has not had an official date. The RAM brother's guild many times invited him to go to the bar to find a girl to check if he was gay or not, but so far it is still empty. They also told him that if he reached the age of 28 and still had no girlfriend, he would definitely grow old. But of course, a lover of youth like you hates being called an old man, a teacher,...or something destructive as a reference to [Old].

Now that Salt no longer calls him [Teacher], I feel like I'm ten years younger, like when I was the Assassin's captain.

"What are you doing without answering, scarecrow?"

When Tadashi looked up, he saw a shoulder-length blond girl, her hands on her hips, her face slightly wrinkled in annoyance.

"Kakashi, are you listening to me?"

She had to call a second time before he would answer:

"I heard you." Then Tadashi stood up, brushing the dust off his shirt. I wonder if the person who created this barrier protecting the Library couldn't just create a self-cleaning function, but would have to be so cruel that they need someone to clean up like this?

"I've done my job," Salt said. She also had to bend her back to clean thousands of books, not to sit and play. Of course, you have to clean it very carefully so that the cover doesn't get too much water, and also check the spine of the book for dust or something. Of course, she also earned a pretty cool thing for cleaning.

"Here, it fell on my head"

Salt held out before Tadashi's eyes a book with a black cover, more importantly, it had no title!

That's it?

His black eyes widened in surprise and a little bit of fear. Before the student could open the book, he reached out and grabbed the book, deliberately stopping:

"I'm not old enough to read it yet."

"Eh? Why?" She tilted her head in confusion. Could it be that the other book has something terrible written in it that can't be read because it's underage? Or it could also be that it contains not very pure [Adult] content.

Guessing there, she immediately dismissed her thoughts so as not to blush. Seeing her confused face, he shrugged his shoulders looking for some reason, even if it was a lie, he had to prevent her from opening the book at all costs:

"Ah, it's a horror novel, I don't think you should read it, because if you read it, you'll be so obsessed that you won't sleep for a week—"

"Horror novel? I want to read"

Salt's blue eyes were as bright as the ocean illuminated by sunlight. The reaction was completely contrary to Tadashi's expectations. I think she hates horror stories and is afraid of ghosts, who would have thought she would be a big fan of horror stories?

Wait, in the 50% off book fair a year ago, did you see her holding a stack of books, including several novels Heaven Witch - A famous seven-volume psychological horror series written by Mr. Honorable Godaime. He also read half of the first volume and vowed never to read it again. It is true that Mr. Godaime's writing is very good, profound, and rich, but a person who is not used to reading horror like him has only two disgusting words to describe Heaven Witch. While eating, he thought of some interesting scenes in which he almost threw up all the food in his stomach, and even lost sleep for a few weeks. That's it, I've only read half of the book and I'm already disgusted, let alone read all seven volumes.

Only now did he realize that he passed her house in the middle of the night, her room on the second floor with the lights on, must be reading Heaven Witch here. The girls of steel are different, they can't stand reading continuously like that.

Salt raised an annoyed eyebrow at Tadashi's unusual expression. His hand held the book high to make sure she didn't steal it. That only made her more curious about it: "What's in that book?"

"Well." Tadashi glanced away, scratching his head with a smile: "It's just a bullshit story about grass ghosts."

"Really?" She probed and bet he was lying. In addition to the habit of holding his right hand with his left hand, when he lied, he would not look the other person in the eye.

"Yeah really." He nodded to regain his composure. It was the hardest thing for him to trick a girl with delusional disorder like Salt, even harder than enduring the reformation of the Grand Master Sixth.

"I don't believe it." Salt jumped up, reaching out to try and snatch the book. He dodged to the side, but she chased harder.

God! Why is my number so miserable? And why is this damn book here?

He agonizedly avoided the student who was constantly chasing him, now he just wanted to burn the book in his hand to ashes, but for the sake of humanity he was not allowed to do that, because if it were to be burned—

"You caught me, Kakashi."

Before he knew it, the book in his hand was gone for a few seconds. The only thing he saw was the blonde girl's triumphant smile.

Oh, he forgot she was the daughter of someone whose speed couldn't be measured in ordinary units - Grand Master Sixth had taught Salt Shadow level 1. It wasn't a spell that required energy like that. Ifi-nano and Toge, which is a jutsu that uses one's own strength to increase speed, teleports to the desired place in the blink of an eye. And of course the barrier in the library has no ability to stop human stamina.

Now is not the time to analyze spells or the Fragrant Olive barrier!

"DO NOT OPEN IT"

But it's too late. In his field of vision was the yellow light bouncing off the first page of the table of contents swallowing Salt into the book.

The book with the name SAILING hidden has been opened!