9 Born to Kill IX

The men inside fixed their eyes on the young woman in disbelief; they hadn't noticed her presence until now.

'Mnh?

'So it is because of that…' The Second Elder, who was the only one appraising her in more detail, thought. He had found strange that she had come here without raising a ruckus or that nobody was chasing after her when she had her sword in her hand but it seems she had taken care of the people outside and covered well their deaths; he had seen how red and white pieces of ice were falling from her long sword, leaving the blade clean. No wonder, the scent of blood had been so faint that he had almost doubted his judgment and no other of these blood sensitive assassins noticed it.

"Suuu~ fuuu~" the young woman smoked from the deep blue long stem smoking pipe in her right hand again as she looked at the shocked men inside. She blinked and put the blade of the sword on her left hand on her left shoulder, saying with a smirk, "What, have you all fallen in love with me?"

"Z-zi, Zi Zi?!!!" The Third Elder uttered; it had taken him a while to recognise her as it had been so long since he had seen her without her black fabric mask and unbound hair, and most of all she was talking way too much.

"Hee, hee… it took you a while, "Master"."

"Y-you… what is the meaning of this? How dare you to…"

"Ara, Master, have you always been this slow?

"Do you really not know? Suuu~"

"Y-you… Zi Zi…"

"Fuuu~" seeing him no answering and just turning red in anger, she said after blowing out the smoke in her mouth, "All right, I'm saying it, I'm saying it… don't get angry, Master.

"I came to free myself… which means… I'm here to kill you all," her smile was so wide that her big rounded dark eyes turned small.