A New Start? Part 2

Charm entered an abandoned house just a few streets away from the school. It was dimly lit despite the sun still scorching outside. She even could faintly smell the rotting flesh of some dead animal around.

As she looked around the place, Charm frowned. She really need to clean this place, although people might suspect someone living in an abandoned house at the suburbs of the city. Clicking her tongue, she proceeded to explore around, placing down her backpack and taking out her laptop.

If there was someone in the house with her they were sure to recognize the site Charm went into. It was the popular website that hackers and assassins often use to contact their clients. IP addresses were hidden and not even the mightiest hacker around could hack this website. No one knows who made it but it appeared around ten years ago when a huge hacking incident had occurred in M city.

[ Will be giving free service to people who give info on 'The flower of the Skies'. G-rank Assassin. ]

Posting the ad, Charm watched as people scrambled to e-mail her with information. Who wouldn't be attracted to a G-rank's post?

The ranking in both Assassins and Hackers are the same, with F as the lowest rank, followed by E, D, C, B, A, S and G as the highest. The same as the website, people also don't know who runs the ranking system. All they know is that it updates automatically, regardless if you're new or not. It's also Charm's case as she just suddenly received her account back when she first finished her assassination of a certain public figure. Back then, she was just a lowly E, with nothing to her name and everyone's looking down on a assassin who might probably die in a few months anyways. But she proved them wrong as she slowly climbed up the ranks, astonishing both her peers and her enemies. It got harder to kill her, to track her... until she was betrayed.

Charm lit a cigarette and stared at the setting sun behind the broken windows. Her jaw clenched as she remembered her past.

She wasn't even supposed to be here, even after being reincarnated. She, who lives eternally in darkness, isn't suited to the high profile life she experienced the past few days.

"I just need time." She tried convincing herself, once again focusing on the never ending flow of e-mails, carefully picking the most useful one.

She opened an e-mail titled, 'The Lone Flower in the Skies'. It was quite a title on the e-mail so it quickly caught her eye. It started with basic information about their family, their company and how many years have the empire they created stood. Then, it was followed by events before her reincarnation. That when Mrs. Havensky was in labor, her new dad, Mr. Havensky, decided to not go to a renowned hospital but instead decided to let his wife give birth at their own home. That child born at that time was Charm, herself.

Charm felt frustrated. It's all information she can get a hold of by asking her brothers. This isn't what she wanted. Who threatened her new dad, to the point of trying to hide her identity to everyone?

But then, something at the end of the file caught her eye. It was a picture of her, bloody and smiling as if she held the world in her hands.

[ Charm Havensky, although no one could prove which gender they are at the moment, easily killed 10 assassins all on her own as if she's born to kill. ]

Her heart thumped, sweat started dripping down her forehead. Born to kill. It's a title which she also held back in the past, a natural assassin. Does that mean... That she and the real Charm are destined to unite? Charm chuckled and shook her head. There's no such thing as destiny or fate. Lives and future things are held at the palm of the hands of the capable. She learned that the hard way.

Still... Charm can't still believe she reincarnated as someone who, strange enough, had the same natural talent as hers. The killing intent behind those eyes would never lie.

She stared at the picture one last time and closed her laptop. Coincidence, fate or destiny aside... She's now Charm Havensky, whether she likes it or not, she'll have to live with it. Charm closed her eyes, took a deep breath and sighed.

Another start, in a new body, new identity... The temperature around her turned colder. She was sure that for her to be reincarnated, the real Charm had to die. So now, it's not about just her revenge only but for the real Charm Havensky, too.