CHAPTER 2: Calm before the Storm

In the evening, Lattecia Collins ordered her personal servants to pack her things. She even thought of bringing up five female servants as a helpers but her grandfather rejected her idea. Her jaw dropped with widened eyes.

"Lattecia, I don't allow you to bring servants. I already told your father to buy ordinary clothes and your other important needs. Living a normal is struggling the path towards your goal.." he said with concern. He raised Lattercia with golden spoon. Everything she wants and needs are provided immediately. However, he realized that he indulged her being dependent on family's wealth.

Lattecia sighed when she reads what's on her grandfather's mind. She knows herself and it is a fact that she live luxuriously. Her clothes may look simple but it is the most expensive of all.

"Stop packing my clothes. Just pack my weapons" she ordered her servants with defeated tone.

'I guess I have to live life like a commoner' she decided.

"I also asked my business clients to find a place for you to work and earn money" he added.

'Ah~ Living life from scraps' she whined inwardly.

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She rests her back on her assigned airplane cabin and closed her eyes to relax her chaotic mind.

"Flight attendants, prepare for take-off please."

"Cabin crew, please take your seats for take-off."

"Passengers, please fasten your seatbelts"

After few minutes, the airplane cabin looks very serene. She smiles and is about to nap when her ears heard a whisper from behind.

"If you call for help, don't blame me for being merciless" the almost whispering hoarse voice of a man.

She sharpens her hearing sense and finds out that the man has a gun. She didn't react yet. She doesn't want to be involved in such incident but if fate plays her life, she doesn't mind.

The panic-stricken woman sweated. She didn't dare oppose.

"W-What do you want?" the woman tried to calm herself while being held on her waist with a gun.

"Don't make any noise" the man said.

Lattecia feigned ignorance of what she heard. 'Let fate bring people together' she told herself.

The airplane cabin is still serene except the situation behind her. She stands up and goes to comfort room for women. She just wants to avoid being drag out of this hold-up incident. She stayed there for awhile. However, fate really plays her life because she heard another incident outside the comfort room.

"Vivienne, I didn't touch you because we promised to do it after marriage and now, I found out that your pregnant of other man's baby?!" a man's voice shouted.

"Joseph, someone set me up. She gave me aphrodisiac drug in my drink at that time. Please forgive me" the woman named Vivienne cried on the man's bosom.

The man got mad of what he heard. "I will forgive you if you accept your wrong but you even framed someone!" and pushed away the woman. He walked away while the woman cried.

Lattecia already saw many dramas in real life and knew that Vivienne was set-up but she doesn't want to be drag along with the tide. She still have to live life normally.

She walked out of the comfort room. Vivienne lowered her head when she noticed Lattecia was inside the comfort room during the fights between couples.

"Why are you sticking to that man you don't even listen to you? Who wanted to be drugged by someone? Unless you wanted to do so" Lattecia said while looking at herself on the mirror beside the comfort room.

Vivienne looked at her curiously. 'She's very young but understands couples fight?'

Lattecia knew what's on her mind. "Being young doesn't mean being ignorant" she said then walked away.

Vivienne stands up while her body sways because of emotional exhaustion.

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When Lattecia comes back from comfort room, the hold-up incident happens. She sighed and hid behind the crowd. She looked around and found a black cloak inside a bag.

'I am borrowing it. It is not stealing' she justified herself. Despite being a heiress of assassin family, she didn't steal but rather kill. Killing the demons in human shape is the work of strongest assassin family.

They have to get information about the clients and the targets. If the clients just wanted the life of the target without apparent reason, they must prevent killing the innocents. But if they found out that the target is a demon in human shape, they will prepare right away and bring back the demon to hell. (Figuratively)

And, if they found out that both clients and targets are demons in shape, they will reject right and don't want to be drag along the demons tide. Assassins also have their own principles just like other professions.

She covered herself with the black cloak. No one could identify who she is and if she is either a man or a woman but she felt that someone is staring at her from behind. She doesn't want to look back. If she does, she may reveal herself and she doesn't know if that someone is either friend or foe.

She walked slowly until she's in front of the man who causes this hold-up incident. The man sweated when he looked at her despite not knowing either she's a man or a woman because of the black cloak she wears.

"W-Who are you? D-Do you want to die?!" the man braved himself because for a unknown reason, he felt suffocated just by staring at this black cloak's figure. It's like being drowned into deepest pit of hell.

Lattecia released a deadliest aura. It is her innate aura that is not wield by any other assassins but herself. Even a murder would think twice before deciding to confront someone like Lattecia. Unfortunately, the man is not an expert in this field and he immediately faced Lattecia. Fate truly played him.

"Stop right now or else you regret this to happen" she calmly said to the man.

"Regret? HAHAHA! When I was indebted to loan sharks and they beaten me up to death, did they feel regret?

When my wife gave me green hat and left, did she regret despite how many years we lived together?

When my son needed a heart donor but stripped from the list until he died, did the hospital regret of what happened?

Isn't regret signal the ending? Even others didn't regret of what they did to me so why should I?!" he slowly stated his grievances of what other people did to his life until he shouted. His bloodshot eyes focused on Lattecia.

Lattecia frowned. She didn't confront yet someone like him who was innocent but plague by humans in human shape. She felt extreme headache. She could help him the two grievances but about the death of his son, she couldn't revive the dead even if she's given a thousand lives.

"I'll give you a chance. How do you want me to help you? Remember, this is the first and last chance" she said calmly. The crowd whispers. They understand the man's grievances but is he still allowed to roam around while mentally ill? He could still kill innocent people any time.

"Chance? Do you mean... living inside the jail?" the man laughed.

"At least, you are still alive" she answered.

"Oh? Are you saying that... the hospital will not do any shady things behind the scene if I sued them? that my wife will come back when I change my course of life? that the loan sharks wouldn't come after me if I won't hide from them? Hey, kid. How could you stop this spilled milk?" he questioned.

Lattecia frowned. 'He's right. As I remember, every hospital has someone doing shady behind the scene and the loan sharks might have someone from Underworld' she thought. Her silence makes the man smiled. To be honest, he admired this black cloak figure because of doing heroic deeds. However, he already signed a contract from Underworld. By slowly swallowing up the Underworld, the surface will be swept away from the light.

"Hey, old man. Are you related to THEM?" she asked because she felt too suspicious. If he wanted to live normally again, no one could stop him... unless he is spills of war in the Underworld. No one could help them from the surface but from someone in Underworld could him, too.

His eyes widened when she asked him about THEM.