Binding

I entered the room and saw three people, one woman and two men as I expected. I bowed to them.

"No formalities needed."- Soft spoken man stopped me, bowing back, woman repeated his action and third man, looked at me haughtily, but I chose to ignore me, it's not a rare thing that people with status treats other and especially mercenaries badly. I looked at a man, he looked gentle, wise and I felt that he is worried about something, it is amazing that such person can be at the top of the ladder, being in such world. Why I'm so sure about his status? Because I saw emblem on his coat, proving his high status. He looked like he was in his forties, nice black hair and wise eyes, he doesn't looked strong, but was fit. Our eyes crossed:

"My name is Hiro Ange, I'm grand adviser of Henos city, This is my wife."- He pointed his hand at woman. She bowed her head with long white hairs. She was dressed surprisingly modest, as her husband. She carefully looked at me with her golden eyes:

"Ilene."-A quite but pleasant voice whispered briefly. Hiro Ange pointed his other hand in opposite direction, But I stopped him:

"I don't need to know him."- Last man looked at me angrily started shouting:

"How dare YOU... You are just dirty mercenary."- He was ready to attack me, I smirked and stopped him with a hand gesture:

"You are just worker of them, why should I care?"- I released a murderous aura in his direction and he calmed down angrily looking at me through his glasses. I continued talking to two other persons in the room:

"Grand adviser, please continue closer to the point."-He looked at me with an apologetic look, it is clear that he was forced to take that unpleasant person with him:

"We would like to hire you, it will be an escort and protection mission of our daught"-I raised my hand to stop him from explaining, he and his wife looked confused:

"I'm sorry, but you probably made a mistake with the mercenaries, I'm not the one, who you need."- I headed towards the door, but he stopped me in a hurry:

"Please wait, you are Charon?"- I turned:

"Yes, I'm, doesn't my nickname speaks to you by itself? I was named like this, because I ship souls of my enemies and every person who there, with me to the underworld, it's first, second is I don't do escort or protection missions for obvious reasons and third, you better don't use mercenaries for that, just use your power and command soldiers, in case if you can't, for some reason, there is better option, like team named "Orion's belt", I helped as much as I could, sorry."- When I was about to go, unexpectedly, another voice stopped me, the soft and quite one:

"We need you, precisely because you are Charon. I can see the potential of yours."- Ilene Agne looked at me with seriousness and coldness, I even felt the glimpse of danger:

"Only your skills are enough to protect her, Ie."- A chill ran down my spine. If she knew that nickname... I was sure, that no one who is alive knows it:

"Who...who are you?"

"My little brother told me about you, when he was alive."- Her face was very sad, and I immediately knew who she talking about:

"Ran, the person who counted you as his best friend, don't you think that you have obligation to him?"-I silently approached and knelt down:

"I'm sorry th"

"No need to apologize, he did what he had to, there is no your guild. But I beg you to save my daughter."

-After a while-

"Can I have a details of the mission?"

Husband of Ilene started to speak again:

"Lord wants to take our daughter as his wife, and situation in the city is unstable, because he began to make very strange decisions and we decided to start"- I cut in his lines:

"Don't tell me what I shouldn't know."- He wiped sweet from his head, very nervous, i guessed right. He lowered his voice:

"Please, save our daughter and keep her away, until everything calm down."- I nodded:

"Where is she."

"She is in next room, waiting. You can do anything what you think necessary to keep her safe. Thank you for accepting our mission."-He said firmly. I leaned towards his ear:

"Be careful with those who are near you."-I noticed that Ilene nodded, but how did she heard it? Maybe she has same abilities as her brother, then, that explains why she stays. With her abilities and intelligence she has to stay here. He started talk about payment but:

"Good luck to you."- I left the room before they could pay. And immersed in thoughts. It's good that they let me have my own way in this situation and did not came up with a plan and restrictions. My hands are free in this situation. About mission, I obviously need to get her out of this city first, second keep her safe and third find shelter and when everything gonna be safe comeback. Every checkpoint of it is dangerous, especially first. It would be better if they did not notice her on the road, or it's gonna be a lot hell harder. Because peoples is as scary as monsters.

I opened the door and saw white haired and golden eyed girl, as her mother, she was gorgeous and very eye catching, was wearing a dress, like a doll. She angrily looked at me:

"I don't gonna ran, I can't left them here."

"You have no choice here, kiddo."-I sand patiently. And she looked at me with even more rage:

"Who is kiddo? I'm twenty."

"Yeah-yeah whatever, do you want to increase chance of your parents success and your own survivability? Then you need to listen me, I don't gonna run around you, little princess."-Suddenly her gaze became conscious:

"But... I can... I can help them."

"You can help them, by not getting caught, urgh, it's gonna be problematic."-I shook my head and went to her.