Chapter 63: Words
Adam’s soul was troubled by the thought of a future where there would be ten thousand hunters. He had not given much thought to the horrifying scope of the war he was fighting because he had been so concerned with surviving the here and now.
He buried the thought deep and pushed it away. The future could not afford to overwhelm him. He needed to live in the present. He had one last query. A question that had been bothering him ever since he first woke up in his teacher’s office following his first death.
He looked at Assassin Five his gaze intense. "Do you know why they’re after me?"
The question seemed to suck the air out of the room. The casual professionalism on Assassin Five’s face vanished replaced by a sudden pallor. He looked down at the floor avoiding Adam’s eyes.
"I’ve only heard rumors" he said his voice a low hesitant murmur. "The word on the street is that you offended a powerful family. Or your parents did. And you have some kind of proof something that could destroy them."
The mention of his parents ignited a dormant volcano of rage within Adam. It was a raw visceral anger a feeling he had not allowed himself to feel in a very long time. He strode forward until he was standing right in front of the bound assassin. He loomed over him a figure of pure menace.
"Who are they?" he demanded his voice a low dangerous growl.
The assassin flinched at the sudden intensity of Adam’s anger. "I don’t know" he said quickly his voice shaking for the first time.
"There are a lot of things in this world that you and I will never know. But from what I’ve heard they are very powerful. No one puts a hundred-million-dollar starting bounty on someone’s head unless one of two things is true. Either the target is incredibly dangerous a high-profile figure in their own right. Or the target has crossed a high-authority family a family that can bend the world to its will. And for you the second case seems the most likely."
Adam took a step back, his rage fading as fast as it had appeared. He kept thinking about what the assassin had said. a family with high authority. The puzzle was beginning to fit together.