Chapter 154: The Aoi organization
She watched the little hope in the girl’s eyes die out like the last dying embers in a fire place. But she had had to be upfront with her. She was not in the habit of taking in useless people, if the girl was nothing but another mouth to feed and body to protect, then all she was doing was adding to her workload.
"Ha-ha," the girl laughed hopelessly, "I don’t know what I was thinking. Why else would you want me if not for me to do your dirty work." She said, her voice laced with bitter sarcasm.
"That’s where you are wrong. I don’t want to take you in as an assassin but that doesn’t mean I want you take you in so that you sit and fold your hands when my enemies come for me. If you are not willing to kill to protect me or yourself then why should I take you in? Your eyes are hopeless, as if you have given up on life. It is a hopeless endeavor, saving someone who is not willing to be saved." She told the girl. "I will only take you in if you are willing to use those skills to defend me, my family and yourself."
"Really!" the girl looked at her hopefully once more. "Are you really willing to take me in without me having to kill all the time for you?"
"Yes." She assured the girl. "You have skills, you can train others_"
She found herself suddenly crushed under the full weight of the girl in a tight gripping hug.
"I accept, I will work for you." The girl shouted joyfully.
"Host, the two of you are forgetting her previous employer, is that person willing to let her go or is she a freelancer?"
Chi Lian pulled her body out from under the girl and took a deep breath. "You, who did you, work for previously?"
The girl sat up and clenched her fists. Angrily, she said, "For myself to take down the Aoi organization."
To Chi Lian, it seemed as if there was a story behind that anger. Now was probably not the time to ask her about it. But she needed to make sure that having this girl work for her would not bring blow back on her and her loved ones. "T4, check and be very careful not to leave any traces behind that can be tracked back to us."