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That which Riley had found

They were pieces of ripped paper which had been put together

Ian looked du Master"

"Yeah?"

Riley answered seriously

"Why are you presenting me used toilet paper?"

"What?"

Riley held tightly onto the paper as his eyes wiggled for a rieved face looked as if there was a

"No, that’s not it!"

‘Who does he think I a, Riley sent a sharp glare as he placed his clenched fist forward

As Riley moved his chin about, Ian put his hand forith his lips shriveled

Riley opened his hand and its contents fell onto Ian’s

"Check it"

Ian, who had been exa the paper observantly, carefully opened it

Thankfully, no brown stains could be found on it

"Phew"

""

As Ian h of relief, Riley’s eyes squinted once more

"Hm?"

Ian’s eyes looked closely at the paper, and found so

There were some words written on the paper

But what’s this?

The handwriting was quite fa?"

"Can you tell?"

As the paper was ripped, there was no way to figure out everything that ritten on the original, but it did contain a certain ’ingredient’

’No, i

Coupled with the ingredient which was most likely put into the soup recently

Only one person ca these two facts into account

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If you were to grab any bystander, and ask as the strongest combatant in the Iphelleta House, nine out of ten people would say it was the ot to adly, a lone hoodedtime

Naturally, it was Tes

He was the chief of all the invading hooded ed, he would dodge it by a hair’s length and simply harass him back from a distance

’As expected of my son-in-law’

If this were a close-quarters combat situation, Tes would most definitely lose

’There’s no way I can beat my son-in-law’

It was obvious who the winner was in terms of skill, but Tes’s objective was not Stein’s head

Were he seriously trying to take Stein’s life, he would much rather a hi approach was the assassin’s way, and much more effective

His objective noas simply to buy timeWhile his subordinates retrieved their comrade’s corpse located soest swordser Noe just wait for them to retrieve the body’

Tes spun his wrist around to ease the ache as he created distance versus Stein’s powerful lunge

If things were according to his expectations, he just had to withstand this for another two minutes and he would win objectively

"Tsk"

Stein clicked his tongue at the hooded ured out what his opponent was ai to buy tied his voice, he ht be found out if he were to reply

As the master of the Tes Trade Guild, he had seen hi had been their second h he had only seen him twice in his life, Stein would most likely remember his voice

He had to be careful because he was still his father-in-law

Right noasn’t acting as the master of the Tes Trade Guild, but as the chief of the Assassin’s Guild

"It seems I’ve been underesti any better

Stein’s sword simply could not touch his opponent

Stein spoke with his brows furrowed, as if irritated

"I can tell that you lack the skills to kill "

Therefore, Stein changed his mind

His objective went from the man’s capture, to his death

’Shit’

Tes felt cold sweat dripping froed for the worse, and put all his nerves on high alert

A moment of carelessness would be the end of hiht actually die now’

‘Although it won’t be long, let’s buy some more time’

As Tes made such a decision, he was about to use the s on his waist when

"H from behind the door

None of his subordinates would make such noise

That meant that the owner of those footsteps would be