"Colt Ackerman, huh?" Klautz whispered as his gaze travelled across the na.
Klautz doesn't rember him to be an influential figure. He had achieved so success in his earlier youth life but after he grew into an adult his achievents were overshadowed by his peers, until he ended up being a drunkard in self remorse. He was a failure in every way.
But that didn't stop Klautz from knitting his brows,
What was weird about his na being here was that Colt Ackerman had never had any connections with the ninja organizations. He had nothing to do with either side of the coin.
That is when Klautz recalled sothing.
"Wait, Colt Acherman! Shouldn't he be among the second gen this ti around?"
One of the key factors regarding Klautz's past life was that he his immaturity during his early years in hell. As such he hadn't paid much attention to the identity of the second gen that had participated with him in the newbie drill.
But was that all?
Klautz had assassinated many individuals belonging to the sa generation as Colt. As such it wasn't hard for Klautz to put two and two together to figure out the year of his participation in the newbie drill.
Klautz held onto his chin.
"Akihiko, what are you planning?" Klautz asked himself, unaware of the whole situation.
Why would Akihiko tell him to stay away from a second gen? Klautz was deep thought. If at all, Akihiko should be encouraging him to build connections for the nature of his job as a representative.
'Is Colt Antagonistic to Mizukigakure. That doesn't make sense at all.'
One must note that Mizukigakure was a fairly new village. It couldn't afford to offend figures like Colt Ackerman for fear of its destruction. It was for the sa reason that Akihiko was reluctant to deploy Maebi as Klautz's protector in the vicinity of the second gen. If Klautz were to incur their wrath it would be Maebi that would be suffering the most.
Klautz's past life experience wasn't helping him anyway here. In his first few decades in hell Klautz had almost zero involvent in hell's politics. So he had no prior information regarding most important matters. Even in his later life, he used to escort important figures for the political etings instead of himself attending the sa.
As such Klautz's political information was limited only to the targets he had killed in his previous life. For the detailed information of his targets was always required for him to create plans to kill them.
But, Colt Acherman and Ueda Akihiko were certainly not his past targets. Akihiko had died a premature death and Colt had no involvent with politics or ninjas.
'Well, I will think about it after I deal with the pressing matter.'
"Verona," Klautz called out to her, "It's ti to move."
The plan was to get Verona to the killer's attention. Klautz didn't know that ti, that regardless of his interventions she was bound to get under the culprit's attention anyway.
***
Klautz hid in the shadows making his presence almost rge with the surroundings. The room was empty with a deathly silence. And Klautz was waiting for soone.
'A hunch huh? Never would have I thought that I would follow my hunches.' Klautz thought.
He had little to no information on the culprit and was following according to his instincts. He had sent Verona off to the store to ask her to do what she usually did.
Technically speaking Klautz should have been with her at this hour ensuring her safety but his hunch called for otherwise.
'Under the watchful gaze of the guards, the culprit won't make a move anyway.'
He was ensured of Verona safety and was willing to follow his hunch, but it caused butterflies to be running amok in his stomach. Through years of grueling he had learnt that relying on hunches should be the last thing one should do. But today was an exception for he had far too little information and matters seed much more complex than it looked like. Had Akihiko explained to Klautz better he wouldn't have been in such a dilemma.
'Hmmm. The hunch isn't to unfound either considering the possibility that the person might have requirents to fulfill.'
Klautz tried to sohow justify his own actions to cool himself down. There was nothing more to do than to wait.
There were several large scale spells in hell that required a person to create a magic circle from beforehand. The traps made by the ninjas could be a good example. These were the sa traps that were used by the ninjas to hunt the [Giant Serpent] back at the [Ice Post] by drawing it out using its pheromones.
Klautz went with the assumption that since the culprit required its target to spend ti shopping thus leaving the room empty, it had sothing to do with drawing out a similar magic spell.
But, Klautz shook his head. For he knew that sothing was fundantally wrong with his assumptions.
'There are no magic based skills in the tutorial zone!'
Klautz had even considered Kishigakure involvent in this. But Klautz refused to believe that such high level spells could be mastered by a re newbie in a matter of days. Such a thing would be impossible even for himself! Not to ntion that the ninjas should have no access to them.
'What if the killer is not a newbie?'
The thought plagued Klautz. If that were the case he was at an utter disadvantage here.
'If push cos to shove I will just take Verona and escape before he can figure out anything!'
That was what Klautz reminded himself. Though considering Akihiko's letter and his own calculations that hardly seed to be the case.
It was then…
The knob on the door twisted, making Klautz on high alert.
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