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In all likelihood, he came from out in the country and couldn’t find a decent job.

From the way he talked, he was still on the young side.

“Hah … That’s a good one you yokel, you’re getting me fired up!”

Casca happily laughed as she kicked away a nearby mobster instead of using her fists.

There was the sound of bones breaking as the 90 kilo ma.s.s flew, running into several people on its way.

Within moments and while cleaning up five or six people on her path, she reached the man who was shouting encouragements.

“Considering your liveliness, I’m going to teach you the rules of the capital”

“Kuh … !?”

He swung his sword down at the ferociously smiling Casca.

The attack showed that he had considerable skill, being able to stand above the battle-hardened mob.

However — his opponent was just too bad.

“FIRST! Things you borrow don’t necessarily have to be returned!”

She launched her fist into an uppercut.

As it collided with the sword that was going down, the blade was smashed without so much as a resistance.

“SECOND! Blow off anyone you don’t like”

She continued with the heel of her palm.

She aimed for his face. His nose completely broken, the man leaked a mute scream.

“THIRD! The strong make the rules”

A piercing kick.

It went into the pit of his stomach. The man’s body made cracking sounds and was blown away.

It flew almost parallel to the ground, following a straight line, and splattered into a wall with a sound like a tomato getting smashed.

Seeing the cold blooded scene 20 meters away, Casca smile deepened in a way reminiscent of a tiger or leopard.

“Ah-ah. But there’s still more. Well, whatever, I forgot what number came after three anyway”

“… S, she killed aniki …!”

Due to their leader being killed, the bandits surrounding her became more and more restless.

However, Casca wasn’t so kind as to give them a chance to run.

“ORAAAAA! Just hurry up and die already you small fry! I wanna get this all over with and drink!”

Her punches and kicks were accompanied with wind pressure that would send a grown man flying.

It was pure power without any trickery, and because of that, she was an enemy they couldn’t win against unless they were superior in pure power.

The Demolisher, Casca.

Even within Black Maria, that only accepts people whose abilities were recognized by Richelieu, she would be among the top five if considering combat power alone.

The captain of the third squad. Put in charge of the east ward, that had the worst public order out of the capital’s wards, it was not for nothing she was put in that position, even if just on paper.

“… haah”

In a sudden change from the yelling and loudly laughing Casca, Lady was sighing, having found things troublesome.

She was being surrounded.

They numbered around eight. Twice that number surrounded Casca, and three times surrounded Elizabeth, so it wasn’t much.

The reason the mob was inclined towards Elizabeth instead of Casca was because she had personally killed not a few members of the syndicate on her own.

Looking like someone who couldn’t bring herself to kill a bug and having been born into a family that would normally be far away from a.s.sa.s.sination jobs, Elizabeth’s belligerence was, in a sense, higher than Casca’s.

So pitiful, Lady sighed again.

“I suppose I should at least finish this job”

Lady muttered, she then held her hand out towards the ground.

Her shadow under the moonlight peeled away.

— As a magic beast who holds black magic power, she excelled in using the family of magic known as shadow magic out of all the black magics.

It was magic to manipulate one’s own shadow, just like a familiar.

Because it was originally a false image she could transform the shadow into anything, and by putting it on, she could even change her own form.

If she could only imagine the details, it was one of the magics with the widest range of uses.

The reason she chose this magic was simple.

Shadow magic would allow her to become a person, and thus she could become the wife of her beloved s.h.i.+zuru.

The reason she looked similar to Richelieu, was because she was the most beautiful woman out of all who Lady had met.

In other words, it’s all for s.h.i.+zuru.

“Kill them”

With a beastly, calm voice, Lady commanded her shadow.

Today was a Whiteday. The effect of Black magic that had the worst affinity with it was greatly lowered.

However, if she used it at night, where the secretiveness had a high affinity with shadow, that handicap was not something to be worried about.

The shadow that seemed to melt into the air split up like small spears and simultaneously pierced into the eight men surrounding Lady.

“Fools”

The bandits could not grasp what happened, and were already dead when their bodies touched the ground.

Lady let out a third sigh. The shadow returned to her feet.

When it came back, the shadow that took the form of a great wolf seemed to compressed itself and turn into that of a human.

— The magic beast that possessed enough intelligence to be able to converse in human language, the Dark Wolf.

She had gained the name Lady, and was outwardly seen as s.h.i.+zuru’s tamed beast.

She was also one of Black Maria’s prominent hands.

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