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"I disagree. I do not support the assassination of Alphonse Barca.

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　We who live here in the forests of Thrace have received a request from the Orient.

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　The assassination of Alphonse Barca.

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　It was supposed to be an ordinary job for us Thracian clans.

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　We, the Thracian clan, also known as the Shadow Men, have been living in this Thracian forest for a long time.

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　We live in honor of the sacred tree in the depths of the forest. We were born and raised in this forest and we have unusual powers.

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　The art of cognitive blockage.

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　That is the power of those who live here.

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　This power is acquired by eating the fruit of the sacred tree.

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　They eat the fruit that grows on the tree once a year, and if they continue to do so for many years, they will learn to use it before they know it.

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　However, if you don't do anything, you can't do much with this power.

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　To master the power, one had to train oneself.

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　For this reason, children born in the forests of Thrace are trained from an early age.

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　They are trained to be able to act with ease through training using the trees of the forest.

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　Many of the childhood practices involved playing hide-and-seek or chasing each other.

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　Running around in bad terrain, running away or chasing.

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　Even in this practice, which is in a way equivalent to play, one must muffle one's footsteps when moving around, kill one's presence, and act in such a way that one's opponent is not aware of one's presence.

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　By repeating such actions, they tend to see the flowering of their power through the eating of the fruit.

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　Some people become able to replace their own appearance with others, to completely disappear, or to create afterimages or alter egos like me.

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　Thus, the Thracians who eat the fruit of the sacred tree and who have trained themselves since childhood are able to act with great stealth.

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　Using this power, we have been operating outside the forest as shadowy individuals.

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　We are mainly engaged in espionage activities.

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　We hide our presence and obtain information from various countries for money.

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　Because there are many things that cannot be obtained simply by living in the forest, it was necessary to earn money.

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　And some of them were asked to dye their hands with blood.

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　Assassination, for example.

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　It was possible to approach and kill without being noticed.

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　I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

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　I just know it's my job, and I've always done it, no matter who I'm dealing with.

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"Against?　What do you mean, Theon?　You have never disagreed with me about a job before. Why, for this one time only, do you disagree?"

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"It's bad luck, brother. My divination tells me that something bad may happen if I get involved with this request.

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"...... Zion's fortune-telling, huh? I can't ignore it, but I can't kick this job either. I don't know what to do.

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　Those who live in the forests of Thrace have acquired great or small powers through training since childhood.

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　Among them, however, my sister Zion has an unusual power.

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　It is fortune-telling.

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　Theon's fortune-telling is well known for its accuracy, and recently, thanks to her prediction of a great storm coming, the forests of Thrace were able to take measures to prevent damage in advance.

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　It is said that Zion's fortune-telling has revealed something ominous.

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　The Orient brought a request for an assassination this time.

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　In recent years, the Barka mercenaries have been gaining power in the Orient and have begun to make their presence known.

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　The job was to assassinate Alphonse Barca, the leader of the Barca mercenaries.

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　This had been predicted for some time.

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　It is quite difficult to deal with mercenary bands, and while it is helpful to have strong mercenaries in one's own camp, they can also be a hindrance.

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　It is said that the Thracian family has killed them many times in the past.

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　Therefore, I had done some research on Alphonse Barca in advance.

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　I had done some prior research on Alphonse Barca, especially since he had begun to make a name for himself in the last few years.

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　And from my research, I have concluded that the assassination itself would not be too difficult.

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　I don't know about the others, but the Thracian family should have no problem.

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　Besides, this job was a hard one to refuse.

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　The request form lists many names from the Orient.

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　It is rare to see such a list of names of the most important people in the country for such a risky assassination job.

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　That's how serious the Orient must be.

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"It is not that I do not believe in Zion's fortune-telling. It is not that I don't believe in Zion's divination, but I still accept this job. But I'll still take the job. Instead, I'll send the twins to you with every possible precaution. They will have the best access to the target, and even if we make a mistake, there is no need to worry about our identities being revealed.

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"...... I see. Okay. If that's what your brother wants, I'll do it.

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　It's all right, it's all right.

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　I'll send twins with powers of disguise that even I can't tell apart.

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　It will be difficult for one person to get close to Alphonse Barca, the leader of the mercenaries, no matter how good he is at disguise.

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　But if it is two equally powerful men, the chances of accomplishing the mission will increase dramatically.

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　They can be collaborators with each other.

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　Besides, the twins' disguise will not be broken even if they wake up in their sleep.

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　In the past, there were others who possessed the ability to disguise themselves completely, but they were never revealed even after their death.

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　Perhaps the same is true for those two.

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　If this is the case, even if they fail, the involvement of the Thracian family will not be detected.

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　That means that not even Alphonse Barca would come close to this forest even once in a hundred million years.

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　Soon after I sent them off with this thought in mind.

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　A group of mercenaries approached this forest.

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　And the leader of the group was the target of the mission, Alphonse Barca himself.

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　...... It's okay.

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　It's still okay.

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　The power of the sacred tree prevents anyone but the Thracian clan from entering the depths of this forest.

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　And yet he had come all the way here.

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