Someone wiped my body and wrapped my entire body with a soft cloth.
　.........Speaking of which, if the goddess was to be reborn, she said that the current tone of voice was stiff and unsuitable.
　If that's the case, then she should change from the first person, which is me.
　Okay, I'll be me. I'll change it from the way I think.
　He tried to move his body, but he couldn't put as much effort into it as he wanted.
　When I opened my eyes, my vision became very blurry.
　It gradually came into focus.
　A beautiful woman with silver hair appeared in my field of vision, and she was holding me in her arms.
　Since I was reincarnated, I must be a baby.
　Since a while ago, the woman had been slapping him on the back, saying that she had to make him cry quickly.
　It was itchy. I gave in to the urge and began to cry violently.
　The woman hugged me.

'My little rogue,'

Hmm, I hear my name is Lug.
　I can't even look around since I'm not sitting on my head, but I can guess that I was born into a wealthy family based on the health of the mother-like figure, the cloths and the furnishings within my field of vision.
　Is it because of the common sense given to the goddess that I can understand the language?
　At the right time, the goddess' voice echoes in my head.

'Just to check the situation, this is a special service just for today. Please remember the words properly.''

The goddess seems to be a cheapskate.
　I hear footsteps.
　Several people come into the room.

"Did you make it, Esri?
'Yes, Kian. He's a spirited boy.......Hey Kian, are you going to turn him into a Touahade too?
I will. This country needs Touahade. There are foci that can only be removed by assassination.
"...I don't want to. I'm afraid I'm going to lose even this girl like Ruf.
Grow strong so it doesn't happen again. I will not make that mistake again. I don't want to lose my child again.

The sound of his voice was harsh and unrelenting.
　But there was a faint warmth behind those words.
　If I had to guess at the situation, Ruf is my brother or sister, who lost his life in the Touahade's business.
　It's not all bad to be born into a family that works in a dangerous earning business.

His skills and knowledge as an assassin in his previous life are only for killing opponents who don't have magical powers with physical abilities within the framework of a human.
　But the assassin nobleman Touahade should have the know-how to kill such an opponent, and that's what I want most.
　In addition, as a nobleman, it's easy to be wealthy and have the environment and time needed to train.

''I will follow Kian. However, if I were to lose this child as well, I would no longer be in this house.......''
I promise. I won't let a rogue die.

My mother held me in her arms and kissed my father in front of me.
　When that was over, this time they kissed me on the cheek.
　........When I heard that I was born to an assassin aristocrat, I didn't expect the love of my parents, but I didn't expect them to be so decent.

I was raised in an organization from the time I can remember, and love was just an act to be used as a bargaining chip.
　But for some reason, the love my parents showed to each other and to me was somehow ticklish, precious and genuine.
　This is the place where I can learn about love.

You don't need that for assassination. But it's not just a tool, it's a necessary part of human life.

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It had already been five years since his reincarnation.
　In an infant's body, it took him two years to learn the language and letters, and it took him two years to be able to learn them properly.
　Still, it was too fast compared to an ordinary child.
　Thanks to this, both his parents and the servants are fussing about him being a child prodigy. At first I tried to control my growth rate so that I wouldn't be creeped out, but no matter how precocious I am, the people around me are innocently happy with me, so I've resigned myself to weighing in.

The only thing he did was to act like a child in things like speech and gestures.
　It was also to keep me comfortable by acting like the ideal child my parents wanted me to be... because, to my surprise, I had grown to love them.

Now that I'm five years old, there are more things I can do.
The benefits of [Super Recovery] are huge.
　Young bodies are terribly prone to fatigue, but because they can recover from the edge of exhaustion, they have a longer activity time, their muscles regenerate faster, and the feedback from their training is quicker, which is just incomparable to kids their age.

He was in his study now.
　The study of Touahade, who had kept a particularly large number of records among the aristocracy and also collected books from all over the world, contained a lot of fascinating information.

'Touahade, it's darker than I imagined.

The Touahade family, known as the assassination nobility, is a baronial family of the Kingdom of Arvan, one of the four major states on the continent.
　Barons are the earliest of the noble families to be counted from the bottom, and they don't have a very large estate.
　However, Touahade is a wealthy family.
　They have a large amount of income other than taxes from the fiefdom.

Outwardly, he is the most famous family in the Kingdom of Arvan for medical science, and he travels around the country at the request of royalty and great nobles, and he gets paid a lot of money for treating them with his superior skills, and he also sells his debt.

And, behind the scenes, he has an assassination business that only works at the request of royalty and certain dukes, and is also paid for this as well.
　He removes elements that are detrimental to the country by the means of assassination.
　Touahade's assassination business is used only for the good of the country.
　Touahade is life and death. By controlling both, he had a strong voice and fortune despite being a baronial family.

''Despite my family, my ancestors have been excellent. We can continue the assassination family business for seven generations without being used up.''

Unlike me, who was easily used up in my previous life, Touahade has been in the assassination business for at least seven generations in a row.
　That means that if Touahade's backstory becomes public, that alone is enough of a secret to turn this country upside down.
　At any moment, he could be cut off from the country to protect his secrets. Measures will have to be taken.

Well, I guess that's about it for today.

As I close the book, I hear a knock on the door.

'Master Lugue, your husband wants to see you.

It's that time already.
　In Touahade, in addition to education to activate the brain from infancy, regular physical ability monitoring and correspondingly intense exercise, and practice using magic power, they had been educated in an extremely rational manner.
　But at the age of five, the bar was raised all the way up to the point where serious training began. Today, I will steal my father's skills. There is much to gain from my father.

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Today, it looks like they're going to use the facilities in the basement. It is forbidden for me to enter.

"Lugues, I am about to reveal to you the secret of our Toorhade medical expertise and assassination techniques. But first, what is the Toaheade family motto?
The skills of Touahade are for the prosperity of the Kingdom of Arvan alone.
'Then why does Touahade's medical practice benefit the country?
The life of a superior being is at stake.
That's right. We cannot create anything. But if we link the lives of the best, those who are saved will make this country better. So what is the purpose of Touahade's assassination technique?
'To eliminate the disease of the country, we limit the damage by removing those who become ill early.'

I answer without stagnation what my father told me over and over again about the beliefs of the Touahade.
　I will keep alive those who are beneficial to my country and kill those who are harmful to it.
　"I will control life and death so that this country may prosper.

That's right. If a greedy nobleman revolts, even if he is able to put him down, he will leave a deep scar. The people of this country will kill each other. But we can prevent that from happening. .... even if they are cunning raccoons who cannot be judged by law, they will not escape assassination.

The blades of the Touahade are mainly directed at the nobility of their country.
　The power of the aristocracy is strong in this country.
　The aristocrats use that power to escape the justice of the law and are so skilled at self-preservation that they cannot be messed with as much as the royals can.

Once you kill them physically, power doesn't matter.
　You will now learn the power necessary to do so.

Do you know, Lug, that when you get to the bottom of any martial art, you will always begin to imitate the art of medicine?
'I'm sure you do. You have to know people's bodies if you want to destroy them effectively.

In the end, the martial arts is just a way to understand the structure of the human body, to move it precisely, and to destroy it efficiently by exploiting its vulnerability.

I'm sure that the techniques of the martial artists are nothing more than child's play. You know far too little about the human body. But Touahade is different. A true understanding of the human body is the reason why he can kill better than anyone else. The person who can kill people more efficiently than anyone else in the world is a doctor.

They proceeded underground.
　There was a huge prison there, with people being held captive.
　I knew that from time to time something was being brought in from the city in a carriage, but that something was this?

''They are condemned prisoners gathered from my territory and other territories. ...They are also the teaching materials of our Touahade.
I see. People I don't mind killing. I couldn't have asked for a more useful teaching tool. You can use it for medical samples and practice killing.

In my mind, Touahade's reputation will be enhanced.
　So, as his medical skills develop, he grows in power as an assassin.

In fact, there is no more efficient way to learn how to heal and destroy people than to dismantle, fix, destroy, and kill them.
　If the doctors of the prehistoric world would listen, they would be deeply envious.
　They want to try new drugs and new surgeries on humans, but they can't do that and have to replace them with guinea pigs.

If Earth's doctors were able to use as many humans as they wanted to kill as teaching aids, medical science would be hundreds of years ahead of us.

''Well the rogue isn't surprised, is he? When I was brought here when I was five years old, I was terrified and criticized my father from a humanitarian standpoint.
I have some resistance, but it makes sense when you think about it logically.　
'He's still talented. At five years old, he has that much intelligence and logical thinking. I can't wait to see what he has in store for us. This will be my first lesson in the basement, and today we're going to have a killing lesson. You will kill five people. You'll be given a knife. I'll leave the modus operandi up to you, so you can kill as many as you like. They'll be on muscle relaxants and won't be able to resist. That's the last thing I'm going to ask you today. Find out what these murders are worth.

You simply kill a person who can't move.
　As long as you're learning how to kill in the classroom, even a five-year-old can do it with a knife.
　They will be able to learn how to kill efficiently through practice, but that alone is not enough.

'Is it so I can become a killer?　I'll kill a lot of them in practice so I don't hesitate to kill them in the show.
That's right. People are very resistant to killing. The resistance is so strong that a soldier on the battlefield would hesitate to finish off an enemy soldier with whom he was trading lives. According to an acquaintance in the military, one out of every three men who can kill a man from the first battle without hesitation. ... many of them die because of hesitation.
I understand. I'm going to kill him now so that I won't hesitate in the show.

I quickly approach the condemned prisoner who is stuck in the room my father has led me to.
　If I kill him too efficiently, my father will get suspicious.
　Let's say I only use the methods I've been taught, and I kill him with the slightest hesitation, with my hands going crazy.

"Before you kill him, I'd like to ask you a few questions.
I forgive you.
'Why did you raise me to hesitate to kill people?　Your mother read to me a storybook that talked about how precious life is. My father also taught me to love my neighbor. ...It's an emotion that gets in the way of killing.

In a previous life, the organization raised a child to be so. That human life is worthless. That's why I've never hesitated to kill people, and I've never felt guilty about it.
　However, Touahade put a lot of effort into emotional education.
　He was trying to develop a healthy, wholesome mind.
　That's what I didn't have in my previous life, and that's what I got in this world.
　Thanks to this, I'm starting to understand happiness a little better.
　But it also felt like it was dulling the blade inside me.

'If you don't have normal human values, you won't be able to read other people's minds deeply. Humanity is a necessary weapon for assassination. And we are not tools, we are people. We don't kill when we are ordered to, but only when we are convinced that it is in the best interest of the country. We must not forget that. I am raising you as an assassin who will do what needs to be done, with your heart in the right place.
'I half know now and half don't. ...So I'll keep thinking about it.

It will be strong with a warmth that dulls the heart.
　This change will be a joyful one.
　Because unlike the first time, I will live as a person, not a tool.
　Then let's do what we do.
　This is the first time I've ever hesitated or felt guilty about killing someone.
　But I will not run away.
　Because this is a necessary ritual to live as a rogue Touahade.