The villain's way to tame the protagonist

Xitana was so angry that she had a brain hemorrhage on the spot. She raised her dagger to block the first blow from Anser and roared angrily:

"You're out of your mind, Hydra! There are ambushes all over there, and there are archers outside, don't make things more complicated for me!"

In a rage, Hitana twisted her waist and kicked the assassin in mid-air with a high whip kick. The dull sound like a cannonball and the crisp and intensive sound of bones cracking were enough to show the extraordinary power hidden under this frail body.

The assassin's body was almost bent in half after being kicked! He was blown away in mid-air, and his whole body was embedded in the wall.

The three assassins were stunned by the attack, and they blasted their bodies out like cannonballs and into the wall on the spot. What powerful warrior were they facing, or was it the real monster itself?

This girl is obviously a tender and naive little girl!

"You still have time to be a target in mid-air and be in a daze."

As the scornful sneer sounded, Xitana's fists and feet, like a storm, had already arrived mercilessly.

If these three assassins attacked at the first moment, she would be injured to some extent no matter how hard she dodged, but that was just if.

When the weapon holder loses the "distance" to swing the weapon, then when the field is pulled close to the range of fists and feet, and the target is a monster like Xitana who has unreasonable combat awareness and strength...

There will be no chance to swing the knife a second time.

"Hahahaha-"

The girl's snow-white short hair danced wildly amidst the wild laughter and violence. The endless sound of flesh colliding and the laughter combined together made people feel, well... scared.

The four assassins were knocked unconscious by Xitana's punches and kicks. She stretched her slender waist and her body made crackling sounds.

“It feels so good… so good!”

The guard sighed with great satisfaction after having vented her anger. Then she raised her foot and stomped heavily on the assassin's head, looking down at him with contempt:

"But this level of skill is not that good. You want to be an assassin? Go back home and kill pigs!"

She didn't mean to insult her enemies, she just simply looked down on most people who were weaker than herself.

Such humiliation of the weak is commonplace for Hitana.

"Hey, Hydra, you're not messing around—Hydra!"

At this time, Anser, who walked into the council hall alone, seemed to have not seen the maid pull out a dagger from under her long skirt. He walked leisurely towards the wine cabinet next to him with his cane. Seeing this scene, Shitana screamed, picked up the dagger and threw it directly over there.

The shattered glass from the wine cabinet splashed onto Anther's wolf cloak. With a hint of dissatisfaction, he brushed off the glass fragments on the fur around his shoulders and neck, and took out a bottle of luxurious-looking wine filled with blood-red wine from the wine cabinet.

He turned his head and looked at the maid who was so close, her palm nailed to the wooden grid of the wine cabinet by the dagger, and smiled gently: "Where is the wine glass?"

"I really want to break your legs!"

Xitana ran to Anser in a rage and said, "Don't drag me down with you if you don't want to die. It will be like I killed you!"

"Oh, Xitana, that's great, can you help me find the wine glass?"

Anser put the bottle of blood-red wine in front of his eyes and examined it carefully, as if he didn't care at all about what was happening around him.

"..."

The anger bar that Xitana had just emptied was instantly filled up by Anser. She took a deep breath and gritted her teeth and said, "Can you be a normal person and stop causing trouble for me?"

"Causing trouble?"

Anser raised his eyebrows and tilted his head to look at Xitana: "Me?"

"If not you, then who else—" Xitana punched the maid assassin who tried to attack again, "Who?"

"...Now there is really no one to tell me where the wine glass is." Anser sighed, "Don't make trouble for me, Xitana."

"you--!"

"Oh, by the way, Lord Stone should know - Lord Stone, where did you put the wine glass?"

Earl of Stone, who was standing in the corridor outside the council hall with other nobles, was stunned for two seconds, then said in a dry voice: "In... in the cabinet on the lower left."

"Did you hear that, Xitana?" Anser walked towards the main seat at the president's table in the parliament hall with a glass of wine. "Take the glass and come here."

"Why should the guards help you get the wine glasses?" Xitana kicked the wine cabinet angrily, bursting several bottles of wine.

"Oh? Do you know you are a guard now?" The young Hydra looked back at her. "Because you knocked the maid unconscious, you have to do what she did."

Xitana's eyes widened. "Maid? Are you crazy? That guy is an assassin!"

Anser, who had already sat on the main seat, was as relaxed as if he was still at a banquet, with his legs crossed and leaning against the back of the chair: "I asked her to get the wine glass, and she would go. It makes no difference to me whether she is an assassin or a maid."

"And, Sitana, you're too far away from me."

The lazy young noble suddenly swung his cane, and the solemn black cane turned into a hand cannon with the pleasant sound of mechanical reconstruction. Without even looking at it, he pulled the trigger directly to the upper side of himself.

Amidst a roar that made Hitana tremble subconsciously, two legs fell from the ceiling where a big hole had been blown out.

After the roar, there was a long silence.

In silence, Anser stared at Xitana until she looked away with an uncomfortable look on her face.

"I can tolerate your slight wilfulness, Xitana."

Anser spoke slowly, and the smile he usually maintained on his face suddenly disappeared. That pure indifference and coldness that seemed to seep out of his bones and blood seemed to turn into a physical entity, looking down at Shitana.

"But disobeying orders is an unforgivable mistake."

He pronounced this sentence expressionlessly.

Being stared at like this, Xitana instinctively felt guilty, but this guilt soon became a catalyst for anger. Everything that happened tonight made her not want to continue to follow Anser, so she simply threw the jar into the air and sneered, "Without me, you would have died ten times earlier. It's unforgivable... I'm still asking you to forgive me?"

“…Shitana.”

Anser sighed: "You are so disappointing. Even though I have prepared myself for disappointment, I didn't expect you to disappoint me to this extent."

"Aren't you wondering why the archer stopped attacking and where the remaining assassins went?"

Hitana was stunned. After she came out of the pleasure of venting her anger by beating the assassin and the annoyance of being irritated by Ansher again, she found that... the hostility that was as bright as flames in the snowy night was gone.

"Savier didn't want to put my safety in your hands." Anser stood up and walked straight to Xitana, or to the wine cabinet to be exact. "Although at my insistence, you still served as my guard. But up to now, he had enough of your absurdity and executed all the remaining assassins."

The blond boy in a silver-grey wolf cloak passed by the snow-haired girl in an ordinary hunter outfit, squatted down, opened the cabinet door, took out the wine glass from it, and said calmly:

"Me too—because you can't even do something as trivial as fetching me a wine glass."

Ansher stood up, poured the expensive wine into the glass and shook it gently without even looking at the girl beside him.

"You can go, Sitana," he said calmly.

"You may leave my mansion and return to your village."

Xitana was stunned for several seconds, and then an undisguised look of ecstasy appeared on her face.

"Really? Are you serious? You're not kidding me!"

"Hydra never lies." Anser took a sip of wine and replied with a chuckle.

"What? If it has to be this way, why didn't you say so earlier?"

Xitana laughed loudly and put her hands on her hips: "I take back some of my words, Hydra, compared to those nobles, at least you are quite straightforward in releasing the people."

"Although your performance was disappointing, objectively speaking, you did help me eliminate a few assassins."

Anser half-closed his eyes, savoring the lingering fragrance in his mouth. After a while, he said, "Merry will give you two hundred imperial gold coins tomorrow. You can pick out something you like in the city, and someone will take you home."

This time, Sitana stayed there for nearly ten seconds.

"How many gold coins?" After a long silence, she looked at Ansher in disbelief.

"two hundred."

The snow-haired girl jumped up and down on the spot: "You are kidding! The scholarship for that tower is only one thousand gold coins! I can get two hundred gold coins by just beating up some trash tonight?"

"Hydra—"

"I know, Hydra never lies!"

Xitana patted Anser's shoulder excitedly, rubbing her hands and walking back and forth: "Hydra, um... Your Excellency! Although you have many problems, you have no problem at all when it comes to being generous!"

She walked around for a while and suddenly stopped, glanced at the group of dazed nobles at the door, then looked at Anser, and her tone finally had a hint of "respect".

"Um, Lord Hydra, can I... leave now?"

The girl looked at Anser's expression and immediately added, "It's not that I hate you nobles, I just want to tell Lina the good news as soon as possible."

Anser shrugged: "Please."

"Ahaha! Lord Hydra, you can still be a good person!"

The snow-haired girl ran out in extreme joy. Her cheerful woops could be heard from far away, and the nobles in the corridor looked at each other in bewilderment.

They didn't know what this strange master and servant were talking about. They only saw the snow-haired girl suddenly become extremely happy and her attitude changed drastically. She began to praise Lord Hydra.

An elegant butler in a tuxedo suddenly appeared beside Anser like a ghost.

"Master." Savile said in a deep voice, "I don't agree with it—"

Anser, who was sipping his wine, raised his hand, and Xavier fell silent.

After finishing the glass of wine, Anser slowly exhaled: "Is the soundproof barrier done?"

"Please don't compare me with that rude and incompetent girl, sir." Savile looked a little unhappy, an emotion he rarely showed in front of Anser.

"It seems that you have a big prejudice against her."

"No, you are too lenient with her, abnormally lenient."

The old man said seriously: "There is no shortage of geniuses in this world. If you need a genius who can capture my trajectory, I can find him for you."

"First of all, Savile, this world is indeed not short of geniuses, but there are despairing destinies."

Anser narrowed his eyes and chuckled, "Secondly... I'm not that tolerant."

"But you let her go, and even gave her a reward, erasing the punishment."

"...Savior." The young Hydra sighed worriedly, "Why have you become slow?"

These words made the loyal old butler panic. He tried hard to think about what he had thought wrong, but he couldn't figure it out no matter what.

"Ah, but this is not your problem, because you don't understand Sitana."

"..." Savile breathed a sigh of relief, "But... do you know her well?"

"of course."

Anser looked out the window, at the dark and deep snowy night. His two sea-blue eyes seemed to encompass the darkness that enveloped the earth.

"No one knows her better than me." The man who wanted to devour his fate whispered.

Xavier didn't say anything. He knew the strangeness in Anser's words, and he knew what to ask and what not to ask. He knew how to live up to Anser's trust that he had unintentionally revealed.

"To prove this, Xavier, help me contact my father."

"...You want to contact the master?" A hint of surprise appeared on Xavier's face.

"Well, I need him to help me make something..."

A smile familiar to Xavier appeared on Anser's face, a smile that everyone who would be judged by Hydra would see.

Young Hydra, smiling cheerfully, said:

"For dog training."

Chapter 12: Free as She Is

As Marina was packing her bags, she looked at Sitana, who was sitting on the bed swinging her legs, and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Last night, she was praying in her room, praying that Xitana would not cause too much trouble for Lord Hydra, but she heard Xitana's shouting outside the manor while she was in the house.

"We can go now, Lina!"

These words made Miss Marina's heart stop. Soon after, her unfortunate sister rushed into the room laughing wildly and said a lot of gibberish to her.

In the final analysis, there are only two aspects - "that Hydra is really not a human being" and "that Hydra is still a human being in some aspects."

Marina, who had spent a lot of effort to piece together tonight's events from Xitana's words, was furious. She did not believe Xitana's subjective contempt and criticism of Ansher because she knew too well what kind of person her sister was.

The two girls had a big quarrel. Marina was okay and controlled her voice, but Shitana howled, and she really wanted everyone in the mansion to hear how much she hated Ansher.