During Mayuri's childhood, her Father, Arhan, and her mother Kyla, are including Mayuri on their works as she's getting exposed early about their work and she's also being indoctrinated about loyalty to the crown and to King Roan. Arhan is always doing the bloody work while Kyla is doing the clean up or double tapping the targets with a swift stab in the temple.
"Mayuri sweetie. You looking properly? You should stab your target like this, and this..." Kyla demonstrates as their target, a man dying on the ground, calls them out. "Hehe, you really making that child to be a killer just like you two? I hope she'll be the death of you!!" The man shouts but Arhan ends him with a quick stab and slash.
"No, she's my pride and joy. She will be the greatest Assassin of this generation." Arhan says as his scaly arms glimmers through the window and he approach Kyla and his daughter. "You're done there honey? I'm good here." Arhan ask as Kyla is holding her daughters hand.
"Yes hon, we are done here. Make sure to burn everything." Kyla tells her husband as they walk out. Later, the three of them watch as the house burns and they hear some crying. "Let's go, remember Mayuri, never linger to a place or you'll be in big trouble." Arhan tells his daughter as she happily agrees with a smile. The three walks out like a picturesque family that didn't done anything wrong earlier.
They quickly return to the capitol, Apolonis, to report their success on assassinating their target and burning the evidence. Sitting on the throne is a slightly young King Roan with Victa sitting beside him. "Great work as expected from the kingdom's greatest assassin couple. Does your daughter picking up your skills along the way? I hope it will not affect her in the future." Roan says as he knows the adverse effect of what the couple are doing to her.
"No no Your Highness... She's great at learning the tools and the mindset for this work. I will not wonder that she will surpass us one day." Arhan states as Kyla giggles. "Someday she will be of help on you and to your rule Your Highness." Kyla agrees to her husband's point. The king just looks at the two says his gratitude before dismissing them.
"Honey, I need to buy some supplies. Will you go with me?" Kyla ask Arhan as Mayuri joins the two. "Hello Mama! Papa! Where we are going?" The young Mayuri ask as Arhan answers her. "Going to buy some supplies with Mama. We aren't home for atleast a day already and I'd like to lay in some fluffy bed..." Arhan answers as he looks at his wife.
"Ara... You don't mean to..." Kyla catch what her husband means as they walk out through the courtyard, where some kids are playing while Mayuri looking at them. Arhan feels that Mayuri wants to join in, so he told her daughter to go.
"Go and behave yourself now hun." Arhan tells to the cute little Mayuri as she happily smiles and skips to join the other kids.
"Hey hey! What are you doing?" The waving Mayuri ask as she later witness two kids are making a sand castle. "Woah! How do you do that?"
The couple just smiles and leaves as they are confident about Mayuri handling herself. As the kids tells her how to build one, the kids ask what Mayuri does and plays?
"Uhmm... Mother just slice somebody here..." Mayuri points at her neck while the other kids are curious for more. "And when she does, something red comes out!" Mayuri finishes as kids ask for more.
"Why your Mother do that? Isn't that ouchie?" One kid ask as another adds. "Why is it red? Can you have more color?" Mayuri answers them one by one, and in turn she plays and learn how to build sandcastle from the two kids. This go on until afternoon, where the parents of the kids have come to pick them up.
"Mama, that kid tell us that when you use something pointy here, red thing will come out. Is that true?" One kid ask from her mother, and the horror from the adult's face becomes apparent as they look at Mayuri. "You... Never come close to my child again! Where are your parents?" The mother ask about little Mayuri as she grabs her arm. Exactly at that time Kyla comes to get Mayuri to return back home. Mayuri cries as she's not used to adults raising their voice against her.
In no time she quickly grab the hand of the mother who are making Mayuri cry. With her grip strength she almost grip her hands to bruises. "Get your filthy hands off my daughter, you archivist..." Kyla threatens in a low and raspy voice as the mother and the child rush to get out of there and Kyla turns to her daughter. "Did she done something to you? You okay?" The worried mother ask as Mayuri just shakes her head.
"Mama... Is it not normal to share your work?" Mayuri sobbingly ask as Kyla hugs her and carries her in her arms. "Shh... Mama and Papa's work are secret remember? You can keep the stories of what we do back home." Kyla replies but she knows that her line of work aren't suited for a growing child to be in. The two walks away and returns home, where Arhan prepares the plate as he is the one who cooks for the family.
"Hey Mayuri I cook your favorite dish, Potato and Meat Stew." Arhan says as he serve the pot in the middle of the table and open the lid. The wafting aroma of the stew fills the house as Mayuri happily gets a scoop for herself and they start their dinner.
Several years have past and Mayuri is a pre teen girl who's ready to take on her own mission for the crown. She kneels in front of King Roan while her Mother and Father are spectating on the side, happy that she grows up to be a strong girl that will be taking her first mission.
"Your first mission is to takedown the slave traders that are gathering in Kairan. The place is known for having a port and trade is very much the only industry there, and we have already banned slaves since I sit here as a king. Go do my bidding child. Prove your blade is worth of the Royalty and your Loyalty to me." King Roan commands as Mayuri says yes in her dignified voice. She stands as she leaves the room and her parents congratulate her for her first job. "Congratulations Mayuri, you are now a part of our legacy." Arhan proudly tap Mayuri shoulder.
"We are proud of you dear... Make us proud even more by ending the evil that is spreading there." Kyla adds as Mayuri nods with anticipation and determination. While the three are approaching the door outside the palace itself, they see several people looking and whispering on themselves. Unbeknownst to them, Arhan and Mayuri have enhanced hearing as they are mixed race and trained to a degree to pick up such weak volume of chatter.
"Is that..." One of the whisperers remarks as the other nods and add. "Yeah that's basically the crown's assassins. It's creepy how you can look at your daughters eyes and kill somebody like teaching." Arhan get this but Mayuri, a pre teen, is puzzled as to why they taught what they are doing is creepy. As soon as they go out of the building, she ask her Father and Mother about it.
"Ara... I'm sorry if I can't answer that..." Kyla replies as she looks at her husband, knowing that they can't answer her since this is what they are teaching her on her whole life. This goes on until Mayuri embark on a carriage that will carry her to Kairan. She's wearing a robe in order to hide her face and figure. She knows how to kill a fellow man and her eyes are dead now in order to finish the mission.
Her journey would take her days, four to five days in fact. At that time she doesn't interact with any other passengers as they starts conversing on their own and Mayuri opt to listen to them instead. "Hey, you hear? Borders are getting smashed through the south. I hope the kingdom have a way to contain this growing tension with the republic there." One passenger says that catch Mayuri's attention when she overhears.
"Well I hope so. I hear that King Roan is doing more public relations stuff as he likes to make his influence and name known instead of tackling these issues. I hear that the nobles of Kairan are gonna be slaughtered due to them not paying tributes to the crown." The other passenger replies. As her parents taught her about the loyalty with the crown, Mayuri almost burst out and answer them, but she is controlling herself as she needs to focus on her mission.
"Really? You think the nobles are done for?" One passenger joins the conversation as the one telling the story about Kairan nobles agrees. "Well most of them are slave traders anyway. If they plan to make any moves to escape. I say they need to right now." That line makes Mayuri sweat and worry. Her mind is running in circle as to why she's hearing this.
"Is the mission known to land? Is this mission a bust? But this kinds of things are only permitted by the crown right?" Mayuri ask herself as she tries to shutdown her system in order to rest for a bit.
Back in the house where Kyla and Arhan are sent for an espionage mission by the king. Arhan ask Kyla about one thing. "Hey, if we manage to finish retrieving intelligence here, can you try to back up Mayuri? I do believe on her capability, it's just that I want to make sure she is safe." Arhan ask but Kyla giggles and exude her motherly aura and vibes to him.
"Oh? For you not have any confidence in her? That'll hurt her feelings you know." The motherly Kyla replies but she knows that her husband will go anyway as she's actually no different than him, worrying that she might mess up and be captured. Even though she says that, he aura shows a very much keen instinct that Arhan does nothing but to sigh.
"Okay, please go ahead. I'll cook something for us later..." Arhan says while Kyla is surprised about his reaction to what she feels. "Man, you ladies are scary and a bunch of liars you know that?" Arhan says that Kyla takes in a wrong way. "Liar you say?" She says on a low and raspy voice as she shows her daggers.
"No no no! What I am saying is that even if you say something, you really mean the other way around. That's the reason why men can't take any of your hint." Arhan explains in order to save his life in a beading sweat, but Kyla points the daggers further on his neck. "Then you're saying that you married me on a lie?" Kyla ask as she is really taking what her husband is saying in such a way.
"No!! I love you for how straightforward and lethal you are. You are more than what the others sees you, and that's why I like about you." Arhan response as Kyla is disarmed about what he says. "Oh, you mean it?" She drops her hands as Arhan aggressively nods as she sheathes her daggers on her thighs as she put her left hands on her cheek that Arhan remarks as very cute.
"Honey... I'll check on our dear Mayuri." Kyla declares as she turns around to walk out of door. She looks at her husband and flies a goodbye kiss. "How you manage to steal my idea from me? Well whatever, better make something good for them." Arhan thinks outloud as he goes back to cooking.
Meanwhile...
Mayuri goes off the carriage as the rest of the passengers as they head to the entrance of Kairan. The port is known to be problematic before, having gangs and organizational violence all around. When King Roan steps in, he manage to clear out this organizations and broke a peace with a lot of them. He turns those people into merchants and subjects loyal to the crown, but apple doesn't falls far from tree as some are inherited the wicked ways of their predecessor and do crimes.
Mayuri is sent here to deal with those people, people who classify themselves as Nobles and Elites. They are running a slave trade, something that the King banned in the Kingdom long ago. Mayuri starts to go to a network of alleys and abandoned houses, where she finds the Kingdom's informant. "Hey girl, are you looking for a good time?" The informant ask of the green haired pre teen.
"Good time for a pie time." Mayuri replies as it is the password for the informant to share.
"Well, are we having a crisis here... Why the crown sending kids now to deal with these... Problem." The Informant says as Mayuri pouts and retorts. "How rude! I can fight like how Mama and Papa is! I will prove myself by completing this mission."
"Okay I'm not to complain about anything. Anyway, the nobles will gather here. Be warned as they put some capable mages and warriors as bodyguards. Are you sure you can take this mission alone?" The Informant ask as Mayuri nods and put her hands on her chest.
"I swear that I can complete this mission in one piece!" - Mayuri.
"Is that so? Here. I have all of the tools you'll need on a carriage." The Informant says as he waves farewell. The pre teen mixed race is left standing there as she opens the piece of paper the Informant have given. The paper have the address of the location, a mansion at the western outskirts of the city as the carriage are on a stable that the Informant left behind.
"Okay! I'll show you my capabilities!!" The green haired assassin swears into the wind as she waits on a hotel until night fall. When the moon shines above the sky as the darkness of the clouds repeatingly covers its glow, Mayuri moves in and she sees a mansion, alive and lit with several candles and light spells. Mayuri first remove her presence with Rogue Skill, Presence Concealment. When she finally coat herself in it, she then goes in to slay the patrols on the outer perimeter in a quick succession.
Mayuri takes them down with brutal efficiency that even if the two patrols are beside each other, she can take them out with a dagger and the other patrol feels like only a wind just breeze by. It only take her 15 minutes to clear out the guards outside and hide their bodies. When Mayuri sees that the perimeter is clear, that's where she enters the mansion.
She remembers the note left by the Informant. It tells her to scale up to the building instead and enter the third floor as it wasn't fortified much by any mages or warrior guards that might expect her to enter through the first floor. As she easily jumps and crawl up to a window, she removes the window hinges and she enters in a seemingly library. In there Mayuri is carefully walks through to observe the whole place, only for her to fall into a trap.
"What a joke! Is this what the crown sent to us? One measly girl?" One of the mages says as he can see Mayuri walks through the library as she's been discovered since the beginning of her killing. When she tries to get out on the library door, she tries to turn the knob, only to discover that it is locked. The lights suddenly opens, and a bunch of mages and warriors surround her.
"Are you the assassin the crown loves to sicc into us? Hah! To think that the kingdom stoop so low as to send kids to do their dirty work!!" A voice echoes through the end of the room as it steps out from the shade of the light. Mayuri recognizes the man, and she prepares her dagger to fight. "As a Noble who swore fealty to the crown, you abandoned your sacred oath to commit crimes for your selfish gains. Prepare to meet the kingdom's will through my blade." Mayuri declares as she moves like blur in an instant.
The mages instantly cast several spells to stop her advance as the warriors try to charge on her. Mayuri doesn't relent as she jumps into the ranks of the mages first as she needs to take out the heavy hitter first. She slashes the nearest mage she can grab her hands with and she stabs the other when it tries to cast a spell on her. When a bunch of fireball and lightning spell fires at her, she use her innate agility and reflex to evade and weave through it. One massive fireball almost hit her, only for her to lean back and throws a dagger on the caster's chest while she slides in and end it with a decapitation.
Mayuri manage to end the last mage as some of the archers tries to pin her down and the warriors swing their swords to her.
She throws the last mage she slay to the warriors as she jumps through the archer's end, but she then been hit by a single arrow that hit her leg. She screams out in pain but she tries to fight through it. She then sees a bunch of arrows flying like a rain on her position. As she can't move out of the way in that moment, she raise her dagger and prepares to intercept it.
"Are you insane? I'm sure desperation will drive people to insanity then." The Noble barks out as she parries, slice, duck and slightly evades the arrows going at her. She then get hit in her left shoulderblade, right side of her torso and she's almost gonna be hit by an arrow in the head, but something hits the last arrow. She turn her eyes into who throw that dagger who saves her, and she can't believe who does it.
"Ara, looks like you mess up. I'll help you be patch up later sweetie..." Kyla joins the fight as she lands her feet on the library and her murderous aura fill the room. The slave trader noble runs through the secret door to escape, and the hesitating warriors and archers are told to attack the newly arrive meddler.
"Looks like you're on a bind there sweetie..." Kyla says in such a way that she sends shivers to the remaining people on that library. Mayuri tries to get the arrows off of her, only to feel the pain and Kyla's anger emanates the whole place. Without any sound she disappear on sight and she slain the farthest warrior and the farthest archer. "Pay with your lives..." Kyla coldly states as she kills another with a simple flick of her wrist to throw her stiletto dagger on the temple of an archer close by.
Mayuri's adrenaline is kicking in, not because of the mortality that she may suffer with, but she wants to show off to her mother. "Mom I..." But before she can speak further, a warrior tries to lunge his sword to her. Mayuri, fighting through the pain of her hit leg, evades and drive a dagger on the warrior's eye and throat. She then follows up when she sees that three other warriors are gonna strike in several directions at once.
Kyla then helps out as she jumps through the warrior at the right as she stab him to death. Mayuri then deflect the blow from the warrior from her left as she use the warrior's sword to block the incoming attack in front of her. She then slot a stab with a small wind spell over the opening on the armor of the warrior in the left and she carries the heavy warrior to throw to the enemy in front of her to disorient.
She ends the conflict with a quick flick of a dagger upwards as it spins through air. Mayuri then parries down the lowered blade of the last warrior and she hit him with a throat chop, making him gasp for air and Mayuri grab his iron helmet out and the spinning dagger falls directly on his head, killing him instantly.
"You have time to show off like that sweetie? You're target is going away?" Mayuri's mother ask as she kneels through the pain. Kyla ask her to get her supplies out and patch her leg and torso wound as she will assist her. Mayuri then follows through as she begins instructing her how to properly prick out the arrow from her and put some anti septic and stop the bleeding temporarily.
"Now I will bandage this. Hang in there and I believe you can complete this." Kyla says as she and Mayuri goes to the first floor as they expect the target to be at the stables to escape. As the mother and daughter sees that the stables are now empty, Mayuri then focus her senses to find where the carriage is, and she senses that it is not so far out.
"If I didn't have this stupid wounds I would end that stupid noble now." Mayuri protest as Kyla just ask her to just leave it at that and retry the other day. Mayuri nods but she ask the important question. "So we will spill his blood on the ship?" Mayuri ask as Kyla agrees.
"There's no point thinking about that. I expect for Honey to be here. We need to properly treat your wounds sweetie." Kyla says as she gaze through the surrounding and she spots all of the guards Mayuri have finished. "You're becoming quite an assassin sweetie. None of them saw you coming?" Kyla ask as she approach one of the cadaver. "I use Presence Concealment to slay them all. For some reason they aren't tipped off and the only ones knowing that I will be here are those people inside the mansion." Mayuri replies as the two of them hears whistles and ramblings outside.
The mother and daughter just escapes as they goes into a hideout where the assassin couple used to hide when they have missions in Kairan. As they open the door, a standing Arhan holding a match is waiting for them. "You mess up Mayuri? Are you okay?" The worried Father ask as he sees the bleeding on her shoulder and torso. His anger flares up. "Those bastards..."
"Honey, calm down. We will nail the target at the port. With three of us I don't think they can stop us." Kyla says as she grab some supplies to treat her daughter. Arhan calms down as he guide Mayuri to lay down on a clean bed.
"I'm sorry if I mess up Father..."