Before the rebirth

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"Ha~" the blonde girl released a pleased sigh as she stretched, entering a cafe.

"A cup of chocolate milkshake would be perfect after being cooped up in that house for so long," she mused, cracking her knuckles as a 'pop' sound resonated in the semi-empty cafe. "I need to stretch more," she muttered under her breath, twisting and turning her wrists and fingers as she headed to the counter to place her order.

"Hiya! One choco milk please." She cheerfully rattled out her regular order, noting he must be a new hire. She chuckled as she realised her time being a couch potato was so long that the usual waiter had changed.

"Pardon? What was that?" The waiter asked, rubbing his neck nervously. "You said that too fast for me to ca-" he paused, as though just noticing her appearance as he looked her over.

Her peculiar height caught his attention the most, as she was unusually short. Her light pink sweater coupled with her white skirt, complemented her blue eyes, which seemed to sparkle with childlike amusement. Her shoulder-length blond hair had a side braid to add a subtle flair, topped up with a pink ribbon tied around her brown beret. 

As he turned his gaze down, he was surprised to see her ridiculously high wedges, as it was a wasted effort to make her look taller since she still didn't look taller than 5 feet. The waiter couldn't help but look behind her as if expecting to see her parents coming in after her.

"..."

"I am sixteen," she assured after a brief silence, and the waiter laughed nervously before taking her order.

"Here you go," he said, handing her the order.

 She smiled at him before taking her drink. "Thanks, but can I have this in a takeaway cup, please?"

'I haven't seen her stop smiling once. Does she have a resting smiling face?' the waiter thought offhandedly before collecting her drink and shooting her a wink. "Just a moment, sweetheart."

He left to arrange her takeaway cup while she leaned on the counter, playing with some coins she had on her to pass the time. He came back shortly with it, and she thanked him again as she collected it.

"Oh, thank you!" Her smile brightened like a little kid's as she took a sip of the drink. She happily paid for it and gave the waiter the coins she was playing with earlier as a tip.

"Thanks for the tip," he smiled back as he placed the money in the register, keeping the tip in his pocket.

"No problem at all. I should thank you instead for this delicious cup of choco milk," she said gratefully before leaving the cafe with her drink.

She walked some distance away from the cafe before pausing as she took out the small thing hidden under her takeaway cup.

It was a mini bomb.

"Ah... are these people doubting my skills? It's pathetically sad how clumsily they hid the bomb." The previously polite and sweet facade seemed to have vanished as a sinister smile appeared on her face. A sickeningly tense and malicious aura surrounded her; it felt like she could snap at any moment, when suddenly the aura vanished. "Oh, they still had a plan B, huh?"

She turned around with a grin on her face. "No need to hide, I had felt your presence even with how slowly you kept following me. Come on, surely you shouldn't lack the confidence to confront me after coming all this way? I would appreciate it if you come out right now~" she said in a singsong voice. A moment of silence reigned before a masked man in a black jumpsuit came out from the shadows of a nearby building.

"I see you found me. As expected of the top assassin, Mystic S," the assassin said with a cocky tone as he came out calmly. Still, his nervous and alert eyes betrayed his calm and arrogant facade.

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