The Genius Team (5)

Shadow stared reassuringly at Captain. “Furthermore, they are trained to be my substitutes if anything happens to me.”

“Your substitute if something happens to you?” For some reason, Ibrahim hated that sentence so much.

“The facilities are a brutal place for a mediocre kid. They'll die if they didn't perform. Unlike normal children, we are trained as mercenaries as early as 10 years old. Captain was included. The only difference was, he was hired by the government which later was betrayed by the said government.”

Mercenary? A professional hitman that only listened to the order. What the...

“Except Shadow, of course. She was five when she started the job.” Hisoka corrected any rising misinformation inside any of their brains. “She also became our leader as soon as she joined the field.”

Yet another bitter truth that all of them had to swallow.

“But what about him?” Yusuff gestured at Captain. “I don’t smell any mana inside him. Meaning that he didn’t have anything appropriate to prote