BRING IN THEIR CORPSES!

"Go back to whoever your master is and tell him to bury his dead. Tomorrow, I'll be in his villa with a gift. Go....," he halts and breathes out.

Indeed, the assassin quoted Lucien's words word for word, but he had purposefully left out a word; stupid.

Lucien had told him to go back to his stupid master!

Perhaps he is too scared to say it aloud!

Why will he not be? Mr. Bruce's aura alone is enough to kill a fragile being! How will he then be brave enough to openly tell him that he was called stupid by a man they regard as a mere pauper? Certainly not him that will take such a risk!

"Is that all there is to the message?"

The assassin trembles. He'd zoned off after exhaling. He shakes his head quickly. "There is one more statement, and it concerns the young man standing right beside you!" As he glares at the man standing there, the assassin's eyes darken.

"What about him? And why are you hostile to him? Don't you know who he is?"

"Is it important who he is? And who is he by the way? He