Darko and Johnny entered the Tercio de Extranjeros recruitment office in Melilla, a modest one-floor building with the Spanish flag hung proudly on it.
"Hello sirs, may I help you?" the receptionist, a middle-aged lady, asked.
Darko replied with a question, "Is Don Ignon in at the moment?"
Don Perry Ignon was a French military attaché working for the Tercio de Extranjeros, or the Spanish Legion, in Melilla. Being a fellow Templar, Don was also one of General de Rivera's men in the field.
"Mister Ignon is currently in his office. Do you have an appointment with him, may I ask?"
Johnny pointed his shotgun at the receptionist. "Is this enough to grant an appointment?"
She was clearly terrified, as evidenced by the expression in her eyes. But she managed to remain calm and not scream at the top of her lungs. "Yes…yes sir. His office is on…on the first floor."
"If anyone asks, two men did not come looking for Don Perry Ignon today, alright?" Darko said.
The receptionist nodded in reply.
Entering the office, Johnny said, "Mister Ignon, a pleasure to meet you! You don't need to know who we are, but you should know who sent us."
"Who would that be?" Don asked calmly as he gestured for them to sit, despite one of them having a shotgun in his hand.
"General de Rivera of course," Darko answered, slamming the table with a fist. "Yesterday's attack, there were Assassins present to stop the General's forces. How is he to gather support if his own soldiers can't even stop a small attack and need help from outsiders?"
"Assassins? There…there are Assassins in the city?" the attaché was surprised. "I didn't know of this, I swear!"
"Do you think we care?" Johnny said menacingly. "You're lucky he sent us. If it were someone else you would be dead already."
"Don't…don't worry. Tell General de Rivera I'll get right down to work in identifying the Assassins!" Don promised.
"Oh, it's not just identification he wants. He wants them dead," Darko said. "You understand what I'm driving at?"
Don nodded. "I'll get right down to it."
Johnny produced a small wine bottle and placed it on the table. "This is an incentive from General de Rivera to make you do your work faster. Make sure you drink it up."
"No problem!" Johnny opened the bottle and took a gulp from it. "Oh god, is…is this even wine?"
"The cheapest we could find," Johnny chuckled. "The Assassins send their regards."
Almost immediately Don began panicking. He started gasping greedily for air, making strangulated sounds as he did so. Meanwhile, Johnny grabbed a slip of paper and began forging a suicide note.
Just as Johnny finished writing, Don slumped over, lifeless. Johnny left the slip of paper on the table and the two Assassins left the room.
However, their job was not done yet. Don Ignon was not the only Templar they had to kill that day. General de Rivera also had an entire company of soldiers loyal to him, which he planned to utilise if things ever got dirty. The company was under the leadership of a Capitán named Josef Domingo, a Templar himself.
Coincidentally, Capitán Domingo was in the nearby port city of Ceuta under orders of the Grandmaster Templar himself. Darko and Johnny would ensure that it would be an order General de Rivera would regret.
Ceuta was relatively safer than Melilla, having more military presence in the city and lesser divide amongst the citizens. Gautier Tashfin, who had informed them of Josef's existence and relations, reported that his official duty in Ceuta was to guard the Port of Ceuta, an important location to the Spaniards.
As expected they found Josef Domingo in the port, patrolling along with a couple of soldiers from his company. Both Assassins were eyeing Josef's every move from the roof of a building facing the port, armed with scoped Mosin-Nagants.
After a few minutes of spying, they found Josef standing on a section of the boardwalk right next to the water, lighting a cigar. Johnny hastily took aim and shot Josef.
Soldiers hastily combed the area, searching for the unfortunate who had been shot. However, they found no casualty, as the only casualty was at the bottom of the Mediterranean, a bullet hole at the back of his head.
Several hours later, General Miguel Primo de Rivera was furious to learn that two of his Templars, the military attaché Don Perry Ignon and Capitán Josef Domingo were dead. Don had apparently committed suicide while Josef had simply disappeared after a single shot was fired from an unknown nearby location.
The ordinary man would link it as a coincidence for two men with links to the Spanish military to die on the same day in the same country. But General de Rivera was no ordinary man. He was Grandmaster of the Spanish Templars and one of the most powerful military figures in Spain.
"Call for the arrest of Johnny Guvera immediately!" General de Rivera ordered. He placed a photograph on the table. "This is what he looks like. Now go!"