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Raccoon Girl

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Sunburnt skin with noticeable wrinkles, short black trimmed hair and black eyes that were as sharp as a sword.

Brain had engraved this very face deep into his mind so he would recognise it instantly when he saw it, so he was more than a little bit shocked by the face in front of him.

Gazef Stronoff.

But that was impossible.

The man had died on that battlefield, killed right in front of his eyes.

There was no way that the man was alive because, the man has requested to never be brought back to life.

And yet what was he seeing?

That's when he felt the terrible bloodlust that smashed into his mind and made his body unconsciously attempt to grab his sword to protect him.

It didn't take him long for him to realise where the Bloodlust was coming from.

It was from the man.

"I honestly expected you to be a mess even though I pulled back my bloodlust," Gazef said, his smile widening, before he said, "Tell your so-called Kingdom that you don't have the qualifications to even offer me a job."

Then he began to walk away.

"W-Wait," Brain said.

Was he Gazef?

And if so, why did he not recognise him?

Just then both Climb and Evileye came down and were stunned to see him.

Then they felt his bloodlust and couldn't help but freeze in their tracks.

"Damn," he complained. "A maid from the Palace gave me that mask," he said as he walked right through them without missing a beat, his sword was resting on his back.

"W-WAIT!" Evileye said, suddenly finding the strength to speak. "GAZ-"

"We have nothing to talk about," he said with eyes of somebody who wouldn't hesitate to slaughter them, "You lost. So, you don't have the right to say anything." Then he left.

He walked right into a street and the feeling of his killing intent made sure the humans stayed as far away from him as possible.

Nobody dared bother him as he made his way to the guard Tower where he could purchase magical items.

He burst through the door with his sword.

Silence.

The non-humans in there turned and wondered why a human was here until they felt his kill intent as he made his way to the counter.

That's when they noticed his guard uniform, which made them realise he was a non-human like them.

"Give me a mask that hides my killing intent," he said to the frog monster attending the counter.

He then placed a sack of coin on it and a look of greed came over the creature.

Naturally, Gazef did not like spending his allowance but he couldn't do his job if people who were causing trouble were alerted by his killing intent.

"Right away," said the frog monster, unfazed by his bloodlust.

Then the monster went to his back room and looked to see if he had a mask that could hide killing intent.

He found one and came back with a solid black one that prevented even the eyes from being seen.

"That would be 2 gold coins," said the frog. "This mask is supposed to keep your face protected as well."

A human being would be shocked at the price but some non-humans radiated killing intent naturally and couldn't turn it off, the price would be fair for them.

Gazef took two gold coins out and the frog took the coins with greed.

He then put the mask on and his Killing intent vanished like a lie.

He then turned around and walked out of the room.

He was convinced that the three he met earlier had already gone back to the Kingdom.

There was no way he would meet them again.

Ch 5: Dragging him back.

It turns out, he had been naïve.

He soon learned how terrifying a bunch of humans can be when motivated enough.

Evileye and the group had found him within two days.

They showed up in his own room.

He blinked owlishly when he saw them, he thought he was hallucinating and wondered how badly did he subconsciously want to eat them for his mind to play tricks on him.

"Gaz-I mean Mister," Climb quickly corrected himself. "Please come back to the Kingdom with us. The Country needs you."

"How about no?" he said, before suddenly knocking them all unconscious and asking somebody to escort them back to where they were staying.

How did they even manage to convince the person in charge of the tower to let them in? He couldn't help but wonder.

However, it wasn't the last time he would run into them.

There was no rule in place that said a human being couldn't watch the entrance to his Tower so they were on standby.

He was forced to do Patrols outside the Tower and found himself dodging them.

This was no easy task when you have to patrol a street.

#At a certain bed and breakfast#

"What do we do now, Brain-san?" Climb said, "We've been here for a week. We don't have the money to stay here longer."

They didn't think they would find the man so quickly or that he would refuse to even join.

What were they supposed to say when they walked back through the Palace doors?

"Well... we found the man but he beat Brain Unglaus and turned down our offer."

Yes, they could see how that could go down.

"Why does the Mask man look like Gazef-san?" Evileye said, "And why is he a guard for this Country when he should be fleeing?"

He couldn't be Gazef because not only did he not show any signs of knowing them but his personality was a complete one-eighty.

Could he be Gazef's twin brother he never knew he had?

And what they all noticed was that he seems completely comfortable with talking to monsters and stood his ground against the more terrifying ones.

"We have no choice," Brain said. "We have to go back after today. If we stay another night, we won't have money for transportation."

None of them wanted to accept this.

They were going to leave empty-handed and a powerful swordsman that the Kingdom so desperately needed was going to be in a monster's hands.

But just as they were thinking about heading out to the transportation company for horses, a person wearing a mask walked through the front door.

"So you guys are still here?" said the masked person. "Good. Is that offer still up for grabs?" he asked.

His sudden change made them all blink.

Hold on a minute, wasn't this the same man who avoided them for the past week?

"Yes," Climb said, all too willing to accept him.

"Hold on," Brain said, "Why do you suddenly want the job when you've said, 'no' for the past week?"

This is what Evileye wanted to know as well.

"Well..." he began, before he had a flashback.

# A day before#

Gazef was patrolling the walls again when he suddenly felt a tap on his back that made him turn.

He turned to see a slime in armour who said, "Gazef-san. Red-Sama wants to see you," making him more than a little bit surprised.

Red-sama, was the person who gave out missions that went beyond the Country.

For a person like him, who had never taken one step outside, the being was his ticket to the world.

"I'll be right there," he said, and then the creature slithered away.

Gazef made his way to the Guard tower opposite the wall he was guarding and passed by a lot of monsters who looked bored as they stared at uninteresting grass and people going in and out the country.

He made his way inside the Tower, a single Tower was dedicated to the Monster who could go beyond the wall.

So he was not surprised when he saw monsters who looked very experienced suddenly in his line of sight.

He felt like such a green-horn in their presence and they watched as he went to the counter where Red-sama's assistant was.

She was a female Vampire.

"And you must be Gazef-san," she said, she had memorised a lot of scents and could smell when somebody had never been here before.

"Nice to meet you," he said, trying to come across as adult-like as possible even though he was beaming about finally going outside.

"Red-sama is on the second floor," she said, "Just take the magic circle," pointing him to a spot that had strange ruins on it.

He did as instructed and placed himself in the middle of it where he thought about going to the second floor.

The circle activated.

Suddenly he was in some kind of study room, there were books everywhere and there was a tall man who could easily be mistaken as a human carrying a stack of books that shouldn't be possible for his thin arms.

"You must be Gazef Stronoff," the man said, his mouth showed inhuman fangs. "As you possibly would have guessed, I'm Red. I'm in charge of non-humans who want to go outside the wall. If you aren't on a mission, then you have to go through a proper 'frisk' just to make sure there aren't any 'incidents' that occur. The King wants the other countries to live and if something does happen, one of the Floor guardians would be breathing down my throat and I'll be replaced."

So, no wonder the man looked tired.

He had to make sure the monsters who go beyond the wall 'behaved' themselves.

Then the man noticed he wasn't sitting.

"Gazef-san, take a seat," the man said, gesturing to the chair that was stacked with books. "Just knock the books over"

And Gazef did, he watched as the books fall to join the already growing pile of books below.

Then the man got out a scroll and began to inspect his background information and said, "Well... there have been no incidents since you were assigned Guard duty that tells me you can't control yourself if you mingle with humans. Which is a very good sign."

And Gazef wondered if nobody put the incident with the boy in his profile.

However, he got his answer quickly.

"You can also show compassion to a human being but you have no problems killing a human being," the man said, confirming that the two incidents were there. "Add that to the fact that you can be mistaken as human and you have been offered a place in the Kingdom, a place that only really accepts Elf slaves as non-humans. You are perfect for the job."

"...The job?" he said, tilting his head to the side.

"This is a mission is to infiltrate The Kingdom and provide information back," the man said, "We want you to get into that Royal Court and find out everything, so this might take some years. If the Kingdom is planning a pathetic assault on the King, I want to know about it. If the Kingdom has developed something that keeps a large number of non-humans away, I want to know about it."

So, he was going to be a Spy.

"But you want me to be near humans at all times?" Gazef said, "How can I even pretend to be one when my body is different than a human? Anybody who has special eyes can tell I'm not Human. I'll be caught in days."

"That's why we will help you hide the fact you're not human," said the man. "We have contacted your Master."

"You talked to Master Demiurge?" He said, surprised.

"Yes, we did and he has agreed to let you do this," said the man. "He has also given us permission to execute you if you are no longer loyal to this Country." However, the man did not expect what happened next.

"I'll kill myself if I even think of betraying my people!" Gazef said the man was surprised by the absolute conviction he could hear in his voice.

Not many Monsters were so loyal so quickly.

"Good," said the man. "My sources tell me the three from the Kingdom have yet to leave. You will approach them and accept the job. We will train you on what to say and the backstory you will feed them."

#End of Flashback#

"...Well, let's just say, I need to get out of town for a while," he said, "I kind of owe a guy some money and he's chasing me down."

"So you're using us as a means to escape?" Evileye said.

"Pretty much," he said, making all three of them sweat drop. "Plus, I've never been outside the Walls before. I was born here."

All three of them looked at each other, they didn't know him well enough to sense if he was lying or not.

However, he was a powerful swordsman that the Kingdom needed.

"Welcome to the group," Brain said, the first to offer him a hand of friendship. "You can discuss the pay with the King."

"King? You guys have a King as well?" he said.

To them, it seemed he really did not know the world outside the walls.

"Our King is a kind King," Evileye said, however, she had absolutely no idea about the current king since the person she was referring to was sick.

"You'll love my mistress as well," Climb said, "Our country is made up of kind people who help each other."

And not some nice ones.

"That would be interesting to see," he said.

"So what's your name?" Brain said.

"Name?" he said, "An old man named me Griffin Zul."

All three looked at each other.

What kind of old man would name a Human, a monster's name?

And scene!

Next chapter, Gazef leaves the gates and ventures into the Kingdom, all the while he couldn't help but feel like he had been here before. Meanwhile, the Nobles are appalled by his lack of respect when they finally see him. Review/fav and follow!