Exiting the castle Lilly ditched her disguise in favour of one of the maids outfits she had "found" on her way out, quietly slipping out through the gate Lilly started to follow the path into town hoping to find where the assassins guild was.

In the other world Lilly had been the world's best assassin but before then she had apprenticed in a variety of different guilds under different different masters and as such she was very adept at spotting assassins. Walking into the centre of town Lilly sat down on an available bench and started to watch the people going by hoping to find an assassin that could lead her to the guild.

Inexperienced assassins were usually quite easy to find if you knew what to look for as they tried to erase their presence but could usually only manage to erase about half of it successfully making them harder to spot to ordinary people but very easy to find with a trained eye. However what Lilly was looking for was not an untrained assassin but rather a highly trained assassin who she could get information off.

She had been sitting on the bench for ten minutes when she first noticed the old man in the corner of the town square, like her he was sitting on a bench with a relaxed and natural posture. The only indication that he was not what he seemed was his eyes, his eyes were not filled with dull relaxation as one might expect but rather with a razor sharp bloodlust.

Smiling at her deduction skills Lilly slowly and quietly walked across the square letting her prescence be known then sat down next to the old man "Nice weather were having, isn't it?" remarked the old man, Lilly smiled amicably "It's lovely, however I'm not here to talk about the weather."

The man kept a calm face but was starting to panic slightly as he felt the cold touch of a blade pressed against his side Who in the world was this girl? He could sense her prescence as clear as day, it felt like nothing more than an average persons which is why he let her get so close, he couldn't even detect bloodlust from her!

He turns his head slightly to face her being careful not to move his body in case he got stabbed "Who are you and what do you want?" Lilly smiled sweetly "I would like directions to the assassins guild, I'm planning on registering there." the man let out a sigh of relief.

"alright move the blade for me and I'll take you there I had plans to stop by anyway." Lilly smiled and gently took the old man's arm quickly concealing her blade, if one were to see the two they would see nothing more than an elderly grandfather and a kind young granddaughter assisting him.

Letting the old man guide her they soon arrived at an old restaurant, letting the old man enter first Lilly followed behind and took the time to survey her surroundings, the restaurant was clean but had no customers and there were several conveniently placed easy to acces doors.

Suddenly the old man stopped and Lilly looked over to see a middle aged man blocking there path "Oy, Oy Gin what's the meaning of this? And who's that girl?" the old man, who was assumed to be Gin let out an irritable grin "why don't you ask the girl that?"

The middle aged man turned to face Lilly with one eyebrow raised "Well?" he asked, Lilly smiled slightly and moved towards the man, when she reached him she bowed solemnly "I'm sorry for the trouble." the middle aged man relaxed upon hearing this and was just about to ask another question when he noticed the knife pressed to his throat.

"You, what's the meaning of this?" Lilly grinned "it's simple you and that old man are assassins, high ranking ones at that, so I came to register with the guild, the quickest way to do so would be a demonstration of my skills however if I had told you this before I attacked you would have been prepared which is not at all compatable with my skills. Afterall I move to kill."

The middle aged man looked at her in surprise then burst into laughter "your interesting kid, but how did you know we were assassins?" Lilly let out a pleasant smile "Your eyes, neither of you hid your bloodlust." the two men grinned at each other "well I guess that's true and your methods weren't wrong either, we're not warriors were assassins. We don't give warnings."

Lilly nodded and retracted the knife "Ok then," said the middle aged man "my name is Kai and you've already met Gin I am the current guildmaster, though I don't seem like it, due to your uh excellent demonstration of practical skills I'll enter you as a bronze rank you can increse this rank by carrying out assassination requests and you can take requests up to one rank higher than your own rank."

Kai looked over at Lilly to be sure she was following then continued on "the ranks go copper, iron, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond we accept requests of any kind and we will protect any members who carry out high profile requests as long as they are active members within the guild."

Lilly smiled "Where do I sign up?" Kai smiled and pulled a bronze coloured card out of his pocket all you need to do is say the name you'll be using and then put a drop of blood on the card, due to the magic used on it, it will update as you accept requests automatically as well as transferring the money owed onto your card. Any questions?"

Lilly nodded "yeah just one you said the name you'll be using, does that mean you can use any name?" Kai nodded "yeah as long as no one else is using it, seeing as most people prefer to keep their real name a secret in our line of work." Lilly smiled that was certainly true afterall that was why she'd used her old assassin name Arachne on the note she left in the treasurey.

"ok then," she said as she held out the dagger she had placed next to Kai's throat moments ago "Arachne," using the knife she carefully cut her finger and let a drop of blood easily slide onto the card, the card gave out a flash and when she looked back down onto the card she noticed there was now writing on the card similar to her status but much less detailed.

Name: Arachne

Rank: Bronze

Number of requests currently taken:0

Lilly smiled and looked over at the two men only to see them looking shell shocked "Arachne, you don't mean that Arachne do you? The one that broke into the castle treasurey?" Lilly nodded "Yes, why is that a problem?" the two men smiled ruefully at each other "well not for you exactly but the person you got the keys off was another guild member who was on a request at the time."

Lilly was just about to comment when a someone walked through the door "Kai are you in? I need a drink, you wouldn't believe the day I had." Kai smiled "speak of the devil." suddenly the man came into sight, and Lilly smiled she recognised the man easily even without his disguise "hello shadow man thank you very much for all your help earlier."

The man turned to face her, although he didnt recognise the face he recognised the voice "It's you, your the one who stole my keys!" Lilly smiled and gave a mocking curtsey "at your service, I also disguised my voice and made you help the heroes." at this Kai and Gin looked between the two interested and amused at the same time.

"Well nevermind that now," said Lilly "can you show me where the request board is?" Kai nodded and was about to show her when he was stopped by the Shadow man "Wait one second I have a question for you, how did you know the girl was the princess?"

Lilly smiled "it was obvious really I mean she was being watched by a shadow, who had obviously had training as an assassin and yet the Shadow hadn't killed her despite the oppertunity, meaning you were there to protect her. I cannot imagine there are that many high ranking young women in the castle with an assassin as there private body guard no? So that meant she was either high nobility or royalty and seeing as another assassin was there to try and kill her I assumed she must be royalty otherwise she wouldn't be important enough to kill."

The Shadow man looked at her with respect and offerd out his hand "clever, my names noir by the way, and you are?" Lilly took his hand and shook it "Arachne, it's a pleasure to meet you." Kai smiled "Good to know that no one holds a grudge now I'll show you to the request board."

Walking through a door at the back of the shop lay a clean and spacious hall, at one end of the hall lay a large display board filled with sheets of writing "As I said before you can take requests up to one level above you, so for you that's up to silver, when you want to accept a request just tell me or Gin and we'll get it sorted for you, as well as providing past information if we have any."Lilly smiled and nodded as she surveyed the board, it was time to get to work.